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-At the age of 10,
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I was the thinnest boy in tiberias.
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People used to say,
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"menahem, when he walks the
streets, you don't see him."
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So I started to become kind
of the joke of the class.
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To be funny, to tell stories.
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I decided to take some photos
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from the life hood of my mother
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and I made the roll like a toilet paper.
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I started to prepare exciting stories
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that I invented base of this
primitive cinema machine.
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I put little ads in the school
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that said that on Saturday
morning at 10 o'clock
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will be a showing of a
movie created by menahem.
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Nobody came.
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So I thought what shall I do
to bring them to see my movie?
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And I then came up on an idea
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and the idea is with me all my life,
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you must pay the audience.
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I put a new ad,
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"anybody who would come to see
my movie will get a penny."
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And it was a full house.
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Menahem, let me ask you,
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how do you become a filmmaker?
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- Don't do anything else.
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If you love movies, you
want to be a movie maker,
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you have to give yourself to the movie.
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You have to forget your other life.
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You have to dream about the movie,
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seal the money, kill your hunt,
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take your money, make a movie.
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One day I got the call from
uncle shmuel, yoram's father.
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"Menahem, can you help me with yoram?
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"He doesn't want to go to school,
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"he sits in the box
office and sells tickets."
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Yoram is my cousin, my first cousin.
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So I said, "you know what?
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"Send him to meet to Tel Aviv
and I'll see what I can do."
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- Okay.
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We start again.
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Yeah.
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Actually he would like to
start from the beginning.
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- From the beginning?
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Yeah, I wanna know
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how it all started for you.
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- In age of three, my
father build a cinema
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and that's probably was my fate.
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And because since I remember myself,
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I was going to hang posters
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and in the age of six, seven
I was already a cashier.
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Every Friday, it used
to be in the newspaper,
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big boxes with the picture of every movie.
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I used to cut it, divide it to
companies and sell to myself.
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I played with it like
somebody playing monopoly.
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I played selling movies.
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And guess what?
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Always I made money.
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- When yoram arrived in Tel Aviv,
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he started working with me
at my company, Noah films.
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Back then I was educing sallah shabati.
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And I gave yoram the
job of distributing it.
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I felt that he will muster
distribution by instinct.
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To walk in somebodies that was your hobby.
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- To get it as a job,
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well, you cannot ask for better.
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- Then menahem produced a
picture called, "trunk to Cairo."
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And he did a co production deal,
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he knows america, for
almost nothing, for $75,000,
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and the picture costs, I
think, over a million dollar,
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and I said, "how we are
going to recover it?"
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The mistake was
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that we shot the film in English.
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Even the Israeli actors,
instead of speaking Hebrew,
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spoke English.
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- Come on gabar, tomorrow is another day.
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And you know
take an Israel actor
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who speaks English, he speaks benglish.
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You know what is benglish.
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- Grab them.
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- This movie was a disaster, a flop.
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- Amin.
- Amin.
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- For us it was the first
movie that we lost money on.
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Action.
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- My wife,
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I almost got a divorce, are you kidding.
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I sold my house three times.
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Once I sold my fridge it's true.
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But if you ask me if
need to sell my apartment
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to do white flags, I will.
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But I don't have an apartment anymore.
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- I came to menahem and he was in trouble.
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I took all my savings.
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Since the bar mitzvah.
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I crossed sign with him to the banks
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and we became partners 5050.
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- Then we started to do
a series of mega hits.
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Nothing but money.
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- Escaped, an Israeli?
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No one escapes from my prison.
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- Is that a fact?
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- That is a fact.
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- Golan, was reliable at that time,
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of course, he was the big
dad and I was the child.
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That for him it stayed forever.
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He didn't accepted that I grew up.
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- I love you hatsamea.
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There is no
accounting between us.
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There has never been,
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never been from the first
day we've been together.
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Never been.
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It's more than brothers,
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we forge each others signatures on checks.
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Action.
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- They were known for the industry.
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You have to make it big, bigger than life.
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The same way that you do it here.
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They were the Israeli Hollywood.
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- We used to go, boaz and me
at 3 o'clock in the morning,
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shouting and waking up people.
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What a movie! What a movie!
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And I would close.
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I like the way,
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used to look at boaz and
me like we are crazy.
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After we finished the film,
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we went to the Milan film market
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to try to sell it all over the world.
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- The auditorials sold out.
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And suddenly in the middle
people started to walk out.
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I wanted to cry, I said "how come!
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"In Israeli it's such a success.
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"Well, people don't like my movie?
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"Was that crazy?"
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The bottom line,
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they walked away in
the middle of the movie
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to buy the movie.
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That their competitor will not beat them.
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- Hey nilly?
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- Palasen.
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- The success of this movie
in many ways was the bridge,
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to america.
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- And now let's all get serious.
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- We saw that we had reached the top.
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And we are film makers so
we wanted to elevate ourself
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and to do something differently.
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Then we decide to leave Israel
to find our way in america.
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- Hello.
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Hello.
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- Hello?
- Micah how are you?
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- Menahem?
- Yes.
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How are you?
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- Good, very good.
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I'm in las Angeles now.
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-Ah, you are in las Angeles
so I don't have to shout.
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I keep my order from them.
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- Okay, I trust you I trust you.
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A handshake with us is like a contract.
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The name of the
picture, do you have a name?
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- We have a name,
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"screwing around."
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- Eh?
- "Screwing around."
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Screwing.
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- Screwing, screwing.
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Do you know what is screwing?
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Screwing?
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- Screwing. S-like Sarah
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c-r
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R.
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Yes.
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W-i-n-g, screwing.
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That is fucking,
screwing means fucking.
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- Micah?
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Yes.
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- It's yoram.
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You bustard.
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You are a big bustard.
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- Where is my money?
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You promise and promise
and you are not paying.
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If I don't keep my words
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you don't speak to me again.
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- Let's finish.
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- At that time it was illegal
to take money out of Israel.
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So we flew to america.
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With $500 in our pockets.
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We shared a small apartment
and lived like roommates.
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We ate sausages every day
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and we worked form a small office
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in the worst neighborhood in Los Angeles.
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It wasn't very glamorous,
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but it was the time of our lives.
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- It's all, all the time, keep it.
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Suspense and action.
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Sinister, voices.
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You know, add to it low music here.
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Here, hold it.
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Again, gentlemen, we are
going to get some action.
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If there is a hell on earth,
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it's inside this walls.
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Meet the Israeli dual
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menahem golan and yoram globus.
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They have a dream of taking over Hollywood
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with their company Cannon films.
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And what kind of movies do they make?
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Some critics call them schlock films,
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but actually they're just
playing low budget movies.
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Do you know how
to make a $30 million movie?
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- Never.
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I don't know what to do with 30 millions.
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I can make 30 movies maybe.
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But I don't know what
to do with 30 millions.
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I mean, I'll feel like I'm a criminal
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spending this kind of money
on doing one motion picture.
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Not all what they wanted is done.
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And I still have goals to
achieve a motion picture
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that will be a world hit.
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When I did the successful
motion picture in Israel,
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I went to the theater full house
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and people were fighting to get in
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and I didn't get that yet here in america.
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And I probably won't get it so soon.
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I won't get it until I make
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a real American movie that
they could identify with.
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And not being an
American, that's not easy.
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But I'll do it.
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In 1994, the world
is controlled by one power.
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- "The apple" is a movie I directed,
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about the hippies.
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- When we started to do it,
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we think that the music is very new.
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And we loved it.
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We loved the story, we liked
the color of the movie,
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and we saw that it will
conquered the world.
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J“ we don't have to hurry j“
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- when we finished it,
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it was chosen to Montreal festival
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as an opener.
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J“ there ain't no good j“
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j“ there ain't no bad j“
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j“ there ain't no happiness j“
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j“ there ain't no chills j“
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j“ there ain't no love j“
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- in the opening night, in
the middle of the movie,
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people left the theater
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and kind of booed the movie.
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- This was our biggest fiasco.
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J“ you got me with my
back against the wall j“
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and menahem said to me,
"I'm going to the toilet."
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After ten minutes menahem doesn't come,
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I said to our people,
"let's go and find him."
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- I went up to the eighth floor,
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and I stood in the balcony
and wanted to kill myself.
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Wanted to jump out.
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And it was yoram who chased me.
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Yoram held me and he said to me,
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"menahem there will be other movies."
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- So we said, we are going to do a movie
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and we have to do it fast.
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Because if we will not do it fast
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somebody else will do it for us.
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So how can you do it fast?
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With Israelis.
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The normal
16 week shooting schedule
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for an average film was cut
to an unheard of three weeks.
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All the tensions and pressures
264
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that come with making a motion
picture were intensified.
265
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Joel silberg, faced a
rigorous shooting schedule.
266
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- The picture is being edited right now,
267
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in Los Angeles while I'm still shooting.
268
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And by the time I get to los
Angeles in a week's time,
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the picture will be cut.
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- This scene happened...
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This is the new dance.
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This will grab the whole world.
273
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J“ go and tell your peers j“
274
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- We seem to have a problem here.
275
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I'm very much afraid, they
won't be able to dance for us.
276
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- And why not?
277
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- And we would knows
278
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that we have to open it in america first.
279
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So I said to zamyun, "you know something,
280
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"I will guarantee the distribution.
281
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"If you lose on distribution, I will pay."
282
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He said, "ha ha, okay.
