Warner Brothers Studios

***Warner Brothers Studios*** is a company that makes Video Games, TV Shows and Movies. Warner Bros were working on the Five Nights At Freddy's: The Movie until Scott Cawthon decided to cancel it because he wanted more freedom on the project.

## Founding

The company's name originated from the four founding Warner brothers (born *Wonskolaser* or *Wonsal* before Anglicization): Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack Warner. They emigrated as young children with their parents to Canada from Krasnosielc, Poland.

Jack, the youngest, was born in London, Ontario. The three elder brothers began in the movie theater business, having acquired a movie projector with which they showed films in the mining towns of Pennsylvania and Ohio. In the beginning, Sam and Albert Warner invested $150 to present *Life of an American Fireman* and *The Great Train Robbery*. They opened their first theater, the Cascade, in New Castle, Pennsylvania, in 1903.

When the original building was in danger of being demolished, the
 modern Warner Bros. called the current building owners, and arranged to
 save it. The owners noted people across the country had asked them to
protect it for its historical significance.

In 1904, the Warners founded the Pittsburgh-based Duquesne Amusement & Supply Company, to distribute films. In 1912, Harry Warner hired an auditor named Paul Ashley Chase. By the time of World War I they had begun producing films. In 1918 they opened the first Warner Brothers Studio on Sunset Boulevard
 in Hollywood. Sam and Jack produced the pictures, while Harry and
Albert, along with their auditor and now controller Chase, handled
finance and distribution in New York City. During World War I their
first nationally syndicated film, *My Four Years in Germany,* based on a popular book by former ambassador James W. Gerard, was released. On April 4, 1923, with help from money loaned to Harry by his banker Motley Flint, they formally incorporated as **Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated**. (As late as the 1960s, Warner Bros. claimed 1905 as its founding date.)

Lobby card from *Open Your Eyes* (1919)

Lobby card from *The Beautiful and Damned* (1922)

The first important deal was the acquisition of the rights to Avery Hopwood's 1919 Broadway play, *The Gold Diggers*, from theatrical impresario David Belasco. However, Rin Tin Tin, a dog brought from France after World War I by an American soldier, established their reputation. Rin Tin Tin debuted in the feature *Where the North Begins*. The movie was so successful that Jack signed the dog to star in more films for $1,000 per week. Rin Tin Tin became the studio's top star. Jack nicknamed him "The Mortgage Lifter" and the success boosted Darryl F. Zanuck's career. Zanuck eventually became a top producer and between 1928 and 1933 served as Jack's right-hand man and executive producer, with responsibilities including day-to-day film production. More success came after Ernst Lubitsch was hired as head director; Harry Rapf left the studio to join Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.Lubitsch's film *The Marriage Circle* was the studio's most successful film of 1924, and was on *The New York Times* best list for that year.

Despite the success of Rin Tin Tin and Lubitsch, Warner's remained a lesser studio.[19] Sam and Jack decided to offer Broadway actor John Barrymore the lead role in *Beau Brummel*.[19] The film was so successful that Harry signed Barrymore to a long-term contract; like *The Marriage Circle*, *Beau Brummell* was named one of the ten best films of the year by the *Times*.By the end of 1924, Warner Bros. was arguably Hollywood's most successful independent studio, where it competed with "The Big Three" Studios (First National, Paramount Pictures, and MGM).
 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 establish theaters in cities such as New York and Los Angeles.

As the studio prospered, it gained backing from Wall Street, and in 1924 Goldman Sachs arranged a major loan. With this new money, the Warners bought the pioneer Vitagraph Company which had a nationwide distribution system. In 1925, Warners' also experimented in radio, establishing a successful radio station, KFWB, in Los Angeles.

## Five Night's at Freddy's: The Movie

The FNAF movie was originally being produced by Warner Bros., however, the movie was eventually cancelled when Scott wanted more freedom on the project than Warner Bros. would give. Teasers and Behind The Scenes photos were posted by people who worked on the movie, but all of it was likely scrapped when the movie was cancelled. Eventually, Blumhouse Productions were given the rights to make a movie.