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.

On January 11, 2001, Time Warner was purchased by AOL to become AOL Time Warner, a merger which Turner initially supported.

THX 1138 was released to theaters on March 11, 1971 and was initially commercially unsuccessful, earning back $ 945, 000 in rentals for Warner Bros, but still leaving the studio in the red.

Although Reagan was initially a small-time B-film actor, Warner Bros. was impressed by his performance in the final scene of Knute Rockne, All American, and agreed to pair him with Errol Flynn in their film Santa Fe Trail ( 1940 ).

Vince McMahon's original plan was to purchase the Canadian Football League ( after the CFL initially approached him about purchasing the Toronto Argonauts ), while NBC was moving ahead at the time with Time Warner to create a football league of their own.

In 1948, Davis was cast in the melodrama Winter Meeting ; and, although she was initially enthusiastic, she soon learned that Warner had arranged for " softer " lighting to be used to disguise her age.

Evidence of Warner's eroding control at Warner Bros. included his failure to block production of the controversial but highly influential film, Bonnie and Clyde, a film project he initially " hated ".

The Warner Brothers cartoons, even today billed as Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies, were initially fashioned around specific songs from upcoming Warner Brothers musical films.

At any rate, Herrmann's unused score for Torn Curtain was later commercially recorded, initially by Elmer Bernstein for his Film Music Collection subscription record label ( reissued by Warner Bros. Records ), and later, in a concert suite adapted by Christopher Palmer, by Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic for Sony.

Bette Davis initially turned down the script, but Warner Bros. studio production chief Hal B. Wallis convinced her she could make something special out of the character, who had been inspired by one of Davis ' idols, actress Jeanne Eagels.

In addition, several new characters were created to ( initially ) appear exclusively in the Merrie Melodies series, such as Egghead ( who became Elmer Fudd ), Inki, Sniffles, and even Warner Bros .' most popular cartoon star, Bugs Bunny.

Its 1991 compilation A Passage in Time remains with 4AD independently of the Rhino and Warner Bros. deals ; it was initially only released in the US.

Ironically, Warner Bros. wound up initially releasing the film in selected markets, despite Blatty's misgivings.

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.

Mirisch Productions initially financed the film for United Artists, but the film's escalating costs led UA to drop the film but the project was picked up by Warners. Edwards wanted Robert Wagner to play the leading man, but studio executive Jack Warner insisted on Tony Curtis, possibly due to Wood having recently divorced from Wagner.

The screenplay was initially brought to Clint ’ s attention around 1969 by Jennings Lang and while still in post-production for his directorial debut film Play Misty for Me, Warner Bros offered him the part.

When, in 1984, Warner Communications sold the Atari Consumer division of Atari Inc. ( which included the video game divisions ) to Jack Tramiel ( who named his company Atari Corporation ), Warner initially retained the arcade coin-op division ( Atari Coin ), renaming it " Atari Games ".

It was released in South Africa initially, and issued in the United Kingdom on the Warner Jazz label on 2 April 2007 ( under the title Ilembe-Our Tribute to King Shaka ).

Avnet told HitQuarters that Warner initially proved resistant to the deal because " They were afraid they wouldn ’ t be able to get a voice like that on radio.

A fourth game, Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster, is to be published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment in association with the Sesame Workshop for the Xbox 360 using the Kinect controller ; though initially not a licensed title, Schafer and his team found it to be an ideal fit for their first licensed-property game.

Candy Apple Grey was their first major label album, though Warner Bros. had initially lobbied to release Flip Your Wig until the band decided to let SST have it.

The Kiwi TC was effectively replaced in 1973 by the more upmarket Avenger Alpine, another Kiwi special loosely based on the UK ' GL ' ( four headlights, four-round-dials dashboard instead of a rectangular instrument cluster early cars had a blanked-off space instead of the rev counter standardised later, better trim, twin carburettors and vinyl roof ), initially with the twin-carburettor 1. 5 L engine ( changed to a 1. 6 L from 1973, later changed again to a single-carb unit and also available for the first time with automatic transmission, the Borg Warner 45 four-speed unit ).