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Menahem Golan (Hebrew: מנחם גולן; May 31, 1929 – August 8, 2014) was an Israeli director and producer. He is best known as the co-owner, with his cousin Yoram Globus, of The Cannon Group, a company that specialized in low-to-mid budget American films during the 1980s after Golan and Globus achieved significant success as filmmakers in their native Israel during the 1970s.
Golan produced movies featuring such stars as Sean Connery, Sylvester Stallone, Chuck Norris, Jean-Claude Van Damme, and Charles Bronson, and was known for a period as a producer of comic book-style movies like Masters of the Universe, Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, Captain America, and his aborted attempt to bring Spider-Man to the silver screen. Using the pen name of Joseph Goldman, Golan also wrote and "polished" film scripts. Golan produced about 200 films, directed 44, and won eight Violin David Awards as well as The Israel Prize in Cinema.
Menahem Golan was born on May 31, 1929, in Tiberias, then Mandate Palestine. His parents were Jewish immigrants from Russian Poland. He spent his early years in Tiberias, then studied directing at the Old Vic School and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, and film making at New York University. During the Israeli War of Independence, Golan served as a pilot in the Israeli Air Force.
The Cannon Group, Inc. was an American group of companies, including Cannon Films, which produced a distinctive line of low-to medium-budget films from 1967 to 1994. The extensive group also owned, amongst others, a large international cinema chain and a video film company that invested heavily in the video market, buying the international video rights to several classic film libraries.
The company was much more popular in the United Kingdom than in its native United States, which is likely due to the company's ownership of several cinema chains in the UK.
Cannon Films was incorporated on October 23, 1967. It was formed by Dennis Friedland and Chris Dewey while they were in their early 20s. They had immediate success producing English-language versions of Swedish soft porn films directed by Joseph W. Sarno: Inga (1968), aka Jag - en oskuld and To Ingrid, My Love, Lisa (1968), aka Kvinnolek. By 1970, they had produced films on a larger production scale than a lot of major distributors, such as Joe, starring Peter Boyle. They managed this by tightly limiting their budgets to $300,000 per picture—or less, in some cases. However, as the 1970s moved on, a string of unsuccessful movies seriously drained Cannon’s capital. This, along with changes to film-production tax laws, led to a drop in Cannon's stock price.
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace is a 1987 American superhero film directed by Sidney J. Furie, based on the DC Comics character Superman. It is the fourth and final film in the original Superman film series. This is the first film in this series not to be produced by Alexander and Ilya Salkind, but by Golan-Globus's Cannon Films, in association with Warner Bros. Gene Hackman returns as Lex Luthor, who creates an evil Solar-powered Superman clone called Nuclear Man.Superman IV was a box-office and critical failure, with many complaints for the cheap special-effects, lack of originality and excessiveness. Critics have put it in the category of worst films ever made. The film was the first American film in the series, the first being a UK/US co-production and the two sequels being entirely British.
The series went on hiatus until 2006, when Superman Returns was released, which uses the first two films as backstory while ignoring the events of this film and its predecessor.
Golan, al-Golan or Gaulonitis (Hebrew: גּולן; Arabic: جولان Gōlān or Jōlān; Greek: Γαυλανῖτις Gaulanítis) refers to an area that was shared between the Roman provinces of Judea and Phoenice. Its main cities were Golan (Gaulan) and Galama. Archaeologists localize the city of Golan at Sahm el-Jaulān, where ruins were found from the early Byzantine era.
After the collapse of the Seleucid Empire at the end of the 2nd century BCE, the Itureans, the Jews ruled by the Hasmoneans, the Nabateans, and finally the Romans and their Jewish client rulers, the Herodians, fought for the control of the area. The region was prosperous between the 2nd and the 7th century CE when pagan communities were step by step replaced by Christian ones. An important Jewish presence was attested by archaeology for the Roman and Byzantine periods in the Golan.
