Warner Bros.

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Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. logo 2023.svg.png
Entertaining the world, since 1923.
Formerly: Warner Brothers Classics of the Screen (1923–1925)
Warner Brothers Productions (1925–1929)
Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. (1929–1967)
Warner Bros. Pictures (1948–1967, 1970–1972, 1985–present)
Warner Bros.-Seven Arts (1967–1970)
Warner Bros. Inc. (1970–1993)
Founded: April 4, 1923
Defunct: N/A
Founder: Harry Warner
Albert Warner
Sam Warner
Jack L. Warner
Headquarters: 4000 Warner Blvd., Burbank, California, United States
Key people: Ann Sarnoff (Chairwoman and CEO)
Parent: Warner Bros. Discovery
Divisions: Warner Bros. Animation
Warner Animation Group
Warner Bros. Pictures Group
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
Warner Bros. Television Studios
Warner Bros. Global Brands and Franchises
Warner Bros. Kids, Young Adults, and Classics
Warner Bros. Digital Networks
Warner Bros. Technology
Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures
Subsidiaries: Alloy Entertainment
Cartoon Network Studios
New Line Cinema
DC Entertainment
Turner Entertainment
Castle Rock Entertainment
Website: https://www.warnerbros.com/


Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., commonly referred to as Warner Bros. and abbreviated as WB, is an American entertainment company headquartered in Burbank, California and a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery.

