Cannon was waaaaaay too ambitious. They spread their budgets so thin across so many movies that needed the money to make them work. Masters of the Universe and Superman 4 I am looking at you.
@1987Liono2 жыл бұрын
The reason they had no money for those films was because they spent $20 million on a Stallone movie about arm-wrestling.
@gaba-goo37332 жыл бұрын
@@1987Liono you could shoot an arm wrestling movie with stallone for just $10 million.
@alucard6242 жыл бұрын
If Cannon had just stuck to what they were good at ie B movie action flicks they might've been around a bit longer than they were. Seriously, they had no business attempting stuff like Masters of the Universe and Superman IV whatsoever. There's a reason their action movies with Chuck Norris, Bronson and Michael Dudikoff and Steve James are still fondly remembered. They're fun to watch and entertaining.
@faceduro6719 Жыл бұрын
@Static that's because $12 million was paid to Stallone to star in the movie
@zippymufo9765Ай бұрын
@@1987LionoNo, it was because they spent $270 million buying Thorn EMI, and that was supposed to be their production money.
@tommyharrisjr7338 Жыл бұрын
I grew up on 80's Cannon films and loved them all. They are STILL good 2day.
@r.jclark4641 Жыл бұрын
“Good” is a bit of a stretch. Joe and Street Smart were probably the only good films they ever did.
@truthseeker35033 жыл бұрын
Cannon made some really good movies and wildly entertaining schlock, I miss those guys. I remember where I lived, in UK, their was a Cannon Theatre.
@alucard6242 жыл бұрын
They certainly did. I still love the B movie action flicks they made to this day. They won't win any awards and I don't expect them too either. They're pure entertainment. That can't be said for a lot of what passes for an action movie today unfortunately. Glad companies like Shout Factory and Kino Lorber for example have shown those films the love they deserve with worthwhile Blu Ray releases years after they originally were in theaters.
@BronzeAgeBryon3 жыл бұрын
Jim Shooter (who has no lower third name bar for some reason) says it best...There was no executive at the company (in this case Marvel) that could guide them because they don't read the books. Fortunately the films today have Feige to shepherd them, but the comics....good Lord we could use a Jim Shooter back at Marvel.
@alucard6242 жыл бұрын
As much as I despise Jim Shooter for a variety of reasons someone like him is definitely needed to right the ship of Marvel Comics right now. That company wouldn't know how to do a proper comic book now if they their lives depended on it. The pandering to groups who don't even read the damn things in the first place is just insane.
@tylertilwick6852 Жыл бұрын
So Golan and Globus wanted to make a B-movie knock off of The Wolf Man and David Cronenberg’s The Fly.
@maximusprime345918 күн бұрын
Its kinda wild no one took interest. The Incredible Hulk was making a comeback in TV movies in 1988.
@eastern2western Жыл бұрын
Cannon could had created its own mcu once.
@itsconnorstime3 жыл бұрын
I’d have loved to the seen the Captain America they never made with Michael Winner as director.
@alucard6242 жыл бұрын
Not me. It would've been full of rape scenes left and right. Seriously, that guy was obsessed with rape in his films.
@Madbandit773 жыл бұрын
Is that former Marvel Comics editor-in-chief Jim Shooter at 0:22?
@FriendlyNeighborhoodYT Жыл бұрын
I believe so
@brigidmadden5577 Жыл бұрын
Dude sounds like he’s recounting a war story in this interview. How miserable of an experience was that movie to make Jim Shooter shutter
@oscarramos56813 жыл бұрын
Is this a deleted scene in the DVD and Blu-Ray release of Electric Boogaloo: The Untold Story of Cannon Films?
@tdnguyen04133 жыл бұрын
Yes.
@dddevin698 жыл бұрын
NOBODY wants to comment. that's so awful this planned film was
@tdnguyen04138 жыл бұрын
Well, from a legend named Menahem Golan who could easily take a risk of trying to attempt to bring Spidey to the big screen but in a horrible pitch and hired Leslie Stevens to write a screen treatment for it. But Ted Newsom's script brought Justice and satisfied a good 80's Spidey film for good if Joe Zito didn't interfere with any bad ideas with the film.
@tdnguyen04138 жыл бұрын
Hrvoje Grahovac Of course, fucking Mark Hartley should've expanded more of the documentary, not some shitty 106 minute version and you can think about removing Spidey out of the doc. Spidey was part of the Cannon family.
@Seras997 жыл бұрын
Well the panned film can still happen.... AS A FAN FILM! XD Think about it. I can make a low budget spider man film with the script that cannon films have written! Not even joking!
@tdnguyen04137 жыл бұрын
Lavon Media Which one? Leslie Stevens, Ted Newom's?
@Seras997 жыл бұрын
Tue Nguyen Either the Doc Ock okey dokey script or the mutated spider script which I should save for a sequel.