The history of what was once the biggest box office bomb of all time, Renny Harlin's "Cutthroat Island," a massive pirate adventure starring Geena Davis and Matthew Modine from 1995, From a production that went out of control to hundreds of millions of dollars lost, to how this one film closed Carolco Picture for good and cleared the way for Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean to succeed years later.
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https://www.the-numbers.com/box-office-chart/weekend/1995/12/22
https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Cutthroat-Island#tab=summary
https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/the-rise-and-fall-of-carolco/
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/the-vanity-that-led-to-a-100m-bonfire-1304053.html
https://www.cbr.com/biggest-box-office-bombs-all-time-movies/
https://collider.com/cutthroat-island-bankrupt-production-company/
https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/franchise/Pirates-of-the-Caribbean#tab=summary
https://variety.com/2024/film/global/cutthroat-island-lost-fortune-renny-harlin-geena-davis-box-office-poison-book-excerpt-1236193554/