• 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.’

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • Grey Stays at Paramount

    Viacom has extended Paramount chairman Brad Grey’s contract, set to expire next year, to 2014.