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65 unusual facts about Warner Bros.


Ángeles del Infierno

Signing with Warner Bros. Records in 1984, they achieved success in their home country and Latin America during the 1980s and the early 1990s.

Arthur Greville Collins

He moved to Los Angeles and directed some plays there, then moved into movie making as a dialogue director for Warner Bros..

Audra Levi

Later in her career, Audra conducted television program syndication sales for Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution in the Western Region, including The People’s Court, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Extra and Friends.

Bruno e Marrone

Their debut was released by Warner Bros. Records in 1995; they have enjoyed a successful and prolific career since then, releasing more than one album per year.

C.V. Wood

In 1991, Wood, who had become President of the Recreation Enterprises Division of Warner Bros., played an instrumental role in the design and development of Warner Bros. Movie World theme park in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, capping a noted theme park creating career

Coyle and Sharpe

Shortly after these broadcasts aired, they released two records, The Absurd Imposters and The Insane Minds Of Coyle And Sharpe, which were released on the Warner Bros. label.

David H. DePatie

He was the last executive in charge of the original Warner Bros. Cartoons cartoon studio.

David Hudgins

In 2003, Hudgins began his career as a staff writer on Warner Bros. Television show Everwood, where he worked for three years until the show's cancellation in May 2006.

Direct Entertainment

Founded in 1992 in Indianapolis, Indiana, the organization soon outgrew its surroundings and was relocated to New York City, where its founder successfully ran the electronic music label AB Audio under the guidance of Warner Bros. Records.

DNA Productions

DNA developed an animated feature film adaptation of The Ant Bully with Playtone and Warner Bros..

Dominique Lokoli

His teammates gave him the nickname "Bip-Bip", a reference to the Warner Bros. Road Runner, for his pace.

Drakan

However, all of Surreal's IPs have been handed over to its parent, Warner Bros., which would include Drakan.

Gerard Kenny

In 1968 he landed his first recording contract with Warner Bros. Records, and from that point until 1977 issued a number of singles that failed to break the charts.

Gods Child

Once back in the States, they found they had been offered a recording contract with Warner Bros. Records.

Good God's Urge

Good God's Urge is the second studio album by American alternative rock band Porno for Pyros, released on May 28, 1996 on Warner Bros. It is the band's final album, and the only release to feature bass guitarist Mike Watt, who replaced Martyn LeNoble mid-way through the recording process.

Grumman F3F

The F3F was featured as an "experimental fighter" in Warner Bros.'s Wings of the Navy (1939).

Hunter Scott

In 2011, Warner Bros. obtained the rights to develop the story into a feature film with Robert Downey, Jr. as producer.

Ingrid Chavez

When Warner Bros. pushed for the album to have sung vocals in place of the spoken word, Prince abandoned the project.

James Dalessandro

A film adaptation of 1906, based on both the novel and Dalessandro's screenplay, is in development by Warner Bros. and Pixar Animation Studios, in association with Walt Disney Pictures.

Jigger Statz

Jigger Statz played himself in the 1929 Paramount film, Fast Company, and in 1952 served as a technical advisor for The Winning Team, a fictionalized Warner Bros. biography of Grover Cleveland Alexander which starred Ronald Reagan.

Joaquim Dos Santos

After that project, he moved back to Warner Bros. Animation, where he directed two DC Showcase short films: The Spectre (accompanying the Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths direct-to-video movie) and Jonah Hex (on Batman: Under the Red Hood).

Kinney Parking Company

Ross pursued an aggressive expansion of the company's properties, first acquiring Ashley-Famous talent agency, then Panavision, and then in 1969 Warner Bros.-Seven Arts.

Lane Cove West, New South Wales

From the mid-1950s Lane Cove West was home to the national head office, pressing plant, warehouse and recording studios of the Warner Bros. Records label Festival Mushroom Records.

Luisa Moreno

While in New York, the Warner Bros. movie Under a Texas Moon (1930) was protested as anti-Mexican by a group of Latinos led by Gonzalo González.

