The Rise and Fall of Carolco
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ย. 2024
- 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 past the millions, which eventually led to their downfall. We are currently in the process of making more of these, so let me know in the comments of what you think about this.
Wow! In an hour, I went from having limited knowledge of Carolco's history and backstory to understanding why the return of the Carolco name is big news. I was never quite interested in this company before, but this production has changed that for me. If great effort like this is put into future productions, then I can only see success for this series!
Oh wow dude! Your feedback means a whole lot dude. Thank you!!
The director of First Blood, Ted Kotcheff, had a traumatic experience earlier in his life working as a director of television drama in the UK in the 1950s.
He was in Manchester directing an episode of ABC Weekend's drama anthology series _Armchair Theatre_ called "Underground", depicting survivors of a nuclear attack sheltering in the London Underground. It went out live across the ITV network on 30th November 1958. It starred Warren Mitchell, Patricia Jessel, Donald Houston, Peter Bowles and Gareth Jones. Jones, who was 33 years old, complained of feeling unwell while in makeup between scenes. He collapsed and died shortly afterwards. Ironically his character was to die of a heart attack during the course of the play.
Peter Bowles (who himself sadly died this week at the age of 85) would later recall: "During transmission, a little group of us was talking on camera while awaiting the arrival of Gareth Jones's character, who had some information for us. We could see him coming up towards us, but we saw him fall. We had no idea what had happened, but he certainly wasn't coming our way. The actors started making up lines, 'I'm sure if so-and-so were here he would say'..." Bowles' account has been contradicted several times, including by Kotcheff, who recalls that he saw Jones being carried away from makeup by two men behind the scenes in order to attempt resuscitation. A doctor and nurse were on set due to the amount of rubble required to be dropped on set, but it was to no avail for Jones.
_Armchair Theatre_ producer Sydney Newman instructed Kotcheff to continue and shoot the play "like a football [soccer] match", and follow the actors as they improvised a way around the missing actor. Kotcheff quickly restructured the play during the commercial break and directed on the studio floor in order to bring the play to a conclusion without the missing character being noticed. A young and inexperienced production assistant by the name of Verity Lambert would become vision mixer in the gallery while Kotcheff was in the studio itself. Lambert would go on to be the founding producer of _Doctor Who,_ a co-creation of Sydney Newman, and produce several television series and films until her death in 2007 at the age of 71.
It would only be once they had gone off air that the actors were informed of Jones' death. Donald Houston was a close friend of his, and Bowles opined that Houston would have been unable to continue with the play had he known what had happened.
Earlier in the day, the cast bought a crate of beer to drink on the train back to London to liven up the journey home. This evening, however, it felt more like a wake. Jones' share of the beer went untouched throughout the journey.
An extremely informative and well made documentary. Along with Cannon and Orion, they made some great movies, it's just a shame their hit ratio's were not higher.
After all this time, I finally got around to watching this. Stellar job, guys. I had no idea the guys at Carolco were such spendthrifts!
Thanks!
read carolcos history on wikipedia. you dont need bullshit videos
Sadly, the new Carolco Pictures folded back into StudioCanal due to a lawsuit. Most of the Seven Arts films except "Queens Logic" are owned by StudioCanal.
Saw so meany carolco films in my childhood ! Lots of nostalgic memories from this video !!!! Thank you ! Great video !
Simply amazing. The amount of effort you guys have put into this is incredible.
Thanks for your feedback my friend!!
Now that's a history if I ever saw it. Lots of effort put into it and a excellent overview of Carolco Pictures. I will be certainly looking forward to the next Rise and Fall video in this series. The people who made this did a fantastic job doing all the research that needed to be put into this project. There is one thing however that I noticed missing. In 1990, Carolco started their Home Video unit Carolco Home Video releasing their film library onto home video formats. The label then ended in 1993 when Live Entertainment took over releases for the rest of Carolco's library. Other than that. Fantastic work!
a few errors - but an excellent and entertaining overview of the fantastic production company Carolco - who like Orion and Cannon - i always got excited when their labels came up on the beginning of the vhs film ... great memories ...
Regarding Cutthroat Island, the film didn't hurt Carolco that much because they had already filed for bankruptcy before its release. There was no real marketing campaign behind it, and it was not released as widely as other big flops like 47 Ronin and Pluto Nash.
This video excellently researched and edited! Thank you!
Russell Mulcahy was an Australian film director who directed The Duran Duran music video Hungry Like the Wolf in 1982, pronounced mole K he. He would go and direct the Denzel Washington and John Lithgow thriller, Ricochet in 1991.
