Cannon Films Promo Reel '86 - Half of These Were Never Made!

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[@robmclean4352]

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”.

[@raulzavala9061]

The Captain American film was eventually made when Menahem Golan produced it under his 21st Century Film Corp studios.

[@U_N_Owen]

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.

[@CanalPSG]

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.

[@SirExal]

Missed 52-Pick Up which was released and made, haha, $5.2 million

[@Hykje]

"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.

[@jeanlove8510]

The voice over was so over the top back in the day, it always cracks me up. Ah the VHS era. It was a great time to be around.

[@solitarycompany]

John Travolta in his most exciting project yet.... we aren't sure what it is, but trust us!

[@ashleybrooke2087]

When the hype is so premature, the project doesn't even have a name yet.

[@A_YouTube_Commenter]

Grease Night Fever.

[@RenaissanceMan888]

Name? They didn’t even seem to have a plot yet.

[@jayanxiety]

John Travolta in...well, it's going to be something great, and it's going to have Travolta, so it's gotta be good... we promise!

[@camerongage1237]

So exciting we can’t tell you the title.

[@Beardodoomus]

Can't beat that Don Le Fontaine voiceover.

[@VideoTasties]

He was great

[@thrashpondopons8348]

IN A WORLD...

[@JestersDeadUK]

IN A WORLD....

[@LeeONardo]

@@JestersDeadUK In a world, IN A WORLD! Worlds within worlds, within an inner world. Coming soon "What a world" ... starring Ed Harris.

[@ashleybrooke2087]

And he was so pro at his job, he could have been thinking over his options for lunch at catering while reading the copy & sound just as intense

[@CoCotheTurtle]

It's like a 15-minute intro to _Tropic Thunder_ !

[@hajirizayev7374]

😂

[@eddiejoewalt7746]

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!

[@mikeg2491]

Hilarious hearing the Rambo theme in front of Dustin Hoffman dressed as a woman

[@ashleybrooke2087]

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.

[@Shorty_Lickens]

They stole the Neverending Story theme for Masters of the Universe. AND PLAYED IT OVER THE FRIGGEN TOY COMMERCIAL!! :D

[@jayanxiety]

Also, they used "The Chase" from Midnight Express on that Louis Gossett JR. film.

[@anthonydileonardo8156]

I read LaBrava....not that great.... a lot like Cat Chaser and Stick, but some differences

[@MrScratch69]

​@@Shorty_LickensCopyright schmopyright lol.

[@mr.cassette6951]

There's nothing more 80's than Cannon films.

[@VideoTasties]

True

[@nathanmin1430]

Man, 1986 is gonna be off the hook!

[@ikr9358]

I hear they're making a sequel to Alien. Probably gonna suck.

[@earlyreed357]

😂😂😂!!!!!!!!

[@STEPHANTODD]

I can't wait! 86/87 is gonna ROCK!

[@jcrowellz2000]

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 😂

[@ntal5859]

Housekeeping is just going to kill at getting all the guys in with Diane Keating. Should really smash all box office takings.

[@brianhearn1748]

This is like an extended version of UHF.

[@danpalmer5451]

I came here to say the same thing. 🤣🦡

[@jxchamb]

Except with more cocaine

[@nordtwentysix]

🤣🤣

[@chindleymuffin]

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! 😎

[@brianhearn1748]

@@chindleymuffin "Supplies!" Maybe the funniest line in the movie.🤣

[@King4sshole89]

I miss promos like this, we need more cocaine in our studios.

[@scottthompson3493]

That is gold!

[@jeyfomson6364]

😂😂😂

[@TJ52359]

that's the Problem... the Money all went TO Cocaine... they had none left for the Movies

[@gregorlandini4328]

Seriously. This whole thing is cocaine and vibes

[@OddTheBird]

This is the single greatest trailer compilation in the history of the entire universe.

[@VideoTasties]

It really is

[@MoeMurdock]

Agree!!!!

