Paramount Pictures/Summary

Background
Paramount Pictures traces its history back to May 8, 1912, when it was originally founded as Famous Players Film Company by Hungarian-born Adolph Zukor. He had been an early investor in nickelodeons (film theaters that cost 5 cents for admission), and saw that movies appealed mainly to working-class immigrants. With partners Daniel Frohman and Charles Frohman, he planned to offer motion pictures that would appeal to the middle class by featuring leading theatrical players of the time (leading to the slogan "famous players in famous plays"). By 1913, Famous Players had completed five films and Zukor was on his way to success. That same year, fellow aspiring producer Jesse L. Lasky opened the Lasky Feature Play Company with money borrowed from his brother-in-law Samuel Goldfish (later known as Samuel Goldwyn). The Lasky company hired Cecil B. DeMille, a stage director with virtually no film experience, as their first employee; DeMille would find a suitable location site in Hollywood for his first film The Squaw Man.

In 1914, the former company was renamed Paramount Pictures Corporation, as the second oldest-running movie studio in Hollywood, with Universal Pictures being founded only eight days earlier. Lasky left Paramount in 1932 with Zukor blaming him for the studio's financial issues at the time. In 1948, Paramount was taken to the United States Supreme Court. This case, known as United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc., resulted in studios being forced to divest themselves of their theater holdings and, in addition to the concurrent rise of television, would mark the beginning of the end for the old "studio system". In 1959, Adolph Zukor stepped down from running the studio and assumed the role of chairman, which he held until 1964. On March 24, 1966, Paramount was acquired by Gulf+Western Industries, which later became Paramount Communications on June 5, 1989. As part of the acquisition by Gulf+Western, Lucille Ball's Desilu Productions and the Desilu lot were brought under Paramount's control and, in 1967, Desilu was renamed to Paramount Television. On March 11, 1994, Paramount Communications was merged with Viacom. On December 31, 2005, Viacom split into two companies: one retaining its original name (inheriting Paramount, MTV Networks and BET Networks) and the other being named CBS Corporation (inheriting Paramount's television production and distribution arms, currently known as CBS Studios, CBS Media Ventures and Paramount Global Content Distribution, respectively), with both companies owned by National Amusements. One year later, Stage M, where movies and TV shows such as Wild Things, City Hall, The Wedding Singer, Executive Decision and Star Trek: The Next Generation scored there, permanently closed and was demolished two years later to house a new post-production facility. Television rights to Paramount's library are currently handled by Trifecta Entertainment & Media. Paramount relaunched its Paramount Television division (now known as "Paramount Television Studios") on March 4, 2013. On August 13, 2019, it was announced that Viacom and CBS would reunite and merge to form ViacomCBS; the merger was completed on December 4, 2019. On February 16, 2022, ViacomCBS was renamed Paramount Global (or Paramount for short)

(1912-1916)
Nicknames : "Pre-Paramount Mountain", "The Masks"

Logo : On a black background, we see two masks alongside a mirror or a simple oval, which reads: PRODUCED BY THE FAMOUS PLAYERS FILM CO. ADOLPH ZUKOR PRES. The text "Distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation" appears below.

Variants :


 * Sometimes, the "Distributed by Paramount" notice doesn't appear.
 * On Poor Little Peppina (and possibly other films), the masks and the mirror are different and a different font is used.

FX/SFX : None.

Music/Sounds : None or the film's opening music.

Availability : Ultra rare. Can be found on Snow White and Poor Little Peppina, among some other films of the time.

Editor's Note : Despite the company's first rebrand in 1914, this logo continued to be in use until two years later.

Paramount Pictures Corporation
=== 1st Logo (July 12, 1912, September 14, 1914-1917) ===

Nicknames : "VistaVision Mountain", "Perumount", "Paramount Mountain VI", "Gulf+Western Mountain"

Logo : We see a more realistic mountain than the last one, with canyon scenery and trees around it. The sky is more distant in depth and is very contrast. Everything else is pretty much the same as before here.


 * 1953-1968: The text on the mountain reads "A Paramount Picture" or "A Paramount Release" (written in the Paramount corporate font).
 * 1968-1975: "Paramount" (in the same font) is seen on the mountain's peak with the stars encircling the mountain. The byline "A Gulf+Western Company" appears on the bottom.
 * 1970-1975: Sometimes, the font for "Paramount" is different.

