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Paramount Pictures Corporation (commonly known as Paramount Pictures or simply Paramount, and formerly known as Famous Players-Lasky Corporation) is a film studio, television production company and motion picture distributor, consistently ranked as one of the "Big Six" film studios of Hollywood.

In 2014, Paramount Pictures was the first major Hollywood studio to distribute all its films in digital-form only

Paramount is the fifth oldest surviving film studio in the world after Gaumont Film Company (1895), Pathé (1896), Nordisk Film, (1906), and Universal Studios.

It is the last major film studio still headquartered in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles.

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.

On December 11, 2005, The Paramount Motion Pictures Group announced that it had purchased DreamWorks SKG (which was co-founded by former Paramount executive Jeffrey Katzenberg) 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 Paramount's stature as a leader in filmed entertainment

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)