Updates, News and errr… Cannon Stuff

JUNE 2008 (see menu for older news)

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ZORBA: THE MUSICAL

Housekeeping (along with Andrei Konchalovsky’s The Inner Circle of course) moved to Columbia Pictures.

GOOD TO US

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Review of The Delta Force (1986) from March 1986 from the UK magazine, Films and Filming.

CANNON ART

That’s Japanese for Over the Top (1987).

You might need to know that one day.

CANNON ART

click for larger view DVD Joel M. Reed

Joel M. Reed’s Blood Bath (1976) UK VHS from around 1983 I think.

Never know why DVD distributors don’t either buy the rights or copy/honour superior original artwork. I know which one I prefer.

Scans added to the home video galleries:

Blood Bath (1976) Rank Home VIdeo

Hot Resort (1985) Guild Home Video

Roots of Evil (1992) Cannon Picture, UK

Sahara (1983) Guild Home Video

CANNON, COULD HAVE BEEN

PAUL SCHRADER'S INVESTIGATION

-A review by Kent Church

Paul Schrader

Kent Church has written a review of Paul Scharder's Cannon planned project from 1987 which was to be helmed by Andrei Konchalovsky, director of Runaway Train (1985).

I love a lot of Paul Schrader's work and after reading his script and Kent's excellent review I think we'll never really know what sort of film we'd of been given by Cannon. With the combined talents

of Schrader, Al Pacino, Christopher Walken and Andrei Konchalovsky we could have had a real cinematic treat. We could only of hoped for the freedom given to the makers of the classic,

Barfly (1987). We’ll never know of course. Cannon, Could Have Been. If you’d like a copy (for educational use only) of Schrader’s script, see the Contact Me page on the main menu

You can find Kent’s review under Cannon, Could Have Been on the main menu

DAY-GLO & GO-GLO

Some interesting promo/teaser posters from the UK:

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Approx size 40" x 30" / 1010mm x 760mm.

Go-Glo Music -Found a new Cannon company and I can only assume it stands for errr.. Golan-Globus Music.

It's mentioned in Over The Top (1987) , Fool For Love (1985), New Year's Evil (1980) (end titles: "Available on Cannon Records") Alien From LA (1988) and Breakin' (1984). Seems to be

controlled now by Sony and WB Music.

More breakdancing –Israeli style…

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CANNON KILMARNOCK

Cannon Kilmarnock, 1993 photo by Norrie McNamee

Beautiful building added to the cinema gallery and I’m pleased to say it has legal protection so it’s not easily demolished.

CANNON JAPAN

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A couple of nice posters from Japan. Mannequin (1987) –a film Cannon Screen Entertainment picked up from Gladden and a dual Street Knight (1993) / To the Death (1993) from Cannon Pictures.

“Chirashi” is the name for this style of poster apparently.

“THE PEOPLE WHO KNOW HOW”

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Make sure your teeth are in when you say it.

CANNON DVD WATCH -BERNADETTE

Jean Delannoy’s Bernadette (1988)

Released on DVD in the USA/Canada by some sort of religious concern, Ignatius Press. There’s an interesting interview with the star Sydney Penny @ www.ignatiusinsight.com/features/spenny_bernadette_dec04.asp

I’ve never actually seen the film (or the follow-up –which I know nothing about and it seems to have no Cannon connection).

I do like the cinema posters and I have the UK quad here Copy of the US poster here

IMDb http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0092639

Watch the trailer for the film here

CANNON DVD WATCH -THE BERLIN AFFAIR

Original Spanish poster –click for larger

Liliana Cavani’s The Berlin Affair (1985)

Italian DVD. Specs: 16x9, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, Italian language and subtitles. I’m not aware of any English language options.

IMDb http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0088789

Watch the trailer for the film here

$12.50.

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eBay quote: “This original hand signed autographed 8 x 10 glossy of the powerful film executive MENAHEM GOLAN (Film Producer and Chairman of the Board for The Cannon Group) is guaranteed

authentic or your money refunded.”

THE HAPPY HOOPER

Tobe Hooper (left) on the set of Invaders From Mars (1986)

Added an excellent article from Cinemafantastique magazine covering the set of Tobe Hooper’s Invaders From Mars (1986)

You’ll find it on the main menu under Film & Image Also added a mini-gallery for the film. Not a great film but it has its fans and it’s an interesting project from Cannon.

