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EXCLUSIVE: Three crew members on the Wilmington, NC production of Spyglass Media Group/Paramount’s Scream relaunch have tested positive, but filming will solider on, with the Radio Silence-directed movie set to resume as scheduled on Monday. Yesterday’s day of filming wrapped on time, I hear, for a weekend break. It’s…

ViacomCBS CEO Bob Bakish Tuesday called Paramount, "one of the most storied brands in Hollywood" and a "natural choice" of name and content machine for its fast-growing OTT service in a rebrand announced this morning. Previous Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman wanted to unload the studio, or a big chunk of it. But Bakish is…

ViacomCBS today confirmed Paramount+ as the new name for the company's CBS All Access streaming service. The rebrand, which takes effect in early 2021, had been reported in recent weeks and executives have been talking about the revamp throughout this year. The official announcement of the shift didn’t offer many…

ViacomCBS's new streaming service Paramount+ will feature a limited drama about the making of The Godfather and a spy thriller from Yellowstone co-creator Taylor Sheridan. Elsewhere, a new reboot of BET's The Game is in development, it is reviving VH1's classic rock-doc strand Behind The Music and ordered a true crime…

Paramount Pictures president of production Elizabeth Raposo has exited the studio. This has been a rumor around town ever since Wyck Godfrey exited after Emma Watts became president of the Paramount Motion Picture Group in late June. Godfrey and Raposo worked closely together. Raposo is an effective exec and she will…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures  has acquired the home entertainment and TV licensing rights to three Romulus Entertainment features films: Dreamland starring Margot Robbie, the Charlie Hunnam and Jack O’Connell boxing movie Jungleland, and the Amber Heard-Jonathan Majors-Terrence Howard LA crime pic Gully.  All three…

Sejin Croninger has been appointed EVP of Worldwide Acquisitions at Paramount Pictures. She will report to Paramount Motion Picture Group president Emma Watts and start on September 8. In Croninger's new role, she will oversee the Global Content Acquisitions group, which includes theatrical and home media acquisitions…

With the exhibition reopening of New York and Los Angeles still unclear, despite California Governor Gavin Newsom laying out a road map this afternoon, Paramount has opted to reschedule some of its fall releases, and date some new titles. After moving Top Gun: Maverick out of the Christmas corridor to July 2 next…

EXCLUSIVE: If Beale Street Could Talk star Stephan James is in final negotiations to co-star with Russell Crowe in Paramount's thriller American Son, which is based on the critically acclaimed French film A Prophet. Andrew "Rapman" Onwubolu is on board to direct the movie from a screenplay by Dennis Lehane. Neal H…

Paramount has reupped its first-look deal with producer Neal Moritz, giving the acclaimed producer a two-year extension on his current pact. It extends the studio's relationship with Moritz through December 2023. "I am thrilled to extend this relationship with Neal and Original Film, which already has been so fruitful…

Paramount has decided that the Dylan O’Brien movie Love and Monsters ne Monster Problems isn’t going to hit the big screen, rather PVOD on Oct. 16. The movie will be available on VOD platforms for a 48-hour rental period at a suggested rental price of $19.99 in the U.S.  The film will also be available for early…

The reminders came often from Sumner Redstone, self-made architect of a vast media empire. "Viacom is me," he once told Fortune magazine. "I'm Viacom. That marriage is eternal, forever." “I’m in control!” he chided Mel Karmazin in a nationally televised news conference as the executive tried to outline his vision for…