Paramount and DreamWorks have hammered out a joint arrangement for up to 40 development projects. As part of the separation agreement, DreamWorks will take the lead on 15-20 projects, with ...

LOS ANGELES -- Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. will offer next-generation DVDs in the HD DVD format and drop support for Blu-ray, further complicating the race between the ...

With DreamWorks' The Wild Robot and Paramount's Transformers Ones both bringing robot movies, and both releasing next to each other, it seems we have the next contender for the Barbenheimer treatment.

Viacom Inc. unit Paramount Pictures has reached a $1.6 billion deal to buy live-action film studio DreamWorks SKG, after DreamWorks ended negotiations with NBC Universal, the studio confirmed Sunday.

Paramount’s parent, Viacom Inc., acquired DreamWorks for $1.6 billion in 2006.

Paramount Pictures will buy independent film studio DreamWorks SKG in a cash-and-debt deal worth more than $1.5 billion. It plans to sell a 59-film library, but keep the studio. DreamWorks ...

Then there are 15 to 20 projects where the situation is flipped so that Paramount will take the lead in their development, with DreamWorks having an option to co-finance and co-distribute pic by pic.

Paramount has the right to cherrypick the ones it wants to co-finance, but so far has not stepped in. DreamWorks left many projects behind at Paramount in various stages of development and ...

You'd think that Paramount would go out of its way to let DreamWorks do what it wants. MASTERS: I think they feel that they have, but it's beyond even control.

DreamWorks-produced movies have helped fill distribution pipelines since Par acquired DW in December 2005. The loss of such content would put severe demands on remaining production execs.

Paramount's 2005 films, including "War of the Worlds," generated receipts of $792.2 million. DreamWorks ranks seventh with $499 million and has slumped after films such as "Red Eye" and "The Island." ...