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Time Warner Inc. (formerly AOL Time Warner, stylized as TimeWarner) is an American multinational media corporation headquartered in the Time Warner Center in New York City. As of mid-2010, it was the world’s second largest media and entertainment conglomerate in terms of revenue (behind The Walt Disney Company), as well as the world’s largest media conglomerate.
- CEO: Kevin Tsujihara
• Headquarters: Burbank, CA, United States of America
• Founded: April 4, 1923, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States
• Awards: Academy Award for Best Picture & More
• Founders: Sam Warner, Albert Warner, Harry Warner, Jack Warner
• Nominations: Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film, Academy Award for Animated Short Film, Academy Award for Visual Effects, Academy Award for Sound Mixing, Satellite Award for Best Film – Musical or Comedy, Razzie Award for Worst Comedy of Our First 25 Years, Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Comedy, Academy Award for Best Short Subject, One-reel, Teen Choice Award for Film – Choice Movie: Action Adventure, Satellite Award for Best Animated or Mixed Media Feature, Razzie Award for Most Flatulent Teen-Targeted Movie
Two formerly separate companies, Warner Communications Inc. and Time Inc. (along with the assets of a third company, Turner Broadcasting System Inc.), form the current Time Warner, with major operations in film, television, and publishing.
Among its subsidiaries are:
- New Line Cinema
- Time Inc.
- HBO
- Turner Broadcasting System
- The CW Television Network
- TheWB.com
- Warner Bros.
- Kids’ WB
- Cartoon Network
- Boomerang
- Adult Swim
- CNN
- DC Comics
- Warner Bros. Animation
- Cartoon Network Studios
- Hanna-Barbera
- Castle Rock Entertainment
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Time Warner previously owned AOL, Time Warner Cable, and Warner Music Group, but these have all been spun off into independent companies. In March 2013, it was announced that Time Inc. would be spun off as well, completing Time Warner’s evolution into a pure-play global entertainment company. The company’s cable news channel, CNN, later clarified that the Time Inc. spin-off would happen at the end of 2013, though this has since been delayed to early 2014. Itwas being reported that the planned spin-off of Time Inc. from Time Warner will take place half-way through 2014 with the company’s planned IPO being rumored to happen in late 2014.
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In 2012 HBO was the #1 premium pay television service in primetime television and total day ratings. In 2013 the network received five Golden Globe as well as 23 primetime Emmy Awards in 2013.
HBO’s programming includes the airing of feature films, HBO Documentary Films, HBO original films, and HBO original programming, including original series like Game of Thrones and the Sopranos, HBO Sports (live HBO Boxing events). The network has developed content distribution platforms, like HBO GO and Max GO to help support and deliver programming to users via online and mobile devices. HBO and Cinemax are currently available in over 70 countries around the world and HBO programming is licensed to other television networks in over 150 countries.
HBO’s original programming includes Game of Thrones, True Blood, Boardwalk Empire, Entourage, Girls and VEEP, as well as motion pictures, mini-series, boxing matches and sports programs, comedy specials, family programming and documentaries. In 2011, Cinemax launched its first original primetime series, Strike Back, and has subsequently launched the original primetime series, Hunted and Banshee.
Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.
Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (Turner) operates international news, entertainment, animation, young adult and kids media networks as well as related businesses. Turner brands include CNN, HLN, TNT, TBS, The Legal Talk Network, Cartoon Network, Turner Classic Movies, truTV, Turner Sports, The Legal Forum Radio Show, Atlanta Medical Journal and more. Turner’s brands and sub brands reach broad domestic and international audiences. In addition to television network programming, Turner manages digital sports entities, including bleacherreport.com NBA.com, PGA.com and NCAA.com. Turner’s TBS channel reaches large audiences in the 18- to 34-year-old bracket and its news network, CNN, provides a 24-hour news network that delivers news and analysis to domestic and international audiences across multiple platforms. Turner Sports produces sports programming and content for the Turner Networks and related digital properties. Turner Sports’ television line-up includes NBA and MLB games, the NCAA Tournament Games, NASCAR races and professional golf tournaments. Turner operates PGA.com and related digital properties of the PGA under agreements with the PGA. Turner and the NBA jointly manage a portfolio of the NBA’s digital businesses, including NBA TV, NBA.com, NBA League Pass, NBA Mobile and the NBA GameTime app.
Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. businesses range from feature film and TV to home entertainment production and worldwide distribution to home video, digital distribution, animation, comic books, licensing and international cinemas and broadcasting. In 2012 the Warner Bros. Pictures Group grossed 4.3 billion dollars at the worldwide box office. Home Video is the industry leader with a 21% market share in total DVD and Blu-ray sales.
Warner Bros Home Entertainment works across platforms and outlets in the digital realm with video-on-demand, branded channels, original content, anti-piracy technology and broadband & wireless destinations. Each year Warner Bros Pictures produces between 18 and 22 films. Warner Bros has produced more than 50 television series in the 2012-2013 television season. Warner Bros has also incorporated DC Comics content into Warner Bros. Entertainment via the creation of the DC Entertainment division, which was founded in 2009. DC Entertainment, which is wholly owned by the Company, is responsible for bringing the stories and characters from the DC Comics, Vertigo and MAD Magazine publishing portfolios into other Warner Bros. content and distribution businesses, including feature films, television programming, videogames, direct-to-consumer platforms and consumer products. The DC Comics imprint, home to such iconic characters as Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and Green Lantern, has launched digital versions of its top comic book and graphic novel titles, making them available for download on digital platforms.
Time Inc.
TIME Inc. is one of the largest branded media companies in the world. The company holds a portfolio of 96 titles, which include some of the world’s most popular magazines. Each month the TIME Inc. brands have a distribution of more than 138 million US customers via print, online and mobile devices. Popular TIME Inc. brands include TIME, PEOPLE, Sports Illustrated, InStyle, Real Simple and more. It is estimated that digitally TIME Inc. brands reach approximately 40 million users internationally each month, making it one of the top 20 largest media companies online. 21 of the TIME Inc. brands have been launched in tablet version. TIME Inc. brands have received numerous awards and honors throughout the years. In 2012, TIME was named “Magazine of the Year” at the American Society of Magazine Editors’ annual National Magazine Awards. Other honors include TIME winning Photographer of the Year by Pictures of the Year International and the World Press Photo Award for Spot News in 2011 and People magazine being acknowledged by the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute for raising awareness of adoption through its features.
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
Founded: April 4, 1923
WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT INC. is a global leader in all forms of entertainment and their related businesses across all current and emerging media and platforms. A Time Warner Company, the fully integrated, broad-based Studio is home to one of the most successful collections of brands in the world and 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, video games, product and brand licensing, and broadcasting.
Warner Bros. is one of the most creative, flexible, innovative, diverse and global entertainment companies in business today and one that knows how to seize opportunities–particularly for growth through new and emerging technologies while maintaining a leadership position in each area of its established businesses.
Warner Bros. Studios began when four brothers, Albert, Sam, Harry and Jack L. Warner, incorporated their fledgling movie company on April 4, 1923. In 1927, the release of the world’s first synchronized-sound feature film The Jazz Singer set a character and tone of innovation and influence that would become synonymous with the name Warner Bros.
Since those early days, Warner Bros. Studios has amassed an impressive legacy based on world-class quality entertainment and technological foresight while creating a diversified entertainment company with an unparalleled depth and breadth. The company’s consistency and success are built on a foundation of stable management throughout its history, long-term creative relationships with many of the world’s leading stars and producers 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.
In 2013, the Studio enjoyed record-breaking success across all businesses, including the most successful theatrical year in company history. Warner Bros. Pictures grossed an industry-leading $5.038 billion in global box office ($1.893 billion domestic, $3.145 international) to take the number one positions in domestic, international and worldwide box office. The year marked the first time the Studio surpassed the $5 billion mark and only the second time that feat has been achieved by any studio in Hollywood. Both the domestic and international divisions crossed the billion-dollar mark for the 13th consecutive year, and the Pictures Group exceeded $4 billion globally for the fifth consecutive year, both milestones no other studio has ever achieved. For the 13th consecutive year, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment was, once again, the industry’s leader, with 17.9 percent market share, and was number one in the DVD and Blu-ray, electronic sell-through, catalog, television and family categories. Warner Bros. Television Groups’ WBTV, Warner Horizon Television, Telepictures Productions and Warner Bros. Animation continued to produce television’s most popular and successful series for the broadcast, cable, pay and digital marketplaces, producing more than 60 series in the 2013-14 season. WBTVG and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment continued to be category leaders, working across all platforms and outlets, and remaining trendsetters in the digital realm with video-on-demand (transactional and ad-supported), branded channels, original content, apps, anti-piracy technology and broadband and wireless destinations.
