Despite the film still being in theaters, Paramount Pictures is already hoping to capitalize on the unexpected success of Paranormal Activity after the film’s run is over.
Paramount’s chairman has announced the company has acquired the rights to a potential Paranormal Activity 2, and is looking for a plot that would make sense as a sequel [...]
Tropic Thunder producer Justin Theroux has joined up with Paramount to produce the comedy flick Air Guitar.
Inspired by recent looks at air guitar, including the documentary Air Guitar Nation and the book To Air is Human, the movie will be a humorous take on world of competitive air guitar (yes, there is such a thing).
Mike [...]
Nickelodeon, a division of Viacom and a sister company to Paramount (a company that seems to be grabbing up everything in sight lately), has grabbed the rights to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise. The rights were originally held by Mirage Group and 4Kids Entertainment.
This is great news for the successful franchise, because Paramount is [...]
While most studios have closed their wallets for the year, as far as development spending goes, Paramount recently spent $2 million to purchase a pitch from writers Aline Brosh McKenna and Simon Kinberg.
Nothing has been revealed about the film’s plot, but with the two writers coming from very different backgrounds genre-wise, this information will be [...]
Today is a big news day for the new Captain Kirk, Chris Pine. After this morning’s report that Pine was in talks with Paramount to star in The Art of Making Money with Disturbia director D.J. Caruso, now it seems that Paramount also wants to reel the rising star with the role of Jack Ryan [...]
Paramount Pictures is taking the first steps in moving forward with production of their newest drama, The Art of Making Money, by wooing actor Chris Pine and director D.J. Caruso to be involved with the project.
If negotiations go as Paramount would like, Pine, who audiences will remember from his recent portrayal as James T. Kirk [...]
In a world where television seems to spawn a new reality series every week, it was only a matter of time before the reality gamut finally made it’s way to the big screen.
This spring, television viewers went crazy over the angelic voice of homely Susan Boyle on Britain’s Got Talent. Before Boyle, though, there was [...]
Paramount Pictures has signed a “first-look” producing deal with Platinum Dunes, the horror trio of Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Andrew Form.
Bay had this to say about the link:
“We offer a valuable service to the studio, especially with all this turmoil going on in the business right now, in that we do things cheaply, and [...]
Paramount is shifting it’s focus to franchise films & more control over it’s slate in hopes to generate profits. Investors were particularly pleased with the success of Star Trek although Paramount remains in the red with losses of $123 million in the first quarter of 2009 alone. “We weren’t in control of our release slate [...]
Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen is not as far away as you think. Michael Bay and others prove to have you remember as even more photo stills from the set of the upcoming movie and new posters pop out. From the typical shot of any form of person running away from lord knows what [...]
For all of those Trekkies out there who are craving (or dreading) the latest installment on one of the biggest science fiction stories of the past few decades have another movie after the J.J.Abrams one to look forward to. Paramount fills up their squad with writers Alex Kurtzman (Transformers 2), Damon Lindelof (Lost) and Roberto Orci [...]
So, if you are one of the many who enjoyed the comedy hit “Tropic Thunder”, then here’s some interesting news. A documentary entitled “Rain of Madness”, which details the making of the movie-within-a-movie “Tropic Thunder” will be made available on iTunes for download.
Here’s the official press release:
“Rain of Madness,” starring Jay Baruchel, Jack Black, Steve [...]
