Paramount Pictures and Hasbro announced a new deal that will see the studio and Allspark Pictures, Hasbro’s film label, build a similar cross-property onscreen universe, featuring popular characters from five of the toy company’s brands: GI Joe, Micronauts, Visionaries, Mask (Mobile Armored Strike Kommand) and ROM. Brad Grey, Paramount chairman and CEO, said in a statement: “Hasbro and Allspark Pictures put storytelling at the center of everything that we do. These brands are filled with memorable stories and vivid characters, and this universe creates a framework for how they will become interconnected. Extending our partnership with Paramount allows us to continue our long-term strategy and overall vision to build dynamic worlds for all of our brands, and we are thrilled to collaborate with them as we develop these properties.”A fifth Transformers film is planned for release in 2017, with star Mark Wahlberg returning to the franchise. Director Michael Bay has yet to confirm his participation.As for the GI Joe films, a third was announced in 2013, but’s it’s unknown whether this new deal will change those plans.
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/jan/21/terminator-sequel-paramount-removed-2017-release-schedule
scheduled a new Terminator 3 for June 2018, as North American rights to the franchise would revert to series creator James Cameron in 2019. The studio is now pinning its franchise hopes on the continuation of the Star Trek, Mission: Impossible and Transformers films. This year will also see a reimagining of video horror The Ring, hope for some JJ Abrams’ magic in spin-off 10 Cloverfield Lane and Jack Reacher: Never Go Back.The studio is also hoping its Baywatch adaptation will appeal to younger audiences unfamiliar with the original, bringing in Zac Efron as Johnson’s co-star.global pick-up (it made around $350m outside the US) meant that a new Terminator 2 still seemed like a possibility.
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/oct/20/netflix-film-studios-lawsuit-song-captioning-deaf-skyfall
Netflix and film studios face lawsuit over song captioning for deaf, The streaming service, Disney, Fox, Universal, Warner Bros and Paramount have been accused of discrimination against the deaf for failing to caption songs in films such as Skyfall. Studios including Disney, Netflix, Fox, Universal, Warner Bros and Paramount have been hit with a lawsuit accusing the companies of discrimination against the deaf and hearing impaired, according to the Wrap.The suit alleges that films advertised by the studios with the option of captions or subtitles are incomplete as song lyrics are not included. “While the dialogue of some movies or shows are indeed fully subtitled, the practice of not subtitling song/music lyrics is frustratingly widespread,
The complainants cited the Captain America films, Selma and Skyfall as recent examples of films that have included incomplete captioning. The studios have yet to comment on the suit, though it’s thought that the tendency to remove lyrics from captioning is due to a successful lawsuit against Disney in 1992, which claimed that reproduction of lyrics for their sing-a-long VHS tapes was a breach of copyright. Traditionally extra permissions are required from the song’s rights holder for the use of lyrics on-screen. “It is encouraging to see the issue of incomplete captioning in popular, mainstream films has been highlighted,” said Dr Terry Riley, chairman of the British Deaf Association. “We believe that anyone who purchases a cinema ticket should have full access and this includes captions. The cost of the subtitles is minimal and far outweighs any potential loss of income”.
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jun/24/channing-tatum-gi-joe-rise-of-cobra-forced-studio
Channing Tatum has said he was forced to star in toy-themed blockbuster GI Joe: the Rise of Cobra after signing a three-picture deal early in his career, prior to finding wider fame with Magic Mike. The 35-year-old actor, who was named as the second-highest-paid actor in the world in 2013, told US radio DJ Howard Stern he was told in no uncertain terms by Paramount to take the title role or risk legal reprisals. “Look, I’ll be honest. I fucking hate that movie. I hate that movie,” said Tatum, who is currently promoting sequel Magic Mike XXL.
“I was pushed into doing that movie. From Coach Carter, they signed me to a three-picture deal … They give you the contract and they go, ‘Three-picture deal, here you go.’ And as a young [actor], you’re like, ‘Oh my god, that sounds amazing, I’m doing that!’“Time goes by and you get other jobs and you’re building your quote and you have a dream job you want to do. And … the studio calls up and they’re like, ‘Hey, we got a movie for you, we’re going to send it to you.’ And they send it to you, and it’s GI Joe.“And I love GI Joe: ‘Can I play Snake Eyes?’ And they’re like, ‘No, you’re not playing Snake Eyes, you’re playing GI Joe.’”
Tatum added: “The script wasn’t any good … And I didn’t want to do something that I … was a fan of since I was a kid and watched every morning growing up — and didn’t want to do something that was, one, bad and, two, I just didn’t know if I wanted to be GI Joe.”Asked if there might have been a way to avoid taking on the movie, Tatum replied: “No option: ‘You’re doing this or we’re gonna sue you.’”
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/aug/26/shutter-island-hbo-tv-series-martin-scorsese
The hit Martin Scorsese film starring Leonardo DiCaprio is to be developed into a TV series, with Scorsese directing the pilot episode, and Dennis Lehane writing the script. HBO and Paramount are teaming up to produce a TV version of Martin Scorsese’s 2010 film Shutter Island, Deadline reports. The film, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as a US marshal investigating the disappearance of a psychiatric patient from an island hospital, was a classy chiller that grossed nearly $300m worldwide. The series, tentatively named Ashecliffe after the hospital the film is set in, would be a prequel, exploring the stories of its founders.Scorsese is in line to direct the pilot episode, which will be scripted by Dennis Lehane, the crime writer who wrote the novel that Shutter Island is based on Lehane also wrote Mystic River and Gone Baby Gone, each of which were also adapted into films.
http://www.theguardian.com/media/mediamonkeyblog/2014/apr/11/the-truman-show-paramount-jim-carrey-tv-series
Monkey isn't quite sure how to explain this one, but rumours abound that Paramount is planning to turn its Jim Carrey hit The Truman Show into a television series. So, that's a TV series about a film about a TV series … or something. This follows news that Fargo is also set to be made into a small-screen venture. Paramount executive Amy Powell told US blog The Wrap: "We have three buckets of content we're looking at which has been around for over 100 years." It's a bit early for Monkey to be thinking about looking at the 100-year-old contents of a bucket, but it goes some way to explaining where some programme-makers might get their ideas from.
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