Paramount Pictures Corporation

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Hilton Hotels Partners with Paramount Pictures for Upcoming Film Up in the Air
Centre Daily Times (State College, Pa.) | 13 days 20 hours 22 minutes ago
MCLEAN, Va. Hilton Hotels is ready for its close-up. In anticipation of one of the most talked about film releases this year, the hotelier is giving guests a chance to live the life of a global traveler with the Hilton Up in the Air Sweepstakes celebrating Paramount Pictures’ upcoming film about a frequent business traveler whose life on the road is threatened just as he is on the cusp of reaching ten million frequent flyer miles and after he’s met the frequent-traveler woman of his dreams. ...


Surprise hit 'Paranormal Activity' scares money out of moviegoers
CNN | 41 days 16 hours 11 minutes ago
The new horror movie "Paranormal Activity" could be filling movie studio marketing departments with fear.


Eyepopping, in Many Ways
New York Times, The | 14 days 10 hours 25 minutes ago
LOS ANGELES Can a movie studio make money on a film based on an original and unfamiliar story, with no Hollywood superstars, a vanishing DVD market and a price tag approaching $500 million?


A Movies Budget Pops From the Screen
New York Times, The | 13 days 4 hours 17 minutes ago
LOS ANGELES Can a movie studio make money on a film based on an original and unfamiliar story, with no Hollywood superstars, a vanishing DVD market and a price tag approaching $500 million?


A Budget That Pops From the Screen
New York Times, The | 14 days 11 hours 30 minutes ago
LOS ANGELES Can a movie studio make money on a film based on an original and unfamiliar story, with no Hollywood superstars, a vanishing DVD market and a price tag approaching $500 million?


Disney's Key to the Digital Kingdom - InternetNews.com
InternetNews.com | 20 days 20 hours 52 minutes ago
The entertainment behemoth is looking to the cloud for its answer to the digital distribution dilemma.


iiNet signs deal with courtroom rival
Australian, The | 41 days 7 hours 16 minutes ago
IINET is weeks away from launching a new online entertainment service for kids after it signed a distribution deal with one of the companies pursuing it for copyright infringement in the NSW Federal Court.


Gold Derby nuggets: Hit docs left off Oscars long list | Crazy journey for 'Crazy Heart' | 'Lost' returns Feb. 2
Los Angeles Times | 3 days 12 hours 17 minutes ago
Tom O'Neil has the inside track on Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and all the award shows.


A grand studio dream runs headlong into reality
Boston Globe, The | 8 days 1 hour 36 minutes ago
For Plymouth Rock team, money woes, questions crowding out hopes


'Couples Retreat' Is Surprise Hit at Weekend Box Office
CNBC | 42 days 13 hours 34 minutes ago
The critically maligned Vince Vaughn comedy "Couples Retreat" easily took the top spot at the weekend box office in North America Sunday, helped by the absence of any other new releases.


Lessons from The Godfather - thestar.com
Toronto Star, The | 29 days 4 hours 3 minutes ago
So you've been thrown out of high school after torching the principal's car and you're thinking to yourself, "How do I turn my sociopathic tendencies into employment opportunities?"


TV: It's prime time for volunteerism
USA TODAY | 41 days 13 hours 40 minutes ago
Even before TV's Stand Up to Cancer special raised more than $100 million for research with a star-studded, prime-time broadcast in September 2008, Hollywood and its leading charitable arm, the Entertainment Industry Foundation, were hunting for another major initiative to support.


Weekly global technology agenda: Gartner Symposium, Web 2.0, Windows 7
Independent (London), The | 34 days 7 hours 47 minutes ago
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Company Overview


Company: Paramount Pictures Corporation
Industry: Motion Picture Production & Distribution
Website: http://www.paramount.com

When entertainment is paramount, many people turn to Paramount Pictures Corporation. A subsidiary of media firm Viacom, the company produces and distributes films through Paramount Pictures (Iron Man) and Paramount Vantage ("Arctic Tale"). It maintains the Paramount Pictures library of some 3,500 films, including classic hits from the Star Trek, Godfather, and "Indiana Jones" series, and releases about a dozen new titles annually. Paramount Pictures distributes movies on video and DVD through Paramount Home Entertainment. The studio ceased to own former subsidiary DreamWorks in 2008. Paramount was founded as Famous Players Film Company by Adolph Zukor in 1912; it was acquired by Viacom in 1994.


Key Numbers

Sales in U.S. Dollars (mil.) 5,205.6 (2007)
One-year % Growth in Sales 28.5 (2007)
Net Income in U.S. Dollars (mil.) 0 ()
One-year % Growth in Net Income 0.0 ()
Number of Employees 0 (0)
One-year % Growth in Number of Employees 0.0 (0)
Fiscal Year-End December