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Jan 1987 - Jun 1993 6 years 6 months. For Design Projects I wrote ad copy, tag lines, synopses and designed the type look for clients’ trade ads, posters, sell sheets and many other promotional ...
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- New Line Cinema
- California State College San Bernardino
- Simi Valley, California, United States
- Bears, Demons and Court Dates
- A Shark Too Far
- Exit, Montoro
- The Fate of FVI
Only eight years before his exodus, in 1976, Montoro produced a low-budget horror movie called Grizzly, one of only a handful of films that the company fully produced rather than acquiring from overseas. An unabashed Jaws rip-off, it featured “18 feet of gut-crunching, man-eating” grizzly bear in place of the shark, and audiences unexpectedly react...
In 1982, Film Ventures International bit off more than it could chew with the U.S. release of Great White, another Jaws clone with an honest-to-god shark rather than a rampaging bear as proxy. Montoro, seeing dollar signs and a chance to reproduce the “nature attacks” success of Grizzly, acquired the 1981 Italian film The Last Shark, a blatant imit...
In the year before his disappearance, Ed Montoro separated from his wife of many years, Joanne, who had previously served as his secretary at FVI. Bertges suggests that after years of Hollywood living, he “kind of started believing his own publicity,” which manifested in both poor business decisions in terms of which films to distribute, and some p...
Upon Montoro’s immediate departure, FVI was put in the hands of four executives who fought to keep it operating, but it was clearly a doomed proposition. The company declared bankruptcy in 1985, beset with bills from film labs, creditors and companies like Rick Albert’s, which was owed $40,000 at the time of Montoro’s disappearance—money he would n...
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- San Bernardino Union Valley College
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- New Line Cinema
- Los Angeles, California, United States
I am Jim Bertges and you’ve seen my by line in Modeler’s Resource, Kit Builders, Fine Scale Modeler and Amazing Figure Modeler magazines. In fact, I am one of the very few modelers who has provided material for all of those exceptional publications.
Jim Bertges is known for Demonwarp (1988), Out of Sight, Out of Mind (1990) and Delta Heat (1992). Menu. Movies. Release Calendar Top 250 Movies Most Popular Movies ...
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writer, producer. biography, photo, best movies and TV shows, news, birthday and age. «Demonwarp» (1988), «Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors» (1985), «Challenge of ...
