Cannon Films Group ignited a worldwide ninja craze with "The Ninja Trilogy", a film series which consisted of Enter the Ninja, Revenge of the Ninja, and Ninja III: The Domination, all starring Sho Kosugi, as well as American Ninja and its sequel American Ninja 2: The Confrontation .
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In 1984, The Cannon Group has signed a deal with distributor UGC for an exclusive five-year pact, with UGC handling French theatrical distribution and video rights of Cannon's upcoming feature films.
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Also that year, on May 22,1984, Cannon Group had acquired and absorbed Kenneth Rive's Gala Films, which was absorbed into Cannon Group's U K distribution arm.
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On June 25,1985, Cannon Films bought out the rights to produce future films based on the comic book character Superman from the Salkinds, and had a distribution assignment with Warner Bros.
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In 1986, Cannon attempted to produce film adaptations of the stage plays Zorba and American Buffalo, but these films were never materialized.
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Golan and Cannon Films were famous for making huge announcements and over-promoting films that did not live up to expectations—or even exist.
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Additionally, Cannon Films owned the film rights to Spider-Man, and planned to make a Spider-Man film in the mid-1980s.
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In May 1987, The Cannon Films Group sold its 2,000-title British film library, the Thorn-EMI Screen Entertainment Library, for $85-million to Weintraub Entertainment Group.
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Cannon's films proved to be much more popular in the United Kingdom than in its native United States, which is why Cannon acquired several British cinema chains during the 1980s, and founded the mail-order video distribution service Videolog as a joint venture with Columbia House Europe, Ltd.
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Cannon Films Cinemas were a familiar sight in the United Kingdom until the late 1990s, when MGM Cannon Films cinemas were sold to Virgin who retained the multi screen sites and sold the traditional sites to a new ABC Cinemas.
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One of the final films produced by Golan and Globus that received a wide release under the Cannon Films banner was the Jean-Claude Van Damme post-apocalyptic action film Cyborg.
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