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Yoram Globus is an Israeli film producer, cinema owner and distributor who is most famous for his association with Cannon Films Inc., a company he ran with his cousin Menahem Golan.
In 1978, Globus and Golan moved to Hollywood and purchased the film production company Cannon (The Cannon Group) for $500,000. By the mid-80s Cannon had produced an average of 40 films a year and had become the largest independent production company in the world with a net worth of over 1 billion dollars. Because of their fast, low-budget style of filmmaking, they earned the nickname "the Go-Go Boys." For years the name Golan-Globus symbolized Hollywood's last moguls and an inspiration corner stone to a new generation of film makers. In addition Golan and Globus opened the foreign market of the world film industry to the United States. Among the films produced by them are Bloodsport (1988) with Jean-Claude Van Damme, Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987) with Christopher Reeve, King Lear (1987) directed by Jean-Luc Godard, Runaway Train (1985), Over the Top (1987) with Sylvester Stallone and Street Smart (1987) with Morgan Freeman. In addition, they acquired the rights to properties like "Spider-Man", Captain America (1990) and more.
With Cannon's success Golan and Globus expanded the group's operations and entered into additional areas. Cannon acquired approximately 1,600 cinemas in Europe and the United States (some of which were acquired in later years by Silvio Berlusconi, who later became prime minister of Italy) Studios, a, film library and additional acquisitions expanded the activities of the Cannon and established it as a leading conglomerate in the world film industry. During these years, Cannon sold their movies by a new strategy invented by Globus, the pre-sale strategy. Substantial pre-sales of the next years' films were made based on the strong salesmanship skills of Globus, and the advertising created by Design Projects. The deposits made from these sales financed production of the first film in the production line-up, which-when completed and delivered to theatre owners around the world-generated enough money to make the next film in the line-up. For this purposes Cannon used to create posters of movies, before they even had a script, and large billboards prominently displayed at the Cannes Film Festival each year.
In 1986, Cannon Films bought Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment (see EMI Films) and the film library for £175,000,000, and Cannon sold its British Film Library Thorn-EMI Screen Entertainment Library which consisted of some 2,000 British films to Weintraub Entertainment Group in for approximately $85,000,000.
In 1989, 39.4% of the shares were acquired by the group Pathé Communications, a holding company controlled by Italian businessman Giancarlo Parretti in the amount of about $250 million. At the same year, Golan, citing differences with both Parretti and Globus, resigned from his position and left Cannon to start 21st Century Film Corporation, while Globus remained with Pathé. Globus and Paretti took over in 1990 through Pathé Communications for the American film company MGM and Yoram Globus became president of MGM.
In 1993, after he produced almost 300 films, Globus returned to Israel and has since focused on Israeli film and television production. His company GG Studios owns a large film and television studio in Neve Ilan, Israel where various Israeli broadcast stations, such as the Israeli News Company. Among its holdings of Israel Yoram Globus, of the Globus Group that includes a private arm Globus that owns the largest TV and film studio (Neveh Ilan) and is responsible for a significant part of film distribution industry (Noah CPP). In addition, Globus holds a public arm Globus Max that owns theaters in Israel. In 1999, Yoram Globus won other Ophir Award for Lifetime Achievement by the Israeli Academy of Film and Television.
In 2014 there were two documentary films released about the story of Golan & Globus in Cannon Films. Ratpac Entertainment released Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014) and The Go-Go Boys: The Inside Story of Cannon Films (2014), which was launched at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival.- Director
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Gary Jones is an award-winning director, screenwriter, producer and visual effects supervisor with over fifty motion pictures and thirty television episodes to his credit. Recently, Jones wrote, produced and directed "Escape from Death Block 13", a retro action adventure inspired by the 70's action films from his youth. The film stars Robert Bronzi, Nicholas Turturro, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs and Chris Hahn. The film was released in October 2021.
In 1995, Jones made his directorial debut with the Sy Fy cult classic "Mosquito" starring Gunnar Hansen, the original "Leatherface" from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and Ron Asheton, legendary guitarist from the punk rock band "The Stooges."