Trivia :


 * This was originally created for Paramount's 3D process "Paravision" and later modified especially for widescreen.
 * The mountain seen here is known as "Artesonraju", located in Peru.
 * The painting of the mountain was created by matte artist Jan Domela.

Variants :


 * On Paramount's first 3D film Sangaree (the first film to use this logo), the text and stars are bigger and the mountain is seen from afar. The words "A Paramount Picture" fade a few seconds later to the words "in 3 Dimension". At the end of the movie, the "The End" text appears by itself in front of the mountain, then fades to the company name a few moments later.
 * On films shot in VistaVision, the stars and text fade out, followed by the text "in", which itself fades out and is followed by a big "V" zooming in (a la the Viacom's "V of Doom"). The words "VISTA" and "ISION" appear on either side in a wiping effect. Then the words "MOTION PICTURE" appear under "VISTA", followed by "HIGH-FIDELITY" under "ISION".
 * On White Christmas, "Paramount (with the "P" written in their corporate font) proudly presents the first picture in" first appears over the mountain, followed by the VistaVision logo without any other text. The rest of the logo then plays as usual.
 * The logo has appeared in Spanish ("Paramount Films Presenta"), French ("C 'est un film Paramount", or "Distribué par Paramount"), and German ("Ein Paramount Film", or Im Verleih der Paramount ).
 * On movie trailers, another version is used where we see the 24 stars, followed by "COMING FROM Paramount Pictures" (or "COMING FROM Paramount" since 1968) appearing one by one in the center, with the Gulf+Western byline appearing below in the latter variation. This was used until around 1977; however, the trailers for Harold and Maude use the normal version instead.
 * There is a variation used in 1974 that has two of the stars clipped away. The mountain looks the same as it does in the second version, but the stars are bigger. Also, "A Gulf+" slides in from the left and "+Western Company" from the right. The script name also had a few variations of its own. At least three movies from 1974 (The Great Gatsby, Brother Sun, Sister Moon and Death Wish) featured the TV version of this logo; the standard 1974 logo features the print variation, which remains from this day forward.
 * A rare version of this variant has the byline in a different font. This was seen at the end of a French print of The Godfather - Part 2.
 * On War and Peace, the mountain is simply a drawing in orange and brown.
 * Some films such as Lady Sings the Blues and the original 1969 version of The Italian Job have a still version of this logo.
 * Sometimes the text and stars have a more noticeable drop shadow. This version can be found on the original 1969 version of True Grit and the 2002 DVD release of Big Jake (a Cinema Center Films production).
 * On some films, such as the original 1966 version of Alfie, the clouds move a bit faster than in the normal version.
 * Is Paris Burning? (1966) has a different drawing of the mountain in the ending. Also, the stars are kept intact and instead of "A Paramount Picture", we see "THE END" in white overlapping the mountain.
 * On Barbarella, the Gulf+Western byline is slightly off-center.
 * Sometimes the 1968-1974 logo appears zoomed in. This variant appears on the 2001 widescreen DVD release of Charlotte's Web, and possibly on other films from the period.

FX/SFX : Same as the last logo. The stars appearing on the "COMING FROM" variant, followed by each word one by one and then the G+W byline (or "Pictures" in the corporate Paramount font on trailers prior to 1968).

Music/Sounds : Usually silent or the opening/ending music from the film. On films shown in VistaVision, the logo has a majestic fanfare composed by Nathan Van Cleave (which wasn't used on VistaVision films such as Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Strategic Air Command and Vertigo, which used their respective opening themes).

Music/Sounds Variants :


 * The VistaVision fanfare was sometimes specially rearranged for films such as The Desperate Hours (Gail Kubik and Daniele Amfitheatrof), The Tin Star (Elmer Bernstein) and Artists and Models (Walter Scharf, also in a lower pitch).
 * On White Christmas, the final notes of the Paramount on Parade fanfare are heard, followed by the sound of a bell.
 * For the "COMING FROM" variant, a rhythmic timpani sound is heard for each word that appears, followed by a drum beat.
 * On Money from Home, a different brass fanfare is heard, composed by Leigh Harline.
 * Some TV movies such as Seven in Darkness have an extended version of the 1969 Paramount Television "Closet Killer" theme from the era.
 * On Charlotte's Web, a 13-note orchestra fanfare featuring part of the opening song "Deep in the Dark" is heard (the music starts before the logo fades in and finishes when the logo fades out).

