"They had a lot of good qualities. They fired you with enthusiasm, but they believed they owned you 365 days and nights of the year." -Barry Jenkins, Group Managing Director, the Cannon Group (UK) Ltd, talking about Golan-Globus

"She is Marilyn Monroe, Brigitte Bardot and Judy Holliday in one girl, with the talent of Julie Christie" -Menahem Golan gushing about Kim Basinger (Fool For Love (1985))

"Our only crime is that we love cinema. You don't see us at the Polo Lounge, on the tennis court or at parties. You see us at the office seven days a week." -Yoram Globus

More quotes: www.cannon.org.uk/quotes.htm

BLU-RAY WATCH

Had a look at Warner's new release of Menahem Golan's Over The Top (1987) in North America on Blu-ray (MGM handle this film in the UK). Possibly the first Golan/Globus/Cannon film on Blu-ray? Underwhelming, would be the best word for this transfer. I think there's a very slight fault too with the image height. Anyway, it's got an English and French audio track with subtitles. And a trailer. That's it.

The good things are it's multi-region (A and B tested) and of course it's also a Blu-ray release. Which is better than a no-release for fans and of course the people involved in the production. The great 1980s' CD soundtrack seems intact. Nice to see CBS Music got all their contracts right and proper.

Always loved the music from the film but wasn't keen on Stallone or the sprog Mendenhall's performances.

Blu-ray disc reviews:

www.blu-ray.com/movies/Over-the-Top-Blu-ray-Review/5574/

http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/2414/overtop.html

Some images (click for full size) from the Blu-ray:

Images copyright ©2010 Time Warner

If you don't have Blu-ray there are several DVD releases in the UK (MGM), Italy (Storm), Germany (Kinowelt), France and elsewhere:

UK DVD www.dvdactive.com/reviews/dvd/over-the-top.html

USA DVD www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/16002/over-the-top/

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I see Warner have offered to buy what's left of MGM Inc. This would certainly be good news for Cannon fans as it would I assume solve many of the rights' issues with Warner/MGM/Cannon.

Warner already owns some Cannon (and a lot of former MGM through their purchase of Turner) back catalogue of course with Cobra (1986) being the main film with other titles including Superman IV: The Quest For Peace (1987).

I've never understood why Warner didn't buy MGM as they've had several opportunities. Always looked to be a great match.

Story:

MGM's Options: Time-Warner Bids $1.5B

Debt Deadline Extended Again

www.thewrap.com/ind-column/mgm-deadline-passes-no-bids-confirmed-15480

ALL THAT SHINES...

Jack has kindly sent over some of his memories of his duties of being a Cannon cinema manager.

Link @ Duties of the Cannon Manager  www.cannon.org.uk/cannonmanager.htm

Kind thanks to Jack for his reminisces.

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Apologies if you've waiting a while for a response to email. Due to commitments it can take some time for me to get back to you -but I always will of course.

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CALL THE MANAGER!

Put that back right this minute!

Mike Speed has very kindly sent Cannon.org.uk several great photographs which he took from the 1980s and 1990s featuring Cannon Cinemas. Those are:

Ealing, Uxbridge Road

Edgware Road

Enfield, Middlesex

Fulham Road

Gerrard's Cross

Hammersmith

Harrow, Sheepcote Road

Harrow, Station Road

West Ealing, Northfields Ave

Mike's photos start at the Cannon Edgware www.cannon.org.uk/cannonedgware.htm

All added to the Cannon Cinemas A-W Gallery

A big thank you to Mike for sharing his great photographs with everyone.

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640 SAN VINCENTE

640 San Vincente Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90048

That's an image from Cannon's HQ grand opening party (held in the car park) from 1986.

Included in a little video I've uploaded to YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEOg_g2zGFc

Thanks to Jack.

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WHEN DORONT MET MENAHEM

Nice little mobile phone (what's the world coming too!) interview with Menahem Golan and Jean-Claude Van Damme fan, Doront www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCyqe3zO1_k

Thanks to Doront.

Whilst I'm on the subject of JCVD, check out this strange poster from Thailand (I think):

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Jean-Claude Van Damme Gallery

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MICKEY'S 2ND HAND ROLLS ROYCE

I came by an excellent 10 minute documentary on Menahem Golan from Canal+ TV in France.

