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Warner Bros. Pictures was officially founded on the 4th of April, 1923, by four brothers: Harry Warner, Albert Warner, Sam Warner, and Jack L. Warner. Their predecessor company, the Warner Features Company, had been established in New Castle, Pennsylvania, in 1910.
The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson, was released by Warner Bros. in 1927 and was the studio's first sound film, commonly called a talkie. It marked a turning point that effectively ended the silent film era.
Barbie (2023) is the highest-grossing Warner Bros. film at the North American domestic box office, earning $637,332,531. Worldwide, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 (2011) holds the top spot with a global gross of $1,342,359,942.
Project Popcorn was Warner Bros.'s plan, announced in December 2020, to release its entire 2021 theatrical film slate simultaneously on the HBO Max streaming service for one month. The plan drew criticism from directors, actors, and production companies who were not informed in advance, and compensation rates were revised by January 2021.
As of 2022, Warner Bros. owned more than 145,000 hours of programming, including 12,500 feature films and 2,400 television programs comprising more than 150,000 individual episodes. The library was built largely through decades of mergers and acquisitions.
Paramount Skydance made an unsolicited bid to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery in 2025. After Warner Bros. Discovery initially agreed to sell its studio and streaming assets to Netflix for $82.7 billion, Paramount Skydance submitted a revised offer reported at $110 billion, which Warner Bros. Discovery judged superior in February 2026. Netflix declined to increase its counter-offer.