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Paramount Pictures Corporation

Type	Subsidiary of Paramount Motion Pictures Group
Founded	Los Angeles, California, USA (1912)
Headquarters	Los Angeles, California, USA
Key people	Brad Grey, Chairman and CEO Frederick D. Huntsberry, COO
Industry	Motion pictures
Revenue	$3.0 billion USD (2005)
Operating income	$62.1 million USD (2005)
Parent	Viacom
Website	http://www.paramount.com

Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production and distribution company, based in Hollywood, California. Founded in 1912, it is the longest-lived American movie studio. Paramount is owned by media conglomerate Viacom.

[edit] History

[edit] Early history

Paramount Pictures Inc. can trace its beginnings to the creation in May, 1912, of the Famous Players Film Company. Founder Hungarian-born Adolph Zukor, who had been an early investor in nickelodeons, saw that movies appealed mainly to working-class immigrants. With partners Daniel Frohman and Charles Frohman he planned to offer feature-length films that would appeal to the middle class by featuring the leading theatrical players of the time. By mid-1913, Famous Players had completed five films, and Zukor was on his way to success.

That same year, another aspiring producer, Jesse L. Lasky, opened his Lasky Feature Play Company with money borrowed from his brother-in-law, Samuel Goldfish (later to be known as Samuel Goldwyn.) As their first employee, the Lasky company hired a stage director with no film experience, Cecil B. DeMille, who would find a suitable location site in Hollywood, near Los Angeles, for his first film, The Squaw Man.

Beginning in 1914, both Lasky and Famous Players released their films through a start-up company, Paramount Pictures. Organized early that year by a Utah theatre owner, W. W. Hodkinson, who had bought and merged several smaller firms, Paramount was the first successful nation-wide distributor. Until this time films were sold on a state-wide or regional basis; not only was this inefficient, but it had proved costly to film producers.

1916 publicity photo for the takeover of Paramount Pictures. (L to R) Jesse L. Lasky, Adolph Zukor, Samuel Goldwyn, Cecil B. DeMille, Al Kaufman

Soon the ambitious Zukor, unused to taking a secondary role, began courting Hodkinson and Lasky. In 1916, Zukor maneuvered a three-way merger of his Famous Players, the Lasky Company, and Paramount. The new company, Famous Players-Lasky, grew quickly, with Lasky and his partners Goldfish and DeMille running the production side, Hiram Abrams in charge of distribution, and Zukor making great plans. With only the exhibitor-owned First National as a rival, Famous Players-Lasky and its "Paramount Pictures" soon dominated the business.

Zukor believed in stars - after all, he had begun by offering "Famous Players in Famous Plays," as his first slogan put it. He signed and developed many of the leading early stars, among them Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Gloria Swanson, Rudolph Valentino, and Wallace Reid. With so many important players, Paramount was able to introduce "block booking," which meant that an exhibitor who wanted a particular star's films had to buy a year's worth of other Paramount productions. It was this system that gave Paramount a leading position in the 1920s and 1930s, but which led the government to pursue it on anti-trust grounds for more than twenty years.

The driving force behind Paramount's rise was Zukor. All through the teens and twenties, he built a mighty theatrical chain of nearly 2,000 screens, ran two production studios, and became an early investor in radio, taking a 50% interest in the new Columbia Broadcasting System in 1928. By acquiring the successful Balaban & Katz chain in 1926, he gained the services of both Barney Balaban, who became Paramount's president, and Sam Katz, who ran the Paramount-Publix theatre chain. Zukor also hired independent producer B. P. Schulberg, an unerring eye for new talent, to run the West Coast studio. 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.

Eventually Zukor shed most of his early partners; the Frohman brothers, Hodkinson and Goldfish/Goldwyn were out by 1917 while Lasky hung on until 1932, when, blamed for the near-collapse of Paramount in the depression years, he too was tossed out. Zukor's over-expansion and use of overvalued Paramount stock for purchases led the company into receivership in 1933. A bank-mandated reorganization team, led by John Hertz and Otto Kahn kept the company intact, and miraculously, kept Zukor on. He was bumped up to an honorary "chairman emeritus" role in 1935, while Barney Balaban became chairman. When the company emerged from bankruptcy, it was known as Paramount Pictures, Inc.

