Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation (commonly known as Paramount Pictures and also known simply as Paramount) is an American film studio and subsidiary of ViacomCBS. It is the fifth oldest film studio in the world,[1] the second oldest film studio in the United States, and the sole member of the "Big Five" film studios still located in the city limits of Los Angeles. 
In 1916, film producer Adolph Zukor put 22 actors and actresses under contract and honored each with a star on the logo.[2] In 2014, Paramount Pictures became the first major Hollywood studio to distribute all of its films in digital form only.[3] The company's headquarters and studios are located at 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, California, United States.
== 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[109]
* Paramount Animation (2011–present)[79]
* 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)
* United International Pictures (co-owned with Comcast's Universal Pictures)
* Rede Telecine
=== Former divisions, subsidiaries, and joint ventures ===
* Paramount Television (original) (now CBS Television Studios)
** Big Ticket Television (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 Television Distribution)
*** 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 Studios) from 1987 until 1997, when Paramount/Viacom sold their stake to Universal (now part of NBCUniversal)
** Paramount International Television (now CBS Studios International)
* Paramount Famous Productions – direct-to-video division
* Paramount Parks (Purchased by Cedar Fair Entertainment Company in 2006)
* Paramount Classics/Paramount Vantage[110]
* DW Studios, LLC (also DW Pictures) – defunct, holding film library and rights, principal officers left to recreate DreamWorks as 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[111]
* 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)[76]
* Republic Pictures
* "Continental Café" - the commissary run by Pauline Kessinger until the cafe was replaced by the Zukor Building in 1983.
== Film library ==
Main article: Lists of Paramount Pictures films
A few years after the ruling of the United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. case in 1948, Music Corporation of America (MCA) approached Paramount offering $50 million for 750 sound feature films released prior to December 1, 1949 with payment to be spread over a period of several years. Paramount saw this as a bargain since the fleeting movie studio saw very little value in its library of old films at the time. To address any antitrust concerns, MCA set up EMKA, Ltd. as a dummy corporation to sell these films to television. EMKA's/Universal Television's library includes the five Paramount Marx Brothers films, most of the Bob Hope–Bing Crosby Road to... pictures, and other classics such as Trouble in Paradise, Shanghai Express, She Done Him Wrong, Sullivan's Travels, The Palm Beach Story, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Double Indemnity, The Lost Weekend, and The Heiress.
The studio has produced many critically acclaimed films such as Titanic, Footloose, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Braveheart, Ghost, The Truman Show, Mean Girls, Psycho, Rocketman, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Days of Thunder, Rosemary's Baby, Nebraska, Sunset Boulevard, Forrest Gump, Super 8, Coming to America, World War Z, Babel, The Conversation, The Fighter, Interstellar, Team America, Terms of Endearment, The Wolf of Wall Street and A Quiet Place; as well as commercially successful franchises and/or properties such as: the Godfather films, Star Trek, Mission: Impossible, SpongeBob SquarePants, the Grease films, Sonic the Hedgehog, the Top Gun films, The Italian Job, the Transformers films, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles films, the Tomb Raider films, the Friday the 13th films, the Cloverfield films, the G.I. Joe films, the Beverly Hills Cop films, the Terminatorfilms, the Pet Sematary films, the Without a Paddle films, Jackass, the Odd Couple films, South Park, the Crocodile Dundee films, the Charolette's Web films, the Wayne's World films, Beavis & Butthead, Jimmy Neutron, the War of the Worlds films, the Naked Gunfilms, the Anchorman films, Dora the Explorer, the Addams Family films, Rugrats, the Zoolander films, Æon Flux, the Ring films, the Bad News Bears films, The Wild Thornberrys, and the Paranormal Activity films; as well as the first four films of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the Indiana Jones films, and various DreamWorks Animation properties (such as Shrek, the Madagascar sequels, the first two Kung Fu Panda films, and the first How to Train Your Dragon) before both studios were respectively acquired by Disney (via Marvel Studios and Lucasfilm) and Universal Studios.
=== Film series ===
Title 	Release date	Notes
Sophie Lang 	1934-1937 	
Hopalong Cassidy 	1935-1941 	
Bulldog Drummond 	1937-1939 	
The Aldrich Family 	1939-1944 	
Road to ... 	1940-1947 	
The Godfather 	1972-1990 	
Bad News Bears 	1976-2005 	
Star Trek 	1979–present	
Friday the 13th 	1980-1989 	
Beverly Hills Cop 	1984–present	
Crocodile Dundee 	1986-2001 	
The Naked Gun 	1988-1994 	
Jack Ryan 	1990-2014 	
Mission: Impossible 	1996–present	
Rugrats 	1998-2003 	
Jackass 	2002–present	
SpongeBob SquarePants 	2004–present	
Transformers 	2007–present	
Cloverfield 	2008–present	
G.I. Joe 	2009–present	
Paranormal Activity 	2009–present	
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles	2014–present	
Sonic the Hedgehog 	2020–present	
=== Highest-grossing films ===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="margin:auto; margin:auto;"	 	 	
Rank	Title 	Year	Box office gross
1 	Titanic ‡ 	1997	$658,672,302
2 	Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen 	2009	$402,111,870
3 	Transformers: Dark of the Moon 	2011	$352,390,543
4 	Forrest Gump ‡ 	1994	$330,252,182
5 	Shrek the Third 	2007	$322,719,944
6 	Transformers 	2007	$319,246,193
7 	Iron Man 	2008	$318,412,101
8 	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull	2008	$317,101,119
9 	Iron Man 2 	2010	$312,433,331
10 	Star Trek 	2009	$257,730,019
11 	Raiders of the Lost Ark ‡ 	1981	$248,159,971
12 	Transformers: Age of Extinction 	2014	$245,439,076
13 	Shrek Forever After 	2010	$238,736,787
14 	Beverly Hills Cop 	1984	$234,760,478
15 	War of the Worlds 	2005	$234,280,354
16 	Star Trek Into Darkness 	2013	$228,778,661
17 	Mission: Impossible – Fallout 	2018	$220,159,104
18 	Ghost 	1990	$217,631,306
19 	How to Train Your Dragon 	2010	$217,581,231
20 	Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted 	2012	$216,391,482
21 	Kung Fu Panda 	2008	$215,434,591
22 	Mission: Impossible 2 	2000	$215,409,889
23 	Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol 	2011	$209,397,903
24 	Monsters vs. Aliens 	2009	$198,352,526
25 	World War Z 	2013	$202,359,711
‡—Includes theatrical reissue(s).
Category:Film production companies of the United States