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By PARALLEL MADNESS @parallelmadness · On September 23, 2013
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It’s quite clear to me that the majority of their work in the past… has been work that has appealed to the lowest common denominator in the audience.

– David Puttnam


Back in 1986, the BBC made a documentary on Cannon Films.  

Originally owned by Dennis Friedland and Chris Dewey, the company was bought out by Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus in 1979.

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Under their ownership, they churned out:

  • Chuck Norris-starring B-movie actioners
  • Direct-to-VHS cash-grabs
  • “The cinematic sci-fi event of the 80s” – Lifeforce
  • “The Star Wars of the 80s” – Masters Of The Universe
  • A Cassavetes film
  • A film written and directed by Norman Mailler
  • An Oscar-winning Dutch drama
  • Musicals
  • Comedies
  • Period dramas
  • And the blockbuster that contributed to their very own ruin: Superman IV: Quest For Peace

Golan and Globus appeared as Harry Friedman and Nate Fischman in Charles Bukowski’s Hollywood – a liberal account of the writer’s experiences adapting Barfly.

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