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 at 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.
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 😂
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!
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.
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.
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! 😎
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.
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.
LaBrada was using the First Blood music. I love these types of videos. I was 12 in 1986 and these trailers brought back some serious nostalgia from when I first got the movie bug. 38 years later and I'm a self-diagnosed movie fanatic. Great video, thank you!
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.
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)
When I watched "Street Smart" starring Christopher Reeve and Morgan Freeman, I really enjoyed the movie. The chemistry was gripping and the story was really urban and dramatic. Other than that, it was a great movie.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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 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.
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. 😂
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!
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.
@@redadamearth Cable and satellite tv, and commercial networks in 1990s Europe would often show all kinds of 1980s B-movies late-late into the evening, and well into the night. These flicks were usually sold as part of a package with big-name films, and served as fillers of the ether.
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.
It's wholesome really, John Travolta didn't have a movie lined up, he was just working on himself personally. Cannon was so proud of him for it they just wanted to make an announcement.
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.
The stock footage at around 4:56 + for Housekeeping is definitely from the "Clouscape" sequence of Koyaanisqatsi. I assume they were splicing the sequel "North / South" (i.e. Powaqqatsi) promo, and just decided to use the leftovers elsewhere.
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.
Trivia: Dustin Hoffman hadn't yet signed for LaBrava and when Cannon started promoting it with his name, he pulled out of the project, causing it to fall apart. Author Elmore Leonard turned his frustrations with the experience into the book Get Shorty, which contained a movie star character satirically based on Hoffman (played by Danny DeVito in the film).
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".
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!
I like how part of their pitch is to reference the superior films these actors appeared in. These will not be the films you will be watching as we speed run insolvency.
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.
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.
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!
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!
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 at 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”.
The Captain American film was eventually made when Menahem Golan produced it under his 21st Century Film Corp studios.
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.
Missed 52-Pick Up which was released and made, haha, $5.2 million
"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.
I miss promos like this, we need more cocaine in our studios.
That is gold!
😂😂😂
that's the Problem... the Money all went TO Cocaine... they had none left for the Movies
Seriously. This whole thing is cocaine and vibes
Wasn’t that the 1980s in general?
Man, 1986 is gonna be off the hook!
I hear they're making a sequel to Alien. Probably gonna suck.
😂😂😂!!!!!!!!
I can't wait! 86/87 is gonna ROCK!
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 😂
Housekeeping is just going to kill at getting all the guys in with Diane Keating. Should really smash all box office takings.
Can't beat that Don Le Fontaine voiceover.
He was great
IN A WORLD...
IN A WORLD....
@@JestersDeadUK In a world, IN A WORLD!
Worlds within worlds, within an inner world.
Coming soon "What a world"
... starring Ed Harris.
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
It's like a 15-minute intro to _Tropic Thunder_ !
😂
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!
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I was thinking the same.
Hahahaha I can't get over that "LaBrava" promo with the Rambo theme song. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
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.
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.
An 80’s Spider-Man movie would have been insane.
My favorite was "You know John Travolta? Well we gave him a call and he hasn't got back to us yet."
But here’s some clips from some good movies he was in and let’s forget all the terrible ones!
The title of the film was "Public Enemies". It would have co-started Whoopi Goldberg and been alot like Lethal Weapon.
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.
Hahahahaha
Was looking for this comment. 😂
This is like an extended version of UHF.
I came here to say the same thing. 🤣🦡
Except with more cocaine
🤣🤣
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! 😎
@@chindleymuffin "Supplies!" Maybe the funniest line in the movie.🤣
Hilarious hearing the Rambo theme in front of Dustin Hoffman dressed as a woman
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.
They stole the Neverending Story theme for Masters of the Universe.
AND PLAYED IT OVER THE FRIGGEN TOY COMMERCIAL!! :D
Also, they used "The Chase" from Midnight Express on that Louis Gossett JR. film.
I read LaBrava....not that great.... a lot like Cat Chaser and Stick, but some differences
@@Shorty_LickensCopyright schmopyright lol.
it really sums up Hollywood. "Here is the lead actor, here is the director and a title. Money please"
Even thought the actor or director hadn't actually signed on
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.
Golan and Globus-"Please give us money! We promise we won't use it on an entirely different movie"
@@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.
For movieheads, that's all we need!
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.
Polanski did pirates for cannon I believe with Walter Matthau and that was a huge flop
I started queuing for the Travolta movie to get a good seat. I left the queue in 1995 when the cinema was demolished
The title of the film was "Public Enemies". It would have co-started Whoopi Goldberg and been alot like Lethal Weapon.
There's nothing more 80's than Cannon films.
True
I was literally thinking that just before I saw your comment.
Orion pictures
'80s
@@alexanderzhukov3773 Tri-Star
LaBrada was using the First Blood music. I love these types of videos. I was 12 in 1986 and these trailers brought back some serious nostalgia from when I first got the movie bug. 38 years later and I'm a self-diagnosed movie fanatic. Great video, thank you!