The area is referred in the Hebrew Bible as the territory of Manasseh in the conquered territory of Bashan: Golan was the most northerly of the three cities of refuge east of the Jordan River (Deuteronomy 4:43). Manasseh gave this Levitical city to the Gershonite Levites (Joshua 21:27; 1 Chronicles 6:71). According to the Bible, the Israelites conquered Golan, taking it from the Amorites.
Menahem, (Hebrew: מְנַחֵם, Modern Menaẖem, Tiberian Mənaḥēm, from a Hebrew word meaning "the consoler" or "comforter"; Greek: Manaem in the Septuagint, Manaen in Aquila; Latin: Manahem; full name: Hebrew: מנחם בן גדי, Menahem Ben Gadi) was a king of the northern Israelite Kingdom of Israel. He was the son of Gadi, and the founder of the dynasty known as the House of Gadi or House of Menahem. Some have speculated that Gadi was a scion of the tribe of Gad.
Menahem's ten-year reign is told in 2 Kings 15:14-22. When Shallum conspired against and assassinated Zechariah in Samaria, and set himself upon the throne of the northern kingdom, Menahem - who, like Shallum, had served as a captain in Zechariah's army - refused to recognize the murderous usurper. Menahem marched from Tirzah to Samaria, about six miles westwards and laid siege to Samaria. He took the city, murdered Shallum a month into his reign (2 Kings 15:13), and set himself upon the throne. (2 Kings 15:14) According to Josephus, he was a general of the army of Israel.
"Hollywood is a money animal". The final chapter in the extraordinary life and career of MENAHEM GOLAN, legendary Palestinian-born Israeli movie director, producer, mogul and "madman". Now in his eighties and living in Jaffa, Golan looks back to his great Cannon days in Hollywood, forwards to a new blockbuster with Al Pacino – and dreams of the Oscar he has always wanted... This is the third and final part in a trilogy about Golan. The first was 'The Last Moguls' (1986, BBC); the second was 'Shooting Versace' (1998, BBC). Golan died suddenly, in the street in Jaffa, in August 2014, still talking about his plans for the future. His wife Rachel, who appears in the film, died in July 2015.
In this post-“Man of Steel” era, it is perhaps worth reminding yourself that there is another truly, deeply awful Superman film out there, but watching 1987's “Superman IV: The Quest For Peace” is a horribly cruel thing to do to yourself. Instead, try this: a 1986 documentary on the mad business that was The Cannon Group, the most dynamic and radical movie studio of the '80s, who were brought low the next year when 'Superman IV' flopped. The Cannon Group was, really, just two Israeli cousins, Yoram Globus and Menahem Golan, whose very existence made Hollywood bigwigs wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat, yelling incoherently about Vietnam veterans and break-dancing. Globus and Golan rode the wave of the VHS revolution by buying almost any script they could get their hands on...
Taken from an exclusive interview i made with Mr menahem golan , to be continued.
NEW! See the film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN1fTUunc0c The late great legendary Hollywood producer/director Menahem Golan tells how it's done. A brief clip from an upcoming documentary about his life and work. See TRAILER here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyBz8Up0bmM
From director Christopher Sykes of the Cannon Films documentary 'The Last Moguls' (BBC Omnibus, 1986) comes this excellent, highly entertaining 1998 fly-on-the-wall behind-the-scenes documentary 'Shooting Versace'. Also with Steven Bauer and Franco Nero! 'Can Menahem Golan and producer Sam Lupowitz beat Hollywood to the screen with their ultra-low budget account of the Versace murder?' (Contains strong language!) Watch 'The Last Moguls' here on Eyes On Cinema: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GIZGqlf3AQ
Clip from a documentary produced in 1986. Menahem Golan gets upset that Christopher Reeve was asking for money on Street Smart to help the production but Menahem refused and got annoyed that Chris question their financial status and was concerned they wouldn't have the money to pay for Superman IV ($30 million) which they didn't!. Christopher Reeve was smart and he knew what was going on. Full documentary - http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/watch-1-hour-documentary-on-radical-80s-movie-studio-cannon-films-20130703?utm_source=feedburner&utm;_medium=feed
Menahem Golan v Ljutomeru na Grossmannovem festivalu fantastičnega filma in vina Več na http://www.prlekija-on.net/
NEW! See the film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN1fTUunc0c The opening of a new documentary (74 mins) about the extraordinary life and career of Hollywood mogul and movie-legend, MENAHEM GOLAN, Israeli head of CANNON FILMS with his cousin and partner YORAM GLOBUS. Up close and personal, an intimate portrait of Golan in the last months of his life. See also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evRsJy8GxrU
"Hollywood is a money animal". The final chapter in the extraordinary life and career of MENAHEM GOLAN, legendary Palestinian-born Israeli movie director, producer, mogul and "madman". Now in his eighties and living in Jaffa, Golan looks back to his great Cannon days in Hollywood, forwards to a new blockbuster with Al Pacino – and dreams of the Oscar he has always wanted... This is the third and final part in a trilogy about Golan. The first was 'The Last Moguls' (1986, BBC); the second was 'Shooting Versace' (1998, BBC). Golan died suddenly, in the street in Jaffa, in August 2014, still talking about his plans for the future. His wife Rachel, who appears in the film, died in July 2015.
