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Linda Hope To Present Bob Hope Stamp At Ceremony 5/29

29 May 2009 04:20:11 PDT

NY Hope was given a film contract with Paramount Pictures and went on to star in more than 50 feature films, including Road to Singapore and six more pictures in the Road series with Bing Crosby. Over the years, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and ...

Original story at Broadway World .

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Angels & Demons fly away from Indian multiplexes

29 May 2009 03:27:34 PDT

UK Paramount Pictures International's Monsters Vs Aliens was the only big studio Hollywood film to release in multiplexes after the UPF decided against releasing any movies in multiplexes after April 3. The UPF is protesting against revenue-sharing terms ...

Original story at Screendaily.com .

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Spielberg's "Tintin" to unspool in late 2011

28 May 2009 21:17:02 PDT

Crows Nest Paramount Pictures and Sony Pictures have scheduled the family feature for a December 23, 2011, domestic release through Paramount. An international rollout will begin weeks earlier, in late October, with Sony Pictures Releasing International handling ...

Original story at Reuters .

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CBR Plays "Transformers: RotF"

28 May 2009 14:35:38 PDT

Ca Based on Hasbro's “Transfomers” property and Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks Pictures' upcoming feature film, “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” on Xbox 360, Playstation 3 system, Nintendo Wii, PlayStation 2 system, PSP system, Nintendo DS and ...

Original story at comic Book Resources .

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DreamWorks Ups Toon Output to 5 a Year

28 May 2009 12:11:51 PDT

In Entertainment CA The company is also anticipating changes to its film distribution costs when its distribution contract with Paramount Pictures expires in 2012. Under the terms of that deal, DreamWorks Animation currently pays $50 million in fees per film, ...

Original story at TheWrap .

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Target to Showcase Activision's Transformers: Revenge of the ...

28 May 2009 10:01:48 PDT

Germany The Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen video game, based on the upcoming live-action feature film from DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures, in association with Hasbro, lets players take on the role of their favorite AUTOBOTS or DECEPTICONS, ...

Original story at WELT ONLINE .

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Paramount Pictures news and blogs - November 24, 2009

24 Nov 2009 00:00:01 PDT

Below is today's roundup of news and blogs that haven't yet hit top story status by our community. Visit Paramount Pictures news and blogs for even more news and blogs converage.

• Footloose Movie Remake To Star Chace Crawford -- from Glosslip
• Leno move shakes up US television -- from Washington Post
• Star Trek ready to land in Japan as Angels fly to India -- from Screendaily.com
• TRANSFORMERS Fans Invade Southern California as New Toy Line ... -- from WELT ONLINE
• Chace Crawford Preps for 'Footloose' -- from Entertainment Tonight News
• This summer's film franchises successfully turning back time -- from Hattiesburg American
• How to make the perfect movie franchise -- from Times Online
• IDW's "GI Joe" Movie Adaptation Runs Weekly through July -- from Comic Book Resources
• Activision to Showcase Several of the Most Anticipated Games of ... - PR Newswire -- from press release
• Social Networking Site Launched for Transformers -- from Superherohype.com

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EA Spotlights Blockbuster Titles at E3

27 May 2009 12:40:21 PDT

Germany GI JOE The Rise of Cobra for all major video game consoles features an exclusive storyline that picks up where the live-action movie, from Paramount Pictures and Spyglass Entertainment, in association with Hasbro, leaves off, allowing players to ...

Original story at WELT ONLINE .

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"Battle of the Smithsonian" to play out on FX

26 May 2009 20:50:56 PDT

Another likely box-office champ is headed for the network: this summer's "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen," which it bought several months ago as part of a Paramount Pictures package that included last year's Stiller comedy "Tropic Thunder. ...

Original story at Reuters .

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Disney stands by Miramax

25 May 2009 00:45:17 PDT

IN Time Warner Inc. shut down two labels, Warner Independent Pictures and Picturehouse, while Viacom Inc. consolidated its Paramount Vantage unit into Paramount Pictures, and News Corp.'s 20th Century Fox closed Fox Atomic. “People are as interested in ...

Original story at journalgazette.net .

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Paramount Adapting Techno Thriller Daemon

20 May 2009 15:45:43 PDT

CA Walter Parkes (who coincidentally wrote 1983's WarGames and has only one other feature script credit, 1992's Sneakers) and David DiGilio (creator of the much too short-lived TV series "Traveler") will pen the script for Paramount Pictures. ... Shall We Play a Daemon? IGN

Original story at Dread Central .

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"Gossip Girl" star Chace Crawford gets "Footloose"

19 May 2009 17:25:28 PDT

Chace Crawford will play the lead role of Ren McCormack in the film 'Footloose'," the magazine quoted a Paramount Pictures spokesman as saying. Paramount could not immediately be reached for comment. Trade paper Daily Variety also reported the news on ...

Original story at Reuters . Related stories include: Footloose Movie Remake To Star Chace Crawford - Glosslip , Chace Crawford to Star in Paramount Pictures' 'Footloose' - PR Newswire - sev.prnewswire.com and ... Scorecard Review , iii.co.uk , Thaindian.com , AceShowbiz , Entertainment Tonight , Entertainment Weekly

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Saving Hollywood

19 May 2009 15:07:38 PDT

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 ...

