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tozsdenyul Előzmény: #837640"For Andrew Vajna, however, Carolco's growth was all too much. "After Rambo, we were trying to become a major studio. I felt that was the wrong direction," Vajna told Entertainment Weekly. "My feelings were very negative and it caused a lot of friction between Mario, myself, and Peter, who was by then Mario's right hand. I disagreed with where they wanted to go, and Peter played our egos against each other. He wanted to be a partner."
Kassar and Vajna's partnership had fallen apart by 1989, and Vajna was paid approximately $100m for his share in the company."
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"The erotic thriller Basic Instinct, directed by Paul Verhoeven, was a big success the following year, having made $352m. (Interestingly, Andrew Vajna had originally planned to produce the film under his new Cinergi Pictures banner, but Kassar, perhaps keen to get back at his old partner, purchased Joe Esterhas' Basic Instinct script for $3m after a furious bout of bidding.)"
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"In the wake of Carolco's collapse, Mario Kassar moved to Paramount, before forming a new studio - C2 Pictures - with his old partner Andrew Vajna in 2002. Their new partnership brought mixed fortunes, however; Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines provided an echo of Carolco's glory days, and made $433m in 2003. The lambasted Basic Instinct 2 (2006) failed to follow suit."