283
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"But I said, but you take
half of your percentages."
284
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- Break dancing is breaking out
285
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in some of the unlikely surroundings.
286
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Shabadoo and boogaloo shrimp,
287
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came all the way from america
288
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to break dance for the folks in cannes.
289
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- This is a film that Cannon
did started only 12 weeks ago
290
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and it's already in the theaters.
291
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Movie fans
have been highest definite
292
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to the box office where breaking
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has grossed 18 and a half million dollars
294
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since it opened less than three weeks ago.
295
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- You can all get rich in this business.
296
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This year,
297
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the big hit for golan
and globus is "breakin."
298
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It cost just over a million
dollars to make it and so far,
299
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taking in more than 56 million.
300
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- The picture did in america
301
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almost a hundred million dollar.
302
00:26:07,500 --> 00:26:09,833
Which is crazy, the
picture cost a million two.
303
00:26:10,792 --> 00:26:13,583
J“ don't be mistaken, you
got to see it breaking j“
304
00:26:21,042 --> 00:26:23,250
This is the
Hollywood that most people
305
00:26:23,542 --> 00:26:25,583
know and loved, the fancy car,
306
00:26:26,583 --> 00:26:28,167
the exclusive restaurants
307
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and the lavish homes.
308
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Golan and globus will have
nothing to do with this.
309
00:26:34,083 --> 00:26:36,167
They run their company like a factory.
310
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A no frills operation where long hours
311
00:26:39,083 --> 00:26:40,625
and low pay are the norm.
312
00:26:40,917 --> 00:26:45,083
- We are not the kind of people
of ma Maison or Jimmy's.,
313
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you know, the fancy expensive restaurants.
314
00:26:47,792 --> 00:26:48,792
We are not this kind.
315
00:26:48,917 --> 00:26:50,059
Well, do
you eat sandwiches here?
316
00:26:50,083 --> 00:26:51,625
- We are eating sand witches here.
317
00:26:51,917 --> 00:26:53,917
That's true, believe it or not.
318
00:26:54,208 --> 00:26:57,083
We are eating sandwiches in
our office, that's our lunch.
319
00:26:57,375 --> 00:26:59,335
- I think you're gonna be
surprised at how anxious
320
00:26:59,417 --> 00:27:01,217
and networks would be
to do business with you.
321
00:27:01,500 --> 00:27:03,417
- The main thing is not to hesitate
322
00:27:03,708 --> 00:27:07,292
and to go and be able to take chances.
323
00:27:07,583 --> 00:27:11,583
- 99% of the budget of a
picture is going to the script.
324
00:27:11,875 --> 00:27:16,667
Not with all the limousine,
schimousene, lunches, bunches,
325
00:27:16,958 --> 00:27:18,958
we don't have time for this.
326
00:27:19,250 --> 00:27:22,000
On this time menahem is
spending few lunches,
327
00:27:22,292 --> 00:27:23,958
he can do another picture.
328
00:27:51,042 --> 00:27:54,250
- Let's go.
- Are we getting lunch here?
329
00:27:55,875 --> 00:27:59,708
- I was sitting with my
wife in a French restaurant
330
00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:02,167
and here comes one of the waiters
331
00:28:02,458 --> 00:28:06,333
a handsome young man
holding two plate of soup.
332
00:28:06,625 --> 00:28:08,042
And he says to me in French.
333
00:28:10,125 --> 00:28:11,792
I said, "yes I'm golan."
334
00:28:12,083 --> 00:28:14,292
He picked up his foot, right foot
335
00:28:15,500 --> 00:28:16,917
and he rubbed my head.
336
00:28:17,958 --> 00:28:20,458
The soup, did not move.
337
00:28:20,750 --> 00:28:22,375
- I kicked above his head.
338
00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:27,333
And he gave me "my friend
tomorrow come to my office.
339
00:28:27,625 --> 00:28:29,917
"We talk you and I business."
340
00:28:30,208 --> 00:28:31,542
And I go to his office
341
00:28:32,833 --> 00:28:36,000
and I tried to provoke
some sorts of dialogue.
342
00:28:36,292 --> 00:28:37,625
And I took my shirt...
343
00:28:37,917 --> 00:28:41,208
Myjacket and I show, "I've got muscle.
344
00:28:41,500 --> 00:28:43,250
"I can do the split."
345
00:28:43,542 --> 00:28:45,833
So I take a chair, I pull
black for the vision I go,
346
00:28:46,125 --> 00:28:47,958
"I'm in split position.
347
00:28:48,250 --> 00:28:51,583
"I can be a fighter, karate
everything for free."
348
00:28:53,083 --> 00:28:55,250
He said, "I'm done."
349
00:28:55,542 --> 00:28:56,833
"Maybe I gave too much."
350
00:28:57,125 --> 00:28:58,125
"Sit down.
351
00:28:59,250 --> 00:29:01,708
"Michael dudikoff is a star,
352
00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:03,833
"what can I do with a split?
353
00:29:04,125 --> 00:29:04,792
"The muscle?
354
00:29:05,083 --> 00:29:07,458
"I need acting, sorry."
355
00:29:08,583 --> 00:29:09,792
I go, "menahem,
356
00:29:11,125 --> 00:29:13,083
"please,
357
00:29:13,375 --> 00:29:14,375
I was like...
358
00:29:16,958 --> 00:29:18,417
I break down.
359
00:29:18,708 --> 00:29:20,500
And he look at me like...
360
00:29:20,792 --> 00:29:21,792
With his big heart.
361
00:29:21,958 --> 00:29:24,125
"Don't go, don't go next to me like this.
362
00:29:24,417 --> 00:29:26,917
"Sit down, sit down, okay."
363
00:29:27,208 --> 00:29:28,208
And he seen me,
364
00:29:28,333 --> 00:29:30,333
"I'm so sorry, I'm sorry if I cried.
365
00:29:30,625 --> 00:29:31,643
"Ilm so ♪♪♪' f |ng sorry."
366
00:29:31,667 --> 00:29:33,583
And then he think and he think,
367
00:29:34,792 --> 00:29:37,875
"galen, bring me blood sport."
368
00:29:38,167 --> 00:29:39,583
And she come and he go,
369
00:29:41,083 --> 00:29:43,167
"you want to be a movie star?
370
00:29:44,292 --> 00:29:46,208
"I'm gonna make him a movie star."
371
00:29:55,375 --> 00:29:57,535
Low budget
highly commercial action films
372
00:29:57,583 --> 00:29:59,667
are Cannon's talking trait.
373
00:29:59,958 --> 00:30:02,292
Critics call them exploitation movies
374
00:30:02,583 --> 00:30:04,833
pandering to the lowest cinematic taste.
375
00:30:07,583 --> 00:30:09,792
- Cannon was my favorite
film company as a kid.
376
00:30:10,083 --> 00:30:14,083
When we saw that logo of those
steel seas coming together
377
00:30:14,375 --> 00:30:15,601
and we were like, "oh,
it's a Cannon movie.
378
00:30:15,625 --> 00:30:16,792
"It's going to be awesome."
379
00:30:18,417 --> 00:30:19,737
You knew there was gonna be guns,
380
00:30:19,917 --> 00:30:21,375
you knew there was gonna be chicks,
381
00:30:21,667 --> 00:30:23,917
you knew there was nudity,
there was violence.
382
00:30:24,208 --> 00:30:26,667
Cannon was synonymous
with awesome in the 80s.
383
00:30:26,958 --> 00:30:28,833
There was no other film
label that did that.
384
00:30:35,375 --> 00:30:38,125
Cannon creates
low budget exploitation movies
385
00:30:38,417 --> 00:30:39,417
by the dozen.
386
00:30:39,667 --> 00:30:41,375
With simplistic parts
387
00:30:41,667 --> 00:30:45,000
and no doubt about who
is good and who is bad.
388
00:30:46,125 --> 00:30:48,042
- I think the audience goes into my movies
389
00:30:48,333 --> 00:30:50,250
with a certain feeling of frustration.
390
00:30:50,542 --> 00:30:52,667
Even though it's entertainment
and it's fantasy.
391
00:30:52,958 --> 00:30:54,101
When they leave that theater,
392
00:30:54,125 --> 00:30:55,458
there's a certain release,
393
00:30:55,750 --> 00:30:58,208
a certain feeling of something being done.
394
00:30:58,500 --> 00:31:00,292
Even though it's done in a movie,
395
00:31:00,583 --> 00:31:02,703
they can leave the theater
feeling a little bit better
396
00:31:02,875 --> 00:31:04,315
than when they went into the theater
397
00:31:04,375 --> 00:31:06,458
because the good guy does come out on top.
398
00:31:13,375 --> 00:31:18,167
- You can go to the movie
theater and just watch the screen
399
00:31:19,042 --> 00:31:22,667
and veg out and forget about
the problems you had that day.
400
00:31:22,958 --> 00:31:23,500
'Cause this is a...
401
00:31:23,792 --> 00:31:26,667
Just gonna be a lot of fun to watch.
402
00:31:31,625 --> 00:31:34,708
And you're gonna wanna
go for the good guy.
403
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:36,560
And hope the bad guy gets what he gets.
404
00:31:36,667 --> 00:31:38,125
And he normally did.
405
00:31:38,417 --> 00:31:39,417
He normally did.
406
00:31:39,708 --> 00:31:41,018
And then you walk out and you say,
407
00:31:41,042 --> 00:31:43,375
"I love that guy, don't you?
