Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, two Israeli cousins infatuated with movies, became Hollywood's ultimate gate-crashers. Following their own twisted version of the American Dream, they bought an already low-rent company –Cannon Films–and ramped up production to the point that its famous emblem became so synonymous with schlock that audiences booed at the sight of it throughout the 1980s. Who could have predicted how close they came to seizing control of Hollywood and the British film industry?
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Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, two Israeli cousins infatuated with movies, became Hollywood's ultimate gate-crashers. Following their own twisted version of the American Dream, they bought an already low-rent company –Cannon Films–and ramped up production to the point that its famous emblem became so synonymous with schlock that audiences booed at the sight of it throughout the 1980s. Who could have predicted how close they came to seizing control of Hollywood and the British film industry?
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