The film publication Cineaste published a review of The Italian in March 2009, focusing on the film's depiction of the Italian-American immmigrant experience as a Darwinian jungle rather than a promised land paved with gold :" Against Horatio Alger expectations, The Italian is a story of failure suffused with a soft-focused, dappled nostalgia for the old country ... ' From sunny Italy to the New York ghetto ,' read the taglines on Paramount's original one-sheet, contrasting scenes of ' carefree Beppo at home ' in the serene canals of Old Italy with the mean streets of New York where ' to live your baby must have Pasteurized milk.

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.

Also, they were the distributor for PBS until they sold the rights to Paramount's home video division.

The announcement was made by Brad Grey, chairman and CEO of Paramount Pictures, who noted that enhancing Paramount's pipeline of pictures is a " key strategic objective in restoring Paramount's stature as a leader in filmed entertainment.

When Cedar Fair acquired the Paramount Parks, they revolutionized their own season pass system using Paramount's as a blueprint, and also absorbed some of Paramount's theme-focused entertainment, combining it with their own well-proven thrills to create some of their most famous attractions: Maverick and Diamondback, among others.

Dunn started his entertainment career in vaudeville before progressing to films at Paramount's Astoria studios in the late 1920s starting as an extra.

After graduating from the University of Miami with a degree in Broadcast Journalism, Arrington began her broadcasting career as a producer for 5 years for a nationally syndicated entertainment show called Main Floor and a year producing for Paramount's Real TV.

All indications were that the whole of DreamWorks — both live-comedy film and TV studios, albeit not the DreamWorks archive ( which was sold to a group led by George Soros in March 2006 ) nor the animated unit ( which was not part of the deal )— would remain owned by Viacom, even though CBS acquired Paramount's own TV studio.

In 1995, after being sold to Viacom, Paramount's television syndication unit absorbed Viacom Enterprises, and as a result, Paramount now held the TV rights to the third and fourth Superman films, along with the Supergirl film ( which up to that point had been held by Viacom ).

Under the deal, Paramount is required to distribute the DreamWorks animated films for a small fee intended only to cover Paramount's out of pocket costs with no profit to the studio, including the Shrek franchise ( and ending for the 2004 installment, Shrek 2 ).

This predated by 19 years Paramount's deal to distribute other films and television series based on Hasbro properties.

Although both DuMont and Paramount executives stated that the companies were separate, the FCC ruled that Paramount's partial ownership of DuMont meant that DuMont and Paramount were in theory branches of the same company.

According to television historian William Boddy, " Paramount's checkered anti-trust history " helped convince the FCC that Paramount controlled DuMont.

Despite Paramount's losses, DeMille would, however, give the studio some relief and create his most successful film at Paramount, a 1956 remake of his 1923 film The Ten Commandments.

More so than most, Paramount's slate of films included many remakes and television spinoffs ; while sometimes commercially successful, there have been few compelling films of the kind that once made Paramount the industry leader.

During their administration over Paramount, the studio had an extremely successful period of films with two of Paramount's ten highest grossing films being produced during this period.

As a consequence Paramount fell from No. 1 in the international markets to the lowest ranked major studio in 2006 but recovered in 2007 if the DreamWorks films, acquired by Paramount but still distributed internationally by Universal, are included in Paramount's market share.

It marks Paramount's return to having its own animated division for the first time since 1967, when Paramount Cartoon Studios shut down ( it was formerly Famous Studios until 1956 ).

* However, one Hitchcock film, To Catch a Thief ( 1955 ), is still under Paramount's ownership, since Paramount is the copyright owner of the film.

The Paramount logo used from Paramount's 90th anniversay in 2002 until late 2011.

As a result of Paramount's 2005 acquisition of DreamWorks, Paramount has gained North America distribution rights as well ( though still through the DreamWorks division ).

On October 23, 1930, by " mutual consent ," Paramount and Eisenstein declared their contract null and void, and the Eisenstein party were treated to return tickets to Moscow at Paramount's expense.

