Paramount Articles

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 [...]

Megan Fox in Michael Bay’s Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Did Paramount dump Megan Fox or did Megan Fox dump Transformers 3, Michael Bay, and Paramount? It’s kind of like a lovers’ quarrel. At Deadline.com, Nikki Finke broke the Paramount vs. Megan Fox story, asserting that Fox was dumped by the studio. Both Transformers and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen were huge hits, immune to [...]

Megan Fox in Michael Bay’s Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Kellan Lutz and Ashley Greene made it to The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn after some arduous negotiating that left everyone following the Twilight Saga salary saga wondering if Lutz and Greene would go Rachelle Lefevre’s way. Lefevre, who played the evil vampire Victoria in The Twilight Saga: New Moon, was replaced by Bryce Dallas Howard [...]

Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Bing Crosby I’ve made no secret of the fact that my Mike Taylor/Tony Solantro novels are very much influenced by the movies. The classic films of the ’30s and ’40s, mostly. That said, no other films influenced the style of my book series more than the Road comedies starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and the girl forever associated with the sarong, [...]