By Ryan Parsons | Image property of Paramount Pictures.
Paramount Pictures has sent over their very own official release from ShoWest with a new still from The Love Guru.
Paramount at ShoWest
Paramount Pictures previewed DreamWorks Animation’s animated feature Kung Fu Panda at the ShoWest annual exhibitors convention today, as well as the first footage another summer release The Love Guru featuring the film’s stars Mike Myers and Jessica Alba.
At private events, the studio screened Paramount Classics’ concert film Shine A Light and showed scenes from a third summer release, Tropic Thunder, introduced by two stars from the film, Robert Downey Jr. and Ben Stiller, who also co-wrote and directed the action comedy.
Highlights included:
The Love Guru
• A keynote address from DWA head Jeffrey Katzenberg during which he announced the voice cast for the upcoming 3-D animated feature Monsters vs. Aliens, opening March 27, 2009.
• Surprise guests Mike Myers and Jessica Alba, who appeared onstage to show clips of The Love Guru, which hits theaters June 20.
• A world premiere screening of DWA’s Kung Fu Panda for exhibitors. Kung Fu Panda, opens June 6.
• A private event party for DreamWorks’ Tropic Thunder, where Paramount Pictures’ Vice Chairman Rob Moore introduced the debut of the action comedy’s trailer and brought out two of the film’s stars, Stiller and Downey, who introduced scenes from the summer release due in theaters August 15.
• A private U.S. premiere screening of Paramount Classics’ Rolling Stones concert film Shine A Light directed by Oscar® winner Martin Scorsese, which opens April 4.