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Viacom's Paramount Bails On CBS' Showtime, Starts Own Pay Channel

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2008-04-21 02:56:00 by Peter Kafka in Silicon Alley Insider
...Paramount, in conjunction with MGM and Lionsgate, is creating its own pay TV channel which will have exclusive access to the three companies' film libraries. Left out in the cold: Showtime, owned by Viacom's sister company CBS, which depended on those three companies for its entire film slate The unnamed venture launches in fall 2009. At that...
 
Tags: showtime, cbs, viacom, sister company cbs, time warner, time, access, companies, sumner
 
 
 
 
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Blu-ray Destined to be the HD Winner?

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2008-01-10 16:17:20 by Ashley in CyberNet
...Paramount and Universal will be following the footsteps of Warner Brothers and making the big switch to Blu-ray. That means that HD DVD is seriously wounded in this battle and theyre about to lose big-time to Blu-ray. Whose behind HD DVD youre wondering? Well, its mainly Toshiba and Microsoft and Im sure theyre not too happy at the moment...
 
Tags: blu-ray, paramount pictures contract, dvd camp, dvd, paramount, cybernet, cybernet forum, contract, paramounts decision
 
 
 
 
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Facebook app turns movie clips into messages

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2008-03-11 13:53:00 by Richard Defendorf in Webware.com
Paramount Pictures and application developer FanRocket announced a service for Facebook users that will allow them to send movie clips to each other. The clips, which are sent as messages and last from a few seconds to several minutes, are intended to help recipients "relive the moment" in a familiar film, a studio executive told the Associated...
 
Tags: movie clips, clips, facebook users, beverly hills cop, takes message ornamentation, application developer fanrocket, familiar film, familiar, paramount pictures
 
 
 
 
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Indiana Jones, Iron Man Push Viacom's Q2, But Ad Sales Sputter At Cable Networks

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2008-07-29 16:34:00 by Michael Learmonth in Silicon Alley Insider
...Paramount generated more than $1 billion in US box office. Paramount is No. 1 in US market share. Movies hitting in the quarter: Indiana Jones, Iron Man and Kung Fu Panda. Profits will continue to cascade through P&L for a long time as movies move through various windows Looking ahead: several titles on the way, DreamWorks' Tropic Thunder and...
 
Tags: cable, networks, scatter market continues, scatter market, upfront sales, upfront, growth, provide growth, cable networks
 
 
 
 
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Teen virtual world goes Hollywood

2008-02-07 19:18:00 by Stefanie Olsen in Webware.com
 
...Paramount Digital. Under that deal, Habbo will promote virtual characters and merchandise from Paramount films, including Beowulf , Mean Girls , and the upcoming The Spiderwick Chronicles Those kinds of promotions could grow exponentially with the WMA deal, raising questions for parenting advocates about the commercialization of virtual...
 
Tags: virtual, virtual world, world, deal, wma deal, virtual worlds, wma, promote virtual characters, william morris
 
 
 
 
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Mileys MySpace: A Wake-Up Call for Parents?

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2008-05-24 06:27:32 by Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins in Mashable!
...Paramount Pictures Chooses HD DVD over Blu-Ray Imeem Partners with Palm Pictures for Interactive Indie Film Access Imeem Gets Full Length Horror Film: Debuts Next Week Will.i.am Joins Tiny Pictures Advisory Board Because New Media is Fing Dope AOL Video Gets Movies from Paramount Pictures
 
Tags: palm pictures, pictures, gallery pictures, moderately salacious pictures, unsavory pictures, paramount pictures chooses, myspace, pictures miley, miley cyrus
 
 
 
 
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Fight Piracy by silencing part of a movie ?

2008-05-28 21:19:43 by Martin in gHacks technology news
 
Paramount apparently decided that it would be a great idea to deter and track piracy by silencing random parts of the movie Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. This seems to be a sort of watermarking technique to be able to identify the cinema the copy of the movie was made.. if the guys who copy the movie are stupid enough to...
 
Tags: movie, movie indiana jones, indiana jones, industry fights, industry, copy protections, copy, movie industry, p2p networks
 
 
 
 
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Fox teams up with Apple for online movie rentals

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2007-12-27 04:46:00 by Harrison Hoffman in Webware.com
...Paramount , and Warner Brothers to make their movies available for rental as well Apple entering the online movie rental business is big news. I can almost feel Netflix , Amazon Unbox , and Blockbuster shaking from here. Even though their model would be per-movie as opposed to subscription based, you can bet it will still be a success. Apple...
 
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Fox teams up with Apple for online movie rentals

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2007-12-27 09:12:31 by admin in Web 2.0 Portals
...Paramount , and Warner Brothers to make their movies available for rental as well Apple entering the online movie rental business is big news. I can almost feel Netflix , Amazon Unbox , and Blockbuster shaking from here. Even though their model would be per-movie as opposed to subscription based, you can bet it will still be a success. Apple...
 
Tags: apple, apple tv sales, movies, disney movies online, amazon unbox, rental deal, subscription based models, foxs movies, subscription based