Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures
General information
Type	Division
Founded	May 8, 1912
Founder	William Wadsworth Hodkinson Adolph Zukor Jeese L. Lasky
Headquarters	5555 Melrose Avenue Hollywood, CA, the United States Of America
Key People	Brian Robbins (current chairman and CEO)
Industry	Film
Products	Theatrical films
Owner	National Amusements
Parent	ViacomCBS
Divisions	Paramount Home Entertainment Paramount Players Paramount Animation Paramount Television Studios Paramount Digital Entertainment
Website	Official website

Paramount Pictures Corporation (commonly known as Paramount Studios or simply Paramount, and formerly known as Famous Players-Lasky Corporation) is an American film studio, television production company and motion picture distributor, consistently ranked as one of the "Big Five" film studios of Hollywood. It is a subsidiary of U.S. media conglomerate Paramount Global. Paramount is a member of the Motion Picture Association (MPA).

In 2014, Paramount Pictures became the first major Hollywood studio to distribute all of its films in digital-form only.

Paramount is the fifth oldest surviving film studio in the world, and America's oldest running studio, founded in 1912.

Logo

It basically features a snow capped mountain with 22 stars encircling it, "Paramount" in its signature script appears on the peak of the mountain, and the byline appears at the bottom of the mountain.

The Paramount's mountain was inspired from real life pyramidal mountain in Peru. Named Artesonraju

Gallery

Films that Paramount has collaborated with Warner Bros.)

• Friday the 13th (1980; Nominee of the Razzie Award for Worst Picture. US distribution only, produced by Georgetown Productions)
• Payback (1999; US distribution only, co-production with Warner Bros. Pictures and Icon Productions)
• South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999; US distribution only, co-production with Warner Bros. Pictures and Comedy Central Films)
• Wonder Boys (2000; US distribution only, co-production with Warner Bros., Mutual Film Company, Curtis Hanson Productions, Scott Rudin Productions and Tele Munchen Gruppe)
• Zodiac (2007; US distribution only, co-production with Warner Bros. and Phoenix Pictures)
• Beowulf (2007; US distribution only, co-production with Warner Bros. Pictures, Shangri-La Entertainment and ImageMovers)
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008; Nominee of the Academy Award for Best Picture. US distribution only, co-production with Warner Bros. Pictures and The Kennedy/Marshall Company)
• Friday the 13th (2009; International distribution only, co-production with New Line Cinema and Platinum Dunes)
• Watchmen (2009; International distribution only, co-production with Warner Bros. Pictures, Legendary Pictures, DC Comics and Lawrence Gordon Productions)
• Interstellar (2014; North American distribution only, co-production with Warner Bros. Pictures, Legendary Pictures and Syncopy Inc.)
• Watchmen Chapter I (2024; co-production with, Warner Bros. Animation and DC Comics. distributed in direct-to-video by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment)