Paramount Pictures
Background
Paramount Pictures Corporation is a major global American motion picture production and distribution company, based in Hollywood, California. Founded in 1912, it is the oldest running movie studio in Hollywood, beating Universal Studios by a month. 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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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jan. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF), the leading next generation filmed entertainment studio, announced that they have extended their relationship with American Greetings Properties, the intellectual property
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PR Newswire
...Sumner owns 80 percent of National Amusements; his daughter, Shari, 20 percent. Redstone sold $233 million worth of stock in Viacom and CBS to help pay off National Amusements’ $1.6 billion in debt. The network has buoyed itself with the success of the CSI...
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Conde Nast Portfolio
...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
...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
...from $2,300 to $5,600. In September, the two friends and Markey Essinger's brother-in-law traveled from Idaho to California's Santa Barbara area and back, hauling the tractor on a trailer. It's now at the Idaho farm. Cockrum admitted to wondering more than...
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HeraldNet
...Monsters Vs. Aliens, the company's first InTru 3D release, opens nationwide March 27, 2009, and will be distributed by Paramount Pictures. When California girl Susan Murphy is unwittingly clobbered by a meteor full of outer space gunk on her wedding day, she...
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MovieWeb
...Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer said in a statement. The firm has already signed a deal with Sony Pictures and U.S. cable provider Comcast to create Fearnet, a video-on-demand channel for horror film fans, and is working with MGM and Paramount Pictures on another...
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CBC News
Last Week - About Paramount Pictures
...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
... "Overseas operations of the six major studios -- Paramount, Warner Bros., Universal, 20th Century Fox, Sony and Disney -- each bagged more than $1 billion in revenue for the second consecutive year, according to preliminary estimates from each distributor."...
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ArtsJournal
...will release "Star Trek," the 11th film based on the 1960s television show. The new installment, directed by "Lost" producer J.J. Abrams, focuses on the early careers of Captain James Kirk and the crew of the spaceship Enterprise. Revenue in recent years has...
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eTaiwan News
...of the lucrative comic-book franchise, starring Hugh Jackman as the mutant superhero. Shortly after, another look at origins: J.J. Abrams's "Star Trek," which Paramount Pictures is hoping will spark a new franchise. The story begins even before what most Trekkies...
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Wall Street Journal
...at a press conference on Tuesday: I’m not supportive of moving forward with this MPAA proposal at this time. If another Commission (wants to deal with the question) they will be able to, obviously, but I’m not supportive of it. Please note: Comment moderation...
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Startup Meme
...favorite bi-curious pop star put on her cherry ChapStick for Gridlock’s mind-blowing party at Paramount Pictures Studios’ New York street back lot. This event was the toast of the town with performances by Katy Perry and LMFAO. In addition to the light shows,...
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Metromix Los Angeles
...$89.4 million domestic); and "Enchanted" ($100.7 million in 2008, $213.4 total). The biggest of the indie distribs is New Line Cinema, which collected $607 million in 2008 largely on the back of "Sex and the City" ($257.4 million foreign versus $153 million...
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Hollywood Reporter
...act like you're ten," the 27-year-old writes. McCoy is a close collaborator with Fall Out Boy and godfather to Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson's son Bronx Mowgli. "My friends always tell me how I'm lucky to possess the best looking girl in the whole U.S.," the...
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Celebuzz
...even confided that there is "a shout-out" to Moore in the film that "Battlestar" fans will absolutely catch. More than that, Abrams, who grew up as more of an intense "Star Wars" loyalist than a "Trek" follower, said the George Lucas universe and its visual...
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LoHud.com
...rhapsodic--"the movie is a soul-filling vision"--was just as potent as a gauzy picture of Brad Pitt riding on a motorcycle with Cate Blanchett, which was sandwiched between even more words of praise on the following two pages. In an era where critics are being...
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Los Angeles Times
Last Month - About Paramount Pictures
...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
...America - along with a stint dating bad-boy British comic Russell Brand. Her latest film, Bedtime Stories, with Adam Sandler, Courtney Cox and Guy Pearce, opens on Boxing Day. "Having worked on 2.37, by a first-time writer and director, it's exciting to be...
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Sydney Morning Herald
...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
...too fantastical to accomplish. The project floated around for 40-some odd years until producers Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall took it up. For over a decade, the project has likewise intrigued Eric Roth, David Fincher and Brad Pitt. For Roth, the concept...
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Just Jared
...Angelina Jolie, Jennifer Lopez, Eva Longoria, Tyrese Gibson, Emma Roberts, Gary Oldman, Jacqueline Bisset, Maria Menounos, Sanaa Lathan, Sharon Stone, Sumner Redstone and Taraji Henson, have also been spotted coming to the event. A time traveler's tale, "Benjamin...
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Aces Showbiz
...1934’s Best Picture, Director Frank Capra, Screenplay Robert Riskin, Actor Clark Gable and Actress Claudette Colbert. * Two David Lean hits: 1957’s exotic and mesmerizing “The Bridge on the River Kwai” and 1962’s epic for the ages, “Lawrence of Arabia.” * ...
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Boston Herald
...Industry Overview 3. Film Studios 3.1. US Film Studios 3.1.1. US Top Six 3.1.1.1. 20th Century Fox 3.1.1.1.1. Nokia 3.1.1.1.2. Loews Theatres and WideRay 3.1.1.1.3. DIDMO 3.1.1.2. Sony Pictures (formerly Colombia Pictures) 3.1.1.2.1. PIX 3.1.1.2.2. Mobile...
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PR-Inside.com
...distributors in the near future." GDC Technology has signed nonexclusive, separate agreements with 20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures International and Universal Pictures International to facilitate the deployment of digital cinema across Asia. Under the...
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Hollywood Reporter
...to find much more than they bargained for. Little do they know, they’ve entered the domain of one of the most terrifying specters in American film history—the infamous killer who haunts Crystal Lake, armed with a razor-sharp machete… Jason Voorhees. ...
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Smartcine.com
...with Wes Coller serving as co-producer. The film stars Malin Akerman as Laurie Juspeczyk, aka Silk Spectre II; Billy Crudup as Jon Osterman, aka Dr. Manhattan; Matthew Goode as Adrian Veidt, aka Ozymandias; Carla Gugino as Sally Jupiter, aka Silk Spectre;...
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PR-Inside.com