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unusual facts about Warner Bros. Pictures



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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Richie Ray

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

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.

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.

Talking Dreams

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

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 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 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.

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.

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.


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