Samson and Delilah, although pre-1950, has been retained by Paramount, as are all the DeMille / Paramount silent films produced before 1928, and all sound films produced after 1950 — television distribution for those films is handled by Trifecta Entertainment & Media.

* Several feature films ended up in Republic's possession ( as stated above ), yet others had been retained by Paramount due to other rights issues ( such as The Buccaneer and The Miracle of Morgan's Creek – it is presumed these remained under Paramount ownership so that remakes could be filmed for release in 1958, without having to license the rights ).

* Paramount has retained the rights to some of its silent films, including 1927's Wings, the first Academy Award winner for Best Picture, and Josef von Sternberg films Underworld, The Last Command, and The Docks of New York.

Paramount, however, has retained full distribution rights to the Lewis films under license from Lewis's company, York Pictures Corporation.

Some other Seven Arts projects released by Paramount in the mid-to-late 1960s also reverted to Warner while a few others, such as Assault on a Queen have been retained by Paramount.

The departure of the Fleischers had an immediate effect on the studio: the Paramount cartoons of the war years continued to be entertaining and popular and still retained most of the Fleischer style and gloss.

Today, Paramount ( through Republic, which the studio's parent company, Viacom, acquired in 1999 ), in a twist of irony, now owns the original elements to its 1927 – September 1950 output they themselves originally released ( in addition to the April 1962 – 1967 non-Comic King shorts ( except Frog's Legs, starring Little Lulu, which Paramount still owns ) they have retained the rights to and the 1961 Noveltoon, Alvin's Solo Flight, also starring Little Lulu ).

Although the recording was not well-received, Paramount retained their new talent and the next few years saw more releases by " Big Bill and Thomps ".

The rights to most of the films noted here have been retained by their original distributors ( as noted with an * asterisk ), while others are now in the hands of Warner Bros. ( Including all of the Lorimar film productions released by United Artists, 20th Century Fox, almost all of the Lorimar film productions released by Paramount, and the Lorimar film productions released by Warner Bros .) The television rights to The Last Starfighter are owned by Warner, while Universal holds theatrical and home video rights.

CBS retained ownership of the Paramount Parks chain for a short while, but sold the parks to Cedar Fair in 2006, and thus National Amusements got out of the theme park ownership business entirely.

The Soke had its own magistrates, who were appointed by the Lord Paramount, acting under a commission of oyer and terminer, and gaol delivery, as well as under the ordinary commission, and the magistrates for the liberty retained the power of hanging a criminal in cases of murder, which in fact they exercised so late as the year 1812.

When it moved to Tuesday, its ratings surpassed its time slot competitor, popular series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which moved to the United Paramount Network ( UPN ) but retained the same time slot.

The Santa Clara location was sold to the City of Santa Clara, who retained the underlying property and sold the park to Kings Entertainment Company, renamed Paramount Parks in 1993.

The copyright was renewed, however, by Paramount Pictures, which had acquired Desilu, and producer Robert Blumofe, but UA has retained ancillary distribution rights via now-sister-studio MGM — both UA and MGM would ultimately become owned by a partnership led by Sony, the parent of Columbia Pictures.

It also retained ancillary rights on new productions surrendered on earlier films, including Seven Days in May ( 1964 ) and Promise Her Anything ( 1965 ) for release by Paramount.

Paramount Pictures only agreed to American and Canadian distribution of Braveheart after 20th Century Fox partnered for international rights.

A majority of the DeMille motion picture library now resides with EMKA, Ltd. through the television division of NBC Universal, due to Paramount Pictures ' losing the rights to the DeMille films in 1958 to EMKA, so technically it is Universal Pictures that now oversees a vast part of DeMille's motion picture career as well as its related archival material.

Paramount Pictures was not connected to Paramount Records until it purchased the rights to use the name ( but not its catalog ) in the late 1960s.

As for distribution of the material Paramount itself still owns, it has been split in half, with Paramount themselves owning theatrical rights.

would return to Paramount ( though, except for few other films, video rights belong to Olive Films, after years of distribution by Lionsgate ).

* Most notably, the rights to four Paramount films directed by Alfred Hitchcock – Rear Window ( 1954 ), The Trouble With Harry ( 1956 ), The Man Who Knew Too Much ( 1956 ), and Vertigo ( 1958 ) were owned by the director himself.

Paramount owned most rights to the Elvis Presley film Loving You, including distribution and partial ownership of its copyright.

