BIOGRAPHY:
Michael Finnell has an on-going filmmaking partnership with Joe Dante through their
company Renfield Prod-uctions, and has been the producer of almost all of Dante's cinema
films since The Howling in 1980, excepting only The Second Civil War and television work.
But Finnell's early break in movies came from Roger Corman. A graduate in film from New York
University, he set out for Hollywood in 1975 having heard that Corman's New World pictures was
willing to hire inexperienced young hopefuls. He was lucky enough to contact fellow ex-NYU alumnus
Jon Davison, already working for Corman, at just the right time: Finnell became assistant property
master on Hollywood Boulevard at $50 a week. Working his way up to assistant director and production
manager, he finally became associate producer on Avalanche, Corman's biggest movie to date.
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