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Michael Groszkruger, Former New Line and Warner Bros. Market Research Exec, Dies at 60 • Feb. 15, 2025, 4:01 AM ET (The Hollywood Reporter)
Warner Bros to build 'Harry Potter Studio Tour' with Chinese group in Shanghai • Feb. 12, 2025, 12:55 AM ET (Reuters)
Warner Bros. Video-Game Division Faces Thin Slate, Leadership Uncertainty and Wonder Woman Issues • Feb. 7, 2025, 3:49 AM ET (Bloomberg)
Warner Bros. is streaming full movies for free on YouTube • Feb. 6, 2025, 12:35 AM ET (The Verge)
Warner Bros hit with Superman copyright lawsuit ahead of new movie • Feb. 1, 2025, 6:26 AM ET (Reuters)

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Also Known As Warner Bros. Inc. • Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc. • Warner Bros. Entertainment
Date 1923 - present
Areas Of Involvement film • sound film • gangster film
Related People Frank Tashlin • Tex Avery • Alfred E. Green • Mel Blanc • Friz Freleng • Jack Warner

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Warner Brothers Studio lot, Burbank, California
Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer
Edward G. Robinson
Howard Hawks: Scarface
filming of Casablanca
filming of Rebel Without a Cause
My Fair Lady
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
The Exorcist
Whoopi Goldberg in The Color Purple
See the opening scene of the Warner Brothers cartoon “Porky's Midnight Matinee”
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