Way back in August, we told you about Paramount Pictures and Joe Roth teaming up to take Mattel's MAX STEEL action figures (and later an animated series) to the big screen. Roth, who is a producer on Tim Burton’s “Alice [...]
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Paramount Grabs Distribution Rights To Paranormal Director’s AREA 51
Paramount Pictures has picked up distribution rights to Area 51, director Oren Peli's (Paranormal Activity) next film. Area 51 will be in the same vein as Peli's first picture as it takes the same style "found footage" angle. The film [...]
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NEW IRON MAN 2 Photos Released
We had just seen the first official Iron Man 2 poster, now Paramount has now released a few new images involving three of the film’s main characters. The first being the crimson haired Scarlett Johansson as the Black Widow, the [...]
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Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters Heads To The Big-Screen
Writer Dante Harper has been hired to work on the script for Tommy Wirkola's (Dead Snow) forthcoming film, Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters for Paramount Pictures. The Norwegian pitched and plotted out the story line, which picks up the fairy-tale [...]
Read morePARANORMAL ACTIVITY BREAKS THE $100 MILLION MARK
For Immediate Release PARAMOUNT PICTURES’ PARANORMAL ACTIVITY SOARS PAST THE $100 MILLION MARK Film Becomes Highest Grossing R-Rated Thriller of the Past Decade HOLLYWOOD, CA (November 12, 2009) – The hit $15,000 thriller PARANORMAL ACTIVITY has grown from its midnight-only showings in a [...]
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Fans To Get Credit On Paranormal Activity DVD and Blu-Ray
As the nationwide phenomenon Paranormal Activity makes its way to the $100 million mark at the box office, Paramount Pictures is taking fan appreciation to new heights by giving back to the legion of moviegoers who helped to make the [...]
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PARANORMAL ACTIVITY Scares Up Box Office Gold and Heads For Sequel
Saw VI just didn't cut it! Paranormal Activity continued to scare up business. Paramount's micro-budgeted ghost story topped the domestic boxoffice with an estimated $22 million from its second weekend in wide release (not bad for a movie with a [...]
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Paramount Vacations at Platinum Dunes With Michael Bay
With "Transformers," director Michael Bay presides over Paramount’s biggest budget franchise. he's ready to become the studio's go-to-guy for low cost films, too. Paramount Pictures has signed a first look producing deal with Platinum Dunes, the genre division run by Bay, [...]
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NEW ‘Paranormal Activity’ Poster and Feature Trailer
There's been lots excitement lately regarding Paramount's release of Oren Peli's 'Paranormal Activity', We first told you about it just a few days go, but - check out the new theatrical poster and trailer below and head over to [...]
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‘Paranormal Activity’ – A Home Movie You Might Actually Sit Through
This film had its big debut at the Chinese Theater in Hollywood last year on October 14th. Everyone who was there and reviewed the film has billed this movie as the scariest film ever made. The trailer has been on [...]
Read moreSuddenly, Everyone Wants To ‘Kick-Ass’
Three studios are competing to buy the film adaptation of Mark Millar’s creator-owned title Kick-Ass. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Lionsgate, Paramount and Universal are all interested in the movie. The film, directed and financed by Matthew Vaughan (Stardust), previewed last month [...]
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‘Max Steel’ Headed To The Big Screen
Just weeks before Paramount Pictures invades theaters with "G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra," the studio is teaming with Joe Roth to pick up Mattel's "Max Steel" as another action figure it wants to play with on the bigscreen. The toy property [...]
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