Berle's outrageous behavior on the set and the film's massive failure led to Jack banning television sets from film sets. On March 21, 1955, the studio was finally able to engage in television through the successful Warner Bros. Television unit run by William T. Orr, Jack Warner's son-in-law. Warner Bros. Television provided ABC with a weekly show, "Warner Bros. Presents." The show featured rotating shows based on three film successes, "Kings Row", "Casablanca" and "Cheyenne", followed by a promotion for a new film. It was not a success. The studio's next effort was to make a weekly series out of "Cheyenne".
Warner Bros. Television and Warner Bros. Records
Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. | Warner Bros. Television and Warner Bros. Records
Yes, "Kings Row", "Casablanca" and "Cheyenne" Sorry. I cannot find the answer based on the context. Little Caesar, The Public Enemy, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, among others. Sorry. I cannot find the answer based on the context.
what is the total length of the lord of the rings movies
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Two hours each trilogy
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what is it's story about?
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It follows the hobbit Frodo Baggins as he and the Fellowship embark on a quest to destroy the One Ring, to ensure the destruction of its maker, the Dark Lord Sauron.
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when was the first movie in the series released?
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2001
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who produced it?
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New Line Cinema with the co-production of WingNut Films
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where is the first production company located?
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New York City
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did the company announce it's merger with any other company?
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Yes, Warner Bros.
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when did that happen?
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June, 2014
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did the group you just mentioned produce any other famous movie?
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This is a list of films produced, co-produced, and/or distributed by Warner Bros. and also its subsidiary First National Pictures for the years 1940–1949. From 1928 to 1936, films by First National continued to be credited solely to "First National Pictures". In July 1936, stockholders of First National Pictures, Inc. (primarily Warner Bros.) voted to dissolve the corporation and no further separate First National Pictures were made. This list does not include direct-to-video releases or films from New Line Cinema prior to its merger with Warner Bros. in 2008, nor does it include third-party films or films Warner gained the rights to as a result of mergers or acquisitions.
List of Warner Bros. films (1940–1949) | Introduction
The last two films in 1994 were "Little Giants", which performed better, but only received nearly $20 million domestically and "Richie Rich", which was only a minor box-office bomb, grossing over $38 million for its $40 million budget.
Warner Bros. Family Entertainment | History
This is a list of films produced, co-produced, and/or distributed by Warner Bros. and also its subsidiary First National Pictures for the years 1950–1959. From 1928 to 1936, films by First National continued to be credited solely to "First National Pictures". In July 1936, stockholders of First National Pictures, Inc. (primarily Warner Bros.) voted to dissolve the corporation and no further separate First National Pictures were made. This list does not include direct-to-video releases or films from New Line Cinema prior to its merger with Warner Bros. in 2008, nor does it include third-party films or films Warner gained the rights to as a result of mergers or acquisitions.
List of Warner Bros. films (1950–1959) | Introduction
This is a list of films produced, co-produced, and/or distributed by Warner Bros. and also its subsidiary First National Pictures for the years 1990–1999. From 1928 to 1936, films by First National continued to be credited solely to "First National Pictures". In July 1936, stockholders of First National Pictures, Inc. (primarily Warner Bros.) voted to dissolve the corporation and no further separate First National Pictures were made. This list does not include direct-to-video releases or films from New Line Cinema prior to its merger with Warner Bros. in 2008, nor does it include third-party films or films Warner gained the rights to as a result of mergers or acquisitions.
List of Warner Bros. films (1990–1999) | Introduction
This is a list of films produced, co-produced, and/or distributed by Warner Bros. and also its subsidiary First National Pictures for the years 1930–1939. From 1928 to 1936, films by First National continued to be credited solely to "First National Pictures". In July 1936, stockholders of First National Pictures, Inc. (primarily Warner Bros.) voted to dissolve the corporation and no further separate First National Pictures were made. This list does not include direct-to-video releases or films from New Line Cinema prior to its merger with Warner Bros. in 2008, nor does it include third-party films or films Warner gained the rights to as a result of mergers or acquisitions.
List of Warner Bros. films (1930–1939) | Introduction
This is a list of films produced, co-produced, and/or distributed by Warner Bros. and also its subsidiary First National Pictures for the years 1980–1989. From 1928 to 1936, films by First National continued to be credited solely to "First National Pictures". In July 1936, stockholders of First National Pictures, Inc. (primarily Warner Bros.) voted to dissolve the corporation and no further separate First National Pictures were made. This list does not include direct-to-video releases or films from New Line Cinema prior to its merger with Warner Bros. in 2008, nor does it include third-party films or films Warner gained the rights to as a result of mergers or acquisitions.
List of Warner Bros. films (1980–1989) | Introduction
This is a list of films produced, co-produced, and/or distributed by Warner Bros. and also its subsidiary First National Pictures for the years 1918–1929. From 1928 to 1936, films by First National continued to be credited solely to "First National Pictures". In July 1936, stockholders of First National Pictures, Inc. (primarily Warner Bros.) voted to dissolve the corporation and no further separate First National Pictures were made. This list does not include direct-to-video releases or films from New Line Cinema prior to its merger with Warner Bros. in 2008, nor does it include third-party films or films Warner gained the rights to as a result of mergers or acquisitions.
List of Warner Bros. films (1918–1929) | Introduction
This is a list of films produced, co-produced, and/or distributed by Warner Bros. and also its subsidiary First National Pictures for the years 1960–1969. From 1928 to 1936, films by First National continued to be credited solely to "First National Pictures". In July 1936, stockholders of First National Pictures, Inc. (primarily Warner Bros.) voted to dissolve the corporation and no further separate First National Pictures were made. This list does not include direct-to-video releases or films from New Line Cinema prior to its merger with Warner Bros. in 2008, nor does it include third-party films or films Warner gained the rights to as a result of mergers or acquisitions.
List of Warner Bros. films (1960–1969) | Introduction
Berle's outrageous behavior on the set and the film's massive failure led to Jack banning television sets from film sets. On March 21, 1955, the studio was finally able to engage in television through the successful Warner Bros. Television unit run by William T. Orr, Jack Warner's son-in-law. Warner Bros. Television provided ABC with a weekly show, "Warner Bros. Presents." The show featured rotating shows based on three film successes, "Kings Row", "Casablanca" and "Cheyenne", followed by a promotion for a new film. It was not a success. The studio's next effort was to make a weekly series out of "Cheyenne".
