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.

Paramount Pictures executives approached The Next Generation producer Rick Berman in late 1992 about creating a feature film, four months before the official announcement.

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.

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.

" Trumbull reassembled his Future General team, rebuilt his facility which Paramount had nearly gutted, and with a mere five months to create the hundreds of effects shots needed, worked virtually around the clock for months.

Those wishing to visit Paramount can take daily studio tours.

Although succeeded by Hua Guofeng, it was Deng Xiaoping, Zhou's ally, who was able to outmaneuver the Gang of Four politically and eventually take Mao's place as Paramount leader by 1977.

Paramount lent Fleischer the money for a larger studio, which was built in Miami, Florida to take advantage of tax breaks and to break up union activity resulting from a bitter 1937 strike.

This breach, along with the substantial debt to Paramount, gave the bigger studio the right to take control of the smaller, forcing Max out.

Paramount used cash acquired from the sale of G + W's non-entertainment properties to take over the TVX Broadcast Group chain of TV stations ( which at that point consisted mainly of large-market stations which TVX bought from Taft Broadcasting, plus two mid-market stations which TVX owned prior to the Taft purchase ), and the KECO Entertainment chain of theme parks from Taft successor Great American Broadcasting.

A play on the 1970s trend of large corporations buying up smaller companies is parodied in this film by the attempt of the Engulf and Devour Corporation to take control of a studio ( a thinly veiled reference to Gulf + Western's takeover of Paramount Pictures ).

Sam, not wanting to take any more of brother Harry's refusal to move forward with using sound in future Warner films, agreed to accept Zukor's offer, but the deal died after Paramount lost money in the wake of Rudolph Valentino's death.

He was so impressed by Francis that he encouraged her to take a screen test for the Paramount Pictures film Gentlemen of the Press ( 1929 ).

was written to take place in the Star Trek: The Next Generation universe ; by this point in time, Paramount Pictures was aggressively defending its intellectual property, and the author was forced to re-release it with all of the Star Trek related names removed.

Paramount awarded the contract to effects house Robert Abel and Associates, and in a move seen by some as payback for Trumbull's refusal to take on the project, all but shuttered Future General.

She said she had offers from MGM and Paramount, and that her dance career was set to take off.

Nobody wanted to take their personally autographed picture of Billy Ray down so they took down the one he had signed to Paramount Joe.

The idea for the 1994 sitcom Someone Like Me originated after Gail Berman ( now president of Viacom's Paramount Pictures ), the show's producer, read a New York Times article about the Hotel which referred to a children's book which Viva and friend Jane Lancellotti wrote entitled Gaby at the Chelsea ( a take on Kay Thompson ’ s 1950 ’ s classic Eloise books ).

Ayres ' career began to gain momentum when Paramount Pictures founder Jesse Laksy began to take an interest in her.

Under the agreement Hodkinson would distribute the two companies ' films through a 65 / 35 arrangement in which the producer agreed to take only 65 % of film profits with 35 % of the gross revenue going to Hodkinson's Paramount.

* The Paramount Lesson of Job: God's Glory Magnified by Faith Triumphant over Tribulation by J. T.

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.

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

Eventually, Charles Bluhdorn, the president of Paramount parent Gulf + Western, was won over to letting Brando have the role ; when he saw the screen test, he asked in amazement, " What are we watching?

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

" High Concept " pictures such as Saturday Night Fever and Grease hit big, hit hard and hit fast all over the world, and Diller's television background led him to propose one of his longest-standing ideas to the board: Paramount Television Service, a fourth commercial network.

During their administration over Paramount, the studio had an extremely successful period of films with two of Paramount's ten highest grossing films being produced during this period.

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.

Independent company Hollywood Classics now represents Paramount in the theatrical distribution of all the films produced by the various motion picture divisions of CBS over the years, as a result of the Viacom / CBS merger.

The text " VistaVision – Motion Picture High Fidelity " was often imposed over the Paramount logo briefly before dissolving into the title sequence.

This version of the Paramount logo was designed by Dario Campanile and animated by Apogee, Inc ; for this logo, the stars would move across the screen into the arc shape instead of it being superimposed over the mountain as it was before.

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

In 1993 he said, "' Okay, YOU ( Paramount ) know what happened, and * I * know what happened, but let's try to be grownup about it for now ,' though I must say that the shapechanging thing nearly tipped me back over the edge again.

TrekUnited officials, however, still claimed to be in talks with Paramount over the future of the series at the time.

The Protectorate Ordinances ( passed in the Colony in 1896 and 1897 ) abolished the title of King and replaced it with " Paramount Chief "; chiefs and kings had formerly been selected by the leading members of their own communities, now all chiefs, even paramount ones, could be deposed or installed at the will of the Governor ; most of the judicial powers of the chiefs were removed and given to courts presided over by British " District Commissioners "; the Governor decreed that a house tax of 5s to 10s was to be levied annually on every dwelling in the Protectorate.

United Paramount Network ( UPN ) was a television network that was broadcast in over 200 markets in the United States from 1995 to 2006.

In November, 1928, he recorded 4 sides for Gennett spread over two days ( 1 side was rejected ) and in 1931, he recorded 8 sides for Paramount ( during two sessions ) that were issued on the Broadway and Lyric labels.

In 1936, Colbert signed a new contract with Paramount Pictures, which required her to make seven films over a two-year period, and this contract made her Hollywood's highest paid actress.

Paramount wanted Sturges to stop using the same actors over and over again, but he felt that " these little players who had contributed so much to my first hits had a moral right to work in my subsequent pictures.

His three Chief Bards are named, and he is proclaimed King Paramount over the other kings.

He also represented Paramount Pictures in its appeal of the Buchwald v. Paramount case over Coming to America, and in other civil litigation.