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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.
Its Vanity Plate is the WB shield.
There used to be a Fanfare as its logo theme, but unlike Twentieth 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).
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 2011, been in the hands of Access Industries.
Notable films produced (incomplete list):
- The Adventures of Robin Hood
- All the Presidents Men
- Angels with Dirty Faces
- Arsenic and Old Lace
- August Rush
- Beetlejuice
- Blazing Saddles
- Bonnie and Clyde
- Bullitt
- Captain Blood
- Casablanca
- A Clockwork Orange
- The Corpse Bride
- 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
- Doctor X
- The Great Race
- The Gremlins films
- Goodfellas
- Happy Feet (with Village Roadshow 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)
- Insomnia
- The Iron Giant
- The King and I (the 1999 animated film)
- The Lethal Weapon films (with Silver Pictures)
- The Matrix movies (with Village Roadshow and Silver Pictures)
- Mowgli
- Murder by Numbers
- The Ocean's Eleven films (with Village Roadshow)
- Osmosis Jones
- The Outlaw Josey Wales
- Pale Rider
- 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
- Three Hundred (with Legendary Pictures)
- Troy
- Twilight Zone the Movie
- Watchmen (with Legendary Pictures and Paramount)
- White Heat
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- The Wild Bunch
Films Produced by New Line Cinema:
- The Austin Powers movies
- Dumb and Dumber
- The Final Destination movies
- The Golden Compass
- Harold and Kumar
- The Lord of the Rings movies
- The Mask
- A Nightmare on Elm Street
- Rush Hour
- The Sex and the City movies
- The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies
Live action TV series produced (incomplete list):
- Alice
- Babylon 5
- The Big Bang Theory
- Chuck
- Cold Case
- Detention
- The Drew Carey Show
- The Dukes of Hazzard
- ER
- Friends
- Fringe
- Gilmore Girls
- Gossip Girl
- Growing Pains
- Head of the Class
- Human Target
- Kung Fu
- Lois and Clark
- The Mentalist
- Murphy Brown
- Night Court
- Nikita
- One Tree Hill
- Pushing Daisies
- Scarecrow and Mrs. King
- Smallville
- Studio 60 On the Sunset Strip
- Supernatural
- Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
- V
- Veronica Mars
- The West Wing
- Whose Line Is It Anyway (US version)
- Wonder Woman
Animated TV series produced:
- Animaniacs (with Amblin Entertainment and TMS Entertainment)
- Baby Blues
- DCAU
- The Batman
- Batman the Brave And The Bold
- Duck Dodgers
- Freakazoid (with Amblin Entertainment)
- Histeria!
- Johnny Test (season 1)
- Krypto the Superdog
- Legion of Super Heroes
- Loonatics Unleashed
- Mucha Lucha
- The New Adventures of Zorro
- The Oblongs
- Pinky and The Brain (with Amblin Entertainment and TMS Entertainment for the Christmas special)
- Road Rovers
- The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries (With TMS Entertainment... for the first season at least, Warner Bros has not put out the 2th season on DVD yet)
- Taz-Mania
- Teen Titans
- ThunderCats (2011) (With Studio 4°C)
- Tiny Toon Adventures (With Amblin Entertainment and TMS Entertainment)
- Xiaolin Showdown
- Young Justice
Notable video games published, developed, or licensed (incomplete list):
- Bastion
- Condemned 2: Bloodshot
- F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin and F.E.A.R. 3
- Lollipop Chainsaw
- The Lord of the Rings Online
- Mortal Kombat (2011)
- Overlord and Overlord II
- Scribblenauts and Super Scribblenauts