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  • Bad Grandpa to open alongside The Counselor

    Bad Grandpa to open alongside The Counselor

    MUMBAI: Paramount’s Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa, in which Johnny Knoxville punks strangers while in character as senior citizen Irving Zisman.

     

    The previous three Jackass films grossed $79mn, $84mn, and $170mn worldwide for Paramount – but they also kept to the show’s signature disconnected shocks and pranks vs. a Borat-esque hidden camera narrative.

    Bad Grandpa is scripted by Knoxville, director Jeff Tremaine, and Spike Jonze, and will open on 25 October against Fox and Ridley Scott’s The Counselor with no other major competition.

  • Paramount Pictures goes in for a leaner structure

    Paramount Pictures goes in for a leaner structure

    MUMBAI: A part of the Viacom conglomerate, Paramount Pictures has decided to trim down its staff by 110 people. Just a memo was issued to people who have been sent back home.

    The reductions will be in the Finace, HR, IT, International home media distribution, legal and marketing departments. In a letter to its sacked employees the company CEO Frederick Huntsberry said that the layoffs were needed to manage business ‘with greater speed and flexibility as well as capitalise on opportunities in the global entertainment market’.

    The company has plans to re-enter into TV. Their performances on the big screen have just been average.

    Positions have been shed in their head office in LA as well as many international offices. Previously in 2011, the company laid off 120 people.

  • Paramount reveals ‘Transformers: Age Of Extinction’ title

    Paramount reveals ‘Transformers: Age Of Extinction’ title

    MUMBAI: The Autobots and Decepticons have landed in Detroit. The Michigan city is doubling for a bombed out Hong Kong in Michael Bay’s Transformers 4. This will be the follow up to the already massively successful franchise and the movie is already on the floors and will ready for a mid 2014 release.

     

    Paramount unveiled the official title of its fourth Transformers installment along with a new teaser poster. Transformers: Age Of Extinction is due in theaters 27 June 2014. The Michael Bay magnum opus stars Mark Wahlberg, Stanley Tucci, Kelsey Grammer, Jack Reynor, Nicola Peltz, Sophia Myles, TJ Miller, Titus Welliver, Han Geng and Li Bingbing and is currently in production.

  • Paramount bundling World War Z and Star Trek Into Darkness as double feature

    Paramount bundling World War Z and Star Trek Into Darkness as double feature

    MUMBAI: The studio plans to squeeze more life out of its undead hit and space sequel. Paramount and a clutch of exhibitors are going back to the future for a week with an old-fashioned double feature of summer tentpoles World War Z and Star Trek Into Darkness starting Friday.

     

    The twin bill screens in 3D or 2D through 5 September in select AMC, Regal, Carmike, Marcus and other theaters for the price of a single ticket. It’s the second stunt playdates for Brad Pitt’s zombie flick – third if you count a late-add IMAX run – following its $50 “Mega Ticket” deal that included an advance screening, a home video copy of the film, 3D glasses, a poster and popcorn. With more than $526 million worldwide, WWZ is Pitt’s highest-grossing film ever. J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek Into Darkness has banked $458.7 million worldwide and spawned another sequel.

  • Mission Impossible 5 to be directed by Christopher McQuarrie

    Mission Impossible 5 to be directed by Christopher McQuarrie

    MUMBAI: It is confirmed that the Jack Reacher director will also be leading the fifth installment of the popular MI series. The film starring Tom Cruise will reunite him with McQuarrie. The two have previously worked together on Jack Reacher.

     

    The movie is being produced by Paramount and Skydance productions. Drew Pierce is writing the script for the movie. McQuarrie is repped by CAA. In 1996 McQuarrie won the best screenplay award for The Usual Suspects. He was recently associated with The Wolverine as screenwriter.

     

    Paramount Film group president Adam Goodman said that the series is famous for its signature directors and McQuarrie fulfills the role for them. The MI series have been a very popular series starring Tom Cruise. However, the movie hasn’t kept its audience going past the second movie.

  • Paramount set to revive Beverly Hills Cop series

    Paramount set to revive Beverly Hills Cop series

    MUMBAI: The fourth film in the series is under discussion to be produced, after looking at the success of the TV series pilot episode last year.

     

    The first film was released in 1984 and the third in 1994 after which it stopped. The first three installments together grossed about $750 million.

     

    Eddie Murphy will still be playing the role of Axel Foley, the Detroid-based tough cop. Josh Appelbaum and Andre Nemec who have had successful stints in movies such as Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are also part of the ensemble.