408
00:31:43,667 --> 00:31:46,333
"Yeah, Bronson's cool."
409
00:31:52,042 --> 00:31:54,292
- Watching Chuck Norris go
through a shopping mall,
410
00:31:54,583 --> 00:31:56,268
run over a carpet glass
and shot people with Uzis,
411
00:31:56,292 --> 00:31:59,458
it was the most exciting,
thrilling thing as a kid.
412
00:31:59,750 --> 00:32:02,417
The Russians were invading,
there were ninjas everywhere.
413
00:32:02,708 --> 00:32:06,458
There were so much fun that
as a12,13,14 year old,
414
00:32:06,750 --> 00:32:09,208
it's pure cinematic ecstasy
watching these movies.
415
00:32:11,333 --> 00:32:13,917
- So you are ready to play chicken?
416
00:32:15,375 --> 00:32:17,095
- It's interesting this
Israeli guys came in
417
00:32:17,250 --> 00:32:20,542
and really took over American
pop culture with these movies.
418
00:32:20,833 --> 00:32:22,953
Back then movies were the
only source for pop culture,
419
00:32:23,125 --> 00:32:24,684
there was no Internet,
there was no Facebook,
420
00:32:24,708 --> 00:32:25,708
there was no YouTube.
421
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:28,167
You couldn't get stuff from anywhere.
422
00:32:28,458 --> 00:32:31,667
People would watch these
movies over and over and over
423
00:32:31,958 --> 00:32:33,878
and imitate them because
that was our only source
424
00:32:34,083 --> 00:32:35,542
of getting new culture.
425
00:32:35,833 --> 00:32:40,625
They brought us ninjas, Chuck
Norris, Charles Bronson,
426
00:32:41,292 --> 00:32:42,292
and break dancing.
427
00:32:50,792 --> 00:32:52,375
-All right, now I got you.
428
00:32:52,667 --> 00:32:55,500
- I think that a lot of the Cannon movies
429
00:32:55,792 --> 00:32:58,542
got dismissed as garbage or crap.
430
00:32:58,833 --> 00:33:00,625
And as a kid that always offended me
431
00:33:00,917 --> 00:33:02,375
as an adult it offends me.
432
00:33:02,667 --> 00:33:05,042
I went over to Tarantino's
house, he's like,
433
00:33:05,333 --> 00:33:06,458
"I got a 35 millimeter print
434
00:33:06,750 --> 00:33:08,042
of ninja three "the domination,"
435
00:33:08,333 --> 00:33:10,167
and we watch it on 35 in his theater.
436
00:33:10,458 --> 00:33:12,542
And this is like the best
director in the world
437
00:33:12,833 --> 00:33:14,033
still appreciating this movie.
438
00:33:26,167 --> 00:33:26,875
This is kahn,
439
00:33:27,167 --> 00:33:28,958
home of the prestigious film festival
440
00:33:29,250 --> 00:33:31,208
which is held every year.
441
00:33:31,500 --> 00:33:36,292
You know about the glamor,
the riviera, the stars
442
00:33:36,833 --> 00:33:38,250
but there's another side,
443
00:33:38,542 --> 00:33:40,708
a business side you don't see
444
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:42,375
- producers from around the world
445
00:33:42,667 --> 00:33:45,208
come here to set up shop
and sell their product
446
00:33:45,500 --> 00:33:48,125
to motion picture distributors
from around the world.
447
00:33:48,417 --> 00:33:49,976
That's where
the golan and globus
448
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:51,083
brainstorm came in.
449
00:33:51,375 --> 00:33:52,917
They've been so successful at it
450
00:33:53,208 --> 00:33:56,208
that all they have to do is
announce plans for a movie
451
00:33:56,500 --> 00:33:58,250
and then wait in their hotel room
452
00:33:58,542 --> 00:33:59,917
for the money to come in.
453
00:34:00,208 --> 00:34:01,708
- They were experts at
454
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:06,208
financing it, selling
it and then making it.
455
00:34:06,500 --> 00:34:09,667
They were selling before
and then making after.
456
00:34:09,958 --> 00:34:10,500
And it worked.
457
00:34:10,792 --> 00:34:12,208
It really did work.
458
00:34:12,500 --> 00:34:15,208
- Tell me the Stallone deal is it set?
459
00:34:15,500 --> 00:34:17,500
I know, but is it completely signed?
460
00:34:24,875 --> 00:34:26,542
And you owned the rest of the rights?
461
00:34:26,833 --> 00:34:27,375
- Yes, we did.
462
00:34:27,667 --> 00:34:29,833
- So there is a possible ground to talk.
463
00:34:30,125 --> 00:34:34,250
- I will bring cassavetes
and gene rowlands to Tokyo
464
00:34:34,542 --> 00:34:36,208
- I cannot allow dialogue scene
465
00:34:36,500 --> 00:34:38,042
that will last more than a page.
466
00:34:38,333 --> 00:34:40,333
Naked face and always Roger Moore.
467
00:34:41,542 --> 00:34:43,208
It's a fantastic film for
468
00:34:43,500 --> 00:34:44,500
Fantastic.
469
00:34:44,792 --> 00:34:45,792
- I'm yoram globus.
470
00:34:48,375 --> 00:34:49,476
- We sold a lot of pictures to India.
471
00:34:49,500 --> 00:34:50,042
- Oh, you have?
472
00:34:50,333 --> 00:34:52,792
- You used to go to Khan
with a finished movie,
473
00:34:53,083 --> 00:34:56,083
you showed it, then they
bought it or didn't buy it.
474
00:34:56,375 --> 00:35:00,292
While I started to pre-licensing movies
475
00:35:00,583 --> 00:35:02,000
without them reading the script,
476
00:35:02,292 --> 00:35:04,667
without them knowing even
what they're going to buy.
477
00:35:05,833 --> 00:35:07,208
- When we signed the stars,
478
00:35:07,500 --> 00:35:10,958
we to took a session of
photography to create a poster.
479
00:35:15,833 --> 00:35:18,000
The poster was more
important than the movie.
480
00:35:19,375 --> 00:35:20,667
It came to a point that,
481
00:35:20,958 --> 00:35:23,958
the distributor trusted us so much,
482
00:35:24,250 --> 00:35:27,417
that they used to sell
them for year to come.
483
00:35:27,708 --> 00:35:30,833
10 or 15 movies, without tittles even.
484
00:35:41,667 --> 00:35:42,750
- We all laughed at menahem
485
00:35:43,042 --> 00:35:45,958
when he first came here from
Israel, six or seven years ago,
486
00:35:46,250 --> 00:35:47,833
but he's become a big power.
487
00:35:48,125 --> 00:35:51,542
Cannon pictures make more
films, have more influence,
488
00:35:51,833 --> 00:35:53,833
have more distributors, spend more money
489
00:35:54,125 --> 00:35:56,875
and I must say speaking
personally and selfishly,
490
00:35:57,167 --> 00:35:58,167
he spends more money...
491
00:35:59,083 --> 00:36:01,875
My paper, than anybody's
rushes in every day and says,
492
00:36:02,167 --> 00:36:03,917
"I want $10,000, I want...
493
00:36:04,208 --> 00:36:05,917
"And see
494
00:36:06,208 --> 00:36:09,333
"He's mad, he spends
fortunes and he gets it back.
495
00:36:09,625 --> 00:36:11,500
"So he must be doing something right."
496
00:36:12,750 --> 00:36:14,143
There seemed to be no length
497
00:36:14,167 --> 00:36:16,708
to which Cannon will not go for publicity.
498
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:18,333
The biggest publicity broadside
499
00:36:18,625 --> 00:36:20,292
of the entire festival so far
500
00:36:20,583 --> 00:36:23,667
was the arrival of this
full scale pirate galleon.
501
00:36:23,958 --> 00:36:26,038
Which for the last year has
been used for the filming
502
00:36:26,292 --> 00:36:29,333
of Roman polanski's new movie, "pirates"
503
00:36:29,625 --> 00:36:32,375
_ pretty soon, after two years,
504
00:36:32,667 --> 00:36:34,958
people weren't calling
it cannes film festival,
505
00:36:35,250 --> 00:36:37,458
they were calling it "the
Cannon film festival."
506
00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:42,417
Cannon is menahem
golan and yoram globus.
507
00:36:42,708 --> 00:36:46,583
Globus with the beard raises
the cash golan spends it.
508
00:36:46,875 --> 00:36:47,542
Seven years ago,
509
00:36:47,833 --> 00:36:50,208
they paid half a million
dollars for Cannon.
510
00:36:50,500 --> 00:36:52,792
Today it's worth a
thousand million dollars
511
00:36:53,083 --> 00:36:55,208
and is a worldwide force in every aspect
512
00:36:55,500 --> 00:36:56,792
of the film industry.
513
00:36:57,083 --> 00:37:00,000
- It's very very good to
get reviews on movies,
514
00:37:00,292 --> 00:37:03,042
but it's also important that the public
515
00:37:03,333 --> 00:37:04,917
will come to see our movies.
516
00:37:05,208 --> 00:37:06,417
Because if they come
517
00:37:06,708 --> 00:37:09,167
they will support you
to do the next movie.
518
00:37:12,208 --> 00:37:14,625
- We must make a press conference now.
519
00:37:14,917 --> 00:37:15,917
Sit down.