On September 21, 2010, Paramount Home Entertainment released American Beauty on Blu-ray, as part of Paramount's Sapphire Series.

Loren L. Ryder, chief engineer at Paramount, expressed four general reasons he thought Paramount's VistaVision would be the forerunner of widescreen projection in most theaters:

He appeared in Paramount's all-star revue film Paramount on Parade ( 1930 ).

After being acquired by Viacom in 1994, Paramount Pictures began a 10-year output deal with Showtime ( then also owned by Viacom ), effective after 1997, after Paramount's contract with HBO expired.

* The U. S. rights to The African Queen are now owned by Paramount Pictures ( after years of changing hands as the result of a series of management changes involving Paramount's parent company Viacom ).

As of the present, Paramount handles theatrical distribution, while Trifecta Entertainment & Media manages television syndication under Paramount's license.

Paramount had both Fleischers submit a signed letter of resignation, to be used at Paramount's discretion, in order for the Fleischer Studio to receive financing for the 1940 – 1941 film season.

But as a recipient of Paramount cash, Fleischer was also at the mercy of Paramount's management.

In later years, Paramount's TV division would develop a strong relationship with ABC, providing many hit series to the network.

The pre-1948 B-pictures from Pine-Thomas Productions were also sold off to TV syndicators before the MCA deal, as was Paramount's Bulldog Drummond series, the latter of which is now owned by Janus Films.

The latter two titles are now owned by WB for all media, but Superman IV is still part of Paramount's library for over-the-air TV and digital rights ( though WB did handle these rights for a three-year license 2006 – 09 );

The CBS-produced / owned films, unlike other films in Paramount's library, are still distributed by CBS Television Distribution on TV, and not by Trifecta Entertainment & Media, because CBS ( or a subdivision ) is the copyright holder for these films.

The channel was seen as a natural fit with classic film and television series that both studios had in their vaults, including Rod Serling's Night Gallery ( from Universal TV ) and Paramount's Star Trek and classic Universal horror films such as Dracula and Frankenstein.

It assumed Dot's status as the flagship label of Paramount's record operations, releasing music by pop artists and soundtracks from Paramount's films and TV series.

The ABC / Dot headquarters became the Nashville office of ABC Records, a division of the American Broadcasting Company, which coincidentally had been bought by Paramount's old theater chain in 1953 ( which helped the network catch up to its rivals CBS and NBC ), and had started a good relationship with Paramount's TV division ( wherein Paramount produced a number of hit series on ABC ).

Full rights to Superman III and Supergirl are now with WB, but Paramount still has some partial rights to Superman IV ( as part of the Cannon Films library ), and TV distribution is now held ( on Paramount's behalf ) by Trifecta Entertainment & Media.

In the United States, television and internet rights to the theatrical library are held by Paramount Pictures, with Trifecta Entertainment & Media ( inherited from CBS Television Distribution and predecessor company Worldvision Enterprises, once a Spelling Entertainment company ) handling TV syndication on Paramount's behalf.

* 2006: When the CBS / Viacom split took effect, CBS inherited Paramount's TV program library, with the new Viacom keeping Paramount's films.

In 1974 he hired Barry Diller as Paramount's chairman and chief executive, making Diller, at age 32, the youngest studio chief ever and the first to come from the TV business.

He was also one of the presenters of Channel 4 and Paramount's Flipside TV.

This logo combines Paramount's mountain and stars logo with a TV transmitter.

Due to the great success of Paramount's The 4400 New York Post author Adam Buckman wrote on August 28, 2005 " I'd like to thank two singers-one named Sia and the other named Amanda Abizaid-for making TV all the more memorable this summer ".

Other accomplishments included the acquisition and mergers of Viacom Television, Spelling TV and Rysher Entertainment ( more than doubling Paramount's TV library ) and heading up Paramount's theme park division, then the fifth largest theme park operator in North America.