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A century of amazing the world through film...and seeing stars above a mountain.
Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film production and distribution company. Founded in 1912 and currently owned by media conglomerate Viacom, it is the oldest existing American film studio (though the predecessor of Universal, the Independent Moving Pictures Company, predates it); Paramount is also the last major film studio still based in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles (again, Universal is in Universal City, which if incorporated into Los Angeles would become North Hollywood). Paramount has been consistently ranked as one of the top-grossing movie studios, most recently making a comeback as one of the backbones of Hollywood. Its Vanity Plate is a the Mountain.
Formerly the distributor of DreamWorks releases, it still handles the films of Dreamworks Animation, though this deal has broken.
Notable Films Produced:
- Airplane!
- Coming to America
- Four Brothers
- Iron Man (now with Disney)
- Titanic (with ~20th Century Fox~ - although Fox was the primary producer of this film and has the rights outside North America)
- Top Gun
- The Godfather
- Grease
- Friday the 13 th
- Ferris Bueller's Day Off
- Distribution of the Indiana Jones movies (produced by Lucasfilm until Disney brought the rights)
- The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie and its sequels (Nickelodeon)
- The Mission Impossible movies
- Forrest Gump
- Paper Moon
- Saving Private Ryan (with DreamWorks)
- Star Trek
- The Core
- Transformers (with DreamWorks)
- War of the Worlds (with DreamWorks)
- Beverly Hills Cop
- G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
- Trading Places
- Pet Sematary (both 1989 and 2019 versions)
- The Popeye cartoons (now owned by Warner Bros)
- Suspect Zero
- Changing Lanes
- Watchmen (with Warner Bros and Legendary Pictures)
- Witness
- Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow
- Rango
- Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (now owned by Warner Bros)
- Sonic the Hedgehog
Series produced
- The Haunting of Hill House - Netflix
- Thirteen Reasons Why
- A Series of Unfortunate Events
- Star Trek: The Original Series
- MacGyver