Paramount Pictures

Angels & Demons fails to crack Code

source: Screen Weekly

 India The sci-fi reboot was distributed by Paramount Pictures, a unit of Viacom Inc. X Men Origins:Wolverine, which kicked off the lucrative summer movie season two weekends ago, was down one to No. 3 with $14.8 million. The total for the superhero picture ...

Published Tue, May 26

Ben Stiller beats "Terminator" at box office

source: KBIA

 AR Paramount Pictures' youth-oriented reboot of the "Star Trek" sci-fi franchise has earned $191 million after three weekends. The Viacom Inc unit also claimed the No. 5 spot with "Dance Flick," a comedy spoof from the Wayans family. ...

Published Mon, May 25

Michael Moore's new documentary to open Oct. 2

source: Forbes

20 years ago with "Roger & Me" - about General Motors closing a plant in his hometown of Flint. Moore won the Academy Award for best documentary in 2003 for "Bowling for Columbine." Paramount Vantage is part of Viacom Inc.'s Paramount Pictures unit.

Published Thu, May 21

Overture Films and Paramount Vantage Set Release of New Film by ... - PR Newswire

source: prnewswire.com

Its affiliated companies, Anchor Bay Entertainment and Starz Entertainment, make the films available domestically to viewers via home video, premium television, Internet and other outlets. Paramount Pictures Corporation (PPC), a global producer and ...

Published Thu, May 21

DreamWorks wants family unity for King project

source: Reuters

The proposed film could potentially be a huge project for DreamWorks, which split off from Viacom Inc's Paramount Pictures last year to take itself private with the backing of Indian media conglomerate Reliance ADA. Martin Luther King Jr. bio set for bigscreen Variety

Published Wed, May 20

Yacktmans' Gains Show They're Not Just Creatures of Bear Market

source: Bloomberg

Stephen Yacktman said prices he and his father found cheap pushed them into stocks such as Viacom, the New York-based owner of MTV, Nickelodeon and Paramount Pictures. Viacom fell 54 percent last year as the recession cut into advertising revenue. ...

Published Wed, May 20

Saving Hollywood

source: Reuters

Viacom (VIAB), which owns MTV, Comedy Central, and Paramount Pictures, is similarly ambivalent. On the one hand, Comedy Central offers a vast array of old shows and comedy clips on its Web site, available for free if you just watch this little piece ...

Published Tue, May 19

Analyst Report: Network DVR Set For Summer Launch

source: Multichannel News

 NY Turner Broadcasting System, ABC, CBS, NBC, 20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures and Disney Enterprises sued Cablevision in 2006, accusing the cable company of directly infringing their copyrights with the network DVR, which has never been offered to ...

Published Tue, May 19