In early 2008, Paramount partnered with Los Angeles-based developer FanRocket to make short scenes taken from its film library available to users on Facebook.

Opening in late April 2009 was a film Downey finished in mid-2008, The Soloist ; the film was pushed out from a November 2008 release by Paramount Pictures due to the studio's tight end-of-year release schedule.

In Autumn 2008, a members-only club, Paramount, was opened at the top of Centre Point.

As of 2008, Lions Gate Home Entertainment ( under license from Paramount ) holds home video rights and Trifecta retains television rights.

However, in 2008, all references to Paramount were removed in the parks.

* Alvin and the Chipmunks: A Chipmunk Christmas ( Released by Paramount Home Video in 2005, and again in 2008 )

* The Chipmunk Adventure ( Released by Paramount Home Video in 2006, and again in 2008, 2008 reissue includes bonus CD )

* Alvin and the Chipmunks: Trick or Treason ( Released by Paramount Home Video in 2006, and again in 2008 )

* Alvin and the Chipmunks Go to the Movies: Funny, We Shrunk the Adults ( Released by Paramount Home Video on April 1, 2008 )

* Alvin and the Chipmunks Go to the Movies: Daytona Jones and the Pearl of Wisdom ( Released by Paramount Home Video on September 9, 2008 )

Edition ( Released by Paramount Home Video on September 16, 2008 )

* Alvin and the Chipmunks: Alvin's Thanksgiving Celebration ( Released by Paramount Home Video on September 23, 2008 )

* Alvin and the Chipmunks: Classic Holiday Gift Set ( Released by Paramount Home Video on September 23, 2008 )

The DVD, overseen by Friedkin, was released by Paramount Home Entertainment on November 11, 2008.

The 2007 and 2008 season was a transition year for removing " all things Paramount " throughout the park, which included renaming some of the rides.

By the start of the 2008 season, the Paramount logo and similar references had been removed.

Their first show in their home region since their last Seattle reunion in 1972 was on Halloween 31 October 2008 at the Paramount Theatre in Seattle, where they were introduced and joined onstage for a couple numbers by Steven Van Zandt.

On November 17, 2008, CBS Home Entertainment ( distributed by Paramount ) announced the first season of Tales from the Darkside would be released on DVD February 10, 2009 complete with audio commentary by producer George Romero on the episode " Trick or Treat ".

On September 8, 2008, Entertainment Tonight began to air in high definition with the move of the program from their longtime home at Stage 28 on the Paramount Pictures studio lot to Stage 4 at CBS Studio Center, one of the final steps involving the incorporation of Paramount's former syndication arm, Paramount Domestic Television, into CBS ' distribution arms and the adoption of the CBS Television Distribution name, which all took place following the breakup of the original Viacom in 2005.

The film was released on Blu-ray Disc in the United Kingdom on 1 October 2007 by Buena Vista, and was released in the United States on 20 May 2008 by Paramount Pictures.

On July 15, 2008, CBS DVD ( distributed by Paramount ) released Season 1 of Evening Shade on DVD in Region 1.

He played a lead role opposite Matt Damon in the summer 2007 film The Bourne Ultimatum and appeared in Paramount Pictures ' children's film The Spiderwick Chronicles ( 2008 ) as Arthur Spiderwick.

Recently ( 2007 ), Legend Films colorized It's a Wonderful Life for Paramount Pictures ( whose subsidiary, Republic Pictures, had regained control of the copyright in the 1990s ) and Holiday Inn in 2008 for Universal Pictures.

On 12 August 2008, Variety reported that Universal Pictures had optioned the rights to produce feature film adaptations of The Wheel of Time books.

In 2008, Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment premiered Straczynski's feature thriller Changeling, starring Angelina Jolie.

Originally released as a single DVD on August 29, 2000, it was re-released twice as part of two different Abbott and Costello collections, The Best of Abbott and Costello Volume Three, on August 3, 2004, and again on October 28, 2008 as part of Abbott and Costello: The Complete Universal Pictures Collection.

Maple Pictures held the rights to distribute Miramax films in Canada from 2008 up until August 10, 2011 when Maple Pictures was acquired by Alliance Films.

On March 1, 2011, Miramax renewed its Canadian distribution deal with Alliance Films, which had always been a distributor of Miramax releases in Canada from 1987 to 2008 and will replace Maple Pictures ( which previously distributed Miramax releases from 2008 to 2011 ).

A special 25th Anniversary edition DVD, released by Sony Pictures, arrived in 2008.

In 2008, the channel signed a deal with First Look Pictures to air their films.

In September 2008, Main Street Pictures announced that it would collaborate with Bakshi on a sequel to Wizards.

* Beerenberg Expedition 2008 Pictures

Although The exception to the code was granted as a " special and unique case " and was described by The New York Times at the time as " an unprecedented move that will not, however, set a precedent ", in his 2008 study of films during that era, Pictures at a Revolution, author Mark Harris wrote that the MPAA's action was " the first of a series of injuries to the Production Code that would prove fatal within three years.

The Gong Show eventually had three later revivals, one under Barris ' title ( with Don Bleu ) in 1988-89, one on The Game Show Network in 2000 called Extreme Gong and another with current format owner Sony Pictures Television ( with Dave Attell ) in 2008.

In 2005, Geller starred in Uri's Haunted Cities: Venice, a XI Pictures / Lion TV production for Sky One, which led to a behind the scenes release in early 2008 called Cursed ; both productions were directed by Jason Figgis.

In 2008, Plum Pictures announced plans for a Hollywood version of the novel, the movie to be written by playwright and screenwriter Tristine Skyler and Julia Stiles to star as the novel's protagonist, with Rose McGowan as Doreen.

Also, as a result of the Sony-BMG merger, Arista once again became related to Columbia Pictures, which is fully owned by the Sony Corporation of America ( through Sony Pictures Entertainment )-who would buy out BMG's share in 2008.

In 2008 Harryhausen and Dalton published a history of stop-motion model animation, A Century of Model Animation and to celebrate Harryhausen ’ s 90th birthday The Ray & Diana Harryhausen Foundation published Ray Harryhausen – A Life in Pictures.

In late 2008, DreamWorks once again became an independent production company ; its films are distributed by Touchstone Pictures.

* In 2008, another new orchestral arrangement of " When You Wish Upon a Star " ( the theme from the current Walt Disney Pictures logo, orchestrated by Mark Mancina ) and a brand-new opening title sequence ( depicting a montage of the company's work ) were shown.

* Pictures of the exterior of St Leonard's church, Feb 2008

Pictures taken in August 2008.

* Pictures from the 2008 THCH Hop Festival

From around 2008 until May 2011, the rights to Liberty Meadows were in the hands of Sony Pictures Digital which wanted to develop it as a downloadable series, and then Sony Pictures Television which wanted to develop it as an animated television series.