Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
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Directed by	Mark Hartley
Produced by	Veronica Fury Brett Ratner
Written by	Mark Hartley
Starring	Menahem Golan Yoram Globus
Music by	Jamie Blanks
Cinematography	Garry Richards
Edited by	Jamie Blanks Sara Edwards Mark Hartley
Production companies	Film Victoria RatPac-Dune Entertainment Screen Australia Screen Queensland
Distributed by	Umbrella Entertainment Warner Bros. (U.S.)
Release dates	2 August 2014 (2014-08-02) (Melbourne International Film Festival)
Running time	106 minutes
Country	Australia
Language	English

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films is a 2014 Australian documentary film written and directed by Mark Hartley. It focuses on the story of The Cannon Group.

Interviewees

• Olivia d'Abo
• John G. Avildsen
• Martine Beswick
• Richard Chamberlain
• Sybil Danning
• Boaz Davidson
• Bo Derek
• Lucinda Dickey
• Michael Dudikoff
• Robert Forster
• Diane Franklin
• Elliott Gould
• Tobe Hooper
• Just Jaeckin
• Laurene Landon
• Avi Lerner
• Dolph Lundgren
• Franco Nero
• Cassandra Peterson
• Molly Ringwald
• Robin Sherwood
• Marina Sirtis
• Catherine Mary Stewart
• Alex Winter
• Franco Zeffirelli

List of films prominently featured

• Operation Thunderbolt
• Lemon Popsicle
• Inga
• Joe
• Schizoid
• X-Ray
• The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood
• The Apple
• House of the Long Shadows
• Lady Chatterley's Lover
• Mata Hari
• The Last American Virgin
• Death Wish II
• The Wicked Lady
• Enter the Ninja
• Revenge of the Ninja
• Ninja III: The Domination
• Sahara
• Hercules
• Breakin'
• Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo
• Over the Brooklyn Bridge
• Bolero
• America 3000
• Missing in Action
• Missing in Action 2: The Beginning
• American Ninja
• Invasion U.S.A.
• Lifeforce
• Going Bananas
• Death Wish 3
• Death Wish 4: The Crackdown
• Otello
• Love Streams
• King Lear
• Barfly
• Runaway Train
• King Solomon's Mines
• Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold
• The Delta Force
• Invaders from Mars
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
• Over the Top
• Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
• Masters of the Universe
• Journey to the Center of the Earth
• Cyborg
• Lambada
• The Forbidden Dance
• The Expendables
• Olympus Has Fallen
• Ninja

Production

The film was partly funded by Brett Ratner's RatPac-Dune Entertainment. Other investors included the Melbourne International Film Festival’s Premiere Fund, Film Victoria, and Screen Queensland.

Release

Electric Boogaloo had its world premiere in August 2014 at the Melbourne International Film Festival, and was shown in October 2014 at the BFI London Film Festival. 2015 screen as part of the Film Comment Selects tribute to Cannon Films on 20 February in the Walter Reade Theater.

Critical reception

The film received critical acclaim. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 95% rating, based on 37 reviews, with an average rating of 7.4/10. The site's consensus states: "Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films pays tribute to the titular studio with an affectionate look back that's arguably more entertaining than much of Cannon's own B-movie product."

See also

• Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!, a 2008 film by Hartley
• The Go-Go Boys: The Inside Story of Cannon Films, a 2014 documentary film

External links

• Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films at IMDb
• Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films at Rotten Tomatoes
• Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films on Facebook