Posted in Low Budget Filmmaking on Feb 21st, 2010
This article was written by Mark Stolaroff. “My email box was ablaze this past Friday with news that Paramount was forming their own micro-budget film division. The goal is to make twenty $100k no-budget features a year. After their success with “Paranormal Activity,” (a film they DID NOT PRODUCE, by the way), this sounds like [...]
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Posted in In The News on Jan 18th, 2010
This article was written by Brooks Barnes. “Paramount Pictures, looking for new ways to turn its old movies into cash, especially as DVD sales continue to decline, is creating an online video clip service that will allow users to search hundreds of feature films on a frame-by-frame basis. Feeling “the need for speed,” as Tom [...]
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Posted in Low Budget Filmmaking on Dec 21st, 2009
This article was written by Lauren A. E. Schuker. “Spurred by the success of its ultra-low-budget horror film “Paranormal Activity,” Viacom Inc.’s Paramount Pictures will devote about $1 million each year to finding and producing small-budget movies, according to people familiar with the situation.” Read this article from The Wall Street Journal. The Ten Commandments [...]
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