Through the combined efforts of Famous Music and the studio over ten "Broadway" musicals were created including Irving Berlin's White Christmas, Footloose, Saturday Night Fever, Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard among others. [57] During this period the studio acquired some 30 TV stations to support the UPN network as well acquiring and merging in the assets of Republic Pictures, Spelling Television and Viacom Television, almost doubling the size of the studio's television library. The words to the fanfare, originally sung in the 1930 film, were "Proud of the crowd that will never be loud, it's Paramount on Parade.". The driving force behind Paramount's rise was Zukor. LAPD HQ tweeted that police were first in the area of Plymouth and Melrose, near the Paramount Pictures lot, around 10 p.m. to arrest a sexual assault suspect, but … Paramount was hampered by its minority stake in the DuMont Television Network. While in Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Russia, Spain and Switzerland, Universal took over and Paramount would build its own distribution operations there. Wilshire Court Productions (named for a side street in Los Angeles) produced television films that aired on the USA Networks, and later for other networks. On February 8, 2010, Viacom repurchased Soros' controlling stake in DreamWorks' library of films released before 2005 for around $400 million. [94] On December 12, the deal was called off. The company's international arm, United International Pictures (UIP), was the dominant distributor internationally for ten straight years representing Paramount, Universal and MGM. shoutout! [1] It is the last major film studio still headquartered in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles. This classic of American television was on air between 1957 and 1963, giving the viewers an insight into the wholesome lives of Theodore 'Beaver' Cleaver, his brother Wally and his parents Ward and June. Police hunt armed suspect at Paramount Pictures studio lot in Los Angeles. Eventually, Zukor shed most of his early partners; the Frohman brothers, Hodkinson and Goldwyn were out by 1917 while Lasky hung on until 1932, when, blamed for the near-collapse of Paramount in the Depression years, he too was tossed out. [15], Paramount cartoons produced by Fleischer Studios continued to be successful, with characters such as Betty Boop and Popeye the Sailor becoming widely successful. This decision broke up Adolph Zukor's creation, with the theater chain being split into a new company, United Paramount Theaters, and effectively brought an end to the classic Hollywood studio system. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer would become a partner in the mid-1970s. On January 19, 2017, Shanghai Film Group Corp. and Huahua Media said they would finance at least 25% of all Paramount Pictures movies over a three-year period. [27] For all intents and purposes, this was the end of DuMont, though it lingered on until 1956. Such aged leadership was incapable of keeping up with the changing times, and in 1966, a sinking Paramount was sold to Charles Bluhdorn's industrial conglomerate, Gulf + Western Industries Corporation. [30], By the early 1960s, Paramount's future was doubtful. Independent company Hollywood Classics represents Paramount with the theatrical distribution of all the films produced by the various motion picture divisions of CBS over the years, as a result of the Viacom/CBS merger. [53] The most successful of these films, Titanic, a joint partnership with 20th Century Fox, and Lightstorm Entertainment became the highest-grossing film up to that time, grossing over $1.8 billion worldwide. Paramount Pictures was not connected to either Paramount Records (1910s-1935) or ABC-Paramount Records (1955–66) until it purchased the rights to use the name (but not the latter's catalog) in the late 1960s. [76] The first release was The Devil Inside, a movie with a budget of about US$1 million. In 1970, Paramount teamed with Universal Studios to form Cinema International Corporation, a new company that would distribute films by the two studios outside the United States. A gripping, character-driven thriller based on the 2012 New York Times best-selling novel of the same name, and starring Chris Evans, Michelle Dockery, Jaeden Martell, Cherry Jones, Pablo Schreiber, Betty Gabriel and Sakina Jaffrey. Viacom also sold its stake in the USA Networks to Universal in 1997, and the channels came under the ownership of Universal's successor, NBCUniversal, which still retained those holdings as of late July 2013. Seriously, there were so many Reds boxes, for in 1981 Paramount’s identity was 195-minute films about the Russian Revolution. [20] Paramount