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Paramount Pictures, Inc., 334 U.S. 131 (1948) (also known as the Hollywood Antitrust Case of 1948, the Paramount Case, or the Paramount Decision), was a landmark United States Supreme Court antitrust case that decided the fate of film studios owning their own theatres and holding exclusivity rights on which theatres would show their movies.
Paramount Pictures, Inc. and Paramount Film Distributing Corporation; and an order having been entered on January 18, 1950 severing and terminating as of November 8, 1948; the action as against defendants Radio-
Sep 4, 2023 · RKO and Paramount were the first to comply, while Loew’s/MGM, Warner Bros., and Fox continued to file injunctions into February 1949. The federal court mandated the last three to divest their...
Aug 7, 2020 · In 1938, the Department filed an antitrust lawsuit alleging that eight major motion picture companies had conspired to control the motion picture industry through their ownership of film distribution and exhibition.
In 2014, Alison Owen partnered with Weinstein to restart the film after re-acquiring the rights to the film from Paramount Pictures. [7] In October 2013, Dane DeHaan was in talks to join the cast. [ 8 ]
Mar 25, 2020 · The Elimination of the Paramount Consent Decrees and What It Represents for the Film Industry. In November 2019, the Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a motion in federal court to unwind 70-year-old consent decrees entered in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s decision in United States v.
The case went to the Supreme Court and in a landmark ruling known as The Paramount Decision (only because Paramount was listed first in the suit), the court ordered that all of the major studios sell off their theater chains and outlawed the practices of block booking and blind bidding. It was a financial disaster for the big studios.
