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    Samuel Zachary Arkoff (June 12, 1918 – September 16, 2001) was an American producer of B movies. Arkoff was born in Fort Dodge, Iowa, to Russian Jewish...
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  • Pictures Inc. sales manager James H. Nicholson and entertainment lawyer Samuel Z. Arkoff and their first release was the 1953 UK documentary film Operation...
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  • & Benny & Joon. Roth is the daughter of Hilda Rusoff and producer Samuel Z. Arkoff. In 1970, Roth married musician Mike Pinder of The Moody Blues; they...
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  • Arkoff is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Lou Arkoff, American film producer, son of Samuel Samuel Z. Arkoff (1918–2001), American...
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  • Amityville Horror film series, and was remade in 2005. Executive producer Samuel Z. Arkoff originated the project after purchasing the right's to Anson's book...
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  • Arkoff is an American film producer; he is the son of executive producer Samuel Z. Arkoff and brother to film producer, Donna Arkoff Roth. Arkoff studied...
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  • low-budget made-for-television movies loosely inspired by B movies that Samuel Z. Arkoff had produced for AIP. The film reused the title and basic premise from...
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  • rather than anthropomorphic animals. Bakshi pitched Heavy Traffic to Samuel Z. Arkoff, who took an interest in Bakshi's take on the "tortured underground...
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  • Arkoff International Pictures was a film production company set up by Samuel Z. Arkoff, co-founder of American International Pictures (AIP). Arkoff sold...
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  • American International Pictures created and produced by Lou Arkoff, the son of Samuel Z. Arkoff, and Debra Hill for the Showtime network in 1994. The concept...
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  • an American film producer. He is best known as the co-founder, with Samuel Z. Arkoff, of American International Pictures. Nicholson was born on September...
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  • unimpressed, and AIP made a vow to never hire him again. AIP founder Samuel Z. Arkoff reconciled with Hill, however, after the success of Coffy. Foxy Brown...
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  • release. It was acquired for distribution in the United States by Samuel Z. Arkoff and James H. Nicholson of American International Pictures (AIP), who...
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  • Grammy-nominated R&B band For Real. The film was produced by Lou Arkoff (son of B movie producer Samuel Z. Arkoff) as part of the Rebel Highway series of television...
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  • producer Samuel Z. Arkoff, who hoped to capitalize on the success of such films as Halloween (1978), Friday the 13th (1980), and The Burning (1981). Arkoff commissioned...
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  • of B-movie producer and American International Pictures co-founder Samuel Z. Arkoff).[citation needed] The sketch "See You Next Wednesday" mocks theater-based...
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  • trouble with the Internal Revenue Service. Then Cohen was approached by Samuel Z. Arkoff of American International Pictures, who were interested in doing an...
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    B movie (section Z movie)
    International Pictures (AIP), founded in 1956 by James H. Nicholson and Samuel Z. Arkoff in a reorganization of their American Releasing Corporation (ARC),...
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  • a 1966 science fiction horror film produced by George Edwards and Samuel Z. Arkoff, directed by Curtis Harrington, that stars John Saxon, Basil Rathbone...
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    reportedly completed and released through a deal with attorney Samuel Z. Arkoff. Arkoff profited from the film more than Wood, and his earnings contributed...
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    ownership to Adrian Hanauer. Roth was married to Donna Arkoff whose father was movie producer Samuel Z. Arkoff. They have three children. The family resided in...
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  • made 1962 black-and-white science fiction/comedy film, produced by Samuel Z. Arkoff and Berj Hagopian, directed by Bruno VeSota, that stars Bob Ball and...
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  • Rotten Tomatoes based on 9 reviews, with an average rating of 3.9/10. Samuel Z. Arkoff of AIP said in 1974 that the film was his company's biggest flop to...
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    science fiction film, Panic in Year Zero! (1962), written by Lou Rusoff. Samuel Z. Arkoff of American International Pictures (AIP) said Avalon and Milland were...
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  • Wild Angels, so I went with Bruce for that reason." AIP executive Samuel Z. Arkoff recalled "The first draft of Jack's script turned out to be immense--about...
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  • LLC, former CEO of Toy Biz Samuel Z. Arkoff (1918–2001), co-founder of American International Pictures; inventor of the "ARKOFF formula" Adam Aron (1954–)...
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  • American cinema. Scarecrow Press. pp. 207. ISBN 978-0-8108-5545-8. Samuel Z Arkoff & Richard Turbo, Flying Through Hollywood By the Seat of My Pants,...
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  • The Born Losers (1967), also produced by AIP. James H. Nicholson and Samuel Z. Arkoff of AIP were not happy with the original cut of the film and subsequently...
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  • September 22, 2015 by Olive Films. List of American films of 1972 Samuel Z Arkoff & Richard Turbo, Flying Through Hollywood By the Seat of My Pants,...
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  • completed, Buchanan showed an assembly cut to James H. Nicholson and Samuel Z. Arkoff of American International Pictures (AIP), who agreed to distribute...
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