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.

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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.

Beginning in 1914, both Lasky and Famous Players released their films through a start-up company, Paramount Pictures Corporation, organized early that year by a Utah theatre owner, W. W. Hodkinson, who had bought and merged several smaller firms.

All through the teens and twenties, he built the Publix Theatres Corporation, a mighty chain of nearly 2, 000 screens, ran two production studios, and became an early investor in radio, taking a 50 % interest in the new Columbia Broadcasting System in 1928 ( selling it within a few years ; this would not be the last time Paramount and CBS crossed paths, as time proved ).

Paramount Pictures Corporation was formed to be the production distribution company, with the 1, 500-screen theater chain handed to the new United Paramount Theaters on December 31, 1949.

" Such aged leadership was incapable of keeping up with the changing times, and in 1966, a sinking Paramount was sold to Charles Bluhdorn's industrial conglomerate, Gulf + Western Industries Corporation.

In 1970, Paramount teamed with Universal Studios to form Cinema International Corporation, a new company that would distribute films by the two studios outside the United States.

Paramount's home entertainment unit continues to distribute the Paramount TV library through CBS DVD, as both Viacom and CBS Corporation are controlled by Michael Redstone's National Amusements.

When the talent agency Music Corporation of America ( better known as MCA ), then wielding major influence on Paramount policy, offered $ 50 million for 750 features released prior to December 1, 1949 ( with payment to be spread over many years ), a cash-strapped Paramount thought it had made the best possible deal.

Paramount, however, has retained full distribution rights to the Lewis films under license from Lewis's company, York Pictures Corporation.

* Paramount Pictures Corporation becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of Gulf + Western Industries, Inc.

In February 1927, an agreement was signed by five leading Hollywood movie companies: the so-called Big Two — Paramount and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer — a pair of studios in the next rank — Universal and the fading First National — and Cecil B. DeMille's small but prestigious Producers Distributing Corporation ( PDC ).

Hawks got character actors Charlie Ruggles on loan from Paramount Pictures to play Major Horace Applegate and Barry Fitzgerald on loan from the The Mary Pickford Corporation to play the gardener Aloysius Gogarty.

The original Viacom was renamed CBS Corporation and got the broadcasting elements, Paramount Television's production operations ( renamed CBS Paramount Television, now two separate arms, CBS Television Studios for production and CBS Television Distribution for syndicated program distribution ), Viacom Outdoor advertising ( renamed CBS Outdoor ), Showtime Networks, Simon & Schuster and Paramount Parks, which the company later sold, while the new Viacom kept Paramount Pictures, MTV Networks, BET Networks, and ( until it was sold off in 2007 ) Famous Music.

UA's international operations were merged into MGM's share of Cinema International Corporation ( the joint venture MGM was a partner since 1974 with Paramount Pictures and Universal Pictures ), eventually becoming United International Pictures.

The five largest studios — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount Pictures, Fox Film Corporation ( 20th Century Fox as of 1935 ), Warner Bros., and RKO Radio Pictures ( descendant of FBO )— also belonged to companies with sizable theater chains, further securing the bottom line.

On June 14, 2005, Viacom announced intentions to split into two companies ( Viacom and CBS Corporation ) with CBS inheriting Paramount Parks.

In 1924, Lloyd formed his own independent film production company, the Harold Lloyd Film Corporation, with his films distributed by Pathé and later Paramount and Twentieth Century-Fox.

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* 1951-Benjy-Made by Fred Zinnemann with the cooperation of Paramount Pictures Corporation for the Los Angeles Orthopaedic Hospital