He returned to New York to work for The New Yorker, to edit a Western pulp, to `` duck the war in the OWI '', to write publicity for Paramount Pictures and commentary for a newsreel, then he began his career as critic for various magazines.

Paramount Pictures only agreed to American and Canadian distribution of Braveheart after 20th Century Fox partnered for international rights.

He directed dozens of silent films, including Paramount Pictures ' first production, The Squaw Man ( 1914 ), which was co-directed by Oscar Apfel, before coming into huge popularity during the late 1910s and early 1920s, when he reached the apex of his popularity with such films as Don't Change Your Husband ( 1919 ), The Ten Commandments ( 1923 ), and The King of Kings ( 1927 ).

A majority of the DeMille motion picture library now resides with EMKA, Ltd. through the television division of NBC Universal, due to Paramount Pictures ' losing the rights to the DeMille films in 1958 to EMKA, so technically it is Universal Pictures that now oversees a vast part of DeMille's motion picture career as well as its related archival material.

Paramount Pictures tried to repeat the success of Flaherty's Nanook and Moana with two romanticized documentaries, Grass ( 1925 ) and Chang ( 1927 ), both directed by Merian Cooper and Ernest Schoedsack.

She worked with Paramount Pictures for the comedy Teacher's Pet ( 1958 ), alongside Clark Gable and Mamie Van Doren.

Digital Cinema Initiatives ( DCI ) was formed in March 2002 as a joint project of many motion picture studios ( Disney, Fox, MGM, Paramount, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal, and Warner Bros. Studios ) to develop a system specification for digital cinema.

* Paramount Pictures ( some properties licensed 1949 to 1971, 1984 to 1996, and 2000 to 2001 )

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First National was the brainchild of Thomas L. Tally, who was reacting to the overwhelming influence of Paramount Pictures, which dominated the market.

Adolph Zukor of Paramount Pictures was threatened by First National's financial power and its control over the lucrative first run theaters and decided to enter the cinema business as well.

* United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc.

According to Robert Evans, head of Paramount Pictures at the time, Coppola also did not initially want to direct the film because he feared it would glorify the Mafia and violence, and thus reflect poorly on his Sicilian and Italian heritage ; on the other hand, Evans specifically wanted an Italian-American to direct the film because his research had shown that previous films about the Mafia that were directed by non-Italians had fared dismally at the box office, and he wanted to, in his own words, " smell the spaghetti ".

In 1914 the Lasky company and Famous Players were amalgamated into Famous Players-Lasky, with distribution of their films handled by the new Paramount Pictures Corporation.

This led to Wray being contracted to Paramount Pictures as a teenager, where she made more than a dozen movies.

The following year in 1927, Wray was signed to a contract with Paramount Pictures In 1928, director Erich von Stroheim cast Wray as the main female lead in his film The Wedding March, released under Paramount, a film noted for its high budget and production values.

Capra directed two films at Paramount Pictures starring Bing Crosby, Riding High ( 1950 ) and Here Comes the Groom ( 1951 ).

In 1999 Brooks and his production company Red Strokes Entertainment, with Paramount Pictures, began to develop a movie in which Brooks would star.

It was released by the studio where the Marx Brothers began their film career, Paramount Pictures.

In December 1928, Paramount Pictures signed him to a contract that reimbursed him for his airfare and initially paid him $ 600 per week with no screen credit during a six-month apprenticeship.

Hawks was the Story Editor at Famous Players ( later Paramount Pictures ) almost two years, and occasionally edited such films as Heritage of the Desert.

Harold and Maude is a 1971 American dark comedy film directed by Hal Ashby and released by Paramount Pictures.

* 1939 – Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures ' Dr. Cyclops, the first horror film photographed in three-strip Technicolor.

Still, with more new stars like Bob Hope, Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Paulette Goddard, and Betty Hutton, and with war-time attendance at astronomical numbers, Paramount and the other integrated studio-theatre combines made more money than ever.