Warner Bros. | Warner Bros. Television and Warner Bros. Records
This is a list of films produced, co-produced, and/or distributed by Warner Bros. and also its subsidiary First National Pictures for the years 1970–1979. From 1928 to 1936, films by First National continued to be credited solely to "First National Pictures". In July 1936, stockholders of First National Pictures, Inc. (primarily Warner Bros.) voted to dissolve the corporation and no further separate First National Pictures were made. This list does not include direct-to-video releases or films from New Line Cinema prior to its merger with Warner Bros. in 2008, nor does it include third-party films or films Warner gained the rights to as a result of mergers or acquisitions.
List of Warner Bros. films (1970–1979) | Introduction
In 1927, Warner Bros. Pictures revolutionized the film industry when they released the first "talkie" "The Jazz Singer" starring Al Jolson. Unfortunately, founding member Sam Warner died prior to the premiere of the film. From 1923 to 1967, Warner Bros. was known as Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. as their main focus was entirely on the motion picture industry. When the company diversified over the years, it was eventually rebranded to its current umbrella name, but Warner Bros. Pictures continued to be used as the name of the film production arm of the company.
Warner Bros. Pictures | History
This is a list of films produced, co-produced, and/or distributed by Warner Bros. in 2000–2009. This list does not include direct-to-video releases or films from New Line Cinema prior to its merger with Warner Bros. in 2008, nor does it include third-party films or films WB gained the rights to as a result of mergers or acquisitions.
List of Warner Bros. films (2000–2009) | Introduction
Bryan Foy joined Twentieth Century Fox. During the war era, the studio made "Casablanca", "Now, Voyager", "Yankee Doodle Dandy" (all 1942), "This Is the Army", and "Mission to Moscow" (both 1943); the last of these films became controversial a few years afterwards. At the premieres of "Yankee Doodle Dandy" (in Los Angeles, New York, and London), audiences purchased $15.6 million in war bonds for the governments of England and the United States. By the middle of 1943, however, audiences had tired of war films, but Warner continued to produce them, losing money. In honor of the studio's contributions to the cause, the Navy named a Liberty ship after the brothers' father, Benjamin Warner.
Warner Bros. | World War II
In November 1966 the entire Warner group was taken over by and merged with Seven Arts Productions, a New York-based company owned by Eliot Hyman. Seven Arts specialized in syndicating old movies and cartoons to TV and had independently produced a number of significant feature films for other studios, including Stanley Kubrick's "Lolita", as well as forging a successful production partnership with noted British studio Hammer Films. Hyman's purchase of Jack L. Warner's controlling share of the Warner group for US$32 million stunned the film world—Warner Records executive Joe Smith later quipped that it was The newly merged group was renamed Warner Bros.-Seven Arts (often referred to in the trade press by the abbreviation it adopted for its new logo, "W7").
Warner Records | 1967–1969: Warner Bros.-Seven Arts
Paley, set terms including half the distributor's gross profits "plus ownership of the negative at the end of the contract." In 1963, the studio's net profit dropped to $3.7 million. By the mid-1960s, motion picture production was in decline, as the industry was in the midst of a painful transition from the Golden Age of Hollywood to the era now known as New Hollywood. Few studio films were made in favor of co-productions (for which Warner provided facilities, money and distribution), and pickups of independent pictures. With the success of the studio's 1964 film of Broadway play "My Fair Lady", as well as its soundtrack, Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. | New owners
Records became a profitable subsidiary. The 1966 film "Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?" was a huge success.
Warner Bros. | New owners
The film studio Warner Bros. had no record label division at the time one of its contracted actors, Tab Hunter, scored a No. 1 hit song in 1957 for Dot Records, a division of rival Paramount Pictures. In order to prevent any repetition of its actors recording for rival companies, and to also capitalize on the music business, Warner Bros. Records was created in 1958. In 1963, Warner purchased Reprise Records, which had been founded by Frank Sinatra three years earlier so that he could have more creative control over his recordings. With the Reprise acquisition, Warner gained the services of Mo Ostin, who was mainly responsible for the success of Warner/Reprise.
Warner Music Group | 1950s and 1960s
Lasky Company to form Famous Players-Lasky. The combined studio acquired Paramount Pictures as a distribution arm and eventually adopted its name. That same year, William Fox relocated his Fox Film Corporation from Fort Lee, New Jersey to Hollywood and began expanding. In 1918, four brothers—Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack Warner—founded the first Warner Brothers Studio on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. On April 4, 1923, the Warner Brothers incorporated their fledgling movie company as "Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc." The Motion Picture Theatre Owners of America and the Independent Producers' Association declared war in 1925 on what they termed a common enemy — the "film trust" of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount, and First National, which they claimed dominated the industry by not only producing and distributing motion pictures, but by entering into exhibition as well.
Major film studios | The majors before the Golden Age
In 1924, after Rapf departed the studio to accept an offer at MGM, Ernst Lubitsch, the successful director of "The Marriage Circle", was also given the title of head producer; Lubitsch would add additional success for the studio's profits. The film "Beau Brummel" also made John Barrymore a top star at the studio as well. Despite the success the studio now, the brothers were still unable to compete with The Big Three (Paramount, Universal, and First National). In 1925, Harry and a large group of independent film-makers assembled in Milwaukee to challenge the monopoly the Big Three had over the film industry.
Harry Warner | Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc
The head of production was Kenneth Hyman, son of Seven Arts co-founder Eliot Hyman. The first film of production and distribution was "Reflections in a Golden Eye". Cool Hand Luke was the final film produced by Warner Bros. Pictures before and after changing its name studio.
Warner Bros.-Seven Arts | History
This is a list of films produced, co-produced, and/or distributed by Warner Bros. in 2010–2019. This list does not include direct-to-video releases or films from New Line Cinema prior to its merger with Warner Bros. in 2008, nor does it include third-party films or films WB gained the rights to as a result of mergers or acquisitions.
List of Warner Bros. films (2010–2019) | Introduction
In the 1930s many actors and actresses who had characterized the realistic pre-Code era, but who were not suited to the new trend into moral and idealized pictures, disappeared. Warner Bros. remained a top studio in Hollywood, but this changed after 1935 as other studios, notably MGM, quickly overshadowed the prestige and glamor that previously characterized Warner Bros. However, in the late 1930s, Bette Davis became the studio's top draw and was even dubbed as "The Fifth Warner Brother." In 1935, Cagney sued Jack Warner for breach of contract. Cagney claimed Warner had forced him to star in more films than his contract required.
