The new name was chosen in honor of the company's leading subsidiary, the Paramount Pictures film studio.
Another notable Tillinghast golf course was created specifically for Paramount Pictures founder Adolf Zukor in 1920, now known as Paramount Country Club, in Rockland County, NY.
On August 31, 2004, Paramount Pictures announced that it had bought the world-wide film rights for the series.
In May 1932, Helen Kane filed a $250,000 lawsuit against Max Fleischer and Paramount Publix Corporation, contending that Betty Boop's "boop-oop-a-doop" style constituted a "deliberate caricature" that gave her "unfair competition."
Silverstone's most notable role is that of Steven Carter in the 1998 Paramount Classic's feature film, Get Real.
The story would not be told until 1952, however, in the Paramount film Somebody Loves Me (1952) with Betty Hutton and Ralph Meeker.
In 1955, Paramount Pictures staged a boardroom coup and assumed control of the DuMont Television Network.
Leven began his film career as a sketch artist at Paramount Pictures in 1933 and moved to 20th Century Fox three years later.
No. 2, at the junction with the rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin, was the site of the former Hotel de Montmorency, then Théâtre du Vaudeville 1869, and Paramount Opéra movies 1927.
As Paramount Pictures' executive vice president of worldwide publicity, she orchestrated the marketing campaigns for Best Picture winners Forrest Gump and Braveheart; she later served as president of theatrical marketing for New Line Cinema.
Charles Bluhdorn, whose Gulf+Western owned both the Altos de Chavón and Paramount Pictures, had Paramount record the concert so it could be rebroadcast worldwide.
In October 2013, Chrysler Group LLC teamed up with Paramount Pictures to help promote the film Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues with a series of Durango commercials featuring Will Ferrell as Ron Burgundy.
Smithwick started her career as the assistant to the Producer on The Honeymooners feature film for Paramount Pictures.
On screen, movie of the week Judas on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), for Paramount, playing the role of James starring a UK and US cast with Johnathon Schaech, in the title role.
He worked up the courage however after persuasion by Paramount boss Adolph Zukor and completed the scene.
Once there, he had various music production jobs for several Paramount films between 1939 and 1946, including some that starred Bing Crosby.
In 2003, following the use of dance routines from the film "Flashdance" in the music video for "I'm Glad" (directed by David LaChapelle), Maureen Marder sued Lopez, Sony Corporation, and Paramount in an attempt to gain a copyright interest in the film.
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The recreation of scenes from Flashdance led Maureen Marder—whose life was the inspiration for the storyline of the film—to sue Lopez, Sony Corporation, and Paramount Pictures for copyright infringement in November 2003, claiming the video was an unauthorized depiction of her life story.
At that time, iBEAM's customer list included more than 460 companies, including media and entertainment leaders Disney, Paramount Pictures, MTVi, Sony Music Entertainment, IBM/Lotus, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Merrill Lynch and LAUNCH.com.
While an instructor at TOPGUN, he worked with crew from Paramount Pictures on the production of the movie Top Gun.
Jigger Statz played himself in the 1929 Paramount film, Fast Company, and in 1952 served as a technical advisor for The Winning Team, a fictionalized Warner Bros. biography of Grover Cleveland Alexander which starred Ronald Reagan.
Jo Barrett is the author of The Men's Guide to the Women's Bathroom which was published by Harper Collins / Avon Books in 2007 and optioned by CBS and Paramount Pictures which Hollywood actor Hugh Jackman's Production Company attached to produce.
John is mostly known as the art director in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock at Paramount Pictures, and his work in television series like Dragnet, Dynasty, The Colbys, and miniseries as Rich Man, Poor Man.
The film was released by Paramount Pictures on July 2, 1958, to both critical and commercial success.
The company handles Indian voice-dubs (mostly Hindi) for movies that are made by Hollywood production houses such as Paramount Pictures, Universal Studios and Sony Pictures Entertainment.
His most recent appearance has been the role of Peter Dyer in the feature film Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging, produced by Paramount Pictures.
Modern Madcaps is an animated film series produced by Paramount Pictures' Famous Studios animation division between the years 1958 and 1967.