Pictures Corporation was formed to be the production distribution company, with the 1,500-screen theater chain handed to the new United Paramount Theaters on December 31, 1949. You Wear It Well: The Uniforms of Star Trek, How Star Trek Adventures Connected Old Friends in a New Way, first time it’s been mentioned on StarTrek.com, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. By acquiring the successful Balaban & Katz chain in 1926, Zukor gained the services of Barney Balaban (who would eventually become Paramount's president in 1936), his brother A. J. Balaban (who would eventually supervise all stage production nationwide and produce talkie shorts), and their partner Sam Katz (who would run the Paramount-Publix theatre chain in New York City from the thirty-five-story Paramount Theatre Building on Times Square). Viacom and Paramount had planned to merge as early as 1989.[43]. In 1940, Paramount agreed to a government-instituted consent decree: block booking and "pre-selling" (the practice of collecting up-front money for films not yet in production) would end. A few years earlier, the federal regulator had placed a five-station cap on all television networks: no network was allowed to own more than five VHF television stations. In fact, archival access was the main reason I’d been willing to spend money on the VIP Tour in the first place. Under our new leadership team, we continue to make progress — including ensuring representation in front of and behind the camera in upcoming films such as Dora the Explorer, Instant Family, Bumblebee, and Limited Partners – and welcome the opportunity to build and strengthen relationships with the Latino creative community further. With the separation of production and exhibition forced by the U.S. Supreme Court, Paramount Pictures Inc. was split in two. The distributor planned ten movies with budgets of $100,000 each. A newer, more realistic-looking logo debuted in 1953 for Paramount films made in 3D. Paramount Television launched Wilshire Court Productions in conjunction with USA Networks, before the latter was renamed NBCUniversal Cable, in 1989. ", "The Paramount Theater Monopoly: The History of United Detroit Theaters", "Cohen Buys Hughes TV Network for 3rd Time", "Fire destroys sets, stages at Paramount", "Gulf & Western Wants Buyer for Finance Division : Paramount's Parent Plans to Change Name, Focus on Entertainment, Publishing", "Executives Say That Viacom Has Won Paramount Battle", "Viacom to Name Jonathan Dolgen New Paramount Studio Head : Hollywood: The Sony Pictures executive will oversee movie and TV operations in a deal that is expected to be announced today. HISTORY. Bellator Returning This July From Paramount Studio Lot. That same year, the company launched a $12.2 billion hostile bid to acquire Time Inc. in an attempt to end a stock-swap merger deal between Time and Warner Communications. [72], Also, in 2007, Paramount sold another one of its "heritage" units, Famous Music, to Sony/ATV Music Publishing (best known for publishing many songs by The Beatles, and for being co-owned by Michael Jackson), ending a nearly-eight-decade run as a division of Paramount, being the studio's music publishing arm since the period when the entire company went by the name "Famous Players. [7], Because Zukor believed in stars, he signed and developed many of the leading early stars, including Mary Pickford, Marguerite Clark, Pauline Frederick, Douglas Fairbanks, Gloria Swanson, Rudolph Valentino, and Wallace Reid. More than 60 protesters attended, while chanting "Latinos excluded, time to be included!". CBS Entertainment | This site and its contents ® & © 2021 CBS Studios Inc. © 2021 CBS Television Distribution and CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. Other examples are the Star Trek film series and a string of films starring comedian Eddie Murphy like Trading Places, Coming to America and Beverly Hills Cop and its sequels. EMKA's/Universal Television's library includes the five Paramount Marx Brothers films, most of the Bob Hope–Bing Crosby Road to... pictures, and other classics such as Trouble in Paradise, Shanghai Express, She Done Him Wrong, Sullivan's Travels, The Palm Beach Story, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Double Indemnity, The Lost Weekend, and The Heiress. It was reworked in early-to-mid 1954 for Paramount films made in. [75], In March 2010, Paramount founded Insurge Pictures, an independent distributor of "micro budget" films. [21] Also Paramount launched its own network, Paramount Television Network, in 1948 through its television unit, Television Productions, Inc.