History Creator / WarnerBros

* ''Film/CapricornOne'' (1978)

* ''Series/MattHouston'' (1982-1985)

* ''WesternAnimation/TheScarecrow'' (2000)

[[folder:Series produced by Warner Bros. Television Studios]]

Many of the shows jointly produced with Creator/{{CBS}} air on Creator/TheCW, as each company has a 50% stake on it. However, not all shows on The CW are co-productions; some are sole WB productions (e.g. ''Series/{{Arrow}}''), some are sole CBS productions (e.g. ''Series/{{Beauty and the Beast|2012}}''), while a few are neither (e.g. ''Series/TheOutpost''). Not all joint WB/CBS productions air on The CW either (e.g. ''Series/AllRise'').\\\

** Warner Bros. Pictures Animation[[note]]Feature film animation unit, formerly known as Warner Animation Group, in operaion since 2013[[/note]]

[[https://www.warnerbros.com Warner Bros. Entertainment]] (branded as Warner Bros., pronounced "Warner Brothers", and frequently abbreviated as "WB") is one of the world's largest and best-known producers of film, television, and video game entertainment. It is the co-flagship brand and co-namesake of the Creator/WarnerBrosDiscovery conglomerate, which also owns cable networks like CNN, Creator/CartoonNetwork[=/=]Creator/AdultSwim, Creator/{{HBO}} and the Creator/DiscoveryChannel among others. At one point Warner Bros. was even larger than that in the past, with operations in books, magazines, cable systems and music (see below) as well as ownership of America Online, although that would be another entire page.

[[https://www.warnerbros.com Warner Bros.]] (pronounced "Warner Brothers", and frequently abbreviated as "WB") is one of the world's largest and best-known producers of film, television, and video game entertainment. It is the co-flagship brand and co-namesake of the Creator/WarnerBrosDiscovery conglomerate, which also owns cable networks like CNN, Creator/CartoonNetwork[=/=]Creator/AdultSwim, Creator/{{HBO}} and the Creator/DiscoveryChannel among others. At one point Warner Bros. was even larger than that in the past, with operations in books, magazines, cable systems and music (see below) as well as ownership of America Online, although that would be another entire page.

If anyone is going to ask, the "Time" in former unit name [=TimeWarner=] came from Time Inc. which produces the eponymous ''[[Magazine/TimeMagazine Time]]'' and other magazines, though it has been separately owned since 2014. Creator/WarnerMusicGroup is also entirely separate and has not been connected to [=TimeWarner=] since 2004; it has, since July of 2011, been in the hands of Access Industries (although WB owns its own label — [=WaterTower=] Music, previously New Line Records). Creator/WarnerBrosRecords, which has its own article, used the WB name and shield logo under free license from [=TimeWarner=] until 2019, when the license expired and the company rebranded as Warner Records. Warner Books was also sold off in 2004, and is currently known as Grand Central Publishing after the Time Warner Book Group was sold to Hachette Book Group in 2006. Time Warner Cable was spun off in 2009 and rebranded as Spectrum under Charter Communications in 2016. [=TimeWarner=] also embarked on a $165 billion merger with AOL (the most expensive media merger of all time) in 2001, which didn't turn out so well after the dot-com bubble burst and dial-up began to fall out of favor (Time Warner chief Jeff Bewkes described it as "the biggest mistake in corporate history" and "misguided in the first place"); AOL was sold in 2009 and is currently in the hands of Verizon.

In 2016, Telecommunications conglomerate and corporate giant AT&T announced plans to acquire [=TimeWarner=] for $108 billion, a deal which was met with ''intense'' scrutiny from the United States Department of Justice, who argued that such an acquisition would make the industry anti-competitive. Due to a lawsuit from the federal government, the merger was delayed significantly until a verdict could be reached (possibly helped by the fact that the acquisition of [[Creator/TwentiethCenturyStudios Twentieth Century Fox]] by Creator/{{Disney}} was greenlit in the meantime). AT&T and [=TimeWarner=] ultimately prevailed in the legal battle. The decision in the landmark case ultimately paved the way for other pending mergers, showing how Hollywood's landscape would be drastically altered by the rise of streaming services. The merger was complete in 2018, and not long after that, [=TimeWarner=] rebranded as Creator/WarnerMedia, causing the original name to be retired once and for all.

In May of 2021, AT&T and Discovery announced an agreement, which would see [=WarnerMedia=] merge with Discovery, with the resulting company being separate from AT&T. AT&T shareholders, however, still held a 71% interest in the new company's stock and appointed seven board members, with Discovery shareholders holding a 29% interest and appointing six board members. The merger was named Warner Bros. Discovery in June 2021. [=ViacomCBS=] (now Paramount) considered selling it's stock in The CW, with top bidder being Nexstar Media Group. On February 1, 2022, it was reported that AT&T had finalized the structure of the merger: [=WarnerMedia=] would be spun off, in proportion, to AT&T's shareholders, and then merged into Discovery Inc. to form the new company. The merger was officially completed on April 8, 2022.

As of 2021, most of Warner's film and television content fuels Creator/HBOMax, a large-scale streaming service that launched in May 2020 and an expansion of Creator/{{HBO}}'s other services. In response to the UsefulNotes/CoronavirusPandemic shuttering many movie theaters or leaving them with little content to play, the studio announced that ''Film/WonderWoman1984'' and the studio's entire 2021 slate[[note]]much of which had originally been intended to play in 2020[[/note]] would have dual premieres in theaters and on HBO Max in the United States. The results of the strategy were very mixed; several films early in the year, such as ''[[Film/TomAndJerry2021 Tom & Jerry]]'' and ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'', were notable successes on both theatrical and streaming, the latter receiving much credit for helping revive the box office in the wake of the pandemic; many high-profile films later in the year, such as ''Film/TheSuicideSquad'', ''Film/KingRichard'' and ''Film/TheMatrixResurrections'', severely underperformed at a time where theatrical-exclusive releases were seeing increased success. The hybrid strategy ended at the end of 2021 due to deals Warner made with cinema chains to ensure a 45-day theatrical window going forward; the new window is set to be introduced with ''Film/{{The Batman|2022}}''.

