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.

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.

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 ).

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

Also Paramount launched its own network, Paramount Television Network, in 1948 through its television unit, Television Productions, Inc.

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.

This led to Paramount becoming the second movie studio to sign a deal with Apple Inc. to sell its films through the iTunes Store.

* 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 ).

* 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 ).

* 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 );

The remaining live-action films through March 2006 remained under direct Paramount control.

The website IGN Filmforce, reported on rumors Paramount had actually decided to cancel Enterprise after its fourth season as early as midway through the second year, quoted an unidentified " executive involved with Enterprise " as saying this scenario was " very likely ".

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 ).

UPN was originally owned by Viacom / Paramount and Chris-Craft Industries, the former of which, through the Paramount Television Group, produced most of the network's series.

Most of UPN's programming through the years was produced by Paramount Television or a sister company ( Viacom Productions, Big Ticket Entertainment, Spelling Television, or CBS Productions ).

In 2007, Warner Bros. added the Peanuts / Charlie Brown library to its collection ( this includes all the television specials and series outside of the theatrical library, which continues to be owned by CBS and Paramount through Peanuts Worldwide, LCC, licensor and owner of the Peanuts material ).

* Denny Jaeger and Michel Rubini, the first to use the Synclavier to score a major motion picture ( The Hunger, with David Bowie, released through MGM in April, 1983 ) and to score the first network TV series ( The Powers of Matthew Starr, from Paramount Television, released September, 1982 ).

Frakes stated: " I started with the cattle call, then the casting director, the producer, then other directors, to Gene Roddenberry, and then through the Paramount execs, including the vice-president himself and the heads of television.

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.

* Paramount retained the rights to several films released between 1948 and 1949, including You Came Along, I Walk Alone, Sorry, Wrong Number, The Accused, Rope of Sand, My Friend Irma, Red, Hot and Blue, Top o ' the Morning, Bride of Vengeance, Samson and Delilah and Dear Wife.

* 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 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.

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.

After an unsuccessful expansion into feature films, as well as the fact that Max and Dave Fleischer were no longer speaking to one another, Fleischer Studios was acquired by Paramount, which renamed the operation Famous Studios.

The Paramount name was used for soundtrack albums and some pop re-issues from the Dot Records catalog which Paramount had acquired in 1958.

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.

As a consequence Paramount fell from No. 1 in the international markets to the lowest ranked major studio in 2006 but recovered in 2007 if the DreamWorks films, acquired by Paramount but still distributed internationally by Universal, are included in Paramount's market share.

* Two Max Fleischer features, Gulliver's Travels ( 1939 ) and Hoppity Goes to Town ( 1941 ) were previously sold to NTA along with a few independent productions released by Paramount like One Third of a Nation ( 1939 ), as well as some features acquired by the studio after their theatrical release, including The Bells of St. Mary's ( 1945 ) and Good Sam ( 1947 ) ( both originally distributed by RKO Radio Pictures ).

* All the Harold Lloyd features ( silents and talkies ) released by Paramount are owned by the Harold Lloyd Trust except for The Milky Way ( 1936 ), acquired by Samuel Goldwyn Productions for a remake and now in the public domain ; and Professor Beware ( 1938 ), which is owned by EMKA / Universal Television.

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.

* In 1947, the studio acquired Frank Capra's production company, Liberty Films, which produced only 2 films in the 1940s: It's a Wonderful Life, released originally by RKO Radio Pictures, and State of the Union, released originally by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ( the latter made under Paramount ownership ).

* In the 1970s, Paramount acquired the rights to the Frank Capra film Broadway Bill, which was originally released by Columbia Pictures – Paramount had remade the film as Riding High in 1950 ;

After being acquired by Viacom in 1994, Paramount Pictures began a 10-year output deal with Showtime ( then also owned by Viacom ), effective after 1997, after Paramount's contract with HBO expired.

Before they could modify all the Paramount cartoons they acquired, the company was bought by National Telefilm Associates, also known as NTA.

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 ).

In 1957, MCA acquired Paramount Pictures ' pre-1950 sound feature film library through a newly created MCA subsidiary, EMKA, Ltd.

In 1979, it acquired ABC Records along with its subsidiaries Paramount Records, Impulse Records, and Dot Records.

ABC had acquired the Paramount and Dot labels when they purchased Gulf + Western's record labels.

Paramount Pictures, which has DVD distribution rights to the TV series, acquired the rights in Germany and most of the world excluding the US, UK, France and Canada.

Under Bluhdorn the company diversified widely, leaving behind things like stamping metal bumpers not only for communications properties like Paramount Pictures ( acquired in 1966 ) but also:

After Stax was acquired, that label became a subsidiary of Dot, though Dot was not at all mentioned on the actual label ( rather, Dot and Stax were noted as subsidiaries of Paramount ).

A year before, Dot's non-country music roster and catalog was moved to a newly-created label, Paramount Records ( the name was previously used by a label unrelated to the movie studio, Paramount acquired the rights to that name in order to launch this label ).