According to Robert Evans, head of Paramount Pictures at the time, Coppola also did not initially want to direct the film because he feared it would glorify the Mafia and violence, and thus reflect poorly on his Sicilian and Italian heritage ; on the other hand, Evans specifically wanted an Italian-American to direct the film because his research had shown that previous films about the Mafia that were directed by non-Italians had fared dismally at the box office, and he wanted to, in his own words, " smell the spaghetti ".

Coppola chose Brando over Ernest Borgnine on the basis of Brando's screen test, which also won over the Paramount leadership.

Paramount also had a monopoly over Detroit movie theaters through subsidiary company United Detroit Theaters as well.

This led to the Supreme Court decision United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. ( 1948 ) holding that movie studios could not also own movie theater chains.

A number of films produced by independent companies and merely distributed by Paramount would also end up with other companies.

* 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.

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 De Laurentiis Entertainment Group library was initially distributed by Paramount in Canada, these films are also in the StudioCanal catalog, with MGM, Anchor Bay, and Fox each distributing some titles in North America ).

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

* In 2004, Paramount bought all worldwide distribution rights to the original 1975 version of The Stepford Wives ( also released by Columbia ), in connection with the release of the remake.

* Paramount also owns ( through the Viacom merger ) US distribution rights to the 1951 film The African Queen, originally distributed by United Artists ( the international rights are with ITV Global Entertainment ).

* The Viacom merger also gave Paramount the TV rights to the pre-1984 New World Pictures library, under license from Roger Corman, the company's founder ;

* Paramount has also acquired ( through Trifecta Entertainment & Media ) the US TV and digital rights to most of the Carolco Pictures catalog, under license from StudioCanal, as a result of acquiring Spelling Entertainment Group, whose Worldvision Enterprises division had been distributing the Carolco library.

* 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 );

* Paramount also has TV / digital rights to Dead Man Walking, originally from PolyGram Filmed Entertainment ; MGM owns other ancillary rights.

** USA Networks ( also including what is now called Syfy ) – Paramount owned a stake starting in 1982, 50 % owner ( with Universal Studios ) from 1987 until 1997, when Paramount / Viacom sold their stake to Universal ( now part of NBCUniversal )

Little news was forthcoming for months as Berman and Brannon Braga developed the untitled series, known only as " Series V ", until February 2001, when Paramount signed Herman Zimmerman and John Eaves to production design Series V. Within a month, scenic designer Michael Okuda, another long-time Trek veteran, was also signed.

Viacom also aimed to relaunch UPN as Paramount Network, using a logo based on the famous Paramount Pictures mountain logo and the " P " triangle of the UPN logo, which already stood for Paramount, as the new network logo.

Paramount Pictures owns a copyright of the official dictionary and other canonical descriptions of the language.

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

Corp. and later NTA and is back under Paramount distribution, on behalf of Republic Pictures ; EMKA / NBCUniversal owns the latter presently.

* 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 ;

As for the DreamWorks Animation library, Paramount owns distributions rights to the present library, and their current distribution deal to future DWA titles expires after 2012.

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

Headquartered in Southern California are The Walt Disney Company ( which also owns ABC ), Sony Pictures, Universal, MGM, Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox, and Warner Brothers.

Paramount still owns video rights to some of these films today, while TV distribution is now with Trifecta Entertainment & Media, while the Disney owned Miramax films are distributed by Disney-ABC Domestic Television.

As a result of MGM's purchase of this film, it is not owned by Universal Studios, which owns most pre-1950 Paramount sound features ( and who has produced a popular line of horror films ).

* Lionsgate also now owns US DVD rights to Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now ( under license from Paramount Pictures, which owns US distribution rights on behalf of the film's rights holder, American Zoetrope, Coppola's company ).

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 ).

Paramount now also owns the theatrical rights, while Lionsgate Entertainment ( Republic's video licensee and successor to Artisan Entertainment, previously LIVE Entertainment ) holds the home video rights, and Trifecta Entertainment & Media now holds most major TV rights on behalf of Republic / Paramount ( aside from other major and minor / low budget film, TV, and video companies that distribute the public domain cartoons )-- CBS Television Distribution ( as well as its predecessor companies Paramount Domestic Television and Worldvision Enterprises ) formally held such TV rights until 2009.

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.

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.

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, 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 ( via CBS DVD ) has outright video distribution to the aforementioned CBS library with few exceptions-for example, the original Twilight Zone DVDs are handled by Image Entertainment.

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 ).

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 ).