Margaret Michaels

In the late 1980s, Warner Bros. was looking for a Victoria Principal lookalike to step into the role of Pamela Ewing on Dallas, after Victoria Principal had left the series to pursue other interests.

Margaret Talbot

She is also the daughter of the veteran Warner Bros. actor Lyle Talbot, whom she profiled in an October 2012 The New Yorker article and in her book The Entertainer: Movies, Magic and My Father's Twentieth Century (Riverhead Books, 2012).

Martin Tobias

Loudeye formed partnerships with companies such as Microsoft, RealNetworks, NBC, CBS, AOL, Universal, Sony, Warner Bros., and EMI .

Matt Siegel

From there he worked as a freelance producer and commercial voice-over announcer at Warner Bros. Records.

Media Key Block

The system was developed by big companies from the film industry and the electronics industry including IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Matsushita (Panasonic), Sony, Toshiba, The Walt Disney Company and Warner Bros.

Method Studios

Method Studios has collaborated on feature films with many top Hollywood studios such as Warner Bros., Twentieth Century Fox, Summit Entertainment, Columbia Pictures and Paramount.

MusicWriter

Early in the MusicWriter's history Warner Bros. Music and Thorn EMI, the two largest music publishers in the world, invested in the company and became board members.

Natalie Powers

Following the success in the Eurovision selections, the group signed a deal with Warner Bros. Records in the UK and set about recording parts of the song in other European languages.

Pay it forward

In 2000, Catherine Ryan Hyde's novel Pay It Forward was published and adapted into a film of the same name, distributed by Warner Bros. and starring Kevin Spacey, Helen Hunt and Haley Joel Osment.

Porter Bibb

Bibb was a significant force behind the filming of the 1969 Woodstock Festival with Albert and David Maysles, convincing them to film the event despite the bad weather and the withdrawal of Warner Bros. financial backing before the festival.

Ralph Garr

He became so popular with fans in Atlanta that the Braves negotiated exclusive big-league baseball rights with Warner Bros. Cartoons to use animated scenes of the Looney Tunes character Road Runner on the scoreboard, while the calliope erected behind right field went "beep-beep" like the cartoon character every time Garr reached first base.

Raya Abirached

Raya also regularly collaborates as a celebrity journalist with several TV stations like Entertainment Tonight in the US, Star TV in Switzerland, ZDF in Germany, ORF in Austria and Telecine in Brazil and is often requested to do generic interviews for major movie studios like Warner Bros., Disney and Paramount.

Richie Ray

In 2003, Ray recorded "Al Ritmo del Piano" for Warner Music Latina.

Rob friedman

Friedman started his career in 1970 in the mailroom at Warner Bros. Studios and in the subsequent 27 years he held many posts ultimately rising to become the studio's President of Worldwide Advertising and Publicity.

Robin Lane

Her band, Robin Lane & the Chartbusters, released three albums on Warner Bros. Records in the early 1980s, and was best known for its single "When Things Go Wrong".

After Jerry Wexler saw a Chartbusters show, however, he signed the band to Warner Brothers.

Roger Noel Cook

Cook later became the UK CEO of Warner Bros.' publishing division at 24, before leaving to join lifelong friend Tony Power at Paul Raymond Publications.

Rose Coyle

In 1938 she married Leonard Schlessinger, the National General Manager of the Warner Bros. Theatres.

Sam Liu

He is best known for directing animated superhero films at both Marvel Entertainment and Warner Bros. Animation.

Sandrew Metronome

Sandrew Metronome was the Nordic distributor for films by Warner Bros. and had acquired Nordic rights for Focus Features.

Sirens of Soho

The band's debut album, Calling All My Girls, was be released on Telepictures Music (A Warner Bros. Company) in September 2013.

Smilin' Jack Smith

Following a guest appearance in the musical film Make Believe Ballroom (1949), Jack was offered the second lead in Warner Bros.' On Moonlight Bay (1951) opposite Doris Day.

