# Paramount Pictures One of Hollywood's "Big Five" film studios, founded in 1912 by [[Adolph Zukor]] as the Famous Players Film Company and renamed Paramount Pictures in 1935. The studio behind *The Godfather*, *Star Trek*, and *Top Gun* became the gravitational center of the corporate empire that passed through [[Viacom]], [[Paramount Global]], and the 2025 [[Skydance-Paramount]] merger. > [!note] Stub > Minimum-viable page created to support the [[Paramount Timeline]]. Expand with the studio-system history, the 1948 antitrust decrees, and the Pentagon–Hollywood franchise pipeline.