Availability : Common. Again, preserved on most Paramount releases of the period.


 * The version without the VistaVision logo was first seen on Paramount's first 3D film Sangaree.
 * The VistaVision version is often seen on Western films (such as Last Train from Gun Hill, the Magnetic Video release of which preserves the logo in its entirety; also on the film's Starmaker Video VHS release) and is also seen on White Christmas (the first film to use the VistaVision variation) and Vertigo.
 * It was plastered by the 1963 Universal logo at the beginning of four Alfred Hitchcock films that Paramount merely released: The Trouble with Harry, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Vertigo, and Rear Window. Recent remastered prints of those films restore the Paramount logo on their current DVD and Blu-ray releases. Also, Psycho, another Hitchcock production released by Paramount, preserved this logo on its initial MCA Videocassette release, as well as all releases from 1989 onward. It is unknown whether this logo and/or the Universal logo appears on the DiscoVision release.
 * This logo surprisingly appeared at the beginning of the Indiana Jones films (with the Gulf+Western byline from the 6th logo added in) and Big Top Pee-wee.
 * Among the titles released with the 1968-74 variation were The Godfather (at least on the 1990 VHS; most prints have either newer Paramount logos or none at all), Catch-22, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, Charlotte's Web, Paint Your Wagon, Harold and Maude, and Rosemary's Baby. Also seen at the end of the 2001 DVD release of The Godfather Part II and Chinatown, which had the 2nd logo at the beginning. It also appeared at the beginning of Escape from Zahrain (1962) when it was streamed on the Paramount Vault YouTube channel in 2016; it is unknown if it plastered the 1953-69 version.
 * BBC One UK airings of the original 1969 version of The Italian Job retains the logo, sometimes after the Wonderful World of Disney intro.
 * Original theatrical prints of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory contained the 1968-74 logo, but the rights were sold to Warner Bros. after that film initially underperformed at the box office; so most newer prints plaster this with a variety of Warner Bros. logos, most prominently the various 1990s Warner Bros. Family Entertainment logos. However, the 2021 UHD of the film restores the Paramount logo after nearly 50 years of plastering.
 * The 1974-75 variation can be found on The Great Gatsby (1974), The Longest Yard, The Godfather Part II, The Day of the Locust, Bug, Nashville, Framed, and Three Days of the Condor, and also plasters the 1968-74 variation on many current prints of Goodbye, Columbus.
 * Newer prints of Danger: Diabolik and Such Good Friends, the 1995 VHS release of Charlotte's Web, and earlier DVD releases of The Godfather and The Godfather Part II have this logo plastered with the 1986 logo, while many current prints of Once Upon a Time in the West, Barbarella: Queen of the Galaxy, Ace High, Downhill Racer, Fear is the Key, Three Days of the Condor, and Murphy's War have it plastered with the 1968-74 variation of the 6th logo (although this logo is kept at the end of Barbarella, as well as at the start of a 2020 HDNet Movies airing of Condor).
 * The last film to use this logo was Three Days of the Condor.

Editor's Note : This is one of the more famous logos of Paramount, and is a favorite among fans of their older catalogue. Also, the mountain seen here would later serve as a template for all future Paramount logos.

7th Logo (October 8, 1975-December 12, 1986, May 24, 1989)
 Nicknames : "Blue Mountain", "Abstract Mountain II", "Fading Mountain", "Perumount II" "Print Mountain II", "Paramount Mountain VII", "Gulf+Western Mountain III", "Barry Diller Mountain", "Pre-Viacom Mountain"

 Logo : We see the same mountain from the 6th logo, only slightly less detailed. 22 white stars encircling the mountain fade in all at once, followed by the word "Paramount" on the mountain's peak (in a redone script font). The Gulf+Western byline (this time with each word stacked) and a registered trademark symbol ("®") also appear at the same time below it. The scene then crossfades to a navy blue version of Paramount's print logo (with the stars still in white) on a light blue background.