Warner Bros. acquired the rights to the film from the film's financer The Quaker Oats Company in 1977 ( around the same time they bought out Wolper itself ), after Paramount no longer had any interest to own the distribution rights to the film due to the initial box office failure of Willy Wonka.

* Warner Bros. also owns the rights to several films originally distributed by Paramount that were produced by Lorimar Productions, which was purchased by Warner in 1989.

* Paramount also no longer owns North American rights to Meatballs.

Paramount still controls international rights, and picked up remake rights when Lionsgate put the project in turnaround.

* Lionsgate now controls most rights to the 1987 Vietnam War film Hamburger Hill through an equity investment Vestron Video made with its production outfit RKO Pictures, though Paramount retains TV and Internet rights.

* Foreign rights to the 1975 Robert Altman film Nashville, are currently owned by ABC through Walt Disney Pictures but Paramount still owns North American rights ( both Paramount and ABC share copyrights ).

In the early twenties, Paramount attempted a hostile takeover, buying several of First National's member firms.

In 1927 Paramount and MGM, Hollywood's two top studios, noting the profits being made by companies like Pathé Exchange and Educational, both re-entered the production and distribution of short subjects after several years.

Beginning in 1914, both Lasky and Famous Players released their films through a start-up company, Paramount Pictures Corporation, organized early that year by a Utah theatre owner, W. W. Hodkinson, who had bought and merged several smaller firms.

Paramount also owns DVD rights to several films released by Miramax Films prior to that firm's acquisition by Disney in 1993, also a result of a deal.

Paramount, through several transactions, acquired underlying TV and digital distribution rights to many films controlled by other companies for domestic theatrical and DVD distribution and / or other international rights.

* Paramount has TV and digital rights to some films in the Nelson Entertainment catalog, also as a result of the Viacom merger, including the Bill & Ted films – all other rights, including Nelson's later films and the copyright to Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, reside with MGM ( several other Nelson films are owned by Paramount for TV and digital distribution through the Spelling merger, as Worldvision at one point had rights to some Nelson films as well );

Since Roddenberry's death in 1991 and the consequent firing of Richard H. Arnold ( who vetted the licensed tie-ins for Roddenberry's " Star Trek Office " at Paramount during its later years ), there have been several references to the animated series in the various live-action series.

Paramount had formed Paramount Stations Group when it purchased the TVX Group, which owned several independent stations in major markets.

In 1930, Art Laibly of Paramount Records traveled to Lula to convince Patton to record several more sides in Grafton, Wisconsin.

In the wake of the successful Universal Studios ad hoc syndicated package Operation Prime Time, which featured first a miniseries adaptation of John Jakes ' novel The Bastard and went on to several more productions, Paramount had earlier contemplated its own television network with the Paramount Television Service.

Meanwhile, Paramount, long successful in syndication with repeats of Star Trek, found itself with several first-run syndicated series by the turn of the 1990s, in Entertainment Tonight, The Arsenio Hall Show, Friday the 13th: The Series, War of the Worlds, Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

Paramount had formed Paramount Stations Group when it purchased the TVX Group, which owned several independent stations in major markets.

Our Lady of the Rosary Private Catholic School is one of several private schools located in Paramount.

Paramount released Fatal Attraction on Blu-ray Disc on June 9, 2009 with several bonus features from the original 2002 " Special Collector's Edition " DVD, including commentary by director Adrian Lyne, cast and crew interviews, a look at the cultural phenomenon of the movie, a behind-the-scenes look, rehearsal footage, alternate ending, and original theatrical trailer ( both in high definition ).

Abilene is also home to the restored Paramount Theatre, The Abilene Philharmonic, The Grace Museum, the Center for Contemporary Arts, the National Center for Children's Illustrated Literature, The Abilene Zoo, Frontier Texas !, the 12th Armored Division Museum, Taylor County Coliseum, five libraries ( 3 private, 2 public ), twenty-six public parks, six television stations and several radio stations, including one NPR station ( 89. 7 KACU ).

In between his work in the Zane Grey Western series, Paramount cast Scott in several non-Western roles, such as " the other man " in Hot Saturday ( 1932 ), with Nancy Carroll and Cary Grant ; Hello, Everybody!

Shaw made several musical shorts in 1939 for Vitaphone and Paramount Pictures.

The downtown district has witnessed several redevelopment projects, including several new businesses and a mid-2000s streetscaping, which created Paramount Plaza.