Institution research_WarnerBros.

1. WARNER BROS.

2.  The corporate name honors the four founding Warner
brothers HARRY, ALBERT, SAM and JACK! The three
elder brothers began in the movie theatre business,
having acquired a movie projector with which they
showed films in the mining towns of Pennsylvania and
Ohio. In the beginning, Sam and Albert Warner
invested $150 to present Life of an American Fireman
and The Great Train Robbery. They opened their first
theater, the Cascade, in New Castle, Pennsylvania in
1903. (The site of the Cascade later became the
Cascade Center, a shopping, dining and
entertainment complex honoring its Warner Bros.
heritage!

4. NEW LINE CINEMA, a film distribution
company, supplying foreign and art films
for college campuses in the United
States established in 1967 merged with
WARNER BROS. in 2008.
Telepictures is an American television and
film production company. Telepictures was
established in 1978 by Michael Garin as a
television syndication firm. The company
syndicated Rankin-Bass's programming and
specials that were produced from 1974 to
1988 including new and successful animated
series, such as ThunderCats and SilverHawks.
It became a subsidiary of WARNER BROS. in
2003!

5. Castle Rock Entertainment is an
American film and television production
company founded in 1987 by Martin
Shafer, director Rob Reiner, Andrew
Scheinman, Glenn Padnick and Alan
Horn! It became a subsidiary of
WARNER BROS. in 2003!
DC Comics, Inc. is an American comic book
publisher. It is the publishing unit of DC
Entertainment, . DC Comics is one of the
largest and most successful companies
operating in American comic books, and
produces material featuring many well-known
characters, including Superman,
Batman, Wonder Woman and many others.
It became a subsidiary of WARNER BROS. in
2003!

6. Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc. was an American
animation studio that dominated American television
animation for nearly four decades in the mid-to-late
20th century. It was formed in 1957 by former MGM
animation directors William Hanna and Joseph Barbera
(creators of Tom and Jerry) and live-action director
George Sidney in partnership with Columbia's Screen
Gems television division. It became a subsidiary of
Warner Bros. in 2003!
Cartoon Network Studios is an American
animation studio. A subsidiary of the Turner
Broadcasting System and formerly of Hanna-
Barbera, Cartoon Network Studios focuses
on producing and developing animated
programs for Cartoon Network. It became a
subsidiary of Warner bros. in 2003!

7. Warner Home Video is the home video distribution division of Warner
Bros. Home Entertainment Group, itself part of Time Warner. It was
founded in 1978 as WCI Home Video (for Warner Communications, Inc.).
The company launched in the United States with twenty films on Betamax
and VHS videocassettes in late 1979. The company later expanded its line
to include additional titles throughout 1979 and 1980.
Products Laserdisc, Videodisc, VHS, DVD, HDDVD, Blu-ray Disc

8. Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Inc. (WBIE) is a division of
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group. It is a worldwide publisher,
developer, licensor and distributor of video games for both internal and
third party titles. Under the WBIE umbrella is Warner Bros. Games (also the
division's major publishing unit), which focuses on the creation,
development and production of first-party titles. Because of the
distribution, marketing and sales infrastructure of Warner Home Video,
WBIE is a significant worldwide publisher for both internal and third-party
Pgraomdeu ctittsle Bsa. tman Arkham series, Lego series, F.E.A.R. series, Spy Hunter
series, Lord of the Rings Online, Mortal Kombat series, The Witcher series,

9. Warner Bros. Television is the television production arm of Warner Bros.
Entertainment, itself part of Time Warner. Alongside CBS Television Studios,
it serves as a television production arm of The CW Television Network (in
which Time Warner has a 50% ownership stake), though it also produces
shows for other networks, such as Shameless on Showtime and The Leftovers
on HBO (though Time Warner owns HBO).

10. Warner Bros. Animation (also known as Warner Animation Group for theatrical films) is
the animation division of Warner Bros., a subsidiary of Time Warner. The studio is closely
associated with the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies characters, among others. The studio
is the successor to Warner Bros. Cartoons (formerly Leon Schlesinger Studios), the studio
which produced Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoon shorts from 1933 to 1963, and
from 1967 to 1969. Warner reestablished its own animation division in 1980 to produce
Looney Tunes related works.
Since 1990, Warner Bros. Animation has primarily focused upon the production of television
and feature animation of other properties, notably including those related to Time Warner's
DC Comics publications.

11. The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio was the in-house division of
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) motion picture studio in Hollywood,
responsible for producing animated short subjects to accompany MGM
feature films in Loew's Theaters. Active from 1937 until 1957, the cartoon
studio produced some of the most popular cartoon series and characters
in the world, including the famous cartoons Barney Bear and Droopy, but
particularly its most important creation, Tom and Jerry.
It became a subsidiary of Warner Bros.in 1996.

12. Today, the vast Warner Bros. library, one of the most prestigious and
valuable in the world, consists of more than 61,000 hours of
programming, including nearly 6,500 feature films and 3,000
television programs comprised of tens of thousands of individual
episodes.
Since those early days, Warner Bros. Studios has amassed an
impressive legacy based on world-class quality entertainment and
technological foresight while creating a diversified entertainment
company with an unparalleled depth and breadth. The company’s
consistency and success are built on a foundation of stable
management throughout its history, long-term creative
relationships with many of the world’s leading stars and producers
and an unwavering dedication to excellence.

13. In 2013, the Studio enjoyed record-breaking success across all businesses,
including the most successful theatrical year in company history. Warner Bros.
Pictures grossed an industry-leading $5.038 billion in global box office ($1.893
billion domestic, $3.145 international) to take the number one positions in
domestic, international and worldwide box office. The year marked the first time
the Studio surpassed the $5 billion mark and only the second time that feat has
been achieved by any studio in Hollywood. Both the domestic and international
divisions crossed the billion-dollar mark for the 13th consecutive year, and the
Pictures Group exceeded $4 billion globally for the fifth consecutive year, both
milestones no other studio has ever achieved. For the 13th consecutive year,
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment was, once again, the industry’s leader, with
17.9 percent market share, and was number one in the DVD and Blu-ray,
electronic sell-through, catalog, television and family categories. Warner Bros.
Television Groups’ WBTV, Warner Horizon Television, Telepictures Productions
and Warner Bros. Animation continued to produce television’s most popular and
successful series for the broadcast, cable, pay and digital marketplaces,
producing more than 60 series in the 2013-14 season. WBTVG and Warner Bros.
Home Entertainment continued to be category leaders, working across all
platforms and outlets, and remaining trendsetters in the digital realm with video-on-
demand (transactional and ad-supported), branded channels, original
content, apps, anti-piracy technology and broadband and wireless destinations.

14.  The Dark Knight” Achieves Box Office
Milestone - Film Crosses $1 Billion Threshold
In Worldwide Box Office Revenue.

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