Andromeda (play) also prophesied that the descendants of Perseus and Andromeda would become the rulers of Mycenae. Little is known of treatments of the Andromeda myth prior to Euripides. However, Sophocles wrote a play entitled "Andromeda", which covered the same story and was believed to have been performed around 450 BC. Sophocles' "Andromeda" is now lost except for a few fragments. Euripides treated earlier aspects of the Perseus myth in his earlier plays "Danae" (between 455 and 425 BC), which covered Perseus' birth, and "Dictys" (431 BC), which covered his defeat of Medusa. Information about "Andromeda" is largely based on later sources,
Monster from the Ocean Floor was sold to Lippert Pictures for $110,000. Gene Corman later said that Lippert renegotiated his deal on the film once he found out that Roger Corman had not spent $100,000 on making it, but considerably less. Corman received a $60,000 advance for "Monster", which enabled him to make his next film. The film grossed $850,000. "TV Guide" found the movie lacking and criticized the directing; however, it found the movie interesting historically as the "beginning of something big and cheap". Variety was kinder, calling the movie a well made quickie. Monster from the Ocean Floor Monster from the Ocean Floor