Independent film branches like Paramount Vantage and Warner Independent closed their doors.

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The venture will showcase dozens of recent releases from Paramount, Paramount Vantage, MGM, United Artists and Lionsgate, along with thousands of classic films.

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So Paramount Vantage, the company which is producing the film, has been working for the past couple of months to get the boys out of Afghanistan.

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The division is responsible for the sales, marketing and distribution of home entertainment content on behalf of Paramount Pictures, Paramount Animation, Paramount Vantage, Paramount Classics, Insurge Pictures, MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, CBS and PBS and for providing home entertainment fulfillment services for DreamWorks Animation Home Entertainment.

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Though exceptions exist--New Line's Lord of the Rings franchise won several Oscars a few years back--nominations are typically awarded to the smaller budget, often artistic films, aptly dubbed Oscar bait, from the studio's specialty divisions (Paramount's Vantage or 20th Century Fox's Fox Searchlight, among others).

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