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Warner Brothers

Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
Division
Industry Entertainment
Predecessor Warner Features Company
Founded April 4, 1923; 93 years ago (1923-04-04)
Founders Harry Warner
Albert Warner
Sam Warner
Jack L. Warner
Headquarters Burbank, California, United States
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Kevin Tsujihara
(Chairman and CEO)
Edward A. Romano
(Vice Chairman)
Toby Emmerich
(President and Chief Content Officer)
Products Motion pictures, television, video games
Revenue IncreaseUS$ 12.992 billion (2015)
IncreaseUS$ 1.416 billion (2015)
Number of employees
est. 8,000 (2014)
Parent Independent (1923-1966)
Seven Arts Productions (1966-1969)
Kinney National Company (1969-1972)
Warner Communications (1972-1990)
Time Warner (1990-present)
Divisions Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
Warner Bros. Television
Warner Bros. Animation
Warner Home Video
Warner Bros. Digital Networks
Warner Bros. Consumer Products
Warner Bros. Theater Ventures
Warner Bros. Studio Facilities
Subsidiaries New Line Cinema
Castle Rock Entertainment
Turner Entertainment Co.
DC Entertainment
DC Films
The CW (50%)
Flagship Entertainment (49%)
Website www.warnerbros.com

Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (known professionally as Warner Bros. Pictures, often referred to as Warner Bros. and Warner Brothers and abbreviated as WB) is an American entertainment company, film studio and film distributor that is a division of Time Warner and is headquartered in Burbank, California. It is one of the "Big Six" major American film studios.

Warner Bros. is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).

The company's name originated from the four founding Warner brothers (born Wonskolaser or Wonsal before Anglicization):Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack Warner. They emigrated as small children with their parents to Canada from Krasnosielc which was located in the part of Congress Poland that had been subjugated to the Russian Empire following the eighteenth-century Partitions of Poland near present-day Ostrołęka.

Jack, the youngest, was born in London, Ontario. The three elder brothers began in the movie theater business, having acquired a movie projector with which they showed films in the mining towns of Pennsylvania and Ohio. In the beginning, Sam and Albert Warner invested $150 to present Life of an American Fireman and The Great Train Robbery. They opened their first theater, the Cascade, in New Castle, Pennsylvania, in 1903.


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