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Par pacts with TWC for U.K. pic rights.(Paramount Pictures Corp. and The Weinstein Co. sign deal)(Brief article)

Paramount has picked up all U.K. rights to eight movies from the Weinstein Co.

Par has already released the first two pics under the deal--"Pulse" and "Clerks II"--via the U.K. arm of United Intl. Pictures, its theatrical joint venture with Universal. A third pic, "School for Scoundrels," opens Nov. 24.

The remaining five films, yet to be identified, will be released in 2007.

By that time, Paramount will have taken over sole ownership of UIP's U.K. operation, under the terms of its divorce agreement with Universal. But with U opening its own rival British arm on Jan. 1, Par ...

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