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Paramount Is Being Sued for Not Having Enough Product Placement in Transformers 4

Congratulations to Paramount, which is finally in court on a $27 million lawsuit for failing to actually place a product from a product placement deal. Yeah. On one side is Paramount, the studio behind the Transformers franchise, and on the other side is a Chinese business who paid them to put even more logos in…

Oh No, Ghost in the Shell Considered Using CGI to Make White Actors Look Asian

You hear that sound? It’s the sound of Paramount executives slowly digging themselves further into a big, big hole. Yesterday, we saw our first image of the decidedly non-Asian Scarlett Johansson playing the movie’s lead character, Major Motoko Kusanagi. This immediately sparked the latest round of backlash about whitewashing in Hollywood. But it gets worse.…

After Being Dropped By Paramount, The Little Prince Will Be Distributed By Netflix

Remember when Paramount dropped the animated film The Little Prince last week? It turns out that we will get to see it after all, but not in theaters: Netflix will be distributing the film. The Hollywood Reporter has noted that The Little Prince, which was supposed to arrive in theaters yesterday, will now be distributed…

Le Petit Prince’s new home will be on Netflix. The animated movie was slated to be released in America by Paramount today, but the studio dropped it from its schedule last week. At least the film, well-reviewed and attended overseas, will be somewhere. [The Hollwood Reporter]

WTF?! Paramount Has Dropped The Little Prince A Week Before Its US Release [Updated]

The Little Prince is a French adaptation of the classic children’s novel that we’ve been looking forward to for a while now. It was supposed to be released next week, on March 18th, but yesterday, Paramount decided to pull the film without warning. IGN reported that Paramount has confirmed that they will no longer be…

The future is officially free from Skynet. Or, worse, a sequel to Genisys. Paramount announced today that the film called Terminator 2 on its schedule has been pulled from its schedule. Baywatch now has its May 19, 2017 release date. [Deadline]

Star Trek Fan Film Makers Didn’t Know They Were Being Sued … Until They Read the News

Yesterday, Star Trek fans were up in arms at the news that CBS had filed a lawsuit seeking to shut down the hugely successful crowdfunded fan production Axanar, after a year of tolerating the project’s development. Also surprised? Axanar producer Alec Peters, who found out about it by reading said news. Ooh err. https://gizmodo.com/cbs-suddenly-wants-to-put-a-stop-to-axanar-the-crowdfu-1750290696 Following…

CBS Suddenly Wants to Put a Stop to Axanar, the Crowdfunded Star Trek War Movie

Axanar has attracted a lot of attention since its hugely successful Kickstarter and Indiegogo campaigns raised over a million dollars to make a movie set decades before the events of the original Star Trek series. But after over a year of tolerating the film’s existence, CBS and Paramount have cracked down. https://gizmodo.com/first-look-at-axanar-the-star-trek-war-movie-weve-wait-1716037166 Axanar promised to…

Paramount’s Adaptation of The Stars My Destination Finally Gets a Writer

We first heard that Alfred Bester’s intense The Stars My Destination was being made into a movie back in March. And it looks like Paramount and Disruption Entertainment are full-steam ahead, finally figuring out who has the chops to adapt this sucker. Deadline reports that David DiGilio (Traveler) has been picked to write the screenplay.…

America’s Largest Theater Chain Hates the Plan To Speed Up Home Releases

Earlier this month Paramount announced that it would release two upcoming films on home video and streaming just 17 days after they’ve been in theaters. But Regal, the nation’s largest movie chain, isn’t interested in being part of its piracy-fighting experiment. Regal Cinemas made it clear on an earnings call yesterday that it wouldn’t be…

Sony and Paramount will join Marvel in skipping Comic Con’s Hall H this year. It seems to be an issue of timing, with neither studio having anything appropriate to promote. A spokesperson told Variety, “It wasn’t a knock against Comic-Con, the film cycles just didn’t allow it.”

Transformers Spinoff Grabs The Walking Dead‘s Robert Kirkman As a Writer

Transformers is going the way of a shared universe, and last month it announced that Akiva Goldsman would head up a writers room full of talent to oversee a new shared universe. And the people they’ve picked have very recognizable names. Deadline reports that Goldsman will be joined by Robert Kirkman (The Walking Dead), Zak…

G.I. Joe 3 May Have Its Director. And Is Still Happening, Apparently

I kind of totally forgot that the live-action G.I. Joe movies were a thing that were happening. And now it looks like Paramount is gearing up for a third go at this, with another new director. Deadline is reporting that DJ Caruso, who is currently in the process of making The Disappointment Room with Kate…

​How to Explain the Sony Hack to Your Relatives

The holidays are a time for eggnog and presents and bizarre credulous rituals involving an old elf-man and his pack of flying caribou. It’s also a time to cuddle up by the hearth and begrudgingly explain the latest technology news to your relatives. This week’s edition: The Sony hack. Lucky for everyone, the tech involved…

Ben-Hur Remake Wants Tom Hiddleston As Its Star

According to Deadline, MGM and Paramount are trying to woo Tom Hiddleston into starring in the latest remake of Ben-Hur. Well, he certainly has experience in both big-budget action films and in historical epics set in Rome. Just at the start of this year, he was in the Donmar Playhouse’s production of Coriolanus. Photo credit:…

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 is coming. After surprising everyone by unseating Guardians of the Galaxy with a $65 million opening weekend, Paramount’s already planning the sequel. Josh Appelbaum and Andre Nemec, who penned the first, will return to write the second and executive produce. [The Hollywood Reporter]

A Decent Star Trek Into Darkness Blu-Ray Is Finally Coming, But…

Remember how Paramount decided to split the special features for Star Trek Into Darkness among the Target, Best Buy and iTunes Blu-ray releases? Well, it’s taken almost a full year, but a decent STiD Blu-ray chock full of all the extras is finally on it’s way! There’s just one small catch… https://gizmodo.com/why-the-star-trek-into-darkness-blu-ray-is-going-to-rip-1222160195 First, let’s concentrate…

Now Disney Owns Indiana Jones, Too

After Disney swallowed up Marvel and consumed Lucasfilm, we thought they’d be prying the Indiana Jones franchise from Paramount’s cold dead hands. But not so — Paramount has signed over the rights. Congratulations Disney, you now own everything we love. Variety is reporting that this new deal gives Disney distribution and marketing rights to all…

Attack the Block‘s Joe Cornish may be the director of Star Trek 3

He’s been rumored to be in the running for a while now, but apparently Joe Cornish — director of the British scifi hit Attack the Block and co-writer of the CG Tintin movie and Edgar Wright’s upcoming Ant-Man film — is Paramount’s #1 choice to take over directing duties for the Star Trek movie franchise.…

Why the Star Trek Into Darkness Blu-ray is going to rip you off

Despite its mixed reviews, surely some of you were looking forward to the DVD and Blu-ray release of Star Trek Into Darkness. You were probably looking forward to checking out all the extras, too. Well, I have news for you, and that news is Paramount is about to screw you like Kirk in an Orion…