[2] With CBS retaining ownership of Showtime and Viacom deciding to launch Epix in 2009 with Paramount films, this division was created to make content for the channel.

Opening over the five-day Thanksgiving weekend, Faster, its third film and the Dwayne Johnson action flick, was weak at the box office with a $12 million start.

[10] CBS moved to replace Bruce Tobey, chief operations officer, with Wolfgang Hammer in November 2010.

CBS's highest profile purchase was $4 million for Inside Llewyn Davis which won Cannes' Grand Prix and nominations for two Academy and 3 Golden Globe awards.

[14] In 2017, Deadline.com reported CBS Films would finance Jane the Virgin actor Justin Baldoni's first directing/producing effort based on an original script by Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis.

[5] The ViacomCBS merger, which closed on December 4, 2019, returned Paramount Pictures to being a sister company of CBS, making a theatrical subsidiary for the network superfluous.