Thanks for watching
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.
🤣
The more things change, th more they stay the same...
This is the single greatest trailer compilation in the history of the entire universe.
It really is
Agree!!!!
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😅😅😅😅😅
Not trailers, promos
Loved Cannon back in the 80’s. They had tons of bangers. Love this sizzle reel we need more
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.
Damn shame they spread themselves too wide
Canon film studios will always be a symbol of quality to me never be another like them ❤️❤️
I always love some Cannon
This is truly amazing... THANK YOU for sharing!!
This feels like an extended version of the network show previews at the beginning of the movie 'Scrooged'.
Yule love it! 😂
I was thinking the same.
“THE NIGHT THE REINDEER DIED” 😆
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)
Great reference
When I watched "Street Smart" starring Christopher Reeve and Morgan Freeman, I really enjoyed the movie. The chemistry was gripping and the story was really urban and dramatic. Other than that, it was a great movie.
@@cameronrashaudunlimited might be Reeves best
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.
Back in the days Cannon films were what you’d watch....lol
Actually Cannon took half the budget for Superman IV and spent it on Masters OTU.
Eminem really gaslit everyone into thinking there's an S at the end of Reeve lol
"John Travolta: The Movie"
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...
omaigad they made a movie about me omaigad
Cannon films and the large amount of shelving space needing to be filled in a Blockbusters video store : a match made in heaven
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.
I was very surprised by some of these
I guess the unmade Travolta film was called ”His Most Exciting Project Yet”.
The title of the film was "Public Enemies". It would have co-started Whoopi Goldberg and been alot like Lethal Weapon.
This is absolute gold, you just can't beat that Cannon logo. My favourite film company
There can be.....only one!
It usually meant something entertaining
@@VideoTasties Lots of cheese as well. Spiderman with Dudikoff would have been something, they loved him 😅
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!
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
They did make entertaining films
I could see "The Night the Reindeer Died" starring Lee Majors fitting in this package easily.
@@ShortyLongstrokin most of these have the same voiceover artist from scrooged, Don LaFontaine!
Conan the librarian 2: the buyback
This is GOLD. I'm furiously scanning IMDB for each one.
I did an update video with what happened
Thank you for this. As an 80s movie affcionado, I find this hilarious.
go watch Electric Boogaloo documentary
it's fascinating
I love how Dustin Hoffman stars in a mafia movie with a score from Total Recall. "Get ready for a surprise!"
Definitely, definitely gonna need two weeks.
The never ending story music behind he-man toys works pretty well lol
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.
Great story
I love the glamour shots they use in lieu of the actor, especially with the dramatic music.
And no production stills because most of these projects didn't even have funding yet.
Love the Never Ending Story theme over He-man toys and head shots.
Rambo music playing for Dustin Hoffman 😂😂😂
Oh when the Logo came out you knew you were in for some quality cinema.
The Captain America announcement using music score from The Last Starfighter 😮☺️
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.
You've watched every movie released this year?
Hearing Don say “Tootsie” made my week. 😆
Lol
A great one is Runaway Train. with Jon Voigt you can’t go wrong.
I wish I could visit the universe where Cannon's Spiderman saves the company and starts the superhero movie wave 20+ years earlier.
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.
@@johnpenguinthe3rd13 TL; DR
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. 😂
😮
All this needs is "We've got it all on U.H.F."! 😂
Be There!!!!!!
These remind me of those, in universe , commercial ads in the original Robocop movie.
LOL!!😂😂
Gotta love how they're promoting the Masters of the Universe movie with the score from The Neverending Story 😂
And he man toys haha
And the Superman score for Spiderman.
And Bladerunner for Over The Top.
It kinda makes you wish they did a Neverending Story version of He-Man instead of the generic “fish-out-of-water” trope.
And using Dolph Lundgren’s Actor profile photo 😭😭
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!
They were the 80's studio
I love the film but never collected the toys and hated the cartoon.
The first was crap
@@marklola12Lundgren was still learning acting. Can’t be easy acting in your second language.
Just found this video.I just got a VHS from a old store of 52 pickup. Read the book as a kid. Great movie.
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.
CANNON FILMS WAS A SCAM
go watch Electric Boogaloo documentary
How could you "miss" the 80's when you were only a baby in the last year? Do you mean the 90's?
Cannon films was a scam!
@@redadamearth I got enough taste of the 80s to know what it was like and reminisce at least the sample version of the decade
@@redadamearth Cable and satellite tv, and commercial networks in 1990s Europe would often show all kinds of 1980s B-movies late-late into the evening, and well into the night. These flicks were usually sold as part of a package with big-name films, and served as fillers of the ether.
In a perfect world Canon still churns out low budet classic!🤘
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.