The deal included such notable Paramount films as the early Marx Brothers films, most of the Bob Hope-Bing Crosby " Road " pictures, and such Oscar contenders as Double Indemnity, The Lost Weekend, and The Heiress.

Some of Bob Hope's films originally released by Paramount ( including The Seven Little Foys and The Lemon Drop Kid ) were owned by Hope himself ; the copyrights were later transferred to Columbia Pictures Television.

But there was a producer on that show, a man named Bob Justman .... six, seven years later, I get this call from Bob Justman and he ’ s working at Paramount on this new Star Trek series and he said I remember your love of the show, we ’ ve got this character, would you be interested in coming in and seeing us?

Shep Fields and his orchestra appeared in The Big Broadcast of 1938 for Paramount Pictures while accompanying the actor Bob Hope in the 1930s.

Paramount would also distribute theatrically certain releases that might have commercial appeal ( such as Bob Roberts, though video rights to that film were owned by Live Entertainment – which is now Lions Gate Entertainment ).

Before he signed on with Paramount Pictures in 1934, he appeared on Broadway in Three's a Crowd ( 1930 – 31 ) and alongside Sydney Greenstreet and Bob Hope in Roberta ( 1933 – 34 ).

Presently, the Tulia 46 drug sting event is in movie production Tulia by Paramount Pictures, directed by John Singleton and starring Billy Bob Thornton and Halle Berry, scheduled for release in 2014.

In 1939, Gene Krupa and his Orchestra appeared in the Paramount movie Some Like It Hot, which starred Bob Hope and Shirley Ross, performing the songs " Blue Rhythm Fantasy " and " The Lady's in Love with You ".

* The USA by Day and the RAF by Night — by Hal Block & Bob Musel ( 1944 ) Paramount Music Corp.

Goddard signed a contract with Paramount Pictures and her next film The Cat and the Canary ( 1939 ) with Bob Hope, was a turning point in the careers of both actors.

Paramount considered a remake of the film starring Bing Crosby in 1950, and in 1954 with Bob Hope, but decided against both.

The lead role of Mortimer Brewster was originally intended for Bob Hope, but he couldn't be released from his contract with Paramount.

Michael Camp headed the trailer department at Paramount Pictures, Tom Kennedy at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Jeff Werner and Vince Arcaro all started their own successful trailer companies and Bob Harper began his career as a messenger at Kaleidoscope before becoming a producer and quickly Vice-Chairman of Fox Filmed Entertainment and, in 2007, Chairman of Regency Entertainment.

* Paramount Headliner: Bob Crosby and His Orchestra ( 1938 )

The series starred Bob Saget, Kat Dennings, Brie Larson, Riley Smith, Beau Wirick, and Jerry Adler, and was produced by Albion Productions in association with Paramount Television.

In October 2007, American network CBS aired a series adapted by Bob Lowry and the creator of Blackpool, Peter Bowker, and based on the same premise, coproduced by BBC Worldwide, CBS Paramount Network Television, Sony Pictures Television and Seed Productions called Viva Laughlin ; the series was cancelled after two episodes, due to low ratings.

* The Bee Gees, Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb, whose music had been integral to Saturday Night Fever ( released by this film's international distributor, Paramount Pictures ), play Mark, David and Bob Henderson, members of the re-formed Sgt.

The show was produced by John Tomlin and Bob Young for Hurricane Entertainment Corporation, and distributed by Rysher Entertainment ( final 2 seasons were by Paramount Domestic Television, now CBS Television Distribution ).

After a long run at Paramount Television, which concluded with the end of Happy Days in 1984, producers Tom Miller and Bob Boyett moved to a new home at Lorimar Television, a partnership between the two and the studio which commenced on October 1 of that year.

Although Tom Miller, Bob Boyett, and Eddie Milkis were the show's supervising producers for the second season, the show was produced by Miller-Milkis Productions at Paramount Television.

The Big Broadcast of 1938 is a Paramount Pictures film featuring W. C. Fields and Bob Hope.

Bob Hope served as the emcee for KTLA's inaugural broadcast, which was broadcast that evening from a garage on the Paramount Studios lot.