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Paramount Pictures

Los Angeles, United States · Founded 1912

Paramount Pictures was founded in 1912 by William Wadsworth Hodkinson, Jesse Louis Lasky and Adolph Zukor, and is based in Los Angeles, United States.

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subsidiary company
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Paramount Skydance

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American film studio, subsidiary of Paramount Global

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In context

We hold 6 other film industry companies founded in the 1910s. 5 of them have closed, after a median of 23 years, and 1 have no closure recorded.

Counted across this directory, from founding and closing years in public records. Medians cover only companies whose closure is recorded; a company with no closure date may have quietly ceased without the record catching it.

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