Processed a equivalent season when Waterworld, Cutthroat Island was actually a very much large fiscal failure. Dollars and cents approached 100 million dollars and a sum Usa gross was close to 10 million dollars. It was the contributive factor to the dying of the motion picture's production company, Carolco Pictures and Davis as a bankable star. These are as well in the Guinness World Records for the biggest box office bomb of all time.

A film was originally due to co-star Michael Douglas but he withdrew and was replaced by Matthew Modine. Modine & Davis use at times been honorable in a period of interviews all about a inflated egos & horrors surrounding the production of the film.