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Paramount Pulls A Fast One With Its Layoffs - Posted December 15, 2008
Paramount Pictures, in compliance with parent company Viacom's edict for 7% layoffs, gave some pink slips, Variety reported. But the marketing staffers were given a week respite. Maybe they were scared of marketing staffers gone amok.... [FishBowlLA]
Paramount Retributively Pushes 'Soloist' Back Again - Posted November 19, 2008
Paramount Pictures, perhaps getting a dig into former partner DreamWorks, has pushed back the potential Oscar nominee Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr.'s "The Soloist" from March 13 to April 24 of next year, Variety reports.
DreamWorks was caught off guard in October when Paramount pushed back the release of "The Soloist"... [FishBowlLA]
DreamWorks 2.0 Announces First Deal -- The Walter and Laurie Show - Posted November 13, 2008
DreamWorks 2.0 announced its first deal in its new incarnation with India's Reliance Big Entertainment money: the studio will work in a two-year deal with former production heads (and producers) Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald, Variety says.
Production pact is the company's first since principals Stacey Snider and Steven Spielberg left Paramount... [FishBowlLA]
Paramount Lays Off 60 for an Internal Merger? - Posted July 24, 2008
Paramount Pictures, in the interest of merging its marketing, distribution and physical production departments will lay off as many as 60 overlapping positions, the studio announced today and Deadline Hollywood Daily reported.
Paramount chairman Brad Grey had no comment on the layoffs, but was... [FishBowlLA]
LAT In 90 Seconds - Posted July 17, 2008
Subliminal Messages? We know it's not like a naked chick in an ice cube or anything, but we can't help it: Every time we click on the LAT elections editorial page, we can't help but think that whoever named the page was a (not very subtle) Barack Obama supporter.
Making Mountains... [FishBowlLA]
LAT In 90 Seconds - Posted July 17, 2008
Subliminal Messages? We know it's not like a naked chick in an ice cube or anything, but we can't help it: Every time we click on the LAT elections editorial page, we can't help but think that whoever named the page was a (not very subtle) Barack Obama supporter.
Making Mountains... [FishBowlLA]
LAT In 90 Seconds - Posted June 19, 2008
Celebrity Splits: Claudia Eller likens the breakup of DreamWorks SKG and Viacom Inc.'s Paramount Pictures to a divorce, saying "the only issue now is who gets custody of the children. Like custody battles anywhere, this one could get nasty." At stake, hundreds of movie projects and employees who work for DreamWorks.
Hollywood... [FishBowlLA]
LAT In 90 Seconds - Posted March 10, 2008
Al Martinez Discovers Liars... but somehow still hasn't found a point.
Go Ahead, Make My Clip: Paramount Pictures will become the first major studio to make film clips available for trading on Facebook. Your friends who speak entirely in movie quotes just got that much more annoying.
Citizen McCaw: A documentary chronicling... [FishBowlLA]
LAT In 90 Seconds -- A Second Look - Posted January 10, 2008
Funniest Lede: Deborah Netburn wins the kiss with this lede about how depleted our TiVos have become during the writers' strike: "Boop. Boop. Boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop. BONK." OK. It was funny to us.
Fin: Jill Grey has filed for divorce after 25 years of marriage to Paramount... [FishBowlLA]
LAT In 90 Seconds -- Afternoon Edition - Posted November 2, 2007
Writers Guild Will Strike Monday: Yep. It's happening. And the LAT is blogging it.
What To Watch? Not a whole lot of anything. In another one of the paper's kinda-annoying photo book thingies, the LAT walks TV viewers through the depressing morass that is strike TV.
He's The Marketing Genius That Came Up... [FishBowlLA]
Trade Round-Up: Oct. 3, 2007 - Posted October 3, 2007
DreamWorks, Paramount Update
DreamWorks is working through tension with parent company Paramount Pictures with the latter reporting boxoffice receipts for DreamWorks under the newly-created DreamWorks-Paramount banner, Variety is reporting. The move, Var says, "could help pave the way for a scenario in which DreamWorks becomes more of an autonomous production company." Read... [FishBowlLA]
Trade Round-Up: Oct. 3, 2007 - Posted October 3, 2007
DreamWorks, Paramount Update
DreamWorks is working through tension with parent company Paramount Pictures with the latter reporting boxoffice receipts for DreamWorks under the newly-created DreamWorks-Paramount banner, Variety is reporting. The move, Var says, "could help pave the way for a scenario in which DreamWorks becomes more of an autonomous production company." Read... [FishBowlLA]
Trade Round-Up: September 21, 2007 - Posted September 21, 2007
Pitt to Punch on Film, Again
Brad Pitt is going back to work again, this time opposite Mark Wahlberg in The Fighter for Paramount Pictures. Variety reports that it's a drama about Boston boxer "Irish" Mickey Ward and his path to becoming world lightweight champion. Darren Aronofsky will direct.
Bening Bows Out... [FishBowlLA]
Trade Round-Up: September 21, 2007 - Posted September 21, 2007
Pitt to Punch on Film, Again
Brad Pitt is going back to work again, this time opposite Mark Wahlberg in The Fighter for Paramount Pictures. Variety reports that it's a drama about Boston boxer "Irish" Mickey Ward and his path to becoming world lightweight champion. Darren Aronofsky will direct.
Bening Bows Out... [FishBowlLA]
LAT In 90 Seconds - Posted September 21, 2007
More Sumner Madness: Getting sick of Hollywood's least-lovable codger, David Geffen and Steven Spielberg will likely be splitting from Paramount Pictures, less than two years after selling DreamWorks SKG to the Viacom outfit.
SAG Elections Results: Incumbent Alan Rosenberg narrowly won a second term as president of the Screen Actors Guild. 72-year-old... [FishBowlLA]
Trade Round-Up: August 17, 2007 - Posted August 17, 2007
"The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" jumps into the serious news fray a bit with a report next week from Iraq-based correspondent Rob Riggle, reports THR. Though Riggle and crew had contact with a USO-Multi National Corps comedy sketch tour, the story says the team was primarily with troops under "military... [FishBowlLA]
Trade Round-Up: August 17, 2007 - Posted August 17, 2007
"The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" jumps into the serious news fray a bit with a report next week from Iraq-based correspondent Rob Riggle, reports THR. Though Riggle and crew had contact with a USO-Multi National Corps comedy sketch tour, the story says the team was primarily with troops under "military... [FishBowlLA]
LAT in 90 Seconds - Posted July 20, 2007
Robbers of the Rich and Famous: A two-man burglary crew has burglarized mansions in the last year, making off with more than $7 million in cash and jewelry from high-powered victims -- some of whom may be former Paramount Pictures chief Sherry Lansing, Clippers star Cuttino Mobley, John Taylor, Juicy... [FishBowlLA]
LAT in 90 Seconds - Posted January 30, 2007
BermanBraun: Gail Berman, who resigned this month as president of Paramount Pictures, is teaming up with another ex-exec, outsted head of Yahoo Inc.'s media group Lloyd Braun, to produce TV programs, movies and shortform shows.
Almost Famous: Fawning sentences like this one "The leggy singer with the cascade of brown hair... [FishBowlLA]
LAT in 90 Seconds - Posted January 24, 2007
MySpace Memorial Redux: What a lovely story about how kids use MySpace as memorials for friends lost. What a lovely nine-month-older story about how kids use MySpace as memorials for friends lost. Remember when the Column One was referred to as a "Non-Dupe," as in non-duplicated?
Raise High The Fences, Minuteman: The... [FishBowlLA]