[@Bluexhox]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😅😅😅😅😅

[@realtruth4804]

it really sums up Hollywood. "Here is the lead actor, here is the director and a title. Money please"

[@VideoTasties]

Even thought the actor or director hadn't actually signed on

[@rareimer]

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]

Golan and Globus-"Please give us money! We promise we won't use it on an entirely different movie"

[@rareimer]

@@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.

[@ThommyofThenn]

For movieheads, that's all we need!

[@ChristianHansard]

My favorite was "You know John Travolta? Well we gave him a call and he hasn't got back to us yet."

[@thefonzkiss]

But here’s some clips from some good movies he was in and let’s forget all the terrible ones!

[@jbirzer]

I like how the John Travolta announcement was that he's making a movie of some sort. Not even a name or what it is about. Same for Roman Polanski.

[@jackthompson8873]

Polanski did pirates for cannon I believe with Walter Matthau and that was a huge flop

[@ck_idgaf1680]

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.

[@theDane70]

Back in the days Cannon films were what you’d watch....lol

[@masere]

Actually Cannon took half the budget for Superman IV and spent it on Masters OTU.

[@jcrowellz2000]

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.

[@BossReo]

This feels like an extended version of the network show previews at the beginning of the movie 'Scrooged'.

[@emmitbrown5631]

Yule love it! 😂 I was thinking the same.

[@ChipsForDips]

“THE NIGHT THE REINDEER DIED” 😆

[@tmorganriley]

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)

[@HipHop-nq9yj]

Great reference

[@redadamearth]

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.

[@VideoTasties]

Damn shame they spread themselves too wide

[@Laceykat66]

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.

[@VideoTasties]

I was very surprised by some of these

[@ndschenk8552]

The video was interrupted by an ad for the "Twisters" movie and I didn't realize it at first because it felt like a natural addition.

[@VideoTasties]

🤣

[@pdzombie1906]

The more things change, th more they stay the same...

[@mixedhairless]

Loved Cannon back in the 80’s. They had tons of bangers. Love this sizzle reel we need more

[@RudyRusso]

I loved Cannon - They mostly looked like the IBS Scrooge promos from Scrooged or UHF adverts, I was half expecting Spatula City 2 - The Flippening

[@VideoTasties]

They did make entertaining films

[@ShortyLongstrokin]

I could see "The Night the Reindeer Died" starring Lee Majors fitting in this package easily.

[@tmorganriley]

@@ShortyLongstrokin most of these have the same voiceover artist from scrooged, Don LaFontaine!

[@CountryCarReviews]

Conan the librarian 2: the buyback

[@ddespair]

The never ending story music behind he-man toys works pretty well lol

[@bal5884]

This is absolute gold, you just can't beat that Cannon logo. My favourite film company

[@user-gh3or2gm8w]

There can be.....only one!

[@VideoTasties]

It usually meant something entertaining

[@bal5884]

@@VideoTasties Lots of cheese as well. Spiderman with Dudikoff would have been something, they loved him 😅

[@subject20productions2]

In a perfect world Canon still churns out low budet classic!🤘

[@PaquiChipSkylar]

I wish I could visit the universe where Cannon's Spiderman saves the company and starts the superhero movie wave 20+ years earlier.

[@stevegeorge6880]

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.

[@TJ52359]

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

[@stevegeorge6880]

@@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.

[@johnpenguinthe3rd13]

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.

[@PaquiChipSkylar]

@@johnpenguinthe3rd13 TL; DR

[@JohnSmith-oe4ci]

Cannon films and the large amount of shelving space needing to be filled in a Blockbusters video store : a match made in heaven

[@cheddarcheese7928]

No lie, When I 1st put this on,I waited for 3 people to pop up..Chuck Norris,Louis Gossett and Michael Dudikoff..And it didn’t disappoint!

[@mintteaandmartialarts]

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!

[@VideoTasties]

They were the 80's studio

[@jdslater1]

I love the film but never collected the toys and hated the cartoon.

[@marklola12]

The first was crap

[@bobcobb3654]

@@marklola12Lundgren was still learning acting. Can’t be easy acting in your second language.

[@deloctober4369]

I love the glamour shots they use in lieu of the actor, especially with the dramatic music.

[@ashleybrooke2087]

And no production stills because most of these projects didn't even have funding yet.

