Unveiling Paramount+, ViacomCBS Bob Bakish Taps Company’s Deep Roots: “We Know How To Make Hits”

ViacomCBS CEO Bob Bakish said the company anticipates its U.S. employees will have the option of returning to their offices starting after the July 4th weekend, at the earliest.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterTime to pry open the legendary gates of Paramount Pictures.ViacomCBS leadership has set a tentative timeline for employees to return to the media giant’s numerous offices, though in limited capacity, as coronavirus vaccines continue to rollout across the country and around the world.In a Thursday memo from CEO Bob Bakish, the executive outlined plans to return as early as just after the upcoming July 4 holiday.“Return to office dates will differ market by market

Elon Musk is sharing a rare picture of his family. The Tesla CEO took to Twitter Monday to share a photo of his girlfriend, Grimes, and their son, X Æ A-XII, while on a trip to Texas.

The first thing to understand about the social dynamics in Mexico around police is that they differ greatly from how the public in the United States relates to law enforcement officers. Stateside, both the uncritical reverence some feel toward them—namely the Blue Lives Matter crowd—and the terror they incite among BIPOC communities emanate from their violent efficaciousness and status as inflexible figures reveling in a lack of accountability.

Two days before ViacomCBS launches its Paramount+ streaming service in the U.S., Canada and Latin America, CEO Bob Bakish on Tuesday touted the successful merger that created the entertainment giant, as well as the outlook for its streaming business.

Also Read: Did Paramount Just Put a Nail in the 90-Day Theatrical Window?“If you look at the curve, the degradations on most film titles, they do very list business on post-Day 30 and certainly post-Day 45,” Bakish, who was the morning’s keynote speaker at the (virtual) 2021 Morgan Stanley’s Technology, Media and Telecommunications Conference, continued.

Mark Ruffalo got one award for two roles at the Golden Globes on Sunday, winning Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology Series or a Motion Picture Made For Television for HBO’s I Know This Much Is True.

Before the 93rd Academy Awards take place next month, we have the 78th Golden Globe Awards taking place currently. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, similar to Emmys 2020, the prestigious award ceremony is virtual this year with fan favourites Tina Fey and Amy Poehler back as co-hosts.

EXCLUSIVE: AGC Studios is fully financing Panopticon, an Andres Baiz-directed thriller that will star Shailene Woodley, Anthony Mackie and Jacob Latimore. Scott Free and AGC are producing, and the script will be sent to buyers overnight for virtual Berlin, with AGC International and CAA Media Finance launching worldwide sales. Pic will shoot in New Mexico this summer.

ViacomCBS forecast streaming subscribers will grow to 65-76 million, mostly at Paramount+ as the company unveiled its new direct-to-consumer service to launch March 4.

Black-ish creator Kenya Barris appeared during the ViacomCBS streaming event Wednesday to tease his first series under the mega deal he recently made with the company. It will be for Paramount+.

Naman Ramachandran ViacomCBS Networks International (VCNI) has upped Olivier Jollet to a newly created senior role to drive the company’s streaming and mobile businesses.In the role of senior VP of strategy and business development, streaming and head of mobile for VCNI, Jollet will report into Kelly Day, president of streaming and COO of VCNI and Jeff Shultz, chief strategy officer and chief business development officer of streaming for ViacomCBS.In his streaming role, Jollet will be

Stripper sex? The Real Housewives of Atlanta cast got real about which star allegedly hooked up with a stripper at Cynthia Bailey’s bachelorette party during the Sunday, February 21, episode, with Kenya Moore pointing the finger at Porsha Williams.

Senator Ted Cruz made headlines after flying to Cancún, Mexico, while millions of his fellow Texans endured an extreme winter storm without heat or electricity. Although he has since returned to his home state, Ted’s wife Heidi Cruz was spotted enjoying her tropical vacation on a Mexican beach on February 19 — see the pics here.