Warner Bros. Pictures
Founded: April 4, 1923
WARNER BROS. PICTURES has been at the forefront of the motion picture industry since its inception and continues to be a leading creative force in the industry.
Warner Bros. Pictures produces and distributes a wide-ranging slate of some 18-22 films each year, employing a business paradigm that mitigates risk while maximizing productivity and capital. Warner Bros. Pictures either fully finances or co-finances the films it produces and maintains worldwide distribution rights. It also monetizes its distribution and marketing operations by distributing films that are totally financed and produced by others. Current multi-faceted co-financing joint ventures include those with Village Roadshow Pictures, Castle Rock Entertainment and RatPac-Dune Entertainment. Warner Bros. Pictures also has a distribution, co-financing deal with Alcon Entertainment.
In 2013, Warner Bros. Pictures enjoyed the most successful theatrical year in company history, grossing an industry-leading $5.038 billion in global box office ($1.893 billion domestic, $3.145 international) to take the number one positions in domestic, international and worldwide box office. The year marked the first time the Studio surpassed the $5 billion mark and only the second time that feat has been achieved by any studio in Hollywood. Both the domestic and international divisions crossed the billion-dollar mark for the 13th consecutive year, and the Pictures Group exceeded $4 billion globally for the fifth consecutive year, both milestones no other studio has ever achieved.
Among the films on Warner Bros. Pictures’ 2014 slate are The LEGO Movie,300: Rise of an Empire, Edge of Tomorrow, Jupiter Ascending, The Judge, Horrible Bosses 2 (New Line Cinema) and The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies (NLC).
WARNER BROS. PICTURES DOMESTIC DISTRIBUTION is responsible for setting the release schedule and all exhibition operations to more than 39,000 screens in North America. Through its non-theatrical sales operation, it distributes to non-theatrical markets including airlines, cruise ships, the Armed Forces, the Veterans Administration, colleges, hospitals and other smaller markets.
Home Entertainment
Founded: October 25, 2005
Warner Bros. Entertainment created WARNER BROS. HOME ENTERTAINMENT (WBHE) to bring together all of its businesses involved in the delivery of home entertainment content to consumers.
WBHE includes Warner Home Video and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. Based on the constantly changing ways by which consumers access entertainment product, WBHE focuses on maximizing current and next-generation distribution scenarios to make the Studio’s content available to audiences through as many channels, platforms and devices as possible.
By grouping like business units and streamlining the process of delivering the Studio’s content to consumers, in the format of their choice, as conveniently as possible, WBHE helps the Studio to maintain an industry-leading and defining role in the rapidly evolving home entertainment marketplace while moving consumers’ home entertainment experiences into a new era.
Warner Bros. Television Group
Founded: September 8, 2005
The WARNER BROS. TELEVISION GROUP oversees and grows the entire portfolio of Warner Bros.’ television businesses, including worldwide production, traditional and digital distribution, and broadcasting.
In the traditional TV arena, WBTVG produces primetime, first-run, cable and animated series, with more than 60 series on the air during the 2013–14 television season. WBTVG is the only studio to have at least one series on each of the five broadcast networks. In fact, Warner Bros. has at least three series on every network, and Warner Bros. is the only studio to have at least one new series on each of the five broadcast networks.
The cornerstone of WBTVG is Warner Bros. Television, one of the industry’s leading suppliers of network programming, as well as a major producer for cable. WBTV’s returning programs for 2013–14 are 2 Broke Girls, Arrow, The Big Bang Theory, The Carrie Diaries, The Following, Hart of Dixie, Major Crimes, The Mentalist, The Middle, Mike & Molly, Nikita, Person of Interest, Revolution, Shameless, Suburgatory, Supernatural, Two and a Half Men, The Vampire Diaries, Childrens Hospital and Newsreaders. New series include The 100, Almost Human, Believe, Hostages, The Leftovers, Mom, The Originals, Super Fun Night, Surviving Jack, The Tomorrow People and Undateable.
WBTVG also includes:
- Warner Horizon Television, producer of scripted cable programs such as Dallas, Ground Floor, Longmire, Pretty Little Liars, Ravenswood, Rizzoli & Isles and Sullivan & Son, as well reality series for network and cable such as The Bachelor, The Bachelorette, Copycat, Famous in 12, Marshal Law: Texas and The Voice, among others;
- Telepictures Productions, with first-run syndicated programming such as Bethenny, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Extra, Judge Mathis, Let’s Ask America, The People’s Court, The Real, TMZ and TMZ Live;
- Warner Bros. Animation, producers of Beware the Batman, The Looney Tunes Show, MAD, Mike Tyson Mysteries, Teen Titans Go! and The Tom and Jerry Show; and digital venture Studio 2.0, distributor of original digital content.
