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The Golan-Globus team refers to Israeli producer Menahem Golan and his cousin Yoram Globus (b. 1929 and 1941 respectively in Tiberias). The duo initially produced Israeli films, like Operation Thunderbolt and the international hit teen comedy Lemon Popsicle (Eis am Stiel), before coming to the United States in 1979. They bought controlling interest in Cannon Films and forged a business model of buying bottom-barrel scripts and putting them into production. Menahem Golan is an Israeli director/producer who is most famous (or infamous) for his association with Cannon films, a company he ran with his cousin Yoram Globus. ... Biography Yoram Globus is a film producer and financier who, along with his cousin, Menahem Golan (born Menahem Globus) bought the Cannon Group production company in 1979 and ran it throughout the 1980s. ... 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... For the movie, see 1941 (film) 1941 (MCMXLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1941 calendar). ... Tiberias in 1862, the ruins reminiscent of its ancient heritage. ... Operation Thunderbolt is a one- or two-player shooter arcade game by Taito made in 1988. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ...

Golan and Globus tapped into a ravenous market for action films in the 1980s, and although they are most remembered for the Death Wish sequels and Chuck Norris action pictures,and even the vigilante thriller Exterminator 2 (the sequel to 1980's The Exterminator) , Cannon's output was actually far more varied, with musical/comedy films like Breakin', Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo, The Last American Virgin and The Apple, historical/romance pictures like Lady Chatterley's Lover, Bolero and Mata Hari, science fiction and fantasy films like Hercules and The Barbarians, as well as "serious" pictures like Zeffirelli's Othello, Norman Mailer's Tough Guys Don't Dance, and Andrei Konchalovsky's Runaway Train and Shy People. This article is about a series of films. ... Chuck Norris. ... The Exterminator is a 1980 action movie directed by James Glickenhaus and starring Robert Ginty as the leading role. ... Breakin is a 1984 movie directed by Joel Silberg. ... The Last American Virgin (1982) is a comedy film which is a remake of the wildly popular Israeli film Eskimo Limon (1978). ... The Apple is a Sci-fi-musical film directed by Menahem Golan from a screenplay by Golan, Coby Recht and Iris Recht. ... Lady Chatterleys Lover is a novel by D. H. Lawrence written in 1928. ... The bolero is a type of dance and musical form. ... Mata Hari, exotic dancer and convicted spy, made her name synonymous with femme fatale during World War I. For the Indonesian supermarket/department store chain, see Matahari. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Heracles. ... The Barbarians were a moderately successful garage band of the 1960s with a few nationally charted hits. ... Othello and Desdemona in Venice by Théodore Chassériau (1819–1856) Othello: The Moor of Venice is a tragedy by Shakespeare written around 1603. ... A runaway train is a train which is unable to stop or be stopped. ...

By 1986, when company earnings reached their apex with 43 films in one year, Cannon shares had soared hundredfold. However during the late 1980s the market had cooled and Cannon Films was severely stretched, having purchased Thorn EMI, and faced bankruptcy and a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigation. Cannon Films went to new owners in 1989. Golan became the head of 21st Century Film Corporation while Globus went on to preside briefly over MGM/UA, which now owns some ancillary rights to most of Cannon's film library, while television rights are owned by CBS (owners of the successor-in-interest to the Paramount/Viacom television unit). 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The EMI Group is a major record label, based in Hammersmith, London, in the United Kingdom and with operations in over 25 other countries. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, commonly referred to as the SEC, is the United States governing body which has primary responsibility for overseeing the regulation of the securities industry. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 21st Century Film Corporation was a small scale theatrical distribution company formed by Israeli filmmaker Menahem Golan. ... For alternate meanings of MGM, see MGM (disambiguation). ... The current United Artists logo (a variant was used during the 1980s). ... CBS Corporation (NYSE: CBS) is a media conglomerate focused largely on the United States market, specifically broadcasting, publishing, billboards, and television production. ... The Paramount Pictures logo from the 1990s to 2002. ... Viacom is a media conglomerate with various worldwide interests in cable and satellite television networks (MTV Networks and BET), video gaming (part of Sega of America), and movie production and distribution (the Paramount Pictures movie studio and DreamWorks). ...

After Cannon's financial problems and the two cousins' split, they made competing movies with their new companies based on the contemporaneous lambada dance craze, and spitefully released the two movies on the same day in March 1990. Lambada is a dance which became internationally popular in the 1980s. ...

