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	Carolco Pictures - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Carolco Pictures, Inc. was an independent production company, funded primarily from Italian mafia influences, that within a decade went from producing such blockbuster successes as Terminator 2: Judgment Day and the Rambo series to being made bankrupt by bombs such as Cutthroat Island and Showgirls.
		One of the first Carolco films was Rambo: First Blood (1982), followed by the sequel Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) with Sylvester Stallone (who later signed a ten-picture deal with Carolco).
		Carolco struggled for some years to secure the rights to Spiderman a property that Cameron was keen to produce as a film.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Carolco_Pictures (471 words)

	Carolco Pictures - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Carolco Pictures, Inc. was an independent production company went from producing such films as Terminator 2: Judgment Day and the Rambo series to being sunk after producing bombs such as Cutthroat Island and Showgirls.
		One of the first Carolco films was the sequel Rambo: First Blood Part II with Sylvester Stallone (who later signed a ten-picture deal with Carolco).
		The only Carolco films not included in the deal are Cliffhanger, Aces: Iron Eagle III, Last Of The Dogmen, and Showgirls, the rights to these have been retained by their original theatrical distributors (Tri-Star, New Line Cinema, Savoy Pictures/HBO, and United Artists, respectively).
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Carolco_Pictures (468 words)

	Martishius v. Carolco Studios, Inc., 142 NC App 216 (00-199) 02/20/2001
		Carolco representatives toured the facilities with Crowvision, explaining to Crowvision the layout of the studio, and the area in which Crowvision would be working.
		Carolco moved for a directed verdict both at the close of plaintiffs' evidence and at the close of all evidence.
		Carolco argued that the evidence failed to establish its negligent breach of a duty, and that plaintiff was contributorily negligent.
	www.aoc.state.nc.us /www/public/coa/opinions/2001/000199-1.htm (6828 words)

	TMe:The Spider-Man Movie Fiasco
		Carolco, he thought, might be able to avoid the financial problems that had stymied his own dreams for Spider-Man at Cannon.
		By late 1991 Carolco paid $3 million to Cameron, the director of The Terminator and Terminator 2, to write and direct the picture.
		Spinks said that in its haste to sign Cameron for the new picture, Carolco had simply copied the terms of his Terminator 2 contract word for word, substituting Spider-Man for the name of the movie.
	www.teako170.com /spidey.html (1588 words)

	Variety.com - Carolco's year is 'Basic'
		Carolco is also making another attempt to craft a financial overhaul.
		Carolco's investment bankers say they are ready to file for a pre-packaged bankruptcy, thereby forcing bondholders to accept their plan or possibly something worse.
		If Carolco's hand is forced by some holdouts, the company gives the 14% bondholders just 90 cents on the dollar and 13% holders 55 cents on the dollar.
	www.variety.com /article/VR106681?categoryid=13&cs=1 (720 words)

	Residuals Cliffhanger Is Terminated
		By 1992, Carolco, one of the high flyers of the '80s, was facing an uncertain financial future.
		A "strike force" of auditors was quickly dispatched and soon discovered that Carolco had failed to pay residuals because the "creative" formulas they'd used to calculate residuals payments were incorrect.
		Carolco made an agreement to make past and future payments and provided a security interest in the assets of its company to make the promise to pay enforceable.
	www.dga.org /news/mag_archives/v21-3/residuals.html (819 words)

	Carolco Pictures
		Carolco Pictures, Inc. was an independent production company that produced such films as and the Rambo series.
		One of the first Carolco films was the sequel with Sylvester Stallone (who later signed a ten-picture deal with Carolco).
		Today, the ancillary rights to a majority of Carolco's library are held by French production company Studio Canal, while Paramount Domestic Television holds the television rights, and Lions Gate continues to hold the home video rights (via a new output deal with Studio Canal).
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	Los Angeles Business Journal: Hit movies make Carolco Pictures a major league player, but stock prices still lagging
		Carolco Pictures Inc., an independent film company formed on the foundation of "First Blood" and "Rambo," has clearly gunned itself into the top position among the independent movie companies, entertainment analyst said.
		Carolco said that production of the Esterhas thriller, which centers on a relationship between a policeman and a female writer psychologist, will begin immediately.
		"Carolco has clearly demonstrated that their formula is more likely to lead to blockbuster films than most of the independents," said Alex Ben Block, editor of the Van Nuys-based entertainment business newsletter Showbiz News.
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	Carolco
		Carolco Pictures Inc. was an entertainment company that produced, financed and leased motion pictures for exhibition in domestic and foreign theatrical markets and for later worldwide release in all media, including home video and pay and free television.
		Carolco had strong relationships with talent, writers, directors and producers.
		In connection with various transactions, Carolco obtained control of fifteen motion pictures from Vista L.P. and various development projects from the former DEG.
	www.carolcofilms.com (172 words)

