Word: paramount
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Hole (Paramount), Producer-Director Billy Wilder's first movie since Sunset Boulevard, gleefully dissects human beings at their worst. The picture is clever, original, technically expert, and carries an occasional sharp sting of truth. But it runs a good idea into the ground and leaves a bad taste in the mouth...
...Despite a barrage of critical panning, Paramount's Dean Martin-Jerry Lewis farce, At War with the Army, broke a house record in its opening week at Manhattan's Paramount Theater, has since been cleaning up around the country...
...Paramount redeemed the heavy loss suffered by William Wyler's The Heiress, a big critical success, with the receipts from Cecil B. DeMille's spectacularly profitable Samson and Delilah. "It would appear as if what the industry needs is more Victor Matures (not to mention DeMilles) rather than more mature pictures...
...negotiations for a 49-acre site in Burbank, Calif, were not aimed merely at long-term "insurance," as it had long insisted, but to clear the way for the building of a huge TV center right on the moviemakers' home grounds. And when NBC also hired Henry Ginsberg, Paramount's former production boss, as a "general consultant," Hollywood had a hunch that NBC's projected Burbank TV center would be a movie factory, with Ginsberg sparking its output...
Even the theater owners, who have most to lose from Hollywood's romance with TV, were wooing the medium in their own way. When the television networks refused to pay $100,000 for the rights to this week's Louis-Savold fight, the Paramount, Loew's RKO and Fabian theater chains grabbed at the chance to pipe the heavyweight battle to their theater screens. Only stipulation: to safeguard the gate, the fight will not be shown in any New York theaters...