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Paramount to Option Laini Taylor's Daughter Of Smoke and Bone

Paramount Pictures is in talks with young-adult fiction author Laini Taylor to acquire the rights to Taylor's Daughter of Smoke and Bone, the first book of a planned trilogy that was released just this passed September. Taylor has written a few successful young adult novels before, particularly the Dreamdark series (two so far) and 2009's Lips Touch: Three Times for which she was a National Book Award finalist.  read more

Paramount to Expand Lot

Paramount Pictures plans to spend $700 million and the next 25 years renovating and expanding its lot.   read more

World War Z Adaptation Angers Fans of Book

Fans of the post-apocalypse zombie book, 'World War Z', are already calling the movie a failure. The novel was released by Mac Brooks in 2006 with the subtitle of 'An Oral History of the Zombie War'. It takes place after a war that wiped out most of the world’s population and recounts characters opinions and stories from the war with the notion that they have seen how it all unfolds and what comes after it.  read more

Star Trek Sequel Pushed Back

Paramount announced yesterday that J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek sequel is no longer on the 2012 summer blockbuster list....  read more

Scorsese to Direct Taylor/Burton Project for Paramount

Paramount Pictures is currently developing a project that will focus on one of the greatest love affairs in Hollywood history....  read more

Iron Man 3, The Avengers Release Dates Announced

Don't hold your breath, though...  read more

Yes, There Is Going to Be A Les Grossman Movie

Yesterday, MTV Films and Paramount Pictures announced they would be joining Tom Cruise in his quest for a high-"Gross"ing spinoff of the 2008 comedy Tropic Thunder....  read more

Colbert Report Writer Max Werner Sells Fun Size Script to Paramount

As brought to our attention by The Hollywood Reporter, Max Werner’s Fun Size script has been characterized as a “cross between Superbad and Adventures in Babysitting that is set on Halloween.” If that’s not intriguing enough, consider that Werner is one of the writers for Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report, one of the most hilarious faux news shows on television....  read more

J.J. Abrams to Collaborate With Steven Spielberg

It seems that J.J. Abrams has a new movie in mind. (And it’s about time too, right? Dude needs to quit sitting around and start working on something for once in his life!) This time, he plans to pay homage to a Hollywood legend: Steven Spielberg....  read more

Paramount Gives Sacha Baron Cohen $20 Million and One Goat for New Movie

First there was Borat. Then there was Brüno. Soon, there will be a former dictator and a goat herder. And they’re all courtesy of Sacha Baron Cohen, whose forthcoming film was just picked up by Paramount, the Guardian reports....  read more