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Lawrence Henry Woolner (12 April 1912 – 21 July 1985) was an American film producer, distributor, exhibitor and executive. He worked with Roger Corman on a number of films, helping him found New World Pictures.
The Woolner Brothers were an American film releasing company formed in 1955, made up of Lawrence (April 22, 1912 – July 21, 1985), Bernard (June 9, 1910 – February 21, 1977), and David Woolner. History. After US Army service in World War II, Lawrence started a New Orleans drive-in theatre in 1948.
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Struggling artist Rudy Ray Moore works in historic record store Dolphin's of Hollywood in 1970s LA, trying to get on the air in the in-store radio station. He moonlights as an MCfor his friend Ben Taylor and band at a club. Asking the club owner for a comedy time slot, he is turned down. One day, homeless man Ricco wanders into the record store, ma...
Murphy has stated that a biopic of Rudy Ray Moore had long been a dream project for him. Murphy initially met screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski in 2003 and they began developing the project. Murphy arranged a meeting between the two writers with Moore, who told him many of his life stories before his death in 2008.However, the ear...
Theatrical and streaming
Dolemite Is My Name had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 7, 2019. It was released in a limited releaseon October 4, 2019 and digital streaming on October 25, 2019.
Critical response
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 97% based on 233 reviews, with an average rating of 7.9/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "In dramatizing Rudy Ray Moore's stranger-than-fiction story, Eddie Murphy makes Dolemite Is My Name just as bold, brash, and ultimately hard to resist as its subject." On Metacritic, it has a weighted average score of 76 out of 100, based on 39 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". In Variety, Owen Gle...
Dolemite Is My Name at IMDbDolemite Is My Name on NetflixNov 4, 2019 · Dimension Pictures, which specialized in exploitation features and was founded by Lawrence Woolner (Bob Odenkirk in the film), made a deal to release the movie in theaters.
Apr 29, 2009 · Veteran producer, distributor and drive-in owner Lawrence Woolner co-founded New World Pictures with Roger Corman in 1970. When Corman bought out Woolner's half of the company in late 1971, Woolner left to form Dimension Picutres.
Lawrence Woolner was born on 22 April 1912 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for Beyond Atlantis (1973), Terminal Island (1973) and The Twilight People (1972). He died on 21 July 1985 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
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Lawrence Henryy Woolner was an American film producer, distributor, exhibitor and executive. He worked with Roger Corman on a number of films, helping him found New World Pictures. However he clashed with Corman and soon set up his own company, Dimension Pictures, which ran for ten years.
