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In the wake of centralizing its theatrical marketing and distribution operations in Los Angeles, Paramount is closing its New York distribution office
There are eight positions in the office; five are being eliminated, while three executives were offered to relocate to Los Angeles. One of the three staffers has accepted, while the other two positions will be filled in Los Angeles.
A Paramount insider said a New York distribution office–which handles booking and billing of films in the Northeast—is no longer a necessity, considering the evolution of the business.
In the past, all the major studios had distribution offices in various regions of the country, ensuring direct contact with theater owners. But as technology changed, many were closed, save for New York.
Last week, Paramount announced sweeping changes to its marketing and distribution structure that sees Megan Colligan, previously co-president of domestic marketing, promoted to president of domestic marketing and distribution.She reports to Paramount vice chairman Rob Moore on distribution matters.
The changes coincided with the announcement that Jim Tharp will retire as president of domestic distribution in June 2012, at which time Don Harris will assume the title and report to Colligan. Harris currently serves as executive vice president of sales and domestic distribution.
Don Harris, who had served as executive vice president of domestic sales and distribution, will become president of domestic distribution, reporting to Colligan.
A new photo has debuted from the Paramount Pictures remakeFootloose, which arrives in theaters nationwide on October 14. Click on the photo below, which features Kenny Wormald and Julianne Hough, to access our gallery. Read on below the photo for news on when the first trailer will debut.
The first Footloose trailer will debut on Tuesday, June 21, so be sure to check back then for the first look at footage from director Craig Brewer‘s dance remake.
Footloose comes to theaters October 14th, 2011 and stars Kenny Wormald, Julianne Hough, Dennis Quaid,Miles Teller, Andie MacDowell. The film is directed by Craig Brewer.
Are you attempting to get a big budget franchise screenplay into fighting shape with a rewrite or two? Odds are, you’ll try get David Koepp to take a crack at it. Koepp is one of the most high profile screenwriters around, famous for smoothing out the rough edges on potential blockbuster scripts. He’s credited with contributions to Jurassic Park, Spider-Man, Angels & Demons, War of the Worlds, Mission: Impossible, and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Now, Paramount has hired him to sort out their lingering script issues with the as-yet untitled Jack Ryan reboot starring Chris Pine.
The studio recently rescheduled the film, swapping places with Pine’s current science fiction franchise. The original plan involved filming the Jack Ryan adventure before Pine returned to the role of Captain James Tiberius Kirk in the Star Trek sequel, which will shoot in this fall, likely under the direction of JJ Abrams. Though that plan could still have worked out, dissatisfaction with the screenplay led Paramount to delay the reboot in order to beef up the story.
Deadline reports that David Koepp will get to work rebooting Ryan once he has completed work on his latest directorial feature, Premium Rush, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Michael Shannon. Their article also confirms that Jack Bender, who directed 34 episodes of ABC’s Lost, is still on board to direct the origin story, which is tentatively scheduled to being production in January.
Koepp is the latest in a string of writers to tackle the material, starting with Hossein Amini. After Amini, Adam Cozad was tasked with rejiggering his spec script Dubai into a Ryan-centric espionage tale. Anthony Peckham took a crack at it, then Cozad was brought back. Oscar winner Steve Zaillian, who wrote Clear and Present Danger and made an uncredited contribution to Patriot Games, was briefly on board, but he quickly exited the project.
Rather than simply rushing the film to meet a release date, the emphasis is being placed firmly on kickstarting a new franchise. It won’t be the first time Paramount has dusted off the heroic CIA analyst first played by Alec Baldwin in The Hunt For Red October; in 2002, Ben Affleck played a younger version of Ryan in The Sum of All Fears. Neither actor is as associated with the role as Harrison Ford, who played him twice in Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger.
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