Paramount Pictures is a film studio, television production company and motion picture distributor, consistently ranked as one of the "Big Six" film studios of Hollywood. Paramount Film insdustry was founded in 1912 as Famous Players Film company but then went on to become Paramount Pictures in 1914 by Adolph Zukor. It is based in Hollywood, California, USA.
To date, Paramount Pictures have made 153 movies since 1912. It has distributed several successful film series, such as Transformers, Mission: Impossible, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Indiana Jones, The Godfather, Star Trek, Jack Ryan, Jackass, The Bad News Bears, Beverly Hills Cop, "Crocodile" Dundee, Paranormal Activity, Friday the 13th and G.I. Joe. It's the world's fourth oldest major film studio. In 2014, Paramount Pictures was the first major Hollywood studio to distribute all its films in digital-form only.
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Paramount Pictures is noteworthy for having five films that have surpassed the $1-billion-mark in wordwide box office sales:
- Titanic (1997 - $1,843,201,268)
- Marvel’s The Avengers (2012 - $1,511,757,910)
- Iron Man 3 (2013 - $1,125,439,994)
- Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011 - $1,123,794,079)
- Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014 - $1,065,153,989)
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