Paramount Assembles a Writers’ Room for ‘Ology’ Franchise

In terms of blockbuster franchises, Paramount Pictures has Mission: Impossible, Star Trek, Transformers, Terminator, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and the Cloverfield movies to its name. Some of those are more viable than others, so it makes sense that the studio is looking to add some more surefire winners to its library. One of the properties they’re betting on is a series […]

Paramount Fires ‘Amusement Park’ Director Dylan Brown for Inappropriate Conduct

Hollywood is still dealing with revelations of sexual misconduct happening behind the scenes, and today brings news of another incident, this time involving a filmmaker working on an animated film. Paramount Pictures has fired director Dylan Brown from their animated feature Amusement Park after an investigation into complaints from the production found evidence of “inappropriate […]

Shannara Chronicles Cancelled, Won't Make Move to Paramount fka Spike TV

The Shannara Chronicles appear to be over. On the heels of a low-rated sophomore season that barely drew a quarter of a million live viewers (and just 500K with DVR playback), the network formerly known as Spike TV has passed on any possible Season 3. “Maybe [production company Sonar Entertainment] is going to take it […]

Paramount Has Created a Completely Virtual Movie Theater; Is This a Game Changer?

Virtual reality theaters have been around for a little while now. Last year, /Film’s Peter Sciretta wrote about visiting IMAX’s flagship VR Experience Center in Los Angeles, a physical location where you can don a headset and a haptic backpack to play VR games in pods rented by the hour. But Paramount Pictures has collaborated with companies like Oculus, Samsung, and […]

Mother! defended as ‘very audacious and brave’ by Paramount after AWFUL audience reactions

The controversial new horror may have won over most critics, but it’s failed to capture the imaginations of the cinema-going public. Lawrence’s Mother! flopped at the box office over the weekend, making just $ 8 million at the US box office  and receiving a CinemaScore of F, a very rare grade. Now Paramount Pictures, who […]

Team Play Is Paramount In Oriental Multiplayer Brawler Mirage: Arcane Warfare

Mirage, that sounds… light. Airy. Like a cool breeze on a hot summer day. A fata morgana in the desert heat. A daydream… until the big dude with the giant axe chops you in two. So you just died. Again. What a bloody mess. Mirage: Arcane Warfare, the latest multiplayer brawler from Chivalry developers Torn […]

Will Ferrell Is Jason Momoa’s TV Dad in a New Comedy at Paramount Pictures

Back in 2015, Will Ferrell went head-to-head with Mark Wahlberg in Daddy’s Home, create a battle between stepfather and father. Soon he’ll have to contend with another Hollywood tough guy on the big screen. Paramount Pictures has lined up Will Ferrell to co-star with Aquaman star Jason Momoa in a currently untitled comedy from the […]

J.C. Chandor’s ‘Triple Frontier’ Loses Tom Hardy, Channing Tatum, and Paramount

J.C. Chandor‘s (A Most Violent Year) drug smuggling thriller, Triple Frontier, has just been dealt a brutal blow. The project, formerly called Sleeping Dogs, has been at Paramount for several years and has pulled in all kinds of talent. At one point, Kathryn Bigelow was going to direct Tom Hanks in the film before Chandor got Tom Hardy and Channing Tatum […]

‘Coming to America’ Sequel Officially in Development at Paramount Pictures

Just last month, a rumor suddenly surfaced claiming that Eddie Murphy was working on a sequel to his hit 1988 comedy Coming to America, arguably the last great comedy he made before stumbling into the realm of constant mediocrity. Since the news came from a seemingly hacked, then non-existent Twitter account and TMZ was the only […]

Original ‘Coming to America’ Writers Enlisted by Paramount to Pen a Sequel

The 1988 Eddie Murphy comedy Coming to America has had a long history of “maybe it could have a sequel” “a-bit-more-than-maybe there will be a sequel” “there will probably be a sequel” nostalgia-stoking: and another notch has just been added to that sequence, increasing the likelihood for the return of Prince Akeem Joffer — or at least, […]