WB also owns Superman's publisher, DC Comics, and although the Superman cartoons are now in the public domain, WB owns the original film elements.

* Foreign rights to the 1975 Robert Altman film Nashville, are currently owned by ABC through Walt Disney Pictures but Paramount still owns North American rights ( both Paramount and ABC share copyrights ).

* Paramount owns the film libraries of many other companies that were absorbed into Republic ( see the Republic Pictures and Spelling Entertainment articles for more info ), again with DVD rights licensed to Lionsgate ;

* The company owns the film libraries of Rysher Entertainment and Bing Crosby Productions ( which had been merged with Rysher in the 1990s ) – such titles include Walking Tall and the international rights to It Takes Two ;

* Paramount also owns ( through the Viacom merger ) US distribution rights to the 1951 film The African Queen, originally distributed by United Artists ( the international rights are with ITV Global Entertainment ).

Rights to the film are currently held by Universal Studios, which owns the pre-1950 Paramount sound feature film library via EMKA, Ltd.

Under the Museum of Modern Art Department of Film, the film collection owns prints of many familiar feature-length movies, including Citizen Kane and Vertigo, but the department's holdings also contains many less-traditional pieces, including Andy Warhol's eight-hour Empire, various TV commercials, and Chris Cunningham's music video for Björk's All Is Full of Love.

Though not owning the broadcasting rights to show first-run movies from 20th Century Fox, Showtime has been able to show independent films the studio owns the home video rights to, even if they did not release them theatrically, most notably being Mel Gibson's 2004 film, The Passion of the Christ.

It now owns the Artcraft Theatre and is making it a community center for film, art, and special events.

As a result of MGM's purchase of this film, it is not owned by Universal Studios, which owns most pre-1950 Paramount sound features ( and who has produced a popular line of horror films ).

Pickford's estate no longer owns the rights as another studio bought the film for a never-made remake.

Paramount now also owns the theatrical rights, while Lionsgate Entertainment ( Republic's video licensee and successor to Artisan Entertainment, previously LIVE Entertainment ) holds the home video rights, and Trifecta Entertainment & Media now holds most major TV rights on behalf of Republic / Paramount ( aside from other major and minor / low budget film, TV, and video companies that distribute the public domain cartoons )-- CBS Television Distribution ( as well as its predecessor companies Paramount Domestic Television and Worldvision Enterprises ) formally held such TV rights until 2009.

20th Century Fox owns the film versions of Carousel, The King and I, The Sound of Music, and both versions of State Fair outright, while holding partial ancillary rights ( including home video ) to South Pacific and Oklahoma !.

He is head of the Ramoji Group which owns, among other things, the world's largest film production facility, Ramoji Film City.

The appeal of the Daisy Red Ryder BB Gun to youngsters was depicted in the Christmas classic film A Christmas Story, adapted from the autobiographical fiction of Jean Shepherd, by permission of Red Ryder Enterprises, Inc., which owns the Red Ryder trademarks and copyrights.

John Allen Stagliano ( born November 29, 1951 in Chicago, Illinois ), also known as Buttman, is an American entrepreneur, pornographic actor, producer and director, who founded and owns the Evil Angel pornographic film studio.

Rhino also owns the rights to The Monkees ’ master tapes and film footage ( which they acquired from Raybert Productions in 1994 ), and thus has released home videos and CDs from the group.

Also included in the package is Penny Serenade, a film Grant starred in but did not finance ( the film itself is in the public domain, but Republic created a colorized version of the film, which it owns ).

Cuban owns a film distributor called Magnolia Pictures.

RKO originally owned the copyright, but the film was sold years later to American Broadcasting Company, which owns the rights to some of Selznick's other films.

For the remake, the setting of the film is moved from London to Saucier, Mississippi, home of a riverboat casino.

* The film 3000 Miles to Graceland is about a group of criminals who plan to rob a casino during an international Elvis week, and to make it easier, they are all disguised as Elvis impersonators.

The Josef von Sternberg film Macao ( 1952 ) saw Mitchum a victim of mistaken identity at an exotic resort casino, playing opposite Jane Russell.

* The 2007 film Smokin ' Aces was filmed at the Horizon and MontBleu Resort Casino & Spa featuring many views of the shore from Aces ' suite at the casino.

To Catch a Thief ( 1954 ) was an Alfred Hitchcock film with Monte Carlo and its famous casino as the setting and featured Cary Grant and the future Princess Grace of Monaco as the stars.

Las Vegas casino owners Edward and Fred Doumani put $ 30 million into the film.

Current members of Alcor include nanotechnology pioneer Eric Drexler, Internet pioneer Ralph Merkle, engineer Keith Henson and his family, MIT professor Marvin Minsky, aging researcher Aubrey de Grey, mathematician Edward O. Thorp, computer security CEO Kenneth Weiss, casino owner Don Laughlin, inventor Ray Kurzweil, film director Charles Matthau, futurists Max More and Natasha Vita-More, entrepreneurs Saul Kent, Luke Nosek, Magali & Stephan Beauregard and Future Electronics founder Robert Miller.

He began playing professionally accompanying silent film by 1917 and later at a casino in Colón, Panama.

His trail leads Chili to Las Vegas, where the loanshark finds a more interesting assignment: the casino is looking to collect from Harry Zimm, a horror film producer based in Los Angeles.

The film ultimately seems to favor a compatiblist philosophical view to the free will question as evidenced by the casino scene and by the final telephone booth scene in which one of the blind women redirects Manni's attention to a passerby, which enables him to make an important choice near the film's climax.

Meanwhile, his cousin Muggsey ( Method Man ), is setting up a miniature casino and strip joint in one of the areas on the plane ( as seen in the workprint and unrated versions of the film ), and Nashawn's ex-girlfriend is on board and less than happy to see him.

SMERSH is also an element in the 1967 spoofed film adaptation of Casino Royale that centres upon Le Chiffre's attempted recovery of SMERSH monies via baccarat at the Royale casino.

In the 1989 film, Pryor portrays Harlem " Sugar " Ray, the owner of an illegal casino who contends with the pressures of vicious gangsters and corrupt policemen trying to drive him out of business in 1930s Harlem.

As part of the star-studded cast of The Thieves, Jun was a scene stealer in Choi Dong-hoon's heist film about thieves from Korea and China who team up together to steal a diamond worth 40 billion won, which is locked in a special room at a casino in Macau.

* Art Land's Galaxy Hotel-A fictional futuristic hotel / casino in Las Vegas, Nevada from the 1996 film Mars Attacks!

* In the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever ( 1971 ), the casino can be continually seen in the police chase scene.

* The casino can be seen in the beginning of the film Smokin ' Aces ( 2006 ), in which the antagonist cuts the ribbons for the casino's grand opening.

Decades later, Gayson's daughter appeared in a casino scene in the 1995 Bond film GoldenEye.

This early film noir explores the lives and secret pasts of the main characters, played out in a luxurious casino owned by " Mother " Gin Sling.

The casino also appears periodically in the 1992 Disney film, Honey, I Blew Up the Kid.

The giant guitar out front the hotel / casino can be seen prominently in the 1997 film Vegas Vacation.

The panic and smoke cloud generated from the implosion of Mr Burns ' casino is reminiscent of the 1997 disaster film Dante's Peak, and the Simpson family's escape from the smoke cloud is a reference to a scene in the 1996 science fiction film Independence Day.

Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise appear at the casino to reprise their roles from the 1988 film Rain Man.