Warner Bros.

1923–Present
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Burbank, California, United States of America

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WARNER BROS. is a fully integrated entertainment company and a global leader in the creation, production, distribution, licensing and marketing of all forms of entertainment. A Warner Bros. Discovery company, the Studio is home to one of the most successful collections of brands in the world and stands at the forefront of every aspect of the entertainment industry, from feature film, television, digital and home entertainment production and worldwide distribution to DVD and Blu-ray, animation, comic books, videogames, and product and brand licensing. The company’s vast library, one of the most prestigious and valuable in the world, consists of more than 145,000 hours of programming, including 12,500 feature films and 2,400 television programs comprised of more than 150,000 individual episodes.

Warner Bros. began when the brothers Warner (Albert, Sam, Harry and Jack L.) incorporated their fledgling movie company on April 4, 1923. In 1927, the release of the world’s first “talkie,” (synchronized-sound feature film), “The Jazz Singer,” set a character and tone of creativity, courage, innovation and influence that would become synonymous with the name Warner Bros. And--as Al Jolson foretold in this milestone movie--“you ain’t heard nothin’ yet!”

Since those early days, Warner Bros. Studios has amassed an impressive legacy based on world-class quality entertainment and technological foresight and created a diversified entertainment company with an unparalleled depth and breadth. Its century of continued success has been built on a foundation of long-term creative relationships with many of the world’s leading talent, and an unwavering dedication to excellence.

Warner Bros. Pictures Group produces and distributes a wide-ranging, diverse slate of films each year. In 2023, Warner Bros. Pictures Group will continue to produce the industry’s broadest roster of films, featuring the Studio’s DC Super Hero titles, New Line Cinema’s horror titles, thoughtful dramas and smart comedies.

New Line Cinema, part of Warner Bros. Entertainment since 2008, coordinates its development, production, marketing, distribution and business affairs activities with Warner Bros. Pictures Group to maximize film performance and operating efficiencies.

DC Studios is responsible for overseeing the overall creative direction of the DC Universe across film, TV, and animation under a single banner. Spearheading the development and execution of a long-term plan for the many properties licensed from DC Comics, DC Studios is focused on continuing the tradition of high-quality storytelling for the DCU across audio-visual media, while building a sustainable growth business out of the iconic franchise. DC Studios also works collaboratively across every division of Warner Bros. Discovery, including film, TV, games, consumer products, live events, networks and more to help realize the vast potential of the DCU.

The Warner Bros. Television Group oversees and grows the entire portfolio of Warner Bros.’ television production businesses, including scripted and unscripted programming, and animation. WBTVG production divisions include Warner Bros. Television, one of the industry’s leading suppliers of live-action scripted programming; Warner Bros. Unscripted Television, which produces award-winning unscripted series through the Warner Horizon, Telepictures, and Shed Media production labels; and three animation studios: Warner Bros. Animation, Cartoon Network Studios, and Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe. As of March 2023, these divisions are producing more than 100 live-action scripted dramas, comedies, limited series, unscripted programs, and animated series, movies, and specials for Warner Bros. Discovery’s HBO Max, external streaming platforms, cable, traditional broadcast networks, and the first-run syndication marketplace in the U.S.

Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment distributes the movies, television, animation, and digital content produced by Warner Bros. Discovery to the homes and screens of millions through physical Blu-ray Disc and DVD retail sales, and digital transactions on major streaming, video-on-demand cable, satellite, digital, and mobile channels.  WBDHE is part of Warner Bros. Discovery Content Sales, one of the world’s largest distributors of entertainment programming.

Warner Bros. Discovery Global Brands and Experiences is the global division that drives opportunities for consumers to engage with WBD’s leading entertainment brands and franchises. Through its strategic franchise development group and global commercial businesses, GBE creates lasting connections to WBD’s iconic characters, talent, and storytelling. GBE operates WBD’s Global Consumer Products, Global Themed Entertainment, and world-renowned comic and publishing powerhouse DC.

Warner Bros. Games is a premier worldwide publisher, developer, licensor and distributor of entertainment content for the interactive space across all platforms, including console, handheld, mobile and PC-based gaming for both internal and third-party game titles.

