Is Tom Cruise’s burly, foul-mouthed producer alter-ego, Les Grossman headed to the big screen on his own? Looks that way. Grossman, who made his screen debut in 2008’s raunch comedy Tropic Thunder also took the stage Sunday at the MTV Movie Awards, where he busted out in a rap dance that looked similar to the [...]

The official Super 8 movie trailer has emerged and so has something else!

Tom Cruise and producer J.J. Abrams (also the director of 2006′s Mission: Impossible 3) have been searching the film world to find the right person to helm the next chapter in the blockbuster spy series, but of all the possible names and contenders, I don’t think anyone would have expected Brad Bird! Oscar-winner Bird has [...]

The 2010 Sundance Film Festival got underway Thursday, and the first major acquisition has already been made by Paramount, who picked up U.S. Documentary contender Waiting For Superman. Superman is directed by David Guggenheim, the acclaimed filmmaker behind 2006′s breakout documentary hit and Academy Award-winner An Inconvenient Truth. The Sundance Festival’s program guide explains that the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]