Paramount Pictures Corporation (frequently known as Paramount Pictures or simply Paramount) is a film and television production/distribution studio, consistently ranked as one of the largest (top-grossing) movie studios. It is a unit of U.S. media conglomerate Viacom.
Paramount Pictures is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).
Units[]
Subsidiaries[]
- Paramount Licensing, Inc.
- Paramount Home Entertainment, Inc.
Divisions[]
- Paramount Digital Entertainment
- Paramount Pictures International
- Paramount Studio Group - physical studio and post production
- The Studios at Paramount - production facilities & lot
- Paramount On Location - production support facilities throughout North America including New York, Vancouver, and Atlanta
- Worldwide Technical Operations - archives, restoration and preservation programs, the mastering and distribution fulfillment services, on-lot post production facilities management
- Worldwide Television Distribution
- Paramount Famous Productions, direct-to-video
- Paramount Parks & Resorts, licensing and design for parks and resorts
- Paramount Motion Picture Group
- Paramount Pictures
- Paramount Classics
- Viacom Media Networks branded labels:
- MTV Films
- Nickelodeon Movies
- Insurge Pictures, micro-budget film distribution (March 2010 – present)
- Paramount Animation (2011–present)
- Paramount Vantage
- Viacom Media Networks branded labels:
- Republic Pictures
Joint ventures[]
- Epix (TV channel)
- United International Pictures
Former divisions, subsidiaries, and joint ventures[]
- Paramount Television Group (now CBS Television Studios)
- Paramount Network Television
- Big Ticket Entertainment (semi-in-name-only since 2006, only shows running are Judge Judy and Judge Joe Brown)
- Spelling Television (in-name-only since 2006)
- Viacom Productions (folded into PNT in 2004)
- Wilshire Court Productions (shut down in 2003)
- Paramount Domestic Television
- Folded Viacom Enterprises in 1995, Rysher Entertainment in 1999, and Worldvision Enterprises in 2000
- RTV News, Inc., producer of Real TV and Maximum Exposure
- United Paramount Network (UPN) – formerly a joint venture with United Television, now part of the CBS/Time Warner joint venture The CW Television Network
- Paramount Stations Group (now CBS Television Stations)
- USA Networks (also including what is now called Syfy) – Paramount owned a stake starting in 1982, 50% owner (with Universal Studios) from 1987 until 1997, when Paramount/Viacom sold their stake to Universal (now part of NBCUniversal)
- Paramount Network Television
- Paramount International Television (now CBS Studios International)
- Paramount Parks (Purchased by Cedar Fair Entertainment Company in 2006)
- DW Studios, LLC (also DW Pictures) - defunct, holding film library and rights, principal officers left to recreate DreamWorks as an independent company DW Funding **LLC - DreamWorks live-action library (pre-09/16/2005; DW Funding, LLC) sold to Soros Strategic Partners and Dune Entertainment II and purchased back in 2010
External Links[]
- Official Website
- Insurge Pictures division