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Paramount Pictures dates its existence from the 8th of May 1912, when the Famous Players Film Company was founded by Adolph Zukor. Paramount Pictures Corporation itself was formally founded on the 8th of May 1914 by W. W. Hodkinson, who merged five smaller firms.
The Paramount mountain logo was first sketched on a napkin in 1914 by W. W. Hodkinson, who drew it from memory based on Ben Lomond in Utah. The original arc of twenty-four stars surrounding the peak matched the number of actors and actresses Paramount had under contract at the time. The number was reduced to twenty-two in 1967.
Paramount entered receivership on the 26th of January 1933 and filed for bankruptcy on the 14th of March 1933 after accumulating a $21 million debt from over-expansion and the use of overvalued stock for acquisitions during the Great Depression. Federal Judge Alfred C. Coxe Jr. approved the reorganization plan on the 25th of April 1935.
The 1948 Supreme Court decision in United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. held that movie studios could not also own movie theater chains. The ruling forced Paramount to split its 1,500-screen theater chain into a separate company, United Paramount Theaters, on the 31st of December 1949.
During the Dolgen and Lansing era in the 1990s, three Paramount films won the Academy Award for Best Picture: Titanic, Braveheart, and Forrest Gump. Titanic was co-produced with 20th Century Fox and Lightstorm Entertainment and grossed over $1.8 billion worldwide.
Paramount Pictures is currently a subsidiary of Paramount Skydance, formed after a merger approved in July 2025 between Paramount Global and Skydance Media at a valuation of $28 billion. David Ellison, the CEO of Skydance, became CEO of the combined company when the deal closed the following month.