Many get extreme pleasure out of today’s slate of so-good-its-bad films, but no one owned that territory quite liked Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, two Israeli cousins with Hollywood dreams and not a strong sense of taste. Directed by Mark Hartley, Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Canon Films, follows their creation of Canon Films, a studio who produced well over 100 exploitation films starting in 1979 and lasting a decade.
We recently saw it, saying in our review, “With insights from Dolph Lundgren, Bo Derek, Robert Forester, Alex Winter, and Tobe Hooper,Electric Boogaloo is a wild, entertaining and insightful history on the surface, but beneath it, there’s room for exploration — perhaps something was lost in compressing a mini-series worth of information into a feature film.” The first trailer has now landed, which can be seen below, along with the inventive poster.
A documentary about Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus – two movie-obsessed cousins whose passion for cinema changed the way movies were made and marketed – and the tale of how this passion ultimately led to the demise of the company they built together.
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films is not just a hilarious tale of scattergun movie making, but of two cousins whose passion for cinema changed the way movies were made and marketed, and how ultimately this passion would come between them and the company they built together. This is a one-of-a-kind story about two-of-a-kind men who (for better or worse) changed film forever.
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films will likely be released next year.