Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures
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Formerly: Famous Players Film Company (1912–1916) Famous Players–Lasky Corporation (1916–1927) Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation (1927–1930) Paramount Publix Corporation (1930–1935) Paramount Pictures Inc. (1935–1950) Type: Division Founded: May 8, 1912 Industry: Film Founder(s): William Wadsworth Hodkinson Adolph Zukor Jesse L. Lasky Headquarters: 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, California, U.S. Key people: Brian Robbins (chairman and CEO) Parent: Independent (1912–1966) Gulf+Western (1966–1989) Paramount Communications (1989–1994) Viacom (1994–2006, 2005–2019) Paramount Global (2019–present) Divisions: Paramount Home Entertainment Paramount Players Paramount Animation Paramount Music Subsidiaries: Miramax (49%) United International Pictures (50%) Rede Telecine Website: https://www.paramountpictures.com/

Paramount Pictures (also known as Paramount Pictures Corporation) is an American film studio owned by Paramount Global, which in turn is a subsidiary of National Amusements, Inc. While unofficial, SpongeBob SquarePants the main protagonist of the eponymous Nickelodeon animated series, is often seen as the company's mascot.

Why Its Mountain Rises

1. They have an amazing opening logo (the mountain), which evolved greatly throughout the years.
2. During the many films made by them, there is great acting.
3. They managed to create many great movies and franchises like Friday the 13th, The Godfather, Forrest Gump, Indiana Jones, Top Gun, Jimmy Neutron (for Nickelodeon), A Quiet Place, Smile, etc.
   • Sometimes one of their films helps save a franchise, like Sonic the Hedgehog, from Sega’s famous video game series of the same name.
4. For a majority of their films, they have an awesome soundtrack.
5. Most of their characters are very memorable and lovable.
6. It is one of the most successful American film studios along with Disney, 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros., Sony Pictures and Universal.
7. They also managed to have some great studio units, like Nickelodeon Movies, Miramax, MTV Films, and Comedy Central Films.
8. They managed to make some good movies based on their units' TV shows, like:
   • Beavis and Butt-Head Do America
   • the first two Rugrats movies,
   • The Spongebob SquarePants Movie and its two sequels,
   • the Mission: Impossible movies
   • some of the Star Trek movies
   • The Wild Thornberrys Movie
   • Dora and the Lost City of Gold
   • and South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut.
9. Their divisions, Paramount Vantage, Paramount Animation, Famous Studios (renamed Paramount Cartoon Studios in 1956), and Paramount Players (despite the latter two not being the best) are decent and great.
10. Sometimes, they can take any criticism for other ones, unlike Square Enix, Mattel, 20th Century Fox, or even Sega in the mid-2000's. For example, when the first trailer of Sonic movie premiered and received a massive negative reaction, Fowler announced that the film would be delayed until February 14, 2020, to get "a little more time to make Sonic just right".
    • Another example is that when fans have outcry that Colleen O'Shaughnessey, Tails' voice actress, is absent in the poster, they decided to edit the poster to include the names on the top and the billing block, providing that they can take another criticism as well.
11. Speaking of which, Paramount is considerably better at avoiding security leaks than Sony was in 2014, plus they do less quantity over quality than Sony did back in the early to mid-2010s.
12. They made films from remakes, reboots, or sequels that the original distributor has from the first film, like Scream (2022).

Bad Qualities

1. They have had their fair share of bad movies, which is normal for a movie studio that is nearly over 100 years old. Examples of bad or mediocre Paramount films include
   • Hey Arnoldǃ The Movie,
   • The Love Guru
   • Fun Size
   • The Last Airbender
   • The Rugrats Go Wild
   • Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,
   • Star Trek Vː The Final Frontier
   • Terminator Genisys
   • Terminator: Dark Fate
   • King Kong (1976)
   • Gemini Man
   • Big Top Pee-wee
   • Playing with Fire
   • Like a Boss
   • Strange Wilderness
   • Baywatch
   • the 2014 remake of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and its 2016 sequel
   • Wonder Park
   • Shrek the Third
   • Uma Fada Veio Me Visitar (2023) (they only produced the film, since Imagem Filmes is the film's distributor)
   • Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
   • Transformers: Dark of the Moon
   • Transformers: Age of Extinction
   • Transformers: The Last Knight
   • On a side note, a movie they initially planned to release before being dropped from the release schedule in early 2019, The Loud House Movie (which ultimately changed distribution from Paramount to Netflix before it was finished and due to the COVID-19 pandemic), was average-received.
2. Some of their films, whether they were good or bad, were box office bombs.
3. They fired Jason Blum from the Paranormal Activity series for no good reason.
4. Like its parent company, they can be overprotective of their properties, notably SpongeBob SquarePants.

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