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The story behind the logos for movie studios
Thursday, December 04, 2008
We see them at the beginning of every movie we sit down to watch but have you ever wondered why a movie studio chose their particular logo? Why does Warner Bros. use a shield? Who is the woman holding up the torch for Columbia Pictures? Is the kid sitting on the crescent moon in the DreamWorks logo based on a real child? And why did Paramount pick a mountain top for their company’s logo? Continue reading…
Posted at 9:47AM by Patrick
Old Boy remake to Dreamworks
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
According to THR Mandate has bought the rights to popular Korean cult hit Old Boy co-written and directed by Park Chan-wook from Universal, who had acquired the rights in 2004 with Vertigo Entertainment. And round and round we go.
Old Boy is “the story of Dae-Su who is locked in a hotel room for 15 years without knowing his captor’s motives. When he is finally released, Dae Su finds himself still trapped in a web of conspiracy and strangeness. His own quest for vengeance becomes tied in with romance when he falls for an attractive sushi chef.” [wikipedia]
All of the usual ingredients are falling into place to make Old Boy another big budget, cookie cutter offering from Hollywood:
- The rights to a successful foreign film ripe for remaking, with a built in fan base, have been procured
- Dreamworks is involved
- Mark Protosevich who wrote I am Legend, Poseidon and The Cell is in talks to write the screenplay
- Steven Spielberg and Will Smith are developing the project
It is a formula that works. Doesn’t mean a great film. Financially successful? Yep.
Continue reading…
Posted at 8:49AM by Mike
DreamWorks, Paramount divorce final. Who gets custody of the kids?
Monday, October 06, 2008
Yesterday DreamWorks and Paramount made it official: they are no longer joined at the hip, at least business wise. The move opens the door for DreamWorks to establish a new business operation with Reliance ADA Group, a huge Indian entertainment company that will guarantee $500 million to the movie studio to make — what else? — movies.
But it’s not the end of the road for collaboration between the two studios. Steven Spielberg will remain involved as a producer on Paramount’s Transformers franchise as well as three other movies at the Rock including a remake of When Worlds Collide. The new DreamWorks operation is taking about 200 IPs in various stages of development. About 15 of those will be co-ventures with Paramount. However, while Mom (DreamWorks) and Dad (Paramount) may still be on speaking terms for the sake of the children (the movies), make no mistake that the ex-Mrs. is seeing other people. It’s expected that Spielberg will make an announcement this week that Universal Pictures will distribute all of the new DreamWorks flicks. Steve has had a long and close relationship with Uni dating back to Jaws so for that studio to buddy up and release DreamWorks products makes a lot of business sense.
In the end everyone is happy. Paramount has gotten some good wins through its partnership with DreamWorks including Disturbia, Blades of Glory and the Transformers mega-franchise while Spielberg now gets back to setting his own couse as the mogul of a full-fledged motion picture studio. Sounds great. Now we get to wait and see what the first bona fide hit for the new DreamWorks will be.
Posted at 5:58PM by admin
