Paramount Classics
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Paramount Classics is the specialty films division of Paramount Pictures, 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.
Recent Paramount Classics releases include:
- The Virgin Suicides
- You Can Count on Me
- Northfork
- Better Luck Tomorrow
- Mean Creek
- The Machinist
- Mad Hot Ballroom
- Hustle & Flow
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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.
Chad Hamilton is Vice-President of Production.
Note: although the studio is currently called Paramount Classics, the unit is expected to undergo a name change in the near future.
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