华纳兄弟影业

华纳兄弟影业（英語：Warner Bros. Pictures；商業名稱：华纳兄弟影业集团，[Warner Bros. Pictures Group]）是一家美国電影製作和分销电影制片厂，华纳兄弟娱乐公司子公司，总部位于加利福尼亚州伯班克，是華納兄弟的旗艦品牌。

Warner Bros. Pictures
Logo used since the 2019 rebrand
曾用名	Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. (1923–1967) Warner Bros.-Seven Arts, Inc.（英语：Warner Bros.-Seven Arts） (1967–1970) Warner Bros. Inc. (1970–1992)
公司類型	Division（英语：Division (business)）
公司前身	Warner Features Company
成立	1923年4月4日，​99年前​（1923-04-04）^[1]
創辦人	哈里·华纳（英语：Harry Warner） 阿尔伯特·华纳（英语：Albert Warner） 山姆·华纳（英语：Sam Warner） 杰克·华纳
代表人物	Toby Emmerich（英语：Toby Emmerich） (Chairman, Warner Bros. Pictures Group)
業務範圍	全球
产业	Entertainment（英语：Outline of entertainment）
產品	电影
營業額	▲ 138.66亿美元（2017年）^[2]
息税前利润	▲ 17.61亿美元（2017年）^[2]
所有權者	WarnerMedia Studios & Networks Group (WarnerMedia a subsidiary of AT&T) (spin-out（英语：Corporate spin-off） into independent entity pending, to be merged with Discovery, Inc.)
員工人數	约8,000人（2014年）^[3]
母公司	华纳兄弟娱乐公司
主要子公司	华纳兄弟动画公司 华纳动画集团（英语：Warner Animation Group） 新線影業 DC影業 城堡石娛樂公司
网站	www.warnerbros.com

华纳兄弟影业成立于1923年，由哈里·华纳（英语：Harry Warner）、阿尔伯特·华纳（英语：Albert Warner）、山姆·华纳（英语：Sam Warner）和杰克·华纳创办，除了製作自己的電影外，還處理由其他华纳兄弟公司製作和發行的電影，包办電影製作運營、院線發行、營銷和推廣，其中包括华纳兄弟动画公司、华纳动画集团（英语：Warner Animation Group）、新線影業、DC影業和城堡石娛樂公司，以及其他第三方生產商。

历史

華納兄弟影業

更多信息：華納兄弟 § 影業發展

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In 1927, Warner Bros. Pictures revolutionized the film industry when the American-Jewish Warner brothers released their first pictures "talkie" The Jazz Singer starring Al Jolson. Unfortunately, founding member Sam Warner died prior to the premiere of the film.^[4] From 1923 to 1967, Warner Bros. was known as Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. as their main focus was entirely on the motion picture industry. When the company diversified over the years, it was eventually rebranded to its current umbrella name, but Warner Bros. Pictures continued to be used as the name of the film production arm of the company.

The division was incorporated as Warner Bros. Pictures on March 3, 2003 to diversify film subjects and expand audiences for their film releases.^[5] The company became part of the Warner Bros. Pictures Group, which was established in 2008, and Jeff Robinov was appointed the first president of the company.^[6] In 2017, longtime New Line executive Toby Emmerich joined as president. In January 2018, he was elevated to chairman.^[7][8] On October 23, 2018 it was announced Lynne Frank, President of Warner Bros. Pictures Group, would be leaving the company to pursue new opportunities.^[9] In June 2019, Warner Bros. Pictures signed an agreement with SF Studios to have their films distributed in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Finland.^[10]

As with most other film distributors, Warner Bros. Pictures struggled with releasing films during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic due to restrictions on theater openings. After pushing several films planned for 2020 into 2021, WB announced in December 2020 that they would take the unusual approach of having their entire slate of 2021 films planned for both theatrical release as well as having a simultaneous one-month period of availability on the HBO Max streaming service, in a similar manner for how they were releasing Wonder Woman 1984 that month. After one month, such films would still be available in theaters and would then later be available via home media under typical release schedules.^[11] The move to include streaming was criticized by production companies, directors, and actors as Warner Bros. Pictures had not informed anyone about the plan ahead of the announcement, as well of concerns of lower payouts due to the streaming options,^[12] leading Warner Bros. Pictures to alter its compensation rates for the affected films by January 2021 to provide larger payouts to casts and crews of these films.^[13]

