Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures is an American film and television production/distribution company that is the main namesake division of Paramount Skydance Corporation. The company distributes SpongeBob SquarePants as well as the first movie, the second movie, the third movie, and other Nickelodeon shows and movies.
Located at 5555 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood, founded on May 8, 1912, it is America's second oldest existing film studio, and the last major film studio still headquartered in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles. Paramount is consistently ranked as one of the largest movie studios, alongside Disney, Warner Bros., Universal Pictures, Sony Pictures, and 20th Century Studios (which was acquired by Disney in 2019 and became a Disney subsidiary).
It was founded by Adolph Zukor, William Wadsworth Hodkinson, and Jesse L. Lasky.
Paramount Pictures is a member of the Motion Picture Association (MPA).
Gallery
Logos
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The Paramount logo as featured on the Nautical Nonsense and Sponge Buddies DVD, It's a SpongeBob Christmas! Blu-ray, and the original 1997 pilot episode of SpongeBob SquarePants.
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The Paramount logo as featured in the first two seasons of SpongeBob SquarePants.
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The Paramount 90th anniversary logo as featured on the Nickelodeon DVD Sampler, Halloween DVD and VHS, Sea Stories DVD and VHS, and the first half of season 3 of SpongeBob SquarePants.
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The Paramount logo as featured in The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie and the second half of season 3 of SpongeBob SquarePants.
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The open matte Paramount logo as featured in 35mm uncropped film scan prints of The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie and seasons 4-7 of SpongeBob SquarePants.
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The Paramount DVD logo as featured on several early SpongeBob SquarePants DVDs starting in 2003 with Tales from the Deep until 2004 with SpongeGuard on Duty, along with the DVD releases of The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie and The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water.
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The Paramount logo as featured in the second half of season 7 and the first half of season 8 of SpongeBob SquarePants.
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This logo was seen in the end credits of the movie Paranormal Activity 3. It was also seen in the episode "Ghoul Fools."
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The Paramount 100th anniversary logo as featured in the second half of season 8 and the first half of season 9 of SpongeBob SquarePants.
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The Paramount logo as featured in The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, the second half of season 9, and later seasons of SpongeBob SquarePants.
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The Paramount Animation logo as featured in The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run.
Trivia
- Nautical Nonsense and Sponge Buddies is the only SpongeBob DVD to use the Paramount logo from 1986 in the opening.
- It's a SpongeBob Christmas! Blu-ray is the only SpongeBob Blu-ray to use the Paramount logo from 1986 in the opening.
- The last episode to show the 2002 Paramount logo was "Bubble Buddy Returns," The first episode to use it was "Can You Spare a Dime?"
- "One Krabs Trash" was the final episode with the 1986 Paramount logo until "Ghoul Fools."
External links
- Paramount Pictures on Wikipedia