Warner Bros. | Code era
By 1949, with the success of television threatening the film industry more and more, Harry Warner decided to emphasize television production. However, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) would not permit it. After an unsuccessful attempt to convince other movie studio bosses to switch, Harry abandoned his television efforts. Jack had problems with Milton Berle's unsuccessful film "Always Leave Them Laughing" during the peak of Berle's television popularity. Warner felt that Berle was not strong enough to carry a film and that people would not pay to see the man they could see on television for free. However, Jack was pressured into using Berle, who replaced Danny Kaye.
Warner Bros. | Warner Bros. Television and Warner Bros. Records
This is a list of films produced, co-produced, and/or distributed by Warner Bros. in 2020–2029. This list does not include direct-to-video releases or films from New Line Cinema prior to its merger with Warner Bros. in 2008, nor does it include third-party films or films WB gained the rights to as a result of mergers or acquisitions.
List of Warner Bros. films (2020–2029) | Introduction
This is a list of early pre-recorded sound and/or talking movies produced, co-produced, and/or distributed by Warner Bros. and its subsidiary First National (FN) for the years 1927-1931.
List of early Warner Bros. sound and talking features | Introduction
Despite the success the brothers now had, they still could not compete with the "big three" studios (First National, Paramount, and MGM)
Albert Warner | Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc
"Don Juan" did not recoup its production cost and Lubitsch left for MGM. By April 1927, the Big Five studios (First National, Paramount, MGM, Universal, and Producers Distributing) had ruined Warner's, and Western Electric renewed Warner's Vitaphone contract with terms that allowed other film companies to test sound. As a result of their financial problems, Warner Bros. took the next step and released "The Jazz Singer" starring Al Jolson. This movie, which includes little sound dialogue, but did feature sound segments of Jolson singing, was a sensation. It signaled the beginning of the era of "talking pictures" and the twilight of the silent era.
Warner Bros. | 1925–1935: Sound, color, style
In 1969, the United Artists Corporation presented to the Library of Congress the earliest surviving preprint material from the pre-1950 film library of Warner Bros. (including First National library). The collection contains 200 silent features (1918–29), 800 sound features (1926–50), 1,800 sound shorts (1926–48), and 337 "Looney Tunes" and "Merrie Melodies" shorts (1931–48). While consisting largely of Warner Bros. releases, the collection includes nearly two hundred sound features released by Monogram Pictures Corporation between 1936 and 1946 and 231 "Popeye" cartoons produced by Fleischer Studios and Famous Studios released between 1933 and 1957. Most motion pictures exist in the original black-and-white/Technicolor camera negatives.
Associated Artists Productions | Film archive
Between 1928 and 1933, Zanuck served as the studio's executive producer, a position whose responsibilities included the day-to-day production of films; while Warner's younger brother Jack and Zanuck were able to obtain a close friendship, Warner never really accepted Zanuck as a friend. After establishing Warner Bros., the studio had unfortunately overdrawn $1 million (the amount which Warner had loaned from Flint) and Warner decided to pay off the debt by expanding the studio's operations further. In the process, Warner acquired forty theaters in the state of Pennsylvania. In 1924, Warner Bros. would produce two more successful films, "The Marriage Circle" and "Beau Brummell".
Harry Warner | Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc
Warner remained active as an independent producer until the early 1970s to run some of the company's distributions and exhibition division. Among his last productions was a film adaptation of a Broadway musical, "1776", which was released through Columbia Pictures. Before the film's release, Warner showed a preview cut to U.S. President Richard Nixon, who recommended substantial changes, including the removal of the song 'Cool, Cool, Considerate Men' that struck him as veiled criticisms of the ongoing Vietnam War. Without consulting the film's director, Peter H. Hunt, Warner ordered the film re-edited. The cuts have since been restored in most television showings and in the film's DVD release.
Jack L. Warner | After Warner Bros
On October 6, 1927, Warner Bros. released "The Jazz Singer", starring Al Jolson, and a whole new era began, with "pictures that talked," bringing the Studio to the forefront of the film industry. "The Jazz Singer" played to standing-room-only crowds throughout the country and earned a special Academy Award for Technical Achievement. Fox, in the forefront of sound film along with Warners, was also acquiring a sizable circuit of movie theaters to exhibit its product.
Major film studios | The majors before the Golden Age
No further Silent Films with Synchronized Scores or Part-Talkies were made or released.
List of early Warner Bros. sound and talking features | Films released in 1930 and after are <a href="talkie">All-Talking</a>
The division was founded in 1992 to produce more family-friendly films. The first theatrical film released under the Family Entertainment label was "Dennis the Menace", released in the summer of 1993. The film proved to be a huge hit at the box office, grossing over $50 million at the domestic box office despite receiving negative reviews from critics. Following it was "Free Willy", which was also released in the summer of 1993 and would also be a huge box office hit, grossing over $75 million domestically. Other 1993 releases included a live-action film adaptation of the book "The Secret Garden," which didn't perform as well as the previous two films but still garnered over $30 million at the domestic box office, and "George Balanchine's The Nutcracker".
Warner Bros. Family Entertainment | History
Warner Bros.-Seven Arts was acquired in 1969 by Kinney National Company. In April 1970, Kinney deleted "Seven Arts" from the company name, and reestablishing it as Warner Bros. Due to a financial scandal over its parking operations, Kinney National spun off its non-entertainment assets in September 1971 as National Kinney Corporation, and changed its name to Warner Communications Inc. on February 10, 1972. Warner Bros.-Seven Arts subsequently went defunct. It released its final production, "Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed", in February 1970. The studio's next film, "Woodstock", which was released in March, was credited as a Warner Bros. production, and this credit would be applied to all other productions from the studio afterward.
Warner Bros.-Seven Arts | Acquisition by Kinney
Eventually Warner dissolved the First National company and the site has often been referred to as simply Warner Bros. Studios since. The backlot has various sets including New York Street; Hennessy Street; Midwest Street and The Jungle. New York Street was built in 1930 and can be used to represent other cities and has been used for films including "42nd Street" (1933), "Blade Runner" (1982) and "The Dark Knight" (2008) and television series such as "Friends" (1994–2004). Hennessy Street was originally known as Tenement Street and was built in 1937. It was used for "My Fair Lady" (1964), "Annie" (1982) and "Spider-Man" (2002).
