Warner Bros Best Films Ever

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1:00Subscriptions may be required. To Paramount, let's break down some of the greatest films from Warner Brothers history. What's up, movie friends? Welcome back to Raiders of the Lost Podcast. We are the Ultimate Film and TV Podcast, and today we have a very special episode to celebrate the incredible iconic landmark film studio Warner Brothers. They are being purchased by Paramount, so we thought why not go over the incredible story history of this amazing company, one of the most influential studios in the history of cinema, and the incredible, not only display of storytelling, but IP building, world building, and the array,

2:01endless array of artists and Oscar winners who have made films for the studio. Now Warner Brothers is, in a way, one of the most important film studios ever founded by a group of brothers who were traveling around the world with projectors, showing little films all over the country, and even opening a few of their own theaters, and then they decided to move to Hollywood to get into the movie making industry of Hollywood. This is a time when silent film was huge, and talkies were just beginning. Most people rejected talkies, but the Warner Brothers, they put everything into talkies, and they released the first feature-length talkie film, The Jazz Singer. So they were hugely influential for the transition from silent films to talkies, and it blew up their company, and they became one of the preeminent studios in the industry. And this is in the first time a movie studio was purchased by another movie studio.

3:01I mean, look at Disney purchasing 20th century studios, they purchased Lucasfilm, but even going back decades and decades before, this is in the first time this happened. But in this episode, we're going to break down Warner Brothers properties in terms of their top franchises, certified all-time bangers, which are basically like rewatchable masterpieces, crowd pleasers, modern iconic films, as well as classic movies, plus cult in genre classics, like horror and science fiction, animation movies, plus TV. Let's not forget that HBO, which is owned by Warner Brothers, has some of the greatest television shows ever made, if not the greatest television shows of all time. And we'll break those down as well, but I think let's start off big, start off with a bang, and talk about franchises, what do you think? Franchises is a great way to go. These are empires of cinema that are loved by the entire world, and I think the top of the food chain when it comes to artistry, fan base, profitability,

4:03and just love from audiences, it's got to be Lord of the Rings. I think Lord of the Rings is one of the most valuable IPs and entertainment, but when it comes to prestige film, as well as just huge success, it really takes the cake in my book. And you got six films that made over a billion dollars each when you add the Hobbit movies. Yeah, the Hobbits were extremely successful. And the Lord of the Rings is still one of the IPs, even though they haven't made any movies since in the Lord of the Rings, not the Hobbit, they haven't made any movies since the Hobbit. There's still some of the most beloved films of the century of all time, and endlessly rewatchable. I can only imagine what the DVD, Blu-ray, and 4K sales of those movies are. Yeah, the merchandise sales too. Yeah, the merchandise sales too. So crap. Absolutely, and then one of the other crown jewels of Warner Brothers is the DC Universe. Well, real quick, to Lord of the Rings, it's New Line Cinema, but New Line Cinema is owned by Warner Brothers. Yes. So they own a ton of studios, and this is one of those reasons.

5:03And then DC, obviously being one of the most important properties that they own as well. The Dark Knight trilogy, all the Batman movies, Superman, Joker, the extended universe of characters. They've obviously invested a ton into this product, into this IP over the last 15 years, and they've seen mostly resounding success and helped really revolutionize the superhero genre, thanks to Nolan's trilogy. But really, they still have some of the most beloved characters in their arsenal. And I guarantee, they'll never let these go. You get to hold onto these characters while you have them. Yes, so now Paramount Control is the DC characters, live screen adaptations. Harry Potter as well. Arguably, this generation's Star Wars. It's that big of an IP, that big of a franchise. Oh, yeah. Theme parks dedicated to this IP. Harry Potter is wildly, wildly popular and successful still. 30 years after the first book was written, which is incredible. And, you know, we're getting rebooted into a TV series.

