The Arena (2001 film)

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The Arena
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Cover image of VHS cassette
Directed by Timur Bekmambetov
Written by John William Corrington
Produced by Roger Corman
Sergei Livnev
Starring Karen McDougal
Lisa Dergan
CinematographyUlugbek Khamraev
Edited by Dmitriy Kiselev
Music by Pavel Karmanov
Peter Orloff
Distributed byNew Horizons Home Video
Release date
  • 28 August 2001 (2001-08-28)(U.S.)
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Running time
92 min.
CountriesRussia
United States
LanguageEnglish

The Arena is a direct-to-video film from producer Roger Corman on the subject of female gladiators. It is a remake of the 1974 The Arena with Pam Grier. It was shot in Russia by Kazakh director Timur Bekmambetov [1] with a Russian crew and it featured Playboy Playmates Karen McDougal and Lisa Dergan, [2] in their feature film debut, playing Amazon slaves forced to be gladiators in a Roman arena.

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