     

    The decision came after a tough bidding for the series on TV ensued, before going to CBS. The pilot was produced by Sony Pictures TV with Paramount as rights holder. However, the series was never aired but it has created enough buzz to be made into a fourth installment in the franchise.

  • Ben Foster to portray cyclist Lance Armstrong in biopic

    Ben Foster to portray cyclist Lance Armstrong in biopic

    MUMBAI: The untitled movie directed by Stephen Frears, is in final negotiations with Ben Foster. The movie will talk about the renowned cyclist’s rise to fame while battling testicular cancer in the nineties and his recent tryst with performance enhancement drugs and subsequent disgrace.

     

    John Hodged has penned the script for the movie while Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner will be producing it. The movie by Working Title’s movie is one of three movies that are being made on the world number one cyclist. The other two are being created by Warner Bros and Paramount but this seems to be lagging behind the other two.

     

    Foster was previously seen in movies like Ain’t them bodies saint and will soon be seen in Lone Survivor.

  • Imax and Paramount Pictures to extend their biz ties from next year

    Imax and Paramount Pictures to extend their biz ties from next year

    MUMBAI: With the release of Michael Bay‘s Transformers 4 in June 2014 and a co-production of Christopher Nolan‘s Interstellar in November of the same year, Imax and Paramount Pictures will extend their business ties to release five of the Hollywood studio‘s upcoming films.

    The extended deal follows Imax successfully releasing Nolan‘s The Dark Knight. In that film and Bay‘s upcoming Transformers 4, Imax‘s proprietary cameras will be pressed into service to fill the large-format exhibitor‘s screens.
     
    "Imax is among the greatest ways to experience a movie," Rob Moore, vice chairman of Paramount Pictures has said in a statement. "Working with today‘s top filmmakers, we look forward to bringing audiences the most exciting new movies with the very best presentation for years to come," he added.

    Three other films from Paramount Pictures that are still to be announced will be part of the agreement.

  • Paramount and Mario Puzo estate come to terms

    Paramount and Mario Puzo estate come to terms

    MUMBAI: Paramount Pictures and the Mario Puzo estate have compromised on a legal war over a new Mario Puzo estate. The parties informed the court about a deal and stipulated to the dismissal of the litigation.
    Though the terms of the agreement have not been disclosed, but it resolves both a claim and counterclaim that were lodged this year in the New York Federal Court.
    In February, Paramount had filed a suit alleging that it had a copyright interest in Puzo‘s famed novel The Godfather, and an agreement that granted, "the sole and exclusive right to make and cause to be made literary and dramatic and other versions and adaptations of every kind and character."
    The studio had alleged that prior "sequel novels" had tarnished the legacy over the Godfather franchise and that it was promised in writing that there would be no more literary sequels. It wanted confirmation to preclude the release of The Family Corleone, which was to detail Vito Corleone‘s rise to power in Depression-era New York.
    In March, the Puzo estate led by attorney Bert Fields responded with its own counterclaims that alleged that Paramount‘s actions had meant it breached a 1967 rights agreement that purportedly expressly excluded and reserved "book publishing rights" for Puzo, who died in 1999.
    As a result of the alleged breach, the Puzo estate sought to terminate Paramount‘s rights to The Godfather.
    In May, the two sides came to an interim deal to allow The Family Corleone to come out. Money from the book was to be put aside in escrow until the parties reached a conclusion to the litigation.
    Paramount scored a big win in the case in September when a federal judge in New York dismissed much of the counterclaims, finding the Puzo estate couldn‘t cancel the contract, nor can it make a rescission. The judge said that assuming Paramount had an obligation not to interfere with book publishing, the estate had failed to adequately establish this obligation goes to the "essence" of the 1969 agreement.
    The judge allowed a breach of contract counterclaim to continue, and a trial could have clarified rights under deals made in the 1960s, but the two sides have now put the dispute to sleep.
    Paramount was represented by Richard Kendall at Kendall Brill & Klieger.

  • Paramount buys out screen rights of The Diviners

    Paramount buys out screen rights of The Diviners

    MUMBAI: Paramount Pictures has purchased the screen rights of The Diviners, an upcoming novel from bestselling author Libba Bray.
    Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage will produce the film under their Fake Empire banner.

    Bray, who will adapt the screenplay, will also serve as executive producer.
    Set in the 1920s, The Diviners follows a group of young New Yorkers with mysterious powers who play a dramatic role in a battle of good vs. evil when a series of occult-based murders begins to terrify the city.
    The Diviners, the first in a four part book series, will be published this September by Little, Brown Books.
    Lis Rowinski, who oversees Fake Empire‘s film business, and Fake Empire creative executive Jay Marcus, brought in the project.