Amazing job! I love the no nonsense approach to telling the story found in your videos. Keep up the good work. It’s high quality, entertaining, and I cannot wait to see more.

Dino was a brilliant man, a visionary and bigger than life figure. I don't care about all the crap some movie historians throw on him and his movies. The man's movie catalogue over the years is simply OUTSTANDING! And not just for his hits but also for his "so called" flops. Most of those "flops" are highly revered cult classics nowadays and opened the door to a ton of brilliant filmakers like Lynch, Raimi, etc, etc... An italian Cecil B. DeMille indeed. If only hollywoke nowadays had producers with half the brain Dino did. But unfortunately isn't the case at all. I've seen and enjoyed most of his movies over the years. RESPECT!

Pride, hubris, greed. This is what selling your soul looks like.

After watching this i feel very very sad . Many more movies could have been made if the small studios of the 1980 -1990 would have survived. 😪

THIS was such a SHAME. I mean, these titles MADE my childhood up to my late teenage years. DEG was full of a lot of great titles it's just they got their credits (mostly) AFTER getting into VHS rentals. nuff said?

The 1990s was the Golden age of cable television.

The spice still flows!

Can you imagine being a studio executive?! Thousands of people are depending on you to produce films that generate tens (or even hundreds) of millions of dollars. What a job!

OMG I Loved Dune, & Blue Velvet ! YES GOD!

Dude, Wilmington, North Carolina is NO WHERE close to any mountains. It's on the freaking beach! Look at a map next time!

I miss when we had larger than life producers like Dino de Laurentis instead of the dull bean counters of today. He really deserves a feature-length documentary about his life. My favorite thing about him is when Dune flopped, he still thought enough of David Lynch to let him go make Blue Velvet.

absolutely creative and original

I just found your channel earlier today & this is the 2nd video I have watched. You've gained another subscriber. <<Mark in Ohio>>

This is an extremely well made video and you even went super deep with the Nelson reference The DEG films are now held at Studio Canal as are Carolco’s Dino had that giant desk at his office at universal until the day he died

Incredible video. Love this channel. Thanks for doing what you do, and for doing it so well. Cheers

Correction: Wilmington, North Carolina does not have any mountains, but other parts of NC do (like Asheville). Film producers around this time were attracted to North Carolina as a whole due to its varied landscape overall, which was ideal for production (beaches near Wilmington, mountains near Asheville, etc).

Very good et well done video !!! Many Thanks !!!!!

Whoa whoa whoa . . . Did you say Wilmington had mountains?! I’m a N.C. Native and Wilmington is a beach city. The mounts are about 7 hours in the opposite direction. Maybe you meant to say North Carolina as a whole had varying terrain, because Wilmington literally sits at sea level 😂😂 The studio lots are still there too, operating as Screen Gems.

Im sorry, TOM WAITS?!? That would have been incredible

He had very few profitable movies and managed to keep making movies until he retired/passed. That's Hollywood in a nutshell

Thanks!

So many terrible movies 😂

Great story, thank you!

The 7-11 directly across the street from me was my main place to rent for years!

This is very well made, and I like your narration.

You do a really good job. The research, editing, and even narration are very well done.

FYI your audio levels are all over the place

If you've ever seen Roman Coppola's 2001 movie CQ, Giancarlo Giannini does a fantastic short role as a Dino-like figure.

The sort of sometimes uneven, not great, but not all bad movies, has lead to a Name for Such movies. It's a real Dino!

Ignore the critics and The box office. The Bounty: Fantastic, Dune: Fantastic, Manhunter: Fantastic, Year of the Dragon: Fantastic, Flash Gordon: Fantastic.

I have definitely been weened on a bunch of Dino De Laurentiis classics on VHS and DVD since my late childhood. I can certainly thank him for making my home state of North Carolina a thriving filmmaking center.

“LIFETIME” warranty on a personal trampoline. Greatness. Xxxx

This is the first time I've come across your work, and i went to binge your back catalogue. I was shocked to see you've only made 13 and the most regular ones starting 5 months ago. For your quality of research, writing, editing, and general presentation, i assumed you made at least 5 times any videos as that. Very impressive. I'm looking forward to what's to come. EDIT: Also, your Touchstone Pictures video was great as well.

His first three American films are incredible. I absolutely love 3 Days of the Condor, and Deathwish and Serpico are cinematic classics. What a debut. The Dead Zone, Firestarter, Conan, Dune, Blue Velvet, Silver Bullet, and Maximum Overdrive are all films I cherish too.🎥🤌🏼❤️ Thanks Dino. RIP DEG🔥

Manhunter is the most underrated movie ever. It’s so much better than Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, and Red Dragon.

Dino De Laurentis-produced movies were a HUGE staple in my childhood. The Conan movies, Death Wish, Flash Gordon, Dune, even the animated Transformers movie. Those TV deals he made for those movies made them a big part of my Saturday afternoons. It’s funny, the first time I had seen his daughter’s name, Raffaella De Laurentis, was for the Jackie Chan & Jet Li movie, The Forbidden Kingdom. It was so refreshing to see that the De Laurentis name was still being associated with fun movies.

I think the ability he had to get interesting movies with excellent casting was amazing. No one can predict what audiences will pay to see [timing can be very fickle. by the way Red Sonja was a B. Neilsen film [Arnold was only supporting role]; Cats eye and Silver bullet should have been hits too

First time I saw that logo was 1987 when I rented Transformers the Movie on VHS.

All I know is that my parents took me to see arachnophobia when I was five and I’ve been absolutely terrified of spiders ever since so I’m not really shedding a tear for them

Magnificent, well-researched video! Just awesome!

Great vid

DEG released some fine movies but just never could get those big hits that prop up the smaller films.

They made so many bad movies. I live in Wilmington so i'll always appreciate DiLaurentis for Evil Dead 2 and the soundstages here.

Yeah! Try and find Kuffs online

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