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.

His box office appeal waned to the point where Paramount Pictures new executives felt no further need for the Lewis comedies.

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.

Most of the buildings are named for historical Paramount executives or the many great artists that worked at Paramount over the years.

During the fifth season, with Paramount executives having gained greater control, new producer Bruce Lansbury began to phase out the international missions.

Although Paramount executives were concerned that Spock's death would set fans against the movie, the audience actually applauded after Spock's death scene.

He agreed and encouraged Paramount Pictures executives to purchase the rights from the playwrights for $ 250, 000 and offer them $ 10, 000 per week to write the screenplay.

The letter was signed by 34 prominent figures in the U. S. entertainment industry, including the top executives of MGM, Warner Bros., Paramount, Universal and Sony Pictures Entertainment as well as actors Dustin Hoffman and Goldie Hawn, director Oliver Stone, writers Mario Puzo and Gore Vidal and talk-show host Larry King.

Paramount executives told him there were only so many shooting days left, so the scene was scrapped.

The completed script was shown to Paramount executives, who were very pleased.

Conti showed footage of the operation of a prototype to Paramount executives, who according to Conti, " loved it ...

And while he had concepts for full-length features, it was not until the success of Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ( 1937 ) that the stodgy Paramount executives realized the value of an animated feature as Fleischer had been proposing for the previous three years.

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Gilbert said Alfie was only made because the low budget was " the sort of money Paramount executives normally spend on cigar bills ".

Moreover, during its production process, Paramount changed executives, which gave the project a difficult position within the studio.

Paramount Pictures executives were not happy with the arrangement and preferred for Parker and Stone to stop working on the television series to focus on the film.

In 1925, against the advice of studio executives, Joy parted ways with Paramount and followed DeMille to his new film company, Producers Distributing Corporation, and she made a few modestly successful films for the company, including Lois Weber's last silent film The Angel of Broadway in 1927.

Upon the film's completion, Lubitsch approached Paramount general manager B. P. Schulberg and threatened to leave the studio if Cukor's name wasn't removed from the credits.

Although the character was written with Cromwell in mind, Tom Hanks, a big fan of Star Trek, was approached for the role by Paramount first, but he had already committed to the film That Thing You Do!

In 2004, Straczynski was approached by Paramount Studios to become a producer of the Star Trek: Enterprise series.

Garfield had been approached by Hollywood studios before — both Paramount and Warners offering screen tests — but talks had always stalled over a clause he wanted inserted in his contract, one that would allow him time off for stage work.

In 2003, Devlin approached Paramount to pitch the project but failed to receive funding.

They were reluctant to commit themselves to another major project at the time when they were approached by their distributor, and owner since May 1941, Paramount Pictures.

Cretu was approached by Paramount Pictures to write the soundtrack of the movie Sliver and he came up with another 1993 single " Carly's Song " after the main female character's name.

In August 1978, with rumors of an impending meltdown at Abel swirling, Trumbull approached Paramount offering to step in and do the effects with partner Richard Yuricich.

Paramount approached Trumbull to take over effects production, which Trumbull did after securing an agreement to be released from his contract at Paramount upon completion of the film.

They approached Adolph Zukor, who would go on to be the owner and founder of Paramount Pictures, regarding a business deal.

Based on her work for Lucasfilm and Paramount, in writing the " backstory " for, respectively, Han Solo and Sarek from Star Trek, she was approached to create a " backstory " and prequel to the popular Pirates of the Caribbean films.

Paramount Pictures approached the museum and offered them a seven figure sum of money to film there but the administration was worried that the monster movie would scare kids away from the museum.