Watch it @ www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V0KC8zekB8

Not very good quality video but it's an excellent watch as it gives you a flavour of the man's love for making films. All that the man's ever wanted obviously. A filmmaker.

He takes a poke (still, rightly in my opinion) at Godard and has a few funny stories.

His comments about Cannon's banker, Crédit Lyonnais, are somewhat rose-tinted and the facts of that have been smoothed out and airbrushed by time and memory. Such is one of the pleasures of old age.

THE TRILOGY?

There's an excellent Michael "Boogaloo Shrimp" Chambers interview over @ The Black Hollywood File where he discusses his work in the Breakdance movies and the intended third instalment.

Nice quote: "And Menahem Golan, the owner of Cannon Films asked me, he says Shrimp we wanna do Breakin’ 2 but how are you gonna top your broom dance number."

Catch the trailers on YouTube:

Breakin' / Breakdance www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUENUzk_IFc

Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo / Breakdance 2: Electric Boogaloo www.youtube.com/watch?v=d06xH_DoTpY

See the little clip of him walking on the ceiling: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBFrEG-uPmQ (TV advert for the first film after that clip).

Yes, I notice in that photo above Lucinda Dickey and you'll find her with Cannon again in Ninja III: The Domination (1984) -took a while to find the trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbvh0vKJcQo

SUPER UPDATE

Added over 10 cinemas to the cinema gallery www.cannon.org.uk/cinemagallery.htm If you have a picture or some info you'd like to add to the gallery please get in touch Contact Me

-A massive thank you to all those who have kindly contributed images.

Thanks to Jack.

TOO ORANGEY

New logo and intro found with thanks to Peter. I remember this but I'm not sure of its age because I don't think it was in early Cannon cinemas as I don't recall it on every visit. Memories fade however so if you know the full detail please let me know.

You can see the intro @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMlpV2_ZkdY

I'm still after the Cannon Screen Advertising logo or intro if anyone can help. I know it's around in 8mm form. If you can help Contact Me

Thanks again to Peter and you can see his many YouTube videos here

UNOFFICIAL

I see The Cannon Group Inc has popped up on the website Facebook. I'd just like to say that that has no connection to this site or me -except both have been set up by fans of the company of course.

Great quote on there:

Thomas wrote at 20:27 on 09 September 2009

"I use to work for a distribution company who bought the office furniture that Menahem Golan used and one of those was a very nice mahogany or Oak desk that had a very interesting design...It is now owned by Moshe and Simon Bibiyan".

And I spied an interesting poster with the MGM and Golan-Globus's Noah Films logo:

Photo: Hasida

Something to do with Menahem Golan's Kazablan which MGM released in the USA in 1974.

Never managed to register on the site and I see there's someone called Menahem Golan www.facebook.com/menahemgolan Can't say if that's the real one or not.

I always enjoy reading old newspaper articles, so here's a couple. I intended to do a couple

of pages with juicy tidbits as I have loads of these little time capsules saved.

If you have a picture or information you'd like to share see the Contact Me 

A few more great images added to the Cannon IMDb A-Z Database www.cannon.org.uk/AZ.htm

Very classy, Naughty Wives (1973) (Secrets of a Door-to-Door Salesman in the UK) and The Young Playmates (1972) (Au Pair Girls in the UK). From directors Val Guest and Wolf Rilla (Village of the Damned).

Plenty of DVDs to choose from. Those 2 above are UK releases.

If you have a picture or information you'd like to share see the Contact Me 

IMDb A-Z

Stephen Weeks's I, Monster (1971). Found an image of Cannon's one sheet 1972 US release poster. I don't think I've seen this film but the trailer (below) looks familar. Lee & Cushing later appeared in Pete Walker's Cannon film of House of the Long Shadows (1983) Added the image to the Cannon IMDb A-Z Database www.cannon.org.uk/AZ.htm I'm always looking for missing images for that database so if you have something please let me know Contact Me 

Trailer www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUXaIzv7z8Q -no sign of "Cannon" on that but it's got an American voiceover and is rated "PG". I assume then, this is the USA trailer.

No shortage of DVDs. Optimum Home Entertainment (UK), StudioCanal (UK) & Image Entertainment (USA).

This looks to be with Vivendi Universal (owners of Studio-Canal/Optimum) who own most of the former Cannon Screen Entertainment/British Lion back catalogue.

