Monday, 23 November 2009

Producing Institutions

WARNER BROTHERS

Warner Brothers started off producing short cartoons called 'Looney Tunes', featuring well known characters such as Tom & Jerry, and Tweetypie. From then they have gone on to produce well-known popular thrillers such as cradle 2 the grave, Harry Potter, and Mystic River.

They are a company from the major company called Time Warner, which also controls a number of television under the name of HBO including Warner Bros, Computer games and AOL. Time Warner Inc, a global leader in media and entertainment with businesses in television networks, filmed entertainment and publishing, uses its industry-leading operating scale and brands to create, package and deliver high-quality content worldwide through multiple distribution outlets.

Their revenue of $11.8 billion shows how successful they are at what they do and have certainly established themselves. Founded in Hollywood in 1918 this multi-billion company will continue to produce films, TV programmes and video games in the future.


Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures is an American film production and distribution company, located at 5555 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood, California. Founded in 1912 and currently owned by media conglomerate Viacom, it is America's oldest existing film studio; it is also the last major film studio still headquartered in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles. Paramount is consistently ranked as one of the top-grossing movie studios. Some recent thrillers that they have produced include 'The Lovely Bones' and 'Shutter Island'.

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