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In March 2010, Paramount founded Insurge Pictures, an independent distributor of "micro budget" films. The distributor planned ten movies with budgets of $100,000 each. [106] The first release was The Devil Inside, a movie with a budget of about US$1 million. [107]
Paramount Pictures, CBS, and Viacom each had a history of being associated with one another through a series of various corporate mergers and splits. [10] Paramount Pictures was founded in 1912 as the Famous Players Film Company. [11] CBS was founded in 1927, which Paramount Pictures held a 49 percent ownership stake in from 1929 to 1932.
William Wadsworth Hodkinson (August 16, 1881 – June 2, 1971), known more commonly as W. W. Hodkinson, was born in Independence, Kansas.Known as The Man Who Invented Hollywood, [1] he opened one of the first movie theaters in Ogden, Utah in 1907 and within just a few years changed the way movies were produced, distributed, and exhibited.
Lasky Feature Play Company is founded: 1914: Paramount Pictures is founded: 1916: Famous Players and Lasky merge as Famous Players–Lasky and acquire Paramount: 1927: Famous Players–Lasky renamed to Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation; CBS is founded with investment from Columbia Records: 1929: Paramount acquires 49% of CBS: 1930
Through the motion picture industry, Abrams became acquainted with W. W. Hodkinson and when Hodkinson founded Paramount Pictures in 1914, Abrams began serving on the five-man board-of-directors. [2] When Hodkinson denied Paramount partners Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky more of the profits, Zukor - in a Machiavellian plot - devised a coup.
The evolution of Paramount; 1886: Westinghouse Electric Corporation is founded as Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company: 1912: Famous Players Film Company is founded: 1913: Lasky Feature Play Company is founded: 1914: Paramount Pictures is founded: 1916: Famous Players and Lasky merge as Famous Players–Lasky and acquire Paramount: 1927
The family of the author whose story inspired the original Top Gun film is suing Paramount Pictures in hopes of grounding the sequel, Top Gun: Maverick, over copyright infringement. Shosh and ...
The evolution of Paramount; 1886: Westinghouse Electric Corporation is founded as Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company: 1912: Famous Players Film Company is founded: 1913: Lasky Feature Play Company is founded: 1914: Paramount Pictures is founded: 1916: Famous Players and Lasky merge as Famous Players–Lasky and acquire Paramount: 1927