The Pirate Disaster That Sunk a Studio: CUTTHROAT ISLAND

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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. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCialJ2te1CSh8DLU8SK5D_w/join Music Official Matt Draper Channel Theme by Mono Memory Support Mono Memory: Follow/listen on Spotify - https://spoti.fi/2SemMoK JOIN Mono Memory on YT - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3ee... Bandcamp Sub - https://monomemory.bandcamp.com/music Sailors Lament by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Sources 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/