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.

Coppola chose Brando over Ernest Borgnine on the basis of Brando's screen test, which also won over the Paramount leadership.

Paramount also had a monopoly over Detroit movie theaters through subsidiary company United Detroit Theaters as well.

This led to the Supreme Court decision United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. ( 1948 ) holding that movie studios could not also own movie theater chains.

A number of films produced by independent companies and merely distributed by Paramount would also end up with other companies.

* Warner Bros. also owns the rights to several films originally distributed by Paramount that were produced by Lorimar Productions, which was purchased by Warner in 1989.

Some other Seven Arts projects released by Paramount in the mid-to-late 1960s also reverted to Warner while a few others, such as Assault on a Queen have been retained by Paramount.

* The De Laurentiis Entertainment Group library was initially distributed by Paramount in Canada, these films are also in the StudioCanal catalog, with MGM, Anchor Bay, and Fox each distributing some titles in North America ).

* Paramount also no longer owns North American rights to Meatballs.

* In 2004, Paramount bought all worldwide distribution rights to the original 1975 version of The Stepford Wives ( also released by Columbia ), in connection with the release of the remake.

Paramount also owns DVD rights to several films released by Miramax Films prior to that firm's acquisition by Disney in 1993, also a result of a deal.

* 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 ).

* The Viacom merger also gave Paramount the TV rights to the pre-1984 New World Pictures library, under license from Roger Corman, the company's founder ;

* Paramount has also acquired ( through Trifecta Entertainment & Media ) the US TV and digital rights to most of the Carolco Pictures catalog, under license from StudioCanal, as a result of acquiring Spelling Entertainment Group, whose Worldvision Enterprises division had been distributing the Carolco library.

* Paramount has TV and digital rights to some films in the Nelson Entertainment catalog, also as a result of the Viacom merger, including the Bill & Ted films – all other rights, including Nelson's later films and the copyright to Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, reside with MGM ( several other Nelson films are owned by Paramount for TV and digital distribution through the Spelling merger, as Worldvision at one point had rights to some Nelson films as well );

* Paramount also has TV / digital rights to Dead Man Walking, originally from PolyGram Filmed Entertainment ; MGM owns other ancillary rights.

** USA Networks ( also including what is now called Syfy ) – Paramount owned a stake starting in 1982, 50 % owner ( with Universal Studios ) from 1987 until 1997, when Paramount / Viacom sold their stake to Universal ( now part of NBCUniversal )

Little news was forthcoming for months as Berman and Brannon Braga developed the untitled series, known only as " Series V ", until February 2001, when Paramount signed Herman Zimmerman and John Eaves to production design Series V. Within a month, scenic designer Michael Okuda, another long-time Trek veteran, was also signed.

Viacom also aimed to relaunch UPN as Paramount Network, using a logo based on the famous Paramount Pictures mountain logo and the " P " triangle of the UPN logo, which already stood for Paramount, as the new network logo.