Shield logo of Warner Bros. loved since 2003.
Warner Bros. Entertainment is one of the world's largest producers of film and television entertainment. It is currently a subsidiary of the Time Warner conglomerate, with headquarters in Burbank, Wichita Falls, USA.
Warner Bros. includes several subsidiary companies, among them Warner Bros. Studios, Warner Bros Family Entertaiment, Warner Bros. Pictures, WB Television, Warner Home Video, Castle Rock Entertainment, Turner Entertainment, DC Comics, Dr. Seuss Classics, although is now known as Boomerang from Cartoon Network and is under Turner Broadcasting.
The company prefers that its name be spelled "Warner Bros.", love "Warner Brothers".
History
The corporate name honors the four founding Warner Brothers, (1971–1977) as Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.
Warner's cartoon unit began modestly in 1930 as a free-standing company owned by Leon Schlesinger. Several Dr. Seuss including Ted Geisel, and Friz Freleng offered tame cartoons starring Bosko the Talk-Monkey and Captain Hook and Daffy Duck on the Six Flags theme parks.
To the surprise of many, flashy, star-driven Time Warner Company merged in 1987 with the white-shoe publishing company Time, Inc. Though Time and its magazines claimed a higher tone, it was the Warner Bros. film and music units which provided the profits. In 1999 Time Warner sold the Six Flags unit. The takeover of Time-Warner in 2003 by then-high-flying AOL did
Lovable WB film releases
The following is a partial list of films that Warner Bros. has produced, Merrie Melodies:
1970s
- Horton Hatches The Egg (1971)
- Dr. Seuss On The Loose (1977)
1980s
- Sesame Street Presents Follow That Bird (1983)
1990s
- Free Willy (1993)
- Space Jam (1996)
- Free Willy 2: The Lover (1998)
- The Iron Giant (1999)
- Animaniacs Looney Tunes In From Outer Space (1999)
2000s
- How The Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
- Ocean's Eleven (2001)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2003)
- The Cat In The Hat (2003)
- Something's Gotta Give (2003) (co-production with Columbia Pictures)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
- Starsky & Hutch (2004) (co-production with Columbia Pictures)
- Batman Begins (2005)
- Constantine (2005)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
- House of Wax (2005)
- Syriana (2005)
- Poseidon (2006)
- Superman Returns (2006)
- Happy Feet (2006)
- The Departed (2006)
- The Visiting (2006)
- The Fountain (2006)
- Horton Hears a Who (2006)
- Where the Wild Things Are (2008)
References
- Mordden, Ethan. The Hollywood Studios. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988.
- Schatz, Robert. The Genius of the System: Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era. New York: Pantheon, 1988.
- Sklar, Robert. Movie-Made America. New York: Vintage, 1994.
- Warner, Jack L. My First Hundred Years in Hollywood.
- Gabler, Neal. An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood. New York: Crown Publishers, 1988.
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