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	Carolco Pictures Information
		Carolco Pictures, Inc. was an independent production company, 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.
		Carolco struggled for some years to secure the rights to Spider-Man, a property that Cameron was keen to produce as a film.
		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 (TriStar, New Line Cinema, Savoy Pictures/HBO, and United Artists, respectively).
	www.bookrags.com /Carolco_Pictures (481 words)

	Carolco Pictures - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Carolco Pictures, Inc. was an independent production company, 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) (relesed the year it was christened Carolco) with Sylvester Stallone (who later signed a ten-picture deal with Carolco).
		Carolco struggled for some years to secure the rights to Spider-Man a property that Cameron was keen to produce as a film.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Carolco_Pictures (485 words)

	Encyclopedia article: Carolco Pictures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		One of the first Carolco films was the sequel Rambo: First Blood Part II (additional info and facts about Rambo: First Blood Part II) with Sylvester Stallone (who later signed a ten-picture deal with Carolco).
		About 80% of their entire output was released through Tri-Star Pictures (additional info and facts about Tri-Star Pictures).
		Carolco struggled for some years to secure the rights to Spiderman (additional info and facts about Spiderman) a property that Cameron was keen to produce as a film.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ca/carolco_pictures.htm (276 words)

	Carolco Pictures - Definition, explanation
		Carolco Pictures, Inc. was an independent production company went from producing such films as and the Rambo series to being sunk after producing bombs such as Cutthroat Island and Showgirls.
		Carolco struggled for some years to secure the rights to Spiderman a property that Cameron was keen to produce as a film.
		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.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/c/ca/carolco_pictures.php (442 words)

	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.
		Carolco previously sold sequels/remakes rights to certain of its top pictures, including Terminator 2 and Basic Instinct.
	www.carolcofilms.com /index.htm (197 words)

	PEOPLE - TIME
		He conceded that he'd had an affair with the woman whose daughter was trying to flmail him, but said he didn't think he was the father.
		In its day, Carolco Pictures was the producer of such juggernauts as Basic Instinct and a brace of Rambos.
		Carolco says they were removed from the set without permission.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,985895,00.html (649 words)

	Retro Junk \| Carolco Pictures
		The release of First Blood Part II was so instrumental to Carolco's financial success that from then on, the music of the company's logo utilizes the first stanza of its famous score, written by Jerry Goldsmith.
		Among the other films in Carolco's library were: Extreme Prejudice, Angel Heart, Cliffhanger (also starring Stallone), Chaplin, The Doors (directed by Oliver Stone), Total Recall (another Schwarzenegger box-office hit), Basic Instinct, Iron Eagle II, Universal Soldier (starring Van Damme and Lundgren), and Stargate.
		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 (TriStar Pictures, New Line Cinema, Savoy Pictures/HBO, and United Artists, respectively).
	www.retrojunk.com /details_articles/1881 (792 words)

	C-2 Pictures and Intermedia Find Home for TERMINATOR 3: Domestic Distribution Rights at Warner Bros. Pictures
		To be produced by Mario Kassar, Andrew Vajna and Joel Michaels of C-2 Pictures and Hal Lieberman, the mega-blockbuster will re-ignite the international franchise and set the stage for future Terminator sequels.
		C-2 Pictures and Intermedia expect to close the major international distribution deals for Terminator 3 before the end of the year.
		About C-2 Pictures: C-2 Pictures is the Santa Monica-based filmed entertainment company founded and headed by former Carolco Pictures principals Mario Kassar and Andrew Vajna.
	www.timewarner.com /corp/newsroom/pr/0,20812,669125,00.html (536 words)

	Carolco Motion Pictures Company Bond - RAMBO / Terminator Movie ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Carolco Motion Pictures Company Bond - RAMBO / Terminator Movie...
		This historic document was printed by the American Banknote Company and has an ornate border around it with a vignette of an allegorical woman in front of a strip of file with the world in the background..
		Carolco Pictures, Inc. was a diversified entertainment company, which financed, produced, and marketed and leased motion pictures in domestic & foreign theatrical markets prior to going broke.
	www.goantiques.com /detail,carolco-motion-pictures,342429.html (329 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.
		Golan's only condition, as he recalls the negotiations, was that his role in spotting the property's potential early and keeping the project alive be recognized: Any Spider-Man picture Carolco made was to bear his name as producer.
		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)

	Institute > Reading List > Trampled (Pt. 1)
		The picture is not in jeopardy at all.
		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)

