Warner Brothers studio research:

 The first Warner Bros film was made in World War 1, and it was based on a book. Warner Bros official began on the 4th of April 1923in Hollywood, LA. Currently Warner Bros are still based in California, in Burbank. Despite the headquarters being in California, they have studios in London, and they also have 200 acres in Hertfordshire in South-East England. Currently the owner of the company is the Conglomerate or parent company Warner Media. Warner Media also own HBO, Turner Broadcasting and Cinemax. 

 

Being owned by a large conglomerate such as Warner Media has many benefits. The largest, of course, being the huge amount of money that is available to them. Everything that all the other subsidiaries owned by Warner Media make can be re-invested into movies made by Warner Bros, giving them huge budgets to make some of the most consumed films on the planet. Since Warner Bros has been running strong for almost a century (96 years), Warner Media can feel safe investing money into them as their reputation shows that they are strong, stable and produce films that people want to see.

 

For example, the biggest box office success that Warner Bros has had is Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011), followed by Aquaman (2012), which comes just before Batman: The Dark Knight Rises, followed by Joker which is the most profitable film ever made. In 2019 Warner Bros highest grossing films were Joker, IT: Chapter 2, and Pokémon: Detective Pikachu.

 

 

 

The budget for Joker was only $55 million, and for IT $79 million. For Pokémon the budget was the largest at $150 million US dollars. Withing franchises, for example the Harry Potter franchise, unless uncapable, they tend to work with the same actors so that the audience can go to see their favourite actors that they saw in the previous film again. However, usually a film company as big as WB will usually just cast big names who suit the part so that they can attract people to come and watch their films. Currently, due to the pandemic, Warner Bros has 21 movies in pre-production.