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Updates & News

NOVEMBER 2007

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Found another NewCannon trailer, this time Crime and Punishment here (Menahem Golan directed, produced & wrote the screenplay)

Crispin Glover looks as if he forgot to take his tablets.

(see Could We Possibly Borrow Your Logo? on the Cannon Remains section on the main menu for more on NewCannin Inc)

Scans added:

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Scans added:

Over the Top (1987) (Rank Video - Cannon)

Little Dorrit (1988) (Warner Home Video - Cannon)

A Cry in The Dark (1988) (Cannon Video)

Additions to the Cannon Cinema Gallery:

Beckenham Kent

Bradford Broadway

Charing CrossRoad

London Inn Square, Exeter

Leicester

Maidstone

Middlesex Enfield

Prince Charles, Leicester Square

Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow

Alex is Lovesick AKA Alex in Love (USA) -Long lost Cannon film? Directed by Boaz “Lemon Popsicle” Davidson.

That’s the VHS cover in Israel and it’s listed as production by Pathé (the short-lived name for MGM/Cannon). 1986 sounds a bit early for the Pathé name.

Note the “Home Video” logo is borrowed from MGM/UA home video. If you have any info or a scan of the cover get in touch.

Supersize The Jaws of Death (1976)! *

Poster scan from Cannon’s 1977 cinema release (which I believe was

Called “Mako: Jaws of Death” a year previously). IMDb listing here

*Note: This film is not cashing in on Spielberg’s masterpiece. It’s just similar.

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Scans added:

Aladdin (1986) (Rank Video - Cannon)

Ambassador (1984) (Guild Home Video - Cannon)

Assassination (1987) (Rank Video - Cannon)

Deadringer (1985) (Cannon Screen Entertainment video)

Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood, The (1980) (Rank Video - Cannon)

Hero and the Terror (1988) (Warner Home Video - Cannon)

Salsa (1988) (Cannon Video)

Street Smart (1987) (Warner Home Video - Cannon)

CIMINO

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Scans added:

Year of the Dragon (1985) (Cannon Screen Entertainment video)

Doesn’t scan well (it’s embossed gold writing) but this is surely the smartest cover ever produced?

Santa Claus: The Movie (1985) (Cannon Screen Entertainment video)

Surrender (1987) (Warner Home Video - Cannon)

Sweet Dreams (1985) (Cannon Screen Entertainment video)

10 to Midnight (1983) (Guild Home Video - Cannon)

Three Kinds of Heat (1987) (Warner Home Video - Cannon)

Violent Breed, The (1984) (Guild Home Video - Cannon)

War Boy, The (1985) (Cannon Screen Entertainment video)

Came by this rare UK VHS which is double sided Cover 1 Cover 2

Scans added:

Midnight Ride (1990) (Warner Home Video - Cannon)

Mona Lisa (1986) (Cannon Screen Entertainment video)

Otello (1986) (Rank Video - Cannon)

Outlaw of Gor (1989) (Warner Home Video - Cannon)

Platoon Leader (1988) (Cannon Video)

POW The Escape (1986) (MGM/UA - Cannon)

River of Death (1989) (Cannon Video)

Runaway Train (1985) (MGM/UA - Cannon)

Found their video intro logo and you can see it here

New version of the Death Game (Menahem Golan) trailer here (try to watch it right to the end to here “New Cannon”)

(see Could We Possibly Borrow Your Logo? on the Cannon Remains section on the main menu for more on NewCannin Inc)

Scans added:

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Grace Quigley (1985) (Guild Home Video - Cannon)

Great Bookie Robbery, The (1986) (Cannon Screen Entertainment video)

Hell Squad (1987) (Guild Home Video - Cannon)

Hitcher, The (1986) (Cannon Screen Entertainment video)

Invaders from Mars (1986) (Rank Video - Cannon)

King Solomon's Mines (1985) (Rank Video - Cannon)

Lover, The (1985) (Rank Video - Cannon)

Mannequin (1987) (Warner Home Video - Cannon)

Mata Hari (1985) (Guild Home Video - Cannon)

Scans added:

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Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (1987) (Rank Video - Cannon)

Anastasia Part 2 (1986) (Cannon Screen Entertainment video)

Clockwise (1986) (Cannon Screen Entertainment video)

Concrete Hell (1985) (Cannon Screen Entertainment video)

Dangerously Close (1986) (Rank Video - Cannon)

Déjà Vu (1985) (Guild Home Video - Cannon)

Delta Force, The (1986) (Rank Video - Cannon)

Firewalker (1986) (Rank Video - Cannon)

House of the Long Shadows (1983) (Guild Home Video - Cannon)

Ninja III The Domination (1984) (Guild Home Video - Cannon)

Jean-Luc Godard spying on Menahem Golan added to YouTube

I think we can safely assume that Godard had final cut :p The phone call was a 4-way link with

Tom Luddy, Norman Mailer, Menahem Golan (he's the "Let me tell you" voice) and Jean-Luc Godard.

