Warner Bros. Pictures

Warner Bros. Pictures
Formerly
  • Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. (1923–1967)
  • Warner Bros-First National Pictures, Inc. (1936–1958)
  • Warner Bros.-Seven Arts, Inc. (1967–1969)
  • Warner Bros. Inc. (1969–2003)
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryFilm production
PredecessorWarner Features Company
FoundedApril 4, 1923; 101 years ago (1923-04-04)
Founders
Headquarters4000 Warner Boulevard,
Burbank, California
,
U.S.
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
ProductsMotion pictures
Services
ParentWarner Bros. Motion Picture Group
Websitewarnerbros.com
Footnotes / references
[1][2]

Warner Bros. Pictures is an American film production and distribution company and the flagship studio of the Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group division of Warner Bros., a flagship of Warner Bros. Discovery. It is headquartered at the Warner Bros. Studios complex in Burbank, California. Animated films produced by Warner Bros. Pictures Animation are also released under the studio banner.[3]

Founded in 1923 by brothers Harry Warner, Albert Warner, Sam Warner, and Jack L. Warner, in addition to producing its own films, it handles filmmaking operations, theatrical distribution, marketing and promotion for films produced and released by other Warner Bros. labels, including Warner Bros. Pictures Animation, New Line Cinema, DC Studios, and Castle Rock Entertainment, as well as various third-party producers.

Warner Bros. Pictures is currently one of five live-action film studios within the Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group, the others being New Line Cinema, DC Studios, Castle Rock Entertainment, and a minority stake in Spyglass Media Group. The most commercially successful film series from Warner Bros. includes Harry Potter, DC Universe (formerly DC Extended Universe), Batman, The Lord of the Rings, and Monsterverse; Barbie is the studio's highest-grossing film worldwide with $1.4 billion.[4]

  1. ^ "Company history". Warnerbros.com. Archived from the original on October 16, 2015. Retrieved April 9, 2014.
  2. ^ "Warner Bros Pictures, Inc". OpenCorporates. April 4, 1923. Retrieved August 29, 2023.
  3. ^ "1. The Chaplin Effect: Ghosts in the Machine and Animated Gags", Funny Pictures, University of California Press, pp. 15–28, December 31, 2019, doi:10.1525/9780520950122-003, ISBN 9780520950122, S2CID 226722604, retrieved October 30, 2023
  4. ^ Fabro, Rocio (August 30, 2023). "'Barbie' Surpasses 'Harry Potter' as Warner Bros. Best Grossing Movie Ever". Archived from the original on August 30, 2023.