this is how Menahem Golan &, and Yoram Globus pitch their fake films to Investors at Cannes Film Festival Announcer : WHAT HAPPENED 2 BRAWLERS MUST SURVIVE IN A BATTLE ROYAL IN A ABANDON ARENA, CHUCK NORRIS CHARLES BRONSON IN COLOSSAL TUSSLE; COMING SOON IN 1987 FROM CANNON FILMS!
Not counting the great movies that are set to release in '86, the music will be off the hook: Slayer- Reign of Blood Megadeth - Peace Sells But who's Buying R.E.M-Lifes Rich Pageant Bon Jobi- Slippery When Wet (Music For the Ladies, so it's unavoidable 🙄) Metallica's best album - Master of Puppets! Slow Groove R &B albums by Anita Baker and Janet Jackson And some rap group's first album Beastie Boys something with some album called- License to ill- i bet they're be a one hit wonder. Lol. Hope you have a few hundred dollars to spend on records and tapes for all of these 😂
Actually, 21 of these 29 films (or almost three-quarters) actually *did* get made…eventually: Over the Top - yes, in 1987. Earned $16.1 million. La Brava - no. Dustin Hoffman dropped out of the project. Superman 4 - yes, in 1987. It was flop, earning only $15.7M. (untitled John Travolta project) - no. Travolta wouldn’t make another movie until “The Experts” in 1989. Spider-Man - no. Cancelled. Kick and Kick Back - yes, in 1992 as “Sidekicks”. 52 Pick Up - yes, in 1986. OK reviews, earned $5.2 million. (untitled Roman Polanski project) - Yes! “Pirates” came out in 1986 and immediately bombed, earning only $1.6M on a $40M budget. Masters of the Universe - yes, in 1987. Earned $17.3M...the most of any movie on this list! Housekeeping - yes, in 1987. Made only $1.1M. Street Smart - yes, in 1987. Got good reviews (especially for Morgan Freeman, in his breakout role) but made only $1.1M. Duet for One - yes, in 1986. Based on a British play, got good reviews, earned $8,736 (not a typo). Rumplestiltskin - yes, in 1987. Billy Barty’s only lead role in a motion picture. Number One With a Bullet - yes, in 1987. Earned $410,952. Zorba, the Musical - No. A hit on Broadway in 1968 and revived in 1983, but the film never happened. The White Slave - No. Cancelled. Journey to the Center of the Earth - yes, in 1989. Albert Pyun finished it. Awful. Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 - yes, in 1986. Earned $8M, now a cult classic. American Ninja 2 - yes, in 1987. Subtitled “The Confrontation”, earned $4M. Captain America - yes, in 1990, by another studio. Tough Guys Don't Dance - yes, in 1987. Norman Mailer directed, based on his book. Earned $343,000 on a $5-10M budget. North South - yes, in 1988 as “Powaqqatsi”. Earned only $589, 244. King Lear - yes, in 1987. Directed by Jean-Luc Godard (!) and based not all on Shakespeare’s play. Earned $61,821. Citizen Joe - no, sadly. Cannon promised a sequel to the original “Joe” as early as 1980 (“Joe II”), but it was never made. Too Much - yes, in 1987. Filmed in Japan with a mostly Japanese cast, about a little girl and her robot. Box office unknown. Give a Girl a Break - no. Intended as the film debut of the Dolly Dots, a Dutch all-female rock band, who had many hits in Europe but none in the US. Sinbad of the Seven Seas - yes, in 1989. Filmed in Italy, box office negligible. It Ate Cleveland - no. Intended as a spoof; originally titled “Godzilla vs. Cleveland”. River of Death - yes, in 1989. The director was later fined for shooting in South Africa. Ben, Bonzo and Big Bad Joe - yes, in 1988 as “Goin’ Bananas”.
I'm completely floored that Canon films were the ones who produced Godard's King Lear. People like it better now... but he was years into his "I'm not telling stories anymore," phase and American critics were not having it.
On Give a Girl a Break: Wikipedia says: "In the summer of 1986, the five remaining Dolly Dots finally went to the US to work with an unfinished script and made a movie called Dutch Treat, which was released later that year. The movie (starring Lorin Dreyfuss and David Landsberg) and its soundtrack were modest successes in The Netherlands but were not released in the US due to poor reviews." Since Lorin Dreyfuss (Richard's less famous brother) and David Landsberg are in both productions,this must be about the same movie.
"Give a Girl a Break" even if it never got made, sort of predicted the arrival of "Band Maid", an all-female rock band from Japan where the members are dressed like maids.
You would probably like a comedian named Pablo Francisco. He does a perfect impression of the 80s Movie Trailer Guy Don LaFontaine. Onstage, he acts out a movie trailer for an upcoming action flick called Little Tortilla Boy... look up the clip.
