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As a production company, Turner Entertainment also created original in-house programming, such as documentaries about the films it owns, new animated material based on Tom & Jerry and other related cartoon properties, and once produced made-for-television films, miniseries, and theatrical films such as Gettysburg, Tom and Jerry: The Movie, Fallen, The Pagemaster and Cats Don't Dance under the ...
Warner Animation Group (2014–2022) Warner Bros. Pictures Animation (2023–present) Other Warner Bros. studio Third-party studio An adult animated production A: Distribution only D: Live-action/animation hybrid S: Produced for video release, but given a brief theatrical release shortly before its video release. V
First fully animated film from Warner Bros. Feature Animation outside of Turner Feature Animation. 5 The Iron Giant: August 6, 1999 — Main faculties A. Film A/S (uncredited) Duncan Studios (Signature Edition) 96% [10] 85 [11] $70–80 million $31.3 million Second and final fully animated film from Warner Bros. Feature Animation. Only film to ...
Beginning in 1986, Warner Bros. moved into regular television animation production. Warners' television division was established by WB Animation President Jean MacCurdy, who brought in producer Tom Ruegger and much of his staff from Hanna-Barbera Productions' A Pup Named Scooby-Doo series (1988–1991).
Cartoon Planet premiered on TBS in July as a response to Ted Turner enjoying watching the Space Ghost episode on TBS. TBS' children's programs became part of the Disaster Area block in March 1996. The block's branding featured an offscreen reporter inside a talking tornado of junk. [4] Turner was bought by Time Warner in 1996.
Turner Broadcasting System (via Turner Entertainment Co.) took over the library in 1986 during Ted Turner's brief ownership of MGM/UA. When Turner sold back the MGM/UA production unit, he kept the MGM library, including the Warner Bros. Pictures films and Popeye cartoons from the a.a.p. library, for his own company.
On October 22, 2016, AT&T disclosed an offer to acquire Time Warner for $108.7 billion, including assumed debt held by the latter company. The merger would bring Time Warner's various media properties, including The Cartoon Network, Inc., under the same corporate umbrella as AT&T's telecommunications holdings, including satellite provider DirecTV and IPTV/broadband provider AT&T U-verse.
Turner Entertainment also distributes certain films and shows from New Line Cinema (1994–1997) as well as shows from TBS, TNT, Cartoon Network, truTV and PBS (1994–2004) on home video through Turner Home Entertainment and later, after it got absorbed, Warner Home Video. There are very few exceptions to this library, however.