In this post-“Man of Steel” era, it is perhaps worth reminding yourself that there is another truly, deeply awful Superman film out there, but watching 1987's “Superman IV: The Quest For Peace” is a horribly cruel thing to do to yourself. Instead, try this: a 1986 documentary on the mad business that was The Cannon Group, the most dynamic and radical movie studio of the '80s, who were brought low the next year when 'Superman IV' flopped. The Cannon Group was, really, just two Israeli cousins, Yoram Globus and Menahem Golan, whose very existence made Hollywood bigwigs wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat, yelling incoherently about Vietnam veterans and break-dancing. Globus and Golan rode the wave of the VHS revolution by buying almost any script they could get their hands on...
From director Christopher Sykes of the Cannon Films documentary 'The Last Moguls' (BBC Omnibus, 1986) comes this excellent, highly entertaining 1998 fly-on-the-wall behind-the-scenes documentary 'Shooting Versace'. Also with Steven Bauer and Franco Nero! 'Can Menahem Golan and producer Sam Lupowitz beat Hollywood to the screen with their ultra-low budget account of the Versace murder?' (Contains strong language!) Watch 'The Last Moguls' here on Eyes On Cinema: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GIZGqlf3AQ
Operation Thunderbolt Full Movie by Film&Clips aka La notte dei falchi di Menahem Golan. Con Assaf Dayan, Klaus Kinski, Gila Almagor, Yehoram Gaon Titolo originale Operation Thunderbolt. Israele 1977. In July 1976, an Air France flight from Tel-Aviv to Paris via Athens was hijacked and forced to land in Entebbe, Uganda. The Jewish passengers were separated and held hostage in demand to release many terrorists held in Israeli prisons. After much debate, the Israeli government sent an elite commando unit to raid the airfield and release the hostages. Connect with Film & Clips here: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FilmClips-17... Twitter: https://twitter.com/filmandclips Download our App here: https://itunes.apple.com/it/app/film-... Il più bel canale di cinema gratuito e legale ...
The old classic Cannon brand - much missed, and an amazing docu covering their place in film history.
