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In a tight race between Paramount’s Sonic the Hedgehog and Disney’s The Call of the Wild, it was the hedgehog that beat out Harrison Ford and a CGI dog at the North American box office this weekend.  Sonic, the CGI and live-action hybrid based on the popular Sega games, zoomed past the $100 …

Paramount’s Sonic the Hedgehog made a loud boom at the Presidents Day box office with a three-day domestic opening of $58 million, a record for a video game adaptation. The film’s projected four-day gross of $70 million is among the best showings ever for the long holiday weekend, which coincided this year with …

Paramount’s Mission: Impossible — Fallout fell just 43 percent in its sophomore outing to $35 million from 4,395 North American theaters over the weekend. That’s well ahead of the $25 million earned by Disney’s Winnie the Pooh live-action/CGI effort Christopher Robin from 3,602 locations in its launch. Fallout is a major …

The latest Mission: Impossible movie took the top spot in its box-office debut over the weekend. Paramount and Skydance’s Mission: Impossible — Fallout opened to $61.5 million from 4,306 theaters in North America, a franchise-high and the second-best of Cruise’s career behind 2005’s War of the Worlds ($64.9 million), not adjusted for …

The importance of originality to moviegoers came across loud and clear at the weekend box office. Paramount’s A Quiet Place — a high-concept horror-thriller directed by John Krasinski that has less than three minutes of dialogue — opened to a booming $50 million from 3,508 theaters in North America, well ahead …

Darren Aronofsky’s mother! stalled in its domestic box-office debut, grossing an estimated $7.5 million from 2,368 theaters after receiving a rare F CinemaScore and facing competition from the blockbuster It. mother!, a psychological horror-thriller, supplanted The House at the End of the Street to mark the lowest nationwide launch of Jennifer Lawrence’s …

Paramount and Michael Bay’s Transformers: The Last Knight grossed $69.1 million from 4,069 theaters in its five-day debut at the North American box office, a franchise low and casting doubt on the future of the series. That figure includes a Friday-Sunday take of $45.3 million. The Last Knight, which Paramount …

Viacom announced the appointment of Jim Gianopulos as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Paramount Pictures, effective April 3, 2017. Gianopulos will report directly to Bob Bakish, President and Chief Executive Officer of Viacom. In his role as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Paramount, Gianopulos will oversee the studio’s …

 Paramount Pictures’ Mission: Impossible has a new assignment – a virtual reality game.  VRWERX, developer and publisher of the highly anticipated VR game “Paranormal Activity: The Lost Soul” based on another Paramount movie franchise, today announced a new VR game inspired by Mission: Impossible for all major head-mounted displays including …

Viacom reported financial results for the first quarter of fiscal 2017 ended December 31, 2016 and provided an update on strategic priorities. Bob Bakish, President and Chief Executive Officer, said, “Today we share a strategy that will enable Viacom to realize the full potential of its premier global portfolio of …