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• Founded in 1912, Paramount Pictures is America's oldest running movie studio, and also one of the largest.

• Fast Facts

  1. Annual revenue (2005): $2.9 billion
  2. Founder: Adolph Zukor
  3. Year established: 1912
  4. Industry: Motion pictures
  5. Phone: (323) 956-5000
  6. HQ: Los Angeles, CA
  7. Chairman/CEO: Brad Grey
  8. CFO: Mark Badagliacca
  9. COO: Frederick D. Huntsberry
  10. Parent Company: Viacom
  11. Over 1,000 films, including: Titanic, the Indiana Jones series, Braveheart, Forrest Gump, The Ten Commandments, and The Godfather films

• Key Dates

  1. 1912: Zukor founds Famous Players Film Company to distribute Queen Elizabeth
  2. 1916: Famous Players merges with Jesse L. Laskey Company, production and distribution companies combine into Paramount Pictures
  3. 1926: Paramount moves into new Hollywood studio
  4. 1966: Acquired by Gulf+Western Industries
  5. 1994: Merges with Viacom
  6. 1997: Titanic becomes highest-grossing film of all time

• Failed Financing Deal

  According to reports on July 15, 2008, Paramount dropped out of a $450 million deal with Germany's Deutsche Bank. The failure of a deal that would have provided 25 percent of the studio's budget was seen as a symptom of the U.S. credit crunch that began in 2007.The New York Times: Paramount Drops Out of Financing Deal (July 15 2008)

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