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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 ".
The 1994 Paramount release of Terror of Mechagodzilla listed a running time of 89 minutes on the slipcase, implying that this release would be the longer version first shown on American TV.
In 1999 Brooks and his production company Red Strokes Entertainment, with Paramount Pictures, began to develop a movie in which Brooks would star.
However, Paramount studio heads wanted to give the role to Danny Thomas in the hope that Thomas would have his own production company throw in its lot with Paramount.
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 ).
In 1940, Paramount agreed to a government-instituted consent decree: block booking and " pre-selling " ( the practice of collecting up-front money for films not yet in production ) would end.
Despite Paramount's losses, DeMille would, however, give the studio some relief and create his most successful film at Paramount, a 1956 remake of his 1923 film The Ten Commandments.
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.
would return to Paramount ( though, except for few other films, video rights belong to Olive Films, after years of distribution by Lionsgate ).
A number of films produced by independent companies and merely distributed by Paramount would also end up with other companies.
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.
When Gulf + Western became Paramount Communications, and continuing until 2002, the Paramount logo would appear first followed by the underline and the byline beneath it.
* For the company's 90th anniversary, in 2002, a completely new version of the logo was introduced in which shooting stars would fall from a night sky to form the arc while the Paramount logo would fly into place between them.
Sometimes he would spend all day in front of Paramount Pictures or Columbia Pictures and then skate to the Brown Derby to watch the stars who came and went for meals.
On July 26, 2007, CBS Home Entertainment ( with distribution by Paramount Home Entertainment ) announced that the remastered episodes of TOS would be released on a HD DVD / DVD hybrid format.
After a false start involving Berman which would have set the film in a time period after the events of Enterprise but before TOS, Paramount recruited a new producing and writing team, which ultimately led to the release of a new Star Trek film in May 2009.
But there was a producer on that show, a man named Bob Justman .... six, seven years later, I get this call from Bob Justman and he ’ s working at Paramount on this new Star Trek series and he said I remember your love of the show, we ’ ve got this character, would you be interested in coming in and seeing us?
Plans for the new network were scrapped when sufficient advertising slots could not be sold, though Paramount would contribute some programs to Operation Prime Time, such as the mini-series A Woman Called Golda, and the weekly pop music program, Solid Gold.
The agreement specified that Paramount would buy that same stock back by March 1, 1932 for a flat $ 5, 000, 000, provided CBS had earned $ 2, 000, 000 during 1931 and 1932.
This meant that, to MGM's dismay, she would have to be loaned out to Paramount.
Loren L. Ryder, chief engineer at Paramount, expressed four general reasons he thought Paramount's VistaVision would be the forerunner of widescreen projection in most theaters:
Fan reaction to leaked news that Spock would be killed was overwhelmingly negative, and one fan paid for trade-paper advertisements urging Paramount to abandon the plan.

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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.
* 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.

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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.
Under the deal, Paramount is required to distribute the DreamWorks animated films for a small fee intended only to cover Paramount's out of pocket costs with no profit to the studio, including the Shrek franchise ( and ending for the 2004 installment, Shrek 2 ).
In 1973, Bakshi and Ruddy began production on Harlem Nights, which Paramount was originally contracted to distribute.
Paramount now also owns the theatrical rights, while Lionsgate Entertainment ( Republic's video licensee and successor to Artisan Entertainment, previously LIVE Entertainment ) holds the home video rights, and Trifecta Entertainment & Media now holds most major TV rights on behalf of Republic / Paramount ( aside from other major and minor / low budget film, TV, and video companies that distribute the public domain cartoons )-- CBS Television Distribution ( as well as its predecessor companies Paramount Domestic Television and Worldvision Enterprises ) formally held such TV rights until 2009.
Paramount Pictures instantly agreed to distribute.
In 2005, Bagdasarian Productions struck a deal with Paramount Home Video to distribute their latest direct-to-video release, Little Alvin and the Mini-Munks on DVD.
As a result, Paramount continues to distribute select episodes of the show from 1983 to 1990, as well as several specials from the 80's and 90's on DVD, except for Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein, Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet The Wolfman ( the Home Video rights to those are still owned by Universal Studios Home Entertainment ), and the 2007 film ( the Home Video rights to that are owned by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment ).
Looking for more movies to distribute, Paramount signed a contract with the Lasky Company on June 1, 1914 to supply 36 films per year.
Paramount Pictures owns the rights to distribute the Cannon library ( except Lifeforce ) on digital platforms.
Paramount Home Entertainment continues to distribute home video sales of CBS shows through the CBS DVD brand.
Thus, TV rights to their live-action library will move to Disney-ABC Domestic Television ( except films released prior to 9-17-2005 ; Trifecta now also holds the TV rights to those and all animated productions, as Paramount continues to distribute animated films ).
Production wrapped on July 17, 1987, and in the following month, Lucas convinced Paramount Pictures to distribute the film and cover the majority of the budget.
The agreement granted Paramount the worldwide rights to distribute all animated films, including previously released until the delivery of 13 new animated feature films or December 31, 2012, whatever comes last.
** Marvel Enterprises and Paramount Pictures announce an agreement under which Paramount will distribute up to ten films over an eight-year period to be produced by Marvel.
In 1973, production of Harlem Nights began, with Paramount Pictures ( where Bakshi once worked as the head of its cartoon studio ) originally attached to distribute the film.
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.

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