6:04And so Paramount will take over that. But Harry Potter, the Wizarding World, Fantastic Beasts included in that. Such a huge IP, beloved films that are timeless, they'll live on forever, and are adored by fans all over the world. Game of Thrones. One of our brothers owns it. And we have three TV series as well as a recently announced film adaptation coming to the big screen. And I can't wait to see what they're cooking up for that. I mean, it's no surprise there was announced a day after the purchase got announced really. And, you know, the Game of Thrones house the drag and are the seven kingdoms. This is a huge property, a huge fan base as well that Paramount now has. The Matrix. Let's not talk about Resurrections, but the legacy of the first film in that trilogy in general. That first film is just a tent pole film in the 20th in the last 30 years. And arguably one of the greatest action science fiction films of all time and changed movies, changed the action genre in general. So Paramount's now getting that. The recently huge resurgence of the Dune IP.

7:06A film was made in 1984 and then it kind of disappeared from popular culture for a very long time until Denis Villeneuve got his hands on it with his Dune duo films with number three coming out. Dune duo I like that finishing out a trilogy of films that is obviously already being built upon with the TV series already playing on each film acts as well as once Dune three comes out you bet your butt. Warner Brothers in Paramount will be investing a lot of money and time into building out the rest of the world and storytelling, which there is a dense amount of material for. Yeah, Dune prophecy doesn't seem to work out even though they green leader for a second season. But I don't know anyone personally that watches that show, but you know they're going to keep trying to expand it as much as they can. And there's so many books to draw from. I mean, you can go back 10,000 years and stay in the world of Dune or go forward 5,000 years and keep talking about it. But I think that Dune will be something that sticks around for a while. In general, TV guys, the sopranos, the legacy of that show is now Paramount, you know, HBO and Warner Brothers

8:09they changed television forever with the sopranos. Now it's the norm to have cinematic high quality television for streamers. Let me just list off a bunch of TV shows. Okay. I mean, we only have so much time. He's going to blow your mind. All right, this is all Warner Brothers own IP TV shows going into this deal. The last of us, Succession, the White Lotus, the Idol, House of the Dragon Game of Thrones, Sex in the City, Barry, Friends, Perry Mason, Euphoria, Veep, The Wire, Westworld, True Blood, True Detective, Band of Brothers, The Pacific, Kirby Enthusiasm, Silicon Valley, 6 feet under the leftovers, Girls, Boardwalk Empire, His Dark Materials, which is really good. Ballers, Deadwood, Awesome Show, Entourage, Oz, Eastbound and Down, Watchmen, Big Little Eyes, The Night of, Rome, Chernobyl, The Outsider, Mayor of Easttown, Scenes from a Marriage. This is just a handful, but this is just like, when you think about television, the sheer number of incredible stories that we've seen on the small screen

9:15because of Warner Brothers and HBO is insurmountable in many ways incomparable. This is just a scratching the surface of it too. Five of these are just some of the best shows of all the time. When you're talking about True Detective, The Wire, Succession, Game of Thrones, the first couple of seasons of Westworld, these are some of the best shows of the centuries. Band of Brothers is remarkable as well. And a lot of these shows, like Band of Brothers is cool because it's really, it's just one season, and that's something that just go back and watch like a movie. But like a lot of these movies, a lot of these TV shows get rewashed over and over again. The fact that they have the rights to friends right now is crazy too. So Warner Brothers TV properties that are not going to HBO are absurd. You can get your photo taken on the Friends' couch at the Warner Brothers Live. That's true, you boys. That was the first photo of me and my girlfriend on the Friends' couch. That's really, really cute. All right, let's talk more about their franchise properties. The Before Trilogy, very amazing romance film.

10:16These are great franchises. The Conjuring franchise. Conjuring franchise includes a ton of spin offs as well. I mean, the Annabelle movies are in there. The Insidious movies are in the Conjuring franchise. Like they're all part of that same world. And the newest one made 400 million. They're still making great money. And it was good. Yeah. Those are the movies that make money. Annabelle. Monsterverse. So we got Godzilla, we got Kong. The movies that they're in together as well separately. There's still other monsters and creatures they can use in that world. And I'm not sure what the IP is licensing is for Apple TV. And they're legacy monsters. But I'm sure it's connected to Warner Brothers owning the light. Yeah, they've worked together in the past. Because didn't have one. Warner Brothers distribute F1 as well as killers of the Flower Moon in theaters. So they have a working relationship. And Monsterverse is big because, you know, similar to which we'll talk about like the horror monsterverse. Or with Universal and their horror monsterverse. They have the Kaiju monsterverse. Yes. And these are still hugely popular.

