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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
Shia LaBeouf becomes The Associate
Tuesday, December 02, 2008
It doesn’t matter who you are in this big wide world of ours, you’re always just one job away from being unemployed — well, unless you’re born into royalty and vastly wealthy or money means nothing to you and you already know what your role in creation is. (Alright, there are two expections but THAT’S IT.) In these uncertain economic times it pays to know precisely where you stand in regard to you career and employment options, and for Transformers and Disturbia star Shia LaBeouf, he’s just as uncertain and scared about where his next paycheck will be coming from. Continue reading…
Posted at 10:36AM by Patrick
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
