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| The company who purchased Paramount in 1994. |
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| Most complexly integrated entertainment conglomerate. |
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| Two film makers who carried out through the 80's, then too the 21st century. |
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| Robert Altman; Martin Scorsese |
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| Company founded in 1979 by Bob and Harvey Weinstein. |
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| The movie that cause the Weinstein's to split from Disney. |
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| Got his start working on employee training shorts and commercials. |
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| The gangsters in his films are working-class men mostly on the take. |
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| Often challenged the PCA with the films he directed. |
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| She was the most talked about star of the 1950's. |
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| His concert films were the prototype for fellow African-American stand-ups. |
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| His film spawned a brief wave of explicit exploitation films. |
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| Influenced Martin Scorsese on his early films. |
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| Director who perfected his craft in Germany during the 1920's. |
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| She was a model of consistency in a time of social change in America. |
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| Best known director of movie westerns. |
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| Spearheaded MCA's acquisition of Universal. |
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| Successful of making parodies of established genres. |
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| His films became more story-driven after starting out as a series of skits. |
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| The common narrative theme in his films is a pervasive misanthropy. |
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| He reinvented the Hollywood western with his film The Wild Bunch. |
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| Signed a 6 film contract with RKO. |
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| She used her fame to gain power in the film industry. |
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| He was the most famous filmmaker in the silent era, perfecting many techniques that became the standard in movie making. |
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| She is considered the first real movie star after she left Biograph to sign with the Independent Moving Pictures Company. |
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| Produced the Why We Fight series of films. |
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| She was the first prominent female director. |
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| His best know character is "the little tramp" |
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| His career was diminished after testifying for HUAC. |
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| His films are united, no matter the style, by a sense of humor. |
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| His American films utilized expressionistic techniques that had characterized his German films. |
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| Her films about women avoided pushing a feminist agenda. |
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| Introduced a "supervisory system" at MGM which led to similar policies industry-wide. |
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| He was successful working in a variety of genres while working within the confines of a studio. |
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| He was is own best publicist. |
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| First person to recreate "motion" through the use of a serious of photographs. |
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| His on screen persona was the quintessential American type. |
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| Even though he didn't like working for studios, his best films were produced at Paramount. |
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| The cinematographer on Citizen Kane. |
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| Her films often violated the production code. |
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| Give himself credit on the films he produced at RKO because he saw himself as a filmmaker and not just a studio manager. |
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