BREAKING: The former Paramount Marketing President is expected to take the top post at UA and be named next week. He has a former history in marketing the Bond movies, so he’s a huge plus at UA. Rich was already consulting for UA we hear. Rich left his Marketing President position at Paramount in 2008. Earlier today Da…

Kevin Hart and Paramount are teaming on a potential remake of Scrooged, the 1988 comedy directed by Richard Donner and starring Bill Murray in a memorable take on Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. The new project is in early development, we hear, and the next step is hiring a writer. Hart also could topline the pic…

UPDATED WITH PARAMOUNT STATEMENT: Central Partnership, the Russian distributor of Rocketman, has edited out all scenes depicting drug use and gay sex to conform the Russian Federation’s legislation against homosexual propaganda. This afternoon, Elton John, an EP on his own Paramount/Marv Films biopic, and the pic’s…

Paramount is moving up John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place 2 from its first announced May 15, 2020 date to March 20, 2020. The new release date brings the sci-fi horror thriller back to the original’s spring launchpad. A Quiet Place made its world premiere at SXSW last year and opened roughly a month later on April 6, to…

When Paramount dropped the trailer for their live-action/CGI hybrid adaptation of Sonic the Hedgehog, fans freaked on Twitter over the blue animal’s human teeth, calling them "creepy" and "nightmarish.” As such, director Jeff Fowler said Friday on Twitter that the pic, which Paramount is banking on as an event film…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures has picked up Party Girls, an original pitch from the Legally Blonde screenwriting duo Kirsten "Kiwi" Smith and Karen McCullah, with Todd Garner attached to produce via his Broken Road Productions banner. Garner is the producer behind such films as Paul Blart: Mall Cop and its sequel, Scou…

“Even if the movie doesn’t make one penny — which will kill Jim Gianopulos — it is the movie I wanted to make, and that doesn’t happen often,” said no one other than Elton John on Thursday as he proceeded to sing his signature “I’m Still Standing” at the Carlton Beach after-party for the world premiere of the movie…

BREAKING: Comic book fans rejoice: the superhero scene could be getting even busier. Steven Paul's SP Media Group (SPMG) has entered into an agreement to acquire a majority interest in the Atlas Comics library, it was announced this morning in Cannes, with Paramount aboard for a first-look deal. The Atlas Comics trove…

EXCLUSIVE: From the minute Rocketman landed an out of competition spot at Cannes, it’s been buzzed that Elton John could perform at tonight’s after-premiere party, the same spot some 37 years ago where he shot the music video for his hit 1983 song “I’m Still Standing.” Well, it wouldn’t be a shocker if that happens: A…

Viacom delivered a mixed second-quarter financial report Friday, with earnings of 93 cents a share handily beating Wall Street forecasts, but revenue missing targets due to a downturn in domestic advertising. Total revenue of $2.96 billion declined from $3.15 billion in the year-ago quarter, falling short of the…

Paramount has dated Antoine Fuqua’s Infinite, a feature adaptation of the D. Eric Maikranz novel The Reincarnationist Papers, for August 7, 2020. The release-date move pushes the studio’s anticipated Eddie Murphy-Arsenio Hall Coming to America 2 from that date to December 18, 2020 — the old Avatar 2 spot. Coming to Ame…

EXCLUSIVE: BRON Studios has hired former Paramount and Revolution Studios exec Rona Cosgrove as Chief Business Affairs Officer. In the new post she will oversee business affairs for all film and TV activities for the BRON group of companies, working from the Los Angeles HQ and reporting to BRON chairman Aaron L…