{"id":21501,"date":"2021-09-29T09:00:38","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T16:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=21501"},"modified":"2021-09-20T09:12:21","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T16:12:21","slug":"new-book-tells-fascinating-if-incomplete-history-of-paramount-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2021\/09\/29\/new-book-tells-fascinating-if-incomplete-history-of-paramount-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"New book tells fascinating, if incomplete, history of Paramount Pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a movie lover, I love stories about old and new Hollywood. To me, Hollywood has always been a very interesting place to learn about, as evidenced by films such as Billy Wilder\u2019s intriguing Sunset Boulevard<\/em> or Quentin Tarantino’s vivid take on the Sharon Tate murders in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood<\/em>. This fall, writer Bernard F. Dick gives us another slice of Hollywood\u2019s rich history with his amazing new book, Engulfed: The Death of Paramount Pictures and the Birth of Corporate Hollywood<\/em>.<\/p>\n

This book chronicles the world-famous movie studio\u2019s fascinating history and how it has influenced Hollywood today in a spectacular fashion. It’s a fascinating read that will surely entertain fans of this type of history.<\/p>\n

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Whether it’s talking about Paramount\u2019s early days or highlighting the infamous studio struggles throughout the decades, this is a well-written novel full of Hollywood facts that even I as a lover of this kind of history was not aware of. For example, I didn’t know about how Paramount was responsible for releasing the very first Academy Award-winning movie, Wings<\/em>. I also didn’t know a lot about Paramount co-founder Adolph Zukor’s background or how he helped form Paramount Pictures as we know it today, and it was very interesting to read about.<\/p>\n

The main complaint I have with the novel is that it skips over what I feel is the main reason Paramount Pictures is in financial trouble today. Yes, the pandemic is part of it, but Paramount was struggling way before COVID-19 arrived on the scene: its decision to sell both its Marvel distribution rights and future movies from its iconic Indiana Jones franchise to Disney was a huge part of this.<\/p>\n

But despite this omission, Dick has written a fantastic book that illustrates the rise and fall of the world-famous studio while providing film geeks a fascinating read to add to their collection of movie memorabilia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a movie lover, I love stories about old and new Hollywood. To me, Hollywood has always been a very interesting place to learn about, as evidenced by films such as Billy Wilder\u2019s intriguing Sunset Boulevard or Quentin Tarantino’s vivid take on the Sharon Tate murders in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. This fall, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21502,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,253],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-september-22-2021"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21503,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21501\/revisions\/21503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}