Baxter Black's thoughts on American International Pictures

American International Pictures was founded by two men: James H. Nicholson and Samuel Z. Arkoff. Both realized the great money-making potential of moviemaking and a key demographic that all other studios had been missing: the teenage market. By producing quickly made low-budget fodder for drive-ins, they could make far more money than the studios that shot expensive productions for real theatres. They later hired Roger Corman and the infamous Bert I. Gordon as directors, both of whom would create some of the most notorious b-movies every made, including the Amazing Colossal Man and Attack of the Crab Monsters. Corman would later go on to form his own production studio called New World Pictures, and discover many brilliant talents including Joe Dante, John Sayles, Francis Ford Coppola, Ron Howard, and Jack Nicholson.