电影图书馆

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Gate 4, Warner Bros. Studios, looking south towards the water tower

Mergers and acquisitions have helped Warner Bros. accumulate a diverse collection of films, cartoons and television programs. As of 2019, Warner Bros. owned more than 100,000 hours of programming, including 8,600 feature films and 5,000 television programs comprising tens of thousands of individual episodes.^[14]

In the aftermath of the 1948 antitrust suit, uncertain times led Warner Bros. in 1956 to sell most of its pre-1950^[15][16][17] films and cartoons to Associated Artists Productions (a.a.p.). In addition, a.a.p. also obtained the Fleischer Studios and Famous Studios Popeye cartoons, originally from Paramount Pictures. Two years later, a.a.p. was sold to United Artists, which owned the company until 1981, when Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer acquired United Artists.^[18][19]

In 1982, during their independent years, Turner Broadcasting System acquired Brut Productions, the film production arm of France-based then-struggling personal-care company Faberge Inc.^[20]

In 1986, Turner Broadcasting System acquired Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Finding itself in debt, Turner Entertainment kept the pre-May 1986 MGM film and television libraries and a small portion of the United Artists library (including the a.a.p. library and North American rights to the RKO Radio Pictures library) while spinning off the rest of MGM.^[21]

In 1989, Warner Communications acquired Lorimar-Telepictures Corporation.^[22][23] Lorimar's catalogue included the post-1974 library of Rankin/Bass Productions, and the post-1947 library of Monogram Pictures/Allied Artists Pictures Corporation.

In 1991, Turner Broadcasting System acquired animation studio Hanna-Barbera and the Ruby-Spears library from Great American Broadcasting, and years later, Turner Broadcasting System acquired Castle Rock Entertainment on December 22, 1993^[24][25] and New Line Cinema on January 28, 1994.^[26][27] On October 10, 1996, Time Warner acquired Turner Broadcasting System, thus bringing Warner Bros.' pre-1950 library back home. In addition, Warner Bros. only owns Castle Rock Entertainment's post-1994 library.

In 2008, Time Warner integrated New Line to Warner Bros.

In June 2016, it created the Harry Potter Global Franchise Development Team to oversee its ownership of the Harry Potter franchise worldwide (including the Wizarding World trademark).^[28]

• Warner Bros
  • Warner Bros Pictures library (post-1950, 1950-present)
  • Warner Bros. Television Studios library (1955-present)
    • Alloy Entertainment library (2005-present)
    • Telepictures library (1979-present)
      • Rankin/Bass Productions library (post 1974. 1974-1989, 1999-2001)
      • Lorimar Television library (1971-1993)
  • Warner Animation Group library (2013-present)
    • Warner Bros. Feature Animation library (1990-2004)
  • Warner Bros Animation library (1980-present)
    • Warner Bros. Cartoons library (post-1950, 1950-1969)
    • Warner Bros. Family Entertainment library (1992-2009)
    • Warner Premiere library (2007-2014)
    • Hanna-Barbera library (1957-2001)
      • Ruby-Spears Enterprises library (Pre 1991)
  • Cartoon Network Studios library (1996-present)
    • Adult Swim/Williams Street library (1994-present)
  • New Line Cinema library (1982-present)
    • New Line Television library (1988-2008)
  • Castle Rock Entertainment films library (post-1994, 1994-present)
    • Castle Rock Entertainment television library (post-1994, 1994-present)
  • DC Films (2016-present)
  • HBO Films libraries, co-owned by HBO (1983-present)
  • Home video distribution rights of Cannon Films libraries (post-1991)

• Turner Entertainment
  • MGM film library (pre-May 1986)
    • MGM Television library (pre-1985)
    • MGM Cartoons library (pre-1967)
  • United Artists/Associated Artists Productions libraries:
    • Warner Bros Pictures library (pre-1950)
      • First National Pictures library (1923-1936)
      • Warner Bros. Cartoons library (pre-August 1948)
    • Fleischer Studios/Famous Studios Popeye cartoons (1933-1957)
  • RKO Pictures live action library's US, Canadian, UK, Australian, German and Italian distribution rights (pre-1960)
  • Brut Productions library (1973-1982)

