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Warner Bros. Entertainment - a fully integrated, broad-based entertainment company - is a global leader in the creation, production, distribution, licensing and marketing of creative content and its related businesses across multiple current and emerging media and platforms.
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Warner Bros. stands at the forefront of the entertainment industry, with businesses ranging from feature film, TV and home entertainment production and worldwide distribution to home video, digital distribution, animation, comic books, licensing and international cinemas and broadcasting.
In 2011, the Warner Bros. Pictures Group grossed $4.7 billion at the worldwide box office ($1.83 billion domestic, $2.87 international) with both its domestic and international divisions crossing the billion-dollar mark for an 11th consecutive year, a feat unmatched by any other studio. The Pictures Group has exceeded $4 billion globally for three consecutive years, also a milestone no other studio has ever achieved Warner Home Video was, once again, the industry's leader, with an overall 21.9 percent marketshare in total DVD and Blu-ray sales. WHV was also the number one home entertainment studio internationally in 2011. The companies comprising the Warner Bros. Television Group and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group remain category leaders, working across all platforms and outlets, and are trendsetters in the digital realm with video-on-demand (transaction and ad-supported), branded channels, original content, anti-piracy technology and broadband and wireless destinations.
The companies comprising the Warner Bros. Television Group (WBTVG) and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group continue to be category leaders, working across multiple platforms and outlets. These companies remained trendsetters in the digital realm with video-on-demand, electronic sell through, branded channels, original content, anti-piracy technology and broadband and wireless destinations.
WBTVG is responsible for the entire Warner Bros. portfolio of television businesses, including worldwide production, distribution and broadcasting. WBTVG continues to develop and foster the relationships with A-list writers and directors that have made it the largest provider of primetime broadcast TV programming for 20 of the past 25 years. At the beginning of the 2011-12 television season, WBTVG divisions will produce more than 50 television series, from scripted and unscripted primetime shows for broadcast (including at least two shows for each of the five broadcast networks) and cable networks to first-run syndicated programs and animation.
The Studio's 2011-12 primetime series include The Big Bang Theory, The Mentalist, Mike & Molly, Two and a Half Men, Person of Interest and Two Broke Girls for CBS; The Vampire Diaries, Gossip Girl, Supernatural, One Tree Hill, Nikita, Secret Circle, Hart of Dixie and Ringer for The CW; Fringe and Alcatraz for FOX; Chuck, The Voice, Harry's Law, Who Do You Think You Are? and Are You There Chelsea for NBC; The Bachelor franchise, The Middle and Suburgatory for ABC; The Closer, Rizzoli & Isles, Southland and Memphis Beatfor TNT; Shameless for Showtime; Pretty Little Liars and Lying Game for ABC Family; and Childrens Hospital for Adult Swim. Telepictures Productions – the creative force behind such syndicated series as The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Extra, Anderson and TMZ – produces first-run series for syndication. Warner Bros. Animation produces MAD, Young Justice, Green Lantern and Scooby-Doo Mystery Inc. for Cartoon Network. WBTVG is also a 50/50 partner with CBS in The CW Television Network.
The rapidly evolving marketplace for digital distribution is one of Warner Bros. Entertainment's greatest strategic opportunities. As the ways consumers access, purchase and enjoy Warner Bros.' content continue to change, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group, which includes the home video, online, wireless, video games and digital distribution businesses, is focused on protecting and maximizing the value of the studio's content while fully harnessing the benefits of emerging technologies.
In 2011, Warner Bros. Entertainment's success at the box office and on TV contributed to its number one share in the domestic home video business for the 11th consecutive year. Warner Home Video commands the largest distribution infrastructure in the global video marketplace and is the number one company domestically in total physical sell-through video (DVD and Blu-ray combined), theatrical catalog, TV on DVD, non-theatrical family and animation, Blu-ray and VOD. WHV has been the number one studio in DVD and Blu-Ray sales for 15 consecutive years and is the industry's leading studio in these sales internationally.
DC Entertainment, founded in September 2009, is charged with strategically and deeply integrating the DC Comics business, brand and characters into Warner Bros. Entertainment and all its respective content and distribution businesses. DC Comics' characters appear in nearly 1,000 comic-book titles published and distributed globally each year as well as in live-action and animated series, direct-to-video releases, collectors' books, online entertainment, numerous licensing and marketing arrangements, graphic novels and feature films. Upcoming feature films based on DC properties include July's The Dark Knight Rises and Man of Steel, scheduled for release in the second quarter of 2013.
WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT BRANDS
- Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group
- Warner Home Video
- Warner Bros. Digital Distribution
- Warner Bros. Advanced Digital Services
- Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
- Warner Premiere
- Warner Bros. Technical Operations
- Warner Bros. Anti-Piracy Operations
- Warner Bros. Pictures Group
- Warner Bros. Television Group
- Warner Bros. Television
- Telepictures Production
- Warner Horizon Television
- Warner Bros. Animation
- Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution
- Warner Bros. International Television Distribution
- Warner Bros. International Television Production
- Warner Bros. International Branded Services
- Studio 2.0
- The CW Television Network
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