520
00:37:16,042 --> 00:37:17,250
One sentence in French,
521
00:37:42,042 --> 00:37:44,000
Gene siskel and Roger ebert
522
00:37:44,292 --> 00:37:47,167
of TV's "at the movies"
say golan and globus
523
00:37:47,458 --> 00:37:51,292
are not even true filmmakers,
just shrewd salesman.
524
00:37:51,583 --> 00:37:53,167
- They're deal makers.
525
00:37:54,625 --> 00:37:56,750
To date, they have not made
526
00:37:57,042 --> 00:37:59,000
what I would say is a really fine film.
527
00:37:59,292 --> 00:38:00,809
After the new release by Cannon,
528
00:38:00,833 --> 00:38:02,184
the press has been pretty hostile.
529
00:38:02,208 --> 00:38:03,208
"The language is filthy,
530
00:38:03,458 --> 00:38:04,500
"the film is simple minded
531
00:38:04,792 --> 00:38:06,583
"and Bronson's characters is despicable.
532
00:38:06,875 --> 00:38:08,833
"Gore and violence, exploiting hatred
533
00:38:09,125 --> 00:38:11,125
"fear and matter results
to every bit as revolting
534
00:38:11,417 --> 00:38:14,833
"as in the original 1974 jackpot fantasy."
535
00:38:15,125 --> 00:38:16,393
- Let's have a look just for a change
536
00:38:16,417 --> 00:38:18,250
at some of the real stinkers of the year.
537
00:38:19,792 --> 00:38:21,000
Faced with one film at least,
538
00:38:21,292 --> 00:38:22,750
the critics Rose up as one critic
539
00:38:23,042 --> 00:38:25,125
and lure communal raspberry,
and that was bolero.
540
00:38:25,417 --> 00:38:27,750
"Virgin on the ridiculous,"
the guardian called it.
541
00:38:28,042 --> 00:38:29,333
Warmed up softcore porn it was,
542
00:38:29,625 --> 00:38:31,417
in which Mr. Derek spent most of the time
543
00:38:31,708 --> 00:38:33,500
revealing what we must
now come to think of
544
00:38:33,792 --> 00:38:34,875
as a public parks.
545
00:39:13,833 --> 00:39:16,000
- Can I speak to Altman and tell him we...
546
00:39:33,167 --> 00:39:34,927
- You know, what's
happening with the godard?
547
00:39:34,958 --> 00:39:36,708
John-Luc godard?
548
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:40,208
Despite their
reputation as deal makers,
549
00:39:40,500 --> 00:39:42,500
golan and globus are also trying to make
550
00:39:42,792 --> 00:39:45,333
some so-called prestige films, like
551
00:39:45,625 --> 00:39:47,417
John cassavetes's "loved streams."
552
00:39:49,917 --> 00:39:51,375
- I'm very proud of it.
553
00:39:54,833 --> 00:39:57,153
And I'm proud of you too because
no one else stood with me.
554
00:39:58,167 --> 00:39:59,167
You're laughing.
555
00:40:02,208 --> 00:40:03,851
We could have
been swallowed by Hollywood
556
00:40:03,875 --> 00:40:05,292
and became like anybody else.
557
00:40:05,583 --> 00:40:06,167
We didn't want that.
558
00:40:06,458 --> 00:40:08,375
We brought New York with us to Hollywood.
559
00:40:08,667 --> 00:40:10,125
- Who the fuck are you?
560
00:40:10,417 --> 00:40:11,583
- And then, when Taiwan
561
00:40:11,875 --> 00:40:13,875
wanted to buy our "death wish three,"
562
00:40:14,167 --> 00:40:15,708
we said to the local distributor.
563
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:19,083
"Sorry man, you have to
take John cassavetes first
564
00:40:19,375 --> 00:40:21,792
"or you don't get Charles Bronson."
565
00:40:22,083 --> 00:40:24,792
And now you know that in Taiwan
566
00:40:25,083 --> 00:40:26,875
they have to see an Altman movie,
567
00:40:27,167 --> 00:40:28,542
they have to see the ziffirelli,
568
00:40:28,833 --> 00:40:30,625
they will see an opera otello,
569
00:40:30,917 --> 00:40:34,750
because otherwise they're not
going to get Charlie Bronson.
570
00:40:36,833 --> 00:40:37,875
- And action.
571
00:40:38,167 --> 00:40:39,667
I came to america being regarded a
572
00:40:41,208 --> 00:40:45,125
quite well known director
in era and and Russia.
573
00:40:45,417 --> 00:40:47,583
And for three years of unemployment,
574
00:40:47,875 --> 00:40:51,042
slowly I understood that
basically, no one knew me.
575
00:40:52,917 --> 00:40:55,792
I think pollock introduced me
576
00:40:56,958 --> 00:40:59,250
in the bar to menahem, he said,
577
00:40:59,542 --> 00:41:03,917
"this is a young man and
maybe you should talk to him."
578
00:41:04,208 --> 00:41:07,000
And menahem said, "come
tomorrow morning to my room."
579
00:41:08,500 --> 00:41:11,750
So I came to his room
580
00:41:13,583 --> 00:41:17,208
and he was in his
underpants shaving himself.
581
00:41:17,500 --> 00:41:18,768
He say, "okay tell me the story."
582
00:41:18,792 --> 00:41:20,458
I start to tell the story.
583
00:41:20,750 --> 00:41:22,125
I was kind of heart dancing
584
00:41:22,417 --> 00:41:23,559
and because it was a Russian story
585
00:41:23,583 --> 00:41:26,750
I placed it in yugoslavia somewhere.
586
00:41:27,042 --> 00:41:28,042
Then he interrupted me,
587
00:41:28,333 --> 00:41:32,083
"put all story in American
and we're going to do it.
588
00:41:32,375 --> 00:41:33,917
"Think about, come back."
589
00:41:34,208 --> 00:41:37,833
Before I get my coffee, I
already knew that I'm going to do
590
00:41:38,125 --> 00:41:40,708
whatever they wantjust to make a film.
591
00:41:43,667 --> 00:41:46,708
- You do what you have to do
and I'll do what I have to do.
592
00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:48,417
Whatever happens happens.
593
00:41:49,333 --> 00:41:52,417
- Menahem, big voice you'd
hear him before you got there.
594
00:41:52,708 --> 00:41:54,333
"John?" he says.
595
00:41:54,625 --> 00:41:56,145
He says, "this picture has everything.
596
00:41:56,375 --> 00:41:59,333
"It is has great script,
it is has great cast,
597
00:41:59,625 --> 00:42:02,083
"its action, it's unbelievable piece.
598
00:42:02,375 --> 00:42:04,875
"You have to be schmucks
not to make this picture."
599
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:06,542
He would say.
600
00:42:06,833 --> 00:42:08,833
- When a man walked in
at the end of the day
601
00:42:10,333 --> 00:42:12,333
and he comes to see how you've done,
602
00:42:12,625 --> 00:42:14,208
you're ain't gonna look at his eyes.
603
00:42:15,167 --> 00:42:16,667
You're going to look at the floor.
604
00:42:16,958 --> 00:42:19,250
Because you don't want to
see that fear in his eyes
605
00:42:19,542 --> 00:42:21,333
when you jump up and grab his face
606
00:42:21,625 --> 00:42:23,333
and slam him to the floor.
607
00:42:26,458 --> 00:42:29,417
- The nominees for best
performance by an actor
608
00:42:29,708 --> 00:42:31,917
and the motion picture drama are,
609
00:42:32,208 --> 00:42:34,042
Harrison Ford in "witness."
610
00:42:35,250 --> 00:42:37,625
- Gene huckman in "twice in a life time."
611
00:42:38,583 --> 00:42:41,417
- William hurt in "kiss
of the spider woman."
612
00:42:41,708 --> 00:42:43,833
John voight in "runaway train."
613
00:42:51,542 --> 00:42:53,417
- The winner is
614
00:42:53,708 --> 00:42:54,708
John voight.
615
00:42:56,542 --> 00:42:58,582
"Runaway train"
by the Russian director
616
00:42:58,708 --> 00:43:01,208
konchalovsky, is one of three Cannon films
617
00:43:01,500 --> 00:43:05,167
chosen for the prestigious
cannes festival competition.
618
00:43:05,458 --> 00:43:08,208
The others are Sam
Shepard's, "fool for love"
619
00:43:08,500 --> 00:43:10,875
and zeffirelli's film, "otello."
620
00:43:11,167 --> 00:43:13,167
There are even plans for John Luc godard
621
00:43:13,458 --> 00:43:15,292
to direct "king Lia."
622
00:43:15,583 --> 00:43:17,351
It's your
name here on the napkin?
623
00:43:17,375 --> 00:43:18,934
- Yes. It's me.
- What is it?
624
00:43:18,958 --> 00:43:20,833
- It's a contract that I've signed
625
00:43:22,083 --> 00:43:24,375
the day before yesterday
afternoon in the bar.
626
00:43:24,667 --> 00:43:28,083
We didn't have paper and this
was on the table of the bar.
627
00:43:28,375 --> 00:43:31,625
And this is Mr. John Luc godard.
628
00:43:31,917 --> 00:43:34,167
We met, I said, "hello Mr. Godard."
629
00:43:34,458 --> 00:43:36,125
My first sentence was,
630
00:43:36,417 --> 00:43:38,208
"what do you want to do with Cannon?"
631
00:43:39,708 --> 00:43:41,250
And he second question,
632
00:43:41,542 --> 00:43:43,000
"what do you want to do is godard?"
