The group was on the verge of signing with Warner Bros. Records at the time of La Rock's murder.

The resulting fight between the townsfolk and Lamarr's army of thugs breaks the fourth wall, quite literally ; the fight spills out from the Warner Bros. film lot into a neighboring musical set being directed by Buddy Bizarre ( Dom DeLuise ), then into the studio commissary, where a pie fight ensues.

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On November 22, 2010, The Hollywood Reporter confirmed that Warner Bros. had picked up the movie rights to the remake.

Warner Bros. was willing to fund the project on the condition that Gibson sign for another Lethal Weapon sequel, which he refused.

Charles Martin " Chuck " Jones ( September 21, 1912 – February 22, 2002 ) was an American animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, producer, and director of animated films, most memorably of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts for the Warner Bros. Cartoons studio.

After his extraordinary career at Warner Bros. ended in 1962, Jones started Sib Tower 12 Productions and began producing memorable cartoons for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, including a new series of Tom and Jerry shorts and the television adaptation of Dr. Seuss ' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

Film historian Leonard Maltin has praised Jones ' work at Warner Bros., MGM and Chuck Jones Productions.

Chuck Jones joined Leon Schlesinger Productions, the independent studio that produced Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies for Warner Bros., in 1933 as an assistant animator.

Jones remained at Warner Bros. throughout the 1950s, except for a brief period in 1953 when Warner closed the animation studio.

Jones moonlighted to work on the film, since he had an exclusive contract with Warner Bros. UPA completed the film and made it available for distribution in 1962 ; it was picked up by Warner Bros.

Jones ' former animation unit was laid off after completing the final cartoon in their pipeline, The Iceman Ducketh, and the rest of the Warner Bros. Cartoons studio was closed in early 1963.

With business partner Les Goldman, Jones started an independent animation studio Sib Tower 12 Productions, bringing on most of his unit from Warner Bros., including Maurice Noble and Michael Maltese.

Jones resumed working with Warner Bros. in 1976 with the animated TV adaptation of The Carnival of the Animals with Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck.

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While the compositions and performances were credited to " Jimmy Thudpucker ", they were in fact co-written and sung by Brewer, who also co-wrote and provided the vocals for " Ginny's Song ", a 1976 single on the Warner Bros. Label, and Jimmy Thudpucker's Greatest Hits, an LP released by Windsong Records, John Denver's subsidiary of RCA Records ).

Digital Cinema Initiatives ( DCI ) was formed in March 2002 as a joint project of many motion picture studios ( Disney, Fox, MGM, Paramount, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal, and Warner Bros. Studios ) to develop a system specification for digital cinema.

Scott Derrickson was set to direct " Hyperion Cantos " for Warner Bros. and GK Films.

* The 1946 Warner Bros. cartoon Book Revue had a lengthy sequence with Daffy Duck impersonating Kaye singing " Carolina in the Morning " with the Russian accent that Kaye would affect from time to time.

It is the publishing unit of DC Entertainment, a company of Warner Bros. Entertainment, which itself is owned by Time Warner.

The evening program was opened by the Jazz Three, a Newport group consisting of Steve Budieshein on bass, Jack Warner, drums, and Don Cook, piano.

The first of these was based on Lord Edgware Dies and was made by Warner Brothers.

* 1953 – In Warner Robins, Georgia, an F4 tornado kills 18 people.

* 1926 – In New York, New York, the Warner Brothers ' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.

Having fulfilled his promise, Warner published a book entitled How We Recovered The Ashes.

Examples include one presented to Warner in 1904, another to Australian Captain M. A.

England won it against the odds, and Plum Warner, the England captain, wrote up his version of the tour in his book How We Recovered The Ashes.

He famously told England manager Pelham Warner, " There are two teams out there.

It stars Jack Warner as an England cricketer playing the last Test of his career, which is the last of an Ashes series ; the film contains cameo appearances from cricketers, including Jim Laker and Denis Compton, who were part of England's 1953 triumph.

* 1892 – Jack Warner, Canadian-American film producer ( d. 1978 )

( C ) 1983 Acorn Computers Ltd. Thanks are due to the following contributors to the development of the Electron ( among others too numerous to mention ):- Bob Austin, Astec, Harry Barman, Paul Bond, Allen Boothroyd, Ben Bridgewater, Cambridge, John Cox, Chris Curry, 6502 designers, Jeremy Dion, Tim Dobson, Joe Dunn, Ferranti, Steve Furber, David Gale, Andrew Gordon, Martyn Gilbert, Lawrence Hardwick, Hermann Hauser, John Herbert, Hitachi, Andy Hopper, Paul Jephcot, Brian Jones, Chris Jordan, Computer Laboratory, Tony Mann, Peter Miller, Trevor Morris, Steve Parsons, Robin Pain, Glyn Phillips, Brian Robertson, Peter Robinson, David Seal, Kim Spence-Jones, Graham Tebby, Jon Thackray, Topexpress, Chris Turner, Hugo Tyson, John Umney, Alex van Someren, Geoff Vincent, Adrian Warner, Robin Williamson, Roger Wilson.