[22], Paramount management planned to acquire additional owned-and-operated stations ("O&Os"); the company applied to the FCC for additional stations in San Francisco, Detroit, and Boston. Richard A. Whiting and Leo Robin composed the score for the film; Maurice Chevalier starred and sung the most famous song from the film, "Louise". In our legendary Archive facilities receive a hands-on look at props and set items from past productions. "[58] McGrath also headed up Paramount's initiative for the creation and launch of the Blu-ray Disc. Paramount Studios offers tours of their studios. [3] The company's headquarters and studios are located at 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, California, United States. [23] According to television historian William Boddy, "Paramount's checkered antitrust history" helped convince the FCC that Paramount controlled DuMont. Hodkinson and actor, director, producer Hobart Bosworth had started production of a series of Jack London movies. The studio's backlot features numerous blocks of façades that depict a number of New York locales, such as "Washington Square", "Brooklyn", and "Financial District". On October 30, 2019, I went on the Paramount VIP Studio Tour. The 2-hour Studio Tour offers, as the name implies, a regular tour of the studio. In 1951, Paramount bought a stake in International Telemeter, an experimental pay TV service which operated with a coin inserted into a box. The Master Plan for Paramount Studios in Hollywood was prepared to optimize the physical development of the historical studio lot, as the basis for increased levels of business and revenues, while improving the quality of the physical environment. One Fleischer series, Screen Songs, featured live-action music stars under contract to Paramount hosting sing-alongs of popular songs. "[125][126][127], The NHMC protested at the Paramount Pictures lot on August 25. Enter the email address associated with your account and we'll send you a link to reset your password. However, the television division would be playing catch-up for over a decade after Diller's departure in 1984 before launching its own television network – UPN – in 1995. Paramount has outright video distribution to the aforementioned CBS library with some exceptions; less-demanded content is usually released manufactured-on-demand by CBS themselves or licensed to Visual Entertainment Inc. Until 2009, the video rights to My Fair Lady were with original theatrical distributor Warner Bros., under license from CBS (the video license to that film has now reverted to Paramount). Basil E. Frankweiler. Paramount also gained the ownership rights to the Rysher library, after Viacom acquired the rights from Cox Enterprises. [96] Reports say that CBS and Viacom reportedly set August 8 as an informal deadline for reaching an agreement to recombine the two media companies. The After Dark Tour involves a tour of the Holly… [42], In 1993, Sumner Redstone's entertainment conglomerate Viacom made a bid for a merger with Paramount Communications; this quickly escalated into a bidding war with Barry Diller's QVC. "[73], In early 2008, Paramount partnered with Los Angeles-based developer FanRocket to make short scenes taken from its film library available to users on Facebook. When Paramount moved to its present home in 1927, it was in the heart of the film community. As a Paramount VIP Tour Guest, you will have exclusive access to private areas of the Studio operations including Sign Shop, Prop Warehouse, and Sound Stages. A damning January 2019 New York Times article pointed out that the Mountain’s studio heads might now regret letting go of Marvel as well as Blumhouse — which produced Jordan Peele’s era-defining Get Out and Us. [26] However, Paramount vetoed the offer due to antitrust concerns. Grissom from Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. In this role, Zukor reorganized the company as Paramount Pictures, Inc. and was able to successfully bring the studio out of bankruptcy. Best of all was the Enterprise’s turbolift, which everybody else kept calling the transporter for some reason. In response to the controversy, Paramount released the statement: "We recently met with NHMC in a good faith effort to see how we could partner as we further drive Paramount's culture of diversity, inclusion, and belonging. in Los Angeles. The DreamWorks trademarks remained with DreamWorks Animation when that company was spun off before the Paramount purchase, and DreamWorks Animation transferred the license to the name to the new company. The board scheduled the division for the first quarter of 2006. Nothing against theme parks or rides, mind you; but I was there for the history. Paramount also owned distribution rights to the DreamWorks Animation library of films made before 2013, and their previous distribution deal with future DWA titles