633
00:43:43,292 --> 00:43:45,042
And I said, "let's do a film."
634
00:43:45,333 --> 00:43:47,667
- Some guy would come to him
and say, "I have an idea."
635
00:43:47,958 --> 00:43:49,667
"Oh, that's a great idea."
636
00:43:49,958 --> 00:43:53,083
They'd sign it on on a napkin.
637
00:43:53,375 --> 00:43:55,667
And that was the deal they call me
638
00:43:55,958 --> 00:43:58,583
and I said, "we got to
do more than the napkin,"
639
00:43:58,875 --> 00:44:01,542
menahem, "no, no, no
napkin is good enough.
640
00:44:01,833 --> 00:44:02,833
"I trust them."
641
00:44:02,917 --> 00:44:05,042
- And it was a little bit like a throwback
642
00:44:06,333 --> 00:44:07,667
to the original.
643
00:44:08,917 --> 00:44:11,417
Immigrant fellows who
started this business
644
00:44:11,708 --> 00:44:12,333
the moguls,
645
00:44:12,625 --> 00:44:14,250
he was a little like that.
646
00:44:52,417 --> 00:44:54,083
- What kind of satisfaction is there
647
00:44:54,375 --> 00:44:55,667
for the two of you
648
00:44:55,958 --> 00:44:58,417
to talk to some of the people who may be
649
00:44:58,708 --> 00:45:01,167
would not return the
phone call many years ago?
650
00:45:01,458 --> 00:45:03,667
- We don't carry any grudge to Hollywood.
651
00:45:03,958 --> 00:45:05,375
I mean, definitely not.
652
00:45:05,667 --> 00:45:08,833
And we will talk to anybody
who didn't talk to us before.
653
00:45:12,750 --> 00:45:14,500
- You got no chance, do you know that?
654
00:45:14,792 --> 00:45:15,500
You know that.
655
00:45:15,792 --> 00:45:16,934
Come on hawk, back here now.
656
00:45:16,958 --> 00:45:17,500
- Dad!
657
00:45:17,792 --> 00:45:20,042
Don't let him psych you dad,
remember what you told me.
658
00:45:20,333 --> 00:45:22,583
- One day an actor brought me a script
659
00:45:22,875 --> 00:45:25,667
which I like very much about Allan.
660
00:45:25,958 --> 00:45:28,000
So I called the lawyer of Stallone.
661
00:45:28,292 --> 00:45:30,125
Stallone was getting millions of value.
662
00:45:32,958 --> 00:45:33,667
So the lawyer says to me,
663
00:45:33,958 --> 00:45:37,125
"menahem you cannot get
him, he get $6 million."
664
00:45:38,250 --> 00:45:41,167
So I said to him," I don't
want to pay him 6 million.
665
00:45:41,458 --> 00:45:43,184
"So what do you want,
why are you calling me?"
666
00:45:43,208 --> 00:45:45,167
I said, "I wanna pay him ten."
667
00:45:47,792 --> 00:45:49,708
The next week I had a contract.
668
00:45:50,875 --> 00:45:51,875
- Dad!
669
00:45:52,792 --> 00:45:54,101
He's the world champion.
670
00:45:54,125 --> 00:45:55,525
Lincoln hawk is the world champion.
671
00:45:55,750 --> 00:45:58,292
- Other studios put you through a long
672
00:45:59,625 --> 00:46:02,583
and contentious development process
673
00:46:02,875 --> 00:46:05,958
that after doing 20 drafts,
674
00:46:06,250 --> 00:46:08,375
you may end up with a
much better screenplay
675
00:46:08,667 --> 00:46:10,458
or you may end up in development hell
676
00:46:10,750 --> 00:46:12,667
and your movie may never get made.
677
00:46:12,958 --> 00:46:14,792
With Cannon you got an immediate yes or no
678
00:46:15,083 --> 00:46:16,250
when you were shooting.
679
00:46:16,542 --> 00:46:21,125
Cannon films,
the home of high power,
680
00:46:21,417 --> 00:46:22,417
high voltage,
681
00:46:22,625 --> 00:46:24,667
motion picture entertainment.
682
00:46:24,958 --> 00:46:25,958
- It was not a factor
683
00:46:26,208 --> 00:46:29,917
but came down to the old way
of Hollywood doing films.
684
00:46:30,208 --> 00:46:31,625
One after the other
685
00:46:31,917 --> 00:46:34,875
as one was going on, menahem
was working on another one
686
00:46:35,167 --> 00:46:36,542
and another.
687
00:46:47,542 --> 00:46:51,042
We are Cannon
films and we are dynamite.
688
00:46:51,333 --> 00:46:52,458
Okay.
689
00:46:52,750 --> 00:46:54,268
Let's first get rid of the bad news, huh?
690
00:46:54,292 --> 00:46:54,958
- What are the bad news?
691
00:46:55,250 --> 00:46:57,042
- Okay, it's money.
692
00:46:57,333 --> 00:46:58,559
- Money is yoram
- I have to make...
693
00:46:58,583 --> 00:46:59,208
Money is yoram.
694
00:46:59,500 --> 00:47:00,500
- Money is yoram.
695
00:47:00,667 --> 00:47:03,625
- Yoram was great at finding money.
696
00:47:03,917 --> 00:47:06,917
Menahem spent it faster
than yoram could raise it.
697
00:47:07,208 --> 00:47:08,792
Were it me, I would have tried to keep
698
00:47:09,083 --> 00:47:12,375
menahem under check
and have him not spend.
699
00:47:12,667 --> 00:47:15,458
But yoram was not able
or willing to do that.
700
00:47:17,042 --> 00:47:19,833
- Menahem is a very stubborn man.
701
00:47:20,125 --> 00:47:23,083
When it comes to movies...
702
00:47:23,375 --> 00:47:24,792
When it comes to movies
703
00:47:26,375 --> 00:47:28,167
and you start something
704
00:47:28,458 --> 00:47:32,750
he does not know who is his
wife or daughter or cousin.
705
00:47:33,042 --> 00:47:34,417
Nobody.
706
00:47:34,708 --> 00:47:36,601
It's up guys,
here comes colonel Brady.
707
00:47:36,625 --> 00:47:39,083
So why would colonel
wanna to go to Cambodia?
708
00:47:39,375 --> 00:47:41,215
To get her
daughter across the fence.
709
00:47:41,458 --> 00:47:44,417
- He's meeting a recon unit
checking, enemy strength.
710
00:47:44,708 --> 00:47:45,250
- Where?
711
00:47:45,542 --> 00:47:46,083
They're loud, sir.
712
00:47:46,375 --> 00:47:47,851
Eight years ago, menahem golan
713
00:47:47,875 --> 00:47:49,083
and his cousin yoram globus
714
00:47:49,375 --> 00:47:52,042
were virtually unknown outside of Israel.
715
00:47:52,333 --> 00:47:55,417
They now run the most powerful
independent film company
716
00:47:55,708 --> 00:47:56,875
in the world.
717
00:47:57,167 --> 00:48:00,208
Golan and globus control
cinema chains in Italy,
718
00:48:00,500 --> 00:48:02,167
Germany, and Holland.
719
00:48:02,458 --> 00:48:07,167
All in all, they now own more
than 1000 screens in Europe.
720
00:48:07,458 --> 00:48:09,458
- In some way, everybody was kind of set
721
00:48:09,750 --> 00:48:12,458
with the studio system
as it was delivered.
722
00:48:12,750 --> 00:48:15,208
And these guys said, why
can't we have another one?
723
00:48:15,500 --> 00:48:17,250
- They weren't Paramount to it.
724
00:48:17,542 --> 00:48:19,333
But they were right up there
725
00:48:19,625 --> 00:48:22,500
really close to that aspect of it.
726
00:48:22,792 --> 00:48:24,750
And they were turning
out more films and...
727
00:48:25,875 --> 00:48:28,833
That some studios might make in 10 years.
728
00:48:33,833 --> 00:48:37,625
- 50 years, there was not a new major.
729
00:48:37,917 --> 00:48:39,083
50, huh!
730
00:48:39,375 --> 00:48:43,708
50 years, you did not hear about
a new company and new name.
731
00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:45,167
Why?
732
00:48:45,458 --> 00:48:49,667
Because Hollywood is very closed,
733
00:48:49,958 --> 00:48:51,083
like this.
734
00:48:51,375 --> 00:48:55,583
But in the last three
months our company made more
735
00:48:57,667 --> 00:49:00,958
successes than all the majors of america.
736
00:49:01,250 --> 00:49:04,000
- Cannon represent in
the last three months,
737
00:49:04,292 --> 00:49:07,250
20% of the total box office in america.
738
00:49:25,083 --> 00:49:26,083
- Hello?
739
00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:30,208
You have to understand.
740
00:49:30,500 --> 00:49:34,125
I know that many companies
and small companies,
741
00:49:34,417 --> 00:49:36,792
you know, negotiating and
they bids and all of that.
742
00:49:37,792 --> 00:49:40,458
If Cannon will give a
bid, Cannon will have it.
743
00:49:40,750 --> 00:49:43,250
Cannon is mean business, you understand?
744
00:49:43,542 --> 00:49:46,000
So it's premature of these thing.
745
00:49:46,292 --> 00:49:49,583
And the rumors that
everybody is going after...
746
00:49:49,875 --> 00:49:53,042
So it's not even a scoop anymore.
