The would-be studio, which made films such as “American Beauty” and “War of the Worlds”, sold itself to Paramount in 2005.

这家似乎前途无量的电影制片公司曾制作出像《美国丽人》和《世界大战》这样的影片。 2005年它出卖给派拉蒙公司。

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Last year Paramount gave a selection of films to a service called Joost that streams them free, supported by advertising.

去年帕拉·蒙特把它们选出的一些电影提供给一个叫做Joost的服务商用于免费的播放，由广告来进行支持。

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This was quickly followed by fake accounts for Paramount Films, Aston Martin and even chief satirist Stephen Colbert.

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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.

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Lucas had enough leverage to make Paramount finance the films and let him own them.

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