11:16Horror is a world where it has a devoted audience. The monster world does as well. The Kaiju monsters. The giant city walking monsters have devoted fans that watch all of them. Adore them. Make content. Collect them. So I think the monsterverse with Godzilla especially is a huge IP. With the success of Godzilla minus one. Yeah. Godzilla minus zero coming out. But not to mention their own versions of that world as well. And kind of connecting them all in these dots. I think Godzilla will always be a popular IP. And so I think Monsterverse is huge Warner Brothers. Godzilla. Godzilla. Mad Max movies. Especially Fury Road. The pinnacle of what action cinema can be. We have a couple spin-offs. Furiosa. I'm sure they're going to try to tinker and do some more. I'd tell anything anytime soon. But maybe smaller budget focused. Maybe even I wouldn't be surprised if they make a series out of Mad Max. It's a property that people still like. And you can still make a lot out of with the original stories.

12:17But Fury Road and Mad Max in general are, it's just a great IP. And I think it will get more of it for sure. Then the Lego movies. The Lego movie. The Lego Batman. Lego Ninjago. They are huge, huge successes. Scooby-Doo. Owned by WB. How many stories, series and episodes and movies have been made of this popular franchise for kids and adults alike. And there's a new one being announced right now. That's going to be coming out live action. And McKenna Grace just got cast as Daphne. Yeah. I mean, the Superman movies as well. Man of Steel. Christopher Refilms. Superman 2025. The upcoming Supergirl movie. Like all of these DC properties. Plus, this one's kind of more of a cult classic. But we'll talk about it anyways Blade Runner. Because there's two and now there's going to be a series. So technically it's a franchise now. The Blade Runner movies are Warner Brothers own. The original, the 2049 sequel. But the 2099 is an Amazon series.

13:18And then one of the most underrated franchises is the Ocean's Trilogy. Owned by WB. 1112 and 13. And 8. Yeah. That's right. And we're going to get another one too. I love the Ocean's Moves. Yes. But yeah, those are Warner Brothers Distributed Movies. One of the most successful films of recent memory Minecraft. Oh, Warner Brothers got the rights to that. And they are going to fucking mill rap. You bet your butt. What a successful movie that was always at like 1.5 million at the box office. Insane. And I saw it guys. It's. It's certainly a movie. And there's some fun stuff going on in there. But man, that movie was an absolute hit. Another huge franchise though. An IP with a ton of titles. Final destination. You know, Bloodlines was the biggest earner of the entire franchise. And it shows and proves that it's very valuable to them with the horror crowd. I mean, a horror franchise is a big thing to have because they're not as expensive to make as a superhero movie. And you get a really big return on investments.

14:18And you don't have to spend $100 million to make them. So I think that's huge for them. Wes Craven's Nightmare on Elm Street, the Freddy Krueger franchise. It's massive. Absolutely right for a new film, I think. It's been a long time since we've had a good one. Yeah. I hope they can figure it out. Yeah. Evil Dead though. Evil Dead. Huge. Rise with Warner Brothers. Evil Dead's Warner Brothers. There's going to be a new one this year. And then a new one next year. So Evil Dead is another horror franchise that they have. You know, Blum House with Universal. They've got some good horror franchises going on. But don't sleep on Warner Brothers. Evil Dead. Again, the conjuring nightmare on Elm Street. If they can reboot that somehow, that'd be great for them. Plus, final destination. And also Clint Eastwood has made a lot of movies with Warner Brothers. He's we're counting him into the franchise because he is a franchise. Let me just list off some of Clint's. Clint's made over 30 movies, over 35 movies with Warner Brothers. Because they are, they've always been a director, friendly studio. So Gran Turino, the Mule, unforgiven, million dollar baby.

15:20Bridges of Mass and Counties. Well, that's just two best picture winners right there. Heartbreak Ridge. High Plains Drifter. Awesome movie. Mystic River. Journal number two. Outlawed Josie Wales. American Snipe Per. The rookie. Play Misty for me. He's our first film. Firefox. All the dirty Harry movies. It's insane. Sully. Invictus. Richard Jewel. Hereafter. Changeling. Flags of Our Fathers. J. Edgar. It's the letters from Iwo Jima. It's amazing. The guy is one of the great directors of all time. And the vast majority, it's like 95% of his movies are Warner Brothers movies. Yeah. So Clint is Warner Brothers franchise that is going to Paramount. I wonder what he thinks about the deal. I'm, I'm think that, I think that as long as he can just keep making movies and get the city stage happy. That's what I think. Yeah. He likes to work. Clint Eastwood has been a Warner Brothers guy for a long time. Yeah. All the multiple best picture winners Clint Eastwood Warner Brothers movies.