Warner Bros. Entertainment is headquartered at the Warner Bros. Studios lot, 142 acres in Burbank, California, which is considered one of the foremost motion picture and television production and post-production facilities in the world and home to 36 soundstages (including one of the world’s tallest stages, which has an in-ground tank capable of holding more than two million gallons of water). In addition, Warner Bros. Worldwide Studio Operations is responsible for managing the company’s studio in the UK – Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden – a 160-acre production facility that has been the production site of many highly acclaimed Warner Bros. movies.

Today, as the company celebrates its centennial throughout 2023, these businesses carry forth the mission started by the four Warner brothers – CELEBRATING EVERY STORY.

“Warner Bros Company Overview,” Warner Bros, accessed March 9, 2024, https://www.warnerbros.com/studio/about/company-overview.
Works in catalogue
  • Four people stand in a line, wearing dark clothing and sunglasses with guns in their hands. The background is a moody blue fog, penetrated by downward streaks of computer code which resemble rain. Front and centre in the lineup is Neo, a white man with short black hair in a trenchcoat over a plain black shirt, portrayed by Keanu Reeves. Behind Neo on the right is Trinity, a white woman with short black hair in a latex tank top, portrayed by Carrie-Anne Moss. Behind Neo on the left is Morpheus, a bald black man in a trenchcoat over a well-kept suit and tie, portrayed by Laurence Fishburne. Finally, behind Morpheus on the right is Cypher, a bald white man in a trenchcoat over a run-down suit and tie, portrayed by Joe Pantoliano. The names "Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne" appear at the top of the poster in glowing blue text, and the title "The Matrix" appears at the bottom of the poster in jagged glowing blue text. Beneath the title is the tagline "on March 31st the fight for the future begins," also in glowing blue text.

    The Matrix

    film/video, 1999

    Have you ever had a dream that you were so sure was real? What if you couldn't awaken? How would you know the difference between dream and reality? When a beautiful stranger (Carrie Ann Moss) leads computer hacker Neo (Keanu Reeves) to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth--the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence. Neo joins legendary and dangerous rebel warrior Morpheus (Lawrence Fishburne) in the battle to destroy the illusion enslaving humanity.

  • Three people in dark clothing and sunglasses stand dramatically in a line and look towards camera at the end of a brick corridor. The corridor is lit in an unnatural green sepiatone, with streaks of bright green code flowing down the walls and across the floor. The character front and center in the lineup is Neo, a white man with short black hair wearing a long black coat, portrayed by Keanu Reeves. The character to Neo's left is Trinity, a white woman with short black hair wearing a latex trenchcoat, portrayed by Carrie-Anne Moss. The character to Neo's right is Morpheus, a bald black man wearing a suit and tie beneath a trenchcoat, portrayed by Laurence Fishburne. The film's title, "Matrix Reloaded," appears at the top of the poster in jagged glowing green text.

    The Matrix Reloaded

    film/video, 2003

    In the second chapter of the Matrix trilogy, Zion falls under siege to the Machine Army. Only hours before 250,000 Sentinels destroy the last human enclave on Earth--and its growing resistance--Neo (Keanu Reeves) and Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) choose to return to the Matrix with Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne), unleashing their arsenal of extraordinary skills and weaponry against the forces of repression and exploitation.Now, at the confluence of love and truth, faith and knowledge, purpose and reason, Neo must follow the course he has chosen if he is to save humanity from the dark fate that haunts his dreams--The Matrix Reloaded.

  • Neo, a white man with black hair wearing sunglasses and a black coat, portrayed by Keanu Reeves, stands drenched in water and ready for action amid a downpour of green computer code which resembles rain. A misty green light shines from the bottom right corner of the poster, casting Neo in its glow and fading to total darkness at the upper right edge of the poster. The film's title, "The Matrix Revolutions" appears in jagged glowing green text at the bottom of the poster. The film's tagline, "Everything that has a beginning has an end," appears at the top of the poster in glowing green text, followed by a blocky character intended to evoke the cursor on an old-fashioned command line terminal.