As always, Paramount films continued to emphasize stars; in the 1920s there were Swanson, Valentino, and Clara Bow. By the 1930s, talkies brought in a range of powerful new draws: Marlene Dietrich, Mae West, Gary Cooper, Claudette Colbert, the Marx Brothers, Dorothy Lamour, Carole Lombard, Bing Crosby, and famous Argentine tango singer Carlos Gardel among them. In this period Paramount can truly be described as a movie factory, turning out sixty and seventy pictures a year. Such were the benefits of having a huge theater chain to fill, and of block booking to persuade other chains to go along.

Paramount's cartoon division was also a big success because of two major characters: Popeye the Sailor and Betty Boop. Fleischer Studios put out both cartoons until 1942, then Paramount foreclosed on the Fleischer operations, and restructured it as Famous Studios to take over both cartoons.

In 1940, Paramount agreed to a government-instituted consent decree: block booking and "pre-selling" (the practice of collecting up-front money for films not yet in production) would end. Immediately Paramount cut back on production, from sixty-plus pictures to a more modest twenty annually in the war years. Still, with more new stars (like Bob Hope, Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Paulette Goddard, and Betty Hutton), and with war-time attendance at astronomical numbers, Paramount and the other integrated studio-theatre combines made more money than ever. At this, the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department decided to reopen their case against the five integrated studios. This led to the Supreme Court decision of 1948 that broke up Adolph Zukor's amazing creation and effectively brought an end to the classic Hollywood studio system.

[edit] The 1950s to the 1970s

As movie attendance declined after World War II, Paramount and the others struggled to keep the audience. Hovering nearby were the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department, still pursuing restraint-of-trade allegations. This case finally came before the Supreme Court as U.S. vs. Paramount Pictures, et al., and in May 1948, the court agreed with the government, finding restraint of competition, and calling for the separation of production and exhibition. Paramount was split in two. Paramount Pictures Corporation remained the production distribution, with the 1,500-screen theater chain handed to the new United Paramount Theaters on December 31, 1949.The Balaban and Katz theatre division was spun off with UPT. The Balaban and Katz Trademark is now owned by the Balaban and Katz Historical Foundation. Cash-rich and controlling prime downtown real estate, UPT-head Leonard Goldenson began looking for investments; barred from film-making, he acquired the struggling ABC in February, 1953.

Paramount Pictures had been an early backer of television, launching experimental stations in 1939 in Los Angeles (later to become KTLA) and Chicago's WBKB. It was also an early investor in the pioneer DuMont Laboratories and through that, the DuMont Television Network, but because of anti-trust concerns after the 1948 ruling, proved to be a timid and obstructionist partner, refusing to aid DuMont as it sank in the mid-1950s.

With the loss of the theater chain, Paramount Pictures went into a decline, cutting studio-backed production, releasing its contract players, and making production deals with independents. By the mid-1950s, all the great names were gone; only C.B. DeMille, associated with Paramount since 1913, kept making pictures in the grand old style. Like some other studios, Paramount saw little value in its film library. When the talent agency MCA, then wielding major influence on Paramount policy, offered $50 million for 750 pre-1948 features (with payment to be spread over many years), it was thought that Paramount had made the best possible deal. To address anti-trust concerns, MCA set up a separate company, EMKA, Ltd., to peddle these films to television. MCA later admitted that over the next forty years it took in more than a billion dollars in rentals of these supposedly worthless pictures.

The Paramount cartoons and shorts went to various television distributors, with U.M.&M. T.V. Corp. acquiring the majority of the cartoons and live action short subjects made before 1951. Some lesser known features were included in this deal as well. The Popeye cartoons were sold to Associated Artists Productions. The Superman cartoons went to Motion Pictures for Television, producers of the Superman television series. The rest of the cartoons made from 1950-1962, were sold to Harvey Comics. Except for the Superman cartoons and the features sold to Universal, most television prints of these films have had their titles refilmed to remove most traces of their connection to Paramount. (The original copyright lines were left intact on Popeye cartoons.)

By the early 1960s Paramount's future was doubtful. The high-risk movie business was wobbly; the theater chain was long gone; investments in DuMont and in early pay-television came to nothing. Even the flagship Paramount building in Times Square was sold to raise cash, as was KTLA (sold to Gene Autry in 1964 for a then-phenomenal $12.5 million). Founding-father Adolph Zukor, born in 1873, was still chairman emeritus; he referred to chairman Barney Balaban (born 1888) as 'the boy'. Such aged leadership was incapable of keeping up with the changing times, and in 1966, a sinking Paramount was sold to the Charles Bluhdorn's industrial conglomerate Gulf and Western Industries. Bluhdorn immediately put his stamp on the studio, installing a virtually unknown producer, Robert Evans, as head of production. Despite some rough times, Evans held the job for eight years, restoring Paramount's reputation for commercial success with The Odd Couple, Love Story, Rosemary's Baby and The Godfather.

