Rights to the film are currently held by Universal Studios, which owns the pre-1950 Paramount sound feature film library via EMKA, Ltd.

Paramount, Boop's original home studio ( via sister company Republic ), now acts as a theatrical distributor for the Boop cartoons that they originally released.

The Addams Family was sold to Paramount Pictures for U. S. distribution, while Orion, via Columbia, got the non-U. S. rights.

Paramount handles internet distribution of the Republic films via iTunes and Epix.

Time Warner owns all of the Paramount Popeye cartoons via their Turner Entertainment division, following several company mergers and purchases involving the a. a. p.

Ironically, Paramount Pictures is the distributor of the DreamWorks Animated films, thus putting them back in the hands of Paramount, via DreamWorks and Harvey Entertainment.

Paramount sold a majority of their sound live-action feature film library released until November 3, 1949 ( with Chicago Deadline being the latest title in the library, including films by Cecil B. DeMille and Preston Sturges ) to MCA, and thus, through their new dummy company, EMKA, they were able to make a profit via airings on television.

The domestic ( North American ) rights to King Kong though, still remain with the film's original distributor Paramount Pictures, with Trifecta Entertainment & Media handling television rights to the film via their licence with Paramount.

Making use of video transcriptions, The Spade Cooley Show was viewed coast-to-coast via the Paramount Television Network.

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.

His music has been utilized for many films and trailers via the major studios such as Universal, Buena Vista, and Paramount Pictures including the world wide campaigns for " Lara Croft-Tomb Raider 2 ", " Danny Deckchair " and " The Cut "

Ironically, ABC would air a repackaging of many Paramount cartoons ( excluding Popeye cartoons ) released after September 1950 once these cartoons were sold to Harvey Films ( now part of DreamWorks Animation via Classic Media ).

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Both Desilu, Too and Lucille Ball Productions work hand-in-hand with MPI Home Video in the home video re-issues of the Ball / Arnaz material not currently owned by CBS ( successor-in-interest to Paramount Television, which in turn succeeded the original Desilu company ).

All through the teens and twenties, he built the Publix Theatres Corporation, a mighty chain of nearly 2, 000 screens, ran two production studios, and became an early investor in radio, taking a 50 % interest in the new Columbia Broadcasting System in 1928 ( selling it within a few years ; this would not be the last time Paramount and CBS crossed paths, as time proved ).

In 1999, Viacom bought out United Television's interests, and handed responsibility for the start-up network to the newly acquired CBS unit, which Viacom bought in 1999 – an ironic confluence of events as Paramount had once invested in CBS, and Viacom had once been the syndication arm of CBS as well.

The Paramount Television studio, Paramount Parks and UPN was made part of CBS in the split and the remaining businesses were sold off or parceled out to other operating groups.

Paramount's home entertainment unit continues to distribute the Paramount TV library through CBS DVD, as both Viacom and CBS Corporation are controlled by Michael Redstone's National Amusements.

In 2009, CBS stopped using the Paramount name in its series and changed the name of the production arm to CBS Television Studios, eliminating the Paramount name from television, to distance itself from the latter.

But from 2006 – 2009, the library was distributed by CBS Television Distribution, the television distribution arm of CBS Paramount Television ( now CBS Television Studios ) – the films are now distributed by Trifecta Entertainment & Media on television.

Independent company Hollywood Classics now represents Paramount in 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.

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 CBS DVD under Paramount ).

* Paramount Television Group ( now CBS Television Studios )

** United Paramount Network ( UPN ) – formerly a joint venture with United Television, now part of the CBS / Time Warner joint venture The CW Television Network

On November 8, 2005, MTV and Paramount Home Entertainment released a three-disc DVD compilation titled Beavis and Butt-head: The Mike Judge Collection, Volume 1.

In 1992, Bernard Luskin, Philips Interactive Media, and Eric Doctorow, Paramount Worldwide Video, successfully put the first fifty videos in digital MPEG 1 on CD, developed the packaging and launched movies on CD, leading to advancing versions of MPEG, and to DVD.

Until 2011, it continued to be used on home video and DVD releases, even after Gulf + Western / Paramount Communications ' ownership ended.

Except for the Superman cartoons and the features sold to MCA ( to end up with Universal ), most television prints of these films have had their titles remade to remove most traces of their connection to Paramount – the original copyright lines were left intact on Popeye cartoons ( the Popeye cartoons have been restored for DVD release with the original Paramount titles ).

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 owns the film libraries of many other companies that were absorbed into Republic ( see the Republic Pictures and Spelling Entertainment articles for more info ), again with DVD rights licensed to Lionsgate ;

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.

On July 26, 2007, CBS Home Entertainment ( with distribution by Paramount Home Entertainment ) announced that the remastered episodes of TOS would be released on a HD DVD / DVD hybrid format.

For this release, CBS and Paramount used discs without any disc art, making them look like the " Season 1 Remastered " HD DVD / DVD combo discs, despite having content only on one side.

In October 2004, coinciding with the start of the show's fourth season and months before the cancellation announcement, Paramount revealed plans to release the four seasons of Enterprise to DVD in North America during 2005.

On January 24, 2012, Paramount released a " meticulously restored " version of Wings in DVD and Blu-ray formats.

CBS Home Entertainment ( distributed by Paramount ) has released the first seven seasons of Matlock on DVD in Region 1.

Universal Home Video released Duck Soup on DVD, unrestored but uncut, as part of a six-disc box set The Marx Brothers: Silver Screen Collection, which includes also the Brothers ' other Paramount films, The Cocoanuts, Animal Crackers, Monkey Business, and Horse Feathers.

On November 21, 2006, the home video arm of CBS released a DVD collecting all 22 episodes of the Filmation-produced Star Trek, to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the Trek franchise ( with distribution by Paramount Home Entertainment ).

The original ending also appeared on a special edition VHS and Laserdisc release by Paramount in 1992, and was included on the film's DVD release a decade later.

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 ).

*' The Longest Yard-Lockdown Edition ' DVD, selection 02638, Paramount Home Entertainment, 2005

Films not produced by Nickelodeon or its Nickelodeon Movies division also occasionally air on the channel including Universal's Barbie: A Fashion Fairy Tale, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles Forever ( which was later released by Nickelodeon through Paramount DVD for DVD release ).