The production and distribution companies in the American film industry system have gone from the eight major Hollywood film companies in the 1940s to the situation that Disney is the only one, and other film companies have been acquired and bankrupt.
Now another large company has been acquired, the world's top 500 ranked 95 times Warner was acquired by AT&T this time, which is another resource integration in Hollywood, the acquisition of time Warner changed its name to Warner Media Group, from then on there is no warner in the world.
Founded in 1990, Time Warner is a multinational media group, its business includes sports, finance, television, film and other media, in the field of film and television alone, there are Warner Bros., CNN, HBO, TNT four King Kong as the pillar of the group! These four companies have brought too many classics to the audience.
Friends who like American dramas must be very familiar with HBO, the famous high-scoring American dramas "Brothers Company" and "Game of Thrones" are produced by HBO, HBO's episodes are known for their huge investment and excellent production, and the production cost of some episodes is even higher than that of movies.
Speaking of movies, Time Warner's film business is Warner Bros. Entertainment. In fact, among the eight major film companies, Warner Bros. Entertainment started slightly later than Paramount and Universal Pictures, and after 6 years of the establishment of Paramount and Universal Pictures, the four Warner Brothers established the original Warner Brothers Studios, which was reorganized into Warner Bros. Pictures in 1923, opening a brilliant production road.
Warner Bros. has always had pioneering initiatives and has had many glories. For example, the first sound film "New York Lights" and the first color film "On with the Show" were produced and distributed by Warner Bros. The color film "Broadway Nuggets" set a record for 10 consecutive years of screening.
In the long process of development, Warner Bros. has left the audience with a number of classic works. The song and dance film period includes the famous "Forty-second Street", the gangster movie "Little Caesar", and the horror movie "Forest of Terror".
The Oscar-winning "Zola Biography", "North African Spy Movie", the early 3D film "African Adventures" and so on are all representative works of Warner Bros.
In addition to live-action movies, Warner Bros. Warner Animation also launched the "Happy Pass" cartoon in 1930, which was far more famous in the United States than "Tom and Jerry" and Disney's "Mickey Mouse". Little Brother Pig, Duffy Duck, Baby Bunny, Brother Cui, and Silly Big Cat are all very popular characters in Warner Animation.
In 1969, DC Comics was acquired by Warner Bros. and became a member of Warner Bros. In 1938, DC Comics created the world's first superhero on Action Comics, the omnipotent Superman, and today is an important cultural symbol representing the United States and one of the most well-known characters in the world.
Subsequently, DC created Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Green Lantern, Hawkman, Atom Man, Ghost, Doctor Destiny, Shi Man, Sleeper, etc. to form the Justice Association of America; then there was the more familiar Justice Alliance composed of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, FlashMan, Green Lantern, Martian Manhunter, Aquaman, and Green Arrow.
The Batman Trilogy series and the Superman series, based on the comics, are both very high-grossing films under Warner. In 2009, Warner Bros. reorganized its DC Comics company into DC Entertainment and entered the field of film and television. The road to confrontation with Marvel superhero movies has begun. However, several films launched in succession have not achieved satisfactory results due to strategic mistakes.
In the 1990s, Warner also produced a very classic "The Matrix" series, three "The Matrix" to create a magnificent future world for us, and the puzzle about how humans and artificial intelligence should coexist has also aroused public thinking, which is one of the rare science fiction classic series.
After entering the new millennium, Warner launched two very high-grossing film series, one is the Harry Potter series. From 2001 to 2011, the eight Harry Potter films grossed more than $7.4 billion at the global box office, making it the world's most profitable film series at the time.
The other is the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit series, which create a magical world with a magnificent background, which is also popular with the public.
In addition, in the field of suspense science fiction films, Warner has produced classic works such as "Inception" and "Interstellar".
Since Time Warner Group's acquisition of Warner Bros., it has owned the rights to almost all of the films that Warner Pictures have produced and screened. This time by AT&T merger, the future development will go where, let's look forward to it together!