Biographie
Edward L. Montoro
- Date de naissance
- Nom de naissanceEdward Lee Montoro
- Edward L. Montoro est né le 2 janvier 1936 à Cleveland, Ohio. Il est producteur et scénariste. Il est connu pour The Losers (1968), Getting Into Heaven (1970) et Le démon aux tripes (1974).
- ConjointJoann Montoro (2 enfants)
- Left the United States sometime in 1987 and was believed to have fled to South America to avoid many law-suits filed against him.
- In 1984, after a string of financially unsuccessful pictures, losing a messy divorce and recovering from a serious illness, he took several million dollars from the accounts of his company, Film Ventures International, and disappeared. He has not been seen or heard from to this day.
- He considered Grizzly, le monstre de la forêt (1976) the best picture he ever produced. It was also the top-grossing independent film of 1976, earning more than $39 million worldwide.
- Had previously worked as an industrial printer, and later an airline pilot. After he had barely survived a major plane crash outside of Cleveland, Ohio, Montoro decided that his next career move was to make movies, and thus was able to start Film Ventures International (FVI) through private capitalists in Atlanta, Georgia.
- Son Michael Montoro works as a production assistant.
- The days of the independent film are numbered. Independents are now going to have to product more of their own product to survive financially instead of relying on smaller distributors to pick up these films for release, now that television pay per view channels will want studio blockbusters. You have to spent at least $1 to $2 million to compete on any level at all.
- Edward Montoro during the promotion of the 1982 release of "Great White" at the National Association of Theater Owners at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada in which Montoro had arranged for sharks to be transported there in a large aquarium: "We decided to do that only 17 days before the convention opened and we had to fly the sharks in from Florida in special tanks on a chartered air freighter. As far as we know they are the first sharks to swim in Nevada since the place was under sea two million years ago"
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