Irwin Yablans (born July 25, 1934) is an American independent film producer and distributor known for his work in the horror film industry. His brother, Frank Yablans, was also a producer.
Halloween began as an idea suggested by Yablans who envisioned a film about babysitters being menaced by a stalker. Carpenter took the idea and another suggestion from Yablans that it take place during Halloween and developed them into a story. Along with noted film producer and financierMoustapha Akkad, Yablans put forward $300,000 for the film's production, filming in Pasadena, California over the course of 20 days. Released in late October 1978, Halloween was an unprecedented success, making $70 million in its initial theatrical run, and becoming the highest grossing independent film of all time; it was surpassed by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 12 years later. Yablans and Akkad remained as executive producers on further films after the original's sequel rights were sold to Dino De Laurentiis, then to other studios, with Akkad producing every entry in the series until his death in 2005. Yablans and Akkad, along with producer Joseph Wolf, founded the independent production and distribution studio Compass International Pictures (later Trancas International Films Ltd).
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^Anna Gorman and Elaine Dutka, "For Arabs, a Man of Renown in Hollywood -'Halloween' producer, slain in Jordan terror attack, depicted Islam positively in other work", Los Angeles Times, November 12, 2005.
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