21st Century Film Corporation and Cannon

 

 

 

 

21st was a project for Menahem Golan when he left (or pushed out of maybe) Cannon. Just like Cannon, 21st  Century had been around for a long time (1971) before Golan arrived.  Giancarlo Parretti (who bought Cannon, renamed it Pathe and then merged it with MGM, fled the USA and is still wanted by US authorities) bought the company and gave control to Golan along with some funding apparently. 21st at the IMDb Golan was soon dumped (or left again,) and 21st was renamed Cannon Pictures.

 

Never found an artwork connection between these 2 companies but take a look at this copyright note on the UK VHS tape of The Rose Garden (1989).

 

 

UK VHS tape and the films end titles (click for larger image)

 

 

 

Look at the end titles here and the copyright is confirmed and amazingly the Cannon logo is the wrong way around.

 

 The UK VHS was released by Cannon Video/Pathé. MGM do control some rights to 21st Century Film Corporation product like The Phantom of the Opera 21st Century Film Corporation and Golan kept the Marvel rights to Captain America which would have stayed at Cannon I assume had it not been merged with MGM.

 

The 21st name is now owned by Fox Entertainment Group Inc (ie Twentieth Century Fox), as for the film/video rights, they're all over the place.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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