Warner Bros.-Seven Arts


Warner Bros.-Seven Arts, Inc. was an American entertainment company active from 1967 until 1970.

History

acquired Jack L. Warner's controlling interest in Warner Bros. Pictures for $32 million in November 1966. The merger between two companies was completed by July 1967, and the combined company was named Warner Bros.-Seven Arts.
The acquisition included the black and white Looney Tunes library, Warner Bros. Records, and Reprise Records. Later that same year, Warner Bros.-Seven Arts purchased Atlantic Records. Those record labels were combined in 1971 with two other acquisitions in a new holding company, Warner-Elektra-Atlantic, under the direction of Mo Ostin and Joe Smith.
The head of production was Kenneth Hyman, son of Seven Arts co-founder Eliot Hyman. After Wait Until Dark their first film was Camelot.

Acquisition by Kinney

Warner Bros.-Seven Arts was acquired in 1969 by Kinney National Company. In April 1970, Kinney deleted "Seven Arts" from the company name, and reestablishing it as Warner Bros. Due to a financial scandal over its parking operations, Kinney National spun off its non-entertainment assets in 1972 and changed its name to Warner Communications Inc.
Warner Bros.-Seven Arts subsequently went defunct. It released its final production, Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, in February 1970. The studio's next film, Woodstock, which was released in March, was credited as a Warner Bros. production, and this credit would be applied to all other productions from the studio afterward. However, The Phynx, which was released in May 1970, was the last film made by Warner Bros.-Seven Arts as creditor.

Filmography