Original story at Reuters .

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Paramount Pictures' Star Trek Warps into Kennedy Space Center ... - Hospitality 1st

12 May 2009 01:42:33 PDT

Paramount Pictures' Star Trek Warps into Kennedy Space Center: America's Gateway to Space Exploration Kennedy Space Center, FL – May 2009 – Paramount Pictures' Star Trek, directed by JJ Abrams, opened at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex (KSCVC), ...

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Group wants to save some of Pittsburgh's Hollywood history

09 May 2009 21:11:21 PDT

PA Perched along The Bluff above the Monongahela River, the Paramount Pictures building is the last vestige of "Film Row," where major motion-picture companies once screened films for theater owners as part of the industry's distribution process. ...

Original story at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review .

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Rock of Ages granite quarry in Star Trek movie

05 May 2009 04:17:03 PDT

Rock of Ages Tourism Director Todd Paton says Paramount Pictures needed a sheer cliff as a backdrop for a car chase in the movie. When Paramount movie officials visited Barre last year they didn't say what movie the scene would be used in. ...

Original story at Fox44 .

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Samsung Mobile and Paramount Digital Entertainment Collaborate to ... - Business Wire

23 Feb 2009 06:02:25 PST

Paramount Digital Entertainment (PDE) is a division of Paramount Pictures Corporation. PDE develops and distributes filmed entertainment across worldwide digital distribution platforms including online, mobile and portable devices, videogames, ...

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MOVIE REVIEW - 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'

01 Jan 2009 19:48:26 PST

The Age MI - Jan 1, 2009 AP In this image released by Paramount Pictures, Brad Pitt is shown in a scene from, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button." (AP Photo/Paramount Pictures, ... New Orleans is a Pitt co-star in Benjamin Button 2TheAdvocate

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A Still Curious Case

24 Dec 2008 11:38:30 PST

Benjamin Button, with its numerous funerals and fatalities, has a body count rivaling that of most Hollywood shoot-'em-ups. And while Button may be in the enviable position of growing younger and more dashing (he's played by Brad Pitt) as those around him age, he too is fated to expire. Ult...

Original story at Seed Magazine .

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Deals: DreamWorks Bell-Ringers Lagging on $750 Mil Holiday Goal

18 Dec 2008 13:03:30 PST

Spielberg himself may be on the hook for a bill due next month: $20 million to acquire the 17 films the 'Works had in development at Paramount. Nikki Finke, meanwhile, blows off Thompson's version of the DreamWorks story for her own ...

Original story at Defamer .

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Market Robs Spielberg of His Dream Studio [Recessionomics]

18 Dec 2008 10:42:39 PST

Written by Owen Thomas
DreamWorks is now living on dribs and drabs of money loaned here and there — including money from Spielberg's own pocket — and may end up being a much smaller studio, one of the many supplicant production houses that orbit around Hollywood's big names.

Original story at Gawker .

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My Favorite Star

25 Nov 2008 12:25:56 PST

Written by Peter Bogdanovich
Besides Leo McCarey and Howard Hawks, the most significant director in Grant’s career was, of course, Alfred Hitchcock. Grant was the first major Hollywood star to work with Hitchcock after the director’s arrival in the States. Hitchcock told me that because Cary was British, he didn’t h...

Original story at New York Observer .

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Opinion: Trailers for 'Underworld 3' and 'Valentine 3D'

23 Oct 2008 22:03:00 PDT

Written by William Goss
Naturally, today's release of Saw V (read our review) brings with it numerous trailers for early '09 horror offerings. Earlier this week, we received the first trailer for that Friday the 13th remake (which you can see here), and now we have two others.

Original story at Cinematical .

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Heroes' Zachary Quinto Named the Next "Spock"

28 Jul 2007 23:47:30 PDT

Written by Miss Cordy
But at Comic Con in San Diego on Thursday, Paramount officially announced that Zachary Quinto, who currently plays Sylar on NBC's Heroes, will be playing the younger version of the famous Vulcan Spock, in the upcoming Star Trek XI. The film is set for a December 2008 release and is being dir...

Original story at Blogcritics .

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Russell Shaw: Tom Cruise's Firing: Anti-Scientology Religious Bigotry

23 Aug 2006 22:04:07 PDT

Tom Cruise, whose last few movies have not reached the prestigious creative and box-office level of some of his earlier work, has just been told by Viacom's Paramount Pictures that his contract would not be renewed. Some folks forget all that as we mock Scientology and its Hollywood adher...

Original story at Huffington Post .

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Nikki Finke: Who's Crazier: Viacom or Tom Cruise?

23 Aug 2006 14:22:47 PDT

If there's suddenly a litmus test for insanity to be administered by the owners of Hollywood movie studios, then start with the executive suites. That's my reaction to the are-you-shitting-me pronouncement by Viacom Inc. chairman Sumner Redstone today that his Paramount Pictures is te...

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