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A trilogy of books about the legendary 1980s b-movie studio, The Cannon Group. Tweets actual Chuck Norris facts. Contact: CannonFilmGuide at Gmail
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Invasion USA - in 4K! This is one heck of a set, with six new interviews and more from the archives, plus three commentaries, including one from me, where I dive into the film's wildest production stories. Now available from Vinegar Syndrome:
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Wait for it...
This is *probably* the best villainous hair reveal in cinema history.
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Claudio Mazzoli's early concept art for the 1987 Masters of the Universe movie was metal as hell.
An appreciation thread...
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For RoboCop's 35th anniversary, I present what surely has to be the weirdest marketing tagline the movie received:
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For a period in the mid-1980s, Cassandra Peterson (Elvira) lived in a house between Paul Reubens' (Pee-wee) and John Paragon's (Jambi the Genie), and across the street from Vincent Price.
There was probably never a better road on which to trick-or-treat.
RIP, Mr. Reubens.
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The best hacking scenes in movies are the ones where the hero reads the villains' evil plans off of Microsoft Excel.
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Show me the exact moment a movie disarmed you, like you instantly knew you were in safe hands.
Show me the exact moment a movie disarmed you, like you instantly knew you were in safe hands.
#filmtwitter
#renfield
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Important RoboCop update: he's *still* not stopping for donuts.
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There are bold movie titles, and then there are *bold* movie titles:
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***CANNON STREAMING GUIDE, AUG. '23***
Been a while since I posted one of these lists, but Tubi & Pluto currently have the biggest selection of Golan-Globus classics I've ever seen up all at once.
Here are more than 50 (!) Cannon movies you can stream NOW, for FREE, in the US:
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Happy 35th birthday to Bloodsport! (February 26, 1988.) The commercial below aired back when the film was released.
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"A movie about audience participation." Ad for the VHS release of Lamberto Bava's Demons, October 1986.
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The true detective season I would write.
“It seems these grisly serial murders were the work of ninjas.”
The true detective season I would write
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Oh, nothing, just Natasha Lyonne making an inauspicious, early-career appearance in a Cannon movie, playing a little girl who gets KTFO'd by the star of the Beastmaster trilogy:
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Happy birthday to Steve James on what should have been his 70th. He played every sidekick role like he was the ultimate action star.
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“Tell me about the loneliness of good, He-Man... Is it equal to the loneliness of evil?”
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Jean-Claude Van Damme and Steve Seagal offer differing opinions on the merits of male nudity, from a May 1988 profile of Hollywood's new crop of action stars:
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In 1986, Mattel advertised a contest with the grand prize being a role in Cannon's Masters of the Universe movie. This wasn't just a background role -- the little boy who won was covered in makeup and prosthetics and became Skeletor's pint-size servant, "Pigboy."
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Jim Siedow and Bill Moseley taking a snack break on the set of Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986).
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Jean-Claude Van Damme, promoting Cyborg in the pages of Prevue magazine, being asked to share his thoughts on several of his fellow martial arts movie stars:
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Charles Bronson's Take Pride in America endorsement wasn't just one of the best TV commercials ever made, but a print campaign that intimidated litterers from newspapers all over the United States. Happy Earth Day!
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We lost this legend thirty years ago today.
Steve James
February 19, 1952 - December 18, 1993
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***CANNON STREAMING GUIDE, FEB. '24***
A new year, and a new list of Golan-Globus goodness that you can stream, right now, for FREE, if you're in the United States. Now featuring Roku! (Tubi is still king, but there are some exclusive titles on each of these platforms.)
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Happy birthday to one of action cinema's best-ever slimeballs: the late, great Billy Drago.
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JCVD, Donald Gibb, and Frank Dux give the thumbs-up on the set of Bloodsport, late fall 1986.
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One devastating shot.
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Some pretty killer sales art for House (1986):
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Albert Pyun was an artist who could conjure magic from the most limited of resources -- whose imagination couldn't be constrained by the boundaries of budget.
Rest in peace to a singular cinematic visionary.
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In 1984, Cannon acquired the movie rights to the most patriotic of superheroes, Captain America. How did they approach the material? By hiring the British director of the Death Wish series, who'd never read the comic before.
