From the podcast The Industry comes the story of the dueling Lambada pictures. When Menahem Golan left Cannon Films for 21st Century Pictures, he brought with him a grudge that would propel both companies into direct competition over the Brazilian dance craze, the lambada. From this sprang a crazy race to the theaters between competing […]
Mar 15, 2020
38 min
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Aug 1, 2019
1 min
In this (potentially) final episode of The Cannon Films Project, Dan talks it up with screenwriter James Bruner about Missing In Action, Invasion USA, The Delta Force, how Chuck Norris movies changed the world, and what it was like working at the house of Golan-Globus.
Jun 25, 2017
1 hr 35 min
This time on the Cannon Films Project Dan takes a look at a Chuck Norris classic, Invasion USA. This episode an interview with screenwriter James Bruner, complete breakdown of the movie, and critics reaction to it when it was released in 1985. Full disclosure, there were some audio issues in the making of this one, but […]
Dec 27, 2016
1 hr
We’re back with a quickie. Cannon Films might have more announced, yet unproduced movies than ones they actually bothered to make. What made Dustin Hoffman sign and then quickly back out of deal to star in an adaptation of Elmore Leonard’s LaBrava? We take a look at what might have been.
Dec 6, 2016
12 min
From Taxi Driver to The Swap: How Robert De Niro found himself in the clutches of Cannon Films.
Nov 22, 2015
42 min
Before we move on here is one more bite of The Apple. We had some unused audio from Apple star Catherine Mary Stewart. Catherine talks about The Apple, another Cannon production she was almost apart of, and reveals she spent a month working in the Cannon offices. Also there is a chat with Apple songwriter Iris Yotvat […]
Jun 27, 2015
1 hr 12 min
Dan and Eric take on Cannon’s musical extravaganza from 1980, The Apple. Featuring a conversation with the star of The Apple, Catherine Mary Stewart.
Jun 7, 2015
1 hr 31 min
In the first episode of The Cannon Films Project, Dan and Eric start their march through the Cannon library with their first notable film: Death Wish II.
May 6, 2015
1 hr 20 min