Paramount Pictures

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Paramount Pictures Corporation, commonly known as Paramount Pictures or simply Paramount, is an American film studio and distribution arm of Skydance Motion Pictures, itself a division of Skydance. Founded on May 8, 1912, it is the sixth-oldest global film studio and the second-oldest in the United States behind Universal Pictures, and it is, along with its sister studio Warner Bros. Pictures, one of the "Big Four" film studios. In 1916, film producer Adolph Zukor put 24 actors and actresses under contract and honored each with a star on the logo. In 1967, the number of stars was reduced to 22 and their hidden meaning was dropped. In 2014, Paramount Pictures became the first major Hollywood studio to distribute all of its films in digital form only. The most commercially successful film franchises from Paramount Pictures include Star Trek, Indiana Jones, Top Gun, Mission: Impossible, and Transformers. Additionally, the studio's library includes many notable films such as The Greatest Show...

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