Under the leadership of Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, The Cannon Group released more films per year than any other studio in Hollywood during their heyday. But of all the films under the Cannon banner, only...
On one hand, 1981’s Enter the Ninja is heralded as the catalyst for the ninja craze of the 1980’s. On the other hand, 1981’s Enter the Ninja is overshadowed by the movies that followed it in...
It is not often that we have the opportunity to interact with a true legend in the action entertainment world like Lou Ferrigno. Ferrigno made the transition from competitive bodybuilding to acting in the late 1970’s...
After a successful crowdfunding campaign and months and months of hard work, Marco Siedelmann’s book, Stories From The Trenches: Adventures in Making High Octane Hollywood Movies from Cannon Veteran Sam Firstenberg is now available for action...
Valentine’s Day 1986 was truly magical. For action movie loving guys across the United States that didn’t have that special someone to spend Valentine’s Day with… it didn’t matter that year. Because The Delta Force opened...
The name Steven Lambert is one I became familiar with thanks to my love of Cannon Films and more specifically the healthy amount of special edition Cannon releases, like Revenge of the Ninja, that have been...
In Hollywood, if Charles Bronson liked you there was a good chance you’d get to work with him on multiple occasions. That is why men like Ed Lauter, Martin Balsam and Robert F. Lyons were frequent...
1984’s Exterminator 2 is a movie that gets lost in the Cannon shuffle. The film was released on the same day as Ninja III: The Domination and just two months prior to the release of Missing...
When Menahem Golan first signed up Chuck Norris to a multi-picture deal with Cannon, I can’t imagine either man knew how monumental that would be. Chuck Norris became a cornerstone and huge draw for The Cannon...
1989’s Crack House is an example of a movie that while released by Cannon, was not produced by Cannon. And that is probably why we didn’t see Charles Bronson, Michael Dudikoff or Chuck Norris waging a...
