Menahem Golan Net Worth

Menahem Golan's Quotes

• If you make an American film with a beginning, a middle and an end, with a budget of less than five million dollars, you must be an idiot to lose money.
• The film business is the only business where a negative is a positive.
• I make films, love them, sometimes I also do an excellent job. I don't consider myself an Ingmar Bergman, I don't make "message" films. I make them for the audience in the theater who doesn't get bored, laughs at a comedy, cries at a tragedy, with a lot of emotion. I'm hoping that there's still a future.
• For me a director is a director, he dictates the piece, creates it and I need to help him. The producer brings together all the elements that make it possible for the director to make the film - develop the script, hire the actors, hire the director and then work together with him. The director is the architect and the producer is the engineer.

Interesting Facts about Menahem Golan

1. Along with his cousin, Yoram Globus, bought the Cannon Group production company in 1979 and ran it throughout the 1980s. Because of their fast, low-budget style of filmmaking, they earned the nickname the Go-Go Boys.
2. He grew up in Tiberius, a city located in northern Israel, on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee.
3. Purchased UK production company Thorn-EMI Screen Entertainment. [1986]
4. Purchased Britain's Elstree Studios. [1986]
5. Started US production company 21st Century Pictures.
6. Co-founder of Israeli film production company Noah Films.
7. He had attempted to make a live-action film of the Marvel comics hero Spider-man as early as 1986 but it never happened.
8. He has been called the greatest film salesman in the history of the business.
9. During his time at Cannon, directors were ordered to have as many film as possible for Charles Bronson and Chuck Norris, commonly known as "the two Chucks".
10. Robert Forster described him as one of the best directors he ever worked for.
11. He has been praised as a predecessor and trailblazer for other independent film producers such as the Weinstein brothers and Jason Blum.
12. He was praised in his time for giving directors a strong degree of independence and freedom to pursue their visions.
13. He has been called the "father of Israeli cinema".
14. He would often go to the cinema whenever he had a few hours free, even in countries where films were in another language.
15. He would often become bored when talking about subjects other than films and would usually abandon whatever topic he was on to discuss films instead.
16. Growing up, he often went to the cinema at least three or four times in a week and learned as much as he could about cinema.