Why Their Shows and Movies Deserve a Carrot

  1. The idea of producing many shows for the studio was pretty interesting.
  2. Their cartoon studio, Warner Bros. Cartoons, is probably best known for creating Looney Tunes shorts during the Golden Age of American animation from 1930's to 1960's.
  3. Their divisions/subsidiaries that the studio produced:
  4. They bought the rights to DC Comics in 1969, allowing Warner Bros. to produce television shows for both live-action and animation.
  5. The company also owned Telepictures since 1989, where it merged with Lorimar Productions in 1986 and while Lorimar-Telepictures was purchased and folded into Warner Bros. It was mostly owned and distributed the shows and specials for Rankin/Bass (post-1973).
  6. Besides shows, they also produce direct-to-video films/specials based on some shows.
  7. They created a TV network called The WB Television Network on January 11, 1995, co-owned by Warner Bros. and Tribune Broadcasting. The network also has a Saturday morning block called Kids' WB, where it airs most shows from Warner Bros. and other acquired programs. In 2006, it was merged with UPN to become The CW co-owned by Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount Global, and it still airs today.
  8. The WB shield logo was very iconic and the new logo has looked very impressive since 2019.
  9. Not only does their content air on The CW, but also aired on the third-party channels: ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, and Freeform.
  10. The soundtracks for every series are very good to listen to.
  11. The studio became better, when Turner merged with Time Warner in 1996, they now allow to own everything for libraries, including some of their properties from before the 1950s which they had lost the rights to through sales to Associated Artists Productions (a.a.p.) and its successor companies (UA, MGM, Turner) for many years from 1955-1996.
  12. The company spawned into merchandise based on some shows like clothes, toys, books, comic books, video games, VHS, and DVDs for the franchise: Looney Tunes, DC Comics, Hanna-Barbera, LEGO, Cartoon Network and live-action shows, etc.
  13. 2 wonderful words of icon and their mascot, Bugs Bunny.
  14. They're known for creating short films of Looney Tunes back in the 1930s, their characters like Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, etc.
  15. They have numerous film franchises, including DC Comics-based films, such as
    • Space Jam
    • The Harry Potter franchise.
    • The Superman series.
    • The Batman series.
  16. Also, many of their films do have decent to great sequels produced.
  17. They have made many great movies, such as
  18. Some of their video games based on their movies and DC Comics were good, such as Batman: Arkham Knight, LEGO Batman series, etc.
  19. They made several good animated movies through the Warner Animation Group studio.
  20. They do stay faithful to the source material of various authors they adapt into films, such as J.K. Rowling and Stephen King. Every films, like Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole and Ready Player One do a great job of respecting books, though the parts have been changed.
  21. In 1974, they did a great job working together with 20th Century Fox during their project of The Towering Inferno, making it one of the first to be a joint venture by two major Hollywood studios.
  22. They hold the rights to DC Comics rather well.
  23. With the very tiny wooden animation apartment advanced-made building, Termite Terrace, Warner Bros. became the world's very first major movie studio to have a dedicated cartoon division.
    • According to Bugs Bunny Superstar, Termite Terrace was one of the most legendary icons in history.
  24. Great soundtrack to many of their good, or bad films.
  25. From 1995 to 2006, it had its very own TV network, The WB.
  26. It proudly acquired Turner in October of 1996.
  27. They do have a lot of heartwarming moments throughout their library of films.
  28. Outside of movies, they are a huge and powerful entertainment company, producing video games, television, comic books, and much more.
    • They also acquired libraries from other studios through Turner Entertainment, Co. Most notably the pre-1986 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer library which includes such iconic productions as Singin' in the Rain, A Christmas Story, Jailhouse Rock, The Wizard of Oz, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Network, Ben-Hur and of course, Tom and Jerry.
  29. Even after most studios discontinued them, they still release 3D Blu-rays for select films, even in the US and Canada where the format is largely considered a dead fad.
  30. The only major studio to provide accessibility services outside of English-speaking countries, such as German and Italian closed captions for deaf people, and German audio descriptions for blind people (as well as both in English).
  31. The iconic WB shield logo, which was thankfully revived in 1984 after a slew of changes from the studio, including the infamous "big W" made by Saul Bass.
  32. They also managed to have some great studio units, like New Line Cinema, DC Films, Castle Rock Entertainment, and the Spyglass Media Group.
  33. In Late 2020 throughout 2021, they decided to let their US viewers view their entire theatrical catalog on HBO Max, for free, on the first month of release, unlike what Disney does sometimes, beginning with Wonder Woman 1984 and ending with The Matrix Resurrections.
  34. Their logo variations are awesome. For example; in The Lego Movie as well as the sequel, the logo and background are all made with LEGOs. You gonna check them out on CLG Wiki.
  35. They make a lot of cool and awesome direct-to-video movies, examples include
    • ’’Looney Tunes: Rabbits Run’’
    • ’’Tweety’s High Flying Adventure’’
    • ’’King Tweety’’
    • ’’Bah Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas’’
    • ’’Tom and Jerry: The Magic Ring’’