747
00:50:03,292 --> 00:50:04,492
Now it's a fact,
748
00:50:04,583 --> 00:50:06,875
the canon group knows no bounds.
749
00:50:07,167 --> 00:50:08,292
In an unbelievable move,
750
00:50:08,583 --> 00:50:12,292
Cannon acquires the emi
library, abc screens
751
00:50:12,583 --> 00:50:15,625
and hill street studios
practically overnight
752
00:50:15,917 --> 00:50:18,250
for not less than $270 million.
753
00:50:26,250 --> 00:50:27,875
- When you want to build something,
754
00:50:28,167 --> 00:50:32,958
you have to dedicate
and handle it emotional.
755
00:50:33,458 --> 00:50:37,000
When you build such a
business, somebody gets hurt
756
00:50:37,292 --> 00:50:38,375
and unfortunately
757
00:50:40,708 --> 00:50:42,792
some of which you learn got hurt.
758
00:50:44,750 --> 00:50:48,417
And with all the glamor and the success
759
00:50:51,083 --> 00:50:55,208
there is sad side to that also.
760
00:53:43,667 --> 00:53:45,542
- I have hurt my family.
761
00:53:48,750 --> 00:53:52,292
It's right that film making,
762
00:53:52,583 --> 00:53:53,958
if you devoted to it,
763
00:53:54,250 --> 00:53:58,000
if you marry this art
764
00:53:58,292 --> 00:54:01,500
it takes away some of your other life.
765
00:54:01,792 --> 00:54:03,125
And no question about it.
766
00:54:43,208 --> 00:54:44,309
To celebrate the move
767
00:54:44,333 --> 00:54:45,583
to their new headquarters,
768
00:54:45,875 --> 00:54:49,333
golan and globus invited
Hollywood to a black tie party.
769
00:54:49,625 --> 00:54:52,083
There were over 2000 persons.
770
00:54:52,375 --> 00:54:53,375
- Nice to see you yoram.
771
00:54:53,583 --> 00:54:55,167
Good evening, yes.
772
00:54:56,417 --> 00:54:57,583
- Thank you for coming.
773
00:54:58,750 --> 00:54:59,910
We're going to do that movie.
774
00:55:00,167 --> 00:55:01,667
We have John And you.
775
00:55:02,875 --> 00:55:05,542
And it's gonna be a
blockbuster of the century.
776
00:55:05,833 --> 00:55:06,873
- I'm delighted to see it.
777
00:55:07,083 --> 00:55:08,125
- Delighted to see you.
778
00:55:09,583 --> 00:55:14,333
- When I first was asked
to come to their office,
779
00:55:14,625 --> 00:55:17,542
it was a small little office door.
780
00:55:17,833 --> 00:55:20,042
It was kind of dilapidated building.
781
00:55:20,333 --> 00:55:23,042
Then come back a year later
to go to that same little
782
00:55:23,333 --> 00:55:27,917
Cannon films, the little
door off a wheelchair
783
00:55:28,208 --> 00:55:30,167
and somebody is coming out and he says,
784
00:55:30,458 --> 00:55:32,167
"hey, you're gonna cross the street?"
785
00:55:32,458 --> 00:55:33,618
And I go, "what do you mean?"
786
00:55:33,875 --> 00:55:36,083
He goes, "look across the street."
787
00:55:36,375 --> 00:55:38,708
I look across the street
and it's an empire.
788
00:55:39,833 --> 00:55:41,583
They built this brand new
789
00:55:41,875 --> 00:55:44,792
huge building and they had a huge party.
790
00:55:45,083 --> 00:55:47,708
Bronson was there, Charlie, my hero.
791
00:55:49,083 --> 00:55:51,458
They got Charlie Bronson
underneath this roof.
792
00:55:55,500 --> 00:55:59,750
- Yoram and me, when we came
from Israel and from Europe
793
00:56:01,042 --> 00:56:03,167
we came to mecca.
794
00:56:03,458 --> 00:56:05,417
The mecca of motion pictures.
795
00:56:06,875 --> 00:56:07,917
And we came to pray.
796
00:56:09,250 --> 00:56:13,125
And we prayed and prayed, in
the beginning nobody listened.
797
00:56:14,542 --> 00:56:16,542
But then we kept on praying,
798
00:56:16,833 --> 00:56:18,667
and finally people begin to listen.
799
00:56:22,792 --> 00:56:24,458
Golan and globus may sound
800
00:56:24,750 --> 00:56:26,625
like a couple of middle eastern cities
801
00:56:26,917 --> 00:56:28,625
but they are actually the Israeli cousins
802
00:56:28,917 --> 00:56:31,458
who own and operate the first Cannon group
803
00:56:31,750 --> 00:56:35,333
affectionately and disparagingly
known as the "go go boys."
804
00:56:35,625 --> 00:56:37,792
They come as close to
old time movie moguls
805
00:56:38,083 --> 00:56:39,250
as anyone in the business.
806
00:56:40,333 --> 00:56:42,875
- Yes, they are the go go boys.
807
00:56:45,333 --> 00:56:50,167
Innovative, just like
the old moguls came out.
808
00:56:50,458 --> 00:56:53,750
They were a replica of those guys.
809
00:56:54,042 --> 00:56:55,042
- In newsweek,
810
00:56:55,833 --> 00:56:57,625
they put us on the cover.
811
00:56:59,333 --> 00:57:00,958
But you know who gets on the cover?
812
00:57:01,250 --> 00:57:04,958
Only heads of government
and presidents et cetera.
813
00:57:05,250 --> 00:57:07,083
To be on the cover of newsweek,
814
00:57:07,375 --> 00:57:09,000
they call us "go go boys."
815
00:57:09,292 --> 00:57:13,583
- They would not think that
anything could go wrong.
816
00:57:15,583 --> 00:57:17,167
And they kept pushing.
817
00:57:18,083 --> 00:57:19,083
- "Go go."
818
00:57:21,625 --> 00:57:22,625
It means go go.
819
00:58:56,958 --> 00:58:58,583
- But now to Sylvester Stallone.
820
00:58:58,875 --> 00:59:01,542
He who was paid the tidy
little sum of $12 million
821
00:59:01,833 --> 00:59:04,375
for starring in and helping
to write "over the top"
822
00:59:04,667 --> 00:59:05,792
at the cost of $40 million.
823
00:59:11,167 --> 00:59:13,500
And before the
film was released in america,
824
00:59:13,792 --> 00:59:15,083
Stallone himself was wondering
825
00:59:15,375 --> 00:59:17,333
quite how his fans would respond
826
00:59:17,625 --> 00:59:19,667
to a lack of physical violence.
827
00:59:19,958 --> 00:59:23,625
- It isn't as raucous or as outrageous
828
00:59:23,917 --> 00:59:25,351
as some of the other
things that I've done.
829
00:59:25,375 --> 00:59:27,708
So they might be taken aback.
830
00:59:28,000 --> 00:59:28,583
- But "over the top"
831
00:59:28,875 --> 00:59:31,708
hasn't gone over particularly
well with American audiences.
832
00:59:32,000 --> 00:59:33,000
Indeed, it could turn out
833
00:59:33,125 --> 00:59:35,250
to be one of Stallone's biggest fiops.
834
00:59:35,542 --> 00:59:38,292
This news isn't just
disturbing for Stallone himself
835
00:59:38,583 --> 00:59:41,042
but also for the man who
produced and directed the film
836
00:59:41,333 --> 00:59:43,833
menahem golan, head or
the rather beleaguered
837
00:59:44,125 --> 00:59:45,375
Cannon film group.
838
00:59:45,667 --> 00:59:47,417
Of course,
839
00:59:47,708 --> 00:59:48,250
Very good.
840
00:59:48,542 --> 00:59:49,875
- You're all right?
- Yes.
841
00:59:50,167 --> 00:59:51,476
It's a big honor Mr. Vice president.
842
00:59:51,500 --> 00:59:52,208
Well thank you so much.
843
00:59:52,500 --> 00:59:53,500
- Some of you be quiet
844
00:59:53,542 --> 00:59:55,542
it's the vice president
of the United States.
845
00:59:58,875 --> 01:00:02,917
- On some level, and I say this now
846
01:00:03,208 --> 01:00:05,375
having run a studio for 10 years,
847
01:00:05,667 --> 01:00:07,167
we made 20 movies a year.
848
01:00:08,792 --> 01:00:12,917
It isn't a volume business,
it's a hits business.
849
01:00:14,000 --> 01:00:18,125
You have to make hits in order to survive.
850
01:00:18,417 --> 01:00:21,042
- You know, a couple of good
movies could have saved him.
851
01:00:21,333 --> 01:00:25,125
Like anywhere, one big
breakout movie or what
852
01:00:25,417 --> 01:00:26,667
just didn't happen for him.
853
01:00:26,958 --> 01:00:29,226
And on success
which is based on cheap movies,
854
01:00:29,250 --> 01:00:30,875
but now that's changing.
855
01:00:31,167 --> 01:00:33,167
Golan is trying to improve Cannon's image
856
01:00:33,458 --> 01:00:36,208
with big budget movies and
running into big problems.
857
01:00:37,583 --> 01:00:40,250
With money from the bank Cannon
is expanding it's empire,
858
01:00:40,542 --> 01:00:43,000
buying up movie chains and
film distribution rights
859
01:00:43,292 --> 01:00:44,417
around the world.