Film critic Roger Ebert said of Golan-Globus in 1987, "No other production organization in the world today has taken more chances with serious, marginal films." Roger Ebert (right) with Russ Meyer, 1970 Roger Joseph Ebert (born June 18, 1942) is a film critic who writes for the Chicago Sun-Times. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Among the films produced by the Golan-Globus team include Superman IV: The Quest For Peace, Cobra, Death Wish II, The Delta Force, Invasion U.S.A., Missing in Action, King Solomon's Mines, American Ninja, and Lifeforce. The films also boosted the careers of Chuck Norris, Charles Bronson, and Sylvester Stallone. Superman IV: The Quest For Peace is a 1987 film, the last of the Superman theatrical movies. ... Cobra is a 1986 action movie directed by George Pan Cosmatos. ... Death Wish II, 1982, was the first sequel to Death Wish. ... The Delta Force is a 1986 action film starring Chuck Norris and Lee Marvin as leaders of an elite squad of special forces troops based on the real life U.S. Army Delta Force unit. ... Chuck Norris Invasion U.S.A is a 1985 action film made by Cannon Films and starring Chuck Norris. ... Missing in Action (film) is a 1984 action film starring Chuck Norris and directed by Joseph Zito. ... 1985 version movie poster King Solomons Mines refers to at least three films which tell the story of an adventurer who helps a woman look for her lost husband/father in Africa, loosely based on the novel King Solomons Mines (1885) by H. Rider Haggard. ... American Ninja is a 1985 film produced by Menahem Golan and Yoram Globuss Cannon Films. ... Lifeforce is a science fiction film directed by Tobe Hooper, based on the book, Space Vampires, by Colin Wilson and screenplay by Dan OBannon. ... Chuck Norris. ... Charles Bronson This is about the actor. ... Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone (born July 6, 1946 in New York City) is an American film actor, director, producer, and screenwriter. ...

The Cannon Group's first films in the United States were distributed independently and released on home video on the small Paragon Video label. Then, they made a deal with MGM, and their movies were distributed for home video (and later some films theatrically) by MGM, appearing in the ubiquitous gray MGM Video "big boxes." Later, Golan and Globus had a falling out with MGM, supposedly over the X-rated Bolero with Bo Derek. Their movies were then released on home video for a short time on Heron Communications' Media Home Entertainment unit, with some of the larger films, like Masters of the Universe and Over the Top, distributed by either TriStar or Warner Bros. Cannon then partnered with HBO and began its own video label, which lasted into the 90s. Media Home Entertainment, Inc. ... Clash of the titans: He-Man and Skeletor face off on the cover of a vintage MOTU graphic novel. ... Over the Top is a 1987 dramatic/action film starring Sylvester Stallone, produced and directed by Menahem Golan. ... TriStar Pictures is a subsidiary of Columbia Pictures, itself a subdivision of Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, which is owned by Sony Pictures. ... Warner Bros. ...

Trivia

• Golan and Cannon Films have been heavily criticized for their pervasive anti-Arab stereotypes, often seemingly going out of their way to demonize Arabs. Even in films that otherwise had no relation to Arab/Israeli issues, such as Superman IV, Golan and Globus could not resist adding anti-Arab jokes.
• Golan and Cannon Films were famous for making huge announcements and over-promoting movies that didn't live up to expectations, or even exist. For instance, Lifeforce was to be "the Cinematic Sci-Fi event of the 80s" and Masters of the Universe "the Star Wars of the 80s." Additionally, Cannon owned the film rights to Spider-Man, and planned to make a Spider-Man movie in the mid-80s. It was to be directed by Joseph Zito, director of Missing in Action and Invasion USA. Needless to say, the movie didn't appear, although Golan announced the movie at Cannes. (Golan would also attempt an Albert Pyun version of Spider-Man at 21st Century Pictures in the early 90s, to similar results.) Also, Golan announced in the early 80s that Cannon was producing a film starring both Sean Connery and Roger Moore. But neither actor had agreed to appear in such a film.
• One of Cannon's biggest hits was the Vietnam action picture Missing in Action, with Chuck Norris. But Cannon had put the movie we know as Missing in Action 2: The Beginning into production first. Only after the two movies were finished did they realize that the planned second movie was vastly superior to the planned first movie. So, the "first" movie became an awkward prequel.
• Cannon Films also made a movie based on Agatha Christie's "Ten Little Indians." The movie, released in 1989, was a severe deviation from the book and has proven unpopular amongst fans of the book.
• Cannon Films also made a movie based on the famous Mattel toy-line Masters of the Universe, starring Dolph Lundgren as He-Man. The movie, released 1987, was a critical disappointment but was slightly profitable. A sequel was planned but later turned in to another movie.
• In 1986, Cannon Films released Robotech: The Movie: The untold story in a limited run in Mesquite, Texas. Cannon was reportedly unsatisfied with Carl Macek's first version of the movie which was almost a straight adaptation of the anime Megazone 23. It was at their insistence that footage from The Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross (the series adapted as the Robotech Masters segment of the TV series) and Megazone 23 be spliced together to produce a more action oriented movie. Macek recalls that, although he himself was unhappy with this revised version, Menahem Golan, after viewing it happily said: "Now that's a Cannon Movie!". Nevertheless, Robotech: The Movie was unsuccessful in its brief Texas run and saw no further release. Carl Macek has gone on record as disowning it.
• One of the final movies produced by both Golan and Globus to get a wide release under the Cannon banner was the Jean-Claude Van Damme post-apocalyptic actioner Cyborg. Originally intended as the sequel to Masters of the Universe (and often incorrectly named Masters of the Universe II in TV-listings) the movie went in to production after the toy-line had run its course. The script was reshaped and Jean-Claude Van Damme was cast in the lead. Two sequels were later made, both have proven equally unpopular.
• In 1988, they released David Winning's debut feature STORM.
• In 1993, the Golan-Globus film Alien From L.A., starring model Kathy Ireland, was used as the basis of episode #516 of the movie-mocking television show Mystery Science Theater 3000.

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External links

• Cannon Films Appreciation Society
• Menahem Golan at the Internet Movie Database
• Yoram Globus at the Internet Movie Database