    The Matrix Revolutions

    film/video, 2003

    In this explosive final chapter of the Matrix trilogy, Neo, Morpheus and Trinity battle to defend Zion, the last real-world city, against the onslaught of the machines that have enslaved the human race. And, now as Neo learns more about his heroic powers--including the ability to see the codes of things and the people, he faces the consequences of the choice made in The Matrix Reloaded.

  • The poster is drawn in a grainy sepiatone which evokes old political advertisements. At the center of the poster, the film's protagonist, Evey (a white woman with a shaved head, portrayed by Natalie Portman), glares with determination off to the left side of the poster. To her left, a mob of people clashes with riot police as the British parliament burns in the background. To her right, the character V (a man in a black cloak, a wide-brim black hat, black latex gloves, and a white Guy Fawkes mask over his face, portrayed by Hugo Weaving), looms menacingly with a knife pointed down towards the title of the movie, which slants diagonally down the bottom of the poster. In the top left corner of the poster, the tagline of the film "Freedom! Forever!" is imposed in diagonally slanted text over a red graffiti circle with the letter "V" in the middle of it.

    V for Vendetta

    film/video, 2005

    From the Lilly & Lana Wachowski and Joel Silver, the masterminds behind The Matrix trilogy, comes another intriguing, action-packed fantasy-thriller. Great Britain has become a fascist state. Now, a shadowy freedom fighter known only as "V" (Hugo Weaving) begins a violent guerrilla campaign to destroy those who have embraced totalitarianism. In his quest to liberate England from its oppressive ideological chains, "V" recruits a young woman (Natalie Portman) he's rescued from the secret police to join him on an epic adventure to execute a seemingly impossible task.

  • A colourful and futuristic portrayal of racing cars dramatically skidding around a corner. Most prominent in the frame is a white car with red accents, driven by Speed, a white man in a white helmet with a red M, portrayed by Emile Hirsch. Behind him is a yellow car with black accents, driven by Racer X, a white man in a black helmet, portrayed by Matthew Fox. Behind them is a futuristic city scape. In the bottom left corner of the poster is the film's title, "Speed Racer," written in red text resembling a steering wheel.

    Speed Racer

    film/video, 2008

    Born to race cars, Speed Racer (Emile Hirsch) is aggressive, instinctive and, most of all, fearless. His only real competition is the memory of the brother he idolized - the legendary Rex Racer, whose death in a race has left behind a legacy that Speed is driven to fulfill. Speed is loyal to the family racing business, led by his father, Pops Racer (John Goodman), the designer of Speed's thundering Mach 5. When Speed turns down a lucrative and tempting offer from Royalton Industries, he not only infuriates the company's maniacal owner (Roger Allam) but uncovers a terrible secret - some of the biggest races are being fixed by a handful of ruthless moguls who manipulate the top drivers to boost profits. If Speed won't drive for Royalton, Royalton will see to it that the Mach 5 never crosses another finish line. The only way for Speed to save his family's business and the sport he loves is to beat Royalton at his own game. With the support of his family and his loyal girlfriend, Trixie (Christina Ricci), Speed teams with his one-time rival - the mysterious Racer X (Matthew Fox) - to win the race that had taken his brother's life: the death-defying, cross-country rally known as The Crucible.

  • An array of people in varying futuristic and historical attire appear in a collage at the centre of the poster, surrounded by snippets of various environments. On the middle left is a countryside mansion beneath a starry sky. On the middle right is an old-fashioned ship with white sails at sea beneath a cloudy sky. On the bottom left, two small figures stare out at a futuristic city-scape. On the bottom right, a heartbeat monitor is overlaid on top of a dark and mysterious building with green domes. The actors featured most prominently in the array of people are Tom Hanks, who appears in profile looking towards camera with a beard and symbols tattooed over his face, and Halle Berry, who wears a modern coat and scarf and stares worriedly past the camera. Also in the array are Hugh Grant in a suit and tie, Susan Sarandon in formal robes with facial markings similar to those seen on Tom Hanks, Jim Sturgess in a top hat with a mustache, Jim Broadbent in overalls grinning into a phone, Ben Whishaw in plain attire contemplatively playing a piano, and Bae Doona sitting on the ground in a plain white jumpsuit which leaves her arms and legs bare. At the bottom of the poster is the film's title, "Cloud Atlas," and the tagline, "Everything is connected." At the top of the poster is a list of actors in the movie: "Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent, Jim Sturgess, Doona Bae, Ben Whishaw, James D'Arcy, Zhou Xun, Keith David, David Gyasi, with Susan Sarandon, and Hugh Grant."