One of the early Paramount Television logos following the Desilu merger. This logo was nicknamed "The Split Rectangle".

Gulf and Western Industries also bought the neighboring Desilu television studio (once the lot of RKO Pictures) from Lucille Ball in 1967. Using Desilu's established shows like Star Trek, Mission: Impossible and Mannix as a foot in the door at the networks, Paramount Television eventually became known as a specialist in half-hour situation comedies.

Robert Evans quit as head of production in 1974; his successor Richard Sylbert, was too literary and tasteful for G+W's Bluhdorn. By 1976, a new, television-trained team was in place: Barry Diller, and his 'killer-Dillers,' associates Michael Eisner, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Dawn Steel and Don Simpson. The specialty now was simpler, 'high concept' pictures like Saturday Night Fever, and Grease. With his television background, Diller kept pitching an idea of his to the board: a fourth commercial network. But the board, and Bluhdorn, wouldn't bite. Neither would Bluhdorn's successor, Martin Davis. When Bluhdorn died unexpectedly, Davis dumped all of G+W's industrial, mining, and sugar-growing subsidiaries and refocused the company, renaming it Paramount Communications. Diller took his fourth-network idea with him when he moved to Twentieth Century-Fox in 1984, where the new proprietor, Rupert Murdoch, was a more interested listener.

Paramount Pictures was unconnected to Paramount Records, until it purchased the rights to use Paramount Records' name (but not its catalogue) in the late 1960s. The Paramount name was used for soundtrack albums and some pop re-issues from the Dot Records catalogue. Paramount had acquired the pop-oriented Dot in 1958, but by 1970 Dot had become an all-country label [4]. In 1974, Paramount sold all of its record holdings to ABC Records, which in turn was sold to MCA in 1978.

[edit] From the 1980s to the present day

Paramount's successful run of lightweight pictures extended into the 1980s and 1990s, generating hits like Flashdance, the Friday the 13th slasher series; Raiders of the Lost Ark and its sequels; Beverly Hills Cop and a string of films starring comedian Eddie Murphy; and the Star Trek features. While the emphasis was decidedly on the commercial, there were occasional quality efforts like Atlantic City and Forrest Gump. During this period responsibility for running the studio passed from Eisner and Katzenberg to Don Simpson to Stanley Jaffe and Sherry Lansing and, late in 2005, Brad Grey. More so than most, Paramount's slate of films included many remakes and television spinoffs; while sometimes commercially successful, there have been few compelling films of the kind that once made Paramount the industry leader.

Paramount Pictures 1987-1989

With the influx of cash from the sale of G+W's industrial properties in the mid-1980s, Paramount bought a string of television stations and KECO Entertainment's theme park operations, renaming them Paramount Parks. In 1993, Sumner Redstone's entertainment conglomerate Viacom made a bid for Paramount; this quickly escalated into a bidding war with Barry Diller. But Viacom prevailed, ultimately paying $10 billion for the Paramount holdings. In 1995, Viacom and Chris-Craft Industries' United Television launched United Paramount Network (UPN), fulfilling Diller's 1970s plan for a Paramount network. In 1999 Viacom bought out United Television's interests, and handed responsibility for the shaky UPN to its more-established CBS unit.

Reflecting in part the troubles of the broadcasting business, Viacom announced early in 2005 that it would split itself in two. The split was completed in January 2006. The CBS television and radio networks, the Infinity radio-station chain (now called CBS Radio), the Paramount Television production unit (now called CBS Paramount Television) and UPN (replaced by The CW Television Network co-owned with rival Time Warner's Warner Bros.) are part of CBS Corporation, as was Paramount Parks prior to its June 2006 sale by CBS to the Cedar Fair Entertainment Company. Paramount Pictures is now lumped in with MTV, BET, and the New Viacom's other highly profitable cable channels.

