Troma News Archives: July 1, 2003 to December 31, 2003
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December 30: Tales From The Crapper will make its official World Premiere at Tromadance 2004!!! We thank everyone who participated in the unfocused focus groups in Montreal, Cardiff, Portland and Houston!!!
December 26: Check out these great pictures of Lloyd at the 2003 Wales Festival of Cinema!!!
December 24: The Troma Team would like to extend its best wishes to everyone this holiday season!!!
December 23: Troma webmaster Edward Havens is holding an informal survey on which Troma titles fans would like to see released on DVD!!! (Requires registration on the Troma Message Board)
December 23: Check out the new online home for Troma Superstar Purple Pam!!!
December 23: Read more Letters to Troma!!!
December 17: Tales From The Crapper has been locked!!! Don't forget to check out the five part Crapper web comic!!!
December 16: Two more magazines added to Troma in the Press!!!
December 16: Read more Letters to Troma!!!
December 16: Meet December's Tromette of the Month, Messy Stench!!!
December 15: Aint It Cool's Nordling reviews Tales from the Crapper!!!
December 12: Lloyd Kaufman will be in Germany next week, filming a role as The Bartender in Timo Rose's newest film!!!
December 10: Still not sure if you want to get the Toxic Mayhem CD-ROM game? Download the demo and give it a spin!!!
December 9: Tales from the Crapper enjoyed another successful test screening, in Portland, OR, this past weekend. To prepare Troma fans for the new cinematic masterpiece from Troma Entertainment, we bring back the Crapper Digi-Comic the "anals" of our vaults!!!
December 8: Dramarama, written by Andrew Osborne (co-writer of Sgt. Kabukiman NYPD) is picked up by Warner Brothers!!!
December 3: Prison-A-Go-Go, featuring Lloyd Kaufman, Rhonda Shear and Mary Woronov, will screen at the Two Boots Pioneer Theatre (where Citizen Toxie premiered!) on December 10 at 10PM, as part of the Backseat Conceptions film series!!! Special appearances by Barak Epstein and his prison girls!!!
December 3: Quicktime and Windows Media previews added for Lust For Freedom (coming soon to Troma DVD)!!!
December 2: Check out Bloody Good Horror's interview with the legendary Will Keenan!!!
November 26: New page added, with preview, for upcoming release Suicide!!!
November 25: What happens when we give our tromettes guns, tank tops, and knives? You get a bloodbath, check it out!!!
November 24: Lloyd Kaufman and Troma were recently featured in a Next Big Thing segment for National Public Radio. Click here (Real Media only) to listen to the full segment, which features a behind the scenes "look" at the finishing of Tales From The Crapper!!!
November 18: While on his upcoming European trip, Lloyd Kaufman will be working with filmmaker Abel Ferry on his debut film Le Bon, La Brute et Les Zombies, working with famed actor Dominique Pinon (of Amelie and Delicatessen fame). Ferry is a long-time Troma fan who is making his own damn movie, and Lloyd is honored to be a part of this young filmmaker's exciting debut!!!
November 17: Read the Jane Jensen interview with Bloody Good Horror!!!
November 14: Quicktime and Windows Media previews added for Blood Sisters of Lesbian Sin, Crapston Villas and Pterodactyl Woman of Beverly Hills (coming soon to Troma DVD)!!!
November 13: Read the Lloyd Kaufman interview with Slasherdome 2!!!
November 12: Read about Lloyd Kaufman's London Master Class!!!
November 12: Lloyd Kaufman to be featured in upcoming film about the Black Dahlia!!!
November 12: Film Threat on Tales From The Crapper!!!
November 11: The first American screening of Tales From The Crapper will happen at the Alamo Drafthouse in Houston this December! Check our Screenings section for more information!!!
November 10: The Troma Turkey Sale is now on in the Chopping Maul!!!
November 7: Check out this interview with Lloyd Kaufman in the UK Magazine Something Jewish!!!