Over the Top --- http://rudetotheelderly.blogspot.com/0093692 ---is a 1987 action drama film starring Sylvester Stallone. It was produced and directed by Menahem Golan, and its screenplay was written by Stirling Silliphant and Stallone. (http://www.youtube.com/editor)
"Tevye and His Seven Daughters" (Hebrew: טוביה ושבע בנותיו, translit. Tuvia Vesheva Benotav) is a 1968 Israeli drama film directed by Menahem Golan. (in Hebrew)
Художественный фильм (драма, криминал), 1992г. Перевод студийный одноголосный. Качество: VHSRip Режиссер: Менахем Голан / Menahem Golan В ролях: Брюс Нозик, Джек Конли, Дженни МакШэйн, Эдди Бауз, Кристофер Брэдли, Тони ДиСальво, Лен Донато, Рик Джиолито, Джефф Григгс, Уитни Р. Хантер, Уилл Кемпе, Салли Керкланд, Абигайл Ленц, Дженнифер Миллер, Фрэнк Сенгер, Мэтт Сервитто, Елена Скороходова Описание: Нью-Йорк, 1929 год. После восьми лет, проведенных в тюрьме, молодой Датч Шульц выходит на свободу. Одна мысль владеет им: во что бы то ни стало выбраться из нью-йоркского еврейского гетто и стать в условиях Сухого закона величайшим гангстером. Главный герой фильма - реально существовавший персонаж Голландец Шульц (Dutch Schultz, Артур Флегенгеймер (Флегенхаймер)) — американский гангстер герман...
LEE MARVIN (1986) interviewed by John Gallagher In a rare and comprehensive interview conducted one year before his death, the legendary star reminisces about John Ford, John Wayne, Robert Aldrich, Fritz Lang, Michael Curtiz, Sam Fuller, and John Boorman, and such classics as THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE (1962), DONOVAN'S REEF (1963), THE BIG RED ONE (1980), THE DIRTY DOZEN (1967), POINT BLANK (1967), his TV series M SQUAD (1959), and winning the Oscar for CAT BALLOU (1965). www.myspace.com/jgmovie THE DIRECTORS SERIES with JOHN A. GALLAGHER From 1982 to 1992, John Gallagher and Ira Gallen collaborated on the cable TV show THE DIRECTORS SERIES, featuring John's incisive interviews with hundreds of cinema personalities past and present. Lee Marvin, Dennis Hopper, Sir Richard...
Taken from an exclusive interview i made with Mr menahem golan , to be continued.
In this post-“Man of Steel” era, it is perhaps worth reminding yourself that there is another truly, deeply awful Superman film out there, but watching 1987's “Superman IV: The Quest For Peace” is a horribly cruel thing to do to yourself. Instead, try this: a 1986 documentary on the mad business that was The Cannon Group, the most dynamic and radical movie studio of the '80s, who were brought low the next year when 'Superman IV' flopped. The Cannon Group was, really, just two Israeli cousins, Yoram Globus and Menahem Golan, whose very existence made Hollywood bigwigs wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat, yelling incoherently about Vietnam veterans and break-dancing. Globus and Golan rode the wave of the VHS revolution by buying almost any script they could get their hands on...
Featuring interviews with Menahem Golan, Mark Damon, Frans J. Afman and Dennis Hopper
"Hollywood is a money animal". The final chapter in the extraordinary life and career of MENAHEM GOLAN, legendary Palestinian-born Israeli movie director, producer, mogul and "madman". Now in his eighties and living in Jaffa, Golan looks back to his great Cannon days in Hollywood, forwards to a new blockbuster with Al Pacino – and dreams of the Oscar he has always wanted... This is the third and final part in a trilogy about Golan. The first was 'The Last Moguls' (1986, BBC); the second was 'Shooting Versace' (1998, BBC). Golan died suddenly, in the street in Jaffa, in August 2014, still talking about his plans for the future. His wife Rachel, who appears in the film, died in July 2015.
