Legendary B-movie producer Roger Corman is at it again.

Anchor Bay Entertainment has send us information for upcoming DVD release of "Stealing Las Vegas". The suspense thriller is executive produced by Corman and stars Eric Roberts (Sharktopus, The Expendables, The Dark Knight), Antonio Fargas (“Starsky and Hutch,” “Everybody Hates Chris,” I’m Gonna Git You Sucka) and Michael Tylo (“All My Children,” “The Bold and the Beautiful”).

DVD special features include: Audio Commentary with Co-Writer/Editor/Director Francisco
Menéndez and Co-Writer/Producer Warren D. Cobb and Deleted & Alternate Scenes

"Stealing Las Vegas" hits shelves on September 11th.

Press Release:

From legendary producer Roger Corman comes a suspense thriller about taking on the house and beating the odds with the September 11th release of Stealing Las Vegas on DVD. Featured at the 2012 Las Vegas Film Festival, Stealing Las Vegas boasts a winner-take-all cast including Eric Roberts (Sharktopus, The Expendables, The Dark Knight), Antonio Fargas (“Starsky and Hutch,” “Everybody Hates Chris,” I’m Gonna Git You Sucka) and Michael Tylo (“All My Children,” “The Bold and the Beautiful”). Get ready for a high-stakes thrill ride that could break the bank – or come up snake eyes! SRP ante is $22.98 and pre-book is August 15th.

For many, Las Vegas is the place where you can walk in a pauper and walk out a multi-millionaire. But for the thousands of desk clerks, maids, electricians, croupiers, chefs, waitresses, and janitors that work in the glittering super hotels that crowd the strip, Vegas is only about making a simple, honest living. When greedy Las Vegas casino owner Alex Stratholme (Roberts) steals twenty million dollars from his employees' pension fund, ex-baseball-phenom-turned-electrician Nick Davis (Ethan Landry) rallies a ragtag team of casino staff to pull off an against-all-odds Las Vegas heist with a twist.

If there ever was a director/producer who influenced modern Hollywood more than Roger Corman it would be hard to find. Anyone who’s anyone has seemingly gotten part of their “big break” under Corman’s banner. From Martin Scorsese, David Carradine, Ron Howard, Robert De Niro, James Cameron, Jack Nicholson, Francis Ford Coppola and many others have passed through Corman’s hands on their way to greater success. Corman’s World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel follows Corman’s career as a documentary, bringing in many of the famous names from his past to discuss his career.

Focusing on the sheer volume of talent that came through his doors in the 60s and 70s, the film focuses on the director’s influence as well as his unique style and approach to film-making. Forgetting about Corman the man, the film focuses purely on Corman the filmmaker. Getting into the independent scene after bad experiences in the studio system, he would work with American International Pictures and eventually found New World for his cinematic adventures. Going from the serious, like The Intruder, to a seemingly trashier line of film-making Corman’s film-making (and some decent candor from those involved) would normally make this a must see documentary.

Corman started in the studio system and eventually wound up on his own after a disagreement with Fox. Starting out on his own, Corman would create the modern indie scene by going out on his own with his New World Pictures. Corman’s mainly known for cheap genre films, Corman is a pioneer of film-making for profit on a minimal scale. Claiming never to have lost money on a picture, Corman is best known for churning out films at a high pace of varying levels of poor quality.

Unfortunately the film’s main problem is that it wants to make Corman too much a hero and everyone who got in his way in the studio system, as well as AIP, into grander villains than they really were. Presented from his perspective, we get Corman as the hero instead of as a normal person. It’s a problem because the film is fairly biased in his favor and as such things that could shed light on both sides of his problems with Hollywood en masse are ignored for this narrative of Corman as this unappreciated brilliant filmmaker/producer when the reality isn’t nearly as concrete in that regard.

It ultimately taints a film that could have shed significant light on someone who’s had a remarkable influence on the modern art of film-making. Corman’s insights into the current blockbuster era of film-making are something to behold, as his dissection of $200 million budgets and modern Hollywood film-making is something to behold.

There’s something to be said about how Corman views the world he lives in and how the excess of Hollywood is viewed through the eyes of a guy who at one point didn’t want anything to do with it. Corman’s World is an interesting, if significantly flawed, look at a man who has done more than most to influence modern film-making and film-makers.

Anchor Bay Films has provided us with some stills for their upcoming DVD and Blu-Ray release of "Camel Spiders", which will be hitting shelves on March 27th. The Roger Corman produced film stars Brian Krause, Gigi Emata, and C. Thomas Howell and is directed by cult filmmaker Jim Wynorski (Chopping Mall, Not of this Earth).

Plot Synopsis:

During a routine desert patrol, an U.S. Military unit head by Captain Sturges (Krause) is ambushed by insurgents. Just when they seemed to be outgunned, the attack suddenly stops...and their would-be assassins are dragged off by what a native liaison calls "the devils of the sand." Wounded in the battle, Sturges earns a ticket back home to the more hospitable deserts of the Southwestern United States.

Bringing back one of his fallen comrades, Sturges doesn't realize that a couple of camel spiders stowed away and now have access to an environment where they can breed at an exponential rate, freely hunting for prey and unafraid of any predator - including man. No place is safe, no one is beyond their paralyzing sting. In the end, a small band of hearty fighters are forced to make one last stand against the creatures.