November 5: More reader mail!!!
October 31: Three new DVDs now on sale exclusively in the Chopping Maul: Angel Negro, Go To Hell and Al Adamson's Psycho-A-Go-Go!!!
October 29: The World Premiere of Prison-A-Go-Go, featuring Lloyd Kaufman, was held Monday night at the Deep Ellum Film Festival in Dallas!!!
October 28: When Nature Calls is now available on DVD!!!
October 27: The DVD intros to The Best Of Tromadance Volume 1 and Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV, and the original VHS intro to Cannibal! The Musical, are now online!!!
October 23: Chad Ferrin, the director of Unspeakable, will be premiering his new film, The Ghouls, at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, 7:30PM on November 6!!! Check out the his site here and get your tickets at the Egyptian Theatre box office!!!
October 22: The New York Horror Film Festival kicked off last night with a rowdy party. Check out the pictures here!!!
October 22: Check out the new trailer for Tales From The Crapper!!!
October 21: Citizen Toxie's Ron Jeremy to be featured on the WB's The Surreal Life 2!!!
October 14: Is it possible?!?! A new Tromette of the Month!!!
October 14: Meet the newest Super Tromette, Nikki!!!
October 13: Troma Chopping Maul exclusive! Video for Purple Pam's Kick In The Head, directed by Lloyd Kaufman. From the upcoming movie Tales From The Crapper. Too hot for MTV!
October 13: The following is a public bulletin. Troma Entertainment is posting this item as a public service, and assumes no reponsibility for these posting.
DP POSITION FOR SHORT
HORROR FILM AVAILABLE!
Jamie Greco, Tales From the Crapper's infamous transsexual crackhead,
co-author of an upcoming novel with Lloyd Kaufman and former Troma Head
of Production, is directing an original horror short that will enter
a major contest. If you are interested in working with Troma stars Debbie
Rochon, Heidi Sjursen and Lloyd Kaufman, and you have access to professional
equipment (DV cam, sound gear, lights, boom, etc.), please Email Jamie
Greco. Experienced only, must have sample. Shooting the first week
of November. Very little pay.
October 8: What's this? A new Lloyd's Roids?!?!?
October 7: Troma webmaster Chris Lanphear has started an online petition to get McFarlane Toys to create Troma Action Figures.
October 6: Pictures from Twisted Nightmare Weekend.
October 6: The return of Troma reader mail.
October 5: One Troma fan's look back at Dragon*Con 2003.
October 4: One Todd McFarlane fan wants to see some Troma dolls. (Click on Jason's mask for The Workshop.)
October 3: Lloyd Kaufman has been confirmed to attend the Festival of Amateur Film Creations in Amsterdam, October 31 through November 2. While in Holland, Lloyd will also be shooting a small but important role in Ramon Etman's Horizonica.
October 2: Troma cleans out it's fridge and finds a frosty friend.
October 1: Learn more about Tromapalooza, happening in the Nashville area on October 24.
September 30: Tromadance 2004 set for January 20-22, 2004.
September 26 : Lloyd Kaufman has been re-elected to the Board of Directors of the AFMA, the trade association for the independent film and television industry.
September 24 : For pictures of Lloyd Kaufman and Team Troma at Twisted Nightmare Weekend 2003, check out Killer Nerd director Wayne Alan Harold's website
September 23 : Check out these photos of Lloyd Kaufman and Team Troma at Dragon*Con 2003.
September 18 : Troma has completed its move to new, bigger and faster servers. Look for loads of new updates soon.
September 15 : Lloyd Kaufman believes that the late Stan Brakhage was the greatest visual artist of modern cinema. Fred Camper is the supreme writer and curator when it comes to Brakhage. Lloyd would like Troma fans to learn more about Brakhage, so check out these two essays by Fred Camper (one and two), as well as Lloyd's essay about the great avant-garde filmmaker.
