Norman Mailer: Works and Days

Cannon Films

Film production company run by Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus; it backed Mailer's directorial feature Tough Guys Don't Dance (1987) and Godard's King Lear.

Cannon Films, the production company run by Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, was the engine of Mailer’s mid-1980s movie work. It financed the film of Tough Guys Don’t Dance, which Mailer adapted and directed in Provincetown in the fall of 1986 for a roughly $5 million budget (86.36) and a seven-week shoot, releasing it in 1987. Cannon also produced Jean-Luc Godard’s King Lear, in which Mailer and his daughter Kate had agreed to appear (Mailer wrote a script Godard ultimately did not use; 86.29).

Stub created during the 1986 ingest.

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Last updated: 2026-06-06