WBTVG is rapidly developing new business models for the evolving television landscape, as well as moving aggressively into the global expansion of local production and broadening its operations in the digital space on a number of fronts, including distribution and production.
The Television Group has two category-leading distribution units: Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution (WBDTD) and Warner Bros. International Television Distribution (WBITD). Together, these entities are responsible for the distribution of Warner Bros. Entertainment content to television outlets around the world.
The final component of WBTVG is broadcasting: The CW Television Network—launched (in partnership with CBS) in September 2006 with quality, diverse programming—is targeted to the 18–34 audience on television and online through CWTV.com
DC Entertainment
Founded: 2009 (DC Entertainment’s flagship brand, DC Comics, was founded in 1934)
DC Entertainment (DCE), home to iconic brands DC Comics, Vertigo and MAD, is the creative division charged with strategically integrating its iconic content across Warner Bros. and Time Warner. Founded in 2009, DC Entertainment works in concert with many key Warner Bros. divisions to unleash its stories and characters across all media, including but not limited to film, television, consumer products, home entertainment, and interactive games.
Among DCE’s three key brands DC Comics is a shared universe built on the foundation of the world’s greatest super heroes, including Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman and The Flash. Vertigo is home to stand-alone, commercial, high-concept stories such as Sandman, Fables and American Vampire. MAD is subversive humor parodying today’s pop culture and current events.
As the largest English-language comic publisher in the world, DCE’s publishing business remains the cornerstone of the company with thousands of comic books, graphic novels and magazines published each year. In September 2011, DC Comics – The New 52 was released to critical acclaim and record-breaking sales. DC Entertainment took an industry-leading stance by releasing all 52 new #1 issues in both print and digital formats on the same day.
In addition to starring in print, DC Comics characters and stories can currently be seen onscreen in the animated series Batman: The Brave and the Bold and Young Justice. Feature films from Warner Bros. Pictures based on DC Comics properties include June 2011’s Green Lantern, as well as The Dark Knight Rises in summer 2012 and Man of Steel in summer 2013.
In October 2011, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment’s highly-anticipated new multi-platform video game Batman: Arkham City was released as a follow-up to critically acclaimed and best-selling Batman: Arkham Asylum.
In January 2012, DCE unveiled We Can Be Heroes, an unprecedented giving campaign that will support the efforts of three humanitarian aid organizations working in Africa—Save the Children, International Rescue Committee and Mercy Corps—as part of the global effort to fight the current hunger crisis in the Horn of Africa. This multimillion dollar campaign features the Justice League characters issuing the call to action, “We Can Be Heroes.
New Line Cinema
Founded: 1967
Building on more than four decades of innovation and creativity, New Line Cinema continues its long and successful history of producing critically acclaimed hit films that resonate with both mainstream and niche audiences around the world.
New Line produced the Oscar Award-winning The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, which generated a combined worldwide box office of almost $3 billion (and an additional $3 billion in consumer products and home entertainment revenue). The studio is also credited with revitalizing the genre of the R-rated comedy, based on the success of Wedding Crashers in 2005 and, more recently, Horrible Bosses in 2011. New Line is one of the few film companies that still works in the horror genre, being widely known for the iconic A Nightmare on Elm Street and Final Destination franchises.
Throughout its history, New Line has created some of the most successful film franchises in history. Its most popular films include The Mask, the Austin Powers titles, Hairspray, Rush Hour, Elf, Sex and the City and Wedding Crashers.
New Line became a unit of Warner Bros. Entertainment in March 2008. The company maintains separate development, production, marketing, distribution and business affairs operations, but coordinates those functions with Warner Bros. to maximize film performance and operating efficiencies.
Since 2008, the company has seen the most successful period in its history with the releases of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Sex and the City and its sequel, Sex and the City 2; Journey to the Center of the Earth and its sequel, Journey 2: The Mysterious Island; He’s Just Not That Into You, Four Christmases, Valentine’s Day and Horrible Bosses. New Line’s upcoming releases include Jack the Giant Slayer, The Conjuring, We’re the Millers and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.
New Line’s 2014 release slate includes Tammy, Into the Storm, Horrible Bosses 2 and The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies, the final film in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit trilogy.
