Warner Bros.-Seven Arts

Warner Bros.-Seven Arts, Inc.
Industry	Film Television Music
Genre	Entertainment
Fate	Acquired by Kinney National Company
Successor	Warner Bros.
Founded	July 15, 1967 (1967-07-15)
Defunct	late February or early March 1970
Parent	Independent (1967–1969) Kinney National Company (1969–1970)

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

History

Warner Bros.-Seven Arts started when Seven Arts Productions acquired Jack L. Warner's controlling interest in Warner Bros. for $32 million and merged with it in 1967.

The acquisition included the black and white Looney Tunes (plus the non-Harman and Ising Merrie Melodies) library, Warner Bros. Records (which was renamed Warner Bros.-Seven Arts 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 (Elektra Records and its sister label Nonesuch Records) 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, who deleted "Seven Arts" from the company name, and reestablishing it as Warner Bros. Pictures. Due to a financial scandal over its parking operations, Kinney National spun off its non-entertainment assets in 1972 (as National Kinney Corporation) 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.

Filmography

See also: List of Warner Bros. films

• The Shuttered Room (1967)
• Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
• Camelot (1967)
• Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)
• Wait Until Dark (1967)
• Cool Hand Luke (1967)
• The Cats (1968)
• Firecreek (1968)
• Countdown (1968)
• Norman Normal (1968)
• Bye Bye Braverman (1968)
• Kona Coast (1968)
• Chubasco (1967)
• Petulia (1968)
• The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968)
• The Green Berets (1968)
• Assignment to Kill (1968)
• I Love You, Alice B. Toklas (1968)
• Rachel, Rachel (1968)
• Finian's Rainbow (1968)
• Bullitt (1968)
• Sweet November (1968)
• The Sea Gull (1968)
• The Sergeant (1968)
• Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968); with Hammer Films
• The Picasso Summer (1969)
• The Big Bounce (1969)
• 2000 Years Later (1969)
• The Wild Bunch (1969)
• The Learning Tree (1969)
• The Rain People (1969)
• The Valley of Gwangi (1969); with Hammer Films
• The Great Bank Robbery (1969)
• Moon Zero Two (1969); with Hammer Films
• Once You Kiss a Stranger (1969)
• The Sweet Body of Deborah (1969)
• The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer (1970); with David Paradine Productions and London Weekend Television
• Crescendo (1970)
• Last of the Mobile Hot Shots (1970)
• Start the Revolution Without Me (1970)
• Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1970); with Hammer Films

See also

• List of record labels
• Kinney National Company
• Kinney Parking Company
• National Kinney Corporation
• Warner Communications

References

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