I like that Carolco music at 2:23
Emmy and Oscar winning legend Jerry Goldsmith who wrote the Carolco jingle since late 1985 and early 1986, beginning with
"Rambo: First Blood Part 2" - the latter which earned an 1986 Oscar nod for best sound editing.
The narrator mispronounces so many of the names involved.
he does that a lot, he called Gary Busey, 'Gary Busy'.SMH
And it's Edward, not Patrick Furlong.
ex-caped...i hate it when people say it that way.
I'm turning this off its annoying he put so much work into everything else but doesn't have a working knowledge of the pronunciation of an actor's last name.
Syrian oak Arnold! lol. Sounds similar to Austrian I suppose =P
Great work! Very enjoyable !!! Thank you for making this !!!
Idc if Jim doesn't live up to his brother according to Jim is one of the best shows ever
This is an extremely well made and interesting doc for film nerds like me. Well done. That is a crap ton of research. I know. Id love to see a doc on Nu Image one day...great work
13:24 In the UK & Eire, Carolco's films were released by Guild Film Distribution and on video by Guild Home Video, a partnership that lasted from Extreme Prejudice until the very end with Cutthroat Island.
The early films were distributed by:
First Blood - theatrical by Columbia-EMI-Warner, video by Thorn EMI Video
Reckless and In Love - video by VTC
Rambo: First Blood Part II - theatrical by Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment, video by Thorn EMI Video
There were some exceptions...
Angel Heart - theatrical by Columbia-Cannon-Warner, video by Guild Home Video
Rambo III - theatrical by Columbia Tri-Star Films (UK), video by Guild Home Video
Red Heat - theatrical by Columbia Tri-Star Films (UK), video by RCA/Columbia Pictures International Video.
Hamlet - theatrical by Guild Film Distribution, video by RCA/Columbia Pictures International Video under the 20·20 Vision label for rentals.
Well done. This was effort put into it as a TH-cam Television Documentary.
I know a documentary exists, but I’m curious when you will cover “Cannon films”?
We did it! A success! (Pops open a bottle of champagne) I don't think you're of legal drinking age, so sip in spirit
Thanks dude! Cheers!
Cheers!
+Mayfield Entertainment it would be cool to have The Rise and Fall of Vestron
@@AlexPerrine It has now folded into Lionsgate since 1992 after the success of "Dirty Dancing."
Great retrospective, keep up the great work sir
This is brilliant! Thanks guys, just subbed.
enjoyed watching. chuckled at your pronunciation of the movie "Leviathan"
Good job; as for Caroloco, they definitely had their moments, but it looks to me like they never really made any money due to having to pay certain actors large sums to lure them away from larger companies. I admire their ambition though, and I feel many of these films are very good, it just wasn't demonstrated by the Box Office take. In a way, their story is similar to Cannon films, except I think Carolco aimed higher.
22:33 Despite being an underperformer at the box office, "Music Box" received an Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for Jessica Lange.
Crédit Lyonnais Bank Nederland or CLBN was Carolco's main financier. So it's no surprise that they ran a foul after 1992. In 1992 CLBN went bankrupt due to its Hollywood deals as well as a failure in the Italian film market. This along with Giancarlo Paretti's looting and embezzlement at MGM caused the bank to effectively collapse in 1995, two years after it had siezed control of Epic Productions, Trans World Entertainment and Vision P.D.G International. Crédit Lyonnais Bank was notorious for trying to bury any bad debt accumulated from the Hollywood deals and that along with Executive Life Insurance is what killed Carolco's main backer.
Nice video, Though I prefer Total Excess: How Carolco Changed Hollywood Over it.
Also, I Always Associate the Carolco Library With StudioCanal.
And Rambo:First Blood got beat out by George A. Romero's Creepshow in 1982 for five consecutive weeks after November 19th 1982.
PLEASE COVER UNITED ARTISTS
ancient comment but that wouldn't work as, one; UA isn't dead, and 2; they've made a slight comeback
Carolco and Cannon Films are the best films compagnies. Try to change my mind.
For a 7 year old kid hearing these logos come on tv was EVERYTHING!
Holy shit, the "Syrian Oak"? Really??? Arnold is Austrian, NOT Syrian, you knob heads. Otherwise, SUPERIOR documentary you guys have made! Really, really great. What memories you've conjured for me! I grew up watching ALL of these, renting them on VHS from Wegman's video store in Marketplace, Henrietta (Rochester, N.Y.).