16:20Gramlins. It's a Warble's IP, and we're going to get a new one. What? This year, next year, we're going to new Gramlins movie. Sherlock Holmes. The Guy Richie franchise is a Warner Brothers franchise. It's always one of the saddest things of recent film history memories that they never made a third-guy Richie Sherlock movie. It's true. Maybe, maybe one day, too late, man. But another big name, not a director, an author who's had several adaptations of movies almost like 40, probably at this point. A lot of them are Warner Brothers movies and that's Stephen King. The shining is a Warner Brothers film. What else? Salem's lot. Salem's lot. The it movies are Warner Brothers movies as well. So he's got a ton of properties that have been turned into Warner Brothers films. Lethal Weapon. Plus the Shawshank Redemption. Yeah, Shawshank. The number one most beloved movie, according to users on IMDB, the biggest rating system you could use for a film, the Shawshank Redemption is a Warner Brothers.

17:22WB might have the most movies in the top 25 of IMDB. I mean, they got a lot of Nolan movies, so yeah, that's what I'm saying. I mean, yeah, Christopher Nolan, which we'll talk about a bit. Lethal Weapon Franchise is Warner Brothers. They're making a new one. They're coming back. They ain't too old for this shit anymore. We'll see. That's been announced. That's it. Gibson and Danny Glover. Yeah. But is they getting a different director because I know they didn't want to do it with Ratner, right? The studio. They're taking a rush hour. Oh, my bad. Yeah. Lethal Weapon's clean. Yeah. That's fucking what's his name for Superman. Yeah. Richard Donner. Yeah. Sorry. Yeah. We'll leave the weapons. Fuck. Richard Donner. Pacific Rim. Also another IP franchise with Warner Brothers. The 300 movies. Warner Brothers. I mean, Zack Snyder's done a lot with Warner Brothers. Yeah. Superman movie. Yeah. And Steel, but also Watchmen. Mm-hmm. Clash of Titans. Same way. They made three of those. Right? That's right. Did they make three? Did they make two or three? Yeah. It was like Clash of Titans. War of the Titans.

18:22Clash of Titans. Titans. I think they made three. How many Clash of Titans? Rath of Titans. Yeah. Okay. They did two. Forget about Rath of Titans. Yeah. Well, then they can handle the third film. I like those movies are pretty good. Oh, the Twister movies as well. Yeah. They're Twister franchise. Twister! You know they're going to make another one, probably. Fuck, yeah, man. Real quick before again to處ify all time Bangers. Let's take a quick minute and talk about the sponsor of this episode. Our great friends at movieposters.com. Check out this amazing Pirates of the Caribbean poster over my right shoulder. Wounds pirates. Clean. Clean? What's it? owns pirates. That's Disney, baby. Oh yeah, that's right. Not more about this property. But our friends, when you go on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride, they pirates, you don't, pirates don't try to eat you. Yeah, yeah, drastic park reference, stick reference, bro. Anyways, movie posters.com sends us this incredible poster. Use our code Raiders10 and check out to get 10% off your

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20:28guy. Seven was Warner Brothers and Zodiac was Warner Brothers. Yeah, two great all-time classics. Just think about yeah, just from a director's standpoint, like they have a lot of Chris Nolan's filmography. They don't know they don't have the meets. They have the Nolan's. And then Zodiac's a banger as well. They got some Scorsese movies too. Good fella's is a Warner Brothers owned property. Kayak gets my flight hotel and rental car right. So I can tune out travel advice that's just plain wrong. Bro, sky coin. Way better than points. Never fly during a Scorpio full moon. Just tell the manager you'll sew instant room upgrade. Stop taking bad travel advice. Start comparing hundreds of sites with Kayak and get your trip right. Bad advice. You talking to me. Kayak got that right. This episode is brought to you by Whitecloth Search. Great podcast, big friend. No surprises there. After all, you're all about finding the tastiest flavors out there.

