Word: cannonism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many movie companies are going through a period of drastic cutbacks, both in personnel and production. But over at Cannon things are in a prosperous uproar. The Park Avenue nameplate is bright on the door, the furniture is new and the painters are still at work. The company expects to put six or eight movies into production during next year with a total budget of $2,000,000. If its record so far is any indication, Cannon may soon fulfill the ambition expressed by its 26-year-old president of being "the new United Artists...
...frustrations of Spiro Agnew's hardhats. Made on a starvation budget of $300,000 (even Easy Rider cost $100,000 more), Joe has already grossed that much in New York City box-office revenue alone. "We didn't think it was going to do this well," admits Cannon President Christopher Dewey. Considering their youth and collegiate looks, this is probably the first time that Dewey and his partner, Dennis Friedland, 27, ever underestimated a market...
Sexual Wanderings. The pair met at Columbia University, where Friedland attended law school and Dewey studied architecture. They shared an interest not so much in film making as in film commerce, so Lawyer Friedland incorporated them as the Cannon Group. They promoted $50,000 worth of independent financing to make a scorcher called Inga, a titillating travelogue of the sexual wanderings of a Swedish teenager. The movie was a smash in what show business calls "the sexploitation trade," grossing $4,000,000 for the two producers...
...exploitation. Besides continued explorations of Swedish sex life (Yes!, What Next?), they began to make films in their own country. Amazingly, they have not had a loser yet, if only because the budgets are so slender, emphasizing short shooting schedules and minimum salaries for all. The only way Cannon could lose money on any of its films would be to burn the negative. The prospects for Joe and for Cannon are so rosy that MGM recently offered to buy not only the movie but the company as well. MGM was rebuffed on both counts...
...first time in 17 months, the planes and cannon of Israeli and Arab alike lay motionless in the troubled Middle East, silenced by a cease-fire that was brought about by patient diplomacy and the realistic fear of Russia and the U.S. that they were approaching an undesirable confrontation. In Bonn, West German Chancellor Willy Brandt prepared to fly off to Moscow this week to sign a hard-won treaty with the Soviet Union that in effect marks the close of World War II in Eastern Europe...