That was supposed to be Styrian, as in Styria, which is located in Austria
So many of my favourite films of the 80s made by Carolco, with such hits it's amazing that some of their quality product lost so much money. Just one thing; i don't think Minority report was based on Total Recall as It is a short story in it's own sense by Philip K Dick. Possible they included elements although i can't think of any right now and i have read almost everything by Dick
Thank you for these videos
Carolco Pictures Movies That Made Money
Rambo: First Blood (1982)
Gross: $1.149 billion
Rambo: First Blood Part 2 (1985)
Gross: $2.217 billion
Rambo 3 (1988)
Gross: $1.154 billion
Red Heat (1988)
Gross: $213.7 million
Total Recall (1990)
Gross: $1.307 billion
LA Story (1991)
Gross: $132.9 million
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Gross: $2.399 billion
Basic Instinct (1992)
Gross: $1.532 billion
Universal Soldier (1992)
Gross: $412.3 million
Cliffhanger (1993)
Gross: $1.043 billion
Stargate (1994)
Gross: $764.5 million
Total Earnings: $12.3 billion
Carolco Pictures Movies That Lost Money
Angel Heart (1987)
Gross: $113.9 million
Extreme Prejudice (1987)
Gross: $74.8 million
Pound Puppies and the Legend of Big Paw (1988)
Gross: $3.6 million
Iron Eagle 2 (1988)
Gross: $64.1 million
DeepStar Six (1989)
Gross $45.2 million
Lock Up (1989)
Gross: $122.8 million
Johnny Handsome (1989)
Gross: $40.2 million
Music Box (1989)
Gross: $35 million
Mountains of the Moon (1990)
Gross: $20.1 million
Air America (1990)
Gross: $288.5 million
Narrow Margin (1990)
Gross: $54.5 million
Jacob's Ladder (1990)
Gross: $130.6 million
The Doors (1991)
Gross: $158.5 million
Chaplin (1992)
Gross: $41.2 million
Wagons East! (1994)
Gross: $17.1 million
Total Earnings: $1.2 billion
So "Angel Heart" was the first Carolco film to be a financial loss?
The so-called new Carolco returned the name to StudioCanal last year, and has since been renamed as Recall Pictures.
Oh well.
StudioCanal sure isn't disappointing with Carolco. Everything is being remastered in 4K.
I think you should do The Rise and Fall of Hanna Barbera.
Aside from the rampant mispronunciations of names throughout as well as the wild mood swings in terms of tone from the narrator, this wasn't a bad documentary.
I loved it! Awesome job!
Thank you!
+SCMediaWorks You're welcome!
Mongrel Media now distributes Carolco movies thru StudioCanal now here in Canada since 2014
You should do the rise and fall of New World Pictures and Vestron!
and Embassy Films Associates.
New World Entertainment has been a part of the Disney family since 1997 after the success of many successful programs starting with
"The Greatest American Hero" (1981-1989). Followed by "Santa Barbara," "Hunter," "21 Jump Street," "WiseGuy," "The Wonder Years,"
"The Bold and the Beautiful," "Tales from the Crypt," "Evening Shade," "Silk Stalkings," "The Commish," "Hearts Afire," "Renegade,"
"Real Stories of the Highway Patrol" and "Access Hollywood." Vestron has folded into Lionsgate since 1992 and still continues with the name is now used for a collector oriented
home entertainment label since 1997.
Embassy Films Associates has folded into StudioCanal since May 1986. Most of the titles such as "Zulu," "The Graduate,"
"The Producers," "The Lion in Winter," "Sunflower," "The Day of the Dolphin," "The Fog," "The Howling," "The Onion Field,"
"The Black Marble," "Escape from New York," "Zapped," "Losin' It," "This is Spinal Tap" and "Champions" were now distributed
by Sony Pictures Television for first run syndication in 2002. "The Sure Thing," "The Emerald Forest" and "A Chorus Line"
were now currently distributed by Warner Bros Television, Warner Bros Domestic Television Distribution and
Turner Program Services under Time Warner for syndication since September 24, 1990. "The Red Balloon" is now
currently distributed by Paramount Domestic Television, a Viacom Company and aired on ABC, November 29, 1979.
The rest of Embassy's library, including "Gaslight Follies" were now at the hands of Lionsgate, NBC Universal,
Janus Films and StudioCanal.
Embassy has folded into Columbia Pictures under Sony Pictures Entertainment on Tuesday, June 25, 1985.
1:01:24 Is the logo for the DLC Information Group using the fanfare for WCBS-FM?
excelent.
Wish this would premiered in theatres.
+Sagan Blob Enterprises Me too man LOL
+Sagan Blob Enterprises Awesome history ever from The Rise and Fall series :-)
SCMediaWorks Don't worry, you can submit it to a film festival.
