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...Carolco Pictures was the producer of such juggernauts as Basic Instinct and a brace of Rambos. Now it's scrounging around for old props. After the huge, expensive stinkball Cutthroat Island was wrapped, some items weremissing. Oddly enough, a cannon, some maps, a peg leg and one of GEENA DAVIS' outfits turned up in Planet Hollywood Helsinki, co-owned by the movie's director and Davis' spouse RENNY HARLIN (the one with longer hair than MATTHEW MODINE's). Carolco says they were removed from the set without permission. Harlin's people say the props were given to the director because...
...that the too-good-to-be-true future of our youth is suddenly arriving, however, not everyone is thrilled. A month ago, TCI, the ubiquitous cable-TV company, announced a deal with Carolco, the foundering little movie studio, to show big-deal movies on pay-per-view television before they are released to theaters -- a heretical idea that was instantly condemned by the show-business establishment, including Blockbuster Entertainment. But within days, < Blockbuster announced its own deal, with IBM, to develop a system of in-store CD manufacture under which CDs would be recorded as customers asked for them...
...screenings, the Motion Picture Association of America's classification board indicated that in its present form, Basic Instinct would receive an NC-17 rating (no children; 17 or older). Douglas and Verhoeven have urged that the disputed scenes stay, even if this results in an adults-only tag. But Carolco, which produced the $40 million film, and Tri-Star, which is to release it in March, are insisting that Verhoeven keep cutting Basic Instinct until it gets an R. Fearful that they will make less money if shut out of the lucrative teen market, they are opting for holy Mammon...
...about T2's presumed profligacy, four movie rules should be remembered. First: the cost of the product is not passed on to the consumer. Moviegoers pay as much for a ticket to a no-budget documentary like Paris Is Burning as they do for admission to any superspectacle. Second: Carolco has nearly made back its T2 investment by selling off theatrical, videocassette and pay-TV rights around the world. Third: the idea is to put the money on the screen. T2, with its mercurial visual wizardry that leaves audiences oohing, does that and then some. And finally: Cameron's previous...
...this: after opening this week to long lines and muscular grosses, the film will go flabby. Audiences will quickly turn to cuddlier movie diversions. The action-adventure genre, which has worldwide appeal but whose budgets have been ballooning until they are ready to burst, will finally be terminated. And Carolco, T2's producer, will be left with a $100 million egg on its face...