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Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production and distribution company, based in Hollywood, California. It has become the longest-lived American movie studio ever, in existence for 95 years. Paramount is owned by media conglomerate Viacom.
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...this date in 1873, Adolph Zukor, who became one of the most powerful men in Hollywood, was born in Hungary. Paramount Pictures began its operations in 1912 as the Famous Players Film Company, and was founded by Adolph Zukor (1873-1976). Adolph Zukor was born...
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No Control
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are to star in 'Tintin'.
The 'Shaun of the Dead' stars will portray detective brothers Thomson and Thomson in Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson's 3D adaptation of the hit comic book series.
The first movie in the planned
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Female First
...already started to develop the movie. There have been many directors and studios who were set to make the movie, from Universal Pictures under the direction of David Hayter to Paramount Pictures under the direction of Paul Greengrass and finally to Warner...
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The Money Times
...So does Jamie Bell, but you wouldn't know it by Paramount Vantage's marketing of the film. HOLLYWOOD -- When is a Daniel Craig 007 movie not a Daniel Craig 007 movie? When it's Defiance, a fact-based Holocaust-themed drama about a trio of Eastern European...
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Canoe
...box office. The most successful studio of 2008 was Warner Brother, largely due to the success of The Dark Knight, as it grossed $1.79 billion with Paramount in second with $1.6 billion, and they had Iron Man and Indiana Jones to thank for their success....
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Female First
...depends on whether films were co-financed, how global rights deals were cut and how much went to theater owners. Paramount Pictures led the pack with international releases grossing $2 billion, up 28 percent, while Warner Bros.' movies grossed $1.8 billion. ...
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N.J. Courier-Post Online
...a distant relation to San Francisco's late, lamented Fox before the holiday break and, whoa, wolf whistles. The friendly rival to the Paramount around the corner is definitely beginning to feel like her glam self once more, decked out in a fabulist fantasia...
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San Francisco Bay Guardian
...of Ms. Evans and her brother. "Her students were her children, and she left an impression." Ms. Evans died Sunday in West Palm Beach of complications from a long-term battle with Alzheimer's disease. She was 96. Ms. Evans was born into a Pittsburgh-based performing...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
...the best may be some totally unknown gink at Northwesteastsouth Montana Normal School Branch -- who hasn't gotten a chance at the Paramount. So, we come down to recruiting, where Meyer is not only persuasive but has a lot more scenery and temperature to sell...
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Miami Herald
...the nomination could have been as big of a mistake for the Dems as green-lighting the "Stuart Saves His Family" movie was for Paramount. In a state that elected former professional wrestler Jesse "The Body" Ventura as its governor, you can expect the unexpected....
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Huffington Post
Last Week - About Paramount
...YORK, Dec. 31 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a statement today, former New York Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman stressed the importance of focusing on specific policy agendas and the key issues facing New Yorkers in the short time remaining before Governor...
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PR Newswire
...wound up on YouTube, and his stance against psychiatric drugs made him the bad guy in a public conflict with a friend, Brooke Shields. When he went to Germany to film Valkyrie, much of the country wanted him to stay away. Still, he doesn't see himself as any...
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Sydney Morning Herald
...of video titles directly to consumers. CinemaNow works with more than 250 licensors including 20th Century Fox, Disney, EMI, HDNet, IFC, Lionsgate, MGM, Miramax, NBC Universal, Paramount Pictures, Sony, Sundance Channel, Vivendi Entertainment and Warner Bros....
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Ehome Upgrade
...over the years (The Daily Telegraph's are the best. I don't know why this is, but it's true. Here's their obituary for Eartha Kitt, and this is my favourite Telegraph obituary ever, because it contains the lines Despite a brisk code of discipline, Singleton...
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Neil Gaiman's Journal
...viewing similar to the original downloaded Joost experience. Since then, the little startup has also expanded to MTV Poland and MTV Hungary, and just recently it launched with mobile carrier Orange in Israel. Basically, Orange is trying to get into offering...