It has been suggested that Monte Viso could be one of the mountains which inspired the Paramount logo.
In turn, she received a contract with Paramount Pictures, but never became a star and is largely remembered solely by the acting buffs and nostalgists.
He has recently appeared on The World Stands Up for BBC America and Paramount in the UK, and on Edinburgh and Beyond, also for Paramount.
The Paramount Arts Center, at that time known as the Paramount Theater, was one of the first transitional theatres built for "talking pictures" and was to be a model theatre for others around the country to showcase films produced by Paramount Pictures.
She got her start designing theatre sets and then working as a sketch artist for Paramount.
Duane's creation of the Rihannsu was generally well received by fans, with some going so far as to lobby Paramount to accept them as canonical.
In 1997, Friedman moved to Paramount Pictures as Vice Chairman of the Paramount Motion Pictures Group.
At the junction with the Boulevard des Capucines, site of the former Hotel de Montmorency, then Théâtre du Vaudeville 1869, and Paramount Opéra movies 1927.
In 2003, Paramount Pictures optioned the song for adaptation into a feature film.
He married a wealthy New York City socialite; they had one son, Arthur Menken, who became a successful newsreel cameraman for Paramount Pictures and a war correspondent who would later film the Nanking Massacre and the Spanish Civil War).
The Eagle's Mate is a 1914 silent film produced by the Famous Players film company and released through Paramount Pictures.
After the success of Elvira Madigan, financially tempting offers began to pour in for Berggren, including the opportunity to sign a contract with Paramount Pictures in Hollywood.
The drive-in closed in 1984 and the site was developed into a housing estate with streets named after famous film studios such as Forum and Paramount.
Following his baseball career, Regh worked as an electrician helper at Paramount Pictures Studios until the time of his death, in Burbank, California, at the age of 57.
He eventually went on to work on more than 300 films, mostly for Paramount.
It was produced by John Fields at Paramount Studios and Mansfield Lodge, and features guest appearances by Jon Brion, Sam Phillips, Ben Folds, Andy Sturmer, Kristin Mooney, and Jonathan Foreman.
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The second time was on DVD on September 8, 2009 as part of the set titled The Very First Alvin Show (from Paramount Pictures), along with the first episode of The Alvin Show and the special Rockin' Through the Decades.
Previous to his involvement in the Imax industry he worked for over ten years as a screenwriter, and wrote a number of feature film scripts which were either purchased or commissioned by the major studios, including Warner Brothers, Columbia Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and Paramount Pictures, and worked with such producers as Jerry Bruckheimer, Jonathan Taplin, Ray Stark, and Steve Tisch.
The film was optioned for narrative fiction re-make by Paramount via Plan B Entertainment, which was to be written by John Hodgman.
This story started as the CBC TV movie Flight into Danger, then became the 1957 Paramount Pictures movie Zero Hour!, and was finally published as the novel Runway Zero-Eight (ISBN 0-440-17546-1).
Additionally, Robertson has performed in many film and TV productions, including The Company, Straight Story, Will of Their Own, Disney's Mother's Courage, Paramount's The Untouchables, and Early Edition.
This is Paramount's first feature with dialogue on the soundtrack and the first time Beery's distinctive voice was recorded for a film, although the talking is extremely limited, similar to Warner Bros.'s The Jazz Singer the previous year.
Riddell has written four produced feature films on assignment for Paramount, MTV, Universal and independent producers.
Brian is best known worldwide for portraying Walter Moore/Kirk Burbank in the 1998 Paramount film The Truman Show.
His father, Malcolm, worked at the makeup department of Paramount Pictures under Wally Westmore and introduced Camden to makeup effects at an early age.
Recordings have been made for film production companies such as Paramount, Sony, Lucasfilm and many others in the Smecky Music Studios.
It was located between the classic, studio-built movie palaces such as the RKO-Keith and Paramount theaters and the stage theatres such as the Colonial on Boylston Street.
Daughter of the Dragon (1931) is a movie directed by Lloyd Corrigan, released by Paramount Pictures, and starring Anna May Wong as Princess Ling Moy, Sessue Hayakawa as Ah Kee, and Warner Oland as Dr. Fu Manchu (for his third and final feature appearance in the role, excluding a gag cameo in Paramount on Parade).
