Jay Miner and company had approached former employer Atari, and the " Warner owned " Atari had paid Amiga to continue development work.

However, in mid-1991 Coppola and Warner came to disagreement over the compensation to be paid to Coppola for his directing services on Pinocchio.

Warner quickly paid the loan back and hired Hawks as a producer to " oversee " the making of a new series of one-reel comedies starring the Italian comedian Monty Banks.

Jack Lemmon was offered the role first, but when he backed off, Jack Warner, with Taylor's insistence, agreed on Burton and paid him his price.

Although there were rumors that Thorpe received no money, he was paid $ 15, 000 by Warner Bros. plus a $ 2, 500 donation toward an annuity for him by the studio head of publicity.

Despite the lackluster box office receipts from her more recent films, in 1949, she negotiated a four-film contract with Warner Bros., which paid $ 10, 285 per week and made her the highest-paid woman in the United States.

According to a 2001 article in Variety, Dreamworks paid US $ 2. 6 million to acquire the rights to the novel from Warner Bros. for a proposed movie version starring and / or directed by Ben Stiller, although production was never begun.

Warner publicly supported Richard Nixon during the 1960 presidential election and paid for full-page ads in The New York Times " to proclaim why Nixon should be elected ".

Animation, to produce Tiny Toon Adventures, an animated series that paid homage to the Warner Bros. cartoons of Termite Terrace.

An annual fee would be paid to Warner Bros in return for the Government of Tasmania being able to use the image of Taz for " marketing purposes ".

The Tasmanian Government and Warner Bros. have previously disputed the government's right to use the character as a tourism promotion, which Warner Bros. offered if they paid for it.

Paying $ 50, 000 to Warner Brothers to use the name and likeness of their Road Runner cartoon character ( as well as a " beep, beep " horn, which Plymouth paid $ 10, 000 to develop ), and using the Chrysler B platform as a base ( the same as the Belvedere, Satellite, and GTX ), Plymouth set out to build a back-to-basics muscle car.

A number of contracts — only one of which mentioned soccer — were set up for Pelé to ensure that he paid the lowest amount of tax possible, including one as a " recording artist " with Warner subsidiary Atlantic Records.

At one point, Warner Brothers paid him $ 3, 000 a week ( a year ’ s salary for an average worker at the time ), and he made a fortune from MGM ’ s Dr. Kildare adaptions.

Warner Bros. decided to use the demolition of the building in the movie, and as a result paid for the demolition.

Since the band had a two album deal, Warner paid them for the second album, despite the fact that they did not release it.

The memorial stone, a bronze bust of Bolan paid for exclusively by TAG founder Fee Warner, and sculpted by Canadian sculptor Jean Robillard, was unveiled by Bolan's only child – Rolan Bolan.

He was awarded an all-expenses paid trip to the Cubs ' spring training camp in California, and while there he took a Warner Bros. screen test.

In 1930 MPHC paid US $ 28 million to acquire Brunswick Records ( which included Vocalion ), whose roster included Duke Ellington, Red Nichols, Al Jolson, Earl Burtnett, Abe Lyman, Leroy Carr, Tampa Red and Memphis Minnie, and soon after the sale to Warner Bros., the label signed rising radio and recording stars Bing Crosby, Mills Brothers, and Boswell Sisters.

AOL Time Warner paid Wilco to make the album on Reprise, gave them the record for free, and then bought it back on the Nonesuch label.

In keeping with the spirit of William Castle's tradition of releasing each of his films with a marketing gimmick, Warner Bros. and Dark Castle supplied movie theaters with scratch-off tickets that would be given to anyone who paid to see the film.

Shortly after firing the management team, lawsuits ensued and it was discovered that the label was mismanaged from the outset, with Warner Bros. taking heavy losses due to exorbitant advances paid to Prince and his management team for the label.

This provided Claire House children's hospice in Wirral with a £ 20, 000 windfall, the money being paid to Merseytravel by Warner Brothers, the makers of the film, for use of the Tunnel as a location.

Warner Bros. gave Moore $ 3 million for distribution license, a very large amount for a first time filmmaker and unprecedented for a documentary.

The 1980s was a period of unprecedented success for Warner Bros. Records.

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.

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.

The following year, Tramiel discovered that Warner Communications wanted to sell Atari, which was rumored to be losing about $ 10, 000 a day.

The Los Angeles jury awarded him $ 60 million in punitive damages on top of the $ 20 million, stemming from his charges that Warner Bros. sabotaged his intended version.

Warner demanded that Coppola repay the $ 300, 000 they had loaned him for the Zoetrope studio, and insisted on cutting five minutes from the film.

As part of that settlement, the company agreed to pay $ 100 million in damages to the four major music companies — Universal Music, Sony BMG, EMI and Warner Music — and an undisclosed amount to the studios.

On October 5, 2007, Thomas was ordered to pay the six record companies ( Sony BMG, Arista Records LLC, Interscope Records, UMG Recordings Inc., Capitol Records Inc. and Warner Bros. Records Inc .) $ 9, 250 for each of the 24 songs they had focused on in this case.

The chaotic filming wrapped 19 days over schedule and $ 3 million over budget, effectively terminating his tenure with Warner Bros .- Seven Arts.

Executives from Warner Bros. wanted the budget to not exceed $ 60 million.

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.

In May 2006, Petersen's $ 160 million epic film Poseidon, a re-telling of the 1969 Paul Gallico novel ( and popular 1972 disaster film ) The Poseidon Adventure, was released by Warner Bros., but performed poorly in the US, barely cracking $ 60 million in box office receipts by early August, although international profits surpassed $ 121 million.

The movie was so successful that Jack Warner agreed to sign the dog to star in more films for $ 1, 000 per week.

As a result, Harry Warner – while speaking at a convention of 1, 500 independent exhibitors in Milwaukee, Wisconsin – was able to convince the filmmakers to spend $ 500, 000 in newspaper advertising, and Harry saw this as an opportunity to finally be able to establish theaters in big cities like New York and Los Angeles.

In 1934, the studio lost over $ 2. 5 million, of which $ 500, 000 was the result of a fire at the Burbank studio at the end of 1934, destroying 20 years worth of early Vitagraph, Warner Bros., and First National films.

By the time the war ended, $ 20 million in war bonds were purchased through the studio, the Red Cross collected 5, 200 pints of plasma from studio employees, and 763 of the studio's employees served in the armed forces, including Harry Warner's son-in-law Milton Sperling and Jack's son Jack Warner Jr.

The deal gave Sinatra US $ 1. 5 million and part ownership of Warner Bros. Records, with Reprise becoming a sub-label ; most significantly for Warner Bros .' s future music operations, the deal also brought Reprise manager Morris " Mo " Ostin into the company.

In its first eighteen months, Warner Bros. Records lost around $ 2 million.

Two years later, the Hymans, now fed up with Jack Warner, accepted a cash-and-stock offer from an odd conglomerate called Kinney National Company for more than $ 64 million.

The Time Warner merger was almost derailed when Paramount Communications ( Formerly Gulf + Western, later sold to Viacom ), launched a $ 12. 2 billion dollar hostile takeover bid for Time Inc., forcing Time to acquire Warner for $ 14. 9 billion dollar cash / stock offer.