電影作品

主条目：華納兄弟電影列表

华纳兄弟影业的首部發行的真人電影是《我在德國的四年（英语：My Four Years in Germany）》（1918年），首部动画电影是《Gay Purr-ee（英语：Gay Purr-ee）》（1962年），华纳兄弟动画公司和华纳动画集团（英语：Warner Animation Group）制作的动画电影，同样由华纳兄弟影业发行。华纳兄弟影业共有25部作品荣获奥斯卡最佳影片奖提名：Disraeli（英语：Disraeli (1929 film)）（1929）、牢獄餘生（1932）、42nd Street（英语：42nd Street (film)）（1933）、Here Comes the Navy（英语：Here Comes the Navy）（1934）、A Midsummer Night's Dream（英语：A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935 film)）（1935）、风流世家（1936）、左拉传（1937）、侠盗罗宾汉（1938）、Four Daughters（英语：Four Daughters）（1938）、红衫泪痕（1938）、卿何薄命（1939），以及其他著名作品。

票房最高的電影

北美票房最高的電影^[29] 排名 电影名称 年份 国内总值 1 黑暗騎士 2008 $533,720,947 2 黑暗騎士：黎明昇起 2012 $448,139,099 3 神力女超人 2017 $412,563,408 4 哈利·波特与死亡圣器（下） 2011 $381,193,157 5 美國狙擊手 2014 $350,126,372 6 小丑 2019 $328,828,874 10 自殺突擊隊 2016 $325,100,054 11 哈利波特：神秘的魔法石 2001 $317,871,467 12 霍比特人：意外旅程 ^1 2012 $303,003,568 13 哈利波特：混血王子的背叛 2009 $302,089,278 14 哈利·波特与死亡圣器（上） 2010 $296,131,568 15 全面啟動 2010 $292,576,195 16 哈利波特：鳳凰會的密令 2007 $292,137,260 17 超人：鋼鐵英雄 2013 $291,045,518 18 哈利波特：火盃的考驗 2005 $290,201,752 19 黑客帝国2：重装上阵 2003 $281,553,689 20 醉後大丈夫 2009 $277,322,503 21 地心引力 2013 $274,092,705 22 哈利波特：消失的密室 2002 $262,233,381 23 霍比特人2：史矛革之战 ^1 2013 $258,241,522 24 樂高玩電影 2014 $257,784,718 25 我是傳奇 2007 $256,393,010

环球票房最高的電影 排名 电影名称 年份 票房總收入 1 哈利·波特与死亡圣器（下） 2011 $1,342,932,398 2 水行俠 2018 $1,148,461,807 3 黑暗騎士：黎明昇起 2012 $1,084,939,099 4 小丑 2019 $1,074,251,311 5 霍比特人：意外旅程 ^1 2012 $1,021,103,568 6 哈利波特：神秘的魔法石 2001 $1,006,260,000 7 黑暗騎士 2008 $1,004,934,033 8 哈利·波特与死亡圣器（上） 2010 $977,431,568 9 霍比特人2：史矛革之战 ^1 2013 $958,366,855 10 哈比人：五軍之戰 ^1 2014 $956,019,788 11 哈利波特：鳳凰會的密令 2007 $942,018,451 12 哈利波特：混血王子的背叛 2009 $934,546,568 13 哈利波特：火盃的考驗 2005 $897,099,794 14 哈利波特：消失的密室 2002 $880,225,135 15 蝙蝠俠對超人：正義曙光 2016 $873,634,919 16 全面啟動 2010 $836,836,967 17 神力女超人 2017 $821,847,012 18 怪獸與牠們的產地 2016 $814,037,575 19 哈利波特：阿茲卡班的逃犯 2004 $796,907,323 20 自殺突擊隊 2016 $746,846,894 21 黑客帝国2：重装上阵 2003 $742,128,461 22 地心引力 2013 $723,192,705 23 星际穿越 2014 $701,502,499 24 牠 2017 $700,381,748 25 超人：鋼鐵英雄 2013 $668,045,518

注解

1. ^ co-owned by New Line Cinema and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures (the film's producers)

參考資料

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外部連結

• 官方网站
• 互联网电影数据库上Warner Bros.的资料（英文）