Paramount Studios Pictures Corporation is an American film and television production and distribution company and the main namesake division of Paramount Studios Global .
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Paramount Studios Pictures Corporation is an American film and television production and distribution company and the main namesake division of Paramount Studios Global .
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In 2014, Paramount Studios Pictures became the first major Hollywood studio to distribute all of its films in digital form only.
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Paramount Studios Pictures is a member of the Motion Picture Association .
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Paramount Studios was the first successful nationwide distributor; until this time, films were sold on a statewide or regional basis which had proved costly to film producers.
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Also, Famous Players and Lasky were privately owned while Paramount Studios was a corporation.
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Paramount cartoons produced by Fleischer Studios continued to be successful, with characters such as Betty Boop and Popeye the Sailor becoming widely successful.
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In 1940, Paramount Studios agreed to a government-instituted consent decree: block booking and "pre-selling" would end.
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Immediately, Paramount Studios cut back on production, from 71 films to a more modest 19 annually in the war years.
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Paramount Studios Pictures had been an early backer of television, launching experimental stations in 1939 in Los Angeles and Chicago.
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In 1938, Paramount Studios bought a stake in television manufacturer DuMont Laboratories.
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Also Paramount Studios launched its own network, Paramount Studios Television Network, in 1948 through its television unit, Television Productions, Inc.
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Paramount Studios management planned to acquire additional owned-and-operated stations ; the company applied to the FCC for additional stations in San Francisco, Detroit, and Boston.
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Paramount Studios was hampered by its minority stake in the DuMont Television Network.
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Since DuMont owned three television stations and Paramount Studios owned two, the federal agency ruled neither network could acquire additional television stations.
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In 1951, Paramount Studios bought a stake in International Telemeter, an experimental pay TV service which operated with a coin inserted into a box.
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Such aged leadership was incapable of keeping up with the changing times, and in 1966, a sinking Paramount Studios was sold to Charles Bluhdorn's industrial conglomerate, Gulf + Western Industries Corporation.
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In 1968, Paramount Studios formed Films Distributing Corp to distribute sensitive film product, including Sin With a Stranger, which was one of the first films to receive an X rating in the United States when the MPAA introduced their new rating system.
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In 1970, Paramount teamed with Universal Studios to form Cinema International Corporation, a new company that would distribute films by the two studios outside the United States.
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Paramount Studios Pictures purchased the Hughes Television Network including its satellite time in planning for PTVS in 1976.
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The Paramount Studios name was used for soundtrack albums and some pop re-issues from the Dot Records catalog which Paramount Studios had acquired in 1957.
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In May 1985, Paramount Studios decided to start its own talent department, establishing which its feature directors could draw, which the studio decided to shut down on July 30,1986, by then-studio president Dawn Steel.
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That year, Paramount Studios Pictures decided to consolidate its distribution operations, that closing a number of branch offices that was designed for the studio and relocating staff and major activities in an effort to cut costs and provide for a more efficient centralization, which was a response in a change to the distribution practices by working out cities where exhibitors had offices.
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Paramount Studios is the last major film studio located in Hollywood proper.
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When Paramount Studios moved to its present home in 1927, it was in the heart of the film community.
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In 1989, Davis renamed the company Paramount Studios Communications Incorporated after its primary asset, Paramount Studios Pictures.
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Paramount Studios used cash acquired from the sale of Gulf and Western's non-entertainment properties to take over the TVX Broadcast Group chain of television stations, and the KECO Entertainment chain of theme parks from Taft successor Great American Broadcasting.
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Paramount Studios Television launched Wilshire Court Productions in conjunction with USA Networks, before the latter was renamed NBCUniversal Cable, in 1989.
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Paramount Studios bought one more television station in 1993: Cox Enterprises' WKBD-TV in Detroit, Michigan, at the time an affiliate of the Fox Broadcasting Company.
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In 1999, Viacom bought out United Television's interests, and handed responsibility for the start-up network to the newly acquired CBS unit, which Viacom bought in 1999 – an ironic confluence of events as Paramount Studios had once invested in CBS, and Viacom had once been the syndication arm of CBS as well.
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Paramount Studios gained the ownership rights to the Rysher library, after Viacom acquired the rights from Cox Enterprises.
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In early 2008, Paramount Studios partnered with Los Angeles-based developer FanRocket to make short scenes taken from its film library available to users on Facebook.
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Paramount Studios engineered a similar deal with Makena Technologies to allow users of vMTV and There.
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In March 2010, Paramount Studios founded Insurge Pictures, an independent distributor of "micro budget" films.
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In March 2015, following waning box office returns, Paramount Studios shuttered Insurge Pictures and moved its operations to the main studio.
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In July 2011, in the wake of critical and box office success of the animated feature, Rango, and the departure of DreamWorks Animation upon completion of their distribution contract in 2012, Paramount Studios announced the formation of a new division, devoted to the creation of animated productions.
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In December 2013, Walt Disney Studios gained Paramount's remaining distribution and marketing rights to future Indiana Jones films.
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In June 2017, Paramount Studios Pictures signed a deal with 20th Century Fox for distribution of its films in Italy, which took effect on September.
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On December 7,2017, it was reported that Paramount Studios sold the international distribution rights of Annihilation to Netflix.
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On November 16,2018, Paramount Studios signed a multi-picture film deal with Netflix as part of Viacom's growth strategy, making Paramount Studios the first major film studio to do so.
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Also, Paramount Studios will produce television series based on Miramax's IPs.
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ViacomCBS later announced that it would rebrand the CBS All Access streaming service as Paramount Studios+ to allow for international expansion using the widely recognized Paramount Studios name and drawing from the studio's library as well as that of CBS, MTV, Nickelodeon, and more.
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However, Paramount Studios still owns distribution and other ancillary rights to Soros and Dune films.
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Paramount Studios owned distribution rights to the DreamWorks Animation library of films made before 2013, and their previous distribution deal with future DWA titles expired at the end of 2012, with Rise of the Guardians.
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In March 2012, Paramount Studios licensed their name and logo to a luxury hotel investment group which subsequently named the company Paramount Studios Hotels and Resorts.
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Distinctively pyramidal Paramount Studios mountain has been the mainstay of the company's production logo since its inception and is the oldest surviving Hollywood film logo.
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Paramount Studios saw this as a bargain since the fleeting movie studio saw very little value in its library of old films at the time.
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On July 31,2018, Paramount Studios was targeted by the National Hispanic Media Coalition and the National Latino Media Council, which have both claimed that the studio has the worst track record of hiring Latino and Hispanic talent both in front of and behind the camera .
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