Paramount Pictures political money in the 2012 election cycle

A studio name, not “entertainment”

Entertainment, Writer, and other occupation strings are different keys. Paramount Pictures is the grouped legal/trade name as it appears on receipts. The 2012 intersection is $3,371,117. Merging it with a Writer occupation cell would mix 40 studio-tagged donors with hundreds of people who never listed this employer.

Forty donors and 133 lines average about 3.3 receipts per donor. Average line size is about $25,347—higher than occupation keys that average near $1,000, lower than one-donor keys that average six figures. Average per donor is about $84,278. Those ratios describe this studio string in 2012.

Studio letterhead, guild cards, and box-office years are not inputs to this aggregate. Paramount Pictures is an employer string on Schedule A. In 2012 it carried $3,371,117 on 133 lines from 40 donors, 21.7% of $15,571,244. Forty people-keys is a mid-size named-employer pattern: broader than a one-donor stack, narrower than Microsoft’s 576 in the same cycle on that firm’s own page. Those other keys stay on their own URLs. This join is Paramount Pictures × 2012 only.

21.7% of the Paramount Pictures roll

Fifteen million five hundred seventy-one thousand two hundred forty-four dollars is the grouping across all cycles. $3,371,117 is 21.7% of that. A presidential year taking about one-fifth of a named-employer key is a substantial slice. It is still not the lifetime figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 78.3%.

This file does not contain those other years’ amounts. The industry hub is the place to scan them. This tie exists so 2012 is not swallowed by the $15,571,244 stack.

Who the 40 donor keys can be

Executives, producers, below-the-line workers, and people with a stale employer field can all appear if the string matched. FEC does not confirm current employment. 40 is a unique-key count inside the grouping for 2012, not a headcount of the lot.

Recipient committees are not in the five facts. Candidate, party, and Super PAC lines can share the $3,371,117. The overlay lists them. This page keeps the relationship sentence: Paramount Pictures × 2012 = $3,371,117.

Outside the studio × 2012 cell

Motion-picture PACs, independent expenditures about media policy, and parent-company keys under other spellings are outside this cell. Federal contracts or grants to entertainment vendors are USAspending. A studio name in both systems is not a donation-to-award path.

Unitemized gifts are absent. State contributions to California races are absent from FEC individual totals unless they were federal filings. 133 is a federal Schedule A count.

Related views

The Paramount Pictures 2012 overlay is the data join. The industry hub holds $15,571,244. The 2012 election-cycle hub holds every employer string that year. The ties index holds other industry–cycle pages. Attach the 40-donor shape whenever the $3,371,117 is quoted.

How to cite the studio × 2012 cell

Write Paramount Pictures, 2012, $3,371,117, 133 contributions, 40 donors, 21.7% of $15,571,244, from FEC individual-contribution aggregates. Do not upgrade that sentence into a Hollywood-sector total. Do not add the Writer occupation cell. Do not add studio PAC disbursements. Do not treat 40 keys as a headcount of a lot. Employer is self-reported and can include alumni and household members who used the studio name.

The overlay is the recipient table. The industry hub is the $15,571,244 stack. The 2012 cycle hub is every employer string that year. The ties index is other joins. Federal awards to entertainment vendors in USAspending are a different file. Itemized gifts in this cell do not pay those awards. Correlation of a studio name across systems is not a funding path.

Forty donor keys at about $84,278 each is a different political-money shape than 1,683 Goldman Sachs lines in the same presidential file. Both are FEC individual receipts. Neither is a sector ranking. Cite Paramount Pictures × 2012 with $3,371,117, 133 contributions, 40 donors, and 21.7% of $15,571,244, then stop before box office, guild politics, or awards files.

Questions

How much FEC money is tagged Paramount Pictures in 2012?

The join records $3,371,117 in itemized individual contributions for Paramount Pictures in 2012, from 133 contributions and 40 donors. The grouping’s all-cycle total is $15,571,244.

Is this all of Hollywood giving in 2012?

No. It is one grouped employer string. Writer, other studios, and occupation labels are other keys. PAC and independent-expenditure activity is outside the $3,371,117.

What share of the Paramount Pictures grouping is 2012?

21.7%: $3,371,117 of $15,571,244. Other cycles hold the rest. See the industry hub for the all-years roll.

Are the 40 donors current studio employees?

Unknown. Employer is a self-reported field. The 40 keys are unique donors inside this grouping for 2012, totaling $3,371,117 on 133 lines.