Sega Studio USA went on to make their next multiplatform game, Shadow the Hedgehog, using the studio's own game engine instead of RenderWare.

The studio's next gangster film, The Public Enemy, made James Cagney arguably the studio's new top star, and Warner Bros. was now convinced to make more gangster films.

By the end of 1953, the studio's net profit was $ 2. 9 million and ranged between $ 2 and $ 4 million for the next two years.

The studio's next effort, making a weekly series out of Cheyenne, would be.

Despite these initial problems, Buddy would go on to be the studio's linchpin character for the next two years.

When developing Fallout 2, the studio's first official game, several employees left Interplay to form Troika Games after they " were unable to come to an agreement with Interplay as to how next team should be structured.

" Although put together on a shoestring budget ( with old mattresses on the walls in the studio's early incarnation ), it was there that the band recorded its next album, D. M. Z., during the summer of 1982.

The studio's next film, Osmosis Jones ( 2001 ), was another animated / live action mix that suffered through another troubled production.

Brown was billed over Beery, who would become the studio's highest paid actor within the next three years.

At Columbia, Moore was molded as the studio's next resident film star, with the studio hoping to make her " their Marilyn Monroe " or the " new Rita Hayworth ".

He also helmed the studio's next special, The Devil and Daniel Mouse, in 1978.

He was hired by Universal Pictures where, for the next few years, he directed the studio's now-obscure two-reel comedies.

The studio's next move was to impose the further restriction of filming in black and white on his next two films, which again Suzuki met with even greater bizarreness culminating in his dismissal for " incomprehensibility ".

The most successful animated film upon its initial release, it still ranks as one of the Disney studio's best loved films.

In 1993, the last president of the studio, Fred Seibert recalled his early production experiences with early LP releases of the studio's effects, and commissioned Sound Ideas to release a four-CD set entitled The Hanna-Barbera Sound FX Library, featuring nearly all of the original H-B sound effects used from 1957 to 1990, a more vast collection compared to the early LP releases ( including the sounds H-B had borrowed from other studios ).

The onset of the Second World War prevented plans for a potential release in Europe, normally the source of as much as forty-five per cent of the studio's income.

To the studio's surprise, the originally R-rated film was given an NC-17, delaying the release until the decision was appealed.

At the conclusion of each episode of Warner Bros. Presents, host Gig Young would interview a different actor from a new Warner Bros. movie about the studio's latest theatrical release.

Among these was Bette Davis, one of the studio's leading stars, who once fled to England to secure release from her contract.

According to the supplemental material on the Blu-ray disc release, William Goldman's script, originally called The Sundance Kid and Butch Cassidy, was purchased by Richard Zanuck at 20th Century Fox for $ 400, 000, double the price the studio's board of directors had authorized.

Opening in late April 2009 was a film Downey finished in mid-2008, The Soloist ; the film was pushed out from a November 2008 release by Paramount Pictures due to the studio's tight end-of-year release schedule.

Released on New Year's Day in 2000, Fantasia 2000 was the studio's first IMAX release and the first theatrical feature to to be presented in IMAX theaters.

One Hundred and One Dalmatians was the tenth highest grossing film of 1961, accruing $ 6, 400, 000 in distributors ' domestic ( U. S. and Canada ) rentals during its first year of release, and one of the studio's most popular films of the decade.

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment had announced that the film will be released only on Blu-ray Disc ( and finally in a digital format in North America ) on January 4, 2011, but it was pulled from the studio's release schedule just prior to that date.

In late 1979, Walt Disney Productions released The Black Hole, a science-fiction movie that was the studio's first production to receive a PG rating ( the company, however, had already distributed its first PG-rated film, Take Down — without the Disney name visible — almost a year before the release of The Black Hole ).

While the kinds of films produced by Poverty Row studios only grew in popularity, they would eventually become increasingly available both from major production companies and from independent producers who no longer needed to rely on a studio's ability to package and release their work.

According to Tarantino's audio commentary on the DVD release, he was happy with the way it turned out as, apart from changing the nonlinear narrative he wrote to a more conventional linear structure, it was largely faithful to his original screenplay and, although he initially opposed director Tony Scott's decision to change the ending ( which Scott maintained was of his own volition, not the studio's, saying " I just fell in love with these two characters and didn ’ t want to see them die ") he realized when seeing the completed film that Scott's happy ending was more appropriate to the film as he had directed it, whereas the originally scripted ending would have been more suited to Tarantino's directorial style.

A second feature film version of Gatchaman had been in production by Imagi Animation Studios for release in 2012, but was ultimately canceled due to the studio's financial problems.

Other notable films included Affliction, Gods and Monsters, Dogma, Saw and the Michael Moore documentary Fahrenheit 9 / 11, which, until the release of The Hunger Games in 2012, became the studio's highest grossing film.

The Smurfs ( 2011 ) was the studio's first CGI / live-action hybrid and its most successful release.

Mystical Ninja Goemon remained on the studio's release list until its closing in 2005 ; it is rumored that Sony squashed the game's release due to subpar graphics.

The group was initially unsatisfied with recording in the stressful environment of a recording studio, and felt rushed to release albums due to the studio's schedules.

With the success of the studio's 1965 Broadway play The Great Race, as well as its soundtrack, Warner Bros. Records became a profitable subsidiary.

Some of the studio's notable productions include The Kiss ( 1896 ), The Great Train Robbery ( 1903 ), Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ( 1910 ), the first Frankenstein film in 1910, the first ever serial made in 1912 titled What Happened to Mary, and The Land Beyond the Sunset ( 1912 ), which film historian William K. Everson considered " the screen's first genuinely lyrical film ".

Douglas moved on to RKO Radio Pictures, where he directed low-budget entries in the studio's series featuring The Great Gildersleeve, Brown and Carney, The Falcon and Dick Tracy.

Announcer Bob Sievers, Farm Director, commentator and folk-philosopher Jay Gould, News Director Dugan Fry, meteorologist Earl Finckle, the " In a Little Red Barn ( on a farm down in Indiana )" de facto theme song of WOWO, the Penny Pitch charity fund raisers, sports director Bob Chase's Komet Hockey broadcasts, the weather reports from WOWO's personnel taking a smoking break out on its studio's " world-famous fire escape ", and husband-wife hosts of The Little Red Barn Show, music director Sam DeVincent and wife Nancy of " Nancy Lee and the Hilltoppers ", all were listened to by a total of millions of people from the Great Lakes to the United States ' East Coast over the years from the 1940s to the 1990s.

In 1936, Walt Disney felt that the Disney studio's star character Mickey Mouse needed a boost in popularity.

" In 1953, during a rare meeting between the Warners and the studio's cartoon makers, Jack confessed that he didn't " even know where the hell the cartoon studio is ", and Harry added, " The only thing I know is that we make Mickey Mouse ," a reference to the flagship character of a competing company, Walt Disney Productions.

Danger Mouse was one of the studio's earliest international successes.

Shows produced during this era included My So-Called Life, The Commish, and American Detective ( the last program mentioned was co-produced through Orion before the studio's bankruptcy ).

During the summer of 1986, however, the studio's luck began to change, as Back to School, an aggressively advertised film starring comedian Rodney Dangerfield, fared well at the box office.