Through a series of mergers and acquistitions, many of Paramount's early cartoons, shorts, and feature films are owned by numerous entities. The cartoons and shorts that were sold to U.M.&M. in 1956 have been reacquired by Paramount Pictures, following Viacom's purchase of Republic Pictures. EMKA/NBC Universal owns 750 of Paramount's pre-1948 sound features, except for a few feature films that either ended up in U.M.&M./NTA's possession, or had been retained by Paramount due to other rights issues (such as The Miracle of Morgan's Creek). The Popeye cartoons and Superman cartoons are owned by Time Warner's subsidiaries, Turner Entertainment and DC Comics (respectively). The rest of the cartoons that were sold to Harvey Comics from 1951-1962 are owned by Classic Media. As for distribution of the material Paramount itself still owns, it has been split in half, with Paramount themselves owning theatrical rights, while what became CBS Paramount Television handles television distribution (under the CBS license).

Paramount is the last major film studio located in Hollywood proper. When Paramount moved to its present home in 1927, it was in the heart of the film community. Since then, former next-door neighbor RKO closed up shop in 1957; Warner Brothers (whose old Sunset Boulevard studio was sold to Paramount in 1949 as a home for KTLA) moved to Burbank in 1930; Columbia joined Warners in Burbank in 1973 then moved again to Culver City in 1989; and the Pickford-Fairbanks-Goldwyn-United Artists lot, after a lively history, has been turned into a post-production and music-scoring facility for Warners, known simply as "The Lot". For a time the semi-industrial neighborhood around Paramount was in decline, but has now come back. The recently refurbished studio has come to symbolize Hollywood for many visitors, and its studio tour is a popular attraction.

The most successful period for Paramount in recent times was the administration of Jonathan Dolgen, chairman and Sherry Lansing, president. Under Dolgen and Lansing the studio had an almost ten year unbroken track record of success including 6 of Paramount's ten highest grossing films ever and the highest grossing film of all time, Titanic. (Although Titanic was primarily produced by 20th Century Fox.) The studio won Best Picture Academy Awards for Titanic, Braveheart and Forrest Gump, while also releasing such films as Saving Private Ryan and the hugely successful Mission Impossible series of films. During their administration Paramount tripled the size of its TV library through the acquisitions of Spelling TV, Republic and Worldvision; they doubled the profits of their music publishing division Famous Music, expanded the international theater group UCI to 13 foreign countries and took the Famous Players theater circuit in Canada from 25% to 53% market share. Dolgen and Lansing also introduced the DVD, led the formation of the Digital Cinema Initiative standards group for the future of digital film and launched the first ever online movie distribution company, Movielink. Dolgen is credited with pioneering the use of off-balance sheet financing for movies while at Columbia Pictures and at Paramount his team secured over $4 billion in financings this way. Dolgen and Lansing were replaced by Brad Grey and Gail Berman (former TV executives) in 2004 when the decision was made to split Viacom into two companies which led to a dismantling of the Paramount Studio/Paramount TV infrastructure. Paramount today at Viacom consists only of the movie studio and does not include these other businesses or the TV catalog and production.

On December 11, 2005, Paramount announced that it had purchased DreamWorks SKG in a deal worth $1.6 billion. The announcement was made by Brad Grey, chairman and CEO of Paramount Pictures, who noted that enhancing Paramount's pipeline of pictures is a "key strategic objective in restoring Paramounts stature as a leader in filmed entertainment." The agreement does not include DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc., the most profitable part of the company that went public last year. Under the deal, Paramount is required to distribute the Dreamworks animated films for a small fee that covers Paramount's out of pocket costs, including the Shrek franchise. The deal closed on February 6, 2006. This acquisition was seen at the time as a stopgap measure as Brad Grey had been unsuccessful in assembling sufficient films for production and distribution and the Dreamworks films would fill the gap.

[edit] The logo

The distinctively pyramidal Paramount mountain has been the company's logo since its inception and is the oldest surviving Hollywood film logo. Legend has it that the mountain is based on a doodle made by W. W. Hodkinson during a meeting with Adolph Zukor. It is said to be based on the memories of his childhood in Utah. Some claim that Utah's Ben Lomond is the mountain Hodkinson doodled, and that Peru's Artesonraju^[1] is the mountain in the live-action logo.

