Paramount Takes Step With Digital Film Paramount Pictures became the first major Hollywood studio to stop delivering movies on 35-millimeter film in the United States, offering them only in digital format, The Los Angeles Times reported. The change reflects a shift toward use of digital projection. Only about 8 percent of about 40,045 United States theaters screens are equipped to show movies only in a film format, according to the National Association of Theater Owners, The Los Angeles Times said. Statistics compiled by the Motion Picture Association of America showed that the number of nondigital screens in the United States dropped to 6,387 by the end of 2012, from 33,319 in 2008. The last Paramount picture delivered to some theater owners in a film format was "Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues," The Times reported. Many of the remaining film-only screens are in small towns, where owners have been hard pressed to afford a conversion.