Paramount Pictures

Peak-logo film company

Paramount Pictures is one of the major American film studios, founded in the early twentieth century and headquartered in Hollywood.

The name has become shorthand for mainstream commercial filmmaking: a Paramount picture.

The studio's logo features a snow-capped mountain ringed by stars.

branding

stars

Luminous celestial bodies

Viacom · CBS · corporate · streaming · library · licensing · merchandising · intellectual property

releases

blockbuster

Enormously successful entertainment property

megahit · box office · Titanic · Top Gun · Indiana Jones · Mission Impossible · Transformers · Star Trek · Grease · Chinatown

legacy

Golden Age

Legendary period of perfection

founders · visionaries · pioneers · filmography · milestones · influence · innovation · restoration · preservation · anniversary

production

soundstage

Indoor film production space

casting · director · producer · screenwriter · cinematographer · editing · costume design · makeup artist · gaffer · key grip

Categories
Opposites
major studio vs. independent film

Paramount Pictureshome movie

Amateur domestic recording

independent film · indie cinema · guerrilla filmmaking · student film · arthouse cinema

historic Hollywood studio rivalry

Paramount PicturesMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Major film studio

Columbia Pictures · United Artists

commercial entertainment vs. art cinema

Paramount Picturesexperimental film

Unconventional artistic motion picture

avant-garde cinema · art house cinema · educational film

Family

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Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Mostly American · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G