Institution Research - Warner Bros

 

Warner Bros Entertainment Inc. or simply WB is an American producer of film, television, and music entertainment. Warner Bros. has several subsidiary companies, including Warner Bros. Studios, Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Warner Bros. Television, Warner Bros. Animation, Warner Home Video, New Line Cinema, TheWB.com, and DC Entertainment. Warner owns half of The CW Television Network.
Warner Bros was founded in 1903 by the four Warner brothers Harry, Albert, Sam and Jack.
Warner Bros specialise in a number of different things (hense the subsidiary companies) and produce many high budget movies.
One of the main things that Warner Bros have done is the WB TV network. This was founded in 1995 and found a large teenage following after producing shows like Charmed, Dawsons Creek and One Tree Hill. In 2006 the WB network was closed and CBS and WB created what is now The CW network, cancelling many TV shows on the WB but transferring their most popular to the new network.

Major films produced by Warner Bros include: 'Kangeroo Jack', 'Two Weeks Notice', 'What A Girl Wants', 'A Cinderella Story' and 'The Polar Express'

TV shows produced by the WB (now CW) Network include: 'Charmed', 'Dawsons Creek', '7th Heaven', 'The Vampire Diaries', One Tree Hill', 'Hart Of Dixie', 'Arrow' and 'Beauty And The Beast'