That is pretty close to exactly how Golan and Globus worked. They would mock up a poster, show it to investors, and then commission a script only if enough money came in.
@@jcrowellz2000 Except that they did do that at least once, with the Charles Bronson vehicle 10 TO MIDNIGHT. This was another "poster first" movie, with the idea being that Bronson would play a CIA agent out to stop a band of terrorists who had stolen a nuclear weapon. (The title referred to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists's Doomsday Clock, indicating how close the world is to nuclear war.) Golan & Globus found that investors were cool to that idea, but they did generally like the idea of another movie with Bronson running around with a gun. The result was that enough money came in to make simply canceling the project unpalatable, but not enough to turn actually making the movie into a priority. The solution G & G came up with was to transfer the investors's money to an entirely unrelated project, one that could be summarized as "Dirty Harry vs. Ted Bundy," make Bronson the star of that, and call that 10 TO MIDNIGHT--without, however, making any effort to explain the new title.
And nothing says serious dramatic adaptation of Elmore Leonard like reminding us Hoffman was in Tootsie. That's like advertising the casting of Stallone in Cop Land by mentioning he also starred in Stop or My Mom Will Shoot.
Bowling for Burgers!! Spatula City, we sell Spatulas....and that's all!! Never has a screen presence been so big, so commanding.... Conan....The Librarian!! "Don't you know the Dewy Decimal System?!?" 🤣🤣 I've seen that movie so many times, I know most of the words! 😎
4:20 You can't show He-Man toys, promise a live action movie, And play music from the Neverending Story at the same time! My '80s childhood head just about exploded.
There was nothing better than Cannon films, growing up in the 80's. Seeing them at the theater or renting them, you ALWAYS knew what you were going to get and they always delivered. Even when they were bad, they were GREAT. lol I own their entire library on VHS, apart from one or two I've never tracked down and it's always a blast to have a marathon.
OH Man I remember some of the stories for these: Michael Dudikoff was supposed to be Spider-Man, Golan did make Captain America on his other studio 21st Century in 1990, Texas Chainsaw 2 was a horror-comedy instead of a straight horror, cause Tobe didn't want to do a serious sequel, they ran out of money at the end of Masters of the Universe, they ran out of money in the middle of Journey to the Center of Earth, they paid Christopher Reeves so much money for Superman IV, they couldn't afford to upgrade on vfx and certain shots, 'Kick and Kick Back' became 'SideKicks' 1992 movie for another studio, 'The White Slave' turned into an action comedy, which was the basis of 'Jake Speed' for Roger Corman's company and coutless others. I still loved Canon Films.
YES! I was about to post something similar. I think the reason why is that both are narrated by the exact same voiceover artist: the late great Don LaFontaine. Which makes it all the more hilarious, because it means he was willing to parody himself, his work, and the shlock he sometimes had to pitch; but at the same time it is very hard to tell the difference between the two; in this instance, the parody had higher production values than the real thing! (See also a similar parody, with a cheaper alternate voice actor, in UHF)
Half of these did not get made """ Heck, half of these were never even mentioned. "We have the star and he will be a film this year! We promise !" 🙄 Thank you this was fascinating. I love these types of sales films for industry insiders.
What a nostalgic trip back to the good old Canon days! Shame that a 'Masters Of The Universe' sequel was never made, the sets were built for it but we got JCVD's 'Cyborg' instead!
You've seen him dance. You've seen him talk to babies. You've seen him battle Opioid Induced Constipation,... This Fall John Travolta dances with constipated babies... in 'The Boom Boom Room...
I miss the 80s, even though I was born in the last week of 88. With Cannon films you weren't always given the best quality, but you were guaranteed to be entertained.
They failed because they started making bigger budget movies that flopped instead of making a bunch of cheap films where they needed just a few to hit to make a profit.
I don't know that it would have started a wave per se. It would have been running concurrently with the not quite discontinued Christopher Reeve Superman movies and perhaps coming out at about the same time as Batman. Just hard to predict whether it would have kicked off a boom or just expanded what amounted to a series of one-offs where an incredibly well-known and established property found its niche but didn't carry anything else over.
considering the Quality of the "Captain America" (is it the same one) rom the late 80s... it likely wouldn't have done anything more than the Lundgren Punisher movie
@@TJ52359 that Captain America is the same one that was being developed by Cannon films and was actually produced by Menachem Golan right after he left Cannon as one of the projects he took with him. It was also directed by Albert Pyun who wrote and directed the last film produced by Cannon in the 80's - Cyborg - with what was leftover when the Masters of the Universe sequel and Spider-Man film fell apart.
