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.............................. Warner Brothers
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Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., or Warner Bros. (pronounced Warner Brothers), is one of the world's largest producers of film and television entertainment. It is currently a subsidiary of the Time Warner conglomerate, with its headquarters in Burbank, California. Warner Bros. has several subsidiary companies, including Warner Bros. Studios, Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Bros. Television, Warner Bros. Animation, Warner Home Video, and DC Comics, as well as owning half of The CW Television Network. Founded in 1918, Warner Bros. is the third-oldest American movie studio in continuous operation, after Paramount Pictures, founded in 1912 as Famous Players, and Universal Studios, also founded in 1912. In 1995, Warner and station-owner Tribune Company of Chicago launched The WB Network, finding a niche market in teenagers. The WB's early programming included an abundance of teenage fare like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Smallville and Dawson's Creek. Two extremely successful family dramas, 7th Heaven and Charmed also helped bring The WB into the spotlight, with Charmed going for 8 seasons and being the longest running drama with female leads and 7th Heaven going for 11 seasons and being the longest running family drama and longest running show for The WB. In 2006 Warner and CBS Corporation decided to close the The WB and CBS's UPN and jointly launch The CW Television Network.
In the late 1990s, Warners obtained rights to the Harry Potter novels, and released feature film adaptations of the first in 2001, the second in 2002, the third in June 2004, the fourth in November 2005, and the fifth on July 11, 2007. The sixth is slated for November 2008. The seventh and final is announced for 2010.
Over the years, Warners has had distribution and/or co-production deals with a number of small companies. These include (but are not limited to) Amblin Entertainment, Morgan Creek Productions (now working with Universal Studios), Regency Enterprises (now working with 20th Century Fox), Village Roadshow Pictures, Legendary Pictures, Silver Pictures (which includes Dark Castle Entertainment), The Ladd Company, and The Geffen Film Company.
Over the years, a series of mergers and acquisitions have helped Warners (the present-day Time-Warner subsidiary) to accumulate a diverse collection of movies, cartoons, and television programs.
In the aftermath of the 1948 anti-trust suit, uncertain times led Warners in 1956 to sell its 650 of its pre-1948 films and cartoons to a holding company which became Associated Artists Productions (AAP). Two years later AAP sold its holdings to United Artists (UA), which held them until 1981, when MGM bought UA. Three years later Turner Broadcasting System, having failed to buy MGM, settled for ownership of the MGM/UA library. This included all pre-1986 MGM features as well as the pre-1948 Warner material. Ownership of the classic Warner films came full-circle when Time Warner bought Turner, although technically they are held by Turner Entertainment while Warner is responsible for sales and distribution.
These acquisitions, among others, mean that Warner owns almost every film they have made since its inception, excepting certain films Warner merely distributed. Much of the United States Pictures catalog (with certain exceptions, like Battle of the Bulge, which WB still owns) is now owned by Republic/Paramount Pictures. Certain of John Wayne's Warner films are owned by Batjac, Wayne's company, as are other Batjac productions not starring Wayne - Paramount owns distribution rights to these films. The ancillary rights to ITC Entertainment films originally distributed by WB (including The Medusa Touch, Movie Movie, and Capricorn One) are now owned by Granada International, while MGM owns theatrical distribution rights. Seven years after its 1964 release, rights to My Fair Lady reverted to CBS, which had backed the theatrical production, although ironically Warner now owns the DVD rights under license from CBS. (Interestingly, 35 years after that, CBS and Warner Bros. formed The CW Television Network, as mentioned above.) In addition, one film by Alfred Hitchcock that was originally released by WB, Rope, is now owned by Universal Studios. One Warner film from the post-1948 era, the 1956 version of Moby Dick, is now owned by UA.
As noted, Warner owns all pre-1986 MGM titles and cartoons; the US/Canadian and Australian rights to a majority of the RKO Radio Pictures library; the 1933-1957 Popeye theatrical animated shorts produced by Paramount; and a portion of United Artists material (most of this under its Turner subsidiary). In addition Warner has acquired most of the Hanna-Barbera Productions television cartoons (as well as Heidi's Song, but not including shows based off Happy Days, Mork and Mindy and Laverne and Shirley which are owned by CBS Paramount Television; among other licensed properties); most of Lorimar's television and film holdings (including most of the Allied Artists / Monogram and post-1974 Rankin/Bass libraries, as well as several films made by Lorimar themselves which were released originally by Paramount Pictures, among other studios); the National General Pictures library (except those produced with Cinema Center Films, which are owned by CBS and Paramount Pictures); most ancillary rights to Castle Hill Productions library (which includes early UA material); and a few films released by others, such as the 1956 version of Around the World in Eighty Days; the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory; most of the pre-1991 Morgan Creek Productions library; most of the pre-1990 Saul Zaentz film library; the 1978-1981 Orion Pictures library; the non-Japan rights to the first three Pokémon films; and Castle Rock Entertainment films made after Turner acquired Castle Rock (except the Region 1 rights to The Story of Us and The Last Days of Disco, as well as the international rights to The American President, all owned by Universal). In 2008, Warner Bros. will add the Peanuts/Charlie Brown library to its collection (this will include all the television specials and series outside of the theatrical library, which will continue to be owned by CBS and Paramount through United Feature Syndicate, licensor and owner of the Peanuts material).
The University of Southern California Warner Bros. Archives is the largest single studio collection in the world. Donated in 1977 to USC's School of Cinema-Television by Warner Communications, the WBA houses departmental records that detail Warner Bros. activities from the studio’s first major feature, My Four Years in Germany (1918), to its sale to Seven Arts in 1968.
UA donated pre-1949 Warner Bros. nitrates to the Library of Congress and post-1951 negatives to UCLA's film library. Most of the company's legal files, scripts and production materials were donated to the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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