 From the IMDb http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0068727/usercomments

With this feature, Amicus Studios (a British production company founded merely to cash in on the huge success of contemporary competitor Hammer, though with lower budgets and mainly specializing in anthology films) attempted to present its very own adaptation of the legendary and numerously retold novel "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", by Robert Louis Stevenson. However, "I, Monster" turned out to be a rather curious movie and I honestly can't say for sure what it was that Amicus wanted to achieve and whether or not they succeeded in their effort. At first I assumed "I, Monster" was going to be only loosely inspired by the classic story, since there already are so many reminiscent versions available on the market and even more so because the screenplay changes the names of the protagonist from Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde into Dr. Marlowe and Mr. Blake. But then it rapidly becomes obvious that this is actually one of the faithful adaptations of Stevenson's story, so that can't be an option.

On a slightly off-topic note, in case you are looking for an offbeat and extremely loose interpretation of the same story, you can turn to the aforementioned Hammer again and check out "Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde". Maybe the original mission was to make the very first 3-D version of "Jekyll and Hyde", but that idea got abandoned in a fairly early stage as well and it's only still noticeable in some minor visual and cinematographic details. So, basically, all that remains is another redundant but nevertheless worthwhile re-enactment of a fantastic tale, once more pairing two of the greatest horror actors ever (Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee) and competently directed by one of the youngest filmmakers of that time. Stephen Weeks was still in his early twenties in 1971. I bet it must be a truly unique experience to give Lee and Cushing instructions on a film set on that age...

Lee and Cushing don't deliver their greatest performances here (far from it actually), but even at their most mediocre they nonetheless remain a joy to behold. Lee stars as Dr. Marlowe, a successful psychiatrist and devoted disciple of Sigmund Freud's theories. He firmly believes that mental illnesses can be caused by the repression of the true human nature (which is vile, mean and aggressive) and that both sides of the personality can easily be separated. He develops a drug, experiments on himself and gradually turns into a more relentless and incurable monster after each injection. His friends, including Peter Cushing as his attorney, want to help Dr. Marlowe but they automatically assume this mysterious Mr. Blake is an entirely different persona. The overall story is commonly known and this version doesn't feature any noteworthy differences. The doctor's transformations - mentally as well as physically - grow more monstrous, but the remarkable thing is he is the scariest during the earliest phases! Near the film's climax, Christopher Lee looks unrecognizable and heavily deformed but after the first couple of drug dosages he simply puts on a menacing and genuinely unsettling Joker-type of smile. Can you imagine Christopher Lee with a big smile like that? Now, THAT is scary stuff!

Coventry from the Draconian Swamp of Unholy Souls

More on Amicus http://amicusproductions5.blogspot.com/2008/06/peter-cushing-his-amicus-films-by_23.html

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BBC OMNIBUS: THE LAST MOGULS (1986)

Anyone remember that on the BBC? According to the BBC its transmission date was 23 May 1986.

Interesting cast:

Julie Andrews

Alan Bates

John Frankenheimer    

Yoram Globus

Menahem Golan

Norman Mailer

Chuck Norris

David Puttnam   

Michael Winner

Franco Zeffirelli

Christopher Sykes worked on the project and later returned to Golan with Shooting Versace. 

From Sykes's site:

THE LAST MOGULS

The Israeli go-go boys MENAHEM GOLAN and YORAM GLOBUS. The rise and rise of Cannon Films, the most powerful independent in Hollywood.

BBC1 OMNIBUS /60 mins

IMDb www.imdb.com/title/tt1086351

SHOOTING VERSACE

Legendary Israeli action-director MENAHEM GOLAN and producer SAM LUPOWITZ race Hollywood to the screen with their ultra-low-budget movie THE VERSACE MURDER

BBC2 MODERN TIMES /50 mins

"Hugely entertaining" The Times

"Jaw-dropping...Delicious comedy" Independent

"Brilliant" Evening Standard

"Hilarious" Jewish Chronicle

IMDb www.imdb.com/title/tt1024920

I've seen that 1986 production but it was a very long time ago. I'd like to see it again so if anyone can help (I'd also like a copy of the BBC Versace documentary) with that please let me know. Thanks Contact Me

MESMERISED

Here's the Variety advert I promised which Lee Marvin was talking about: Pinocchio: The Movie or as seen here, Pinocchio: The Robot. I'm sure either would have been fascinating especially with Tobe Hooper at the helm.

