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.

With only the exhibitor-owned First National as a rival, Famous Players-Lasky and its " Paramount Pictures " soon dominated the business.

Rogers would soon get herself out of the Paramount contract — under which she had made five feature films at Astoria Studios in Astoria, Queens — and move with her mother to Hollywood.

Some UA films of the 1930s, 1940s and early 1950s fell into the public domain, to be picked up by Republic Pictures ( today part of Paramount Pictures ) or studios like Westchester Films ( successor to Castle Hill Productions ), and what will soon become the DreamWorks Classics division of DreamWorks Animation ( in most cases with distribution by Warner Bros .).

In March 2004, producer Lloyd Levin said that Cradle of Life had earned enough internationally for Paramount to bankroll a second sequel, but any hopes of it going into production were soon quelled by Jolie's announcement that she had no desire to play Lara Croft a third time.

Due to interference from Roddenberry's assistant / gofer Richard Arnold, Paramount revoked FASA's license soon after the book was published and at Arnold's urging began to contradict FASA's material early in Star Trek: The Next Generations run.

Despite success the studio had, the Warners were unable to compete with the Big Three Studios ( Paramount, Universal, First National ) at the time, and were soon threatened to be bought out by the end of 1924.

An undistinguished period followed with Paramount Pictures from 1935 to 1939, but Walsh's career rose to new heights soon after moving to Warner Brothers, with The Roaring Twenties ( 1939 ) featuring James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart ; Dark Command ( 1940 ) with John Wayne and Roy Rogers ; They Drive By Night ( 1940 ) with George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino, and Bogart ; High Sierra ( 1941 ) with Lupino and Bogart again ; They Died with Their Boots On ( 1941 ) with Errol Flynn as Custer ; The Strawberry Blonde ( 1941 ) with James Cagney and Olivia de Havilland ; Manpower ( 1941 ) with Edward G. Robinson, Marlene Dietrich, and George Raft ; and White Heat ( 1949 ) with Cagney.

Paramount Animation was soon later incorporated in mid-2011 and its first feature, a sequel to The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, is due for release in 2014.

The good-looking and personable young Howard soon became a contract player for Paramount, working in a dozen pictures before getting his first memorable role as Ronald Colman's younger brother in Lost Horizon.

When Scheck decided it was financially advantageous to rent Arbuckle to Paramount Pictures for feature films, Keaton took over the comedy unit and soon married Natalie, bringing him more thoroughly into the Talmadge family fold, at least for a time.

Hamilton was signed by Paramount Pictures in the mid 1920s and soon became one of that studio's most popular leading men.

Zukor soon fired Hodkinson and took over as president of Paramount and added motion-picture production to the company's film distribution business.

The Great Depression, however, soon changed the course of events for the theater, as Paramount had decided to do away with the project altogether.

As soon as Wallis set up shop at Paramount, she was signed to a contract.

WSBK finally launched a local 10 p. m. newscast on October 25, 1993, by way of the WBZ-produced WBZ News 4 on TV 38, competing against both WLVI and a New England Cable News ( NECN )- produced program on WFXT ; this production left the air August 6, 1995, soon after the sale of WSBK to Paramount, as it was felt that the WBZ News 4 branding was incompatible with the then-new " UPN 38 " branding.

Mann soon expanded the chain to 360 screens, but again sold off his theaters in 1986, this time to Gulf + Western, which later renamed itself to Paramount Communications ( which itself became part of Viacom ).

Initially receiving only bit parts, she was soon spotted by Lois Weber, a highly regarded and influential director and producer of silent films for Paramount Pictures.

He quit Duffy's Tavern in 1945 to work at Paramount Pictures but soon returned to radio.

In 1994, Combined sold WBFS and WGBS ( now WPSG ) to Paramount Stations Group ( which was soon acquired by former Grant creditor Viacom ) who sold its original Philadelphia station, WTXF-TV, to Fox.

To restore the theater to its original state required some expert craftsmanship to repair what was there ( including A. T. Heinsbergen, the son of the original painter ) and some creativity to replace what had been lost ( including salvaging vintage Art Deco seats from the soon to be renovated Paramount Theater in Portland, Oregon ).

With RKO and Warner Bros. ( soon to become Warner Bros .– First National ) joining Fox, Paramount, and Loew's / MGM as major players, the Big Five that would rule Hollywood — and thus much of world cinema — for decades to follow were now complete.

Paramount soon capitulated, entering into a similar consent decree the following February.

After seeing The Plastic Age soon after its release, Adolph Zukor, the founder and CEO of Paramount Pictures, contacted Schulberg, who had started his career as a publicist with Paramount before leaving the studio in 1918 to form Preferred Pictures.