@@Paulafan5 everyone knows that they bit off more then they could chew. They should have stuck to what they were good at.
I know I am excited for 1986 to roll around!
should be a great year for Cannon
It's wholesome really, John Travolta didn't have a movie lined up, he was just working on himself personally. Cannon was so proud of him for it they just wanted to make an announcement.
1:54 What? What was John Travolta's most exciting project ever? We need to know! What was it?!
no one knows
It seems likely to have been one of Tobe Hoopers projects, as he took a 3 movie deal with them at this time.
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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.
Yes their early promotions were the best
Love we heard no information what so ever on the John Travolta film.😂
Some of these are like the absurd movie descriptions at the fake Oscars in Naked Gun 3.
The stock footage at around 4:56 + for Housekeeping is definitely from the "Clouscape" sequence of Koyaanisqatsi. I assume they were splicing the sequel "North / South" (i.e. Powaqqatsi) promo, and just decided to use the leftovers elsewhere.
I love that they didn’t even have a title for the Travolta movie :)
Genius of marketing
@@VideoTasties Which ones were never made? Same with the Cannon Movie Tales? I think there were suppose to 16 or 9 of them. Am I right? Which titles?
@@shiradanielThey eventually released the rest of the Cannon Movie Tales as direct-to-video after Rumpelstiltskin flopped hard.
Thanks for posting this! This was fun to watch!
Thanks for watching
Wow! A Joseph Zito Spiderman would have been spectacular! Would have had lots of gory effects from Tom Savini, I'm sure.
That would be cool!
Wow, Citizen Joe could have been something. 🤯
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.
This is awesome! Love the Over the Top promo!
Notice how they don't even mention that the movie is about competitive arm wrestling?
@@cbikle Right!!
Glad you like it!
6:37 - Number One With A Bullet used the prime mover from Knight Rider's last two seasons in a chase scene!
👍
A live action "Spider-Man"?! I can't wait!!
Don't get too excited. It might get delayed by a few years.
@@ashleybrooke2087 No way!
@@ChrisOliver4307
Yes Way!
Walt Disney And Columbia Pictures Have The Rights!
The 70s live action TV series was edited together into two movies and shown outside the USA.
Wonderful. It makes me long for those days..
Trivia: Dustin Hoffman hadn't yet signed for LaBrava and when Cannon started promoting it with his name, he pulled out of the project, causing it to fall apart. Author Elmore Leonard turned his frustrations with the experience into the book Get Shorty, which contained a movie star character satirically based on Hoffman (played by Danny DeVito in the film).
I need to rewatch Get Shorty again with that mindset
This is straight gold. Over The Top promo, unreal.
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".
It is a great Doc, but the one Cannon made themselves is hilarious as expected
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!
I like how part of their pitch is to reference the superior films these actors appeared in. These will not be the films you will be watching as we speed run insolvency.
Used to love the Cannon films... always looked forward to them on video rental back in the 80s.. the action movies were just great!
The debacle of Hoffman and “La Brava” became the basis of Elmore Leonard’s ‘Get Shorty.’
thats wild!
Loved the Canon movies. Almost always a good time at the movies. Love the logo music.
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.
True
I love watching these with the classic movie scores as trailer music I wish trailers were made similar today without spoiling the whole movie
They really went all out in that Masters of the Universe teaser trailer.
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.
I was waiting for Tropic Thunder to start playing..
This reminds me of the terrible yet awesome commercials in Robocop.
I'll buy that for a dollar
"King lear" reminds me the version of Hamlet in "the last action hero" and directed by Jean Luc Godart 😂
😂
This is incredible thank you for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it!
The ‘C’ really stood for class
When I was a kid,and saw this logo. I know that I was in for a treat.
The Golan-Globus years... 🤘❤️
God, why do I have "Robocop" vibes while watching this. Just waiting for that, "I'll buy that for a dollar" commercial to break any tension.
More like, "I'll MAKE that for a dollar!"
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!
Citizen Joe with Peter Boyle looked interesting
Certainly did
That’s the one I want to check out.
He brings his cReAtIvE gEnIuS to "North South" 🤤
This is comedy GOLD. A Spiderman film directed by Michael Winner ?!?!?1 If only this was made. Thank You Cannon films.
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!
Cannon...takes me back to peak VHS rental days.
Nice to hear that New American Orchestra version of the Blade Runner soundtrack put to use.
Cannon Films: literally the best of the best!!
we have both documentaries and are soon doing a double feature in Flagstaff!!
their BTS is facininating
@@VideoTasties absolutely!
That was my last year of elementary school.....😆!!!!!!!! Yah takin me back to a better time......#SUBSCRIBED
Thanks, plenty of videos about the old days here
Half of these seem like promos that would be playing on a TV in a parody movie
I never realized how many cannon films came out. It would take forever to watch them all.
Funny hearing The NeverEnding Story music over Masters of the Universe 😂
It works 🤷♂️