Warner Brothers
The Company Itself It’s a fully integrated, broad-based entertainment
company and a global leader in all forms of entertainment
It leads every aspect of the entertainment industry from feature film, television DVD and Blu-ray etc.
It has many creative and business resources to build world-renowned entertainment franchises that everyone can enjoy
Warner Bros. has a motto - "Educate, Entertain, and Enlighten."
When It was established
Warner Bros. was founded on April 4th, 1923
Top 10 Grossing Films 1 The Dark Knight 2008
$534,858,444 2 The Dark Knight Rises 2012 $
448,139,099 3 Harry Potter 8
2011 $381,011,219 4 American Sniper 2014 $
350,126,372 5 Harry Potter 1 2001
$317,575,550
6 The Hobbit 2012 $303,003,568 7 Harry Potter 6 2009$301,959,197 8 Harry Potter 7 2010$295,983,305 9 Inception 2010$292,576,195 10 Harry Potter 5 2007
$292,004,738
History There 12 siblings, however, Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack
founded the business In the first years of the 20th century, the family bought a film
projector "The Jazz Singer" is considered the first major talking picture,
but it was not the first sound film In the 1930s, Warners was best known for its gangster movies.
"Little Caesar," the 1930 melodrama about a mobster's violent rise and fall, set the template for virtually all gangster dramas to come
In World War II, the studio began to specialize in war dramas supporting the Allies. E.g. "Casablanca." The Humphrey Bogart classic may be the most loved movie in the studio's history.
The first cartoon star was Porky Pig in the mid-1930s, then Bugs Bunny as the Warners’ mascot.
Stanley Kubrick worked with Warner Bros. as his distributor, producing "A Clockwork Orange," "The Shining," and "Full Metal Jacket.”
In 2009, Warners became the first studio to gain more than $2 billion in North America in a year.
The studio is known for anything these days, it's for green lighting mega-franchises: the Harry Potter movies, the Matrix trilogy, Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy, the "Lord of the Rings" and "Hobbit" trilogies, the "Sherlock Holmes" movies, the "Hangover" comedies, the Superman movies and “The Man Of Steel”
Current Situation In 2014, Warner Bros. Pictures made $4.73
billion in global box office ($1.56 billion domestic, $3.17 international)
Domestic and international divisions crossed the billion-dollar mark for the 14th consecutive year
The international division surpassed $3 billion for the second consecutive year
The Pictures Group exceeded $4 billion globally for a sixth consecutive year, all milestones no other studio has ever achieved.
Parent Company Time Warner Inc. is an American conglomerate
media corporation headquartered in the Time Warner Center in New York.
Currently the worlds 3rd largest TV networks and filmed TV & entertainment company
Time Warner consists of three divisions; Home Box Office Inc., Turner Broadcasting system Inc. and Warner Bros.
Films 18-22 a year 61,000 hours of programming, nearly 6,500
feature films and 3,000 TV programs This year alone they are releasing 23 new films
including ‘The Man From Uncle’, ‘Magic Mike XXL’ and ‘The 33’
Budget In Films
Harry Potter cost them $11,800,000,000
They made a profit of $21,000,000,000 and it became the most successful franchise in movie history
San Andreas Received mixed reviews from critics, and has grossed $470 million worldwide.
The budget was $110 million https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23VflsU3kZE
Here is the trailer!
Responsibility Creativity: Supporting the production of and
access to diverse content for worldwide audiences
Community: Partnering with local communities to promote active citizenship and build strong economies
Sustainability: Promoting environmental stewardship through programs and companywide participation
Workplace: Fostering an inclusive and engaged workforce worldwide
Genres They cover a huge range of different Genres
with all the different films and TV programs they produce
Horror, Comedy, Science Fiction etc. They produce films to fit how the public react to
the genre type We go through stages of preferring Comedies
and sometimes we prefer Action, depending on what is going on in the world
Studio Facilities 110-acre main lot include 30 soundstages (including one of
the tallest in the world that also has an in-ground water tank with a two-million-gallon capacity)
20-acre back lot that can double as almost anywhere Adjacent to the main studio lot is the Warner Bros. Ranch, a
32-acre facility which houses five additional soundstages and various exterior sets.
16 re-recording stages, the state-of-the-art Eastwood Scoring Stage, five ADR (automated dialogue replacement) stages, two Foley stages
Over 175 editing rooms that handle digital and analogue audio editing, full-service mastering and a wide range of digital services
Costume, property/set dressing, set design and construction, scenic art, set lighting, grip, special effects, catering, production sound, transportation, sign shop, drapery and photo lab
516-seat Steven J. Ross Theater The only studio museum in the industry, the
highly acclaimed Warner Bros. Museum
Other Facts The studio is deeply involved in production and
distribution of local-language films for their countries
The have released over 400 films to date in a number of countries, including the U.K., Germany, France, Italy, Japan, Brazil, Spain, Netherlands, Turkey, Mexico and India.