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Paramount Pictures films
- Psycho (1960 film)Alfred Hitchcock acquired the rights to Robert Bloch's 1959 novel for $9,500 in 1960. He faced a studio system that refused his usual budget and rejected his…
- Vertigo (film)Paramount Pictures commissioned a synopsis of the French novel D'entre les morts in 1954, before it had even been translated into English.
- Transformers: Dark of the MoonParamount Pictures announced a third Transformers film on the 16th of March 2009. Director Michael Bay initially thought the release date of the 1st of July…
- Thor (film)Sam Raimi first developed the concept of a film adaptation based on Thor in 1991. He met Thor co-creator Stan Lee and pitched the idea to 20th Century Fox…
- Street Fighter (2026 film)Street Fighter, the 2026 film from Paramount Pictures and Legendary Entertainment, arrives carrying more than thirty years of franchise history and three…
- Titanic (1997 film)James Cameron stared into the dark Atlantic in 1985 and saw a ghost. He had spent years studying shipwrecks, but the Titanic felt like Mount Everest to him.
- The GodfatherIn 1967, a literary scout for Paramount Pictures contacted Peter Bart about an unfinished sixty-page manuscript titled Mafia.
- Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among ThievesIn May 2013, Warner Bros. Pictures and Sweetpea Entertainment announced a film based on Dungeons & Dragons with David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick writing the…
- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (film)The Robert Stigwood Organization purchased rights to 29 Beatles songs in 1974 for a live Broadway show called Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band on the…
- Harold and MaudeColin Higgins wrote the script for Harold and Maude as his master's thesis at UCLA film school. While working as a pool boy for producer Edward Lewis…
- Ordinary PeopleRobert Redford stepped behind the camera for the first time in 1980 with Ordinary People. The project began as a novel by Judith Guest published in 1976.