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* 1953 – Warner Brothers premieres the first 3-D film from a major American studio, entitled House of Wax.

One month later, Warner Communications sold Atari's Consumer Division to Jack Tramiel.

Atari's launch of the 7800 under Tramiel was far more subdued than Warner had planned for the system in 1984 with a marketing budget of just $ 300, 000.

Two film versions were released in 1973: one directed by Joseph Losey, starring Jane Fonda, David Warner and Trevor Howard ; and the other by Patrick Garland with Claire Bloom, Anthony Hopkins, and Ralph Richardson.

Known as " Big Mac ", the encyclopedia became the standard baseball reference until 1988, when Total Baseball was released by Warner Books using more sophisticated technology.

1 – 4: Chris Warner, script and pencils / Tim Bradstreet, inks.

In July 1984 he bought the consumer side of Atari Inc. from Warner Communications which allowed him to strike back and release the Atari ST earlier in 1985 for about $ 800.

Hawks did not get along with Warner Brothers executive Hal B. Wallis and his contract allowed him to be loaned out to other studios.

Warner took pity on the French settlers and allowed them to settle on the island as well, thus making Saint Kitts the site of the first permanent French colony in the Caribbean as well.

By April 1927, the Big Five studios ( First National, Paramount, MGM, Universal, and Producers Distributing ) had put the Warner brothers in financial ruin, and Western Electric renewed Warner's Vitaphone contract with terms that allowed other film companies to test sound.

was allowed to keep the Warner titles intact and simply inserted an " Associated Artists Productions presents " title at the head of each reel ( as a result, each Merrie Melodie cartoon had the song " Merrily We Roll Along " playing twice ).

Warner Bros. allowed Hitchcock to scrap the movie, and begin production on Dial M for Murder.

After Berns ' death, Warner Bros. Records bought out his contract and allowed him three sessions to record Astral Weeks in 1968.

When her Warner Bros. contract expired, the studio informed her that six months had been added to it for times she had been on suspension ; the law then allowed for studios to suspend contract players for rejecting a role and the period of suspension to be added to the contract period.

) This allowed for a switch to the less expensive Warner studios from September 1970 through January 1973.

Most of the Private Snafu shorts are educational, and although the War Department had to approve the storyboards, the Warner directors were allowed great latitude in order to keep the cartoons entertaining.

After initially poor box office returns in its test markets, Warner Bros. returned the film to Blatty and allowed him to take it to another distributor.

Unlike many artists signed to major labels, the deal the band brokered with Warner Bros. allowed it to retain a large degree of creative control over future albums.

Although Freleng and DePatie were no longer working for Warner Bros., a generous gesture from a WB executive allowed Freleng and DePatie to continue to work at the old WB cartoon plant on California Street in Burbank, complete with equipment and supplies for a few dollars each year.

This has allowed them to cast other actors in the role of the Doctor, including Sir Derek Jacobi, Arabella Weir and David Warner.

This allowed the rights to the Brunswick and Vocalion labels ( and pre-December 1931 Brunswick / Vocalion masters ) to revert to Warner Bros., who sold the labels to Decca Records.

Warner attempted to come back later in the season, but his injury allowed him to play only two more games ( both losses ).

Time Warner Cable was allowed to distribute approximately $ 6 billion in shares to Adelphia stakeholders and succeed Adelphia as a publicly traded corporation.

According to TV historians Castleman and Podrazik ( 1982 ), ABC allowed Warner Brothers studios to fill 30 % of its fall 1959 schedule.

It was also the first album released under a new deal with Warner Bros. that allowed the company to distribute all future Beach Boys product in foreign as well as domestic markets.

He had recently sold the filming rights to Altered Carbon to Warner Bros. ( he would also sell the rights to Market Forces to Warner Bros .) which had allowed him to leave his job as an English teacher at the University of Strathclyde to focus on his writing career.

Station operators are allowed to demand payment from cable operators, or negotiate private agreements for carriage, or threaten revocation against the cable operator ( see Sinclair, Time Warner Cable ).

Like Lenny Waronker, Wickham's youth, intelligence and hip attitude allowed him to bridge the ' generation gap between these young performers and the older Warner ' establishment '.

This allowed the rights to the Brunswick and Vocalion labels to return to Warner Bros., which assigned the rights to those labels to Decca Records.