Cannon Films was an era-defining studio in the 1980s run by Israeli cousins Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, who were like a monstrous cross-breed of Roger Corman and the Weinstein brothers. After succeeding in Israel in the '60s, the pair moved to LA, with Yoram rounding up the money and Menahem picking the scripts. Together they produced a torrent of low-budget B-movies featuring the likes of Charles Bronson, Chuck Norris, Jean-Claude Van Damme and, er, Michael Dudikoff.