Warner Bros.-Seven Arts
 Warner Bros.- Seven Arts logo in Black and White | |
| Industry |
Film Television Music |
|---|---|
| Genre | Entertainment |
| Founded | 1967 |
| Defunct | 1970 |
| Headquarters | Burbank, California |
| Key people |
Jack Warner Kenneth Hyman |
Warner Bros.-Seven Arts, Inc. was formed in 1967, when Seven Arts Productions acquired Jack Warner's controlling interest in Warner Bros. for $32 million [1] and merged with it. The deal also included Warner Bros. Records, Reprise Records and the B&W Looney Tunes library (plus the B&W non-Harman and Ising Merrie Melodies). Later that same year, Warner Bros.-Seven Arts purchased Atlantic Records which was subsequently combined in 1970 with two other acquisitions, Elektra Records and its sister label Nonesuch Records, under a new holding company, Warner-Elektra-Atlantic, or WEA for short, also known as Warner Music Group.
It was renamed to Warner Bros. once again in 1970 when Kinney National Company brought the conglomerate a year earlier.
History
Head of production was Kenneth Hyman, son of Seven Arts co-founder Eliot Hyman.
Sale to Kinney
Warner Bros.-Seven Arts was acquired in 1969 by Kinney National Company, who proceeded to delete "Seven Arts" from the company name, reestablishing it as Warner Bros. Due to a financial scandal over its parking operations, Kinney National spun off its non-entertainment assets in 1972 (as National Kinney Corporation) and changed its name to Warner Communications Inc., which has since merged with Time, Inc. to form Time Warner.
Filmography
- Camelot (1967)
- Chubasco (1967)
- Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
- The Shuttered Room (1967)
- Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)
- Wait Until Dark (1967)
- Cool Hand Luke (1967)
- Firecreek (1968)
- Countdown (1968)
- Norman Normal (1968)
- Bye Bye Braverman (1968)
- Kona Coast (1968)
- Petulia (1968)
- The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968)
- The Green Berets (1968)
- Assignment to Kill (1968)
- I Love You, Alice B. Toklas (1968)
- Finian's Rainbow (1968)
- Bullitt (1968)
- Sweet November (1968)
- The Seagull (1968)
- The Sergeant (1968)
- Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968)
- The Picasso Summer (1969)
- The Big Bounce (1969)
- 2000 Years Later (1969)
- The Wild Bunch (1969)
- The Rain People (1969)
- The Valley of Gwangi (1969) - with Hammer Films
- The Great Bank Robbery (1969)
- Moon Zero Two (1969) - with Hammer Films
- Once You Kiss a Stranger (1969)
- The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer (1970)
- Last of the Mobile Hot Shots (1970)
See also
References
- ↑ Warner Sperling, Cass (Director) (2008). The Brothers Warner (DVD film documentary). Warner Sisters, Inc.
