Legendary filmmaker Menahem Golan, co-founder of The
Cannon Group production company and Israeli cinema pioneer, has died. He was
85. With cousin and partner Yoram Globus, Golan ran Cannon Films for a decade,
releasing more than a dozen films a year in its prime. They bought the ailing
company, which was launched in 1967, for $500,000 in 1979 and fueled an
appetite for B-films that was created by the invention of the VCR. For a time,
Cannon was on the brink of becoming the seventh Hollywood “major” studio. Golan
produced more than 200 films including the action hits The Delta Force (1986)
starring Chuck Norris and the Death Wish sequels top lined by Charles Bronson.
Golan produced the Euo-westerns: God’s Gun and Kid Vengeance both starring Lee
Van Cleef.
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