A sheen of simplicity
Playing an instrument when you’re in the profession of animation helps – especially in regard to timing. For Animation Director Andrew Overtoom, it’s the guitar.
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Halo | VFX Breakdown
The battle with the Covenant goes into series production: Canadian-based VFX house Redefine sends the Master Chief into the star war.
Halo | VFX Breakdown
The Master Chief in Beast Mode: MPC not only plays Halo, but also means series streaming. Does John-117 pull the aliens' teeth?
Unreal Build 2020 Examines Virtual Production Workflows
Epic Games’ free Unreal Build event brought studios and artists together to discuss virtual production, Unreal Engine 4.26 and Weta Digital.
Trailer – “The Little Prince”
First trailer for "The Little Prince". The French studio Mikros Image was responsible for the animation mix.
Crunch Time Is Over
Hansel and Gretel are back – but this time grown up and armed. Now the witches had better watch out.
Paramount Opens Animation Studio
Paramount, currently represented in cinemas with Thor, Kung Fu Panda 2, Transformers 3 and Super 8, has announced that it will open its own CGI / animation studio.
Shrek – The Complete Story
The green ogre has been causing trouble on cinema and television screens at home for many years. To mark the DVD and Blu-ray release of “Shrek Forever After” (November 25, 2010), DP is giving away the complete saga once.
October 22 Is World Dragon Day
One week from today, Paramount Home Entertainment is holding a live-streaming event on Facebook to mark the release of “How to Train Your Dragon”!
Number One for ‘How to Train Your Dragon’
The film has taken first place at the German and American box offices.
Tom Cruise is Agent Ethan Hunt again
The fourth instalment of the Mission Impossible action series, with which Tom Cruise as secret agent Ethan Hunt has already achieved major box-office success, opens worldwide on May 27, 2011.
Transformers – Revenge of the Fallen
The year's biggest action blockbuster from Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg is coming to DVD and Blu-ray and includes exciting making-of features.
Star Trek XI: Director J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek Reboot Beams onto DVD and Blu-ray
The sci-fi spectacle will be released on November 2 by Paramount Home Entertainment as a single DVD, a Blu-ray 2-disc set and exclusive special editions at Müller and Amazon. Interview with Roger Guyett and Michael DiComo of ILM in DIGITAL PRODUCTION 03/09.
Jury Announced for Panasonic’s Papp-Helden Video Contest 2009
Authors, satirists and media representatives joined the jury for a contest offering prizes worth €40,000.
G.I. JOE – THE RISE OF COBRA
Paramount Pictures’ action film G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra was scheduled for German cinemas on August 6, 2009.
Three Oscar Nominations for ‘Revolutionary Road’
Paramount Pictures Germany is pleased to announce that, following four Golden Globe nominations and Kate Winslet’s award for Best Actress, Revolutionary Road has now also received nominations in three additional categories in today’s announced Oscar nominations.
Paramount Home Entertainment Launches Dedicated Website for Blu-ray Titles
The new website featuring Paramount’s complete Blu-ray portfolio has been online since December 22, 2008.
Four Golden Globe Nominations for “Revolutionary Road”
Paramount Pictures Germany announced that "Revolutionary Road" received nominations in four major Golden Globe categories: Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Actor and Best Director.
DreamWorks Chief Executive in Berlin
DreamWorks Animation studio chief Jeffrey Katzenberg presented the first spectacular 3D excerpts from "Monsters vs. Aliens" in Berlin.
Major Marketing Campaign for the DVD Launch of Kung Fu Panda
Paramount is launching a major marketing campaign for the November 21 release of Kung Fu Panda.
Cloverfield on DVD and Blu-ray
A spectacular disaster film of a different kind from "Lost" producer J.J. Abrams. Told entirely from the protagonists' camcorder perspective, it creates enormous tension and authenticity. Cloverfield, the apocalyptic monster attack on New York City, arrives for rental today on DVD and Blu-ray. The retail version follows on August 22.
Paramount and Mitsubishi Electric Continue Partnership at IFA 2008
Blockbusters in Full HD around the clock and attractive prize draws every day.
“Gladiator” Adapted as a Mobile Game
FISHLABS, a worldwide leader in high-quality 3D mobile games, and Paramount Digital Entertainment, acting on behalf of DreamWorks Pictures, have announced their collaboration on development of the Gladiator mobile game.
Paramount Announces Upcoming Blu-ray Titles
The first new releases arrive on Blu-ray as early as September—including The Spiderwick Chronicles, Cloverfield and No Country for Old Men.
Motorola Launches Mobile-Phone Film Service
Partnership with Paramount: 40 titles are already available.
Star Trek: Enterprise Reissued
The first season will be released on DVD in two slim half-season packs on 8 May.
Paramount puts short film clips online free of charge
US film studio Paramount intends to make its films available free of charge over the Internet in the form of short video excerpts.
Paramount and Dreamworks will soon be done with HD DVD
According to a report by High-Def Digest, the two Hollywood studios Paramount and Dreamworks have cancelled most of the HD DVD titles still announced for release in the USA.
Blu-ray: Paramount follows suit
It was foreseeable: as the last of the major studios, Paramount is now also committing to Blu-ray.
Universal now also backs Blu-ray
Shortly after Toshiba announced its withdrawal from the HD DVD business,
Universal decided to take the Blu-ray route...
Blu-ray triumph: “Toshiba shocked by Warner decision”
The DVD successor war appears to be turning in favour of Blu-ray Disc. After Warner Bros. Entertainment announced that it would sswitch exclusively to Blu-ray from June 2008, New Line Cinema also announced that it would release the blockbuster "The Lord of the Rings" on Blu-ray in future
Promotion at Paramount Home Entertainment
Paramount Home Entertainment promotes Dr Andreas Kelz to Vice President and Managing Director GSA
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Chrystal Skull
The fourth part of the Indiana Jones series will be released in cinemas on May 22, 2008
Battle for DVD Succession: Setback for Blu-ray
In the competition to succeed the DVD, the camp of the Blu-ray standard has suffered a severe setback. The US film studio Paramount and its subsidiary DreamWorks SKG have decided on the competing HD-DVD format.
IFA 2007: Paramount and Mitsubishi Electric Present Blockbusters in Full HD
Paramount is represented at IFA 2007 with no fewer than four cinemas. Paramount partner Mitsubishi Electric is showing HD-DVD and Blu-ray film highlights such as "Das Parfum", "Dreamgirls", the "Mission Impossible" trilogy or "World Trade Center" in special screening rooms - around the clock and in Full HD quality. Real cinema fans should therefore under no circumstances miss a visit to the Mitsubishi stand. Especially since there is also a daily chance to win a Mitsubishi HC1100 home-cinema projector.
Paramount Home Entertainment has new website
At www.paramount.de, the Paramount Home Entertainment website presents itself in a new design, packed with a great many new features. Clarity, scope of functions and information as well as user-friendliness were at the forefront of the website relaunch.