 YouTube video www.youtube.com/watch?v=3faBEebU-NM

Thanks to William S. Wilson for the Variety photograph. 

KATHERINE'S INTRO

I watched Guess What We Learned in School Today? (1971) yesterday. Very strange project from Dennis Friedland and Christopher C. Dewey's Cannon Productions. I got the feeling whilst watching it that it was decades ahead of its time -or maybe it was a film made on a very tight budget. What really caught my attention was a fascinating introduction which was voiced by the director's -John G. Avildsen- daughter, Katherine  www.youtube.com/watch?v=Izl1pRewEUk

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Cannon released this at least twice over a 3 year period, the abridged title of "Guess What" being the later version from 1972-73.

THE NEW YORK TIMES

May 20, 1971

Screen: 'Guess What We Learned . . .':Avildsen's Work Boils Stereotype Enemies Two Suburban Families Fight Sex Education

By ROGER GREENSPUN

When John G. Avildsen's "Joe" opened last year, some critics detected a certain ambiguity in the quality of its contempt for its hardhat hero. In "Guess What We Learned in School Today?," an earlier Avildsen that opened yesterday at the Loew's Cine, there is no such ambiguity, merely stupid hatred, but there are ineptitudes and unrewarding obscurities enough to sink the movie.

Deep inside "Guess What We Learned in School Today?" is a burlesque horror story about two suburban husbands, Roger Manley and Lance Battle, who fight to maintain their families' purity and the American Way of Life against the evil incursions of pot, Communism and the carnal knowledge to be unleashed should be education be taught in the local schools by one Dr. Lily Whitehorn.

As you will have noticed, the film makes rather a thing of its personal names, and since Manley learns to his own distaste that he is homosexual and Battle has for the last 10 years been impotent, the irony sits heavy on each identification. Lily Whitehorn, a lanky spinster speaking truth, betrays herself only by an occasional Freudian slip ("wildly" for "widely") into the kind of movie "Guess What We Learned in School Today?" should have been content to remain.

The movie it keeps trying to be, however, is an amalgam of social satire and sane sex propaganda and it succeeds with neither. It attacks mostly easy enemies (uptight cops, super patriots, militarism, brand names, etc.) and it defends nothing at all except good appetites and therapeutic pornography.

This is where I feel a certain doubleness of intention in "Guess What We Learned in School Today?" For where it ambitiously produces everything it despises (Lance and Roger have elaborate on-screen fantasies and a whole slew of playable character quirks), it scarcely presents what it admires and time and again it comes to look like a series of blackout skits from the more inhibited edges of an exploitation movie.

Because I happen to like some exploitation movies and to deplore the pious simplicities of this film, I can salvage from it only the memory of a few good women who might have been put to better use: Rosella Olson (Mrs. Manley) for her fine body, Jane MacLeod (Mrs. Battle) for her plump and pretty face, and Yvonne McCall (Dr. Whitehorn), whose fantastic freckles and big wide grin constitute the only real point of attraction in "Guess What We Learned in School Today?"

The Cast

GUESS WHAT WE LEARNED IN SCHOOL TODAY?, directed by John G. Avildsen; written by Eugene Price, from a story by Mr. Price and Mr. Avildsen; photographed by Mr. Avildsen; music by Harper Mac Kay; produced by David Gil; released by Cannon Films. At Loem's Cine, Third Avenue at 86th Street. Running time: 96 minutes. (The Motion Picture Association of America's Production Code and Rating Administration classifies this film: "R—restricted, under 17 requires acompanying parent or adult guardian.")

Roger Manley . . . . . Richard Carballo

Robbie Battle . . . . . Devin Goldenberg

Lance Battle . . . . . Zachary Haines

Rita Battle . . . . . Jane MacLeod

Dr. Lily Whitehorn . . . . . Yvonne McCall

Eve Manley . . . . . Rosella Olson

Lydia . . . . . Diana Moore

© 1971 The New York Times

G.I. JOE

That's a completely new bit of merchandise to me.

Thanks to Antti!

