Actually, he's done very well with smaller budgets (heck, arguably he does BETTER with smaller budgets, given that that includes all his Spanish language films).
But I do think he's wasted too much time pursuing a blockbuster hit that will give him "clout" in Hollywood.

Ironically, he financed YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN through cattle rustling!

ACTUAL fun fact: the part was written for John Wayne- who loved the script, but felt it would hurt his image to be in an R-rated comedy.
(how the hell it went from Wayne to Wilder is one of life's great mysteries, but hey, whatever works)

He SHOULD be known as the king of 1980s rock videos, but that's not much of a draw these days.
But that dude was TOTALLY the king of 1980s rock videos.

FUN FACT: her last performance was voicing a thinly-disguised "Miss Kitty" style madam in a "wild west"-flashback episode of BATMAN THE ANIMATED SERIES written by none other than Joe R. Lansdale!

THE LAWLESS YEARS is pretty cool- but it's becomes more interesting when you know about the real-life guy it's based on; seriously, this guy's life reads like a James Elroy trilogy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…
James Gregory admits his performance as Inspector Luger on BARNEY MILLER was very much based on Ruditsky…

It was Conrad that insisted he NOT have any weekly love interests on CANNON, feeling it would be unbelievable and embarrassing to try to pass off his big beefy self as a swingin' stud.
The thing is, this ended up making him more popular with female viewers; on many other P.I. shows, if the plot involved helping a…

Apparently (it was actually one of the earliest DTV movies they planned; they were talking about it way back when they launched the line).
I know the brass wants to push Deathstroke (and TEEN TITANS GO! is a big hit… although I imagine it'll be nothing like JUDAS CONTRACT in tone, of course), so I can understand…

No; they're independent. The novel is about a chemical cloud that drives people insane.
King may well have used both as partial inspiration for the original novella THE MIST; he talks at length about both Carpenter's films and Herbert's novels in his non-fiction book DANSE MACABRE.

It may OFFICIALLY be based on the Stephen King story THE MIST- but it looks a lot more like the James Herbert novel THE FOG…

They're not really being ALLOWED to; James Tucker has publicly acknowledged that WB won't let them do anything that can't be sold as being about Batman or the JL.

Maybe WB's film division looks down on them… but I'm pretty sure the guys making the Marvel films appreciate them; you can see the influence, from the BTAS-style retro-tech in FIRST AVENGER to GOTG2's version of Mantis basically having the personality of TEEN TITAN's animated version of Starfire.

Of the three NuTrek leads, he has the toughest job stepping into the footsteps of his predecessor- Urban and Quinto can get away with imitating Kelley and Nimoy a bit, but Pine has to find a way to be Kirk without being Shatner.
I think he's done a great job.

He wrote several episodes of BATMAN THE ANIMATED SERIES ("Read My Lips", Perchance To Dream", and two that lean into his wild-west territory, "Showdown" and "Critters").
He also did a series of Jonah Hex comics with Tim Truman, and they are a perfect fit (both for the character and as collaborators)

To put it in perspective: H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard both loved 1932`s THE MUMMY.

"Hair Hydra"? You mean, like, a Gorgon?

Well, the best case scenario for a big budget adaptation would be something like MASTER AND COMMANDER, which shares a lot of the same strengths and weaknesses as the SHARPE tv movies.
A more likely scenario would be something like ROYAL FLASH: an honourable effort, but short of the mark.
Worst case scenario: Zack…

They're classic "British TV Entertainment"; they make up for their cheapness through vigorous performances by an overqualified cast.
Bernard Cornwall (author of the original books) was once asked about them, and he admitted that it was disappointing how scaled down and chopped up they were compared to his novels… but…

For most of the past decade, the 1978 DAWN (despite it's classic status and earlier popularity on home video) has been OOP on DVD and Blu in North America and unavailable for streaming because of "rights issues"… a condition that didn't affect any of the OTHER films Romero made for Laurel, and thus was generally…

aka "The Remake Made By People Surpressing The Distribution Of The Original".
Boy that Zack Snyder is a class act, ain't he?