Michael Winner's Captain America, a thread. (1)
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"A ninja... who explodes onto America!"
Happy 39th birthday to Ninja III: The Domination. (September 14, 1984)
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Available May 2022.
60 Cannon movies.
40+ new interviews.
300+ images.
Over 1,000 pages.
Stay tuned for details!
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"How do you do, fellow teens? I hear you like Charles Bronson." (Bronson on the cover of Modern Teen magazine, December 1957.)
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Cannon+ may not be a thing, but here is a list of movies you CAN currently stream on US platforms, many of them for free.
Streaming Cannon, March 2021 Edition:
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Presenting the United States Army Rangers’ Anti-Ninja unit:
What was the greatest military unit that never existed?
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Masters of the Universe (1987) hadn't started filming yet, but Cannon needed something to show off at AFM in 1986... so they cut together some He-Man toy commercials with Dolph Lundgren publicity photos and set it to the Neverending Story soundtrack.
#cannon1986
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Sho Kosugi has launched an official clothing line, and the designs are sick as shit:
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The best Tubi transfers are where someone visibly adjusts the tracking ten minutes into the movie.
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For Lifeforce (1985), Nick Maley's team created the most complex animatronic ever seen on the silver screen, requiring 23 puppeteers and three computers to operate. The movie's makeup/SFX should've earned an Oscar nom, but Cannon didn't bother to campaign after the movie flopped.
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Action fans grab your sweethearts, because Cannon unleashed their most romantic of movies on Valentine's Day in 1986: The Delta Force, starring Chuck Norris and Lee Marvin.
Here's a vintage TV spot for the film:
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On this day twenty years ago, we lost an icon.
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Dolph Lundgren and Grace Jones celebrate New Year's Eve, 1985.
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I've done it, everyone! I've found the very best vintage Jean-Claude Van Damme poster.
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Rest in peace, painter Enzo Sciotti. His Italian horror posters are probably his most famous works, but he also made many, many glorious VHS covers for European releases of Cannon films.
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For Lee Marvin's 100th birthday, here is his impression of Menahem Golan pitching him Cannon's unmade "Pinocchio the Robot" over dinner with Placido Domingo.
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Imagine being one of the first people in the world to have seen Hard Ticket to Hawaii.
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After years of missed connections, I finally welcomed this little fella into my family. (Countertop store display for the VHS of American Ninja 2: The Confrontation.)
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Breakin' turns 40 (!) this week, so join me in celebrating as I break out some goodies from the archive. Here's a video store mobile celebrating the movie's MGM/UA VHS release:
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Chuck Norris hits the buffet at the fancy, black-tie premiere that Cannon held for The Delta Force... in the parking garage of their new building.
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Here's an original TV spot for the Charles Bronson classic Death Wish 3, which opened on this day in 1985:
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Happy 40th anniversary to Revenge of the Ninja, first released on this day in 1983.
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Most of Mazzoli's paintings came when the project was being pitched to studios and seeking a higher budget. So, long before Cannon was involved.
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Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo was released on this day in 1984. For everyone who believes in the beat, here's a TV spot for the movie's release:
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Happy 95th birthday to the wildly prolific James Hong, who, among his hundreds of screen appearances, once tried unsuccessfully to exorcise the spirit of an evil ninja out of Lucinda Dickey.
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Happy 75th birthday to cinema's original ninja, Sho Kosugi!
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Michael Dudikoff on the cover of Inside Kung-Fu's Complete Guide to Ninja Training, December 1986.
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Look out, scumbags: Death Wish 3 hit U.S. theaters on this day in 1985.
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I want to live in whatever multiverse where Pixar was a low-budget direct-to-video production company and Robert Z'Dar got to play a live-action Buzz Lightyear.
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It's Christmas Eve, 1987. You're at the mall doing last-minute Christmas shopping and all they have left at K·B Toys are these heavily-discounted Over the Top action figures. Which one do you buy for your kid?
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This Earth Day weekend, remind people that Charles Bronson never took kindly to litterers.
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This is exciting restoration news: a rare leading role for Steve James, which I’ve only seen as a digital rip of a 34-year-old VHS release. So happy that efforts were made to preserve this one.
