Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014)


Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus were two movie-obsessed cousins from Israel who became Hollywood’s ultimate gate-crashers. Following their own skewed version of the Great American Dream, they bought an already low-rent brand – Cannon Films – and ratcheted up its production to become so synonymous with schlock that the very sight of its iconic logo made audiences boo throughout the 1980s. And yet who could have foreseen how close they came to nearly taking over Hollywood and the UK film industry?

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014)

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Released Year: 2014
Runtime: 107 minutes
Genre: Documentary
Directors: Mark Hartley
Writers: Mark Hartley
Casts: Mark Helfrich, Elliott Gould, Robert Forster, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Mimi Rogers, Tobe Hooper, Lance Hool, Franco Nero, Boaz Davidson, Avi Lerner, Mark Goldblatt, Pieter Jan Brugge, Rick Nathanson, Richard Edlund, Laurene Landon, Sybil Danning, Edward R. Pressman, Marina Sirtis, David Womark, Bo Derek, Olivia d'Abo, Danny Dimbort, John Thompson, Michael Dudikoff, Harrison Ellenshaw, Sheldon Lettich, David Engelbach, Mark Rosenthal, Andrew Stevens, John A. Amicarella, Dolph Lundgren, Barbet Schroeder, Diane Franklin, Catherine Mary Stewart, Charles Matthau, Alain Jakubowicz, William Stout, Alex Winter, John Grover, Luigi Cozzi, Molly Ringwald, Lucinda Dickey, Martine Beswick, John G. Avildsen, Gary Goddard, Richard Chamberlain, Wings Hauser, Malcolm J. Christopher, Albert Pyun, Michael Armstrong, Cassandra Peterson, Adolfo Quinones, Daniel Loewenthal, James Bruner, Rusty Lemorande, Sam Firstenberg, Gideon Porath, Christopher Pearce, Franco Zeffirelli, Tom Luddy, Oliver Tobias, Melody Anderson, Stephen Tolkin, Robin Sherwood, David Del Valle, Allen DeBevoise, Al Ruban, Greydon Clark, Roy Langsdon, John Platt, Frank Yablans, Gary Nelson, Michael Chambers, Jerry Schatzberg, Just Jaeckin, Jan Gan Boyd, Pete Walker, William Sachs, Ted Newsom, Yftach Katzur, A. Martin Zweiback, Richard Kraft, David Paulsen, Sheldon Renan, Cynthia Hargrave, Alan Roderick-Jones, Christopher C. Dewey, Quentin Falk, Roni Ya'ackov, Jim Shooter, Robert Gosnell, Sharon Kahn, Vernon Messenger, Ron Purdie, Todd Roberts, Michael Hartman

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Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus were two movie-obsessed cousins from Israel who became Hollywood’s ultimate gate-crashers. Following their own skewed version of the Great American Dream, they bought an already low-rent brand – Cannon Films – and ratcheted up its production to become so synonymous with schlock that the very sight of its iconic logo made audiences boo throughout the 1980s. And yet who could have foreseen how close they came to nearly taking over Hollywood and the UK film industry?

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Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus were two movie-obsessed cousins from Israel who became Hollywood’s ultimate gate-crashers. Following their own skewed version of the Great American Dream, they bought an already low-rent brand – Cannon Films – and ratcheted up its production to become so synonymous with schlock that the very sight of its iconic logo made audiences boo throughout the 1980s. And yet who could have foreseen how close they came to nearly taking over Hollywood and the UK film industry?

Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus were two movie-obsessed cousins from Israel who became Hollywood’s ultimate gate-crashers. Following their own skewed version of the Great American Dream, they bought an already low-rent brand – Cannon Films – and ratcheted up its production to become so synonymous with schlock that the very sight of its iconic logo made audiences boo throughout the 1980s. And yet who could have foreseen how close they came to nearly taking over Hollywood and the UK film industry?

Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus were two movie-obsessed cousins from Israel who became Hollywood’s ultimate gate-crashers. Following their own skewed version of the Great American Dream, they bought an already low-rent brand – Cannon Films – and ratcheted up its production to become so synonymous with schlock that the very sight of its iconic logo made audiences boo throughout the 1980s. And yet who could have foreseen how close they came to nearly taking over Hollywood and the UK film industry?

Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus were two movie-obsessed cousins from Israel who became Hollywood’s ultimate gate-crashers. Following their own skewed version of the Great American Dream, they bought an already low-rent brand – Cannon Films – and ratcheted up its production to become so synonymous with schlock that the very sight of its iconic logo made audiences boo throughout the 1980s. And yet who could have foreseen how close they came to nearly taking over Hollywood and the UK film industry?