Greetings from Tromaville! Troma Entertainment, Inc. is proud to announce that Lloyd Kaufman’s latest text book “Sell Your Own Damn Movie!” has cracked the top 50,000 best-selling books on Amazon.com! In the book, the 4th volume in the “Your Own Damn Film School” series, published by Elsevier/Focal Press, the President of Troma Entertainment and Creator of the Toxic Avenger reveals the secrets of how he and Troma have been selling their movies for 40 years. About half of “Sell Your Own Damn Movie!” also includes interviews and sidebars from SUCCESSFUL filmmakers and distributors. The book features insights from David Cronenberg, director of “The Fly”, Oren Peli, producer/director of “Paranormal Activity”, James Gunn, writer/director of “Super”, Brad Kembel, distributor of The”Twilight” films and Ted Hope, producer of “Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon”.
“Sell Your Own Damn Movie!” is currently available for purchase at all Barnes and Noble stores, www.troma.com, Amazon.com, and wherever fine books are sold! Additionally, on the evening of July 6th, 2011, Lloyd Kaufman will be discussing and signing “Sell Your Own Damn Movie!” at the Strand Bookstore in New York. All the living Beatles will appear with him.
Established in 1974 by Yale friends Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz, Troma Entertainment is one of the longest running independent movie studios in United States’ history and one of the best-known names in the industry. World famous for movie classics like Kaufman’s The Toxic Avenger, Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead, Class of Nuke’em High, Mother’s Day, and Tromeo and Juliet, Troma’s seminal films are now being remade as big budget mainstream productions by the likes of Brett Ratner, Richard Saperstein, Akiva Goldsman, and Steven Pink. Among today’s stars whose early work can be found in Troma’s 800+ film library are Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Jenna Fischer, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Kevin Costner, Fergie, Vincent D’Onofrio and Samuel L. Jackson.
It is so inspiring to see someone truly independent be able to gain this amount of success. this is a testament to their longevity.