Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation, commonly called Paramount Pictures, or just simply Paramount, is an American film production and distribution company, owne by Paramount Global (previously known as ViacomCBS and Viacom). It was formed by William Wadsworth Hodkinson, Adolph Zukor, and Jesse L. Lasky, on May 8, 1912, making them one of the oldest film production and distribution companies that is still active to this day. Their current chairman and CEO is Brian Robbins. 
==Units==
===Divisions===
*Paramount Pictures
**Paramount Home Entertainment
**Paramount Licensing, Inc.
**Paramount Digital Entertainment
**Paramount Pictures International
**Paramount Studio Group – physical studio and post production
***The Studios at Paramount – production facilities & lot
***Paramount on Location – production support facilities throughout North America including New York, Vancouver, and Atlanta
***Worldwide Technical Operations – archives, restoration and preservation programs, the mastering and distribution fulfillment services, on-lot post production facilities management
**Paramount Parks & Resorts, licensing and design for parks and resorts
*Paramount Animation (2011–present)
*Paramount Players (June 2017–) (ViacomCBS Domestic Media Networks branded labels):
**MTV Films
**Nickelodeon Movies
**Comedy Central Films
**BET Films
*Paramount Television Studios (formerly Paramount Television, revived in March 2013)
**Paramount Worldwide Television Licensing & Distribution
===Joint ventures===
*Miramax (co-owned with beIN Media Group)
**Miramax Television
**Miramax Family
*United International Pictures (co-owned with Comcast's Universal Pictures)
*Rede Telecine
===Former divisions, subsidiaries, and joint ventures===
*Paramount Television (original) (now CBS Studios)
**Big Ticket Entertainment (semi-in-name-only since 2006; currently produces Judge Judy and Hot Bench)
**Spelling Television (in-name-only since 2006)
**Viacom Productions (folded into PNT in 2004)
**Wilshire Court Productions (shut down in 2003)
**Paramount Domestic Television (now CBS Media Ventures)
***Folded Viacom Enterprises in 1995 and Rysher Entertainment and Worldvision Enterprises in 1999
***RTV News, Inc., producer of Real TV and Maximum Exposure
**United Paramount Network (UPN) – formerly a joint venture with United Television, now part of the CBS/WarnerMedia joint venture The CW Television Network
**Paramount Stations Group (now CBS Television Stations)
**USA Networks (also including the Sci-Fi Channel) – Paramount owned a stake starting in 1982, 50% owner (with Universal Pictures) from 1987 until 1997, when Paramount/Viacom sold their stake to Universal (now part of NBCUniversal)
**Paramount International Television (merged with CBS Broadcast International in 2004 to form CBS Studios International)
*Fleischer Studios – purchased in 1942 and organized as Famous Studios (which shut down in 1967); library folded into Paramount Animation.
*Terrytoons – purchased by CBS Films (later Viacom International) in 1956; theatrical library folded into Paramount Animation following re-merger of ViacomCBS in 2019.
*Paramount Famous Productions – direct-to-video division
*Paramount Parks (Purchased by Cedar Fair Entertainment Company in 2006)
*Paramount Classics/Paramount Vantage - Paramount Classics merged into Paramount Vantage; the latter then went dormant in December 2013
*DW Studios, LLC (also known as DreamWorks Pictures/DreamWorks SKG) – holding film library and rights, it was spun off in 2009 and left DreamWorks become an independent company. 
**DW Funding LLC – DreamWorks live-action library (pre-09/16/2005; DW Funding, LLC) sold to Soros Strategic Partners and Dune Entertainment II and purchased back in 2010
**DreamWorks Home Entertainment - merged into Paramount Home Entertainment after DreamWorks spun off from Paramount in 2009. 
*Paramount Theatres Limited – Founded 1930 in the United Kingdom with the opening of a cinema in Manchester. Several Paramount Theatres had opened or had been acquired in the United Kingdom during the 1930s before being sold to The Rank Organisation becoming part of the Odeon Cinemas chain in 1939.
*Epix – 49.76% owner (with Metro–Goldwyn–Mayer and Lionsgate) from 2009 until 2017, when Paramount/Viacom and Lionsgate sold their stakes to MGM
*Insurge Pictures – micro-budget film division (March 2010 – 2015); absorbed into Paramount itself
*Republic Pictures
*"Continental Café" - the commissary run by Pauline Kessinger until the cafe was replaced by the Zukor Building in 1983.
== Trivia ==
* In 1966 they we're previously owned by Gulf and Western Industries, Until ViacomCBS/Paramount Global acquires Paramount in 1994
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