expired at the end of 2012, with Rise of the Guardians. The application, called VooZoo, allows users to send movie clips to other Facebook users and to post clips on their profile pages. [54] Also during this time, three Paramount Pictures films won the Academy Award for Best Picture; Titanic, Braveheart, and Forrest Gump. [28], With the loss of the theater chain, Paramount Pictures went into a decline, cutting studio-backed production, releasing its contract players, and making production deals with independents. Lasting eleven years before being merged with The WB network to become The CW in 2006, UPN would feature many of the shows it originally produced for other networks, and would take numerous gambles on series such as Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise that would have otherwise either gone direct-to-cable or become first-run syndication to independent stations across the country (as Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: The Next Generation were). The Paramount newsreel series Paramount News ran from 1927 to 1957. In 2002, Paramount; along with Buena Vista Distribution, 20th Century Fox, Columbia TriStar Pictures Entertainment, MGM/UA Entertainment, Universal Studios, DreamWorks Pictures, Artisan Entertainment, Lions Gate Entertainment, and Warner Bros. formed the Digital Cinema Initiatives. On one wall were the dedication plaques for the Enterprises NCC-1701 (pre-refit), NCC-1701-A, NX-01, and the U.S.S Relativity from Voyager. Some claim that Utah's Ben Lomond is the mountain Hodkinson doodled, and that Peru's Artesonraju[116] is the mountain in the live-action logo, while others claim that the Italian side of Monviso inspired the logo. Please contact Guest Relations at 323-956-1777 or guest_relations@paramount.com. It was a sequel to two existing DreamWorks films, Meet the Parents (2000) and Meet the Fockers (2004). It quickly reached an agreement in principle to merge with ABC. A few years after the ruling of the United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. case in 1948, Music Corporation of America (MCA) approached Paramount offering $50 million for 750 sound feature films released prior to December 1, 1949 with payment to be spread over a period of several years. [99] On August 2, 2019, the two companies agreed to merge back into one entity,[100] which named ViacomCBS and the deal was closed on December 4, 2019. Despite some rough times, Evans held the job for eight years, restoring Paramount's reputation for commercial success with The Odd Couple, Rosemary's Baby, Love Story, The Godfather, Chinatown, and 3 Days of the Condor. The Lasky company hired as their first employee a stage director with virtually no film experience, Cecil B. DeMille, who would find a suitable site in Hollywood, near Los Angeles, for his first feature film, The Squaw Man. You park in parking lot N (gate 6) right around the corner from the main gate on Avon street. Simon and Schuster became part of the Viacom Entertainment Group emerging as the US' dominant trade book publisher. [128], On October 17, the NHMC protested at the Paramount film lot for the second time in two months, with 75 protesters attending. Paramount Studios began in 1913 in a rented horse barn near Sunset & Vine, and moved to its current location on Gower Street in 1926, into an existing studio which had been built in 1917. By subscribing to the Star Trek newsletter, which may include personalized offers from our advertising partners, you agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data collection and usage practices outlined in our Privacy Policy. These associates, made up of Michael Eisner, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Dawn Steel and Don Simpson would each go on and head up major movie studios of their own later in their careers. [70], On October 6, 2008, DreamWorks executives announced that they were leaving Paramount and relaunching an independent DreamWorks. A version of the print logo had been in use by Paramount Television since 1968. [58] DCI was created "to establish and document voluntary specifications for an open architecture for digital cinema that ensures a uniform and high level of technical performance, reliability and quality control. In 1928, Paramount began releasing Inkwell Imps, animated cartoons produced by Max and Dave Fleischer's Fleischer Studios in New York City. The colors: red, gold and blue. The division was expected to produce films based on the Viacom Media Networks properties including MTV, Nickelodeon, BET and Comedy Central. Reflecting in part the troubles of the broadcasting business, in 2006 Viacom wrote off over $18 billion from its radio acquisitions and, early that year, announced that it would split itself