Warner Bros. Studios, Burbank | History
Some of these programs have not been seen publicly since their last syndicated release in the 1980s.
Warner Bros. Television Studios | Later years
The studio's first live-action film was "My Four Years in Germany" (1918), their first animated film was "Gay Purr-ee" (1962). Animated films produced by Warner Bros. Animation, and the Warner Animation Group are also released by Warner Bros. Pictures. The studio has released twenty-five films that have received an Academy Award for Best Picture nomination: "Disraeli" (1929), "I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang" (1932), "42nd Street" (1933), "Here Comes the Navy" (1934), "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (1935), "Anthony Adverse" (1936), "The Life of Emile Zola" (1937), "The Adventures of Robin Hood" (1938), "Four Daughters" (1938), "Jezebel" (1938), "Dark Victory" (1939), to name a few.
Warner Bros. Pictures | Filmography
Warner Bros. was a pioneer of films with synchronized sound (then known as "talking pictures" or "talkies"). In 1925, at Sam's urging, Warner's agreed to add this feature to their productions. By February 1926, the studio reported a net loss of $333,413. After a long period denying Sam's request for sound, Harry agreed to change, as long as the studio's use of synchronized sound was for background music purposes only. The Warners signed a contract with the sound engineer company Western Electric and established Vitaphone. In 1926, Vitaphone began making films with music and effects tracks, most notably, in the feature "Don Juan" starring John Barrymore.
Warner Bros. | 1925–1935: Sound, color, style
At first, Warner Bros., like most other Hollywood studios, had seen television as a threat that it wished would disappear. Jack L. Warner, stung by the failure of Milton Berle's expensive film "Always Leave Them Laughing" tried to dismiss it as a mere passing fad, but by 1955, this apparently was hardly the case. ABC, which did not have the contracts with stars and their hit former radio shows on the CBS and NBC networks approached Warner Bros. about acquiring the rights to broadcast some of its relatively recent theatrical films, which were then not available for television broadcast. Instead, Warner saw a different potential for his company, inspired by ABC's "Disneyland".
Warner Bros. Presents | Historical background
The following are lists of Warner Bros. films by decade:
Lists of Warner Bros. films | Introduction
Woolner Brothers' final release was "The Sin of Adam and Eve" in 1969. Lawrence later became a partner in Corman's New World Pictures in 1970 as President in charge of Sales and Distribution, but left with two other members of New World to join Kinney National Company, which would later become Warner Communications, and form Dimension Pictures in 1971.
Woolner Brothers | History
Another employee with whom Warner had troubles was studio producer Bryan Foy. In 1936, Wallis hired Foy as a producer for the studio's low budget B movies leading to his nickname "the keeper of the B's". Foy was able to garnish arguably more profits than any other B-film producer at the time. During Foy's time at the studio, however, Warner fired him seven different times.
Warner Bros. | Code era
Since the 1970s, no copies of the film are known to exist. The complete soundtrack survives. Although the film's copyright was renewed in 1956, it does not appear to have been shown on television. 16mm prints of early Warner Bros. films, including sound-on-disc films, were made in the 1950s for distribution as local television package (see Associated Artists Productions), and some two-color Technicolor films now survive (in black and white) only because of those prints. Some pre-1931 sound films made by Warner Bros. and First National have been lost because United Artists (former rights holder of pre-1950 WB films) donated most films to foreign film preservation or private collector and presently it is impossible to search for a film after when UA donated to the Library of Congress the earliest surviving preprint material from the pre-1950 (including some pre-1931) film library of Warner Bros.
Song of the West | Preservation
Warner Bros. returned to the record business in 1958 with the establishment of its own recording division, Warner Bros. Records. By this time, the established Hollywood studios were reeling from multiple challenges to their former dominance—the most notable being the introduction of television in the late 1940s. Legal changes also had a major impact on their business—lawsuits brought by major stars had effectively overthrown the old studio contract system by the late 1940s and, beginning in 1949, anti-trust suits brought by the US government forced the five major studios to divest their cinema chains. In 1956, Harry Warner and Albert Warner sold their interest in the studio and the board was joined by new members who favored a renewed expansion into the music business—Charles Allen of the investment bank Charles Allen & Company, Serge Semenenko of the First National Bank of Boston and investor David Baird.
Warner Records | 1958–1963: formation and early years
Since Seven Arts Productions acquired Warner Bros. in 1967, the film was released by Warner Bros.-Seven Arts in the United States. The film was widely released in the U.S. in 1967 as a double feature with "The Frozen Dead".
It! (1967 film) | Theatrical release
While compared unfavorably to "White Heat" by critics, it was fairly successful at the box office, with $500,000 going straight to Cagney Productions' bankers to pay off their losses. Cagney Productions was not a great success, however, and in 1953, after William Cagney produced his last film, "A Lion Is in the Streets", the company came to an end.
James Cagney | 1949–1955: Back to Warner Bros
For much of 1928, Warner Bros. was the only studio to release talking features. It profited from its innovative films at the box office. Other studios quickened the pace of their conversion to the new technology and started producing their own sound films and talking films. In February 1929, sixteen months after "The Jazz Singer", Columbia Pictures became the eighth and last major studio to release a talking feature. In May 1929, Warner Bros. released "On with the Show!" (1929), the first all-color, all-talking feature film. Soon silent film production ceased. The last totally silent feature produced in the US for general distribution was "The Poor Millionaire", released by Biltmore Pictures in April 1930.
Roaring Twenties | Sound movies
As a subsidiary of Warner Bros., First National Pictures, Inc., continued to be a copyright claimant and trademark on motion pictures until 1936. Notable examples of First National Pictures titles are listed below.
List of First National Pictures films | Films as a Warner Bros. subsidiary
The University of Southern California Warner Bros. Archives is the largest single studio collection in the world. Donated in 1977 to USC's School of Cinema-Television by Warner Communications, the WBA houses departmental records that detail Warner Bros. activities from the studio's first major feature, "My Four Years in Germany" (1918), to its sale to Seven Arts in 1968. It presents a complete view of the production process during the Golden Age of Hollywood. UA donated pre-1950 Warner Bros. nitrate negatives to the Library of Congress and post-1951 negatives to the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Most of the company's legal files, scripts, and production materials were donated to the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research.
