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did this movie end cannon films, sir?


if i'm not mistaken, according to the documentary about cannon films this was the movie that meant the end for them, they spent alot of money to get a popular star like stallone, then cannon's other stars demanded the same kind of money, and its said that this whole concept of a movie about... arm wrestling... just didn't work. i like the thread here "name a better arm wrestling movie". though looking at it now there doesn't seem to centre all too much about that, and it doesn't look as bad as many other cannon flicks.

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entered in velvet steps,
image soft and harmless,
locking up your other sides,
my guard down as you let them out.

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I thought that piece of crap Superman IV was the final nail in coffin?

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OVER THE TOP (1987) Revisited: Sylvester Stallone Movie Review

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1GL7HiAxxY

Cannon Films were the kings of B-action movies in the mid-eighties, but they wanted to move into the big leagues. They set their sites on Sylvester Stallone, then at the peak of his popularity, to star in movies for them. Their first film together, Cobra, was not a typical Cannon movie. It had a huge budget โ€“ $25 million and was a co-production with a major studio, Warner Bros. It was meant to be a blockbuster and indeed was a financial success grossing $48 million at the domestic box office and about twice that domestically. Yet, it was considered a mild disappointment because Marion Cobretti did not become the next Rambo. Even still, Cannon had to be happy, and they doubled down on Sly, offering him the highest salary ever paid to a movie star at the time โ€“ $12 million โ€“ to star in 1987โ€™s Over the Top.

Based on a script by actor Gary Conway and David Engelbach, the film was pitched as a low-key character-driven drama, with the lead earmarked for a guy like Don Johnson. The story of a man trying to win back his estranged son, once writer Stirling Silliphant, the writer of In The Heat of the Night, The Poseidon Adventure, and The Towering Inferno was brought in, it was pumped up to become an epic Rocky-esque tale, so who else could they get on board but Stallone?

The result was a major box office flop whose entire domestic gross didnโ€™t cover Stalloneโ€™s salary, but in the decades since its cult status has grown to the point that itโ€™s now one of Stalloneโ€™s most popular eighties movies.

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I never knew this flopped at the box office. I remember this being on cable TV all the time, very much similar to The Beastmaster in its heavy cable television rotation.

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the Over the Top movie has nothing to do with it being a movie released by Cannon Films or whatever.

Its just another 1980s Sylvester Stallone flick. that's all. a classic Stallone flick because it was on HBO all the time anyway back in the mid late 1980s

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