    Cloud Atlas

    film/video, 2012

    From the creators of The Matrix trilogy and the director of Run Lola Run, Cloud Atlas explores how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution. The story is a time-shifting weave of six interlinking narratives, with diverse settings from the savagery of a Pacific Island in the 1850s to a dystopian Korea of the near future. Action, mystery and romance weave dramatically through the story as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and a single act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution. Based on the best-selling novel Cloud Atlas written by David Mitchell. Featuring an all-star cast led by Tom Hanks and Halle Berry. Future. Present. Past. Everything is connected.

  • Two characters stand with the planet Jupiter posed dramatically behind them, and a futuristic city-scape at their feet. The film's protagonist, Jupiter Jones, a woman with long dark brown hair and tan skin wearing a lightly patterned dark top with bare arms, dark jeans, and black leather boots, portrayed by Mila Kunis, faces directly towards the camera and stares assertively. Posed behind her to the left is Caine Wise, a tall muscular white man who is part-dog (with pointy ears and a brown beard to show for it), portrayed by Channing Tatum. He is posed in profile, his attention directed towards Jupiter in a protective manner, with a futuristic gun held towards the ground in his gloved hand. His arms are bare and tatooed with a whispy pattern, his chest covered with faintly patterned black armor and his legs covered with black pants and boots. The film's title, "Jupiter Ascending," is written in metallic text at the bottom of the poster. Beneath the title is text reading "from the creators of The Matrix trilogy."

    Jupiter Ascending

    film/video, 2015

    Jupiter Jones (Kunis) was born under a night sky, with signs predicting that she was destined for great things. Now grown, Jupiter dreams of the stars but wakes up to the cold reality of a job cleaning other people’s houses and an endless run of bad breaks. Only when Caine (Tatum), a genetically engineered ex-military hunter, arrives on Earth to track her down does Jupiter begin to glimpse the fate that has been waiting for her all along—her genetic signature marks her as next in line for an extraordinary inheritance that could alter the balance of the cosmos. From the streets of Chicago to far flung galaxies whirling through space, Jupiter Ascending is written and directed by the Wachowskis.

  • Five characters wearing dark sunglasses and coats stand in a loose lineup amid a fragmented blue digital landscape which roughly resembles a rain-streaked city at night. The characters are rendered with a degree of opacity, allowing lights from the city and stray shooting particles to partially appear through their bodies. The character at the front and centre of the poster is Neo, a white man with long dark hair wearing a black trenchcoat, portrayed by Keanu Reeves, who stands with his hand held outward in a stopping motion and the bottom of his trenchcoat flaring out dramatically like a cape. Directly behind Neo on his right is Trinity, a white woman with short black hair and a black leather trenchcoat, portrayed by Carrie-Anne Moss, who is stepping out from behind him. Behind Trinity on her right is Bugs, an East Asian woman with bright blue short curly hair wearing a trench coat and holding a small gun pointed at the ground, protrayed by Jessica Henwick, who stares over at Trinity. Behind Neo on the left is Morpheus, a bald black man in bright plum dress pants, a bright plum trenchcoat with bright turquoise lining, and a bright turquoise dress shirt, with a machine gun pointed dramatically past camera, portrayed by Yahya Abdul-Mateen II. Further back, positioned between Morpheus and Neo is Lexy, a latinx woman with short dreadlocks, a dark coat, and a small gun pointed towards the ground, portrayed by Eréndira Ibarra. Near the top of the poster, the film's title "The Matrix Resurrections," is written in jagged grey text. Near the bottom of the poster, the film's tagline "Return to the source," appears in small grey text along with the release date, "Christmas."

    The Matrix Resurrections

    film/video, 2021

    Return to a world of two realities: one, everyday life; the other, what lies behind it. To find out if his reality is a construct, to truly know himself, Mr. Anderson will have to choose to follow the white rabbit once more.