Itamar Golan, pianist Exclusive interviews of 20 artists of the Verbier Festival. Recorded in Verbier, Switzerland, by Tim Burgess for medici.tv. Follow the 2013 wallcasts on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/medicitv Youtube http://www.youtube.com/user/medicitv Twitter https://twitter.com/medicitv Watch the 2013 Verbier Festival concerts in free replay on medici.tv! http://www.medici.tv/#!/verbier-festival-on-medicitv
NEW! See the film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN1fTUunc0c The late great legendary Hollywood producer/director Menahem Golan tells how it's done. A brief clip from an upcoming documentary about his life and work. See TRAILER here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyBz8Up0bmM
A 'fly-on-the wall' documentary account of the making of 'The Versace Murder', an ultra-low budget movie shot at a frantic pace in Miami Beach shortly after Andrew Cunanan shot dead the fashion designer Gianni Versace on the steps of his home at South Beach one morning in June 1997. The movie was produced by SAM LUPOWITZ and written and directed by Israeli veteran producer MENAHEM GOLAN, the former head of CANNON FILMS, for a memorable time in the 1980's, the most powerful independent company in Hollywood. This documentary, first shown in the BBC2 'Modern Times' series, is the second in a trilogy about Golan, the other films being 'The Last Moguls' (BBC, 1987), and 'GOLAN: A Farewell to Mr Cinema' (2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN1fTUunc0c
"Hollywood is a money animal". The final chapter in the extraordinary life and career of MENAHEM GOLAN, legendary Palestinian-born Israeli movie director, producer, mogul and "madman". Now in his eighties and living in Jaffa, Golan looks back to his great Cannon days in Hollywood, forwards to a new blockbuster with Al Pacino – and dreams of the Oscar he has always wanted... This is the third and final part in a trilogy about Golan. The first was 'The Last Moguls' (1986, BBC); the second was 'Shooting Versace' (1998, BBC). Golan died suddenly, in the street in Jaffa, in August 2014, still talking about his plans for the future. His wife Rachel, who appears in the film, died in July 2015.
In this post-“Man of Steel” era, it is perhaps worth reminding yourself that there is another truly, deeply awful Superman film out there, but watching 1987's “Superman IV: The Quest For Peace” is a horribly cruel thing to do to yourself. Instead, try this: a 1986 documentary on the mad business that was The Cannon Group, the most dynamic and radical movie studio of the '80s, who were brought low the next year when 'Superman IV' flopped. The Cannon Group was, really, just two Israeli cousins, Yoram Globus and Menahem Golan, whose very existence made Hollywood bigwigs wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat, yelling incoherently about Vietnam veterans and break-dancing. Globus and Golan rode the wave of the VHS revolution by buying almost any script they could get their hands on...
Taken from an exclusive interview i made with Mr menahem golan , to be continued.
NEW! See the film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN1fTUunc0c The late great legendary Hollywood producer/director Menahem Golan tells how it's done. A brief clip from an upcoming documentary about his life and work. See TRAILER here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyBz8Up0bmM
From director Christopher Sykes of the Cannon Films documentary 'The Last Moguls' (BBC Omnibus, 1986) comes this excellent, highly entertaining 1998 fly-on-the-wall behind-the-scenes documentary 'Shooting Versace'. Also with Steven Bauer and Franco Nero! 'Can Menahem Golan and producer Sam Lupowitz beat Hollywood to the screen with their ultra-low budget account of the Versace murder?' (Contains strong language!) Watch 'The Last Moguls' here on Eyes On Cinema: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GIZGqlf3AQ
Clip from a documentary produced in 1986. Menahem Golan gets upset that Christopher Reeve was asking for money on Street Smart to help the production but Menahem refused and got annoyed that Chris question their financial status and was concerned they wouldn't have the money to pay for Superman IV ($30 million) which they didn't!. Christopher Reeve was smart and he knew what was going on. Full documentary - http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/watch-1-hour-documentary-on-radical-80s-movie-studio-cannon-films-20130703?utm_source=feedburner&utm;_medium=feed
Menahem Golan v Ljutomeru na Grossmannovem festivalu fantastičnega filma in vina Več na http://www.prlekija-on.net/
NEW! See the film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN1fTUunc0c The opening of a new documentary (74 mins) about the extraordinary life and career of Hollywood mogul and movie-legend, MENAHEM GOLAN, Israeli head of CANNON FILMS with his cousin and partner YORAM GLOBUS. Up close and personal, an intimate portrait of Golan in the last months of his life. See also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evRsJy8GxrU
"Hollywood is a money animal". The final chapter in the extraordinary life and career of MENAHEM GOLAN, legendary Palestinian-born Israeli movie director, producer, mogul and "madman". Now in his eighties and living in Jaffa, Golan looks back to his great Cannon days in Hollywood, forwards to a new blockbuster with Al Pacino – and dreams of the Oscar he has always wanted... This is the third and final part in a trilogy about Golan. The first was 'The Last Moguls' (1986, BBC); the second was 'Shooting Versace' (1998, BBC). Golan died suddenly, in the street in Jaffa, in August 2014, still talking about his plans for the future. His wife Rachel, who appears in the film, died in July 2015.