In 2009, Jones was chosen by Sam Raimi and Sony Pictures to direct "Boogeyman 3" the third installment of their popular series. The supernatural horror film stars Erin Cahill, Jayne Wisener and Kate Maberly. After finishing post production on "Boogeyman 3" Jones switched genre's and directed "Ballistica" the fast paced action-thriller starring Robert Davi, Martin Kove and Paul Logan. Jones also supervised the visual effects for the film and created the films title sequence.
Working in television, Jones directed episodes of "Xena: Warrior Princess" starring Lucy Lawless, "Hurcules: The Legendary Journeys" starring Kevin Sorbo, "Honey,I Shrunk The Kids" starring Peter Scolari and "Sheena" starring Gena Lee Nolin. Jones returned to the creature feature genre in 2013 with the Sy Fy network premiere of "Axe Giant: The Wrath of Paul Bunyan". Jones co-wrote, produced and directed the film as well as supervising the creation of the over four hundred visual effects shots needed to bring Paul Bunyan to life. For his work on "Axe Giant", Jones was inducted into The International Indie Filmmakers Hall of Fame and received the award for outstanding directing of 2014.
Other films Jones has directed for SY FY include, "Ghouls" starring Kristen Renton, William Atherton, James DeBello, "Spiders" starring Lana Parrilla, Mark Phelan, "Cocodile 2 Death Swamp" starring Marting Kove, Heidi Lenhart, James Parks, "Lightning Strikes" starring Kevin Sorbo, Annabel Wright, David Schofield, "Xenophobia" starring Ron Silver, C. Thomas Howell, Giancarlo Esposito and "Planet Raptor" starring Steven Bauer, Vanessa Angel, Ted Raimi.
As a producer, Jones's credits include the 2019 western adventure "Warpath" starring Tom Mathews and Sasha Higgins. Jones also directed second unit on film and created the visual effects. His other producing credits include, the action film "Death Kiss" starring Robert Bronzi, Daniel Baldwin, Richard Tyson, a sci fi thriller "Moontrap: Target Earth" the supernatural horror film "The Death Matter" and the grind-house horror favorite "Robert Kurtzmans The Rage".- Writer
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Singaporean Chinese writer/director Pearry Reginald Teo established himself with the short film Liberata Me, winning Best Short at the New York International Film Festival, which garnered the attention of U.S. producers. He soon made history as the first from his native country to direct a Hollywood feature film with The Gene Generation (Lionsgate), based on a comic book series with a cult following, starring Bai Ling and Academy Award® winner Faye Dunaway.
Additional directorial credits include the medieval action/fantasy Witchville (Universal) filmed on location in China, Dracula: The Dark Prince (Lionsgate) with Academy Award® winner Jon Voight, the Clive Barker-inspired horror festival hit Necromentia (Image Entertainment), and The Curse of Sleeping Beauty starring Ethan Peck, India Eisley, and Natalie Hall.
Teo served as an Executive Producer on The Wachowski / Tom Tykwer film Cloud Atlas (Warner Bros) starring Oscar® winners Tom Hanks and Halle Berry. He also co-produced George Romero's Day of the Dead with Millennium Films while simultaneously directing Hellboy VR, the Virtual Reality experience for the 2019 movie starring David Harbour and Milla Jovovich.
Teo's films have won several awards including Best Horror Feature for Dead Inside at the Women's International Film Festival, and Best Feature for The Gene Generation at the San Francisco Independent Film Festival. Teo's movie The Assent, starring Academy Award Winner Tatum O'Neal, opened to a sold-out show at the 2019 Toronto Film Festival, followed by the sold-out US premiere at the Shockfest Film Festival in Las Vegas, where Teo won for Best Director. Teo was hired to write and direct Fast Vengeance (2021), starring DMX in his last movie, and D.Y. Sao.
Teo died on March 9, 2023, in North Hollywood, California, aged 44, of unknown causes.