Warner Bros. | The Warner Bros. Archives
It is unknown if a copy of the film survives. Warner Bros. records of the film's negative have a notation, "Junked 12/27/48" (i.e., December 27, 1948). Warner Bros. destroyed many of its negatives in the late 1940s and 1950s due to nitrate film pre-1933 decomposition. Or in February 1956, Jack Warner sold the rights to all of his pre-December 1949 films to Associated Artists Productions. In 1969, UA donated 16mm prints of some Warner Bros. films from outside the United States. However, a few sources show no surviving copies, which suggests that it is a lost film.
His Jazz Bride | Preservation status
Warner withdrew its involvement in 1967. Meanwhile, Universal made 13 films in Britain during this period with limited box office success and Paramount had a stake in such significant British films as "Alfie" (1966) and "if..." (1968). After ABPC was sold to EMI in 1969, MGM formed a short-lived distribution partnership in 1970 with EMI which lasted until 1973. EMI formed a tripartite distribution arrangement with Warner and Columbia in 1978,
Hollywood and the United Kingdom | American studios in Britain
The studio emerged relatively unscathed from the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and produced a broad range of films, including "backstage musicals," "crusading biopics," "swashbucklers," and "women's pictures." As Thomas Schatz observed, this repertoire was "a means of stabilizing marketing and sales, of bringing efficiency and economy into the production of some fifty feature films per year, and of distinguishing Warners' collective output from that of its competitors". Warner Bros. became best known, however, for its hard-hitting social dramas, whose production Jack Warner tended to support. These included gangster classics such as "Little Caesar" and "The Public Enemy" as well as the critically acclaimed "I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang", starring Paul Muni.
Jack L. Warner | Depression era
This is a list of selected USAAF films produced by Warner Bros. prior to the formation of the FMPU: The growing demand for training films overwhelmed Warner Bros. and the USAAF established an inhouse film production unit. The FMPU released over 400 films between 1942 and 1945, many of which have been lost or destroyed. This list is representative of that output:
First Motion Picture Unit | Filmography
Warner Bros. Pictures is an American film production and distribution studio owned by the WarnerMedia Studios & Networks Group. Headquartered at the Warner Bros. Studios complex in Burbank, California, it is the flagship label of the Warner Bros. Pictures Group division of Warner Bros. Entertainment, itself a division of AT&T's WarnerMedia. Founded in 1923 by Harry Warner, Albert Warner, Sam Warner, and Jack L. Warner, in addition to producing its own films, it handles filmmaking operations, theatrical distribution, marketing and promotion for films produced and released by other Warner Bros. labels, including Warner Bros. Animation, Warner Animation Group, New Line Cinema, DC Films, and Castle Rock Entertainment, as well as various third-party producers.
Warner Bros. Pictures | Introduction
The film had a complicated release through Warner Bros. beginning in 1974. Upon completing the film, Cohen found the executives who had backed the production had been replaced and the new executives showed little interest in the project. The studio gave the film a one theater run in April—May 1974 in Chicago. It was then given a limited release beginning October 18, 1974. The film drew respectable business, but the company still did not fully support the project. Three years after its original release, Warner Bros. saw another change in executives and Cohen asked the new group to review the film.
It's Alive (1974 film) | Release
The company launched in the United States with twenty films on Betamax and VHS videocassettes in late 1979. The company later expanded its line to include additional titles throughout 1979 and 1980. Some of the company's early releases were time-compressed in order to save tape time and money and to compensate for long-playing cassettes being unavailable in the early days of home video. One example was 1978's "Superman" in which the film was released in a 127-minute format, compared to its 143-minute theatrical release. In addition, early film-to-video transfers of films from WCI were noted for being in poor quality, compared to modern day video releases.
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment | History
Between 1919 and 1920, the studio was not profitable. During this time, banker Motley H. Flint—who, unlike most bankers at the time, was not antisemitic— helped the Warners pay off their debts. The brothers then decided to relocate their production studio from Culver City to Sunset Boulevard. The studio would also rebound in 1921, after the success of the studio's film "Why Girls Leave Home". With the film's success, director Harry Rapf was appointed the studio's new head producer. On April 4, 1923, following the studio's successful film "The Gold Diggers", Warner Brothers, Inc. was officially established. One of the new company's first big stars would be the dog Rin Tin Tin.
Sam Warner | Formation of Warner Bros
Warner then formed the company Facilitator Films, with Phifer; it produced two other films under its banner, including "This Christmas" which grossed about US$50 million at the box office. The company then signed a developmental deal with Warner Bros, a deal with Universal Studios for a television pilot and a project with Overture Films.
Ronnie Warner | Career
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Warner Bros. Home Entertainment | History
Cagney eventually dropped his lawsuit after a cash settlement. Nevertheless, Cagney left the studio to establish an independent film company with his brother Bill. The Cagneys released their films though Grand National Films, however they were not able to get good financing and ran out of money after their third film. Cagney then agreed to return to Warner Bros., after Jack agreed to a contract guaranteeing Cagney would be treated to his own terms. After the success of "Yankee Doodle Dandy" at the box office, Cagney again questioned if the studio would meet his salary demand and again quit to form his own film production and distribution company with Bill.
Warner Bros. | Code era
In 1948, Bette Davis, still their top actress and now hostile to Jack, was a big problem for Harry after she and others left the studio after completing the film "Beyond the Forest". Warner was a party to the "United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc." antitrust case of the 1940s. This action, brought by the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission, claimed the five integrated studio-theater chain combinations restrained competition. The Supreme Court heard the case in 1948, and ruled for the government. As a result, Warner and four other major studios were forced to separate production from the exhibition.
Warner Bros. | After World War II: changing hands
The film was silent, but it featured a large number of Vitaphone shorts at the beginning. To hype "Don Juan"s release, Harry acquired the large Piccadilly Theater in Manhattan, New York City, and renamed it Warners' Theatre. "Don Juan" premiered at the Warners' Theatre in New York on August 6, 1926. Throughout the early history of film distribution, theater owners hired orchestras to attend film showings, where they provided soundtracks. Through Vitaphone, Warner Bros. produced eight shorts (which were played at the beginning of every showing of "Don Juan" across the country) in 1926. Many film production companies questioned the necessity.
