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Official YouTube channel of Carolco Pictures.
Carolco Pictures, Inc. is an American independent motion picture production company that, within a decade, went from producing such blockbuster successes as Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Total Recall, and the first three films of the Rambo series to being bankrupted by box office bombs such as Cutthroat Island and Showgirls. The company's trademarks were purchased by another interest who renamed its established company under the Carolco name. The Eagle Has Landed (1977) March or Die (1977) Rambo:
Rate. 20 Metascore. Carefree young drifter Nomi arrives in Las Vegas, Nevada to become a dancer and sets about clawing her way to the top of the Vegas showgirls. Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Elizabeth Berkley, Kyle MacLachlan, Gina Gershon, Glenn Plummer. Votes: 71,336 | Gross: $20.30M. Carolco pictures.
Carolco Pictures 1970s and Vajna. Kassar met Andrew G. Vajna at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival. A year later, Kassar and Vajna founded Carolco Pictures. "Carolco" was a name they had taken from a long-defunct company based in Panama. "We just bought the name," Kassar later told Entertainment Weekly. "It means nothing."
Carolco Pictures Inc. said yesterday that it had filed for bankruptcy protection and agreed to sell most of its assets for $50 million to 20th Century Fox, a unit of the News Corporation.
The first in a series! Learn about Carolco, an ambitious and innovative film and television production company known for their big budgeted movies going well...
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Carolco Pictures, Inc. was originally formed in 1976 by Mario F. Kassar and Andrew G. Vajna as "Anabasis Investments" to make a major independent competitor to the Hollywood studios producing A-movie product. In 1984, Anabasis Investments was reincorporated as "Carolco International, N.V." In 1987, Carolco acquired International Video Entertainment ("IVE" or "I'VE", then later known as "LIVE Entertainment") but later was forced to sell its shares in 1993 to a group of investors led by Pioneer El