The logo began as a charcoal rendering of the mountain ringed with twenty-four superimposed stars. The logo originally had twenty-four stars, as a tribute to the then current system of contracts for actors, since Paramount had twenty-four stars signed at the time. In 1953, the logo was redesigned as a matte painting. In the 1970s the logo was simplified and the number of stars was changed to twenty-two. The logo was replaced in 1987, Paramount's 75th Anniversary, by a version created by Apogee, Inc. with a computer generated lake and stars. For Paramount's 90th anniversary in 2002, a new, completely computer-generated logo was created.^[2]^[3]

[edit] Notable Paramount films

[edit] 1910s

His Last Dollar (1914)

The 1914-1923 version of the Paramount logo

[edit] 1920s

The 1923-1927 version of the Paramount logo

The Ten Commandments (1923, with Technicolor sequences)
Wanderer of the Wasteland (1924, Paramount's first all-Technicolor feature)
Hotel Imperial (1927)
Wings (1927)
The Wedding March (1928, with Technicolor sequences)

Redskin (1928, with Technicolor sequences)
Interference (1928, Paramount's first all-talkie)
Applause (1929)
The Love Parade (1929)
The Cocoanuts (1929)
Glorifying the American Girl (1929, with Technicolor sequences)

[edit] 1930s

The Vagabond King (1930, Paramount's first all-Technicolor talkie)

The 1927-1930 version of the Paramount logo

Follow Thru (1930, Paramount's second all-Technicolor talkie)
Morocco (1930)
Paramount on Parade (1930, with Technicolor sequences)
Animal Crackers (1930)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)

The 1931-1941 version of the Paramount logo

One Hour with You (1932)
The Sign of the Cross (1932)
Trouble in Paradise (1932)
Shanghai Express (1932)
Love Me Tonight (1932)
She Done Him Wrong (1933)
Duck Soup (1933)
Cleopatra (1934)
It's a Gift (1934)
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)
The Jungle Princess (1936)
The Plainsman (1936)
The General Died at Dawn (1937)
Easy Living (1937)
Union Pacific (1939)
Beau Geste (1939)
Midnight (1939)
Monkey Business(1931)

[edit] 1940s

The Lady Eve (1941)
Hold Back the Dawn (1941)
Sullivan's Travels (1941)
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
The Palm Beach Story (1942)
Road to Morocco (1942)
This Gun for Hire (1942)
Holiday Inn (1942)
So Proudly We Hail! (1943)
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Going My Way (1944)
The Lost Weekend (1945)
The Blue Dahlia (1946)
To Each His Own (1946)
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
My Favorite Brunette (1947)
Road to Rio (1947)
The Big Clock (1948)
Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
The Paleface (1948)
The Heiress (1949)
My Friend Irma (1949)
Samson and Delilah (1949)

[edit] 1950s

The 1953-1966 version of the Paramount logo.

Shane (1953)
Stalag 17 (1953)
The War of the Worlds (1953)
The Country Girl (1954)
Rear Window (1954)
White Christmas (1954)
Sabrina (1954)
The Rose Tattoo (1955)
To Catch a Thief (1955)
The Desperate Hours (1955)
The Trouble with Harry (1955)
The Rainmaker (1956)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
War and Peace (1956)
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
Funny Face (1957)
The Tin Star (1957)
Teacher's Pet (1958)
Vertigo (1958)
The Blob (1958)

[edit] 1960s

Psycho (1960, distributor only, now owned by Universal Pictures)
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
Blue Hawaii (1961)
One-Eyed Jacks (1961)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
Hud (1963)
The Nutty Professor (1963)
Seven Days in May (1964) (distribution)
Zulu (1964) (distribution)
The Sons of Katie Elder (1965)
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)
Alfie (1966)
Seconds (1966)
Barefoot in the Park (1967)
El Dorado (1967)
Half a Sixpence (1968)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Goodbye, Columbus (1969)
The Italian Job (1969) (distribution)
Paint Your Wagon (1969)

[edit] 1970s

Darling Lili (1970)
Love Story (1970)
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970)
The Out-of-Towners (1970, plus remake in 1999)
A New Leaf (1971)
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971, distribution only, now owned by Warner Bros.)
The Godfather (1972)
Paper Moon (1973)
Save the Tiger (1973)
Chinatown (1974)
The Longest Yard (1974)
Death Wish (1974) (sequel rights are owned by Cannon films)
The Conversation (1974)
The Godfather: Part II (1974)
The Great Gatsby (1974)
The Little Prince (1974)

The 1975-1987 version of the Paramount logo.