Warner Bros. | 1925–1935: Sound, color, style
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Lists of films by studio | Majors
"Cheyenne" was television's first hour-long Western. Two episodes were placed together for feature film release outside the United States. In the tradition of its B movies, the studio followed up with a series of rapidly produced popular Westerns, such as writer/producer Roy Huggins' critically lauded "Maverick" as well as "Sugarfoot", "Bronco", "Lawman", "The Alaskans" and "Colt .45". The success of these series helped to make up for losses in the film business. As a result, Jack Warner decided to emphasize television production. Warner's produced a series of popular private detective shows beginning with "77 Sunset Strip" (1958–1964) followed by "Hawaiian Eye" (1959–1963), "Bourbon Street Beat" (1960) and "Surfside 6" (1960–1962).
Warner Bros. | Warner Bros. Television and Warner Bros. Records
"Them!" was released in June 1954, and by the end of that year had accrued $2 million (US) in distributors' domestic (U.S. and Canada) rentals, making it the year's 51st biggest earner. According to an article in "Slate", this was Warner Bros. highest-grossing film that year. However, "1954 In Film" lists two other films from Warner Bros. that earned more in gross. From contemporary reviews, the "Monthly Film Bulletin" stated that despite the science fiction film genre being new it had developed several sub-divisions including "the other-worldly, the primaeval-monstrous, the neo-monstrous, the planet-ary-visitant, etc." and that ""Them!" is a "well-built example of the neo-monstrous", "less absurdly sensational than most" Discussing the ant monsters in the film, the review referred to them as "reasonably horrible--they do not entirely avoid the impression of mock-up that is almost inevitable when over-lifesize creatures have to be constructed and moved", while noting that they were "considerably more conceivable than those prehistoric remnants that have recently been emerging from bog and iceberg".
Them! | Reception
Warner Bros. also provided trade showings of "So Big" on Wednesday, September 30, 1953, around a month before it would be released. Some cities for the showings included Boston, Chicago, Des Moines, Detroit, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, New Haven, Omaha, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, and Washington.
So Big (1953 film) | Marketing
The last 1993 WBFE theatrical release was "", and it wasn't a success at the box office, getting only $5 million at the box office compared to its $6 million budget, due to a lack of promotion from Warner Bros. 1994 was the worst year for WBFE, where it was home to numerous box-office bombs. In the early part of 1994, Warner released "Thumbelina", which was a major box-office bomb. Another 1994 film was a live-action rendition of the book "Black Beauty", which was another box-office bomb for the studio, grabbing only nearly $5 million at the box office. Following it was "A Troll in Central Park", which garnered less than $1 million at the box office.
Warner Bros. Family Entertainment | History
In May, T/RP's agreement with Warner Bros. expired.
Tollin/Robbins Productions | History
Thereafter, First National Pictures became a trade name for the distribution of a designated segment of Warner Bros. product. Forty-five of the 86 Warner Bros. feature films released in 1929 were branded as First National Pictures. Half of the 60 feature films Warner Bros. announced for release in 1933–34 were to be First National Pictures. Although both studios produced "A" and "B" budget pictures, generally the prestige productions, costume dramas, and musicals were made by Warner Bros., while First National specialized in modern comedies, dramas, and crime stories. Short subjects were made by yet another affiliated company, The Vitaphone Corporation (which took its name from the sound process).
First National Pictures | Acquisition by Warner Bros
He also made "Viva Knievel!" (1977), "The Amazing Captain Nemo" (1978), and "The Memory of Eva Ryker" (1980).
Irwin Allen | Warner Bros
Between the years 1919 and 1920, the studio was not able to garnish any profits. During this time, banker Motley Flint helped the Warners pay off their debts. Shortly afterwards, the four brothers then decided to relocate their studio from Culver City to Sunset Boulevard. The studio rebounded in 1921, after the success of the studio's film "Why Girls Leave Home". As a result of the financial success of the film, its director, Harry Rapf, was appointed the studio's new head producer. On April 4, 1923, following the studio's successful film "The Gold Diggers", Warner Brothers, Inc. was officially established.
Albert Warner | Film career
A two-minute test scene was filmed and presented to Warner Bros.; however, the movie has been put on indefinite hold, perhaps due to the critical and commercial failure of the 2008 movie "Speed Racer" (another Warner Bros. CGI project).
ThunderCats (1985 TV series) | Films
By January 1933, the film's protagonist Robert Elliot Burns—still imprisoned in New Jersey—and other chain gang prisoners nationwide appealed and were released. In January 1933, Georgia chain gang warden J. Harold Hardy—who was also made into a character in the film—sued the studio for displaying "vicious, untrue and false attacks" against him in the film. After appearing in the Warner's film "The Man Who Played God", Bette Davis became a top star. In 1933, relief for the studio came after Franklin D. Roosevelt became president and began the New Deal. This economic rebound allowed Warner Bros. to again become profitable.
Warner Bros. | 1930–1935: Pre-code realistic period
In 1930, this was the first film shown at the newly opened Warner Bros. Hollywood Theatre, a luxurious New York City movie palace specifically designed to showcase its then-revolutionary Vitaphone sound films. The theatre later became a legitimate Broadway venue, the Mark Hellinger Theatre, and is now the home of the Times Square Church.
Hold Everything (film) | Release
The film was produced at Teddington Studios by Warner Brothers' British subsidiary. To comply with the 1927 Films Act the company was obliged to distribute a number of British-made films each year, and during the 1930s the company produced a large quantity of films at Teddington. It was the ninth and final film that the music hall star Miller made for Warner Brothers. The film's sets were by Norman Arnold, the resident art director at Teddington.
Hoots Mon! (1940 film) | Production
Warner Home Video formerly distributed titles from PBS Home Video and PBS Kids until 2004, Big Idea Productions from 2002 to 2004, LeapFrog from 2003 to 2005 (when video distribution moved to Lionsgate), The Wiggles from 2007 until late 2011 (when video distribution moved to NCircle Entertainment), "Sesame Street" from 2010 to 2018 (when distribution moved to Shout! Factory), American Girl, National Geographic Society in the U.S., and product from the NBA, the NFL, and the NHL.
