Paramount Vantage Reorganizes Big-Time

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PARAMOUNT VANTAGE: CONSOLIDATED!
Published 6/4/2008 by Scott Macaulay (noreply@blogger.com) at Filmmaker Magazine
... Nikke Finke at her Deadline Hollywood Daily is reporting that the marketing, distribution and physical production departments of Paramount Vantage are being folded into its parent company, Paramount. Here's the official press release: Paramount Pictures and Paramount Vantage today announced the consolidation of its marketing, distribution and physical production departments, which will serve both entities. The merged marketing department will be lead by Gerry Rich (President, Worldwide Motion Picture Marketing). Megan Colligan and Josh Greenstein who were promoted to ...

Hollywood Babble On & On #108: The Death of the Dependent Independents?
Published 6/4/2008 by Furious D (noreply@blogger.com) at The Fantastic Adventures of Furious D
... A tip of my jaunty straw boater to both Nikki Finke and Defamer for their reports on the recent assimilation of Paramount's sort-of independent arm Paramount-Vantage into the parent company's own little Borg collective. It joins New Line/Picturehouse and Warner Independent Pictures in the corporate land of wind and ghosts and does not bode well for the other dependent independents like Focus (Universal), Sony Classics (Sony/Columbia), Fox Searchlight (Fox), and Miramax (Disney). Now I talked about the rise and fall of ...