Paramount Vantage
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Paramount Vantage (originally Paramount Classics) is the specialty film division of Paramount Pictures (which in turn is owned by 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.
In 2006, Paramount Classics President John Lesher announced the name change to Paramount Vantage. The Paramount Classics brand will be relaunched as a distributor of "smaller, review-driven films", such as foreign-language acquisitions and documentaries. [1] Also in 2006, it is expected they will begin to distribute films by Go Fish Pictures, the specialty division of DreamWorks SKG, after Viacom's recent acquisition of DreamWorks.[citation needed]
[edit] Paramount Classics releases
- The Virgin Suicides
- You Can Count on Me
- Northfork
- Better Luck Tomorrow
- Mean Creek
- The Machinist
- Mad Hot Ballroom
- Hustle & Flow
- An Inconvenient Truth
- Babel
[edit] Studio executives
- Paramount Classics appointed former Endeavor partner John Lesher to serve as President in November 2005.
- Former Miramax exec and producer Amy Israel is Executive Vice-President of Production and Acquisitions.
- Former Fox Searchlight National Publicity exec Megan Colligan is Executive Vice-President of Publicity
- Former Fox Searchlight VP of Media Mark Geller is Senior Vice-President of Media
- Former Fox Searchlight VP of Publicity Julie Tustin is Vice-President of National Publicity
- Former Fox Searchlight Consultant Andrew Lin is Vice-President of Interactive Marketing
- Chad Hamilton is Vice-President of Production.