	Los Angeles Business Journal: Hit movies make Carolco Pictures a major league player, but stock prices still lagging (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		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.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m5072/is_n27_v12/ai_9388383 (1050 words)

	Los Angeles Business Journal: Hollywood's other Hoffman - Peter Hoffman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The 39-year-old president and chief executive of Carolco Pictures Inc. has every reason to be comfortable.
		Since joining Carolco in January 1986, Hoffman has successfully transformed the company from a small, independent producer of "Rambo" films into a $165 million (1988 revenues) diversified entertainment company.
		Carolco's stock was one of the top gainers on the New York Stock Exchange last week, jumping 8.5 percent to $9.625 a share in one day.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m5072/is_n17_v11/ai_7717139 (1439 words)

	CRUSADE - The ARNOLD FAN Site
		The word was, the investors were estatic about the picture but when the meeting was finally held to drum up their financial support, Kassar shocked the industry by pulling out and shutting down the picture.
		It seems outrageous to think that Kassar would chose this picture over "Crusade", but at the time, Michael Douglas was starring in the picture opposite Geena Davis, and it was going to cost alot less to make.
		The picture flopped, and that was the end of Kassar's career.
	members.aol.com /PuNkGoOse/private/history.html (665 words)

	Artisan Entertainment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The company owns the film libraries of Republic Pictures, Vestron, and Carolco Pictures.
		After a name change to Live Home Video (later Live Entertainment) in 1990, the company began it's alliance with Carolco Pictures when it offered to distribute their releases on home video.
		In 1995, when Carolco ceased to exist as a company, Live Entertainment got full rights to their film library and continued to distribute Carolco's films posthumously.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Artisan_Entertainment.html (555 words)

	Toon Zone - Your Source for Toon News!
		The Big Picture is an economic history and analysis of the present-day Hollywood studio system, a description of its "market strategy." The book’s starting assumption is that a Hollywood studio is, first and foremost, a machine devoted to the creation of profit.
		A studio chief must carry around in his head a picture, a blueprint of the industry and his company’s place in it, and create policies and strategies to implement that blueprint.
		The Paramount of the 1930s, for instance, was primarily a real estate company with a factory attached; it was an enormous chain of gargantuan urban theaters that covered their operating costs by selling a diet of efficiently produced cinematic product to a steady and predictable stream of customers.
	news.toonzone.net /article.php?ID=2758 (5819 words)

	A.I. is a tribute to Kubrick
		Hoffman served as president and CEO of Carolco Pictures from 1986 to 1992.
		Under his leadership, Carolco went public and listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange, grew to a market cap of more than $700 million and became one of the world's leading independent film entertainment companies.
		Prior to joining Carolco, Hoffman was a founder and partner in Gipson, Hoffman and Pancione, a Los Angeles-based law firm.
	www.dealmemo.com /Content/June2001/News0627.htm (3718 words)

	Spider-Man Page 2 - Movie Tome
		James Cameron wrote a treatment for this film, over the years, as the rights to the character jumped between companies, nearly all his ideas were scrapped except for the biological web-shooters.
		Four were stolen from the set in early April of 2001 and Columbia Pictures posted a $25,000 reward for their return.
		The genetically modified spider that bit Peter Parker was not a fl widow spider, but a Steatoda spider, which was chosen by Steven R. Kutcher and painted red and blue by Jens Schnabel, while the spider was anaesthetized.
	www.movietome.com /movietome/servlet/MoviePage2/movieid-5005/SpiderMan (2939 words)

	More on T3, and Arnold from multiple sources... -- Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.
		Both the 1984 "The Terminator" and the 1991 sequel "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" were directed by James Cameron, but he has stated that he has no intention of revisiting the property, which is based on a character he originally wrote with Gale Ann Hurd.
		(Los Angeles, CA, June 21, 2000) C-2 Pictures, headed by Andy Vajna and Mario Kassar, announced today that Arnold Schwarzenegger is back as the cyborg in TERMINATOR 3, the third installment of the blockbuster sci-fi action saga.
		While no director is currently attached, Schwarzenegger has expressed his desire to reteam with James Cameron, director of the previous Terminator pictures.
	www.aintitcool.com /tb_display.cgi?id=6277 (1153 words)

