Warner Bros. Discovery
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Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate based in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It was formed after the spin-off of WarnerMedia by AT&T, and its merger with Discovery, Inc. on April 8th, 2022. It is the corporation that owns all current franchises represented within MultiVersus, including the rights to the game itself.
Official Description
Warner Bros. Discovery, a premier global media and entertainment company, offers audiences the world's most differentiated and complete portfolio of content, brands and franchises across television, film, streaming and gaming. The new company combines WarnerMedia's premium entertainment, sports and news assets with Discovery's leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses.
Warner Bros. Discovery... the stuff that dreams are made of.[1]
Subsidiaries Represented
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (commonly known as Warner Bros., or abbreviated as WB or WBEI) is an American film and entertainment studio headquartered at the Warner Bros. Studios complex in Burbank, California, and a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery. The company is known for its film studio division: the Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group, which includes Warner Bros. Pictures, New Line Cinema, Warner Bros. Pictures Animation, Castle Rock Entertainment, and DC Studios.
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- Animaniacs
- Beetlejuice
- Gremlins
- The Iron Giant
- Looney Tunes
- The Matrix
- MultiVersus
- Scooby-Doo (partially owned alongside Hanna-Barbera and Turner Entertainment)
- Space Jam
- Tom and Jerry (partially owned alongside Turner Entertainment)
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Warner Bros. Games
Main Article: Warner Bros. Games
Warner Bros. Games, formerly known as Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and also known as WB Games for short, is an American video game publisher and part of the Global Streaming and Interactive Entertainment unit of Warner Bros. Discovery. They are the studio publishing MultiVersus.
They are also the owners of NetherRealm Studios, the developer studio of the Mortal Kombat and Injustice video game series, which was founded after the bankruptcy of Midway Games. Other notable subsidiaries include Avalanche Software, Cartoon Network Games, Monolith Productions, Portkey Games, Rocksteady Studios, and TT Games.
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DC Entertainment
DC Entertainment is an American entertainment company that was founded in September 2009 and was based in Burbank, California. The company is a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery that manages its DC Comics units and characters in other units, as they work with other Warner Bros. units. It also delves into those units within their flagship DC Extended Universe (DCEU) from 2013 to 2023, and the rebooted DC Universe (DCU) franchise from 2024 onward.
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New Line Cinema
New Line Productions, Inc., doing business as New Line Cinema, is an American film and television production studio owned by Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD). Since 2008, it has been operating as a unit of Warner Bros. Pictures. It was founded in 1967 by Robert Shaye as an independent film distribution company; later becoming a film studio after acquired by Turner Broadcasting System in 1994; Turner later merged with Time Warner (later known as WarnerMedia from 2018 to 2022, and Warner Bros. Discovery since 2022) in 1996, and New Line was merged with Warner Bros. Pictures in 2008. The studio has been nicknamed "The House that Freddy Built" due to the success of the Nightmare on Elm Street film series. However, their most successful property was their film adaptation of The Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien with considerable commercial success and numerous Academy Awards.
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Hanna-Barbera
Hanna-Barbera was an American animation studio and production company that was active from 1957 until it was absorbed into Warner Bros. Animation in 2001. It was founded on July 7, 1957, by Tom and Jerry-creators William Hanna and Joseph Barbera following the decision of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) to close its in-house cartoon studio, and was formerly headquartered on Cahuenga Boulevard from 1960 until 1998 and at the Sherman Oaks Galleria in Sherman Oaks, both in Los Angeles, California. The studio produced many successful television shows, including The Huckleberry Hound Show, The Flintstones, The Yogi Bear Show, Top Cat, The Jetsons, Jonny Quest, Wacky Races, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! and The Smurfs. Its productions won Hanna-Barbera a record-breaking eight Emmy Awards.
Franchises Represented:
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- Scooby-Doo (partially owned alongside Warner Bros. Entertainment and Turner Entertainment)
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Turner Entertainment
Turner Entertainment Company is an American multimedia company founded by Ted Turner in 1986. Purchased by Time Warner in 1996 as part of its acquisition of Turner Broadcasting System (TBS), the company was largely responsible for overseeing the TBS library for worldwide distribution. In recent years, this role has largely been limited to being the copyright holder, as it has become an in-name-only subsidiary of Warner Bros., which currently administers their library.
Franchises Represented:
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- Scooby-Doo (partially owned alongside Warner Bros. Entertainment and Hanna-Barbera)
- Tom and Jerry (partially owned alongside Warner Bros. Entertainment)
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Cartoon Network
Cartoon Network (often abbreviated as CN) is an American cable television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. It is a part of The Cartoon Network, Inc., a division that also has the broadcasting and production activities of Boomerang, Cartoonito, Adult Swim, and Toonami under its purview.
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Home Box Office
Home Box Office (HBO) is an American pay television network, which is the flagship property of namesake parent subsidiary Home Box Office, Inc., itself a unit owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. Programming featured on the network consists primarily of theatrically released motion pictures and original television programs as well as made-for-cable movies, documentaries, occasional comedy and concert specials, and periodic interstitial programs (consisting of short films and making-of documentaries).
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Discovery Channel
Discovery Channel, known as The Discovery Channel from 1985 to 1995, and often referred to as simply Discovery, is an American cable channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, a publicly traded company run by CEO David Zaslav. As of June 2012, Discovery Channel was the third most widely distributed subscription channel in the United States, behind now-sibling channel TBS and The Weather Channel. It initially provided documentary television programming focused primarily on popular science, technology, and history, but by the 2010s had expanded into reality television and pseudo-scientific entertainment.
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Gallery
Images
Warner Bros. Entertainment's old logo, used prior to the Warner Bros. and Discovery merger. This logo is the one that's currently used in trailers and promotional material for the game, as well as in its opening.
External
- Warner Bros. Discovery on Wikipedia.
- Warner Bros. on Wikipedia.
- Warner Bros. Games on Wikipedia.
- DC Entertainment on Wikipedia.
- New Line Cinema on Wikipedia.
- Hanna-Barbera on Wikipedia.
- Turner Entertainment on Wikipedia.
- Cartoon Network on Wikipedia.
- The Cartoon Network, Inc. on Wikipedia.
- Home Box Office, Inc. on Wikipedia.
- Discovery Channel on Wikipedia.
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