Paramount Articles

Warren Beatty's Howard Hughes project is no longer to be housed at Paramount, TheWrap reports. The announcement that Beatty's old dream of playing the multi-affaired multibillionaire would finally come to fruition was issued in late June. At the time, a statement by Paramount's chairman and CEO Brad Grey read: "Warren's script is quintessentially Beatty, elegantly written and wonderfully entertaining. It is our privilege to have [...]

Henry Wilcoxon, Claudette Colbert in Cecil B. DeMille's Cleopatra Claudette Colbert: James Robert Parish Discusses the Legendary Paramount Star – Introduction You've been planning for some time a biography of Claudette Colbert. How did you become interested in Colbert's life story? As a very young teenager, I saw several of Claudette Colbert's films on TV and was fascinated by her verve, throaty voice, attractiveness, and [...]

Warren Beatty, Town & Country Warren Beatty is set to direct, produce and star in a project from an original screenplay Beatty himself wrote. Beatty has joined forces with Paramount, the studio that distributed two of his biggest hits: Heaven Can Wait in 1978 and Reds, which earned Beatty a Best Director Oscar, in 1981. Beatty hasn't directed a movie since Bulworth in 1998. His [...]

Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders' How to Train Your Dragon A commenter took me to task for stating in a post written last night that the "marriage" between the International Animated Film Association and DreamWorks had become "unofficially official" this year with How to Train Your Dragon's ten Annie Award wins, including Best Animated Feature. (Pixar's Toy Story 3, up for three Annies, and Disney's [...]