If anyone has more photos or info on that toy please let me know Contact Me

 Michael Dudikoff Cannon Gallery www.cannon.org.uk/dudikoff.htm

BLOODY AWFUL

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That's a note sent to Menahem Golan which was attached to the November 1985 Ted Newsom and John Brancato script for Cannon's Spider-Man. A later (1993) draft can be found here (credited to Ted Newson/Barry Cohen/James Cameron/Joseph Goldmari/John Brancato -amongst others). I see Michael Winner gets a mention too for Captain America. I'm looking for Cannon/Captain America materials (and for someone to do some articles!) so if you have any or can help with that intended section, please let me know Contact Me

More on Cannon's Spider-man www.cannon.org.uk/spiderman.htm

PIC OF THE DAY

Here's a great Pic of The Day sent in by   www.dolph-ultimate.com

Thanks!

Here's another Pic of The Day:

Cannon's Cannon! From the Cannon Productions's Maid in Sweden (1971) trailer

NEWER CANNON

        photo:www.odessafilmworks.com

First time I've ever seen Menahem next to the logo for New Cannon Inc.

Bit of info on NCI @ Could We Possibly Borrow Your Logo? cannon.org.uk/newcannon.htm

NCI logo intro on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQRldzTkw2s (more video on the page above).

RE: KING LEAR

MGM through 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment have just released Godard's King Lear (1987) in Italy. No word yet on whether MGM have included a limited edition reproduction Cannes napkin contract. Unlikely.

Nothing on www.20thfox.it/dvd

EAN: 8010312084812 apparently.

Few on eBay http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=400068304839 and @ http://film-dvd.dvd.it/dvd-drammatici/re-lear/dettaglio/id-1387447/

More on Godard and Cannon www.cannon.org.uk/godard.htm

If someone buys this or gets some good info on it please let me know. A scan of any artwork would be appreciated also. Contact Me page.

Some chat on the film http://thedancingimage.blogspot.com/2009/04/godardnixon-or-why-i-must-see-this.html

Thanks to Eric for the heads up!

CRAZY LEGS!

A few scans from an old issue of the UK magazine FILMS:

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I'm not sure why Cannon went for the late UK name change (even the the trailers below feature both names -France went for something a bit strange) to Breakdance: The Movie (1984) rather than the North American Breakin' (1984) but it did allow for the ":The Movie" addition which I suppose stops people from thinking it's not an err.. movie.

No shortage of DVD releases for this all over the world. The UK has had several under both "Breakin'" and "Breakdance".

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There's a new April 2009 release from Second Sight Films Ltd with the original name as below. North American still has "Breakdance" and Australia has "Breakdance" too.

www.secondsightfilms.co.uk/cat.php?a=52&p=0

OFFICIAL SECOND SIGHT PRESS RELEASE:

Twenty five years after its original release Breakdance: The Movie is without a doubt still the original and best breakdance film: a movie inspired by a street movement that went on to spread the craze wider and further than anyone anticipated.

Now, get out your lino, stick on your ghetto blaster and don your cap as Breakdance and its sequel Breakdance 2: Electric Boogaloo spin on to DVD courtesy of Second Sight.

The freshest DVDs of 2009 will be released in their full widescreen glory for the first time in the UK on 6 April 2009.

Breakdance was a genuine phenomenon, an independent film that grew out of the nascent hip hop craze that was sweeping across both sides of the Atlantic and went on to bring it to an even wider audience.

Directed by Joel Silberg, Breakdance: The Movie sees dance student Kelly (Lucinda Dickey) becoming disillusioned with her dance teachers, and when she meets street dancers Turbo (Adolpho Quinones) and Ozone (Michael Chambers), she realises that breakdancing is where it's at.

Breakdance 2: Electric Boogaloo sees Turbo, Ozone and Kelly take on a developer who wants to demolish the local youth centre, so they plan a huge street fundraiser to showcase what they do best, Breakdancing!

As well as introducing scores of teens in the US and UK to the dancing, the moves, the music and the clothes that characterised breakdancing, bodypopping and hip hop in general, Breakdance also brought fledgling rapper Ice T to a wider audience for the first time ever.

With a thumping soundtrack including the top 10 hit There's No Stopping Us by Ollie & Jerry and Rufus and Chaka Khan's Ain't Nobody, Breakdance will have you doing windmills, crazy legs and headspins in no time.

Limited interviews available with Adolpho Quinones and Michael Chambers. 

_____________________

Watch the trailer for Breakdance: The Movie (1984) here

Watch the trailer for Breakdance 2 Electric Boogaloo (1984) here (watch right to the end!).

