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...movie and TV download store for net-connected Xbox 360s on November 22, the company announced Monday. Xbox Live users will be able to rent high-definition movies from Warner Bros., and purchase high-definition TV shows from CBS. The service will also offer standard definition video content from Paramount, MTV Networks, Ultimate Fighting Championship and Turner's Cartoon Network...
...woman in business, as well as a creative woman who got commercial success out of her creativity,” said Cott, who is also the Trumbull professor of American history.The collection also includes Little Lulu merchandise and contracts that Marjorie Buell signed with Rand McNally, Milton Bradley, and Paramount Pictures.In addition, the collection contains Marjorie Buell’s artistic projects before Little Lulu, including her first cartoon—drawn before age seven—350 pre-Lulu cartoons from 1920 to 1935, and a high school yearbook to which the cartoonist contributed as art editor.The two brothers...
Less than three months after Tom Cruise suffered an ugly brushoff from his long-time studio home Paramount Pictures, the sidelined star has done what any self-respecting, really, really, really rich and famous guy would do - he got his own movie studio, and one with a storied Hollywood pedigree at that. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. (MGM) has announced a deal with Cruise and his production partner, Paula Wagner, to relaunch the United Artists studio (UA), the company founded by Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith in 1919 and responsible for such iconic film franchises as James...
...eyes of many in Hollywood, Paramount-where Viacom Chairman Sumner Redstone publicly blamed Cruise's "inappropriate behavior" for the disappointing box office returns of Mission: Impossible III-is no longer such a place. Under Cruise/Wagner Productions' unusually generous Paramount deal, the studio paid out as much as $10 million a year in overhead and development. When Cruise began jumping on Oprah's furniture in rapture about fianc?e Katie Holmes and finger-wagging about psychiatry on the Today Show, "he was embarrassing the studio," Redstone says in December's Vanity Fair. Not to mention costing Paramount, the outspoken executive estimates...
...Cruise's first post-Paramount professional announcement was underwhelming for a star who had generated $3 billion at the box office in his 14 years at the studio. In August, Cruise/Wagner secured a two-year financing deal with First and Goal L.L.C., an investor group headed by Daniel Snyder, owner of the Washington Redskins and chairman of the Six Flags amusement parks. Since then, Cruise seemed more interested in cheering at his kids' soccer games and planning his wedding to Katie Holmes this month in Italy than acting or deal-making...