860
01:00:44,708 --> 01:00:47,417
And the big debt could be
big trouble for Cannon.
861
01:00:47,708 --> 01:00:50,667
- First it was little money
trouble with a little movie.
862
01:00:52,333 --> 01:00:54,125
Then it became the big money trouble
863
01:00:54,417 --> 01:00:55,625
with bigger movies.
864
01:00:55,917 --> 01:00:58,333
You know, like they say,
little kids, little problems,
865
01:00:58,625 --> 01:01:00,417
big kids, big problems.
866
01:01:00,708 --> 01:01:03,542
- Last month, Cannon announced
a loss of $90 million
867
01:01:03,833 --> 01:01:06,083
for the two years, 1985, 86.
868
01:01:07,875 --> 01:01:09,958
The company lost $14 million
869
01:01:10,250 --> 01:01:11,583
in the last quarter.
870
01:01:11,875 --> 01:01:14,875
Their stock this year has
lost 75% of its value.
871
01:01:15,167 --> 01:01:16,250
And by mid December
872
01:01:16,542 --> 01:01:18,542
Cannon was raised $18 million
873
01:01:18,833 --> 01:01:20,292
to pay off a debt in britain.
874
01:01:21,292 --> 01:01:24,750
Golan has been up and down
many times in his life.
875
01:01:25,042 --> 01:01:29,125
- I can't be worried because
I'm too busy making the movies
876
01:01:29,417 --> 01:01:32,375
and I'm so excited and I'm so into it.
877
01:01:33,375 --> 01:01:35,875
I believe that we know what we are doing.
878
01:01:36,167 --> 01:01:38,708
And I believe that our future is safe.
879
01:01:39,000 --> 01:01:40,601
- When they first got into money trouble,
880
01:01:40,625 --> 01:01:41,750
their solution was
881
01:01:43,000 --> 01:01:44,167
let's make more movies.
882
01:01:45,208 --> 01:01:47,208
If we can make a million dollars a movie
883
01:01:47,500 --> 01:01:50,167
and we're running out of
money making 20 movies,
884
01:01:51,250 --> 01:01:54,958
let's make 30, let's
make 40, let's make 50.
885
01:01:55,250 --> 01:01:58,125
- That was going so fast,
they were making so many films
886
01:01:58,417 --> 01:02:02,792
and they trusted a lot of the
agents that were selling them
887
01:02:04,208 --> 01:02:06,042
films that should never have been made
888
01:02:06,333 --> 01:02:08,375
that they couldn't give away.
889
01:02:10,625 --> 01:02:13,250
- This is some of their advertising.
890
01:02:13,542 --> 01:02:18,333
Many films that were not even made.
891
01:02:19,542 --> 01:02:21,042
It was all falling apart.
892
01:02:22,250 --> 01:02:26,917
And so for me, you know
being part of the family
893
01:02:27,208 --> 01:02:28,583
when they went down, I went down
894
01:02:30,000 --> 01:02:32,958
- we were like a rocket, the success
895
01:02:33,250 --> 01:02:36,542
year after year, we
became better and better
896
01:02:36,833 --> 01:02:38,583
and more successful, more successful.
897
01:02:38,875 --> 01:02:43,667
And I think when I asked
him to stop for six months
898
01:02:44,167 --> 01:02:47,667
and to reevaluate and just to relax
899
01:02:47,958 --> 01:02:50,542
that was the time that he
should have listened to me.
900
01:02:52,000 --> 01:02:55,208
But he ran like crazy.
901
01:02:58,667 --> 01:02:59,947
As Cannon in London
902
01:03:00,000 --> 01:03:03,500
planned the launch of "Superman
four" here in rehearsal,
903
01:03:03,792 --> 01:03:06,167
golan and globus miss wish more than most
904
01:03:06,458 --> 01:03:08,667
that the miraculous
rescues of film fantasy
905
01:03:08,958 --> 01:03:10,667
might come their way.
906
01:03:10,958 --> 01:03:13,333
It could easily happen.
907
01:03:31,917 --> 01:03:36,167
- To Superman we should
have put all of our efforts
908
01:03:36,458 --> 01:03:38,417
to make from it a hit movie.
909
01:03:39,875 --> 01:03:42,208
A better movies in the first three.
910
01:03:43,875 --> 01:03:46,250
And because of so many production
911
01:03:46,542 --> 01:03:48,833
you don't have the time to devote to it.
912
01:03:50,958 --> 01:03:52,500
This is for me,
913
01:03:54,000 --> 01:03:55,750
our biggest fiasco.
914
01:03:56,750 --> 01:03:57,958
It could have been,
915
01:03:59,875 --> 01:04:00,875
our breakthrough
916
01:04:02,542 --> 01:04:05,167
to the top of Hollywood.
917
01:04:07,542 --> 01:04:08,708
- Just over 12 months ago,
918
01:04:09,000 --> 01:04:10,250
the cousin's menahem and golan
919
01:04:10,542 --> 01:04:12,250
and yoram globus bought their way
920
01:04:12,542 --> 01:04:14,375
into the British filmmaking establishment
921
01:04:14,667 --> 01:04:16,583
but all has not gone as they hoped.
922
01:04:16,875 --> 01:04:18,417
In October their accounting practices
923
01:04:18,708 --> 01:04:19,792
came under the scrutiny
924
01:04:20,083 --> 01:04:23,083
of the American securities
and exchange commission.
925
01:04:23,375 --> 01:04:25,559
The American
securities and exchange commission
926
01:04:25,583 --> 01:04:27,458
report into their accounting practices
927
01:04:27,750 --> 01:04:29,708
is expected this summer.
928
01:04:30,000 --> 01:04:34,792
Cannon stock is now trading
in New York at $4.75 a share.
929
01:04:36,125 --> 01:04:39,125
A year ago they were $45.5.
930
01:04:40,958 --> 01:04:42,417
- While investigating this story,
931
01:04:42,708 --> 01:04:46,250
news night asked Mr. Golan and
Mr. Globus for an interview.
932
01:04:46,542 --> 01:04:48,667
But until the sec report is published
933
01:04:48,958 --> 01:04:50,750
they decided to remain silent.
934
01:05:04,583 --> 01:05:08,000
- I had to deal with it three
years of my life with sec.
935
01:05:09,083 --> 01:05:12,458
I used to fly to the states
every couple of months
936
01:05:13,583 --> 01:05:18,292
to be a witness and to be an investigate.
937
01:05:18,583 --> 01:05:19,583
It's very tough.
938
01:05:19,708 --> 01:05:20,292
It's very tough.
939
01:05:20,583 --> 01:05:24,375
It's very tough when you know
that you're completely clean
940
01:05:24,667 --> 01:05:26,375
and you have to prove it.
941
01:05:32,417 --> 01:05:33,417
-At this point,
942
01:05:33,583 --> 01:05:37,000
the company is not able to
continue to operate profitably.
943
01:05:37,292 --> 01:05:39,458
The movies are not doing
well at the box office.
944
01:05:39,750 --> 01:05:43,083
I would recommend stockholders
and also bond holders
945
01:05:43,375 --> 01:05:46,125
that they should in some form unite
946
01:05:46,417 --> 01:05:49,667
in order to put the company
into this kind of a bankruptcy.
947
01:05:53,042 --> 01:05:54,708
- Wall street came
948
01:05:56,375 --> 01:06:00,125
and start to think about
different way of doing movies
949
01:06:00,417 --> 01:06:05,208
instead of five, 10, three,
70, that a hundred million
950
01:06:07,458 --> 01:06:10,000
it became completely different philosophy.
951
01:06:11,333 --> 01:06:13,042
That wasn't their philosophy.
952
01:06:13,333 --> 01:06:15,833
Their philosophy, were craft.
953
01:06:18,625 --> 01:06:23,208
I think I left Hollywood
because there were no anymore
954
01:06:26,875 --> 01:06:29,250
golan and globus in Hollywood.
955
01:07:55,958 --> 01:07:57,158
Just a month ago,
956
01:07:57,333 --> 01:08:00,583
the Cannon Titanic had a $200 million debt
957
01:08:00,875 --> 01:08:02,833
and was about to go under.
958
01:08:03,125 --> 01:08:04,833
But now it seems golan and globus
959
01:08:05,125 --> 01:08:07,708
have one more life boat in reserve,
960
01:08:08,000 --> 01:08:10,375
Giancarlo parretti of pathe pictures
961
01:08:10,667 --> 01:08:14,333
is the shiny new partner of
this unstoppable Israeli duel.
962
01:08:17,333 --> 01:08:19,542
- Parretti was a guy who showed up in town
963
01:08:20,500 --> 01:08:25,042
and he was representing a lot of money
964
01:08:26,125 --> 01:08:31,042
and he got into the company
and bought the company.
965
01:08:32,167 --> 01:08:34,458
In my mind this was part of the end
966
01:08:36,042 --> 01:08:37,042
of Cannon.
967
01:09:26,583 --> 01:09:27,833
- We had an empire.
968
01:09:28,125 --> 01:09:31,458
We are the company that created an empire.
969
01:09:31,750 --> 01:09:34,167
But then some powers,
970
01:09:35,125 --> 01:09:40,042
which are more belonging
to the world of numbers,
971
01:09:42,583 --> 01:09:47,500
mathematics, money, they
took away your yoram from me.
