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- In 1927, Famous Players-Lasky took on the name Paramount-Famous Lasky Corporation.
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In 2009, CBS Corporation stopped using the Paramount name in its series and changed the name of the production arm to CBS Television Studios, eliminating the Paramount name from television, to distance itself from the latter. In March 2010, Paramount founded Insurge Pictures, an independent distributor of "micro budget" films.
Paramount Pictures began humbly in 1912 when Adolph Zukor, the owner of a New York nickelodeon, released the first full-length drama shown in the United States (Queen Elizabeth, starring Sarah Bernhardt) and founded the Famous Players Film Company.
May 27, 2024 · Paramount Pictures, one of the first and most successful of the Hollywood film studios. It became a subsidiary of Viacom in 1994 and Paramount Global in 2022. Paramount Pictures Corp. was established in 1914 by W.W. Hodkinson as a film distributor, offering Adolph Zukor’s Famous Players Film
May 5, 2021 · Come 1916 the three companies merged into Famous Players-Lasky. Later, the company changed its name to Paramount Pictures, Inc. as part of a reorganisation in the mid-1930s. Its origins make Paramount one of America’s longest surviving film studios.
History | Paramount. a legacy of greatness. 1910-1919. 1914. Adolph Zukor, Daniel Frohman, and W.W. Hodkinson partner to establish Paramount Pictures Corporation. For more Paramount history, click here. 1920-1929. 1928.
Feb 29, 2024 · In 1948, when the Supreme Court issued its historic ruling that the studios must jettison their theater chains, it was Paramount that gave its name to the decision.
In 1927, Famous Players-Lasky took on the name Paramount-Famous Lasky Corporation. Three years later, because of the importance of the Publix theater chain, it was later known as Paramount-Publix Corporation.