The company traces its roots back to brothers Harry, Albert, Sam and Jack Warner (their name comes from an Anglicization of either ''Wonskolaser'' or ''Wonsal''). After formally incorporating in 1923, it elevated itself to the top tier of film studios by purchasing Vitagraph in 1925 and Creator/FirstNationalPictures in 1928. Among the company's early innovations was to popularize true synchronized sound films like ''Film/TheJazzSinger'' which began the sound era of Hollywood. WB became well known for its socially-conscious dramas and hard-hitting gangster films in the 1930s and its many FilmNoir pictures in TheForties, not to mention unleashing ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' on the world. In Main/TheFifties, WB became the go-to studio for widely acclaimed adaptations of plays and musicals that had been popular on UsefulNotes/{{Broadway}}. Also during this era, they founded Creator/WarnerBrosRecords, which eventually became the basis of the giant Creator/WarnerMusicGroup, encompassing Creator/AtlanticRecords and Creator/ElektraRecords, among many other labels. In UsefulNotes/TheSixties, it released such CensorshipBureau-busting hits as ''Film/BonnieAndClyde'' and ''Theatre/WhosAfraidOfVirginiaWoolf'', which allowed the studio to find footing in the counterculture movement.

In 1967, the company was bought by Seven Arts Productions, a relatively-small film production firm that at the time was distributing WB's post-1949 library on television, and became known as Warner Bros.-Seven Arts. In 1969, W7 would be sold (with the Warner family now completely out of the picture), this time to Kinney National, a diversified conglomerate which had its roots in New York/New Jersey-area parking lots and funeral homes (including, naturally, [[TheMafia mob involvement]]). Under Kinney the studio (once again known as Warner Bros.) began cranking out hit after hit, with both hard-hitting films such as ''Film/AClockworkOrange'' and blockbusters like the ''Film/DirtyHarry'' series. By the mid 1970s, Kinney had rid itself of its original service-oriented businesses and renamed itself to ''Warner Communications''. Under forward-thinking chairman Steve Ross, WCI expanded into publishing (books and magazines, as well as comics), cable television (with the groundbreaking ''QUBE'' interactive service, which, as a joint venture with American Express, would spawn Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}, Creator/{{MTV}} and Creator/TheMovieChannel[[note]]all now owned by Creator/{{Paramount|Global}}[[/note]]), home video (via Warner Home Video) and video gaming (via Creator/{{Atari}}, acquired in 1976 and sold off in 1984 after UsefulNotes/TheGreatVideoGameCrashOf1983). WCI merged with Time, Inc. in 1990 forming Time Warner.

** ''Film/JonahHex'' (2010; with Creator/LegendaryPictures)

However, whatever Jack Warner's instincts were to enable [=WBs'=] continuing success, they were hampered with a short-sighted blindness to the long-term worth of his company's content, selling off the company's ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' pre-August 1948 color cartoons in 1956 for only $3000 each[[note]]The black-and-white cartoons (save for the all but the first of the Creator/HarmanAndIsing ''Merrie Melodies'') produced around this timeframe remained with WB, who licensed them to television under their now-since-defunct Sunset Productions subsidiary[[/note]] and then much of the company's pre-1950 feature films (plus a 1950 release, ''Film/ChainLightning'', the last direct WB production starring Creator/HumphreyBogart, and the live-action short subjects from prior to September 1948) for a mere $21 million for the whole bundle to Associated Artists Productions (this library has since returned to WB via Turner Entertainment). Changing technology also went against WB with the rise of television and its new host of stars far less intimidated by the studio autocrat.

However, whatever Jack Warner's instincts were to enable [=WBs'=] continuing success, they were hampered with a short-sighted blindness to the long-term worth of his company's content, selling off the company's ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' pre-1948 color cartoons in 1956 for only $3000 each[[note]]The black-and-white cartoons (save for the Creator/HarmanAndIsing ''Merrie Melodies'') produced around this timeframe remained with WB, who licensed them to television under their now-since-defunct Sunset Productions subsidiary[[/note]] and then much of the company's pre-1950s feature films for a mere $21 million for the whole bundle. Changing technology also went against WB with the rise of television and its new host of stars far less intimidated by the studio autocrat.

* ''Film/LAConfidential'' (1997)

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* ''Literature/TheColorPurple'' (1985)

* ''Series/{{Believe}}'' (2014)

* ''Film/{{Dangerous}}'' (1935)

[[https://www.warnerbros.com Warner Bros.]] (pronounced "Warner Brothers", and frequently abbreviated as "WB") is one of the world's largest and best-known producers of film, television, and video game entertainment. It is owned by the Creator/WarnerBrosDiscovery conglomerate, which also owns cable networks like CNN, Creator/CartoonNetwork[=/=]Creator/AdultSwim, Creator/{{HBO}} and the Creator/DiscoveryChannel among others. At one point Warner Bros. was even larger than that in the past, with operations in books, magazines, cable systems and music (see below) as well as ownership of America Online, although that would be another entire page.

* ''Film/TheGreatSantini'' (1979)

* ''Film/{{Creed}}'' (2015)