Paramount Pictures

A Thousand Words
Comedy Films / DreamWorks Pictures / Paramount Pictures

A Thousand Words (2012)

Jack McCall (Eddie Murphy) is a literary agent who uses his mouth to get various book deals, and isnt afraid to stretch the truth to get them. While trying to get a book deal from a new-age self-help guru named Dr. Sinja (Cliff Curtis), the Boddhi sees through the lies and curses Jack by magically appearing in his backyard with 1000 leaves. Jack was sent a catalog by Dr. Sinja and demands an explanation also include the Boddhi Tree. Dr. Sinja goes to Jack’s house and explains that for every word that Jack says, a leaf will fall off of the tree.

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The Avengers Movie
Action and Adventure / Fantastic Movies / Paramount Pictures / Science Fiction Movies / Superhero Movies

The Avengers (2012)

Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson), director of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement, and Logistics Division), arrives at S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico, during an evacuation. The Tesseract, an energy source of unknown potential, has activated. It opens a portal through space and the exiled Norse god Loki (Tom Hiddleston) steps through, carrying a strange spear with a blue glowing tip.

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Cirque du Soleil Worlds Away
Fantastic Movies / Musical and Dance Films / Paramount Pictures

Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away (2012)

Mia, a young woman in a small American Midwestern town, goes to a traveling carnival one evening, where she is urged by a silent clown to visit the carnival’s circus and see the Aerialist, the show’s star attraction. She is entranced by the Aerialist, but during his act he misses a catch and falls to the ground.

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The Dictator Movie
Comedy Films / Paramount Pictures

The Dictator (2012)

Admiral General Aladeen is one of the world’s last standing old school dictators. Enjoying near unlimited wealth thanks to the company’s vast producing oil fields, he rules his country with an iron fist whether it’s executing anyone who he doesn’t agree with, changing 300 words in his native language to his last name, or staging an Olympics where he wins every gold medal, he might be one of the world’s most dangerous men.

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The Guilt Trip
Drama and Romance Movies / Paramount Pictures / Romantic Comedies

The Guilt Trip (2012)

Andy Brewster (Seth Rogen) is a UCLA-graduate organic chemist and inventor. He is attempting to get his environmentally friendly cleaning product, ScieoClean, in a major retail store. However, each retail store he visits dismisses him before he can end his pitch. After a disappointing sales pitch to K-Mart, he visits his mother, Joyce Brewster (Barbra Streisand), in New Jersey before leaving on a cross-country trip to Las Vegas, lying to her that his pitch ended well so she won’t worry about him.

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Jack Reacher Movie
Action and Adventure / Crime and Mystery Movies / Paramount Pictures / Psychological Thrillers

Jack Reacher (2012)

When a crazed sniper guns down five seemingly random people on a crowded Pittsburgh riverfront, Det. Emerson (David Oyelowo) quickly amasses enough evidence at the scene to implicate an unstable ex-military sniper named James Barr (Joseph Sikora). Upon being questioned by Emerson and DA Alex Rodin (Richard Jenkins), however, Barr demands to speak with Jack Reacher (Tom Cruise).

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Jeff Who Lives at Home
Comedy Films / Drama and Romance Movies / Paramount Pictures

Jeff, Who Lives at Home (2012)

Thirty year old Jeff Thompkins believes in the cosmic order of the world. Taking a cue from his favorite movie Signs (2002), Jeff is waiting for a sign from the universe for what he is supposed to do with his life. In the meantime, he doesn’t work, lounges around his long widowed mother Sharon Thompkins’ suburban Baton Rouge basement where he lives, and smokes weed. Seemingly responsible Sharon and Jeff’s older brother Pat Thompkins don’t understand Jeff, who they want to do something, anything, with his life, rather than waste it away. Little do they realize that their own lives are in shambles, despite the signs being obvious to anyone looking in at them.

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