Viacom Inc. owns Paramount Pictures. National Amusements, Inc., a privately owned theater company, owns the majority stake in Viacom. National Amusements also operates movie theaters under various brands. Paramount Pictures is a major film studio owned by Viacom that has released many popular and well-known film franchises.

2. Who owns Paramount
Pictures?

3. • Viacom Inc., short for "Video & Audio Communications", is an American
global mass media company. As of 2010, it is the world's fourth-largest
media conglomerate, behind The Walt Disney Company, Time Warner and
News Corporation.
• Comprising BET Networks, MTV Networks, and Paramount Pictures, Viacom
connects with audiences through television, motion pictures, mobile
platforms and online in more than 160 countries and territories.
• Viacom operates approximately 170 media networks reaching more than
600 million global subscribers and more than 500 branded digital media
properties.
• Viacom is owned in majority by National Amusements, Inc., a privately
owned theater company based in Dedham, Massachusetts, USA.

4. Who owns VIACOM?

5. • National Amusements, Inc. is a privately owned theater company based in
Dedham, Massachusetts, United States. The company was founded in 1936
as the Northeast Theatre Corporation by Michael Redstone.
• The company operates more than 1,500 movie screens across the United
States, the United Kingdom, Latin America, and Russia under its Showcase
Cinemas, Multiplex Cinemas, Cinema de Lux, and KinoStar brands.

6. What else does
own?

8. What other companies do
control?

9. Paramount Motion Pictures Group, a motion picture holding company owned by Viacom
Paramount Comedy 1,UK television station
Paramount Pictures, a motion picture studio
Paramount Comedy 2, UK television station
Paramount Vantage, specialty film division of Paramount Pictures
Paramount Comedy (Spain), a television channel in Spain,
CBS Paramount Television, a television studio and library
a Canadian petroleum company
Paramount Television, former incarnation of CBS Paramount Television
Paramount Records (1969), a defunct record label
Paramount Home Entertainment, a division of Paramount Pictures for home video
Paramount Music Corporation, a defunct music publishing company
distribution
Paramount Arts Center, a historic theater located in Ashland, Kentucky
United Paramount Network (UPN), a defunct American television network
Paramount (Shanghai), a historical nightclub/ballroom in Shanghai China
Paramount Television Service, a failed commercial television network from the late 1970s
Paramount Theater (disambiguation)
Paramount Parks, a defunct chain of theme parks
Paramount Theaters, a Famous Players chain owned by Cineplex United
Paramount Communications, company known as Gulf and Western Industries until 1989
Paramount Theatres, a movie theater chain
Paramount Resources, a Canadian petroleum company

10. what films have
released?

11. well known franchises