[KIT]The world’s largest Movie company “WB”

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2021.02.08 / Last modified at 2021.03.13

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Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

Founded in 1923 by four brothers, it is an entertainment company in the United States. A subsidiary of WarnerMedia.

Owned

Warner Bros. Pictures in Filmmaking and Distribution
Warner Bros. Television in the TV program production department
Warner Bros. Animation in the animation production department
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment in the Home Video Software Division
DC Comics from American Comics Publisher
National TV network / CW Television Network

History

The company was founded by the four Warner brothers, Harry, Albert, Sam and Jack.

Harry’s eldest brother expands his father’s shoe repair shop, Jack trains as a singer, and Sam changes professions, but Harry was obsessed with the charm of the early 20th century film. Then, became a projection engineer.
He formed a box office with his brother in 1903 and started the movie box office.

In 1908, Thomas Edison founded the “Motion Picture Patents Company,” a trust that monopolizes movie distribution, and the movie theaters were hit hard. Edison has sought out a number of film-related patents he holds and collected a fee from the cinema each time he screened a movie made by a trusting company. The pressure of the trust has cut many filmmakers out of the distribution network, and the Warner brothers have once withdrawn from the industry.

But in 1918, Harry and his colleagues re-financed and distributed in New York. Then, in 1923, Warner Bros. Pictures was registered as a company.

・Cartoon movie production

Warner’s cartoon filmmaking began in 1930.
Cartoons are animation movies.Due to the expressional similarities between comic strips and early animated films, the term “cartoon” has also come to refer to animation, and today this meaning is the most basic usage of the term cartoon.

World’s first

・Talkie – (talking picture)
A talkie is a movie in which video and audio are synchronized.
In 1928, he successfully produced the world’s first full-length motion picture talkie feature film “Lights of New York.”

・Full-length color movie with full-length audio
In 1929, he produced “On with the Show” using technicolor. Until then, two-color color movies and silent technicolor movies had been announced, but this was the first full-length color movie with audio.

WB Studio

There are facilities called Warner Bros. Studios in Hollywood and London. Anyone can take a studio tour for a fee.
“Warner Brothers Studio”, which produces internationally famous movies and TV dramas such as the “Harry Potter” series, is a large-scale studio facility that represents Hollywood, and shoots movies, TV and commercials.
You can get a closer look at the sets, costumes, and behind-the-scenes that were actually used for shooting.

To Japanese film business

Established Warner Mycal Cinemas as a joint venture with Mycal in 1993 and entered the cine-complex business in Japan in earnest.

Continuing to distribute its own Japanese films, it entered the Japanese film in earnest with the big hit of the “Death Note” series produced by Nippon Television, which was distributed in 2006.