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Menahem Golan (Hebrew: מנחם גולן; May 31, 1929 – August 8, 2014, originally Menachem Globus) was an Israeli film producer, screenwriter, and director. He co-owned The Cannon Group with his cousin Yoram Globus. Cannon specialized in producing low-to-mid-budget American films, primarily genre films, during the 1980s after Golan and ...
Yoram Globus (Hebrew: יורם גלובוס; born 7 September 1943) is an Israeli–American film producer, cinema owner, and distributor. He has been involved in over 300 full-length motion pictures and he is most known for his association with The Cannon Group, Inc. , an American film production company, which he co-owned with his cousin Menahem Golan .
By 1979, Cannon had hit serious financial difficulties, and Friedland and Dewey sold Cannon to Israeli cousins Menahem Golan, who had directed The Apple, and Yoram Globus for $500,000. [4] The two cousins forged a business model of buying bottom-barrel scripts and putting them into production.
The Israeli film producers Menahem Golan—a patriot who changed his name after the taking of the Golan Heights and directed Operation Thunderbolt about the Entebbe rescue—and Yoram Globus are cousins who bought the Cannon Group, a floundering film company, in 1979 for a mere $350,000, soon turning it into Hollywood's most prosperous independent film company, with revenues reaching $150 ...
Sep 8, 2014 · In their assault on mainstream Hollywood, Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus tried almost everything. Mr. Golan, who died last month at the age of 85, and Mr. Globus were cousins who released through ...
- Michael Cieply
Jun 10, 2015 · The Cannon Group dominated cinema exhibition in Britain in the Eighties. The company, founded and run by the Israeli cousins Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, pumped out cheapo exploitation movies at an alarming rate across the genres (sex comedies, martial arts movies, vigilante thrillers, science-fiction, costume drama), and the duo got their hands on a chain of cinemas.
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Yoram Globus is an Israeli film producer, cinema owner and distributor who is most famous for his association with Cannon Films Inc., a company he ran with his cousin Menahem Golan. In 1978, Globus and Golan moved to Hollywood and purchased the film production company Cannon (The Cannon Group) for $500,000.