Bad Qualities

  1. There were some shows for live-action and animation that are bad or mediocre:
  2. Speaking of shows, some Looney Tunes eras went downhill, such as Chuck Jones' early directional years (from 1938-1942), the 1939-mid 1940 era, the late 1962-1964 era, and the 1964-1969 era.
  3. Some of their acquired properties even have some bad or mediocre shows even before WB acquired them, like The Tom and Jerry Show, The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show, Popeye and Son, Yo Yogi!, Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm, shows that were produced by Hanna-Barbera that were cloned to Scooby-Doo and even some short films like CinemaScope and Gene Deitch eras of Tom and Jerry and Famous Studios era of Popeye the Sailor.
  4. Their merger with Discovery (Warner Bros. Discovery) was a complete disaster.
  5. They do distribute a handful of average, bad, mediocre, or the worst films in any of their holding franchises, mainly because of exclusive meddling, such as
  6. Similar to companies such as Sega, they do make some bad decisions.
  7. On select editions of all their movies released by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment on Blu-ray, Blu-ray 3D, and 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray, their Japanese dub and subtitle options are inaccessible unless either played on a PC or if the menu language is changed to Japanese, either on-disc or through the Blu-ray player's default UI.
  8. The studio can sometimes come off as hypocritical or as having double standards. The studio has also been accused of mistreating its employees.
    • Despite claiming not to discriminate against anyone, the rapper/actor Ice Cube has accused the studio of mistreating him and berating his ideas. For example, some executives told Cube that Ride Along would not sell well overseas because it starred Black actors in the leading roles and that Straight Outta Compton was a niche film that wouldn't have wide success or do well overseas. Both of these films were later made by Universal Pictures and were box office successes, despite the former receiving negative reviews.
    • They support Amber Heard, which led to them being criticized by Johnny Depp's fans. Unfairly, they fired Depp from playing Gellert Grindelwald in further Fantastic Beasts sequels but still kept Heard to play Mera in Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (though hopefully there are rumors that they want to fire Heard but can't do so legally, so they might try to find an excuse to kick her out, and that Heard is lying about her involvement in Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom). What's more, though there are no videos that prove that Depp abused Heard, there's a video in which Ezra Miller, the actor who plays Credence Barebone/Aurelius Dumbledore in the same franchise, is seen choking a fan of them in a bar and they haven't been fired from their role.
    • They allowed DC Films President Walter Hamada to cover up Joss Whedon's racism towards Ray Fisher while filming his Justice League reshoots. When Fisher tried to expose Whedon and Hamada, Warner supposedly took "remedial action" with Whedon but didn't do anything to Hamada and stood up for him. This led Fisher to understandably refuse to work with Hamada again, so Warner wrote out Cyborg from the upcoming The Flash film.
    • They have mistreated Zack Snyder during the development of Zack Snyder's Justice League, likely because doing the fan-demanded director's cut is admitting that they committed a mistake by letting Joss Whedon complete the theatrical version of the film (refusing to acknowledge that Snyder left the production due to a family tragedy), even though the Snyder Cut has been their most successful release in 2021. Not only that but before altering Snyder's original film, they also did a lot of Executive Meddling in Sucker Punch and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice to the point the extended home video versions of those films were better received, prevented Snyder from doing a third 3oo film because it featured a gay romance between Alexander the Great and his confidant Hephaestion, stalled Army of the Dead into development hell for years whereas Netflix quickly did it when Snyder offered to do the film and has refused to continue the "Snyderverse" despite that being the DCEU that the fans want to see.
  9. Like with Disney, they sometimes charge absurd prices for their early access rentals on digital storefronts, mainly as a way to get people to buy it instead for a few dollars more, or no extra charge in at least one case. Not helping is that these are two-day rentals once the consumer has started the movie.
  10. Some of their films, despite being good or bad, were box office bombs.
    • During the 1990s decade, its family films (especially animated films) did not receive the theatrical marketing they deserved became a recurring problem among the studio beginning with Batman: Mask of the Phantasm where they were often released in theaters with very little marketing and fanfare and therefore performed poorly at the box office, even though some of their films had positive critical and audience reception like Cats Don't Dance. It bottoms out with the rest of the Warner Bros. Family Entertainment family films produced between 1999-2003, as the failure of Quest for Camelot caused Warner Bros. not to market their films properly, causing Warner Bros. family films of the time with positive critical and audience reception such as The Iron Giant, Osmosis Jones, The Powerpuff Girls Movie and Looney Tunes: Back in Action to suffer this fate of not being marketed properly and failing at the box office, with the latter film being the stroke that broke the camel's back and the one responsible for shutting down Warner Bros. Feature Animation). The only good Warner Bros. family film to escape this unfortunate fate however was Space Jam, which remained as the studio's only financially successful animated feature film of the 1990s decade.
  11. Furthermore, their newly designed WB shield logo from 2019, while a surprisingly good logo as its own thing, is not very faithful to the iconic classic WB shield, which was fortunately recovered in 2022 as part of Warner Bros. Discovery's logo.

Trivia

  • Most of the shows from WB libraries such as Looney Tunes, DC Comics, Hanna-Barbera, pre-1986 MGM, and Cartoon Network, as well as live-action shows are currently streaming on HBO Max

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