Paramount Pictures has made a couple of marketing exec hires, setting 20th Century Fox veterans Danielle Kupchak as EVP Global Creative Content and Len Iannelli as SVP Special Projects & Events.

The pair joins the team led by Marc Weinstock, President of Worldwide Marketing & Distribution, and Mary Daily, Co-President…

UPDATE: Paramount’s live action take on Nickelodeon’s hit TV toon series Dora the Explorer — Dora and the Lost City of Gold — will now open on July 31. That’s a Wednesday and it will give her a jump before Universal’s Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw swipes all the weekend box office on Aug. 2. Disney still has…

Paramount Pictures released the first trailer Saturday for Dora and the Lost City of Gold.

The live-action film is based on the popular Nickelodeon animated series, Dora the Explorer, and stars Eva Longoria, Michael Peña, and Isabela Moner in the title role.

After spending most of her life exploring the jungle with her…

Paramount has moved the release of its Tiffany Haddish-Rose Byrne buddy comedy Limited Partners back by six months to January 10 and dated its literary-adaptation toon The Tiger’s Apprentice for 2020.

Limited Partners, which the studio acquired as a pitch in July, had been set to roll out on June 28 but no will open…

EXCLUSIVE: There were two big movie spec properties in play this week, and one of them is now spoken for.

In a high six against seven figure deal, Paramount Pictures tonight won Assisted Living, a script by Kay Oyegun that had Sony, Endeavor Content and Netflix in the mix as well. Sources said the high concept was…

UPDATED, 12:15 PM: Paramount said today that its Alexandre Aja-helmed horror pic Crawl has moved from an August 23 wide release to July 12. The pic starring Kaya Scodelario and Barry Pepper will open against STX’s Chadwick Boseman thriller 17 Bridges and Fox’s Dave Bautista-Kumail Nanjiani action comedy Stuber.

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UK artist/director Rapman, a.k.a Andrew Onwubolu, is set to direct Blue Story, a feature film which he also wrote based on his short video trilogy of the same name. Paramount Pictures acquired the worldwide distribution rights and is aiming to release the pic sometime this year. BBC Films developed and co-financed the…

Paramount Pictures said it is elevating Dan Cohen to president of Worldwide Home Entertainment & Television Distribution.

Cohen, who currently serves as president of Worldwide Television Licensing, assumes the role previously held by Mary Daily, who had overseen International Theatrical Marketing and Home Entertainment…

EXCLUSIVE: Toho, Paramount and Bad Robot have set Marc Webb to direct Your Name, a reimagined version of the 2016 animated romantic fantasy drama film that became a classic in Japan. Webb followed (500) Days of Summer with the blockbuster reboot The Amazing Spider-Man and its sequel. Eric Heisserer is set to write the…

Paramount Pictures has hired longtime United International Pictures exec Eugene Yang as Senior VP of Theatrical for Asia Pacific. He joins the studio’s newly established Asia Pacific Regional Office based in Taipei on May 1. Yang will report to Mary Daily, President of International Theatrical Marketing and Home…

Viacom reported mixed results for its fiscal first quarter, with total revenue falling short of Wall Street forecasts due to an advertising decline in its dominant media networks unit.

Earnings per share on an adjusted and diluted basis came in at $1.12, beating estimates by 9 cents, but revenue of $3.09 billion unders…

There’s a new biopic about a revered British pop star from the 1970s who assaulted the charts worldwide while exuding style, charisma and sheer innate talent. But this one hasn’t made more than $700 million.

Given the massive and unprecedented global succuss of Bohemian Rhapsody, Paramount must be salivating at the…