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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
The reason they had no money for those films was because they spent $20 million on a Stallone movie about arm-wrestling.
@@1987Liono you could shoot an arm wrestling movie with stallone for just $10 million.
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.
@Static that's because $12 million was paid to Stallone to star in the movie
@@1987LionoNo, it was because they spent $270 million buying Thorn EMI, and that was supposed to be their production money.
I grew up on 80's Cannon films and loved them all. They are STILL good 2day.
“Good” is a bit of a stretch. Joe and Street Smart were probably the only good films they ever did.
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.
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.
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.
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.
So Golan and Globus wanted to make a B-movie knock off of The Wolf Man and David Cronenberg’s The Fly.
Its kinda wild no one took interest. The Incredible Hulk was making a comeback in TV movies in 1988.
Cannon could had created its own mcu once.
Is that former Marvel Comics editor-in-chief Jim Shooter at 0:22?
I believe so
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
I’d have loved to the seen the Captain America they never made with Michael Winner as director.
Not me. It would've been full of rape scenes left and right. Seriously, that guy was obsessed with rape in his films.
Is this a deleted scene in the DVD and Blu-Ray release of Electric Boogaloo: The Untold Story of Cannon Films?
Yes.
NOBODY wants to comment. that's so awful this planned film was
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.
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.
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!
Lavon Media Which one? Leslie Stevens, Ted Newom's?
Tue Nguyen Either the Doc Ock okey dokey script or the mutated spider script which I should save for a sequel.