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NewTeeVee
...would make a good Cheat Sheet story. Your feedback has been sent! Last year’s Batman movie, The Dark Knight, featuring Heath Ledger as The Joker in his final screen role before his drug induced death, has grossed $997 million at box offices worldwide, making...
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The Daily Beast
...been a spectacular success. It is the United States that is now at a crossroads and in need of drastic systemic reform. While China's economic development has too short of a history to provide any useful lessons on bailing out a crashing economy, if Barack...
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New America Media
...an early-February Blu-ray debut for the smash sequel 'Escape 2 Africa.' A follow-up to the 2005 original, 'Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa' grossed over $150 million at the domestic box office. Paramount will debut the sequel on Blu-ray February 6, day-and-date...
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High-Def Digest
...and Pamela Hasselhoff. During the course of the night, revelers cheered as they raised a star at midnight, rather than the traditional raising of the ball. Enjoy the pictures of Katy Perry out celebrating New Year’s Eve in Los Angeles (December 31)....
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The Gossip Girls
...28 percent, while Warner Bros.' movies grossed $1.8 billion. Universal grossed $1.7 billion, up 66 percent from a year ago. Universal Pictures is owned by NBC Universal, a unit of General Electric Co.; Sony Pictures is a unit of Sony Corp.; Paramount Pictures...
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Palm Beach Post
Last Month - About Paramount
...highly-anticpated drama, 'Australia.' ; australia; Baz Lurhman; Drama; Hugh Jackman; movie; Nicole Kidman; trailer; variety; Daniel Craig and Liev Schreiber star in the WWII drama from Paramount Vantage. ; Adam Sandler's bedtime tales comes to life in the...
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Variety
...on highly trafficked comedy sites - Online video distribution - Satellite Radio - College Cable Television "National Lampoon"s Stoned Age" is presented in full-screen with Dolby Digital English 5.1 Surround with English and Spanish subtitles. The DVD...
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PR-Inside.com
...role for Jason Robards, who would later play Steve Martin's father in Howard's Parenthood. Another co-star in the film was Yul Brynner, as a Soviet colonel. Howard, who had just turned 4, recalls "a scene where he was supposed to take a shot of vodka and then...
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USA Today
...of Sony Corp.; DreamWorks, Paramount and Paramount Classics are divisions of Viacom Inc.; Disney's parent is The Walt Disney Co.; Miramax is a division of The Walt Disney Co.; 20th Century Fox, Fox Searchlight Pictures and Fox Atomic are owned by News Corp.;...
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Boston Globe
...of Sony Corp.; DreamWorks, Paramount and Paramount Classics are divisions of Viacom Inc.; Disney's parent is The Walt Disney Co.; Miramax is a division of The Walt Disney Co.; 20th Century Fox, Fox Searchlight Pictures and Fox Atomic are owned by News Corp.;...
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PR-Inside.com
...during the current credit crunch. Asked about debt-renegotiation talks at National Amusements, through which chairman Sumner Redstone controls Viacom and CBS Corp., Dauman said he is not involved in them. "Our board (which has discussed the issue) is very...
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Hollywood Reporter
..."With school holidays set to start in many markets, Madagascar 2 is set for a very strong run this holiday season," Andrew Cripps, president of Paramount Pictures Intl., told Variety. IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above...
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Original Signal: Movies
...the director who started the franchise rolling, whether its Sam Raimi with "Spider-Man," Steven Soderbergh on "Ocean's Eleven," Brett Ratner with "Rush Hour" or Jay Roach on "Austin Powers." On "The Dark Knight," Warner Bros. has made it clear that the franchise...
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Los Angeles Times
...and the Ludlum estate are working on a fourth installment. The film will again star Matt Damon and be directed by Paul Greengrass with George Nolfi writing the screenplay. Frank Marshall, Jeffrey Weiner and Patrick Crowley will produce the latest installment...
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PR Newswire
...don't understand Hollywood. You have to wonder who's making the decisions at Paramount these days, because David Fincher's Eliot Ness flick has all the makings of a profitable little film for the studio, but the project has been wasting away at Paramount since...
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Cinematical