Screen Queensland has announced two exciting events next week: the Queensland Premiere of Electric Boogaloo followed by a Q&A with Director Mark Hartley and producer Veronica Fury.
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films is not just a hilarious tale of scattergun movie making, but of two cousins whose passion for cinema changed the way movies were made and marketed, and how ultimately this passion would come between them and the company they built together. This is a one-of-a-kind story about two-of-a-kind men who (for better or worse) changed film forever.
Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus were two movie-obsessed cousins from Israel who became Hollywood’s ultimate gate-crashers. Following their own skewed version of the Great American Dream, they bought an already low-rent brand – Cannon Films – and ratcheted up its production to become so synonymous with schlock that the very sight of its iconic logo made audiences boo throughout the 1980s. And yet who could have foreseen how close they came to nearly taking over Hollywood and the UK film industry?
When: Wednesday 10 December 2014
Where: Cinema B
The Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA)
Stanley Place, South Brisbane
1:00pm: Screening
3:00pm - 3:30pm: Q&A with Director Mark Hartley and Producer Veronica Fury
Cost
Tickets only $5.00 per person!
Details and booking here at Screen Queensland.
Q&A Session
The screening will be followed by a Q&A session with director Mark Hartley and producer Veronica Fury, moderated by writer, director and producer Darren Paul Fisher.Director Mark Hartley has wrangled interviews with Bo Derek (Bolero), Richard Chamberlain (King Solomon's Mines), Michael Dudikoff (American Ninja), Lucinda Dickey (Breakin'), Elliott Gould (Over the Brooklyn Bridge), Molly Ringwald (King Lear), Dolph Lundgren (Masters of the Universe) and Franco Nero (Enter the Ninja).
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films has screened at:
World premiere – 2014 Melbourne International Film Festival
2014 Toronto International Film Festival
2014 L'Étrange Festival
2014 USA Fantastic Fest
2014 Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival
2014 London Film Festival