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22:32from all tour directors that they gave a lot of money to. Well, let's remember, sinners is a rare deal where Warner Brothers owns sinners. But in 2050, the rights go back to Ryan Kugler. Corrective Mundo. Yeah. Just like, is it the one spot I'm in Hollywood for Tarantino? Yeah. 20-year deal with Sony. Yeah. Tarantino has been doing those kinds of deals for a while. But yeah, that's the inner situation. And like Andy said, you brought weapons earlier, right? Yes. So, weapons is Warner Brothers as well. So, Warner Brothers had a huge 2025. Yeah. Let's talk about some more bangers, though. Some more certified bangers from Warner Brothers. V for Vendetta. Love it. Love it. What a film. What a picture. That's really great, man. It's really great. Training day. Warner Brothers, baby. The hangover. That's a franchise we should have had up earlier. Yeah. Oh, that's a franchise. Yeah. This three. Absolutely. The Lost Boys. Hangovers are super successful, which is great. The Lost Boys is cool because it's a great vampire film. But last time we were on the lot in the gift shop,

23:33they had a whole section for Lost Boys. They were really pushing the merch. They had all kinds of new designs and hats. And you can even get masks and fake teeth and stuff like that. And then there's a new film coming out. What? Yeah. A new Lost Boys movie. Remake. Bro. Noah Joupe has been cast. I'm not sure about anyone else. I think I remember us talking about this on movie news a long time ago. It was going to happen. It was about to happen. The Lost Boys can't make the remake the Lost Boys. Yeah, they're doing it. Hold on. Let me. It's happening, man. A modern day Lost Boys. Geez. Yeah. Jaden Martell from It's Noah Joupe from a quiet place are right now attached to it. Goodness, that's. I'm not looking forward to that at all. Good fellas. What are brothers, baby? I already did that earlier. Oh, okay. Paddington. There we go. What are brothers? Paddington and Paddington too, which is a perfect sequel by the way. Gravity. Gravity. What a huge hit that was. Yeah. 650 million. A Fanzo Corone. That was a huge, huge movie.

24:35Now, the Terminator franchise. Warner Brothers owns just one of them or all of them. I think they just distributed Terminator too. Nothing else. Because I'm pretty sure Paramount is a Paramount property. Well, now it's all the same. Now it's all the same. We talked about Watchman. We talked about Million Dollar Baby. Edge of Tomorrow is a certified. Banger. Banger. Let's go. I've ever seen one in my life. Oh, my goodness. Tom doesn't have a ton of movies with Warner Brothers. He does a lot with Paramount, of course, which now they're all together. But Edge of Tomorrow is a Warner Brothers film. Incredible. The Notebook. Classic. The fugitive. Tom Lee Jones. Harrison Ford. Malcolm X. Warner Brothers. AI. Artificial Intelligence. So, since we're on AI, it's most Stanley Kubrick's major films were Warner Brothers releases. 2000 on a Space Odyssey. Barry Lyndon. A Clockwork Orange. Most of his movies were Full Metal Jacket.

25:35All Warner Brothers movies. Yeah. Well, Spielberg, speaking of AI. Because Kubrick, right? That's why, yeah. That's why I segue just. No, yeah, yeah. Just to make sure everyone knew, because Kubrick was going to make AI, but then he suggested Spielberg to do it. Yeah, I figured everybody already knew that. Not everyone knows everything. That's true. That's true. I just wanted to fill people in. Because some people are probably like, wait, Stanley Kubrick didn't direct AI. It was going to be his next movie. Yeah, yeah. So, but then, yeah, he was too busy doing, developing Napoleon and obviously, Eyes Wide Shut. And so, he's pretty swamped. So, he's like, hey, Steven. We're friends. You want to do this? But Steven Spielberg has made a couple of movies that were partnerships with Warner Brothers. More recently, Ready Player One was a Warner Brothers film. AI artificial intelligence. He was called a purple. Yeah, a color purple. I think he's got like four or five, because he mostly is universal. Yeah, for the most part. But yeah, a lot of Stanley Kubrick movies were Warner Brothers. Oh, yeah. The Iron Giant is a Warner Brothers movie. Anime class. Thank God they've never made another one of those.