Hey, I'll get StudioCanal (the owner of the Carolco Pictures library) to distribute this film in their native France, as well as in their international territories the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Australia and New Zealand. Also, I'll get Rialto Pictures (the North American representative for StudioCanal's library) to distribute the film in North America.
It's the same thing that happened to the Israeli cousins Golan and Globus, they make all the money only not to pay any of it and there they go. It's safe to say all these video production companies went bus by the end of the 1990s or eighties.
Lisa Bonet (Bo-Nay) is the mother of actress Zoe Kravitz and ex-wife of Lenny who was the son of the late Roxie Roker who played Helen on The Jeffersons who was in an interracial marriage married to a white guy much to George Jefferson's dismay.
And now ex-wife of popular actor Jason Momoa.
My absolute favorite Carolco title is "RedHeat"
While I do appreciate the effort put forth here it is quite distracting to hear the narrator mispronounce nearly every name given. It also sounds like he is reading. There should be more organic commentary over something like this. Another thing that would improve it would be a few interviews of the principal players in this story. The BTS is good but there needs to be some other personalities involved in telling the story. Overall a good effort but I think it could be refined.
6:00 Clint Eastwood as John Rambo? That would have been interesting.
Great video
Again with the horrible mispronunciation of the words and titles and actors. It's Leviathan (Levi a than).
@SCMediaWorks Aces: Iron Egale 3 is now own by StudioCanal and licensed home video rights to Kino Lorber (it's one of their new home video deals Canal has been doing along with Shout! Factory).
Jacob's Ladder is Carolco's magnum opis
Best Company ever!!!That Time Movies Was Awesome!!!! not like today boring uninteresting crap..... Movies
Carolco closed again in 2017 due to a renaming
Carol - Co. Nice job!
You forgot that Carolco was originally launched as Anabasis Investments, N.V.
quite a few details missing here:
too much time spent on First Blood.
Dustin Hoffman considered for Rambo?!!! Oh my Lord!
The author of the original novel First Blood is on record of not liking the movie. Particularly having the Rambo character live in the end, a change from the novel.
It would've been cool if you explain about Spider-Man.
With all the big budget movies Carolco produced, how much of it was spent on cocaine large mountains of white China?
Is Carolco a film distribution company?
Oh, come on. Seriously?! You cannot even pronounce Andy Vajna's name right? I mean, you had to have researched it, right? It's NOT VAG-NA, it's Vay-Na.
Don't worry about a thing - because everything's gonna be alright!
How about the rise and fall of Palace Video?
What about The Rise and Fall of Nelson Entertainment?
Just because Nelson Entertainment wasn't there on most of their projects doesn't mean they didn't produce it. For example, there was
1982's Mother Lode which Agamemnon Films and Carolco Pictures were co-presenters and co-producers of the film's latter. Lionsgate
and StudioCanal co-distributed both in the US and Canada. On November 1979, the NE library was now owned by Sullivan Holdings LLC.
On November 1981, it was re-folded and re-named into both Sultan Entertainment LLC and New Line Cinema/Warner Bros. Pictures, a Time
Warner Company. Some of the most successful films which New Line did very well were the Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street,
House Party, Mask, Dumb & Dumber, City Slickers, Bill & Ted, Friday, Austin Powers and Rush Hour film franchises. From April 25, 1985-
present, most of the titles including The Red Balloon, Mother Lode, Hamlet and the Bill & Ted trilogy were owned by Paramount Domestic Television,
a Viacom Company. The Last Winter, Zulu, The Graduate, The Lion in Winter, The Producers, Carnal Knowledge and others were
owned by Columbia Pictures Television Distribution. The Sure Thing, A Chorus Line, Hope & Glory and others were owned by
Warner Bros Domestic Television Distribution. The Last Emperor is now owned by Lionsgate/StudioCanal. Gaslight Follies,
Golden Girl, Death Ship, Carbon Copy, Winter People and The First Power are owned by NBC Universal Television Distribution.
Sadly to say, NE was finally shut down on Friday, October 18, 1991 and now Time Warner's New Line Cinema unit along
with Sullivan Holdings LLC and Sultan Entertainment LLC joining forces together with their newest libraries of films
and television, 6 years later in the spring of 1997.
In the original First Blood book, spoiler alert, Rambo dies!
Total Recall 4K have new Carolco documentary
56:15 James Cameron told Arnie to "ask for a shit load of money"
Can u do one on the rise and fall of Debra winger
World famous bodybuilder, actor & war criminal, the Syrian Oak Bashar al Schwarzenegger.
THIS SHOULD BE MADE ON DVD BLU RAY
why dont made a cinergi pictures rise and fall???His history is shittier and more decadent than Carolco,really,Mario Bros and BURN HOLLYWOOD BURN what more do you need for make it???
