One of the world's largest producers of film, television, and video game entertainment, most famous for
Looney Tunes. Pronounced "Warner Brothers". Known as "Warner Bros.-Seven Arts" between 1967 and 1970.
The company was founded in 1918 by Warner siblings, Harry, Albert, Sam and Jack. Among the company's early innovations was to popularize true synchronized sound films like
The Jazz Singer which began the sound era of Hollywood.
Its
Vanity Plate is the WB shield.
There used to be a
Fanfare as its logo theme, but unlike
20th Century Fox, it never caught on, and was used irregularly to begin with. Its current theme is the instrumental version of "As Time Goes By" from the movie
Casablanca, one of the company's greatest films.
Not to be confused with
the Warner Brothers (OR the Warner Sister). Nor should it be confused with
Michigan J. Frog's network, which later transformed into today's
The CW.
The once-separate New Line Cinema has, since 2008, been a subdivision of WB, which explains why its notable films are listed here. (It was inherited from Turner Broadcasting System upon Time Warner's purchase of that company in 1996, and operated as autonomously from WB as it could up to that point.)
If anyone is going to ask, Warner Music Group is entirely separate and has not been connected to Time Warner since 2004; it has, since July of 2011, been in the hands of Access Industries.
Warner Bros. Records now has its own article.
This company is the owner of
DC Comics.
Notable films produced (incomplete list):
- 300 (with Legendary Pictures)
- Rise of an Empire (ditto)
- The Adventures of Robin Hood
- All the President's Men
- Angels With Dirty Faces
- Arsenic And Old Lace (1944)
- August Rush
- Beetlejuice
- Blazing Saddles
- The Bodyguard
- Bonnie and Clyde
- The Brave One
- Bullitt
- Captain Blood
- Casablanca
- A Clockwork Orange
- The Corpse Bride
- The Dark Knight Saga (With Legendary Pictures, WB Shield is followed by the bat-logo, which goes from bats swarming onscreen to form it, to the blue flames of an explosion forming the bat, etc.)
- Nearly everything based on The DCU since 1978 onward (For the record, DC Comics is a division of Warner Bros. Entertainment and has been connected to Warner Bros. since DC's then-parent company, Kinney National Company, bought Warner Bros. in 1969.)
- Death To Smoochy
- The Dirty Harry films — the beginning of a long association with Clint Eastwood
- Doctor X
- Finian's Rainbow
- Gay Purr-ee
- Goodfellas
- The Great Race
- The Gremlins movies
- Happy Feet (with Village Roadshow Pictures and Animal Logic)
- The Harry Potter movies (rapid zoom in on a brownish version of the logo, to the opening beats of the theme tune; later changed to a gunmetal grey one in a thunderstorm for the Darker and Edgier films of book 3 onwards)note Unadjusted for inflation, the eight Potter movies are the highest-grossing series in the medium.
- Inception
- Insomnia
- The Iron Giant
- The Island (with Dreamworks)
- The Jazz Singer
- Jeremiah Johnson
- JFK
- The King And I (the 1999 animated film)
- The Lethal Weapon films (with Silver Pictures)
- Man of Steel
- The Matrix movies (with Village Roadshow and Silver Pictures)
- Murder By Numbers
- The Music Man
- My Dog Skip
- My Fair Lady
- The original Oceans 11 (1960)
- The Ocean's Eleven films (with Village Roadshow)
- The Omega Man
- Osmosis Jones
- The Outlaw Josey Wales
- Pale Rider
- Rebel Without a Cause
- Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
- The Scooby Doo films
- The Sea Hawk
- Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird (Big Bird inflates balloons shaped like the letters W and B)
- Space Jam
- A Streetcar Named Desire
- Sucker Punch
- Superman
- Superman Returns (with Legendary Pictures)
- Troy
- Twilight Zone The Movie
- The Valley Of Gwangi (with Hammer Films)
- Watchmen (with Legendary Pictures and Paramount)
- When Time Ran Out (though it was a flop, it was nominated for the Best Costume Design Oscar)
- White Heat
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- The Wild Bunch
- Woodstock
Films Produced by New Line Cinema:
Live action TV series produced (incomplete list):
Animated TV series (produced as Warner Brothers Animation since the department was reconstituted in 1980). See
Looney Tunes for productions from
The Golden Age of Animation.
De Patie Freleng Enterprises was a continuation of this after WB originally got out of animation in 1962;
Cartoon Network Studios) is part of another division of Time Warner.:
Notable video games published, developed, or licensed (incomplete list):
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