Songs for a Blue Guitar

Another more probable scenario is that Kozelek was having strained relations with 4AD's American branch, controlled by Warner Bros. Records at the time.

Stephen Ashfield

In 2007 he appeared in Sweeney Todd directed by Tim Burton for Warner Bros..

Steven C. Wade

He is also the founder of MMOsmart, supporting games for many internationally known brands and companies, including Disney and Warner Bros.

Talking Dreams

The album was released on October 8, 2013 through Warner Bros. Records.

Telstar 301

Other entities that also used the satellite included Group W, Wold/Keystone Communications (which used the satellite to feed Paramount Television's syndicated output including Entertainment Tonight, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.), Compact Video, Lorimar/Telepictures, and Warner Bros. Television.

The Naked Trucker and T-Bones Show

The Naked Trucker and T-Bones' first live album, Live at the Troubadour, was released on Warner Bros. Records in conjunction with a DVD of the same concert on March 20, 2007.

The Peanut Butter Conspiracy

In 1968 they moved to the Warner Bros. Records subsidiary label Challenge, with a revamped line-up featuring ex-Clear Light organist Ralph Schuckett and drummer Michael Ney (Stevens), recording their final album For Children of All Ages.

Tom Donahue

But Autumn's biggest act was one that Donahue discovered, produced, recorded, and managed, The Beau Brummels, which he later sold to Warner Bros. Records.

Urban Verbs

The Urban Verbs second album for Warner Bros., “Early Damage”, was recorded in Atlanta with producers Jeff Glixman and Steve Lillywhite.

Village Kid

The E.P. sold out of the print run of 1,000 copies, however, before the second E.P. could be completed, vocalist Aaron Malone left the band to be replaced with Jeremy Gregory, who had recently returned to Perth from Los Angeles where he was signed to Warner Bros. Records.

Waiting for the Rest of It

Waiting for the Rest of It is an EP released by the Goo Goo Dolls in 2010 for Warner Bros. Records.

Walter T. Foster

The popularity of these children’s books eventually led to licensing agreements with The Walt Disney Company, Nickelodeon, Hasbro, Marvel Entertainment, DC Comics and Warner Bros..

Warner Bros. and J. K. Rowling v. RDR Books

Ms. Jeri Johnson, senior tutor in English at Exeter College, Oxford, spoke as an expert witness in literature for the plaintiffs, decrying Vander Ark's work as unscholarly, and claiming that there was enough material in Rowling's world for serious academic analysis.

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment

Mortal Kombat was developed by the newly renamed NetherRealm Studios, led by Mortal Kombat creator and creative director Ed Boon.

Traveller's Tales in Knutsford, England, founded in 1989, reorganized as division of TT Games in 2005

Warner Bros. International Television

International Television (also known as Warner Bros. Worldwide Television and Warner Bros. International Television Distribution) is the Global television arm of Warner Bros. Television and a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Entertainment formed in 1996.

Warner/Reprise Loss Leaders

The Warner/Reprise Loss Leaders were a series of promotional sampler compilation albums released by Warner Bros. Records throughout the 1970s.

William L. Hendricks

Aside from his USMCR career he also worked in the film industry for many years, initially as a documentary producer for the United States Army, then as a production executive at Warner Bros., where he eventually became the final producer of the Looney Tunes series.

Xbox Live Arcade

In February 2010, it was announced that nine games from Midway Games would no longer be available for purchase, "due to publisher evolving rights and permissions" (even though Sony's PlayStation Store never did as such with its own downloadable Midway games), referring to the purchase by Warner Bros. of some assets of Midway Games, including certain rights related to the nine games.


Alec Lorimore

Previous to his involvement in the Imax industry he worked for over ten years as a screenwriter, and wrote a number of feature film scripts which were either purchased or commissioned by the major studios, including Warner Brothers, Columbia Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and Paramount Pictures, and worked with such producers as Jerry Bruckheimer, Jonathan Taplin, Ray Stark, and Steve Tisch.