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment | Catalog
In April 1930, Brunswick-Balke-Collender sold Brunswick Records to Warner Bros., and the company's headquarters moved to New York. Warner Bros. hoped to make their own soundtrack recordings for their sound-on-disc Vitaphone system. A number of interesting recordings were made by actors during this period, featuring songs from musical films. Actors who made recordings included Noah Beery, Charles King, and J. Harold Murray. During this Warner Brothers period Brunswick signed Bing Crosby, who was to become their biggest recording star, as well as the Mills Brothers, Adelaide Hall, the Boswell Sisters, Cab Calloway, the Casa Loma Orchestra and Ozzie Nelson. In November 1930 the new budget-line, Melotone, debuted, entering a field of lower-priced electrical records, including Columbia's Clarion, Velvet Tone, Harmony and the labels of the Plaza Music Company, such as Perfect, Banner, and Romeo.
Brunswick Records | 1930s
The last episode of "The Greatest American Hero" aired in February 1983, approximately one month before the Second Circuit issued its affirmance of the dismissal of this case. In an interview with after the TV show had been cancelled, the creator-producer Cannell was asked whether he "lost sleep over the lawsuit." He said he did because:
Warner Bros. Inc. v. American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. | Subsequent developments
Warner Archives released the film on made-to-order DVD in the United States as part of ""The Bowery Boys, Volume One"" on November 23, 2012.
No Holds Barred (1952 film) | Home media
Warner Bros. rebounded in the late 1950s, specializing in adaptations of popular plays like "The Bad Seed" (1956), "No Time for Sergeants" (1958), and "Gypsy" (1962). While he slowly recovered from a car crash that occurred while vacationing in France in 1958, Jack returned to the studio and made sure his name was featured in studio press releases. From 1961 to 1963, the studio's annual net profit was a little over $7 million. Warner paid an unprecedented $5.5 million for the film rights to the Broadway musical "My Fair Lady" in February 1962. The previous owner, CBS director William S.
Warner Bros. | New owners
Although Warner Bros. Pictures was faltering, the purchase coincided with a period of tremendous growth in the music industry and Warner-Reprise was now on its way to becoming a major player in the industry. Hyman's investment banker Alan Hirshfeld, of Charles Allen and Company, urged him to expand the company's record holdings and arranged a meeting with Jerry Wexler and Ahmet and Nesuhi Ertegun, co-owners of leading independent label Atlantic Records, which eventually resulted in the purchase of Atlantic in 1968. In June 1967, Mo Ostin attended the historic Monterey International Pop Festival, where The Association performed the opening set.
Warner Records | 1967–1969: Warner Bros.-Seven Arts
With the collapse of the market for musicals, Warner Bros., under Zanuck, turned to more socially realistic storylines. Because of its many films about gangsters, Warner Bros. soon became known as a "gangster studio". The studio's first gangster film, "Little Caesar", was a great box office success and Edward G. Robinson starred in many of the subsequent Warner gangster films. The studio's next effort, "The Public Enemy", made James Cagney arguably the studio's new top star, and Warner Bros. made more gangster films. Another gangster film the studio produced was the critically acclaimed "I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang", based on a true story and starring Paul Muni, joining Cagney and Robinson as one of the studio's top gangster stars after appearing in the successful film, which convinced audiences to question the American legal system.
Warner Bros. | 1930–1935: Pre-code realistic period
The Warner Bros. film was a remake of the Barbara Stanwyck vehicle "Illicit", released two years earlier. Following the film's release, producer Darryl F. Zanuck resigned from Warners to form his own production company, Twentieth Century Pictures, which eventually merged with Fox to become 20th Century Fox. The prologue to the 1962 film "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" includes a scene from "Ex-Lady" as an example of former child star Jane Hudson's failure to achieve screen success as an adult due to her lack of talent.
Ex-Lady | Production
In 2004 it was turned into Warner Village, a residential street, used in TV series including "Two and a Half Men" and "The Big Bang Theory".
Warner Bros. Studios, Burbank | History
In 1937, Stage 7 was raised 30 feet and renamed Stage 16 to become a 98-foot high stage with a 2-million-gallon water tank, one of the largest stages in the world, and has been used to film scenes from "The Goonies" (1985), "The Perfect Storm" (2000) and "Dunkirk" (2017) and is also where Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone's characters can be seen walking in the film "La La Land" (2016). Stage 22, built in 1937, was the last stage built on the studio lot for 60 years. By 1937, Warner Bros. had all but closed the Sunset studio, making the Burbank lot its main headquarters — which it remains to this day.
Warner Bros. Studios, Burbank | History
[sic] for short ("Popeye" cartoons; now part of WarnerMedia's Turner Entertainment and Warner Bros. units), Harvey Films (most short subjects released between September 1950 and March 1962; now also owned by Universal Pictures, which bought DreamWorks Classics and its parent, DreamWorks Animation in 2016), and National Comics ("Superman" theatrical cartoons; later DC Comics, now also owned by WarnerMedia).
Paramount Television (original) | The 1960s
...And It's Deep, Too! The Complete Warner Bros. Recordings (1968–1992) is a compilation of all of Richard Pryor's recordings with Warner Bros. Records. It contains material recorded between 1968 and 1992 and was released in 2000 through Rhino Entertainment. The collection won an award in the Grammy Awards of 2001 for Walter Mosley's liner notes.
...And It's Deep Too! | Introduction
Semenenko in particular had a strong professional interest in the entertainment business and he began to push Jack Warner on the issue of setting up an 'in-house' record label. With the record business booming – sales had topped US$500 million by 1958 – Semnenko argued that it was foolish for Warner Bros. to make deals with other companies to release its soundtracks when, for less than the cost of one motion picture, they could establish their own label, creating a new income stream that could continue indefinitely and provide an additional means of exploiting and promoting its contract actors. Another impetus for the label's creation was the brief music career of Warner Bros.
Warner Records | 1958–1963: formation and early years
By the middle of the next decade, it had reached 16% and was the second-most profitable studio in Hollywood. Despite RKO's collapse, the majors still averaged a total yearly release slate of 253 feature films during the decade. The 1960s were marked by a spate of corporate takeovers. MCA Inc., under Lew Wasserman, acquired Universal in 1962; Gulf+Western took over Paramount in 1966; and the Transamerica Corporation purchased United Artists in 1967. Warner Bros. underwent large-scale reorganization twice in two years: a 1967 merger with the Seven Arts company preceded a 1969 purchase by Kinney National, under Stephen J. Ross.
