Topic: Paramount Pictures Corporation

Blu is Beautiful

When Warner Bros. announced at CES last weekend that it would no longer support the HD-DVD format and would exclusively offer Blu-rays, Toshiba and the other companies that support the HD-DVD format canceled an HD-DVD event that was ...READ»

Brand Tom Cruise for Sale

Whether Paramount Pictures cut off Tom Cruise as a result of his recent conduct--bouncing up and down on Oprah Winfrey's couch, attacking Brooke Shields for taking prescription drugs, publicly speaking out against psychiatry, ...READ»

'Kingon' Invasion: Burger King and Paramount Ink Blockbuster Marketing Deal

After going three-for-three in drawing public criticism for its Whopper Virgins, Texican and Square Butts campaigns, Crispin Porter + Bogusky has scored another trifecta: a three-picture Burger King marketing tie-in with Viacom's Paramount Pictures, starting with Friday's release of Star Trek.READ»

Star Trek: Enterprise, the Mission Ends

The First crew of the starship Enterprise shall fly no more. Paramount has announced they are canceling the most recent iteration of the Star Trek franchise and will not bring the show back for a fifth season. This version featured ...READ»

Inside the IED Battle Drill: How Hollywood Is Prepping Soldiers for Roadside Attacks

An immersive experience uses state-of-the-art Hollywood visual effects and theme park technology to help soldiers learn what to expect in an IED ambush--and it may save lives.READ»

The Ad Guy

Omar Hamoui, 32 CEO, AdMob AdMob is a leading mobile-advertising network that's successfully placing ads in apps. Its clients include Coca-Cola and Paramount Pictures. "The iPhone has been transformational. ...READ»

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• The Storekeeper
• The Developer

Is Hollywood Benefiting from the Current Recession?

The U.S economy may be in shambles, but for the movie industry, the next two months seem to signal a nice upsurge. Not only does the most universal form of escapist entertainment tend to fare especially well during economic ...READ»

Death by a Thousand Cuts

Yesterday Sherry Lansing, Paramount's CEO and the most powerful woman in Hollywood, was honored at a breakfast hosted by the Hollywood Reporter and Lifetime Television at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Lansing, who plans soon to leave ...READ»

High-Definition Discs Debut

The sides are lining up for the next format war. At this week's Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in Las Vegas, the two camps behind competing formats for next-generation DVDs announced their launch plans. HD-DVD players will debut in ...READ»

Epix Movie Service Challenges HBO and Hulu Alike

When MGM, Lionsgate and Paramount couldn't come to an agreement with Showtime for cable movie distribution, they went and created their own channel. But unlike the regular premium channels, which take about a year to get ...READ»

The Mystery of Marketing Movies

Tomorrow's release of the new Eddie Murphy film, Norbit, got me wondering if there is any method to when the big movie studios plan to put out their films. Norbit is another one of Eddie Murphy's low-brow physical comedies, similar ...READ»

When It's Time to Adapt to a New Leader

This whole “brand new President of the United States” thing is no big deal. The workforce is already well trained in making the necessary adjustments to having a new person at the top of the food chain. We’ve all worked for organizations that distributed that memo.READ»

The Glass Ceiling vs. the Gray Ceiling

At a women's leadership conference last week, Sherry Lansing, former chair of Paramount Pictures' Motion Picture Group, shared a story meant to encourage the women in attendance to keep on keepin' on. Thirty years ago, she said, ...READ»

Contributors

Jill Greenberg Photographer Jill Greenberg created a stir when she made some toddlers cry--on purpose. She'd taken away their lollipops just long enough to get her shot. But there were no tears when she photographed Discovery's ...READ»

100 Most Creative People in Business: #14 - JJ Abrams

J.J. Abrams warps Time at will. Past, present, and future coexist as a kind of fluid that cannot be contained. The camera jumps back and forth in time. Characters age and grow younger again. Time itself accelerates, then slows. ...READ»

Under the Radar Conference Preview: Hook Mobile

Only about 25% of U.S. cell-phone customers have a data plan. So the mass of users generally can't access multimedia content on their phone without incurring unwanted fees. Hook Mobile is a platform that acts as a go-between for ...READ»

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Sezmi Lets You Ditch Cable and Go "Full Hulu"

A new standalone streaming TV service called Sezmi has launched a pilot program in LA, after announcing it had raised another $25 million in funding. So what is this thing? The Sezmi plans to compete with cable and satellite TV ...READ»

A Monthly Column on Culture

Anne Here's my take on business and the natural order. Synergy was all a big mistake. Nature is hardwired for antisynergy. Do coyotes collaborate with sheep? Do fish empower dragonflies in the pond? Naturally, that brings AOL Time ...READ»

Peder Seglund - Rock Band of the year

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In Only One Year, Hulu Becomes Fourth Largest Video Site in U.S.

Brains! That must be the secret to Hulu rocketing up to being the fourth largest video site in the U.S. in February, right? That's what Alec Baldwin told us in this creative Super Bowl ad, which may also have had something to do ...READ»

• The Fast Company 50 - #3 Hulu

P2P Lawsuits "Felt Like Terrorism," Says Viacom Lawyer

Viacom's general counsel says that suing people for file-sharing is "expensive, and it's painful, and it feels like bullying." Speaking to a group of Yale law students, Michael Fricklas admitted that "it felt like terrorism" when ...READ»

Fast Talk: Now Playing

How Thomas McInerney's Guba beat out the bigs in the race to offer legal movie downloads. READ»

New Media News

Yahoo Launches Mobile Social-Networking Service "Yahoo has quietly launched an experimental site that offers mobile-phone subscribers the ability to send text messages and share videos and pictures among friends. The service follows ...READ»

Logo's Loyal (and Lucrative) LGBT Following

Lisa Sherman, 51, launched Logo, MTV Networks' television channel for a gay and lesbian audience, in 2005, with just three advertisers and 13 million homes. It has since grown to 150 advertisers in every product category and more than 40 million homes.READ»

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Socialized Media

In the mad rush to turn every digital dot in America into an advertising message, we forgot about the most important thing. The most important thing is, what's the point? READ»