 Trivia :


 * The final product is similar to the Paramount Television logo of the period, only with slightly darker colors.
 * The design of this logo allowed it to be used as a full closing logo rather than a simple still variant.

 Variants :


 * The distance between the words and the mountain tip sometimes varies.
 * The size and the color tint of the logo may vary.
 * One variation from 1976 has the navy blue portion of the final logo appear further away than usual, with the "Paramount" script slightly smaller than usual and the stars and Gulf+Western byline drastically larger. This rather strange (if not ugly) variation was seen on Hustle, Leadbelly, The Last Tycoon, and Lifeguard, among others. A less uglier version with resized text (but still keeping the smaller mountain) appears on films such as The Bad News Bears, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Lipstick, Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood, and Thieves. This version also lacks a registered trademark symbol.
 * On films produced in 2.35:1 and some 1979-1986 films shot in 1.85:1, the stars fade further down the mountain than usual, and "Paramount" overlaps the mountain's peak. This usually does not affect the end product.
 * A variation of this logo was used as a bumper for trailers for upcoming films with the words "Coming From" above. However, trailers for Popeye, D.A.R.Y.L. and other films use the normal version instead.
 * On a promotional film for the studio, a circle of stars is seen and the logo is revealed, but is completely white.
 * On some French releases, the finished product looks more like the previous logo. The Gulf+Western byline is larger, in a different font, and moved up the mountain.
 * On Rockstar Games' The Warriors (2006) and the 2010 reissue of Grease (1978), the logo has the "Wigga-Wigga" Viacom byline.

FX/SFX : The clouds moving, the stars, company name, and byline fading in.

Music/Sounds : None or the film's opening/closing theme.

Music/Sounds Variants :


 * 1976-1985 : In some cases, a new orchestral fanfare by Jerry Goldsmith was used for the "Coming From" variant on trailers for films like Islands in the Stream, Saturday Night Fever, Foul Play, and Airplane!. A few films such as Starting Over had this fanfare at the beginning.
 * On Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood, another orchestral fanfare by Neal Hefti was used, which sounds similar to the Paramount on Parade theme.
 * Pre-1998 prints of Grease had a theme which seems to be a horn re-orchestration of the intro to "Love is a Many-Splendored Thing" or the 1976 Paramount Television fanfare. The Grease 40th Anniversary DVD/Blu-ray restores the horn theme.
 * On the promotional film variant, a male announcer says, "In 1985, Paramount has a whole new attitude."

Availability : Common. Can be found on most release versions of Paramount's mid-'70s-mid-'80s output. Most films released on VHS, DVD, and Blu-ray, as well as TV prints, have this logo intact or restored as well. Some well-known movies that used this include The Bad News Bears, Saturday Night Fever, Grease, Heaven Can Wait, The Warriors, Escape from Alcatraz, the first four Star Trek films, the first six Friday the 13th films, Airplane!, An Officer and a Gentleman, 48 Hrs., Flashdance, Trading Places, Terms of Endearment, Footloose, Beverly Hills Cop, Pretty in Pink, Top Gun, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and Crocodile Dundee.
 * The first film to use this logo was Mahogany, and the last to use it was Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.
 * This logo has been restored on the 2007 Sony Pictures DVD release and TV airings of Meatballs, which previously plastered it with the 9th logo.
 * It also appears at the end of the first two Indiana Jones films (and the DVD release of the third film), the 1980 film Popeye, and Hulu's print of Bug, which all had the previous logo at the beginning.
 * The 1976 variation can be found on Lipstick, The Bad News Bears, Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood, the 1996 VHS release of Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown, Gallipoli (although the 2015 Region 4 DVD release and a Nine Network broadcast of the film had it replaced by a remastered per frame screen), US prints of Bugsy Malone, and current prints of Looking for Mr. Goodbar.
 * Some films have this plastered with the next logo in any of its three byline variations, such as Grease starting with its 1998 video releases, the 1976 version of King Kong, and the 2007 DVD release of Mahogany (all with the Viacom byline version). Early video releases and most 2004-2012 prints of Top Gun retain this logo, though all other copies plaster it with either the 7th logo (although the 1987 VHS retained this logo at the very end, as it was plastered by the "75th Anniversary" variant of the 7th logo at the beginning) or the 10th logo for most post-2013/3D prints. Late 1990s American TV broadcasts of Dragonslayer briefly plastered this logo with the Viacom byline version, but recent broadcasts retain the original logo. The 2001 Director's Cut DVD of Star Trek: The Motion Picture also replaced this logo with the 1986 version, although it's retained on copies of the theatrical cut.
 * The last film to use this logo was The Golden Child (albeit at the end; the 7th logo made its debut at the beginning of the film).
 * Of the films released during Paramount's distribution pact with Lorimar, An Officer and a Gentleman still has this logo due to it being financed and owned outright by Paramount, but the 1981 version of The Postman Always Rings Twice, (Escape to) Victory, S.O.B., and The Sea Wolves all have it replaced by the 1999 Warner Bros. Pictures logo on most current prints (since the studio only had North American distribution rights). Night School, however, had this and the Lorimar logo intact on a recent Movie Channel airing, and on the widescreen laserdisc, with Warner's "Shield of Staleness" preceding it.
 * The "Coming From" variant is usually preserved on trailers for films such as Flashdance, Saturday Night Fever, and Islands in the Stream on their DVD and Blu-ray releases. While the 8th logo plasters this (but retains the original fanfare) on the iTunes and Blu-ray trailer for Airplane!, the DVD release retains the original variation.
 * This logo is seen on the 1982(?) Paramount Home Video Gateway Video VHS release of the Star Trek episode "Space Seed", following the 1979 Acid Trip warning and preceding the episode (the Betamax version precedes the episode with a trailer for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan after the warning, instead of the logo).
 * Strangely, this appears after the credits on the screener VHS of Jailbait (aka Streetwise).
 * This may have been seen on Canadian theatrical prints of De Laurentiis Entertainment Group films such as The Transformers: The Movie.

