The Cannon Group, Inc. is synonymous with a bygone era of cult cinema and straight-to-video trash and all the more fascinating for it –
I urge anybody with an interest in movies from the 1980’s to go here for a comprehensive and surprising list of all the pictures they were responsible for (including a plethora of projects announced but never made, among them Spider-Man, Captain America and Masters Of The Universe, Part II).
Among the many unique moments in their history is the ribbon-cutting ceremony for Manchester’s Cannon Cinema Multiplex by none-other than Christopher Reeve, in the UK for the shooting of Cannon’s Superman IV: The Quest For Peace…