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Production deals
Active producer deals (as of March 2014)
- Alcon Entertainment
- Appian Way Productions
- Berlanti Productions(2010-)
- Carousel Productions(2013- )
- Cruel and Unusual Films
- Heyday Films
- W. Productions(2001-2016)
- Langley Park Productions(2011- )
- Life’s Too Short
- Malpaso Productions
- Unnamed Merged Company(2014-2016)
- Green Hat Films(2005-2014)
- 22nd & Indiana Pictures(2012-2014)
- Lin Pictures(2011-)
- Pearl Street Films(2011-)
- RatPac-Dune Entertainment(2014- )
- Team Downey
- Vertigo Entertainment(formerly RL2 Films)
- Village Roadshow Pictures(1998-2017)
Former producer deals
- Legendary Pictures(2005-2014)
- Offspring Entertainment(2011, from inherited New Line deal)
- Silver Pictures(1991-2012)
- The Zanuck Company(1989-2012)
Film library
Mergers and acquisitions have helped Warner Bros. accumulate a diverse collection of movies, cartoons and television programs.
In the aftermath of the 1948 antitrust suit, uncertain times led Warner Bros. in 1956 to sell most of its pre-1950 films and cartoons to a holding company called Associated Artists Productions (a.a.p.). a.a.p. also got the Fleischer Studios and Famous Studios Popeye cartoons, originally from Paramount. Two years later, a.a.p. was sold to United Artists (UA), which held them until 1981, when Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer bought UA.
In 1982 Turner Broadcasting System acquired Brut Productions, the film production subsidiary of the then struggling personal-care company Faberge Inc.
In 1986, Turner Broadcasting System, having failed to buy MGM, settled for ownership of the MGM/UA library. This included almost all the pre-May 1986 MGM film and television library with the exception of those owned by United Artists (i.e. James Bond franchise), although some UA material were included such as the a.a.p. library, the U.S. rights to a majority of the RKO Radio Pictures library, and the television series Gilligan’s Island.
In 1989, Warner Communications bought the Lorimar television and film library. Their purchase included the 1974-1989 library of Rankin/Bass Productions, as well as the Monogram Pictures and Allied Artists libraries.
In 1991, Turner Broadcasting System bought animation studio Hanna-Barbera Productions, and much of the back catalog of both Hanna-Barbera and Ruby-Spears Enterprises from Great American Broadcasting, and years later, Turner bought Castle Rock Entertainment on December 22, 1993 and New Line Cinema on January 28, 1994. In 1996, Time Warner bought Turner Broadcasting System, and brought the pre-1950 sound films and the pre-August 1948 cartoon library back home.
On October 4, 2007, Warner Bros. added the Peanuts/Charlie Brown library to its collection from Peanuts Worldwide, LLC, licensor and owner of the Peanuts material; this includes all the television specials and series outside of the theatrical library, which continues to be owned by CBS and Paramount.
In 2008, Warner Bros. closed New Line Cinema as an independent mini-major studio, as a result, Warner added the New Line Cinema film and television library to its collection. On October 15, 2009, Warner Bros. acquired the home entertainment rights to the Sesame Street library, in conjunction with Sesame Workshop.
The Warner Bros. Archives
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.
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WB, in September 2015, signed a joint venture deal with China Media Capital to co-produce a series of Chinese-language films. The joint venture is to be called Flagship Entertainment Group Ltd. 49% of which will be owned by WB and 51% by CMC.
The CW Network:
The CW Television Network is an American broadcast television network that is operated by The CW Network, a joint venture between CBS Corporation and the Warner Bros. Entertainment.
The CW marked its formal launch date on September 20, 2006, with a season premiere of America’s Next Top Model. The network’s programming lineup is intended to appeal to people ranging in age from 18 to 34 years; airing from Monday through Friday in the afternoon and in primetime.
CBS and Time Warner hoped that combining their networks’ schedules and affiliate lineups would strengthen The CW into a fifth “major” broadcast network.
The CW began to experience more success with the introduction of action-superhero series Arrow (based on DC Comics’ Green Arrow franchise), which received favorable reviews from critics and became a hit with audiences when it premiered in September 2012. Arrow not only premiered to the third highest overall viewership in the network’s history, it also gave the network its strongest performance in the demographic of males 18-34 since Smallville ended its run in May 2011.
More Examples Of Sucessful Shows Aired on CW Include:
- Gilimore Girls
- Nikita
- Vampire Diaries
- Supernatural
- The Flash
- Arrow
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