Watch the trailer for the film here

ROCKY

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Found a couple of nice images for Guess What We Learned in School Today? (1970)

John G. “Rocky” Avildsen made 2 films for Cannon's Christopher C. Dewey / Dennis Friedland. The other being the interesting Peter Boyle vehicle Joe (1970)

Some comment on Joe (1970) from Avildsen here

BROKEN LINK

Anyone remember Link (1986) starring Elisabeth Shue amd Terence ‘General Zod’ Stamp? I didn’t have very many memories of this

apart from I thought it was poor. Decided to watch it again to see the differences between the USA/UK cut and French cut.

Enormous differences surprisingly!

USA/UK

France

Timings:

UK/USA version: 103mins, 18 seconds

France version: 110mins, 16 seconds [PAL speedup taken into consideration]

The French version starts in the science lecture theatre (image above with three people trying to remove the chimp –no that’s not the producers trying to get the editor out of the editing suite)

completely removing the scene featuring clips that are in all trrailers and the important opening that gives the UK/USA version of the film its tone:

Not in the French version

I gave up after 20 minutes comparing because I saw over 15 changes in that short period. Some really silly stuff like when Stamp leans into the cage to tighten a bolt –we see the

bolt being tightened in the French version but no bolt tightening UK/USA version -and it feels like it’s been removed. Some very poor editing in the UK/USA version. Worse

than the editting is the audio track as it’s very poorly dubbed and they’ve obviously cut corners in post production. The French cut doesn’t have this problem as it’s in French only.

Interesting little film if you like apes or Shue but not much for anyone else.

Some covers –click for larger images

USA cover:

France DVD:

Germany VHS (rental):

UK VHS (rental) 1988:

English language trailer is here

The German VHS tape I have has the UK/USA cut. Looks like the French went their own way.

CANNON CHANGE

Had a look around my local carboot (like a flea market) today to see what I could find from Cannon.

Like new condition, and for only 10p:

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You can find out what 10p is @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10p

Nice.

INTERVISION UK RENTAL

Intervision were a great UK video distributor and one of the first video brands I really noticed. They did some great home video covers

They distributed Cannon US/UK product in cardboard cases (or “cartons”):

Cannon productions:

Fury on Wheels [AKA Jump] (1971)

Happy Hooker, The (1975)

Happy Hooker Goes to Washington, The (1977)

Joe (1970)

Maid in Sweden (1971)

Scratch Harry [AKA The Erotic Three] (1969)

Who Killed Mary What's 'Er Name (1971) [as Death of a Hooker]

Cannon distributed/presented in the USA (Canada also?):

Alaska Wilderness Adventure, The (1978) (through Cannon-Happy Distribution)

Silent Night, Bloody Night (1974)

Northville Cemetery Massacre (1976)

Slumber Party '57 (1976)

No sign of “Cannon” on that 2^nd lot from what I’ve seen so far. I don’t have any large Intervision covers yet so if you have one LMK. I don’t know for sure if Northville Cemetery Massacre (1976)

was co-financed by Cannon (it’s listed as such in a few places –see the filmmaker’s comment to on the UK VHS tape image) but I had a look at the UK VHS rerelease (which still has a bit of the Intervision

logo just before the film) has no sign of Cannon anywhere.

If you can help with any Intervision scans please get in touch: See the Contact Me page on the main menu

CANNON FRITZ

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Very interesting Cannon cover for Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1941). Oddly it looks like it’s from 1986 (when Cannon controlled the film to an extent (some versions were/are public domain)) but it doesn’t

have the correct video certificate which should have been issued. This is with the assumption this is a UK release. There’s nothing about this to say it isn’t. Do you anything about this release?

I’ve not seen many “Cannon Classics”. If you have seen any other than The Deer Hunter (1978) please get in touch. Especially if you have some scans!

SCANDINAVIA & THE BENELUX -additions

Mission Africa (1968)

Over 60 great images added to those home video galleries. Thanks again to all who have donated their hard work bringing us these scans from around the globe.

Thanks to Cees, thijsie, Filminteressert from Norway, FIxed from Finland, Lazer from Finland, Hietapakka from Finland, Dag-Johnny from Norway and Dan from Belgium.

If I've missed you out LMK and I'll add a thank you.

If you’d like to share your Cannon images please get in touch. See the Contact Me page on the main menu

CANNON PIC OF THE DAY

1983

Michael Winner on the set of Cannon’s The Wicked Lady (1983). Never really liked the man as he got on my nerves and this was redoubled when he started advertising insurance and was never off TV.