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Jul 8, 2022 · A documentary about Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus - two movie-obsessed cousins whose passion for cinema changed the way movies were made and marketed - and ...
- The Last American Virgin
- Cobra
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2
The success of the Israeli coming-of-age movie Lemon Popsicle helped put producers Golan and Globus in the position to buy Cannon films and establish themselves as kings of 80s cinema, so it’s no surprise that they would want to revisit it when their reach in the U.S. expanded. The Last American Virgin more or less follows the same storyline as Lem...
For all of their wild content, Cannon movies tended to be politically conservative. Many of their best-known movies were about winning the Vietnam War, defeating evil communists, and restoring law and order against drugged-out hippies and also people who aren’t white. And no movie embodied this tendency better than Cobra. After stopping a gunman ho...
Tobe Hooper didn’t want to make another Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The first one may have become a cultural sensation, but he didn’t want to repeat himself. Worse, people failed to see the humor in the first movie, which he considered to be a dark comedy. But when the first movies in his three-picture deal with Cannon flopped, Hooper bit the bullet a...
This terrific and thoroughly entertaining documentary recounts the larger-than-life story of two Israeli cousins, Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, who founded and then lost the low-budget independent movie empire, Hollywood’s fabled Cannon Films.
A list of 50 films compiled on Letterboxd, including Death Wish 3 (1985), The Apple (1980), Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects (1989), Cyborg (1989) and Ninja III: The Domination (1984). About this list: The list is ordered from silliest to most serious.
The film explores the effect of two Israeli cousins, Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, on Hollywood by producing films and starting one of the most successful independent production companies, Cannon Films.
77th EDITION May 14-25, 2024. THE GO-GO BOYS: The Inside Story of Cannon films is a documentary that tells the inside story of two Israeli-born cousins, Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, who in pursuit of the American Dream turned the Hollywood power structure upside down, producing over 300 films and becoming the most powerful independent film comp.
4 days ago · A documentary about the rise and fall of the Cannon Film Group, the legendary independent film company helmed by Israeli cousins Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus.
