“Famous Players in Famous Plays” – Paramount’s slogan.
- Paramount Pictures is a motion picture film company and has its film studio in Hollywood, California, United States.
- ‘Paramount Pictures’ is also known as ‘Paramount Pictures Corporation’ and ‘Paramount’.
- Paramount Pictures was founded by Adolph Zukor, a Hungarian, in 1912, originally named the ‘Famous Players Film Company’ which merged to form Paramount in 1916.
- Paramount Pictures bought DreamWorks SKG, in 2005, for $1.6 billion, although DreamWorks became independent only a few years later.
- The mountain featured on the Paramount Pictures’ logo, has been used in some form in the company’s logo since it was founded, and is the longest, existing, original icon in Hollywood film industry.
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- There are only four other studios on earth that are older than Paramount Pictures, that are still in operation.
- Paramount Pictures hold two-hour tours every day of the week, with visits around the studio premises, and four and a half hour tours are also offered with a more extensive look into its history and current production processes.
- Paramount Pictures celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2012, which is a milestone that no other significant Hollywood studio had obtained by that time.
- Since the economic difficulties of Paramount Pictures in the 1960s, the film company has produced some of the best films, including Titanic (1997) and the Transformers series.
- The first Paramount Pictures film was a French silent film named The Loves of Queen Elizabeth, in 1912.
Bibliography:
2012 Years of Paramount, 2013, Paramount Pictures, <http://www.paramount.com/100-years-paramount>
Paramount Pictures, 2013, Wikipedia, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramount_Pictures>
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