Editor's Note : This is also another famous Paramount logo, and the only one that is fully abstract, though the earlier variants look really awkward and ugly with their odd differences in size.

8th Logo (December 12, 1986-October 7, 2003)
Nicknames : "2010s/2020s Mountain", "CGI Mountain III", "Perumount V", "Centennial Mountain", "Decade Mountain II", "100 Years of Paramount", "Paramount Mountain X", "Century Mountain", "Sunset Mountain", "Viacom Mountain III", "ViacomCBS Mountain", "Mount Paramount II", "Ultra Majestic Mountain II", "Majestic Mountain III"

Logo : On a dark cloudy background, we see several stars flying towards the camera, a mirrored reference to the previous logo. As the third star flies towards us, we follow the star as the camera pans upward to reveal that we were looking at the reflection of a lake. We follow two of the stars as they skim the lake and create ripples. We continue to fly forward as a total of 22 stars line up and encircle the mountain ahead. Then the "Paramount" script zooms out to take its place on the mountain, which is situated on a cloudy sunset landscape. The Viacom or ViacomCBS byline then fades in below.

Bylines :


 * December 16, 2011-November 8, 2019: " A VI a COM COMPANY " set in the 2006 Viacom font.
 * January 10, 2020-May 13, 2022: "A ViacomCBS Company" set in Gotham Bold.
 * Mid-2021-March 29, 2022: "A ViacomCBS Company" set in ViacomCBS Raisonné.
 * April 26, 2013, June 3, 2016, March 12, 2022-: Bylineless

Variants:


 * December 16, 2011-December 21, 2012: For the logo's debut and its first official year, a bright light shines to reveal the text"100 Years" with "100" bigger and "Years" smaller, before a smaller Viacom byline fades in underneath.
 * On Daddy's Home 2 and a recent French print of Easy Down There! (1971), the byline fades in earlier than usual when the "Paramount" script zooms back. This can also be seen on trailers and TV spots for some Paramount films.
 * On Pain & Gain and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, the logo is bylineless. This was made the new main version following the corporate rename to Paramount Global in February 2022. On some cases, such as The Lost City, the logo out when the ® symbol fades in, which is not present on the previous versions.
 * An open-matte version of this logo exists. This was spotted on later 2012 reissues of Wings and the Australian trailer for Jackass Forever.
 * A version with a French byline, reading " UNE SOCIÉTÉ VI a COM ", exists. This was merely a corporate variant and never actually appeared on films from 2011-19.
 * A version of this logo exists where the camera angle is slightly different, the mountain has slightly less light reflection, the stars have a lighter color, the "Paramount" script is darker, and some of the clouds above the mountain are not visible. This can be seen on movies like The Wolf of Wall Street, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, Mission: Impossible - Fallout, both Sonic the Hedgehog films (as variants), Coming 2 America (also as a variant) and The Lost City, and home video releases from the company starting in late 2020.
 * A version of the aforementioned variant exists for the 100 Years version of this logo, where the Viacom byline is shifted upwards. This can be seen on Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away, Katy Perry: Part of Me, and the 2012 3D reissue of Titanic (North America only, the 2012 international reissue has the 2009 Fox logo with the 1994 fanfare) and the 2013 3D reissue of Top Gun. It also appears at the end of Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted and Rise of the Guardians, the last two DreamWorks Animation films to be distributed by Paramount.
 * On The Avengers, Iron Man 3 (studio credits only, distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures), Tom Clancy's Without Remorse, The Tomorrow War, short films, and trailers and TV spots for many Paramount films, the logo is cut down to its last few seconds.
 * On movies such as Transformers: Age of Extinction and some trailers of Forrest Gump, the logo is slightly enhanced. Noticeable changes include a more bluish sky and brighter clouds.
 * On Baywatch, the logo animates slightly faster than usual, with the first seconds of the fanfare being cut.
 * A black-and-white version of this logo exists. This can be seen on newer prints of older films now owned by Paramount, and current ones such as Overlord and the trailer for Nebraska.
 * On YouTube advertisements from the side of a video (done after a video ad), the logo appears without a byline and has a dark blue and black gradient on the sides.
 * On the ViacomCBS byline variants, the trademark symbol ("™") is used in place of the registered trademark symbol ("®").
 * Starting with Sonic the Hedgehog 2, and on Paramount's Facebook cover image, the trademark symbol ("™") is removed.
 * A still open matte version of the 100 Years variant was spotted when the Paramount Movies app on Xbox 360 is launched in both fullscreen and widescreen.
 * As with the last logo, an end-of-trailer variant exists, featuring a still version of the logo and "Available from Paramount" above it. This can be found on Prime Video's prints of the trailers for The Parallax View, The Last Castle, The Sum of All Fears, Juice, Flesh and Bone, Little Darlings, and Next (Atlantic City also carried it, but it has since been plastered with a stretched variant of the Gulf+Western byline version of the 8th logo, with the end of the trailer's closing theme playing over it).
 * On the trailer for Tropic Thunder, the top and bottom portions are cut off.
 * On the trailer for Yours, Mine & Ours, "Available from Paramount" is missing and the color scheme is duller.

Closing Variant : Same as the last logo; sometimes "DISTRIBUTED BY" appears above. Sometimes, the logo fades in and out; other times, it cuts in and out.

FX/SFX : Beautifully crafted CGI that combines elements from the last two logos, which still holds up well nearly 10 years later. Designed by Devastudios and animated using Terragen from Planetside Software. Devastudios also used Terragen for the current Warner Bros. Pictures logo.

Music/Sounds : A light bell and string piece which rises in intensity to become more majestic and orchestral, with the final note also using a brief choir, scored by Michael Giacchino (composer of Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol, the first film to use this logo). Sometimes there is no music, the opening theme of the movie, or a different fanfare.

Music/Sounds Variants :


 * On Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, the first film to use this logo, there is an alternate version of the fanfare with some slight changes, in the note of the orchestration, making it sound more powerful. An unused alternate version is heard on its soundtrack album that features a very different, more sweeping, and even more powerful orchestration.
 * On Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa, Zoolander 2, Baywatch, and the 2019 4K Blu-ray release of Pet Sematary (1989), whooshes are added to the logo over either the fanfare or the opening theme of the movie when the stars and the text fly by.
 * None for the closing variant. Sometimes the closing theme of the movie would be used instead.
 * At the end of a Starz print of Hero and the Terror, a Cannon film, the Viacom "V of Steel" jingle plays over the end variant of this logo due to a plastering error.
 * On some TV airings of films, the 1987 fanfare is used, due to sloppy plastering.
 * On The Lost City, a different theme composed by Pinar Toprak is used, syncing with the logo's animation.

Availability : Current. Seen on all Paramount movies since Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol.