"THE CANNON GROUP INC, BAHAMAS" title card, a joke by Godard?

(I have a webpage to upload soon on the recording).

19 November 2007

Hollywood A Go-Go: The True Story of The Cannon Empire

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Dug out my copy of Andrew Yule’s “True Story”. I remember reading it in 1987 and my over-riding thought was Yule was subjective and didn’t really like Golan-Globus for some reason (not that a serious non-fiction author should be bothered either way). By the end of the book (blur now but I’m going to re-read it soon) I had no respect for Yule as an author at all as it seemed to be a total attack against the film-makers. Yule wrote lots of other books so maybe they’re all the same nasty tone? With the Cannon book he does seem to blame Golan-Globus for everything apart from WWII. I would like to OCR the book and publish it here but I’m not sure about the legality of that so if someone would like to comment (and I don’t mean Yule’s lawyer) please get in touch. See the Contact Me page on the main menu

Death of a Cannon Cinema gallery added. (Massive thanks to Martin Dusashenka for the kind permission to use the brilliant photographs)

Jesus Saves! –see Cannon Cinemas UK

Cannon Cinemas Gallery added.

Got any images/infomation you’d like to add to that gallery or any of the other Cannon galleries? Please get in touch. See the Contact Me page on the main menu

Scans added:

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Lemon Popsicle 4 Private Popsicle (1982) (Guild Home Video - Cannon)

Delta Force 2 The Colombian Connection (1990) (MGM/UA - Cannon)

American Ninja 2 The Confrontation (1987) (Rank Video - Cannon)

Guild Home Video / Cannon Gallery started

Scans added:

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Invasion U.S.A. (1985) (MGM/UA - Cannon)

Hercules (1983) (Guild Home Video - Cannon)

Castaway (1987) (Warner Home Video - Cannon)

Heat (1986) (Warner Home Video - Cannon)

Death Wish 3 (1985) (Guild Home Video - Cannon)

Death Wish 4 The Crackdown (1987) (Cannon Video)

Scans/posters added:

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American Ninja (1985) (MGM/UA - Cannon)

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Volunteers (1985) (Cannon Screen Entertainment video)

Warner Home Video / Cannon Gallery started

MGM/UA / Cannon Gallery started

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Scans added:

Avenging Force (1986) (MGM/UA - Cannon)

Scans added:

Marie (1985) (Cannon Screen Entertainment video)

Keaton's Cop (1988) (Cannon Video)

Mesmerized (1986) (Cannon Screen Entertainment video)

Journey to the Center of the Earth (1989) (Rank Video - Cannon)

News: Thunder Run UK DVD, Cannon Artwork Gone Bad #1

Thunder Run (1986)

Is that a cool Cannon poster or not? Makes the film look worth watching. Not any more What a mess. Wrong helicopter too.

No longer featuring the Cannon logo or name anywhere on the film or cover.

Another “Cannon Film” where they handled distribution only.

Watch the Thunder Run trailer here

Scans added:

Dreamchild (1985) (Cannon Screen Entertainment video)

Cannon – Rank UK Home Video page added

Scans added:

Dreamchild (1985) (Cannon Screen Entertainment video)

Berlin Affair, The (1985) (Rank Video - Cannon)

Broken Mirrors (1984).jpg (Cannon Screen Entertainment video)

Force of Darkness (1985).jpg (Cannon Screen Entertainment video)

Volunteers (1985) (Cannon Screen Entertainment video)

Love Rebellion, The (1967) Pic of possibly Cannon’s first release from 1967-ish.

Scans added:

Head Office (1985) (Cannon Screen Entertainment video)

Master of Dragonard Hill, The (1989) (Cannon Video)

Kitchen Toto, The (1987) (Warner Cannon VHS)

Ten Little Indians (1989) (Cannon Video)

Too Much (1987) (Warner Cannon)

Anastasia (1986) [Part 1] (Cannon Screen Entertainment video)

Highlander (1986) (Cannon Screen Entertainment) Cinema poster

Lifeforce (1985) (UFD) France, cinema poster.

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