Paramount Home Entertainment

Paramount Home Entertainment (formerly known as Paramount Home Media Distribution until 2019, Paramount Home Video until 1999, and operating as the namesake film studio Paramount Pictures from 2022 to 2025) is the home video distribution arm of Paramount Pictures. The division was founded in 1976.

The division oversees Paramount Skydance's home entertainment and transactional digital distribution activities worldwide. The division is responsible for the sales, marketing and distribution of home entertainment content on behalf of Paramount Pictures, Paramount Players, Nickelodeon Movies, Paramount Animation, Paramount Television Studios, Skydance Media, CBS, Paramount Media Networks (Showtime, MTV, Nickelodeon, Nick Jr., VH1, BET, and Comedy Central), Paramount+, and applicable licensing and servicing of certain pre-2011 DreamWorks Pictures titles, Miramax, pre-2005 Dimension Films titles, and as well as select IFC Films titles and Saban Films titles. PHE additionally manages global licensing of studio content and transactional distribution across worldwide digital distribution platforms including online, mobile and portable devices and emerging technologies.

Before Paramount Home Entertainment was formed, Paramount released its video library through Fotomat. The relationship ended and Paramount soon formed its own video arm in 1979.

In the United Kingdom and other countries, the Paramount Pictures film library were released on VHS by CIC Video (which was an international home video joint-venture with Universal Pictures) until 1999, when Universal pulled out of CIC in favour of its then-newly purchased PolyGram Filmed Entertainment's home video division (PolyGram Video; which was promptly renamed Universal Pictures UK Ltd), CIC Video would be kept by Paramount and renamed Paramount Home Entertainment UK. In February 2015, Paramount Home Media Distribution signed a distribution agreement with Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, whereby Universal distributed Paramount's titles overseas, particularly the territories including the United Kingdom where Paramount Home Media Distribution holds an office. The deal began on July 1, 2015. However, the deal expired in July 2020 when Paramount Home Entertainment signed a new UK home entertainment distribution deal with Elevation Sales (a joint venture between StudioCanal UK and Lionsgate UK), as well as signing other home entertainment distribution deals with Koch Media (later Plaion Pictures) for Italy, Divisa Home Video for Spain, ESC Distribution for France and Dutch FilmWorks for Benelux, all starting in January 2021 and Happinet for Japan, starting on July 1, 2025.

In 2008, Paramount Home Entertainment launched a direct-to-video label, Paramount Famous Productions (with the "Famous" part of the name a throwback to the days when the company was called Famous Players).

In 2011, due to a company restructure, Paramount Home Entertainment was renamed Paramount Home Media Distribution.

Between 2013 and 2017, Paramount titles were distributed by Warner Home Video, and participated in Warner-owned series like Warner Archive and 4 Film Favorites.

In May 2019, Paramount Home Media Distribution reverted its name back to Paramount Home Entertainment, which is the name they carried from 1999 to 2011.