A brief history of paramount film company

Paramount Film Company was founded in May of 19 12, one month earlier than Universal Film Company, and it is the oldest among the eight Hollywood companies. At the beginning of its establishment, Paramount owned a large number of cinemas and concurrently engaged in production business. Adolf, the two founders of paramount? Cook and Jesse. Lasky is an outstanding person with a long-term vision. They realized the power of stars for the first time. Early movie star Mary? Pickford and Douglas? Gloria, a punk fan? Swanson and Rudolph? Valentino is their signing actor.

Adolf, born in Hungary? Cook started his career by running a comprehensive theater. After entering the film industry, he made up his mind to change the convention that films are only made for immigrants with low education. It turns out that he is right. The films made by his famous actor company successfully attracted middle-class audiences. After the famous actor company and Jesse L. Lasky company merged into the newly established Paramount Company, he got the management right of the company with a tough hand, thus making great achievements. In the early thirties, Paramount expanded very rapidly, but with the arrival of the Great Depression, this huge film company almost went bankrupt, and the banking group took over the company. Cook had to step aside. However, here it is 1935, Adolf? Cook made a comeback to help the company get rid of bankruptcy. Throughout the 1930 s, paramount stars gathered, and the signing stars were Mei? West, Marlene? Dudret, the Max brothers, Bing? Crosby, Gary? Cooper and Claudia. Colbert's films include the comedy Wings of Duck Soup, She Wronged Him, and I'm Not an Angel. The latter won the first Oscar for Best Film. Paramount was targeted by the anti-monopoly department of the government in the 1920s because it was so powerful. By 1948, the Federal Supreme Court issued the Paramount case, which prohibited large Hollywood companies from vertically operating production, distribution and projection businesses. Paramount had to sell some cinemas, so the old company suffered heavy losses. To make matters worse, in the 1950s, movie audiences lost a lot, and Paramount began to reduce the number of movies. 1949 ~1992-from backwardness to comeback

In the 1960s, Paramount was out of date, because Adolf, who was still in power? Cukor is over 80 years old. Sadly, this company can't understand what movies the new generation of audiences want to see. 1966, the company fell into the hands of Gulf West Industrial Company, and the Cukor era officially ended. Robert, the new president? Although Evans is a nobody in the film industry, he is good at dancing with long sleeves. Under his auspices, Paramount produced business cards such as Love Story, Chinatown and Godfather, which were very successful in business, and revived their vitality.

Robert? Evans was the captain of Paramount for eight years, 1976, and was born in the television industry. Diller appeared, and his two assistants, Michael? Eisner and Jeffrey? Katzenberger later became a big shot in the film industry, and this trio brought Paramount back to the peak of Hollywood.

Barry. Diller's specialty is high-concept movies, and he has achieved great success with simple and powerful stories and large-scale publicity. His masterpieces include the musical Weekend Night Fever, Grease, the horror film Moonlight New Panic, the action adventure film raiders of the lost ark, and the gangster film Beverly Hills. But Barry. Diller's ideal is to build a new TV network, and Martin, the boss of Gulf West, the parent company? Davis has no intention of taking such an adventure. 1984, Barry? Diller finally found a bosom friend, Rupert, the Australian media tycoon who just took over 20th Century Fox? Murdoch went to make his fourth TV network, and then, Michael? Eisner and Jeffrey? Kasenberg was also poached by Disney. Then came Paramount's low tide. 1993, sumner? Viacom in Lei Shidong won the fierce competition and became the parent company of Paramount. Viacom started as a chain cinema, and then gradually developed into an entertainment group. Before being acquired, Paramount was the only independent film company. The acquisition event marks that Hollywood has entered a new era, and large film companies have become part of entertainment and media groups.

1994 to 2004, Paramount was in Shirley? Under Lansing's management, it entered another prosperous period, producing such business cards as Brave Heart, Forrest Gump, Titanic (co-funded with 20th Century Fox), Mission Impossible, Face /OFF, The Truman Show and Saving Private Ryan. However, Paramount is also the least good at developing a series of movies among the big Hollywood companies.

At the end of 2005, Paramount acquired DreamWorks. However, the deal does not include DreamWorks Animation, the most profitable division of DreamWorks, but it is still of great significance to Paramount, because around 2004, Paramount seems to have lost its way, and its films are rarely blockbuster. As a producer, Steven? Spielberg can just bring Paramount a number of profitable projects, the most striking of which is Transformers.

June 5438+October 2008 10, Paramount and DreamWorks officially separated, but they will still make the Transformers series together. In 20 12, this Legendary Pictures company celebrated the birthday of 100.