Hustle (1975)
The Day of the Locust (1975)
Three Days of the Condor (1975)
The Bad News Bears (1976)
Bugsy Malone (1976)
The Last Tycoon (1976)
Marathon Man (1976)
King Kong (1976)
Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977)
Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown (1977)
Saturday Night Fever (1977)
Sorcerer (1977) (co-production with Universal Pictures)
Grease (1978)
Up in Smoke (1978)
Prophecy (1979)
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
Starting Over (1979)
The Warriors (1979)
Meatballs (1979)

[edit] 1980s

Airplane! (1980)
Urban Cowboy (1980)
Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (1980)
Friday the 13th (1980)
Ordinary People (1980)
Popeye (1980) (co-production with Walt Disney Productions)
Dragonslayer (1981) (co-production with Walt Disney Productions)
Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) (co-production with Lucasfilm Ltd.)
Reds (1981)
An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
48 Hrs. (1982)
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Friday the 13th Part 3 (1982)
Airplane II: The Sequel (1982)
Grease 2 (1982)
The Dead Zone (1983)
Still Smokin' (1983)
Terms of Endearment (1983)
Staying Alive (1983)
Flashdance (1983)
Trading Places (1983)
Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
Footloose (1984)
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) (co-production with Lucasfilm Ltd.)
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)
Witness (1985)

The 1987-1989 version of the Paramount logo with the Gulf+Western byline.

Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)
Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985)
Clue (1985)
Blue City (1986)
Crocodile Dundee (1986) (distribution)
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
Pretty in Pink (1986)
Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986)
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)
Top Gun (1986)
Fatal Attraction (1987)
The Untouchables (1987)
Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (1987)
Eddie Murphy Raw (1987)
The Accused (1988)
Coming to America (1988)
Crocodile Dundee II (1988) (distribution)
Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988)
The Naked Gun (1988)
Scrooged (1988)
Black Rain (1989)
Harlem Nights (1989)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) (co-production with Lucasfilm Ltd.)
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)
Major League (1989)

[edit] 1990s

Days of Thunder (1990)
Ghost (1990)
Another 48 Hrs. (1990)
The Hunt for Red October (1990)
The Godfather: Part III (1990)
The Addams Family (1991)
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991)
Regarding Henry (1991)
Patriot Games (1992)
Wayne's World (1992)
Boomerang (1992)
What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)
Addams Family Values (1993)
The Firm (1993)
Wayne's World 2 (1993)
Indecent Proposal (1993)

The 1995-2002 version of the Paramount logo.

Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult (1994)
Forrest Gump (1994)
Beverly Hills Cop III (1994)
Clear and Present Danger (1994)
Star Trek: Generations (1994)
Nobody's Fool (1994)
Andre (1994)
Lassie (1994)
Braveheart (1995)
The Indian in the Cupboard (1995) (co-produced with Columbia Pictures; Paramount handled the theatrical distribution while Columbia handled its home video release and distribution)
Clueless (1995)
Tommy Boy (1995)
Congo (1995)
Virtuosity (1995)
Vampire in Brooklyn (1995)
Home for the Holidays (1995)
Sabrina (1995)
Primal Fear (1996)
Black Sheep (1996)
Beavis and Butt-head Do America (1996)
Harriet the Spy (1996) (with Nickelodeon Movies)
Escape From L.A. (1996)
Mission: Impossible (1996)
The First Wives Club (1996)
The Ghost and the Darkness (1996)
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
The Evening Star (1996)
The Phantom (1996)
The Relic (1997)
Face/Off (1997)
Good Burger (1997) (with Nickelodeon Movies)
Breakdown (1997)
In & Out (1997)
Night Falls on Manhattan (1997)
The Saint (1997)
Kiss the Girls (1997)
The Rainmaker (1997)
Event Horizon (1997)
Private Parts (1997)
Titanic (1997) (co-production with 20th Century Fox)
Deep Impact (1998) (with DreamWorks SKG)
Saving Private Ryan (1998) (with DreamWorks SKG)
The Truman Show (1998)
The Rugrats Movie (1998) (and its two sequels in 2000 & 2003) (with Nickelodeon Movies)
Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)
Snake Eyes (1998)
Dead Man on Campus (1998) (co-production with MTV Films)
Payback (1999) (Warner Bros. handed some international territories)
Varsity Blues (1999)
200 Cigarettes (1999)
Election (1999)
The Wood (1999)
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999) (co-production with Warner Bros., which handled distribution outside of the USA)
The General's Daughter (1999)
Runaway Bride (1999)
Superstar (1999)
Sleepy Hollow (1999) (co-production with Mandalay Pictures)
Angela's Ashes (1999) (co-production with Universal Pictures)
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) (co-production with Miramax Films)
Double Jeopardy (1999)