In this post-“Man of Steel” era, it is perhaps worth reminding yourself that there is another truly, deeply awful Superman film out there, but watching 1987's “Superman IV: The Quest For Peace” is a horribly cruel thing to do to yourself. Instead, try this: a 1986 documentary on the mad business that was The Cannon Group, the most dynamic and radical movie studio of the '80s, who were brought low the next year when 'Superman IV' flopped. The Cannon Group was, really, just two Israeli cousins, Yoram Globus and Menahem Golan, whose very existence made Hollywood bigwigs wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat, yelling incoherently about Vietnam veterans and break-dancing. Globus and Golan rode the wave of the VHS revolution by buying almost any script they could get their hands on...
From director Christopher Sykes of the Cannon Films documentary 'The Last Moguls' (BBC Omnibus, 1986) comes this excellent, highly entertaining 1998 fly-on-the-wall behind-the-scenes documentary 'Shooting Versace'. Also with Steven Bauer and Franco Nero! 'Can Menahem Golan and producer Sam Lupowitz beat Hollywood to the screen with their ultra-low budget account of the Versace murder?' (Contains strong language!) Watch 'The Last Moguls' here on Eyes On Cinema: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GIZGqlf3AQ
Operation Thunderbolt Full Movie by Film&Clips aka La notte dei falchi di Menahem Golan. Con Assaf Dayan, Klaus Kinski, Gila Almagor, Yehoram Gaon Titolo originale Operation Thunderbolt. Israele 1977. In July 1976, an Air France flight from Tel-Aviv to Paris via Athens was hijacked and forced to land in Entebbe, Uganda. The Jewish passengers were separated and held hostage in demand to release many terrorists held in Israeli prisons. After much debate, the Israeli government sent an elite commando unit to raid the airfield and release the hostages. Connect with Film & Clips here: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FilmClips-17... Twitter: https://twitter.com/filmandclips Download our App here: https://itunes.apple.com/it/app/film-... Il più bel canale di cinema gratuito e legale ...
The old classic Cannon brand - much missed, and an amazing docu covering their place in film history.
Over the Top --- http://rudetotheelderly.blogspot.com/0093692 ---is a 1987 action drama film starring Sylvester Stallone. It was produced and directed by Menahem Golan, and its screenplay was written by Stirling Silliphant and Stallone. (http://www.youtube.com/editor)
"Tevye and His Seven Daughters" (Hebrew: טוביה ושבע בנותיו, translit. Tuvia Vesheva Benotav) is a 1968 Israeli drama film directed by Menahem Golan. (in Hebrew)
Художественный фильм (драма, криминал), 1992г. Перевод студийный одноголосный. Качество: VHSRip Режиссер: Менахем Голан / Menahem Golan В ролях: Брюс Нозик, Джек Конли, Дженни МакШэйн, Эдди Бауз, Кристофер Брэдли, Тони ДиСальво, Лен Донато, Рик Джиолито, Джефф Григгс, Уитни Р. Хантер, Уилл Кемпе, Салли Керкланд, Абигайл Ленц, Дженнифер Миллер, Фрэнк Сенгер, Мэтт Сервитто, Елена Скороходова Описание: Нью-Йорк, 1929 год. После восьми лет, проведенных в тюрьме, молодой Датч Шульц выходит на свободу. Одна мысль владеет им: во что бы то ни стало выбраться из нью-йоркского еврейского гетто и стать в условиях Сухого закона величайшим гангстером. Главный герой фильма - реально существовавший персонаж Голландец Шульц (Dutch Schultz, Артур Флегенгеймер (Флегенхаймер)) — американский гангстер герман...