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Paramount Pictures Corporation, commonly known as Paramount Pictures or simply Paramount, is an American film production and distribution company and the flagship namesake subsidiary of Paramount Skydance. Founded on May 8, 1912, it is the sixth-oldest global film studio and the second-oldest in the United States behind Universal Pictures, and it is one of the "Big Five" film studios located within the city limits of Los Angeles. In 1916, film producer Adolph Zukor put 22 actors and actresses under contract and honored each with a star on the logo. In 2014, Paramount Pictures became the first major Hollywood studio to distribute all of its films in digital form only. The company's headquarters and studios are located at 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, California, United States. Paramount Pictures is a member of the Motion Picture Association (MPA).
In July 1794, during the final days of the Reign of Terror, a period of intense political and religious persecution during the French Revolution, sixteen Carmelite nuns from Compiègne were executed in Paris. The nuns, known as the Martyrs of Compiègne, were guillotined on July 17, 1794, at the Place du Trône Renversé (now Place de la Nation) in Paris, just 10 days before the overthrow and execution of Maximilien Robespierre, the climate of fear and suspicion was so pervasive that it could easily be compared to a city under siege by unseen evil, as anyone could be denounced and dragged to the scaffold as the supernatural or demonic evil was used as a metaphor for the real, human atrocities taking place before and after nightfall.
