This was quickly followed by fake accounts for Paramount Films, Aston Martin and even chief satirist Stephen Colbert.
Viacom will likely look to cash in on the expected success of upcoming Paramount Pictures films like Kung Fu Panda 2, and should benefit from a weak comparison base in 2010.
Lucas had enough leverage to make Paramount finance the films and let him own them.
Because Paramount still has the rights to distribute any Indiana Jones movies and Disney does not want to want to make films for Paramount to distribute.
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To be fair, Ellison is helping to finance some very promising films at Paramount.
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In September, the company signed a deal with Epix cable network to carry films from Paramount, MGM and Lionsgate.
Viacom is an entertainment company composed of two segments, media networks and filmed entertainments, and owns brands such as Paramount Pictures, MTV Films and Nickelodeon Movies, to name a few.
The company had previously distributed its films through Paramount.
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Over the next two years, he is producing or writing six films for Columbia Pictures, Paramount and Universal.
Marvel was busy at work on The Avengers and Iron Man 3 and Paramount was on board to distribute those films.
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The three major studios that got out of indie films Disney, Paramount and Warner Bros have not returned and are concentrating on a few expensive blockbusters.
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Based on the success of Paranormal, Paramount set up a division to produce micro-budget films.
Several insurers are suing Paramount over money they lent to finance a slate of films for the studio.
With director Brad Bird on board (best known for Pixar films like Ratatouille and The Incredibles), Paramount seems bent on reinventing the franchise.
Two of those films, the just-released Titanic 3D from Paramount Home Media Distribution and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment and the October 15 Avatar 3D from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, are from the Oscar-winning director.
And Paramount Home Media Distribution are finally bringing the original trilogy of Indiana Jones films to Blu-ray.
The venture will showcase dozens of recent releases from Paramount, Paramount Vantage, MGM, United Artists and Lionsgate, along with thousands of classic films.
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Paramount, New Line Cinema, Universal and Fox have all used German film funds to make films like Mission: Impossible 2, two of The Lord of the Rings movies and Shallow Hal.
Though exceptions exist--New Line's Lord of the Rings franchise won several Oscars a few years back--nominations are typically awarded to the smaller budget, often artistic films, aptly dubbed Oscar bait, from the studio's specialty divisions (Paramount's Vantage or 20th Century Fox's Fox Searchlight, among others).
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