Bill Carruthers

He also produced and directed game shows including Give-n-Take, The Neighbors, Second Chance (all with Warner Bros. Television), Lee Trevino's Golf for Swingers (with McCann Erickson) and the 1975 version of You Don't Say! (with Ralph Andrews Productions and Warner Bros. Television), before hitting it big with the CBS game show, Press Your Luck, which ran from 1983-86.

Brad Case

Case has worked at a variety of studios including Disney, MGM, Walter Lantz, Tempo, Calvin Co., Academy Studios, ERA Productions, Hanna-Barbera, UPA, Warner Bros., Sanrio, DePatie-Freleng (and its later incarnation, Marvel Productions), Graz Entertainment and New World from 1934 until 1999.

Brokedown Cadillac

In 2010 Brokedown Cadillac recorded a cover of Sweet's The Ballroom Blitz which was placed on the The CW Television Network's Hellcats, and appears on the Warner Bros. Records -released soundtrack for the show, along with tracks by Ashley Tisdale and Aly Michalka.

Cause for Alarm!

As with all PD MGM feature-length films produced by the studio itself (and possibly a few they merely distributed), the original film elements are now owned by Turner Entertainment, with distribution rights handled by Warner Bros. (who spoofed the title in one of their 1954 short subject cartoons, Claws for Alarm).

Cockamamie

The story of how this album came to be and the process regarding its release on Warner Bros. Records is chronicled in Trynin's 2006 book Everything I'm Cracked Up to Be.

Daffy Duck for President

Daffy Duck for President is a children's book, published by Warner Bros. and the United States Postal Service in 1997 to coincide with the release of the first Bugs Bunny U.S. postage stamp.

Douglass C. Perry

He also worked behind the scenes with publishers and developers analyzing and critiquing games in progress including Electronic Arts, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Sega, Take-Two Interactive, LucasArts, Ubisoft, Criterion Games, Volition, Inc., and Eidos Interactive.

E.G. Records

In the US, artists were placed on Atlantic Records, Warner Bros. Records, Polydor Records, Passport Records/Jem Records, and Virgin Records and in various other labels in other parts of the world.

Entertainment Industry Foundation

The Entertainment Industry Foundation (formerly Permanent Charities Committee founded by M. C. Levee) was established in 1942 by Samuel Goldwyn, with friends Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, and the Warner brothers.

French Rarebit

French Rarebit is a 1951 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies (Blue Ribbon reissued) animated short, directed by Robert McKimson and written by Tedd Pierce.

Grand Upright Music, Ltd. v. Warner Bros. Records Inc.

Biz Markie, a rapper signed to Warner Bros. Records, had sampled a portion of the music from the song "Alone Again (Naturally)" by singer/songwriter Gilbert O'Sullivan, for use in "Alone Again", a track from Markie's third album, I Need a Haircut.

Hari Puttar: A Comedy of Terrors

Warner Bros. filed a lawsuit against production company Mirchi Movies to stop the release of the film due to the similarity of its title to that of the Harry Potter film series.

Hotel Hell Vacation

Although sanctioned by Warner Bros. (which holds the underlying rights to the Vacation series characters and concepts), this film was not sponsored by National Lampoon, Inc., which initiated the Vacation series.

I Haven't Got a Hat

I Haven't Got a Hat is a 1935 animated short film, directed by Isadore Freleng for Leon Schlesinger Productions as part of Warner Bros.' Merrie Melodies series.

Irving Gertz

He also worked on a single Warner Bros. cartoon Daffy Rents in 1966, filling in for regular composer William Lava.

It's Nice to Have a Mouse Around the House

In addition, Granny is voiced here by GeGe Pearson instead of June Foray, who marks her swan song appearance as owner of Sylvester; Granny would make one more appearance in a Warner Bros. cartoon later in 1965.

Jon Campling

Jon Campling is a British actor who played a Death Eater in the Warner Bros. films Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 and Part 2.

Kinney National Company

Ted Ashley (from Ashley-Famous) suggested to Ross that he buy out the cash-strapped film company Warner Bros.-Seven Arts, which had purchased Atlantic Records that same year.