September 14 : Lloyd Kaufman and Troma Films will be honored for 30 years of cinematic achievements at the New York City Horror Film Festival, October 22 – 26, 2003, at the Tribeca Film Center.
September 8 : Lloyd Kaufman arrives in Kosovo today, to serve as the President of the Jury for the first ever Kosovo Film Festival, the only festival in the world decidated to the horrors of September 11th. You can read Lloyd's essay about September 11th here.
September 5 : Lloyd Kaufman interview from Dragon*Con 2003!!!
August 28: Another rave review for Lloyd Kaufman's perfornamce in "Zombiegeddon"!!!
August 27: Metro UK's 60 Second Interview with Lloyd Kaufman!!!
August 26: The prestigious Venice Film Festival invited Trom President Lloyd Kaufman as guest of honor at a massive event celebrating 30 years of Troma, plus a screening of Citizen Toxie at the Venice Film Festival! The 60th Venice Film Festival will be held at Lido di Venezia from August 29th to September 8th!!!
August 25: Wesley Willis, whose music was featured in Citizen Toxie, has died. Rock over London, Rock on Chicago!!!
August 22: Toby Radloff talks about Killer Nerd and Bride of Killer Nerd!!!
August 20: Lloyd Kaufman interview with the Minneapolis City Pages!!!
August 19: Lloyd Kaufman's New Media article for the Guardian UK!!!
August 19: "Witchcraft IV," starring the scrumptious Julie Strain, now available on DVD in the Chopping Maul!!!
August 18: One Troma fan wants you to know how the FCC is screwing you and your future for the greedy conglomorates!!!
August 18: Lloyd Kaufman inspires Canadian lad to MAKE HIS OWN DAMN MOVIE!!!
August 13 : "When Nature Calls" added to the Troma DVD Easter Eggs list!!!
August 12: "Tomcat Angels" now available on DVD in the Chopping Maul!!!
August 11: TROMA CHOPPING MAUL EXCLUSIVE!!! Three great Troma movies on ONE DVD!!! BLADES!!! BLOOD HOOK!!! ZOMBIE ISLAND MASSACRE!!! Buy from the Troma Maul and receieve the too-hot-for-retailers cover, signed by Lloyd Kaufman!!!
August 8: How lucky are we? Today, we get TWO new editions of Lloyd's Roids!!!
August 7: Lloyd Kaufman and Heidi Sjursen in Montreal!!! With Guest Star Drew Carey!!!
August 5: "Decampitated" now available on DVD in the Chopping Maul!!!
July 31: Lloyd Kaufman's Top Ten Movie Villians of all time!!!
July 29: "The Stabilizer" now available on DVD in the Chopping Maul!!!
July 28: More reader mail!!!
July 26: Check out Rick Tremble's Motion Picture Purgatory!!!
July 25: More pictures added to TromaWorld!!!
July 23: Introducing TromaWorld!!!
July 22: Lloyd Kaufman at Incredibly Strange Video in Pittsburgh!!!
July 21: Lloyd Kaufman and Team Troma invade Montreal!!! Check out the pictures here!!!
July 21: Lloyd Kaufman interview at The Blood Theatre!!!
July 18: Aint It Cool News prints review of the Montreal test screening of Tales From The Crapper!!!
July 17: Roger Ebert says he doesn't hate Troma!!!
July 16: Troma DVD Easter Eggs list updated!!!
July 15: Loads of new images from Fester Comics Spain of their Tromatic new books!!!
July 14: Lloyd Kaufman on the set of "Zombiegeddon"!!!
July 11: Announcing Toxic Shock 2003!!!
July 10: Lloyd Kaufman answers his mail!!!
July 9: Lloyd Kaufman Interview on the Bloody Good Horror Page!!!
July 7: Meet the Tromette of the Month: Leslie!!!
July 2: Lloyd Kaufman on the set of "The Janitor"!!!
July 1: Read about Joseph Zaso's "Nikos The Impaler," which features Debbie Rochon and Lloyd Kaufman