	Carolco Pictures -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		One of the first Carolco films was the sequel (Click link for more info and facts about Rambo: First Blood Part II) Rambo: First Blood Part II with Sylvester Stallone (who later signed a ten-picture deal with Carolco).
		Carolco struggled for some years to secure the rights to (Click link for more info and facts about Spiderman) Spiderman a property that Cameron was keen to produce as a film.
		But as budgets for their feature films grew, the box-office intake was unfortunately minimum.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ca/carolco_pictures.htm (302 words)

	Institute > Reading List > Trampled (Pt. 1)
		He explains that Chaplin is not bankrolled by Carolco per se but through a separate "venture" created by Carolco, Le Studio Canal of France, and RCS Video of Italy, with additional funding from Japan Satellite Broadcasting.
		Asked why he was willing to gamble on the project, Kassar said in a prepared statement that he couldn't resist the pairing of "one of the greatest directors of our time" and "one of the most brilliant and fascinating legends in Hollywood." Attenborough offered to defer 60 percent of his salary.
		Carolco's only condition on the deal was the trimming of the script.
	www.dandychick.com /cqproject/institute/rltr1.html (1424 words)

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		In 1976, he formed Carolco Pictures, Inc. with partner Andrew Vajna, whom he had met while on a business trip to Hong Kong.
		Carolco became a major force among independent production companies due to the immense success of the "Rambo" action series beginning with the relatively modest but compelling "First Blood" (1982).
		Though Kassar may be best known for presiding over some of the biggest action blockbusters of the last decade, particularly several of Arnold Schwarzenegger's greatest hits ("Total Recall" 1991; "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" 1991), he has also executive produced a number of commercially risky projects.
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	Encyclopedia: Carolco Pictures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Mario Kassar (born Beirut, Lebanon, 10 October 1951) is a movie-industry executive whose projects are frequently in association with Andrew Vajna.
		One of the first Carolco films was Rambo: First Blood(1982), followed by the sequel Rambo: First Blood Part II(1985) with Sylvester Stallone (who later signed a ten-picture deal with Carolco).
		Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (born July 30, 1947 in Thal, Styria, Austria) is an Austrian-American actor, Republican politician, bodybuilder, and businessman, currently serving as the 38th Governor of California.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Carolco-Pictures (1053 words)

	Variety.com - Carolco, Live remarry
		Carolco Pictures and former subsid Live Entertainment agreed in principle to merge Thursday in a tax-free exchange of stock.
		The combination is subject to a number of conditions, but Live and Carolco said in a statement they plan to have a definitive agreement worked out within 30 days.
		Under terms of the deal, Carolco shares will be exchanged for newly issued shares of Live at a rate of 5 A Carolco to each Live share.
	www.variety.com /article/VR119546?categoryid=18&cs=1 (336 words)

	Hollywood Spotlight
		Amongst Carolco’s assets was a 50% share to the rights of everything-Terminator with the other 50% belonging to the original producer and co-writer Gale Anne Hurd.
		On the other side of the court, Carolco’s other co-owner, Andrew Vajna, was amidst the liquidation of his public company Cinergi, a company that had its dollar fingers dipped in films like Evita, Die Hard with a Vengeance, and The Scarlet Letter.
		It would be at this auction that Vajna would purchase Carolco’s share of the rights to the Terminator franchise for $8 million.
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	Encyclopedia: Carolco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Released on Friday, May 24, 1985, the second movie of Rambo, Rambo: First Blood Part II, has Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) released from prison by Federal order to document the possible existence of POWs in Vietnam, under the belief that he will find nothing and the government can sweep the issue...
		TriStar Pictures is a subsidiary of Columbia Pictures, itself a subdivision of Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, which is owned by Sony Pictures.
		Lions Gate Films is a Canadian film production and distribution company that is currently the largest and most successful independent film distributor/studio in North America.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Carolco (983 words)

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		Once that film was released, Cameron went about trying to secure the rights to the property through Carolco, the same production company that had financed T2 (to the tune of over $100 million dollars).
		Although T2 went on to worldwide success (over twice the amount of its cost was made back), the bottom line was that Carolco was in poor financial shape.
		The property could be the saving grace of the company, and it wasn't about to release its number one property without a fight.
	www.angelfire.com /az/SeabournLegend/Spiderman.html (727 words)

	The Superhero Hype! Boards - Carolco's unproduced X-MEN movie...
		Some are reluctant to change their moral beliefs, without its being true that the beliefs are justified just because people hold them.
		carolco was a big-time money spending studio in the 80s and 90s...
		All it means is the Carolco people deserve to be peeled, salted, de-fingernailed, de-toothed, castrated and quadruple-amputated, whereas the Fox people and Singer only deserve to be beaten with lead pipes for a day or two, lobotomized and left out in the desert naked, far away from any word processors or studios.
	www.superherohype.com /forums/showthread.php?t=114934 (1300 words)

	..:: IN Los Angeles Magazine ::.. ..:: Columnists ::.. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Back in the crazy '80s when public money was being thrown at entertainment startups, it was the home of Carolco/Live Entertainment.
		Carolco was famous for those Rambo movies with Stallone.
		In the mid-'80s I had a music countdown show on TV called Smash Hits that Carolco distributed.
	www.inlamag.com /columnists/806_outandabout.html (1225 words)