...look out for Jean-Claude Van Damme www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSc8Hvji9E0

CANNON: LIQUIDATED

Yes, just a few months ago we saw the final nail in the coffin for the Cannon name in the

UK. Full details: www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/59032/notices/787462/all=cannon+group

Liquidation:

In law, liquidation refers to the process by which a company (or part of a company) is brought to an end, and the assets and property of the company redistributed. Liquidation can also be referred to as winding-up or dissolution, although dissolution technically refers to the last stage of liquidation. The process of liquidation also arises when customs, an authority or agency in a country responsible for collecting and safeguarding customs duties, determines the final computation or ascertainment of the duties or drawback accruing on an entry. Liquidation may either be compulsory (sometimes referred to as a creditors' liquidation) or voluntary (sometimes referred to as a shareholders' liquidation, although some voluntary liquidations are controlled by the creditors, see below) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquidated

Not particulalry interesting but it certainly kills off the repeated nonsense I read that   the Cannon Group Inc went "bankrupt". Massive out of control unpaid debts, criminal investigations and allegations, fleeing from justice, suspicious office fires -maybe, maybe not -definitely the abomination that is Superman 4 -but not bankruptcy.

So, Cannon is no longer a legal entity here but at least we have the memories :p

I hadn't heard of CAMBRIDGE HOLDINGS LIMITED and I've added it to my Cannon Companies page www.cannon.org.uk/cannoncompanies.htm Have one to add? Contact Me 

THE ORGANIZATION (1971)

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Never heard of "Cannon Organization" before. Sounds rather intimidating. Excellent picture from 1971. Note Joe (1970) on the wall to the right. A film which -no doubt- made Cannon as a company and name. "Zora" which had a very late name change to Silent Night, Bloody Night (1974) gets a mention also. "Jules Bricken's "Explosion" seems to have ended up at AIP and I've not found any further connection with Cannon.

Ernest Sands is mentioned in that article. If you have info on him or any photos of the former Cannon people Dennis Friedland and Christopher C. Dewey I'd like to see them. I've not seen any good picture of older Cannon head honchos so if you can help this site please get in touch Contact Me

There's a section on cannon.org.uk about Dennis Friedland and Christopher C. Dewey -as you can see there's not much information. So, if you'd like to add something, please let me know www.cannon.org.uk/friedland&dewey.htm

Dennis Friedland http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0295080

Christopher C. Dewey http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0223119

CANNON PROMOTION

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Cannon’s UK cinema release of the double bill for The Godsend (1980) and Schizoid (1980). Not sure when this poster was released. Circa 1981 I'll assume.

They’ve almost made Schizoid (1980) look like a love story. I'll be adding this to my poster gallery once I upload it.

Comparison to the US one sheets:

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1000+ more images on the Cannon IMDb A-Z Database  www.cannon.org.uk/AZ.htm If you find any errors on that section, please let me know Contact Me

MASS TORTS -UPDATE

Moshe Zingel's been torting again. I mentioned a few weeks back that the Cannon Movie Tale Snow White (1987) had run in to some legal problems on DVD and had been withdrawn in North America (I've had people asking where they can get the DVD).

Mr Zingel has some sworn oaths by Menahem Golan on this very subject here There's another oath too on the Cannon Classic The Apple (1980) here and here I wasn't aware music rights were so different in releasing countries which is why I assume many Cannon films have releases in certain countries but not others.

Artists have to protect their rights as it's their livelihood of course.

Music was always important for the Cannon Group Inc -even before Golan-Globus were on the scene:

I think Golan-Globus knew it would be worthwhile securing music publishing rights in their films.

JUST A VOLVO DRIVING

A Volvo mentioned on a Cannon fansite? See the link below for the comment about Menahem Golan from producer Nik Powell.

I'm looking for Cannon quotes www.cannon.org.uk/quotes.htm I've been adding a few new ones and many are funnier the farther away we get from when they were originally mouthed.

If you have a quote you'd like to add see the Contact Me page.

VARIETY (1987)

Some more interesting scans sent over by YVSS -thanks again. From May 1987, Variety magazine.

Direct link to the images: here or www.cannon.org.uk/promo2.htm

WOOLY -UPDATE

Just a little update on The Yellow Jersey.

Found an article and added it to the Cannon promo section here

Excellent article covering the journey of the story to film. Which -I'm not aware of- it ever made.