Paramount
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It’s ‘Transformers’ Night, and Bay Makes Nice
There were no signs of cutbacks or the recent exec shuffle at the lavish premiere of "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen," which overtook the streets of Westwood Monday evening with red carpets and life-size replicas of machines from the film, including the Optimus Prime semi-truck. Before the screening at Mann’s Village Theater, Paramount head Brad…
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New! Ester’s Weekly Wrap
Catch up on all the top schmooze in Hollywood. Beginning this week, Ester gives her own outrageous take on the week on TheWrap. This week: "Star Trek" and Paramount (and that poor Brad Grey!), fancy schmancy premieres (not!) and lots more. Sit your tookus down and watch it every Friday.
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Paramount Faces Its Summer of Change
Brad Grey and his studio have a lot to prove with the launch of “Star Trek’ and ‘Transformers.”
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What Paramount Has in Store for Us
From “Trek” to “Lovely Bones,” what the studio will deliver this year.
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Redstone: I’ll Never Die, but Newspapers Will (updated with Chernin-Moonves panel)
Speaking at the Milken Institute Global Conference on Wednesday, a feisty Viacom chief Sumner Redstone predicted he would never die. He also predicted that newspapers would. That, and, oh yes, that Paramount would have the biggest year in its history. In a closed-door, wide-ranging session led by CNN’s Larry King, the nearly-86-year-old media magnate took…
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Now a Steve Lopez ‘Soloist’ Ad Draws Fire, Too
The L.A. Times has found controversy again over a four-page advertising section will be part of Calendar on Sunday, designed to resemble editorial, promoting the Paramount movie, ‘The Soloist.’
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Is the “Twilight” Witch Hunt Over at Paramount?
Even two months after the release of “Twilight” — the mania-stirring movie about teen-vampire love– the mere mention of the film’s name on the Paramount lot induces cringing. “It’s still very much an open wound,” said one Paramount source. But in one sign that Paramount does not want to make the same mistake…
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Spielberg Pays $15m for DreamWorks Projects
DreamWorks wrote a check to Paramount for $26.5m for the right to keep 17 films but more than half of that sum came from Steven Spielberg himself.
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Grey Stays at Paramount
Viacom has extended Paramount chairman Brad Grey’s contract, set to expire next year, to 2014.