972
01:09:56,625 --> 01:09:58,500
- I really collapsed because
973
01:09:59,708 --> 01:10:03,750
it's like running after money
all the time and to finish is,
974
01:10:04,042 --> 01:10:07,542
you know, the 45 movies cost
almost a billion dollar.
975
01:10:08,500 --> 01:10:11,083
$1 billion it's a lot of money.
976
01:10:11,375 --> 01:10:12,875
And to finish the movie I had to earn
977
01:10:13,167 --> 01:10:17,167
and I didn't want to do it all my life.
978
01:10:17,458 --> 01:10:22,250
Menahem, we tried to stop
him, so he wanted to live.
979
01:10:22,875 --> 01:10:26,583
And I told him, "I'm not going with you."
980
01:10:26,875 --> 01:10:28,125
- This was the last row.
981
01:10:29,542 --> 01:10:31,458
But the whole thing was...
982
01:10:33,417 --> 01:10:38,333
I think the difference of
philosophy of motion pictures,
983
01:10:40,167 --> 01:10:44,250
he wanted to buy cinemas,
I wanted to make movies.
984
01:10:53,375 --> 01:10:55,458
I couldn't stay, couldn't take it.
985
01:10:56,542 --> 01:11:01,458
And I told yoram, "a divorce
is a divorce is a divorce."
986
01:11:02,625 --> 01:11:05,833
And we divorced, in home it was.
987
01:11:06,125 --> 01:11:10,042
Yoram brought his lawyers, his
friends, I was there alone.
988
01:11:10,333 --> 01:11:11,667
They all tried to convince me
989
01:11:11,958 --> 01:11:14,167
to take a vacation to forget it.
990
01:11:14,458 --> 01:11:19,250
But that was so hurt
that I couldn't come back
991
01:11:20,583 --> 01:11:23,125
to the people who were in Cannon.
992
01:11:24,417 --> 01:11:26,458
- This was like my home
993
01:11:27,958 --> 01:11:32,458
and at some point yoram and
menahem were like my parents
994
01:11:33,833 --> 01:11:35,958
and they split.
995
01:11:37,292 --> 01:11:37,958
So it was like,
996
01:11:38,250 --> 01:11:40,833
when your parents are getting
divorced or something.
997
01:11:49,667 --> 01:11:53,125
- He said, "divorce is till the end"
998
01:11:53,417 --> 01:11:55,917
and I paid him official $15 million.
999
01:11:57,250 --> 01:11:58,375
Which was a lot.
1000
01:11:59,333 --> 01:12:04,250
And I got him 25 from
Cannon, so it's 40 million.
1001
01:12:04,917 --> 01:12:09,292
And I arranged for him a line
of credit of $35 million.
1002
01:12:10,708 --> 01:12:12,792
So he had $75 million.
1003
01:12:13,833 --> 01:12:14,875
And he said to me,
1004
01:12:15,167 --> 01:12:18,042
"I will teach you how I
doing dabbles in Cannon."
1005
01:12:32,542 --> 01:12:34,142
Why do you choose cannes
1006
01:12:34,375 --> 01:12:36,458
for your main launch of your new company?
1007
01:12:36,750 --> 01:12:39,125
- Well, cannes is my
new real, my Christmas.
1008
01:12:39,417 --> 01:12:41,583
I count my years from cannes to cannes.
1009
01:12:41,875 --> 01:12:44,167
The industry
will have great difficulty
1010
01:12:44,458 --> 01:12:46,375
coping with you on your
own without your cousin
1011
01:12:46,667 --> 01:12:48,601
because you've been together,
I think about 30 years?
1012
01:12:48,625 --> 01:12:49,667
- That's right.
1013
01:12:49,958 --> 01:12:54,750
Well, a divorce is a divorce
and you get used to it.
1014
01:12:55,375 --> 01:13:00,292
And you find that life
offers you away to go on.
1015
01:13:02,167 --> 01:13:03,583
And now for me,
1016
01:13:03,875 --> 01:13:06,750
it's the dawn of the 21st
century in my new company.
1017
01:15:24,875 --> 01:15:28,875
- Menahem went on and he
tried to make a go of it
1018
01:15:31,250 --> 01:15:32,333
and it just...
1019
01:15:34,833 --> 01:15:36,667
It wasn't the same.
1020
01:15:36,958 --> 01:15:37,500
- Ready?
1021
01:15:37,792 --> 01:15:39,167
Take two.
1022
01:15:40,083 --> 01:15:42,250
The whole thing
should be speedy, Gonzalez.
1023
01:15:42,542 --> 01:15:43,750
Fast, fast, fast.
1024
01:15:45,208 --> 01:15:48,125
- I'm starving and there's
no food for me here.
1025
01:15:48,417 --> 01:15:49,042
What do I do?
1026
01:15:49,333 --> 01:15:51,667
- This crew is going to have
lunch today at 2 o'clock
1027
01:15:51,958 --> 01:15:53,184
- at that location.
- Fine, fine.
1028
01:15:53,208 --> 01:15:54,288
- How are we gonna do that?
1029
01:15:54,375 --> 01:15:57,542
- It's on 12:15.
- Without killing them.
1030
01:15:57,833 --> 01:15:59,625
12:15 is not...
1031
01:15:59,917 --> 01:16:01,643
- So you're telling me
there's enough time...
1032
01:16:01,667 --> 01:16:02,726
- Yes.
- To do what we got to do...
1033
01:16:02,750 --> 01:16:05,083
- If you don't talk to me now
wee should shoot over there.
1034
01:16:05,375 --> 01:16:06,875
Let's go, let's move this staff...
1035
01:16:08,208 --> 01:16:12,125
One thing which I really
dislike is that people here
1036
01:16:12,417 --> 01:16:17,208
give more attention to
the lunches and off time
1037
01:16:17,833 --> 01:16:19,417
than the time they work.
1038
01:16:20,333 --> 01:16:21,393
Every body is worried to...
1039
01:16:21,417 --> 01:16:23,917
Worried about their lunch
from the start of the morning,
1040
01:16:24,208 --> 01:16:26,542
I don't hear anything
else, but about lunch.
1041
01:16:30,458 --> 01:16:31,750
I didn't have the power
1042
01:16:32,917 --> 01:16:35,667
that I should have had when I had yoram.
1043
01:16:35,958 --> 01:16:38,708
I didn't have that half of me.
1044
01:16:41,417 --> 01:16:45,792
I was working with only my
left hand and not my right.
1045
01:16:46,833 --> 01:16:48,042
I made a mistake
1046
01:16:49,375 --> 01:16:53,167
and it took me some difficult years
1047
01:16:53,458 --> 01:16:55,833
but I kept on doing
movies, I never stopped.
1048
01:17:17,083 --> 01:17:18,763
In a shocking turn of events,
1049
01:17:19,000 --> 01:17:22,875
mgm chairman, Giancarlo
parretti is accused of fraud
1050
01:17:23,167 --> 01:17:25,708
and money laundering
with the Italian mafia.
1051
01:17:27,167 --> 01:17:28,542
- I'm a believer in yoram.
1052
01:17:30,125 --> 01:17:35,042
I believe that he believed that
parretti actually had money.
1053
01:17:37,250 --> 01:17:39,458
Whereas in actual reality parretti was
1054
01:17:41,417 --> 01:17:42,542
cooking the books.
1055
01:18:01,000 --> 01:18:03,875
- It was very difficult
for me to accept it
1056
01:18:05,083 --> 01:18:08,542
what's happening, but it was the real life
1057
01:18:08,833 --> 01:18:10,250
and I couldn't do nothing.
1058
01:18:10,542 --> 01:18:14,375
When everything is suddenly
starting to fall on you
1059
01:18:14,667 --> 01:18:17,333
and you are living because
you don't want to be there
1060
01:18:18,708 --> 01:18:19,708
it hurts.
1061
01:18:20,000 --> 01:18:21,000
Hurts very much.
1062
01:18:24,000 --> 01:18:25,542
I quit from the company.
1063
01:18:25,833 --> 01:18:27,333
I decided I'm out.
1064
01:18:30,083 --> 01:18:33,667
And then I decided I'm
coming back to Israel.
1065
01:18:36,750 --> 01:18:38,250
After leaving mgm.
1066
01:18:38,542 --> 01:18:40,042
I had to start all over again.
1067
01:18:41,292 --> 01:18:44,042
So I began to welcome a new dream.
1068
01:18:44,333 --> 01:18:45,833
Building a real Hollywood studio
1069
01:18:46,125 --> 01:18:48,500
between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
1070
01:19:33,208 --> 01:19:38,083
- Then I decided where I can make movies,
1071
01:19:38,375 --> 01:19:41,792
I go back to the place
and I went back to Israel
1072
01:19:42,083 --> 01:19:44,083
where I can make movies.
1073
01:19:44,375 --> 01:19:46,833
And that's what I'm doing all the time.
1074
01:21:55,625 --> 01:21:56,667
- Of course.
1075
01:21:56,958 --> 01:21:59,375
We lost 20 years.
1076
01:22:00,875 --> 01:22:05,458
We could the been
Colombia, mgm, universal.
1077
01:22:05,750 --> 01:22:06,750
Who are they?
1078
01:22:08,208 --> 01:22:10,167
We could be better than them.
1079
01:22:11,208 --> 01:22:13,333
It's a waste of talent.
1080
01:22:14,417 --> 01:22:15,958
And now I have a script
1081
01:22:17,208 --> 01:22:21,833
that I foresee that will
bring us to the top.
76485
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