 * The 100 Years version debuted on the aforementioned film and made its last appearance on Jack Reacher, released on December 21, 2012. The version without the "100 Years" text first appeared on Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, released on January 25, 2013.
 * Also seen as a de-facto home entertainment logo on Paramount's 4K UHD Blu-ray releases starting in 2016 with Star Trek and Star Trek Into Darkness, and on regular Blu-rays and DVDs starting in 2019 with Bumblebee.
 * It also appears on the first four films from Paramount Animation (The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, Monster Trucks, Sherlock Gnomes, and Wonder Park) before the division got their own logo in 2020. This still appears as a closing logo, although this could change in the future.
 * The Viacom byline made its final appearance on Playing with Fire; the ViacomCBS byline version first debuted in 2019 on a Spanish TV spot for Sonic the Hedgehog and made its theatrical debut a year later on Like a Boss. Meanwhile, the ViacomCBS byline made its final theatrical appearance on Jackass Forever, and its final appearance overall being on Senior Year. The bylineless version officially debuted on TV spots for Sonic the Hedgehog 2, and its first theatrical appearance as a regular logo was on The Lost City. (though as previously mentioned, it appeared bylineless on two films before this)
 * Although the ViacomCBS byline in the ViacomCBS Raisonné typeface debuted on the UK trailer for Clifford the Big Red Dog and trailers for Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins, it was never used on an actual film. The Gotham typeface was used on films until the corporate renaming to Paramount Global in early 2022, when the byline was dropped for the first time since 1968.
 * This also appears at the end of most (if not all) international prints of recent Brad Krevoy Television TV movies, such as the Crossword Mysteries series, the Wedding March movies, A Valentine's Match, and Christmas Encore, among others.
 * It's also seen at the end of some TV shows distributed by Paramount Worldwide Television Licensing & Distribution (the distribution unit of Paramount Television Studios), such as Spin City on Pluto TV and Viaplay.
 * This is also seen on post-2012 and 3D US prints of Titanic, plastering the 8th logo; and post-2013 and 3D prints of Top Gun, plastering the 7th or 8th logos.
 * The "DISTRIBUTED BY" closing variant appeared at the end of and the trailers of the DreamWorks Animation films Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted and Rise of the Guardians (the latter of which was the last DreamWorks film to be distributed by Paramount). Sometimes plastered by either the final 20th Century Fox logo or more commonly, the current Universal Pictures logo on some recent prints.
 * It also made an appearance at the end of Paramount Players' Body Cam, and more recently on international prints of High Flying Romance, a Johnson Production Group TV movie.
 * Despite The Avengers and Iron Man 3 both being distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures (which was credited at the end of both films), the latter film has the Paramount logo at the beginning and end, while the former has this logo only at the beginning.
 * It strangely plasters the 2009-2020 20th Century Fox logo on the BBC prints of the five DreamWorks Animation films that TCF distributed (which are How to Train Your Dragon 2, Penguins of Madagascar, Home, Kung Fu Panda 3 and Trolls), even though they never actually distribute them. In a similar case, this is also seen after the 2009-2020 20th Century Fox logo on the BBC prints of the two films that TCF also distributed (The Boss Baby and Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie), in which they never actually co-distributed those two and the 2020 "DISTRIBUTED BY" logo also strangely appears at the end of a BBC print of How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World instead of the current Universal logo, which was originally in front.
 * In the case of the former two and the second latter, the BBC wanted consistency with the previous Paramount-distributed entries.
 * This can be also seen sometimes at the end of modern prints of DreamWorks Pictures films, such as on a Netflix print of The Cat in the Hat and the Blu-ray of Mouse Hunt.
 * The ViacomCBS variant has been spotted on a TCM airing of a newer print of The Senator Was Indiscreet, as well as newer prints of My Fair Lady, Adam at 6 A.M., The Big Operator, and The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone, where it plastered the 1990 Paramount logo.

Editor's Note : This is a true masterpiece of a logo, with its powerful, majestic theme, perfect CGI, and the sheer power it radiates. It's certainly a worthy successor to all the 100 years' worth of Paramountains before it. The ViacomCBS Raisonné byline, however is known to be wasted and only made appearances on trailers and promotional material, while the actual films during that time used the Gotham byline.