Anecdotes

Full Moon Entertainment's tenure at Paramount Pictures ended in bitter acrimony following a disagreement over the actual budget of Lurking Fear (1994)), based on the H.P. Lovecraft story. Band claimed the budget to be around $300,000, but Paramount executives didn't buy it; that was the end of Full Moon's direct-to-video heyday. The actual budget, as it turned out, was well below $100,000.

His father was born in Paris, France, to Lithuanian Jewish parents, and moved with his family to the US prior to WWII.

While Paramount's distribution of Full Moon's horror films ended in 1994, it did continue to distribute Full Moon's children's/family films through 1997.

In approximately 2002, his company Full Moon Pictures' name was changed to Shadow Entertainment because he thought its latest films lacked the "Full Moon magic" that the company had in the early '90s.

Has two sons with wife Debra Dion: Zalman Band and Harlan Band.