Major film studios | 1950s–1960s
Seven Arts Productions acquired Jack L. Warner's controlling interest in Warner Bros. Pictures for $32 million in November 1966. The merger between two companies was completed by July 1967, and the combined company was named Warner Bros.-Seven Arts. The acquisition included the black and white "Looney Tunes" (plus the non-Harman and Ising "Merrie Melodies") library, Warner Bros. Records (which was renamed Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Records), and Reprise Records. Later that same year, Warner Bros.-Seven Arts purchased Atlantic Records. Those record labels were combined in 1971 with two other acquisitions (Elektra Records and its sister label Nonesuch Records) in a new holding company, Warner-Elektra-Atlantic, under the direction of Mo Ostin and Joe Smith.
Warner Bros.-Seven Arts | History
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (commonly known as Warner Bros. and abbreviated as WB; formerly traded as Warner Bros. Inc.) is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at the Warner Bros. Studios complex in Burbank, California, and a subsidiary of AT&T's WarnerMedia through its Studios and Networks Group division. Founded in 1923 by brothers Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack Warner, the company established itself as a leader in the American film industry before diversifying into animation, television, and video games, and is one of the "Big Five" major American film studios, as well as a member of the Motion Picture Association (MPA).
Warner Bros. | Introduction
After graduating from the University of Southern California in 1938, Warner worked at Warner Bros.' Burbank studio in the company's short-subject department. His experience in that position was later applied during his military service in World War II, when he helped to produce training films for the United States Army. Following the war he returned to Warner Bros., joined its distribution company, and later became a producer. Among the early films he produced were "The Hasty Heart" (1949), starring Richard Todd and Ronald Reagan, "The Admiral Was a Lady", and "The Man Who Cheated Himself" (1950) starring Lee J. Cobb and Jane Wyatt.
Jack M. Warner | Career
Midwest Street was built in 1939 for "Four Wives" and has since been used as River City in "The Music Man" (1962) and for "The Dukes of Hazzard" and "Gremlins" (1984). The Jungle set was built in 1955 for the film "Santiago" (1956) and has later been used for "The Goonies" (1985) and "The Waltons". In 1955, Warner Bros. Television was created and TV productions on the lot increased with some of the stages subdivided into two or three smaller stages. The Laramie Street set was built in 1957 used for westerns including "Blazing Saddles" (1974) and TV series "Cheyenne" and "Maverick".
Warner Bros. Studios, Burbank | History
library), led Jones to produce "The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie" for Warner Bros. in 1979. This film blended classic "Looney Tunes"/"Merrie Melodies" shorts with newly produced wraparounds of Bugs Bunny introducing each cartoon. Warner Bros. responded to the success of this film by reestablishing its own cartoon studio. Warner Bros. Animation opened its doors in 1980 to produce compilation films and television specials starring the "Looney Tunes" characters. The studio's initial head was Hal Geer, who had been the original studio's sound effects editor during its final days, and he was soon joined by Friz Freleng, who left DePatie–Freleng (which became Marvel Productions after being sold to Marvel Comics), and returned to Warner as executive producer.
Warner Bros. Animation | 1970–1986: Restarting the studio
On February 7, 2014, Warner Animation Group released its first film, "The Lego Movie", a film animated by Animal Logic. It was met with positive reviews and proved to be a box office success. On January 7, 2013, Warner Animation Group announced its second film, "Storks", which was originally scheduled for a 2015 release but was pushed to September 23, 2016. On the same day, it announced its third film, "Smallfoot", which was originally scheduled for release in 2016, but was later moved to September 28, 2018.
Warner Bros. Animation | 2013–present: Warner Animation Group
It featured radically remixed versions of a number of the songs from the original tape, with a more modern production style and little resemblance to the original recordings.
The Warner Bros. Album | History
television until 2003. Goldenson's efforts paid off, and on October 27, 1954, the network launched a campaign ushering in the "New ABC", with productions from several studios, including Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Warner Bros., and 20th Century Fox. Warner tried with mixed success to adapt some of its most successful films as ABC television series, and showcase these adaptations as part of the wheel series "Warner Bros. Presents", which aired during the 1955–56 season. It showcased television adaptations of the 1942 films "Kings Row" and "Casablanca"; "Cheyenne" (adapted from the 1947 film "Wyoming Kid"); "Sugarfoot" (a remake of the 1954 film "The Boy from Oklahoma"); and "Maverick".
History of the American Broadcasting Company | Hollywood begins to produce television series
It was also the studio for radio station KFWB in its early years as Warner Bros.' Los Angeles radio station. In 1930, Warner Bros. announced the consolidation of its executive offices with those of First National Pictures, with the executive offices being moved from the Sunset Boulevard studio to the First National Studios in Burbank, California. Warner also began moving its filming to the Burbank studios in 1930 and 1931, though the Sunset Boulevard studios remained in active use during the 1930s both for motion picture filming and "phonograph recordings." Even after the move to Burbank, Warner continued to film motion pictures at its Sunset Boulevard studios in the 1930s.
Old Warner Brothers Studio | Warner Bros. Studio
Warner Brothers contributions, for example, ranged from soap-opera pathos ("Youngblood Hawke", which the "New York Times" called "as thin and glossy as wax paper") to wooden heroics (the Troy Donahue western, "A Distant Trumpet", with a story that "looked implausible or just plain hollow.") Additionally, such MGM fluff as "Quick Before It Melts" (1964) could hardly be called a game-saver. Top it off with the Thanksgiving night showing of the same studio's "Marco the Magnificent" (1965), described by one critic as "long on spectacle and short on plot", and you have the ingredients to a disastrous season. Meanwhile, the movies ABC and NBC offered "their" viewers appeared to be equally unattractive because when the Nielsen ratings for the November 1968 sweeps were released, not a single network movie telecast finished in the Top 20—an interesting predicament considering the lofty pronouncements made a year earlier by top media observers concerning the popularity of feature films on television.
CBS Thursday Night Movie | The 1968–69 and '69–70 seasons: A decline in audience
This is an attempt at a complete list of films produced by Shaw Brothers Studios. Films that were distributed but not produced by the studio are "not" included in this list. 1951 - 1952 - 1953 - 1954 - 1955 - 1956 - 1957 - 1958 - 1959 1960 - 1961 - 1962 - 1963 - 1964 - 1965 - 1966 - 1967 - 1968 - 1969
List of Shaw Brothers films | Introduction