in two. [83] Sumner Redstone and his daughter Shari are reportedly opposed with the deal. [82], In February 2016, Viacom CEO and newly appointed chairman Philippe Dauman announced that the conglomerate is in talks to find an investor to purchase a minority stake in Paramount. Meanwhile, over in the Costume Department there was George Takei’s jacket from The Search for Spock, and Leonard Nimoy’s jacket from Star Trek (2009). Viacom split into two companies in 2006, one retaining the Viacom name (which continued to own Paramount Pictures), while another was named CBS Corporation (which now controlled Paramount Television Group, which was renamed CBS Paramount Television, now known as CBS Television Studios and worldwide distribution unit is now CBS Television Distribution and CBS Studios International, in 2006, Simon & Schuster [except for Prentice Hall and other educational units, which Viacom sold to Pearson PLC in 1998, and what's left of the original Paramount Stations Group, now known as CBS Television Stations). The split was completed in January 2006. For as much we associate Vasquez Rocks with “Arena” and its many other appearances, I had to laugh that Paramount’s “100 Years of Filming” collage relegated the franchise a small, blink-and-you’ll-miss-it picture at the bottom. The former 'Paramount House' became an overnight star and became known as the Cleaver House. The service began operating in Palm Springs, California on November 27, 1953, but due to pressure from the FCC, the service ended on May 15, 1954. Another asset of the former DreamWorks owned by Paramount is the pre-2008 DreamWorks Television library, which is currently distributed by Paramount's sister company CBS Media Ventures; it includes Spin City, High Incident, Freaks and Geeks, Undeclared and On the Lot. Paramount Studio Tour is one of few public studio tours (Warner Bros. The television division produced the dominant prime time show for the decade in Frasier as well as such long running hits as NCIS and Becker and the dominant prime time magazine show Entertainment Tonight. Legend has it that the mountain is based on a doodle made by W. W. Hodkinson during a meeting with Adolph Zukor. [69] UIP president and chief operating officer Andrew Cripps[67] was hired as Paramount Pictures International head. Note that Star Trek and Enterprise are listed as two separate projects, just like Paramount tried to do for Enterprise’s first two seasons. ... PARAMOUNT MOVIES. ", George Cheeks (CEO, CBS Entertainment Group), This page was last edited on 20 February 2021, at 00:10. However, Paramount still owns distribution and other ancillary rights to Soros and Dune films. Studio lot map of Paramount Studios. Client: Paramount Pictures. [51][52] During their administration over Paramount, the studio had an extremely successful period of films with two of Paramount's ten highest-grossing films being produced during this period. In 1983, Gulf and Western began a restructuring process that would transform the corporation from a bloated conglomerate consisting of subsidiaries from unrelated industries to a more focused entertainment and publishing company. TERMS OF USE. In March 2012, Paramount licensed their name and logo to a luxury hotel investment group which subsequently named the company Paramount Hotels and Resorts. Around the same time, Viacom bought out Spelling Entertainment, incorporating its library into that of Paramount itself. [85] The talks with Wanda were dropped. During this period, responsibility for running the studio passed from Eisner and Katzenberg to Frank Mancuso, Sr. (1984) and Ned Tanen (1984) to Stanley R. Jaffe (1991) and Sherry Lansing (1992). The notable outliers are Sanja Milkovic Hays’ costumes for Spock and Uhura from Star Trek Beyond, which happen to be my favorite Starfleet uniforms since Star Trek: Voyager. In 1916, Zukor maneuvered a three-way merger of his Famous Players, the Lasky Company, and Paramount. When ABC accepted a merger offer from UPT in 1953, DuMont quickly realized that ABC now had more resources than it could possibly hope to match. HOLLYWOOD (CBSLA) — A sexual assault suspect who was shot at by police on the Paramount Pictures studio lot in Hollywood was arrested early Monday morning following a … Paramount Pictures Paramount Studio Tour Highlights . Though its Paramount division did very well in recent years, Gulf and Western's success as a whole was translating poorly with investors. 