Time Warner

Time Warner: The sub-companies

Currently a subsidiary of the Time Warner, Warner Bros has several subsidiary companies, including Warner Bros. Studios, Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Bros. Television, Warner Bros. Animation, Warner Home Video, and DC Comics, as well as owning half of The CW Television Network.

Warner Bros.

Founded in 1918, Warner Bros. is the third-oldest American movie studio in continuous operation, after Paramount Pictures, founded in 1912 as Famous Players, and Universal Studios, also founded in 1912.

Time Inc.

Time Inc. is a major subsidiary of the media conglomerate Time Warner; the company formed by the 1990 merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications.

It publishes 130 magazines, most notably Time. Other major magazines include Sports Illustrated, Fortune, and People.

It also owns the UK magazine house IPC Media, whose major titles include What's On TV, NME, Country Life, Marie Claire and Nuts.

Another merge

In 2000, a new company called AOL Time Warner was created when AOL purchased Time Warner for $164 billion.

The deal, announced on 10 January 2000 and officially completed on 11 February 2000, employed a merger structure where by each original company merged into a newly created entity.

Other points

The shareholders of AOL owned 55% of the new company while Time Warner shareholders owned only 45%, meaning that the smaller AOL had in fact bought out the far larger Time Warner.


Time Warner productions

New Line Cinema productions:

A history of Violence (2005)
American History X (1998)
Austin Powers (1997-2002 trilogy)

Blade (1998-2004 trilogy)

Dumb and Dumber (1994-2003)
Friday (1995)
Jason films (1993-2002)
The Mask

Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
Se7en (1995)
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (re-make and sequel) (1973-2003/2006)
Wedding Crashers (2005)
Menace II Society (1993)

Warner Bros. Films production:

Oceans Eleven (original and re-make), Twelve, Thirteen

A Clockwork Orange (1971)
The Exorcist (1973)

Superman (series)
The Shining

Blade Runner (1982)

National Lampoon’s Vacation (series)
Gremlins (1984)

Police Academy (series)

Lost in America (1985)

Full Metal Jacket (1987)

Lethal Weapon (1987)
Beetlejuice (1988)
Batman (series)
Goodfellas (1990)
Richie Rich (1994)
The Matrix (trilogy)
Pokémon (trilogy)
Harry Potter (series)
Swordfish (2001)
The Matrix (series)
Starsky & Hutch (2004)
Constantine (2005)
The Departed (2006)
V for Vendetta (2006)
The Blood Diamond (2006)
300 (2007)


Financial & Income (provide actual data)

In 2004, Time Warner's market value was $84 billion. When the AOL-Time Warner merger was announced in January 2000, the combined market value was $280 billion.

For fiscal year 2002 the company reported a $99 billion loss on its income statement because of $100 billion in non-recurring charges.

The value of the AOL portion of the company had dropped sharply with the collapse of the Internet boom, in the early 2000s.)

Recent developments...how is it responding to the 'new media' age

Time Warner was struggling to integrate new media into its business. At the time of the announcement, Time Warner executives spoke of the need to digitize their business. They were also eager to be attached to a dot-com company, as the dot-com boom was near its peak.

A merger with AOL provided a huge subscriber base of Internet users, along with online marketing know-how.