Redman and his orchestra also provided music for the animated short I Heard, part of the Betty Boop series produced by Fleischer Studios and distributed by Paramount.
Duane Adler is a Hollywood screenwriter, director, and producer most known for his work on dance and music-driven fare, particularly Save the Last Dance (Paramount Pictures: Julia Stiles, Sean Patrick Thomas) and Step Up (Disney: Jenna Dewan, Channing Tatum), and the upcoming release "Cobu," starring Derek Hough and Korean superstar BoA, which Adler wrote and directed.
The movie was released on March 28, 2013 through collaboration of Paramount Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
After resigning in protest from Kringkastingselskapet he worked as an actor as well as in the Norwegian branches of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Paramount Pictures.
The opening "Theatrical Agency" scene was later filmed for the Paramount Pictures release The House That Shadows Built almost in its entirety.
Sharifi went on to compose the soundtracks to many major studio and independent films including Muppets From Space, Down To Earth, Nickelodeon film Harriet the Spy and the Paramount/Nickelodeon film Clockstoppers, and contributed to the scores of The Thomas Crown Affair, and The Rugrats Movie
His headshot was delivered to Paramount Pictures and, shortly thereafter, he was called in and booked for his first major film role, in The Serial, with Martin Mull, Tuesday Weld, Sally Kellerman, Pamela Bellwood and Peter Bonerz.
In the mid-1990s, Lucie Salhany, head of the upstart television network by United Television and Paramount Pictures, made a modest unsolicited offer to buy the rights to the U Network name.
Among his clients were Paramount Pictures and well-known personalities such as producer Cecil B. DeMille, MGM Studios boss Louis B. Mayer, and actors Ginger Rogers, Joan Bennett, Betsey Cushing Roosevelt, Joan Crawford, Lana Turner, and Ava Gardner.
Station is airing films and television series from the label Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks and also MGM, TVN and independent labels.
Sturges did a walk-on in his 1940 film Christmas in July ("Man at shoeshine stand"), played the small part of a film director in his Sullivan's Travels (1941), and appeared as himself in Paramount's 1942 all-star extravaganza Star Spangled Rhythm.
Preview Networks partners with entertainment content companies including Sony, Fox, Disney, Warner, Universal, and Paramount.
Secret of the Incas was filmed by Paramount Pictures on location in Peru at Cuzco and Machu Picchu, the first time that a major Hollywood studio filmed at this archeological site.
They found fame after being featured in Gurinder Chadha's 2008 Paramount Pictures film Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging and performing several songs on the soundtrack.
At the time Mr. Strassner wrote the software, he was a working editor in Hollywood for shows like Entertainment Tonight and Real People, and companies like Paramount Pictures, CBS, NBC and Smith-Hemion.
A film, The Canary Murder Case, was made by Paramount Pictures in 1929, directed by Malcolm St. Clair and Frank Tuttle and starring William Powell as Philo Vance and Louise Brooks as the Canary.
Leonardo DiCaprio purchased the film rights to the book in 2010; the movie is to be produced by Paramount Pictures, Stacey Sher and Michael Shamberg's Double Feature Films, and DiCaprio's own production company Appian Way.
TrekMovie.com was launched July 15, 2006 (as The Trek XI Report), the same day it was announced that J. J. Abrams had finalized a 5-year deal with Paramount Pictures which included a new Star Trek film as his first project.
Truck Hannah played himself in two Paramount films, Warming Up (1928, one of Paramount's first talkies), and Fast Company.
In early 2008, MTV partnered with Paramount Digital Entertainment and Los Angeles-based developer FanRocket to launch the two companies' VooZoo application in vMTV, allowing users to communicate via scenes and lines of dialogue from the Paramount movie library.
In March 2011, Paramount Pictures announced in Variety Mark Wahlberg's attachment to produce and possibly star in the movie adaptation of "When Corruption Was King," along with "Twilight Saga" producers Temple Hill.
"Wild 'N Free" appeared in the Nickelodeon Movies and Paramount Pictures movie Barnyard in the scene where the character Wild Mike dances.