Paramount
Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film production and distribution company. Founded in 1912 and currently owned by media conglomerate Viacom, it is the oldest existing American film studio (though the predecessor of Universal, the Independent Moving Pictures Company, predates it); Paramount is also the last major film studio still based in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles (again, Universal is in Universal City, which if incorporated into Los Angeles would become North Hollywood). Paramount has been consistently ranked as one of the top-grossing movie studios, most recently making a comeback as one of the backbones of Hollywood. Its Vanity Plate is a the Mountain.
Formerly the distributor of DreamWorks releases, it still handles the films of Dreamworks Animation, though this deal has broken.
Notable Films Produced:
- Airplane!
- Four Brothers
- Iron Man
- Titanic (with ~20th Century Fox~ - although Fox was the primary producer of this film and has the rights outside North America)
- Top Gun
- The Godfather Trilogy
- Grease
- Friday the 13 th
- Distribution of the Indiana Jones movies (produced by Lucasfilm)
- The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
- The Mission: Impossible movies
- Forrest Gump
- Paper Moon
- Saving Private Ryan (with DreamWorks)
- Star Trek
- The Core
- Transformers (with DreamWorks)
- War of the Worlds (with DreamWorks)
- Beverly Hills Cop
- G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
- Trading Places
- The Popeye cartoons
- Suspect Zero
- Changing Lanes
- Watchmen (with Warner Bros and Legendary Pictures)
- Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow
- Rango