FindArticles – Paramount Pictures Announces Digital Cinema Deals With Kodak and Digital Cinema Implementation Partners
PR Newswire, Oct 1, 2008
Paramount Leads Other Studios With Most Digital Cinema Integration Agreements
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Oct. 1 /PRNewswire/ — Paramount Pictures today announced that it has signed digital cinema agreements with Kodak and Digital Cinema Implementation Partners (DCIP). Paramount is the first studio to sign an agreement with Kodak. The announcement was made by Jim Tharp, Paramount President of Domestic Theatrical Distribution. Paramount is a unit of Viacom Inc.
| LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles police say a security guard at a Scientology building has shot and killed a sword-wielding man. Officer April Harding said the man approached the guard in the parking lot of the Scientology Celebrity Centre International around noon Sunday. Harding said the guard “felt threatened for his life” and fired at the unidentified man. He was pronounced dead at a hospital. Homicide detectives have cordoned off the building in Hollywood to investigate. A Scientology spokesperson could not be immediately reached for comment. My advice: Don’t go swinging your swords about near armed security guards. |
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September 26, 2008 — ROBERT De Niro was such a big pain during the making of the 1997 movie “Jackie Brown” that then-Miramax chief Harvey Weinstein had to calm down director Quentin Tarantino. “This is a great actor and actually a great guy, who’s going through a difficult time . . . I think he’s really having like a scratching-his-head session, you know, with his own life and his own career,” Weinstein says to Tarantino in a phone conversation leaked to Page Six. “I think he knows he can play a certain kind of role from now for the next 20 years. But I think he wants to change the course of his career.” In the movie, a tribute to ’70s blaxploitation flicks, De Niro plays an ex-con named Louis Gara. He apparently believed he should have been paid more. “He thinks he’s going to . . . make John Travolta look like that was an amateur night in Dixie,” says Weinstein in the 11-year-old recording, referring to Travolta’s comeback in Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction.” Responds Tarantino: “He’s still dealing with, subconsciously, the fact that he’s not going to get paid for doing the thing that he’s created after 20 years. . . He’s built his reputation on roles like Louis . . . ‘How can you not pay me?’ ” At another point, Weinstein warns Tarantino he might get a “weird midnight phone call” from the star. Tarantino rages: “Tell Bob not to call me yelling and screaming . . . I don’t know if I’m going to be nice [if] the guy calls up yelling and screaming at me like a maniac, calling me a [bleep]er!” Weinstein’s lawyer, David Boies, said, “We are disappointed that any member of the press is trafficking in illegal tape recordings and compounding the damage by taking them out of context,” referring to the tape that was sent anonymously to Page Six. De Niro’s rep said, “Unless you were privy to actual conversations . . . I would draw an analogy to the blind man who picks up the tail of an elephant and exclaims, ‘This animal must be quite slender and very wiry.’ ”
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A rather generic poster for our new movie.If you wanna be in it drop us a line. There’s no budget and we’ll probably change the title.
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