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the son of satan, and "Leprechaun," which<br />
featured "Willow" star Warwick Davis as an<br />
evil Irish imp. Intriguingly, TVimark announced<br />
the formation of an interactive<br />
arm last March in partnership with tine<br />
^0/20 video chain. Among the first titles to<br />
go into development at THmark Interactive:<br />
"Warlock" and "Leprechaun" tie-ins,<br />
naturally.<br />
TVimark Interactive is 80 percent<br />
owned by THmark and 20 percent owned<br />
by 20/20 Video, with Kelly Flock, the former<br />
head of the Lucasarts games division,<br />
as executive vice president.<br />
Troma Inc.<br />
If cult director John Waters ("Polyester")<br />
founded an independent movie company,<br />
it would probably look a lot like TVoma,<br />
where camp favorites "The Tbxic Avenger"<br />
and "Sgt. Kabukiman, N.Y.P.D." reign supreme.<br />
Founded by Lloyd Kaufman and<br />
Michael Herz nineteen years ago, TYoma<br />
has proudly taken bad taste and made it an<br />
aesthetic by manufacturing hip,<br />
self-consciously<br />
cheesy low-budget trash for the<br />
unsuspecting masses. TVoma's longevity in<br />
the difficult independent film world would<br />
be achievement enough, but the company<br />
has actually enjoyed at least one spectacular<br />
success: "The Tbxic Avenger," TVoma's<br />
1985 feature about a weakling transformed<br />
tcatines and TVoma's flourishing animated<br />
TV series, "The Tbxic Crusaders." Though<br />
TVoma suffered a setback in 1993 when a<br />
planned $12 million "Tbxic Crusaders" feature<br />
collapsed into<br />
legal battles with<br />
New Line Cinema,<br />
Troma is a company<br />
that appears<br />
to be on the move.<br />
Representative<br />
Troma titles include<br />
the self-explanatory<br />
"Surf<br />
Nazis Must Die"<br />
and TVoma's recent<br />
paean to intergalactic<br />
cross-dressing,<br />
"Vegas in Space."<br />
Zeitgeist Films<br />
Zeitgeist Films<br />
Troma's ever-popular Toxic Avenger (that's 'Toxie' to his fhends)<br />
was founded in<br />
started life as an R-rated movie monster, but his popularity with kids<br />
1988 by Emily resulted in a kinder, gentler makeover by the time of 'Toxic Avenger II.'<br />
Russo and Nancy<br />
Gerstman to give special handling to a limited<br />
number of independent releases each<br />
year Tlie Zeitgeist track record is one of the of the most harrowing and unflinching documents<br />
to emerge from the AIDS most consistentiy eclectic in independent<br />
crisis.<br />
distribution, with a tendency toward "politically<br />
correct," leftist subject matters and<br />
documentary "Let's Get Lost," and two successful<br />
recent documenuiries: "Manufacturing<br />
Consent: Noam Chomsky and the<br />
Media" and "Silverlake Life: T'he View From<br />
Here." The latter, a stunning self-portrait by<br />
two gay filmmakers dicing ofAIDS was one<br />
For additional information about ir\depen-<br />
into a mutant super-hero by industrial pollutants,<br />
spawned an honest-to-goodness<br />
viewpoints. Gay director Tbdd Haynes' film<br />
"Poison" is a Zeitgeist title, as is Derek<br />
dent releases, please see our Ii^depetvknt Feature<br />
Chart in this and every issue ofBoxoffice<br />
franchise in the form of additional "Tbxic" Jarman's "Wittgenstein," the Chet Baker Magazine.<br />
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