	Comics2Film: Spider-Man (Page 15)
		This was apparently included under the assumption that Carolco (the studio Cameron originally contracted to make Spidey for), would recover and begin production on it.
		Carolco claims to have bought the rights which they turned over to MGM/UA.
		This new agreement gave Carolco a deadline of May, 1996 to make the movie with their up-and-coming star director, James Cameron.
	www.comics2film.com /SpiderMan2.shtml (4800 words)

	Spider-Man News & Rumors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It's a tale that rages from the lots of studios including Carolco, Sony Pictures and MGM to the distant U.S. District Court for Delaware.
		Carolco re-negotiated the film rights with Marvel, securing their ownership until 1996.
		Fully intending to produce the movie, Carolco formally announced Cameron as the director/writer/producer of "Spider-Man," scheduled for release in summer 1993.
	www.alaph.com /spiderman/news/winter98.html (1899 words)

	Preview Online - Hollywood Notes
		Within days of being picked for the front of the September issue of Preview, Tobey Maguire had been offered one of the most talked-about movie roles of the turn-of-the-millennium: that of young photographer Peter Parker, who is bitten by an irradiated arachnid and becomes Spiderman.
		When James Cameron first wrote a script for a big-screen version of one of the staples of Marvel’s family programming stable (featured, incidentally, in an early issue of Preview Television), the plan was for Carolco to make the movie: this was, after all, early 1993.
		The whole legal morass that resulted from Cameron’s deal with Carolco took years to sort out, but Cap’n Jim’s screenplay nevertheless formed the basis for the first new-generation Spiderman script, which was written by The Lost World’s David Koepp.
	www.preview-online.com /sept_oct00/hollywood_notes/page2.html (629 words)

	Artisan Entertainment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		After a name change to Live Home Video (later Live Entertainment) in 1990, the company began its alliance with Carolco Pictures when it offered to distribute their releases on home video.
		In 1995, when Carolco ceased to exist as a company, StudioCanal got full rights to their film library and thus Live (under a new deal with the French-based production company) continued to distribute Carolco's films for video.
		In 1997, Live Entertainment decided to branch into film production, and in 1998, was rechristened Artisan Entertainment.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Artisan_Entertainment (379 words)

	RAMBO GRUNTS TOWARD A CHEAP COMEBACK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The bids will be opened by the court on May 13, when the assets of bankrupt filmmaker Carolco Pictures will be auctioned off to the highest bidder.
		The three films, which were produced by Carolco, made more than $1 billion in theaters and on video.
		Earlier in the bankrupcy proceedings, a bidding war erupted for another Carolco film, "Total Recall." Miramax nabbed it, for $3.15 million.
	www.businessweek.com /bwdaily/dnflash/april/nf70429a.htm (222 words)

	BW Online \| April 15, 2002 \| Unraveling Spider-Man's Tangled Web
		Carolco, famed for its ability to make big-budget flicks like Rambo II and Terminator, signed on the latter film's director, James Cameron, to write the script.
		In 1993, Golan felt he was being shoved out of the picture and sued to overturn his deal with Carolco.
		Carolco sued Viacom and Columbia in separate suits to reunite the TV and video rights.
	www.businessweek.com /bwdaily/dnflash/apr2002/nf20020415_7441.htm (1238 words)

	Kassar, Vajna trace 'T3' route to screen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		At Carolco, Kassar executive produced such blockbusters as "Terminator 2: Judgment Day," which grossed over $500 million worldwide, "Basic Instinct" and "Cliffhanger." Through Cinergi, Vajna generated such blockbusters as "Die Hard: With A Vengeance," which grossed over $365 million worldwide and was the third installment in the series starring Bruce Willis.
		And she only gave me the right to make one sequel, which was 'T2.' So now Carolco goes into Chapter 11 and all that and all the rights of whatever assets were there were for sale.
		They were not rushing their feet, I suppose, to go get the other 50 percent from Carolco in order to have 100 percent because if you were in their position you were basically controlling the situation.
	www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/icopyright_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1925685 (3306 words)

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		Vajna took his wealth with him, did not pass GO and instead drove directly to Carolco’s bankruptcy auction where he had his eye on something in particular.
		Vajna didn’t skip a beat and in turn purchased the remaining rights from Hurd for an additional $8 million.
		Fox made one attempt at hammering out a deal shortly before Carolco’s bankruptcy with confidence that they would lock a deal down considering they had the key players.
	www.dvdchannelnews.com /hollywoodspotlight?&doc=pages/editorials/hs_ed_005687yy&norecent (1160 words)

	The Rise and Fall of Carolco Pictures - The CHUD.COM Message Boards
		i seem to remember it had 'property of carolco pictures' on the cover or something...
		Well Carolco also gave us Jacob's Ladder in addition to a bunch of other movies I love so I'll exscuse them for Cutthroat Island.
		I always loved the Carolco logo at the front of their movies.
	www.chud.com /forums/showthread.php?t=63019 (1216 words)

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