[edit] 2000s

Snow Day (2000) (with Nickelodeon Movies)
Rules of Engagement (2000)
Shaft (2000)
What Women Want (2000)
Rugrats in Paris: The Movie (2000) (with Nickelodeon Movies)
Mission: Impossible II (2000)
The Original Kings of Comedy (2000) (with MTV Films)
Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001) (with Nickelodeon Movies).
Save the Last Dance (2001) (with MTV Films)
Rat Race (2001)
Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles (2001)
Along Came a Spider (2001)
Down to Earth (2001) (co-production with Village Roadshow Pictures)
Enemy at the Gates (2001) (co-production with Mandalay Pictures)
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) (Based on the video games)
The Score (2001) (co-production with Mandalay Pictures)
Zoolander (2001) (co-production with Village Roadshow Pictures and VH1 Films)
Vanilla Sky (2001)
Pootie Tang (2001) (with MTV Films)
Domestic Disturbance (2001)
Hardball (2001)
Abandon (2002, with Spyglass Entertainment)
Orange County (2002) (with MTV Films)
We Were Soldiers (2002)
Crossroads (2002) (with MTV Films)
Clockstoppers (2002) (with Nickelodeon Movies)
Changing Lanes (2002)
Hey Arnold!: The Movie (2002) (with Nickelodeon Movies)
The Sum of All Fears (2002)
The Hours (2002)
Jackass: The Movie (2002) (with MTV Films)
Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)
The Wild Thornberrys Movie (2002) (with Nickelodeon Movies)
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003)
School of Rock (2003)
The Core (2003)
Rugrats Go Wild! (2003) (with Nickelodeon Movies)
The Fighting Temptations (2003) (with MTV Films)
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003)
The Italian Job (2003)
Paycheck (2003)
Timeline (2003)
Tupac: Resurrection (2003) (co-production with MTV Films)
The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
The Stepford Wives (2004)
Team America: World Police (2004)
Mean Girls (2004)
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004)

Whimsical Paramount Polo Team Logo led by Tom McGrath during his tenure at Paramount

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004) (with Dreamworks SKG and Nickelodeon Movies)
Napoleon Dynamite (2004) (co-production with Fox Searchlight Pictures and MTV Films)
Without a Paddle (2004)
Collateral (2004) (with DreamWorks SKG)
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004) (distribution)
Alfie (2004)
The Perfect Score (2004, with MTV Films and Spyglass Entertainment)
Elizabethtown (2005)
Coach Carter (2005) (co-production with MTV Films)
The Honeymooners (2005)
War of the Worlds (2005) (co-production with DreamWorks SKG and Amblin Entertainment)
The Longest Yard (2005) (with Columbia Pictures and MTV Films)
The Weather Man (2005)
Yours, Mine and Ours (2005) (with MGM, Nickelodeon Movies and Columbia Pictures)
Four Brothers (2005)
Aeon Flux (2005) (co-production with Lakeshore Entertainment and MTV Films)
Sahara (2005)
Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005)
Bad News Bears (2005) (remake of the 1976 film)
Failure to Launch (2006)
Last Holiday (2006)
Mission: Impossible III (2006)
Over the Hedge (2006) (distributor, produced by DreamWorks Animation)
Nacho Libre (2006) (with Nickelodeon Movies)
Barnyard (2006) (with Nickelodeon Movies)
World Trade Center (2006)
Flushed Away (2006) (distributor, produced by DreamWorks Animation)
Charlotte's Web (2006) (with Walden Media, The Kerner Entertainment Company and Nickelodeon Movies)
Jackass Number Two (2006)
Dreamgirls (2006) (co-production with DreamWorks SKG)
Freedom Writers (2007) (with MTV Films)
Zodiac (2007) (co-production with Warner Bros.)
Beowulf (2007) (with Warner Bros. Pictures and Imagemovers)
Next (2007) (distributor, produced by Revolution Studios)
Hot Rod (2007) (filming)
Shrek the Third (2007) (distributor, produced by DreamWorks Animation)
Transformers (2007) (with DreamWorks)
Interstellar (2008)
Iron Man (2008) (with Marvel Entertainment)
Indiana Jones IV (2008)
Star Trek (2008)
Sunset Boulevard (2008)