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Warner Brothers Film Studio Sanjana Philip
History • Founded in 1923 by Albert, Sam, Harry and Jack Warner • Produced and distributed the first ever ‘talkie’ an audio-synchronized film • In 1918, the company produced its first-ever full-length feature film called My Four Years and made over $1 million • Expanded distributing and purchasing films in Pennsylvania and Virginia to California • The Warner brothers founded the Duquesne Amusement & Supply company to distribute films (based in Pittsburgh). • Warner Bros, the 3rd oldest Hollywood studio (after Paramount and Universal, both founded in 1912), was founded by Jewish immigrants from Poland, originally based on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood.
Production • TV • FILMS • MUSIC RECORDINGS • VIDEO GAMES • PUBLISHING • Movies produced by Warner Max carry production budgetsof $30 million to $60 million • Dark Knight rises has the one of the highest budgets of $250 million
Bigger company of Warner • In 1990 Warner Communications merged with Time Inc. to form Time Warner Inc , the largest media and entertainment corporation in the world. • Part of warner media Studio and Networks • WarnerMedia Studio and Networks is an American entertainment magnet and American miultinationalmass media • HQ in New York City
Films • By the 1930s Warner Brothers was producing about 100 motion pictures a year and controlled 360 theatres in the US and more than 400 abroad. • In the early 1930s the company started the craze for Gangster genre with Little Caesar (1931), The Public Enemy (1931), and Scarface (1932), and throughout the ’30s it presented films featuring such stars as James Cagney and Edward G Robinson in gangster roles. • Warner Brothers also expanded into television with the premiere of the western series Cheyenne in 1955. • Warner Brothers have released 7,537 films since it opening in 1915 • Large variety and range of movies from several genres e.g action, mystery, romantic and drama