By acquiring the successful Balaban & Katz chain in 1926, he 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 from New York City ).

Despite Paramount's losses, DeMille would, however, give the studio some relief and create his most successful film at Paramount, a 1956 remake of his 1923 film The Ten Commandments.

More so than most, Paramount's slate of films included many remakes and television spinoffs ; while sometimes commercially successful, there have been few compelling films of the kind that once made Paramount the industry leader.

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.

For example, Paramount's Kings Dominion received two copies of attractions that had proven successful at Paramount's Kings Island: the aforementioned Italian Job: Stunt Track ( under the name Italian Job: Turbo Coaster ) and Flight of Fear.

In 1935, he was appointed Paramount's production manager, thus becoming the only major Hollywood director to run a large studio.

Although the Fleischers left the studio at the end of 1941, Famous Studios was not officially incorporated until May 25, 1942, after Paramount's contract with Fleischer Studios had formally run its course.

The announcement was made by Brad Grey, chairman and CEO of Paramount Pictures, who noted that enhancing Paramount's pipeline of pictures is a " key strategic objective in restoring Paramount's stature as a leader in filmed entertainment.

On September 8, 2008, Entertainment Tonight began to air in high definition with the move of the program from their longtime home at Stage 28 on the Paramount Pictures studio lot to Stage 4 at CBS Studio Center, one of the final steps involving the incorporation of Paramount's former syndication arm, Paramount Domestic Television, into CBS ' distribution arms and the adoption of the CBS Television Distribution name, which all took place following the breakup of the original Viacom in 2005.

Although Bakshi quickly put several experimental shorts into production, by the fall of 1967, Paramount's new owners, Gulf + Western, had begun the process of shutting down the animation studio, a task completed in December.

CORE's pickets at Paramount's Gulf + Western headquarters and, later, a few smoke bombs lobbed into packed Broadway theaters were enough ; theater owners were intimidated, and the auxiliary distributor, Bryanston, couldn't book the film.

Due to the great success of Paramount's The 4400 New York Post author Adam Buckman wrote on August 28, 2005 " I'd like to thank two singers-one named Sia and the other named Amanda Abizaid-for making TV all the more memorable this summer ".

On September 21, 2010, Paramount Home Entertainment released American Beauty on Blu-ray, as part of Paramount's Sapphire Series.

The ABC / Dot headquarters became the Nashville office of ABC Records, a division of the American Broadcasting Company, which coincidentally had been bought by Paramount's old theater chain in 1953 ( which helped the network catch up to its rivals CBS and NBC ), and had started a good relationship with Paramount's TV division ( wherein Paramount produced a number of hit series on ABC ).

He Executive Produced Showtime / Paramount's " The Killing Yard " which won the 2003 American Bar Association Silver Gavel.

Mancuso was born in Buffalo, New York, the son of former Paramount Pictures president Frank Mancuso, Sr. Mancuso produced all of the sequels to Friday the 13th under Paramount's distribution ( i. e., parts 2-8 ), co-created the unrelated Friday the 13th: The Series.

In later years, Paramount's TV division would develop a strong relationship with ABC, providing many hit series to the network.

Through a series of mergers and acquisitions, many of Paramount's early cartoons, shorts, and feature films are owned by numerous entities.

The pre-1948 B-pictures from Pine-Thomas Productions were also sold off to TV syndicators before the MCA deal, as was Paramount's Bulldog Drummond series, the latter of which is now owned by Janus Films.

It was the last series of Paramount's Star Trek television franchise to be released to DVD.

This predated by 19 years Paramount's deal to distribute other films and television series based on Hasbro properties.

* The U. S. rights to The African Queen are now owned by Paramount Pictures ( after years of changing hands as the result of a series of management changes involving Paramount's parent company Viacom ).

The Superman series reverted to National Comics after Paramount's rights to the character expired.

This was done mainly to address ABC's inability to find a suitable 8 p. m. lead-in program for MNF since the 1992 ending of MacGyver ( not even two other series from Paramount Television – The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles and The Marshal – which produced MacGyver, saw success, despite the former's ties to Paramount's Indiana Jones film series ), and to allow stations to start their late local newscasts nearer to their regular times.

Mercer continued to voice the one-eyed sailor for the Fleischers, for Paramount's Famous Studios cartoons ( 1942 – 1957 ), for a series of television cartoons for King Features Syndicate, and for a Saturday morning cartoon show ( 1978 ) produced by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera.

Paramount's successor CBS Television Distribution has distribution rights to the series in the United States while Fox retains global distribution rights.

These so-called " race music " records became Paramount's most famous and lucrative business ( their legendary 12000 series ).

Paramount's " race record " series was launched in 1922 with a few vaudeville blues songs by Lucille Hegamin and Alberta Hunter.

As the 12000 race series sold well, Paramount's 20000 popular series floundered.

The channel was seen as a natural fit with classic film and television series that both studios had in their vaults, including Rod Serling's Night Gallery ( from Universal TV ) and Paramount's Star Trek and classic Universal horror films such as Dracula and Frankenstein.

It assumed Dot's status as the flagship label of Paramount's record operations, releasing music by pop artists and soundtracks from Paramount's films and TV series.

Farrell then co-starred on Paramount's television comedy series Becker.

To date, Funny Face has been released to DVD in Region 1 ( North America ) in three editions from Paramount Home Entertainment: in 2001 as part of the " Audrey Hepburn Widescreen Collection " series, in 2007 in a 50th Anniversary edition, and in 2009 as part of Paramount's Centennial Collection.

However, when Paramount's board of directors rejected a proposal to produce episodes for a second Grantray-Lawrence series, Spider-Man, Culhane quit the studio, and was succeeded by former Terrytoons animator Ralph Bakshi in mid-1967.

As an example of the incompatibilities arising from the separate evolution of the two visions of Star Trek history, the SFU defines the " five year mission " of the original Star Trek series as being from Y155 to Y160, which by Paramount's chronology would put Y0 at AD 2108 ; while if one accepts the definition of Y0, it should be the year of the movie Star Trek: First Contact, AD 2063.

Jefferson's earnings reputedly enabled him to buy a car and employ chauffeurs ( although there is debate over the reliability of this as well ); he was given a Ford car " worth over $ 700 " by Mayo Williams, Paramount's connection with the black community.

DeMille also appeared as himself in Paramount's 1947 all-star musical comedy Variety Girl and he narrated many of his later films, as well as appearing on screen in the introduction to The Ten Commandments.

As a result of Paramount's 2005 acquisition of DreamWorks, Paramount has gained North America distribution rights as well ( though still through the DreamWorks division ).

Whether Preston Sturges, who at the time was Paramount's top writer, had a collaborator in writing the script is unclear: some early drafts have the name " Jackson " on them as well as Sturges ', but the identity of " Jackson " has not been determined.

Little Audrey was voiced by Mae Questel, as well as most of Paramount's other major female cartoon characters including Betty Boop and Olive Oyl.

Viacom, Paramount's owner, later bought CBS as well.