A special installment of “Daily Variety” podcast takes a deep look at the storied history of Paramount Pictures as David Ellison’s Skydance Media formally takes control of the studio after a long slog ...

In 1925, when American Telephone & Telegraph Co. gave a private showing of sound-pictures of people singing, an orchestra playing, a drummer drumming, officials of the company waited anxiously for the ...

An ovation that rivalled the most extravagant concepts of a motion picture version, was accorded to Adolph Zukor, head of the Paramount Film Co., on his return to his native village, Riccse, yesterday ...

Adolph Zukor is made the target of a vehement attack by Theodor Fritsch, editor of “Der Hammer,” in the last issue of the paper. “Adolph Zukor is a European Jew who, twenty years ago, sneaked into the ...

To have asked a banker 20 years ago for the financing of a cinema concern would have been of no avail. He had probably never heard of motion pictures. Or, if he had, he held them in contempt as ...

The year was 1918. As World War I was ending, the Spanish Flu began ravaging the world. Within a year, it killed 675,000 Americans and 50 million worldwide — 10 million more than those who perished in ...