RIVERBEND starring the late Steve James and directed by Sam Firstenberg will be screened next Saturday January 27th at the Denton Black Film Festival in north Texas. It’s sourced from a digital restoration of the only known film print and Firstenberg is scheduled to attend.
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... including what appears to be an epic scene of He-Man and his crew battling Skeletor's troops in a police station ...
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These early sketches made use of some cool Earth settings. While, yes, it was a cost-cutting move, the idea to set the movie on Earth rather than Eternia was part of the plan from very early on...
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Now watching A Christmas Carol (1984) and, I’ll tell you what, not a single one of my family members even pretended to be interested when I explained how Frank Finlay filmed his roles in both this and Lifeforce within just a few weeks of each other.
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This two-sided pin-up poster came in an issue of the German teenybopper magazine, Bravo. A tough choice needed to be made. Which side are you hanging on your wall?
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When Menahem first tried to get into movies, he called Roger Corman, who took him under his wing — he started as Roger’s driver, while his wife assisted with makeup. (1)
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The "time portal" that transports He-Man from Eternia to Earth...
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Six screens, and literally no wrong choice on any one of them. Puyallup, WA - November 2nd, 1985.
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Charles Bronson liked to fish, and he loved trees. Not every tree, mind you, but most trees.
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Menahem Golan knew how to dress like a boss. (Cannon's Cannes Film Festival press conference, 1987.)
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Happy 35th anniversary to Cannon’s Masters of the Universe! Here are some early concept sketches from William Stout and Moebius, including one for She-Ra — who wound up not being used in the movie.
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Few things have appealed more to my specific ideals of beauty than this woodgrain VCR that I found at Goodwill today.
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Have $3.5 million to spare? You can put in an offer on the house where Sho Kosgui's family was massacred by ninjas in Revenge of the Ninja:
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RIP Mark Margolis, who once tried to blow up Chuck Norris in either Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection or Delta Force 2: Operation Stranglehold, depending on who you ask.
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Thirty-seven years ago today in Decatur, Illinois:
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Concept art for Skeletor's invasion of Earth -- which, despite a smaller army being involved, kind of resembles what we ultimately saw in the final movie a few years later.
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Happy birthday to RoboCop. Thirty-six years and he *still* hasn't stopped for donuts.
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Happy 39th anniversary to my favorite Cannon film, Revenge of the Ninja, released on September 7th, 1983.
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Happy 65th birthday to fellow Ohio son Clancy Brown, seen here in an early role playing "Weasel" in Cannon's Thunder Alley.
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... and the moment of first contact between Eternians and Earthlings.
Mazzoli was working from ideas by David Odell, who'd written The Dark Crystal.
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There was a day when you could open your mailbox and find something this awesome-looking staring back at you.
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Here's a sales reel for the unproduced Charles Bronson project The Golem, which is made entirely of clips from other Cannon/Bronson productions. [1]
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The original painting for the Alien from LA (1988) poster by artist Larry Salk -- the man responsible for the "The Kramer" oil painting from Seinfeld.
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UPDATE: Albert is home and safe! Thank goodness!
This is horrifying and heartbreaking. Albert Pyun, the incredibly talented filmmaker who's suffered from dementia for years, left his home on foot today without a phone or water. He's apparently been reported missing to Las Vegas police. I hope he's found safe.
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Cannon, circa 1986: "No Masters of the Universe footage to show prospective buyers? No problem! Here's some clips from the toy commercials cut together with a couple Dolph Lundgren headshots."
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Mickey Rourke had these sunglasses custom-made for his Barfly character and insisted that he wear them throughout the film. Director Barbet Schroeder put his foot down and, after an argument, compromised to ask Bukowski to write in a line so he could briefly put them on.
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There’s always one dad at the playground with a Death Wish 4: The Crackdown water bottle.
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Happy birthday to Lifeforce's Mathilda May.
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For Invasion USA's climactic showdown in downtown Atlanta, Cannon rented six tanks, 16 jeeps, and three APCs from the Georgia National Guard.
The tanks cost them $344.50 per day, plus $50 for each driver and an additional $11 per mile after the first 20 miles.
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If you want to see next-level advertising, I’ve found it. Look at how Ginty leaps from the page! Just beautiful artwork.
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