What is Warner Bros?

WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT, a fully integrated, broad-based entertainment company, is a global leader in all forms of entertainment and their related businesses across all current and emerging media and platforms. The fully integrated, broad-based company stands at the forefront of every aspect of the entertainment industry from feature film, television and home entertainment production and worldwide distribution to DVD and Blu-ray, digital distribution, animation, comic books, product and brand licensing and broadcasting.

Warner Bros. Studios has amassed an impressive legacy based on world-class quality entertainment and technological foresight and created a diversified entertainment company with an unparalleled depth and breadth. Its unmatched consistency and success is built on a foundation of stable management throughout its history (especially by entertainment industry standards), long-term creative relationships with many of the world’s leading talent, and an unwavering dedication to excellence.

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.

Brief History

Warner Bros was created around 1918 (incorporated 1923) by the four Warner brothers, (born Wonskolaser), Harry (born Hirsz), Albert (born Aaron), Sam (born Szmul), and Jack (born Itzhak), who already had a thriving movie theater business. In the early days, Warner Bros. had a hard time keeping up with older studios like Paramount, MGM and First National, which led them to become innovators just to try to make a profit. In 1927, they created the first film with music and synchronized sound,

The Jazz Singer with Al Jolson, and in 1928 the first all-talking feature, Lights of New York .

The company has merged, transformed and changed hands many times over the years, but Warner Bros. Pictures has continued to operate (currently as part of the Time Warner conglomerate) as a movie and television production studio with dozens of indoor soundstages and exterior sets. Long-running shows that film at Warner Bros Studios include Ellen and Two and a Half Men .

Most sets are re-purposed and transformed when a production is finished, but occasionally a set is preserved in its entirety, like the Central Perks coffee shop from Friends , which can be seen on the Warner Bros VIP Tour.

Time Warner Subsidiaries

Other than Warner Bros, Time warner also owns 17 other subsidiaries, some of which are: Cartoon Network‎ Cartoon Network‎ Studios

CNN

The CW DC Comics

Hanna-Barbera

HBO

Television series by Warner Bros.Television

Time (magazine) Warner Bros. Cartoons Warner Bros. Movie World

Horror Movies By Warner Bros

Sources: Warner Bros website & multiple blogs