Paramount Vantage

All you want to know about Paramount Vantage

Paramount Vantage
Type subsidiary
Founded 1998 (as Paramount Classics)
2006 (as Paramount Vantage) industry = Motion pictures, specifically those with an "art house" feel
Products motion pictures
Owner Viacom
Parent Paramount Motion Picture Group
Website www.paramountvantage.com

Paramount Vantage (originally known as Paramount Classics) is the specialty film division of Paramount Pictures (which in turn is part of Viacom), charged with producing, purchasing, distributing and marketing films, generally those with a more "art house" feel than films made and distributed by its parent company.

Paramount Classics was launched in 1998 (Ruth Vitale and David Dinerstein became the co-presidents); it enjoyed "art house" box office successes with The Virgin Suicides, You Can Count on Me, Sunshine, Mostly Martha, three Patrice Leconte films (Girl on the Bridge, Man on the Train, Intimate Strangers) and several others.... David Poland (a famous film journalist) wrote "Ruth Vitale and David Dinerstein have proven to have wonderful taste heading up Paramount Classics"[1]. However, Ruth Vitale and David Dinerstein were fired in October 2005.[2]

The Paramount Vantage brand branched off of Paramount Classics in 2006. The Paramount Classics brand was relaunched in 2007 as a distributor of "smaller, review-driven films including foreign-language acquisitions and documentaries."[3]

In 2007, Paramount Vantage co-produced two films with Miramax Films which were released in successive months: No Country for Old Men (released in November) and There Will Be Blood (released in December). The partnership hit paydirt when both films were nominated for the Best Picture at the 80th Academy Awards, with the former film getting the award. Combined, these two films won six awards, which included the Best Picture award for No Country for Old Men as well as both the Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor awards (won by There Will Be Blood's Daniel Day-Lewis and No Country for Old Men's Javier Bardem, respectively).

Contents

Paramount Classic releases

Paramount Vantage releases

Upcoming Paramount Vantage releases


Studio executives

  • Paramount Classics appointed former Endeavor partner John Lesher to serve as President in November 2005 and was recently promoted to President of Paramount Film Group.
  • Former Lionsgate International President, Nick Meyer, joined Paramount Vantage in 2006 as Co-President. Upon Lesher's promotion to President of Paramount Film Group, Meyer was upped to President of Paramount Vantage.
  • Former Fox Searchlight National Publicity exec Megan Colligan served as Co-Head of Marketing until she was upped to Co-Head of Marketing of Paramount Pictures, overseeing marketing for Paramount Vantage in that role.
  • Former Fox Searchlight VP of Publicity Julie Tustin is Senior Vice-President of National Publicity, East Coast.
  • Katie Martin Kelley is Senior Vice President, National Publicity.
  • Aurora Dennis is Vice President, Field Publicity & Promotions.
  • Lea Yardum is Vice President, Awards, Events & Special Projects.
  • Gena Wilder is Vice President, Guild Relations & Awards.
  • Bethan Dixon is Vice President, International Publicity.
  • Shyama Friedenson is Senior Vice President, International Marketing.
  • Chad Hamilton is Vice-President of Production.

See also

External links

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Cinema of the United States
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