Even Mario Kassar regrets making "Showgirls"
How many opening logos do you need?
@Jazz Webster th-cam.com/video/vI7JDTlixb8/w-d-xo.html
I love it
Happy Halloween
Would be interested in doing one on both Miramax and the Weinstein Company, since they’ll both collapse because of Harvey Weinstein’s scandal?
Miramax is jointly owned by ViacomCBS and beIN Media Group. I think at some point ViacomCBS will acquire it outright.
Trafalgar Law I think they will to.
@@Father_of_Death Viacom and CBS were now splitting again for one last time. By now, both were owned by
National Amusements LLC since 1986. Miramax is also part of the National Amusements/bein Media Group venture.
@@Father_of_Death Viacom and CBS are parted ways once again. I think at some point National Amusements will acquire it outright. The Miramax Showcase has now re-aired on syndication from 1999 to present, with blockbusters such as
the Scary Movie franchise, Sling Blade, Marvin's Room, Music from the Heart, Shakespeare in Love, Pulp Fiction,
Restoration, Gone Baby Gone, Don't Be a Menace, Sarafina!, the libraries of Samuel Goldwyn and Studio Canal
as well as others. As of 2005, both CBS Television Distribution and Trifecta Entertainment & Media has now co-distributed
the entire Miramax library.
"Austrian Oak". Arnold Schwarzenegger is Nicknamed The "Austrian Oak". Not the "Syrian Oak".
1989 strikes again. That year just did a lot of people in.
He has been refereed to as the Styrian Oak, although what was originally written was a misspelling since there was a T in there
Anthony Clark Who were affected by 1989?
Mr. Eazy-E MAN 1989 was a disappointing year for a lot of the most anticipated movies of that year. Outside of the huge Summer season, studios mostly lost money. The Horror genre suffered the most, as the top movies of the genre (Friday the 13th 8, A Nightmare on Elm Street 5, and Halloween 5) all disappointed with Fan reception and Box Office effectively killing those franchises for a while. '89 wasn't kind to Carolco either, as noted in the Documentary.
Anthony Clark ahh yeah it makes since. I guess if you weren't a fan of oscar type movies then you would be greatly disappointed by that year.😂
I'm surprised Jacobs ladder did not do well
How would things have gone differently if Cutthroat Island had become a major success back in 1995?
Well it was STILL a rubbish film....
Jac2Mac To be fair Cuthroat Island is mediocre.
It's defunct again?
+lukesams2 Oh ok. Whew!
13:25
Please tell me you didn’t say “Syrian Oak”. No....
I wish First Blood was 3hrs long.
I dun fucked up because I keep pronouncing it Carlo-co.
I for one loved Cutthroat Island.
I really paid to see Crusador..such a shame
"But it won't last" - Sharon Stone.
Arnold Schwarzenegger- The "Syrian Oak"? Lisa "Bonnet" like hat? It's the Austrian Oak and Lisa "Bohnay". Otherwise, thanks for putting these together.....
Очень жаль что без перевода.
1:03 😂
I like defenseless
interesting company background... but the "Syrian Oak"? WTF?
It was OAK Industries, an indie TV/film production company was owned by Arnold Schwarznegger in October 1975 - which co-produced
some of Carolco's biggest hits: Red Heat, Total Recall, T2. All three were distributed by Columbia-Delphi under SPE from 1988 to 1991.
On the small screen, OAK has co-produced the Emmy Award winning Dynasty on ABC which lasted nine successful seasons from
1981 to 1989. Back on the big screen again, OAK has developed, financed and produced several major successes along the way for
other filmmakers including Richard Franklin's first US film was Psycho II (1983/1984) for Universal with Anthony Perkins, Meg Tilly,
Vera Miles and Dennis Franz. The latter was a major box office success to its sequel, the Oscar nominated Psycho. It did well at the time
for Universal and went on to became an cult following for all ages. But the indie production company isn't going anywhere,
OAK Industries remains the same.
The narrator is pretty bad with name pronounciations and tone. How about a do-over? lol Please get better narration for future works! Great work otherwise.
ThaMizphit74 yo
You're so naive. The narrator who does his best. Naturally.
and yet Disney owns all of them
Which one are you talking about? Disney owns ABC and other brands while Carolco/Seven Arts were folded into
StudioCanal with successes like The Silent Partner, The Changeling, Tribute, My Bloody Valentine, Atlantic City, Funeral Home, the Rambo trilogy, Red Heat, Steel Magnolias, Total Recall, L.A. Story, T2, Basic Instinct, Universal Soldier,
Cliffhanger and Stargate. Both of them from 1995-present.