It's seriously difficult to predict how well a live action 1987 Spider-man film would have done. The late 1970's Spider-man TV series wasn't a hit due to it being very low budget combined with how they couldn't use any of the super villains from the comics (granted, that goes back to the severe lack of budget). I mention this because according to various multiple sources, the 1987 Spider-man film would have suffered the same exact fate. Allegedly, they were NOT going to have any of the super villains from the comics due to lack of budget. They were going to create some mad scientist named Dr. Zork (a normal human scientist) as the villain and Spider-man would have spent a portion of the film transformed into his "Man-Spider" persona (the few times in the comics where Spider-man briefly mutates into a Spider humanoid thing) before becoming Spider-man for a short while. I think most of the film was going to be just Peter Parker due to the budget (or rather, lack of budget). Cannon films was having a lot of problems with their movie budgets (one of the reasons Masters of the Universe and Superman 4 had lower budgets than expected). HOWEVER... I heard from one source they wanted to use Dr.Octopus (I really like that villain, but the lack of budget would have made the arms almost impossible to do without looking lame) or Green Goblin (maybe they could have reused the Green Goblin costume from the Atari 2600 Spider-man commercial. To be fair, that costume and the actor playing Green Goblin in that Atari 2600 Spider-man commercial was pretty cool) but most evidence points to the lame Dr.Zork with Man-Spider scripts. Personally, Green Goblin (specifically the Green Goblin from the Atari 2600 Spider-man commercial) for the 1987 Spider-man film (maybe slightly modified so a bigger name actor could play the role) would be the only way the film would stand a chance. It's a costume and villain that would have worked even with a low budget (it worked well for that Atari 2600 Spider-man commercial and that had a very low budget). With the Atari 2600 looking Green Goblin, the 1987 Spider-man film could have been successful. However, No way the 1987 Spider-man film becomes successful with that Dr.Zork stuff (it would flop harder than the 1990's Captain America film). Sadly, evidence points to the Dr.Zork stuff being what they were going to do.
This is still a better watch than every movie released this year. Using the First Blood soundtrack for a Dustin Hoffman movie that was never made is epic.
I grew up with Cannon but didnt know their fantastic story until many years after they shut down. If you guys ever see that documentary you will learn all the wonderful details. I think its called "Electric Boogaloo".
I actually had an autographed poster for Number One with a Bullet in my room, signed by Robert Carradine. He'd come into the local police station to see if he could add to his collection of police department patches. The cop he talked to was my dad, so Dad hooked him up and got a little hooked up. If only it was a better movie.
Being a kid-early teen when a majority of Cannon films came out, i knew as soon as i saw the C and the arrow join together to form the Cannon logo, i was in for some awesome movie watching!
Half of these aren’t even advertising an actual movie. They are just naming a famous actor. “John Travolta, star of such movies as Saturday Night Fever and Grease. Cannon Films”
Cannon ran the ad for LaBrava 00:38 without Hoffman's knowledge, and when filming had not even started. Cannon wanted to be the next big motion picture company, but tried to run before they could walk.
It is a shame half of these were not made. Some of these sound like could have been fun, others sounds like could have easily fallen into the so bad it's good category. Anyways, thank you for sharing.
@@VideoTasties Actually this was after Pirates had come out. Supposedly they were trying to get the rights to the Chinatown sequel The Two Jakes. Edit: I should say, after Pirates was picked up by them for distribution. Maybe its failure also had something to do with another film not happening.
Loved when you rented a movie and these were the kind of trailers that played before the movie,the husky voice over and the orchestral music.brilliant.
@@VideoTastiesthe sets and costumes for both Spider-Man and masters of the universe sequel morphed into cyborg with Jean Claude van Damme after both never happened .
Movies like Too Much, where the plot of the movie tends to take a back seat to the "exotic" setting, used to be fairly common. Viewers were expected to be distracted by unfamiliar foreign sights and "those wacky foreigners and their weird ways" and not notice the thinness of the plot and whatever major problems it might have.
“George C Scott starts in “Not without my Anus”. The shocking motion picture based on the international best selling breakfast cereal, directed by Billy Cordo”
I still have the AFM edition of Variety that I bought in 1986. A lot of promo posters from Cannon and other production companies. It's always interesting to go back and look at it to see what was made eventually and what wasn't.
Cannon trailers were legendary and always promised a better film than we got. I remember me and a schoolfriend mocking the trailers with our own versions. "Chuck Norris..... Charles Bronson... together at last...in the latest movie from Cannon Studios ... Invisible Ninja... coming to a movie theatre near you this summer"
This brought back so many memories of going to the video store, not finding the new release I wanted and settling on a stack of vhs tapes but not being disppointed in any because they all beat what was on the 4 channels we could get on tv.