Legion of Super Heroes in the 31st Century

Legion of Super-Heroes in the 31st Century is a DC Comics comic book based on the Warner Bros. Animation-produced TV series Legion of Super-Heroes airing since fall 2006 on The CW, which in turn is based on the original DC super-team of the same name appearing in various DC titles since 1958.

Lew Lehr

Between 1937 and 1948, he was caricatured in six Warner Bros. animated cartoons: "She Was An Acrobat's Daughter" (1937), "Porky in Egypt" (1938), "The Sour Puss" (1940), "Russian Rhapsody" (1944), "Herr Meets Hare" (1945) and "Scaredy Cat" (1948).

Manos Krystalis

In 2009, after graduated successfully from the college, he presented his own short film with the title “The Perfect Crime” directed by Lynda Goodfriend, that was screened in Warner Bros Studios ( May 2, 2009, Screening Rm 12 ).

Marvelous Things E.P.

Marvelous Things is the second EP of the band Eisley released after signing with Warner Bros. Records.

Orange Cinéma Séries

Content is provided by exclusive contracts with Warner Bros., HBO, MGM and Fidelity as well as non-exclusive contracts with Gaumont, SND, BAC and Wild Side.

Recombo DNA

Unlike the Hardcore Devo compilations, which contained several demos from Devo's pre-record deal days, this collection spans throughout much of their career with Warner Bros. Records and Enigma Records.

Ruby Records

When Warner Bros. Records bought Slash, they took over distribution of Ruby's three most popular albums (The Gun Club's Fire of Love, The Misfits' Walk Among Us, The Dream Syndicate's The Days of Wine and Roses) and deleted the others (which included releases by The Flesh Eaters, Blurt and Lydia Lunch).

Screener

Caridi was later ordered to pay Warner Bros. for copyright infringement of two of their films, Mystic River and The Last Samurai, a total of $300,000 ($150,000 per title).

Shapiro-Glickenhaus Entertainment

The Jack Abramoff produced feature was dropped by Warner Bros. when protest groups claimed that the involvement of the South African government in the film's creation violated the United Nations cultural boycott against the Pretoria government.

The Flame and the Arrow

The Flame and the Arrow is a 1950 American adventure film made by Warner Bros. and starring Burt Lancaster, Virginia Mayo and Nick Cravat.

The Light of the Sun

The Light of the Sun is the fourth studio album by American recording artist Jill Scott, released June 21, 2011, on Blues Babe Records and Warner Bros. Records.

The Night the Bridge Fell Down

The movie was produced by Irwin Allen in 1979 in association with Warner Bros. Television for NBC but not aired until February 28, 1983 - the same night the final original episode of M*A*S*H ("Goodbye, Farewell and Amen") aired on rival network CBS.

The Peter, Paul and Mary Album

Notable songs include "Hurry Sundown," which was released as a single, and "Norman Normal," which provided the basis of a 1968 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon of the same name, co-credited to Noel Stookey.

The Pirate Signal

Eventually labels began calling, as TVT, Atlantic, Warner Bros. Records, and Sony expressed interest, as well as major indies like Def Jux, Rhymesayers, Strange Famous, Black Clover and even Epitaph itself inquiring about the band.

There's a Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder

"There's a Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder" is a 1928 song sung by Al Jolson in the early Warner Bros. talking picture The Singing Fool the same year.

VITAC

The company captions over 220,000 hours of programming each year for over 1400 customers, including cable channels CNN and MSNBC, cable network Discovery Communications, syndicated and cable productions for Fox and CBS Television Distribution, off-network productions for NBCUniversal and Warner Bros..

William T. Orr

As the first head of Warner Bros. Television department, Orr forged a fruitful alliance with ABC, which resulted in the network having a number of prime time hits, such as Maverick, 77 Sunset Strip, and F Troop.

Wonderfulness

This was the first of several Cosby albums to be recorded live at Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, by Warner Bros. Records.