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‘Naked Gun’ Reboot With Liam Neeson Lands 2025 Release From Paramount
The Naked Gun reboot is about to make 2025 a good year. Paramount Pictures announced release dates Wednesday for a number of upcoming films. This includes director Akiva Schaffer’s new untitled installment in the Naked Gun comedy franchise hitting theaters July 28, 2025. The movie, first announced back in 2022, stars Liam Neeson and includes […]
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‘Naked Gun’ Turns 35: Team on Adapting Failed TV Series, Leslie Nielsen’s Magic, Reboot Frustrations
Turning a short-lived parody TV series into a feature film was always going to involve taking a chance, but as the team behind the Naked Gun franchise learned, it wasn’t quite on the level of sticking your face in a fan. Following the breakout success of the 1980 smash hit Airplane!, that film’s writer-director team […]
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Kingsley Ben-Adir Plays Defiant Bob Marley in Latest ‘One Love’ Biopic Trailer
Peaky Blinders actor Kingsley Ben-Adir dons dreadlocks and speaks in a Jamaican patois to play a reggae legend in the latest trailer for Bob Marley: One Love, which dropped Tuesday. The biopic has Marley overcoming adversity, including a failed assassination attempt, to rise to musical fame with a message of love and unity in dangerous […]
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Rogue ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Intermissions at Movie Theaters Spur Studio to Intervene
After a small number of independent theaters added their own intermissions to screenings of Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, the film’s team has stepped in to intervene. The Hollywood Reporter has learned that there have been isolated incidents of theaters pausing the critically praised film — which Apple Original Films and Paramount Pictures […]
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Tracy Owen, Industrial Relations Executive at Paramount, Dies at 43
Tracy Owen, senior vp industrial relations for Paramount Pictures and Paramount Television Studios, died Oct. 1 in Los Angeles after suffering a stroke. She was 43. “Since first joining our team over 10 years ago, Tracy has been a bright light who touched the lives of all who had the privilege of working beside her,” […]
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Brooke Robertson Tapped to Run Global Communications at Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures has promoted Brooke Robertson to head of global communications and media relations. She’ll report directly to president and CEO Brian Robbins. In the the top role, the well-respected executive will be responsible for overseeing the film studio’s corporate brand and global communications strategies across all units, including Paramount Pictures, Paramount Animation and Paramount […]
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Paramount’s ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem’ Has Film Sequel, TV Series in the Works
Cowabunga! Paramount’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is set for a sequel. Ahead of Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies opening the computer-generated animated tentpole on Aug. 2, it was announced that a follow-up from director Jeff Rowe and Point Grey Pictures is in the works. Also in development is a two-season series for Paramount+ with the […]
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‘Bob Marley: One Love’ Reveals Kingsley Ben-Adir as Music Legend in Biopic Trailer
Kingsley Ben-Adir portrays reggae superstar and counterculture icon Bob Marley in the first trailer for the forthcoming biopic Bob Marley: One Love. Set for release Jan. 12, 2024, the Paramount Pictures feature centers on the life of Marley, from the early days of his career to his death in 1981. Reinaldo Marcus Green (King Richard) […]
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‘Transformers: Rise of the Beasts’ Director Steven Caple Jr., Stars Anthony Ramos and Dominique Fishback Debut Trailer at CinemaCon
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts hit the big screen at CinemaCon on Thursday. Paramount Pictures, Skydance and Hasbro debuted footage featuring the newest installment in the blockbuster franchise inside the Colosseum at Caesars Palace during Paramount’s studio presentation. In doing so, they welcomed director Steven Caple Jr. and stars Anthony Ramos and Dominique Fishback to present […]
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Rihanna to Voice Smurfette in ‘Smurfs’; Chris Rock Joins New ‘PAW Patrol’ Movie
Rihanna will voice Smurfette in Paramount and Nickelodeon’s untitled Smurfs animated film. She’ll also write and perform original music for the film while serving as a producer on the movie, which is slated for a Feb. 14, 2025, release. Appearing onstage at CinemaCon, Rihanna said she’s thrilled to be playing this “blue badass” in the reimagined […]
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‘Transformers One’ Voice Cast and New Details Revealed at CinemaCon
Paramount Animation revealed that its in-production animated Tranformers movie has been titled Transformers One and will feature a voice cast led by Chris Hemsworth, Brian Tyree Henry, Scarlett Johansson, Keegan-Michael Key, Jon Hamm and Laurence Fishburne. The origin story is set before the events on Earth, with the Transformers in a secret world on their […]
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Paramount Renews First-Look Deal With Producer Todd Garner
Paramount Pictures has renewed its first-look deal with Todd Garner’s Broken Road Productions. The deal, first signed in 2018, has seen veteran film producer Garner make Playing with Fire for Paramount Players, which starred John Cena. Currently, he is developing the Rebel Wilson-starring pic Double Fault at Paramount. “Todd has done it all in this business and really […]
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