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THE POWER OF POSITIVE MURDER! Signals Troma’s Latest Production, Lloyd Kaufman Directing

Monday was the official alert for Troma Entertainment Inc.’s latest production, The Power of Positive Murder!. Founding Troma exec and in-house creative Lloyd Kaufman is back in the director’s chair for the flick inspired by Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s “Crime and Punishment”. Troma Entertainment Inc. executive VP and co-founder Michael Herz announced the project rejoining Kaufman with Tromeo & Juliet, Terror Firmer and #ShakespearesShitstorm actress Debbie Rochon. The news marks a rollback after it was expected that #ShakespearesShitstorm would be his curtain call. “I lied about #Shakespeare’sShitstorm being my last film as director,” says Lloyd Kaufman, president of Troma Entertainment. “Now, The Power of Positive Murder! will definitely be my “last hurrah” if I live through it. I’ve always loved the novel Crime and Punishment, especially with all the slapstick and ribald hilarity. Therein, Martin Murray will soon join the pantheon of genius writers discovered by Troma, like James Gunn, Trey Parker […]

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SGT. KABUKIMAN L.A.P.D.: SING, DANCE, KILL Bows With Bloody Vengeance In The Latest Teaser

Back in its heyday, independent film producers Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz certainly found their niche through a memorable array of cult horror and comedy classics over at Troma Entertainment. For Pretend For Real Films’s own Mike L. Taylor, one such character stands out in the form of the titular hero in the 1991 cult slapstick classic, Sgt. Kabukiman N.Y.P.D., a story centered on a hapless detective who gains the mystical powers of Kabuki to fight crime. The character has since gone on to appear in other titles of the Tromaverse with a few spin-offs and other attempts falling short of production. Taylor, however, is adhering to his own inspiration with lead actor Tripp Pickell for a fashionable reboot that highlights a return to glory for the character now in the new film, Sgt. Kabukiman L.A.P.D.: Sing, Dance, Kill, even billing it as a cross between The Raid and Black […]

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