19 Oct, 2020 07:40 AM 2 minutes to read. With only the exhibitor-owned First National as a rival, Famous Players-Lasky and its "Paramount Pictures" soon dominated the business. "High concept" pictures such as Saturday Night Fever and Grease hit big, hit hard and hit fast all over the world,[35] and Diller's television background led him to propose one of his longest-standing ideas to the board: Paramount Television Service, a fourth commercial network. In 1926, Zukor hired independent producer B. P. Schulberg, an unerring eye for new talent, to run the new West Coast operations. Paramount's private movie theater, where they hold premieres and screenings; If the shooting schedule allows it, you may get to go inside sound stages and see sets for shows. Zukor and Lasky bought Hodkinson out of Paramount, and merged the three companies into one. Nearby was this equally randomly-placed poster for Paramount’s 75th Anniversary, and those of us who owned the original VHS release of The Voyage Home got to know that anniversary logo very well. The climax of the tour as it related to Trek was the Prop Warehouse, where Nina Rota’s Godfather theme was heard more than once, and we were greeted by this sign. United Paramount Theaters was renamed ABC Theaters in 1965 and was sold to businessman Henry Plitt in 1977. As we were being led into the Set Lighting & Grip building, I glanced down a hallway and noticed an image of Kelvin-timeline Spock and Kirk! To address any antitrust concerns, MCA set up EMKA, Ltd. as a dummy corporation to sell these films to television. [24] Both DuMont and Paramount Television Network suffered as a result, with neither company able to acquire five O&Os. [91] A sequel to Awesomeness Films' To All the Boys I've Loved Before is currently in development at the studio for Netflix. [88] In June 2017, Paramount Pictures signed a deal with 20th Century Fox for distribution of its films in Italy, which took effect on September. [68] With Universal indicated that it was pulling out of the UIP Korea and started its own operation there in November 2016, Paramount agreed to have CJ Entertainment distribute there. STUDIO TOUR APP. On the foyer wall is a mosaic of past Paramount things. It is said to be based on the memories of his childhood in Utah. By the late 1920s and the early 1930s, talkies brought in a range of powerful draws: Richard Arlen, Nancy Carroll, Maurice Chevalier, Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Ruggles, Ruth Chatterton, William Powell, Mae West, Sylvia Sidney, Bing Crosby, Claudette Colbert, the Marx Brothers, W.C. Fields, Fredric March, Jack Oakie, Jeanette MacDonald (whose first two films were shot at Paramount's Astoria, New York, studio), Carole Lombard, George Raft, Miriam Hopkins, Cary Grant and Stuart Erwin, among them. I realize that they can't, in practical … It was the largest screening room on the Paramount lot until the construction of the Paramount Theater in 1993. [122] The stages where Samson and Delilah, Sunset Blvd., White Christmas, Rear Window, Sabrina, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and many other classic films were shot are still in use today. Thankfully for both my tourmates and readers of StarTrek.com, we moved on to more visually interesting areas, such as the Sign Shop. Soros Strategic Partners and Dune Entertainment II soon afterwards acquired controlling interest in live-action films released through DreamWorks, with the release of Just Like Heaven on September 16, 2005. In February 1994, Viacom acquired 50.1% of Paramount Communications Inc. shares for $9.75 billion, following a five-month battle with QVC, and completed the merger in July. [129], Publix, Balaban and Katz, Loew's competition and wonder theaters, 1971–80: CIC formation and high-concept era, 1994–2005: Dolgen/Lansing and "old" Viacom era, Former divisions, subsidiaries, and joint ventures. Gulf and Western responded by filing a lawsuit in a Delaware court to block the Time-Warner merger. Although both DuMont and Paramount executives stated that the companies were separate, the FCC ruled that Paramount's partial ownership of DuMont meant that DuMont and Paramount were in theory branches of the same company. The new company Lasky and Zukor founded, Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, grew quickly, with Lasky and his partners Goldwyn and DeMille running the production side, Hiram Abrams in charge of distribution, and Zukor making great plans. Along the way, your local guide will tell tales of Hollywood's Golden Era, and point out world-famous filming locations, celebrity haunts and … In addition to its contributions to the entertainment industry, the Paramount Pictures studio lot gave birth to the first lesbian publication in the United States, which circulated in … In the next room is a display of props from the first two Kelvin-timeline films, in front of a wall-sized screen with a scrolling video of Paramount film titles. Due to COVID-19, event capacity and capabilities may be restricted and/or limited.