	Joel B. Michaels @ Filmbug
		In the early 1990s Michaels produced the following films for Carolco Pictures: Adrian Lyne's Lolita; Renny Harlin's Cutthroat Island; Last of the Dogmen starring Tom Berenger and Barbara Hershey; Roland Emmerich's Stargate starring Kurt Russell and James Spader; and Emmerich's Universal Soldier starring Jean-Claude Van Damme.
		Amongst the many films Michaels produced throughout his career are Three of Hearts starring Billy Baldwin, Kelly Lynch and Sherilyn Fenn; Black Moon Rising starring Tommy Lee Jones and Linda Hamilton; The Philadelphia Experiment and Losin' It starring a young Tom Cruise and directed by Curtis Hanson.
		In addition to the projects currently in development at C2 Pictures where Michaels serves as President of Production, he has set up independent projects including the remake of The Changeling at Focus Features and The Remains of the Piano written and directed by Eric Idle at Stratus Films.
	www.filmbug.com /db/343495 (340 words)

	The CHUD.COM Message Boards - The Rise and Fall of Carolco Pictures
		If you ever wondered how the company behind the "Rambo" trilogy, "T2," and "Total Recall" could have gone belly up there is a great article in the current Entertainment Weekly detailing just that.
		i seem to remember it had 'property of carolco pictures' on the cover or something...
		I always loved the Carolco logo at the front of their movies.
	www.chud.com /forums/printthread.php?t=63019 (811 words)

	Fox Tries to Make "Terminator 3" - Sep 28, 1997 - E! Online News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		But Mechanic didn't know Carolco co-founder Andy Vajna had already signed a $7.5 million deal with the court for T3--a deal that doesn't guarantee Vajna the rights but does give him the ability to outbid any higher offer when the sequel rights are auctioned October 14.
		Now Mechanic, who is said to be furious at Vajna for not revealing his plans, is not in a good negotiating position.
		It's not the first time Fox has bid for Carolco's T3 rights: In 1995, the big studio offered $50 million for Carolco's entire film library--which, of course, includes T3--only to be outbid by French pay-TV giant Canal Plus, who plunked down $58 million.
	www.eonline.com /News/Items/0,1,1840,00.html (495 words)

	Scifilm -- Reviews, TERMINATOR 2: JUDGEMENT DAY (1991)
		Finally, Mario Kassar of the now defunct Carolco Pictures was able to untangle the legal problems and secure the rights for his company.
		The police approach her with pictures from the Terminator's appearance at the mall and link it to the same man who hunted her in 1984.
		Within a few years, Carolco was in bankruptcy and was eventually bought out by Fox.
	www.scifilm.org /reviews3/terminator2.html (4158 words)

	Anime News Network - Interview: Scott Houle
		In 1987 the lot was sold to Carolco Pictures and soon became a multimillion dollar industry, with four and five features in town simultaneously.
		Major film stars became common place to locals and the economy was booming.
		One day, I simply grabbed a handful of pictures of movie stars that I'd worked with and drove to their lot.
	www.animenewsnetwork.com /feature.php?id=175 (1100 words)

	Encyclopedia: List of Hungarians
		Vilmos Zsigmond (born on June 16, 1930, in Szeged, Hungary) is a cinematographer of motion pictures.
		Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema.
		Adolph Zukor (January 7, 1873– June 10, 1976) founded Paramount Pictures Studios in 1913, and became one of the greatest film moguls of all time.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List-of-Hungarians (7846 words)

	Carolco Motion Pictures Company Bond - RAMBO / Terminator Movie Company
		Beautifully engraved SCARCE Certificate from the famous Carolco Motion Pictures Company issued in 1990 for 14 Percent.
		This historic document was printed by the American Banknote Company and has an ornate border around it with a vignette of an allegorical woman in front of a strip of file with the world in the background..
		Carolco Pictures, Inc. was a diversified entertainment company, which financed, produced, and marketed and leased motion pictures in domestic & foreign theatrical markets prior to going broke.
	www.scripophily.net /ramcarmotpic.html (557 words)

	Schwarzenegger.com - News - Up-To-The-Minute
		T3 will be the first production from C-2 Pictures, the new filmed entertainment company founded and headed by former Carolco Pictures principals Andy Vajna and Mario Kassar.
		The 1991 sequel, TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY was a Carolco Pictures production released by Columbia Tri-Star.
		Rights to the Terminator series were acquired by C-2 from Gale Ann Hurd's Lightstorm Entertainment as well as well as from the sale of Carolco Pictures assets.
	www.schwarzenegger.com /en/news/uptotheminute/news_uptotheminute_eng_legacy_52.asp?sec=news&subsec=uptotheminute (451 words)

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