[@GregOrCreg]

Thank you for this. As an 80s movie affcionado, I find this hilarious.

[@eddiejoewalt7746]

go watch Electric Boogaloo documentary

[@VideoTasties]

it's fascinating

[@RonniMenziesStirling]

All this needs is "We've got it all on U.H.F."! 😂

[@chrisbakke567]

Love the Never Ending Story theme over He-man toys and head shots.

[@MysticWolf1223]

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.

[@eddiejoewalt7746]

CANNON FILMS WAS A SCAM go watch Electric Boogaloo documentary

[@redadamearth]

How could you "miss" the 80's when you were only a baby in the last year? Do you mean the 90's?

[@eddiejoewalt7746]

Cannon films was a scam!

[@MysticWolf1223]

@@redadamearth I got enough taste of the 80s to know what it was like and reminisce at least the sample version of the decade

[@FireMadeFleshII]

Gotta love how they're promoting the Masters of the Universe movie with the score from The Neverending Story 😂

[@JonJonJonJonJonJonJonJon]

And he man toys haha

[@DyenamicFilms]

And the Superman score for Spiderman.

[@thefonzkiss]

And Bladerunner for Over The Top.

[@brandonspain12345]

It kinda makes you wish they did a Neverending Story version of He-Man instead of the generic “fish-out-of-water” trope.

[@miguelesteban5768]

And using Dolph Lundgren’s Actor profile photo 😭😭

[@skilletman16]

The Captain America announcement using music score from The Last Starfighter 😮☺️

[@Adam-sg4qg]

Hearing Don say “Tootsie” made my week. 😆

[@VideoTasties]

Lol

[@asbjrnandersen4222]

I love that they didn’t even have a title for the Travolta movie :)

[@VideoTasties]

Genius of marketing

[@rs8638]

This reminds me of the terrible yet awesome commercials in Robocop.

[@ManCave1972]

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.

[@user-vi4xy1jw7e]

You've watched every movie released this year?

[@Warzau]

Oh when the Logo came out you knew you were in for some quality cinema.

[@aqdrobert]

Cannon: "Why should we film any movies without Chuck Norris? Let's skip the titles featuring action stars no one heard of."

[@sjones79]

I really would have liked to see a Captain America film directed by Micheal Winner 😂😂

[@GillBoldberg]

An 80’s Spider-Man movie would have been insane.

[@JeffreyDeCristofaro]

Honestly, Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 is EASILY the best out of these - my personal pick for best sequel to a slasher classic ever!

[@poindextertunes]

Dennis Hopper is so good in that movie

[@Pocketrocket-pj1us]

You almost had men a horror superman, for a few seconds, then I got it, right before the reveal. Good Preview! That's how you make something look interesting, without any footage shot. Gotta Love these guys, especially if you got to see, most of the 80's, like I did! What a crazy decade, in film!

[@rorynolan3187]

I was waiting for Tropic Thunder to start playing..

[@tomk3478]

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.

[@VideoTasties]

Great story

[@natehall36]

Citizen Joe with Peter Boyle looked interesting

[@VideoTasties]

Certainly did

[@rashodlewis2918]

That’s the one I want to check out.

[@evanmichael3153]

The Golan-Globus years... 🤘❤️

[@AutodidactAnimotions]

These remind me of those, in universe , commercial ads in the original Robocop movie. LOL!!😂😂

[@Shorty_Lickens]

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".

[@VideoTasties]

It is a great Doc, but the one Cannon made themselves is hilarious as expected

[@oldschoolstyle4]

I love how they use the music from multiple Superman movies

[@firsttry2]

"King lear" reminds me the version of Hamlet in "the last action hero" and directed by Jean Luc Godart 😂

[@VideoTasties]

😂

[@gabeharper6624]

The announcer is Peter Cullen, who did the voice of Optimus Prime.

[@Neon_Ghost1]

I'd sacrifice an entire nation for a Cannon Films Spiderman

[@VideoTasties]

The script is online which is the closest we would get

[@WanderFeetChronicles]

Funny hearing The NeverEnding Story music over Masters of the Universe 😂

[@tsntana]

It works 🤷‍♂️

[@MRSceneITALL]

I love watching these with the classic movie scores as trailer music I wish trailers were made similar today without spoiling the whole movie

[@ChrisOliver4307]

A live action "Spider-Man"?! I can't wait!!

