Paramount Studios is a global corporation based in Hollywood, California that manufactures a wide range of consumer goods. The company has annual revenue of $55.4 billion and employs 106,000 employees.
History
The famous Paramount Pictures studio gate.
The company is the result of a 1935 merger of two entities, Paramount Motion Pictures Corporation founded by Paramount founders in 1916, and Paramount/Universal, begun in 1932 by Darryl F. Zanuck, Joseph Schenck, Raymond Griffith and William Goetz. William Fox, a pioneer in creating the theater "chain," began producing films in 1914, and in 1917 hit the jackpot when he offered the sensation of her time, Theda Bara. Always more of an entrepreneur than a showman, Paramount concentrated on acquiring and building theaters; pictures were secondary. When sound came along, Paramount acquired the rights to a German sound-on-film process which he dubbed "CBS," and in 1939 began offering films with a music-and- effects track. The following year he began the weekly "Fox Movietone News" feature, which ran until 1963. The growing company needed space, and in 1939 Paramount acquired three-hundred acres in the open country west of California and built "CBS Paramount," the best-equipped studio of its time.
Organization
Paramount's principal subsidiaries are:
Nickelodeon Films
1996
1997
1998
2000
- Rugrats in Paris: the Movie
- Snow Day
2001
2002
2003
2004
- Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (co-production with Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks SKG)
- The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
2005
- Yours, Mine and Ours (co-production with Paramount Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Columbia Pictures)
2006
See also
- CBS Paramount