Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures

Basic Details of Agency

Agency Name Paramount Pictures
Type Private Website paramountpictures.com
Industry Entertainment Founded 08 May 1912
Headquater Hollywood, California, United States
Founders
  • William Wadsworth Hodkinson
  • Adolph Zukor
  • Jesse L. Lasky
Owners
  • National Amusements (1912-Present)

Paramount Pictures (Started)

According to Wikipedia in 1916, film producer Adolph Zukor and founder Paramount Pictures put 24 actors and actresses under contract and honored each with a star on the logo. In 1967, the number of stars was reduced to 22 and their hidden meaning was dropped. In 2014, Paramount Pictures became the first major Hollywood studio to distribute all of its films in digital form only.

History of Paramount Pictures

Paramount is the fifth oldest surviving film studio in the world after the French studios Gaumont Film Company (1895) and Pathe (1896), Titanus (1904), followed by the Nordisk Film company (1906), and Universal Studios (1912). It is the last major film studio still headquartered in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles.