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Paramount Pictures

American film studio, subsidiary of Paramount Global
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Summary

Paramount Pictures is a film production company[1]. It ranks in the top 0.47% of film production company entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (84,658 views/month, #3 of 640).[2]

Key Facts

  • Member of: JournalList[3]
  • Country: United States[4]
  • Instance of: major film studios[5], film distributor[6]
  • Founder: Adolph Zukor[7], William Wadsworth Hodkinson[8], Jesse Louis Lasky[9]
  • Owned by: Viacom[10]
  • Headquarters location: Los Angeles[11]
  • Chief executive officer: Jim Gianopulos[12]
  • Has organizational division: Paramount Home Entertainment[13], entertainment[14], Paramount Players[15], Paramount Animation[16], Paramount Television Studios[17], Paramount Music[18]
  • Child organization or unit: MTV Films[19], Paramount Television Studios[20], Paramount Records[21], Paramount Players[22], Paramount Digital Entertainment[23], George Pal Productions[24], Nickelodeon Movies[25], Paramount Home Entertainment[26], Paramount Animation[27], MTV Entertainment Studios[28]
  • Commons category: Paramount Pictures[29]
  • Industry: film industry[30]
  • Inception: May 8, 1912[31]
  • Location of formation: Los Angeles[32]
  • Parent organization or unit: Paramount Global[33], Viacom[34], Paramount Skydance[35]
  • Official website: https://www.paramount.com/[36], https://www.paramountpictures.com/[37]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Paramount Pictures[38]
  • Director / manager: Adolph Zukor[39]
  • Product or material produced: film[40]
  • Legal form: subsidiary company[41]
  • Native label: Paramount Pictures[42]
  • Owner of: Paramount Stage 31[43], Paramount Stage 19[44], Paramount Network[45], Famous Studios[46], Rialto Theatre[47]
  • Different from: Paramount Pictures Studios[48]

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Type: Holding[49]

  • Began / founded: 1914[50]

  • MusicBrainz ID: ed412299-6fb0-4952-a9e5-dfd05c0a7518[51]

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Brands and Namesakes

Things named for Paramount Pictures include Paramount Global[52], a company[53], in United States[54], founded in 2019[55], headquartered in New York City[56].

Why It Matters

Paramount Pictures has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[57] It is known by 104 alternative names across languages and contexts.[58]

Entities named for it include Paramount Global[52], a company[53], in United States[54], founded in 2019[55], headquartered in New York City[56].

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  18. [21] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  24. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [3] ↑ . journallist.net. journallist.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  36. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  45. [47] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  46. [48] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [49] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [50] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [51] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [52] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [53] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [54] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [55] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [56] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [57] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [58] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 12d ago · SBF2004 · 2026-10-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 87
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'ar', 'arz', 'ast', 'az', 'azb', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bg', 'bh', 'bn', 'br'
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Official website: https://www.paramountpictures.com/"
  2. 8w ago · Trivialist · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14750 → 5374-08A8-B1EA-CB8C-8AB8
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ P14750: 5374-08A8-B1EA-CB8C-8AB8, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/269254|batch #269254]]"
  3. 8w ago · WebRunner95 · 2026-08-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Member of → JournalList
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Member of: JournalList, Update outlet to include JournalList trust.txt membership ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/c6bfd55c9b4|details]])"
  4. 12w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → paramount-pictures-inc
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: paramount-pictures-inc, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289951590|paramount pictures inc (#289951590)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalo"
  5. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 4V45k3
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  6. 16w ago · Printstream · 2026-06-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14536 → 356023
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ P14536: 356023, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1782398664614"
  7. 20w ago · Anticeri · 2026-05-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Parent org → —
    Product → —
    Location of formation → Los Angeles
    Headquarters location → Los Angeles
    + 36 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Instance of: film distributor"
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