[@ashleybrooke2087]

Don't get too excited. It might get delayed by a few years.

[@ChrisOliver4307]

@@ashleybrooke2087 No way!

[@samuelcarrasquillo4590]

@@ChrisOliver4307 Yes Way! Walt Disney And Columbia Pictures Have The Rights!

[@thefonzkiss]

The 70s live action TV series was edited together into two movies and shown outside the USA.

[@thefonzkiss]

Some of these are like the absurd movie descriptions at the fake Oscars in Naked Gun 3.

[@andrewseaspray6059]

This reminds me of an Alan Partridge pitch!

[@VideoTasties]

Smell my cheese

[@alexzapf6422]

Loved the Canon movies. Almost always a good time at the movies. Love the logo music.

[@xeroabyss9597]

TOO MUCH!!! I remember watching that on Nickelodeon sooooo long ago🥰 ''We Are For Too Much!"💜

[@richardellis2919]

I loved cannon films as a kid

[@LandOfTheGeek]

Michael 'The Dude' Dudikoff was a legend!

[@Pocketrocket-pj1us]

Oh Cannon. I'm sure there is a timeline, where you were still around.... Damn I WANT to Go There Cheers from Montreal Quebec Canada Great upload. My head is still spinning from the last Few titles! Thanks for sharing. Someone needs to send this to RLM, or the Cinnema Snob, maybe even Rifftrax. They did leave all the commercials in their Riff of The SW Christmas Special!

[@mr.green2341]

“And Tootsie” said with so much stern seriousness. 😂

[@craigboyle9714]

I love how Dustin Hoffman stars in a mafia movie with a score from Total Recall. "Get ready for a surprise!"

[@twitchygiraffe4636]

Cannon the film company of the future! (Well until 1991 anyway!!!!)

[@brandenhill71]

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”

[@talkingthetalk3640]

No kidding

[@PelvisPresley420]

I love Cannon Films. Some of my favorite movies has been done by them. They should get revived just like how Orion Pictures got revived

[@rromero7849]

Boy.. That was a riot!😆👍

[@stevensiferd7104]

"Now, Cannon Films proudly announces John Travolta in his most exciting project yet!" No title, no mention of the storyline. Just move on to the next preview. Also, I don't know what they were implying with the "Citizen Joe" trailer. After seeing the reaction of the premiere audience for "Joe", Peter Boyle vowed never to do another movie where he was shown using a gun. He even passed on the Popeye Doyle role in "The French Connection", which got Gene Hackman his first Oscar.

[@rareimer]

Except that Boyle really was involved with "Citizen Joe," at least to the extent of posing for promotional pictures (that was the standard Cannon procedure--mock up a poster, show it to the investors, and then commission a script only when the money has come in). Notice that he is here show with a more lined face and grayer hair than he had in 1970. Also, Boyle used guns in CRAZY JOE and HARDCORE. I forget whether he actually used one in THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE, but he posed for the poster with one.

[@spencerwilliams461]

Cannon films were great. would love to see a Big Budget Studio revive their style of films. Golan Globus too! Dino DeLaurentis gets a shout out also.

[@thudthud5423]

I don't know, but I'm kinda hyped for the live action cinematic Marvel Comics characters. I think Cannon might make some money with the Spider-Man and Capt. America movies.

[@cargoman7045]

Just found this video.I just got a VHS from a old store of 52 pickup. Read the book as a kid. Great movie.

[@csscott9803]

52 pick up is a good movie.

[@VideoTasties]

Yes it is

[@virag1132]

best cannon movie according to those who should know

[@stoogefest16]

John Glover as Raimi is one of my favorite film villains. He oozes sleaze and menace with ease.

[@anthonydileonardo8156]

book was better, darker...nastier

[@donaldduck7461]

Underrated mate

[@darrenwells2277]

Used to love the Cannon films... always looked forward to them on video rental back in the 80s.. the action movies were just great!

