Forced to venture into the unknown, they quickly realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path. Joe Origins stars Henry Golding as Snake Eyes, a tenacious loner who is welcomed into an ancient Japanese clan called the Arashikage after saving the life of their heir apparent.
Based on the iconic G. Joe character, Snake Eyes: G. In later years, Paramount's TV division would develop a strong relationship with ABC, providing many hit series to the network. Paramount Pictures had been an early backer of television, launching experimental stations in in Los Angeles and Chicago.
In , Paramount bought a stake in television manufacturer DuMont Laboratories. Through this stake, it became a minority owner of the DuMont Television Network. However, Paramount proved to be a timid and obstructionist partner. Its minority stake hampered DuMont's efforts to expand. However, Paramount refused to sell.
Also Paramount launched its own network, Paramount Television Network, in through its television unit, Television Productions, Inc. It also refused to help DuMont as it sank during the s. The FCC, however, denied Paramount's applications. A few years earlier, the federal regulator had placed a five-station cap on all television networks: no network was allowed to own more than five VHF television stations.
Paramount was hampered by its minority stake in the DuMont Television Network. Although both DuMont and Paramount executives stated that the companies were separate, the FCC ruled that Paramount's partial ownership of DuMont meant that DuMont and Paramount were in theory branches of the same company.
Since DuMont owned three television stations and Paramount owned two, the federal agency ruled neither network could acquire additional television stations. It quickly reached an agreement in principle to merge with ABC. In , Paramount bought a stake in International Telemeter, an experimental pay TV service which operated with a coin inserted into a box.
With the loss of the theater chain, Paramount Pictures went into a decline, cutting studio-backed production, releasing its contract players, and making production deals with independents.
By the mids, all the great names were gone; only C. DeMille, associated with Paramount since , kept making pictures in the grand old style. Despite Paramount's losses, DeMille would, however, give the studio some relief and create his most successful film at Paramount, a remake of his film The Ten Commandments.
Like some other studios, Paramount saw little value in its film library see below for more info on the early Paramount library. DeMille died in By the early s, Paramount's future was doubtful. The high-risk movie business was wobbly; the theater chain was long gone; investments in DuMont and in early pay-television came to nothing. Founding father Adolph Zukor born in was still chairman emeritus; he referred to chairman Barney Balaban born as "the boy.
Bluhdorn immediately put his stamp on the studio, installing a virtually unknown producer named Robert Evans as head of production. Using some of Desilu's established shows such as Star Trek, Mission: Impossible, and Mannix as a foot in the door at the networks, the newly reincorporated Paramount Television eventually became known as a specialist in half-hour situation comedies. In , Paramount teamed with Universal Studios to form Cinema International Corporation, a new company that would distribute films by the two studios outside the United States.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer would become a partner in the mids. By , a new, television-trained team was in place headed by Barry Diller and his "Killer-Dillers", as they were called by admirers or "Dillettes" as they were called by detractors.
These associates, made up of Michael Eisner, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Dawn Steel and Don Simpson would each go on and head up major movie studios of their own later in their careers. The Paramount specialty was now simpler. But neither the board nor Bluhdorn himself accepted Diller's repeated advancements of this idea and neither did Bluhdorn's successor, Martin Davis. But Diller believed strongly in the concept, and so took his fourth-network idea with him when he moved to 20th Century Fox in , where Fox's then freshly installed proprietor, Rupert Murdoch was a more interested listener.
Meanwhile, concentrating on hot films, Paramount was met with critical success with the release of The Godfather , based on the popular novel. However, the television division would be playing catch-up for over a decade after Diller's departure in before launching its own television network — UPN — in Lasting eleven years before being merged with The WB network to become The CW in , UPN would feature many of the shows it originally produced for other networks, and would take numerous gambles on series such as Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise that would have otherwise either gone direct-to-cable or become first-run syndication to independent stations across the country as Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: the Next Generation were.
UPN was able to host a proven winner when it picked up the final two seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Paramount Pictures was not connected to Paramount Records until it purchased the rights to use the name but not its catalog in the late s. The Paramount name was used for soundtrack albums and some pop re-issues from the Dot Records catalog which Paramount had acquired in Paramount's successful run of pictures extended into the s and s, generating hits like Airplane! During this period, responsibility for running the studio passed from Eisner and Katzenberg to Frank Mancuso Sr.
More so than most, Paramount's slate of films included many remakes and television spinoffs; while sometimes commercially successful, there have been few compelling films of the kind that once made Paramount the industry leader. The studio even had its share of box office flops such as Grease 2, Clue and a few others. This was necessary because MGM had merged with United Artists which had its own international distribution unit, but MGM was not allowed to leave the venture at the time they finally did in , switching international distribution to 20th Century Fox.
In August 25, , fire struck the Paramount Studios. Two or three sound stages and four outdoor sets were destroyed; fortunately, the rest of the Studios were still intact.
Viacom and Paramount had planned to merge as early as Paramount is the last major film studio located in Hollywood proper. When Paramount moved to its present home in , it was in the heart of the film community. For a time the semi-industrial neighborhood around Paramount was in decline, but has now come back. The recently refurbished studio has come to symbolize Hollywood for many visitors, and its studio tour is a popular attraction.
During this time period, Paramount Pictures went under the guidance of Jonathan Dolgen, chairman and Sherry Lansing, president. During their administration over Paramount, the studio had an extremely successful period of films with two of Paramount's ten highest grossing films being produced during this period.
They were also traded back and forth for particular productions between studios. In more recent times, actors, directors and other talent now have the freedom to work on any production they wish, with any studio. During the mid to late 40s, the critical acclaim of films from Paramount also became prominent.
The very next year, The Lost Weekend took the top prize. In the mids Paramount dove head first into the world of television. In , the lot underwent one of its largest expansions with the purchase of Desilu television studios from Lucille Ball. With the acquisition, Paramount controlled and produced some of the most unforgettable TV series ever. Despite focusing a great deal of energy on television, Paramount still continued to turn out countless, unforgettable movies.
It was during this time that some of the most groundbreaking movies were created like the influential Godfather series, which set the standard for almost all gangster movies to follow.
Critical acclaim continued to pour in over the movies coming from the Paramount lot, especially for many of the movies with historical backgrounds, like Forrest Gump, Braveheart and Titanic all three of these won the Academy Award for Best Picture. As the 21st century begins to unfold, Paramount continues to remain one of the biggest and best forces in the film industry.
Successful films, both critically and popularly, constantly stream to movie lovers worldwide. Both movies were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture. True Grit was nominated for ten Academy Awards. When told of all the nominations, its directors, the Coen brothers, stated, "Ten seems like an awful lot. We don't want to take anyone else's.
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