[@leonhunter1839]

THIS WAS AWESOME…. WHAT A FIND! ….(but because of one project I think this was made 1985)

[@JenMistress]

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]

Thanks

[@ryanporter2584]

“IBC. Yule love it!” I can’t be the only person that was thinking this the entire time!

[@chrisitalia1]

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.

[@FrankJohn]

nice to see they had that variety, even superhero movies

[@yadnoid2]

I love the use of music from other popular 80s films as if we hadn’t seen them

[@ThatJohnKillion1970]

They really went all out in that Masters of the Universe teaser trailer.

[@TKillin]

The ‘C’ really stood for class When I was a kid,and saw this logo. I know that I was in for a treat.

[@inversion66]

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.

[@disgustingdust1584]

This is comedy GOLD. A Spiderman film directed by Michael Winner ?!?!?1 If only this was made. Thank You Cannon films.

[@barefootandindependent]

Cannon Films: literally the best of the best!! we have both documentaries and are soon doing a double feature in Flagstaff!!

[@VideoTasties]

their BTS is facininating

[@barefootandindependent]

@@VideoTasties absolutely!

[@robatsea2009]

From the era where endless pages of Cannon project announcements would fill the pages of special Variety editions - some came to pass, many others did not. I'm surprised by the absence of Charles Bronson from any of the titles featured in the promo reel (which seems to enjoy borrowing music from films like "Blade Runner" and "Midnight Express" as he was one of the studio's main stars during the decade. Of the featured titles that were completed I saw a good many of them on video over the years, but the only two from the list that I managed to see theatrically were "52 Pick-Up" (which was great), and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre II". The promo for the latter was actually incorporated into TV trailers when the movie was released.

[@commanderkeen3787]

Michael Winner's Captain America would have been brutal

[@JHolt_88]

Wow, Spider-man almost existed on film before Batman? That's crazy!

[@spatchmo6938]

There was a Batman movie made with Adam West that had the same goofy tone as the show. Batman has been on film for a pretty long time

[@raulzavala9061]

You can do a google search there was even a mock teaser poster by Cannon released for the trade magazines.

[@GabrielLopez-qe2od]

Spiderman already had a trilogy in the 70s, those movies were also related to the tv show from that time. Also, don't forget about Japanese Spider Man

[@toomanyaccounts]

Batman as a movie series is very old. 1943 was the year the first Batman was released. Batman and Robin came out in 1949.

[@TheJFish94]

To be honest, I can only imagine what Cannon Film’s Spider-Man and Zorba: The Musical would look like.

[@VideoTasties]

I would have loved their Spiderman

[@michaelflett09]

the budget for Superman was split in half and the rest was funnelled into Masters of the Universe. which is a classic movie

[@ThommyofThenn]

I find these much more watchable than the "in a world..." modern trailers that all use that same eerie bass tone. Also as a Walker fan, its fun to note that Chuck Norris didn't really change in appearance from 1986 to 1997 or so. Not sure why he shaved his beard off part way through Walker, it made him look very tired

[@jgrangervikings1]

Reminds me of when I worked at a movie theater in the late 1990s/early 2000s, and there was a brochure from one of the film companies-Paramount, maybe-that listed all their upcoming movies, and one of ‘em was a live-action adaptation of Beetle Bailey. I’m still waiting for that one. 😂

[@VideoTasties]

😮

[@markusallen5634]

"John Travolta, in the roll he was meant to play- JOSEPH SMITH. Cannon Pictures presents: SATURDAY NIGHT MORMON."

[@joejoe3011]

"John Travolta: The Movie"

[@TJ52359]

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...

[@darren2514fv]

Cannon bought Thorn EMl Screen Entertainment which they could not afford and had to sell on the library a year after purchase though some projects that were in pre production at Thorn EMl ended up with Cannon like the Verity Lambert produced film about the Australian Dingo Case A Cry In The Dark and Agatha Christie's Appointment With Death and some films that were commissioned by Channel 4 got made

[@sarrk1]

1:53 so.. john travolta in his most exciting project yet? I'm in!