26:38Or remake. The Great Gatsby. The Boss Lerman. Great Gatsby film is in Warner Brothers. Also, Dr. Strange Love is in Warner Brothers as well. Yeah. All right, I love this one. A little shop of horse is WB. That's fun. Yeah. Once upon a time in America, the Goonies. The Goonies. Goonies is WB. The Neverending Story. Love it. Oh, my gosh. The Killing Fields. Great. I am Legend Banger. 21st century Banger. Somehow, they still haven't figured out a sequel. But I mean, maybe it's coming this year. I have no idea. I mean, they've been saying that for three years now. I think it's just still stuck in development. Yeah. And a great fucking Boston movie. The Perfect Storm Guy. Perfect Storm Guy. Fucking Perfect Storm. Clooney Wahlberg. John C. Riley. Love it. Great cast. Diane Lane. One of my favorite directorial debuts. Constantin. Constantin. This is a great comic book adaptation.

27:39That was Francis Lawrence's first film. First film. Uh-huh. No one ever talks about that. He was big in music videos. And then he moved into future filmmaking with the first film. And then the right stuff, which is one of the great films about flying and our aerial engineering. And it was about the pilots in the entire set of engineers who were the beginnings of the space program, developing new rockets and new engines and new spacecrafts that a bunch of wild loose cannon pilots would just, you know what? Let's risk our lives and test them out. Incredible film. National Ampune's vacation. Big franchise. Yeah, big franchise right there. Tutti. Dustin Hoffman. Barbie. Barbie massive, massive hit. Warner Bros. All-time Grocer at the box office. Cultural drug or not. Huge, huge film. Wow. Oppenheimer. It had ties to it with distribution.

28:42I'll go fuck yourself. What time? It was joint release with the universal and I believe. Are you sure about that? No, I'm not sure about that. I think that it's... Did I add that or are you adding that? I was just reading your writing. I figured you researched that. I think I made a mistake then. Because... Yeah, I think that... Yeah, they're mine. Oppenheimer is nothing to do with Warner Bros. Okay, nothing to do. I'm Ron Burgundy. Hey, it's okay. People make... That's fine. Yes, Argo Fargo. Argo Oscar winner, best picture winner right there. American sniper. Huge clinics would film that. It's also an Oscar winner. Yeah. Let's talk about the classics. I love classic movies. Warner Bros. did not build its gigantic success off of the last 30 years. They didn't build it off superheroes. Or IPs. They built it off classics like the Stanley Kubrick films we mentioned.

29:44But Warner Bros. made Costa Blanca. Warner Bros. made Citizen Kane. The Wizard of Oz. These are tent poles in the history of cinema. These are WB movies. Incredible stuff. 2001 Space Odyssey, guys. Like we said earlier with Kubrick, Barry Lyndon. These are Warner Bros. films as well. All the presidents, men. Yeah. What a political thriller that one is. But I mean, just to stay on Citizen Kane, the Wizard of Oz, gone with the wind. Also singing in the rain. Sunset Boulevard. Yes. These are some of the most hugely influential films in the history of cinema. These are movies that are revisited yearly. And you will see these movies built cinema. Not just Warner Bros. But they helped change movies forever. Something great as craftsmen of their time. And to ever live made these movies. Dog day afternoon. Warner Bros. Badlands. Terrence Malak's debut film. That's a fucking banger debut. WB.

30:45That's one of the best debuts of all time. WB gave Terrence Malak money to make his first movie. That's insane. Yeah. Deliverance. Oh my god, deliverance. A clockwork orange. She's on these great movies. It's crazy. Curebrook. Curebrook was a big warm brothers guy. That's probably why Nolan was a really big on Warner Bros. Curebrook was too. It's such a big fan. McCabe, Mrs. Miller. It was a great western. Bullet. Bullet. Steve McQueen. Warner Bros. film. My Fair Lady. Audrey Hepburn. This the rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain. That's from my Fair Lady. Congratulations. You know a quote from my Fair Lady. I know a couple of words. A quote from the searchers. Yeah. Um, Gail Rear. Great film. The John Ford movie. A streetcar named Desire. An Alzheimer. For sure. All of it's actually all of his three films. James Deans. East of Eden. Streetcar named Desire. In Giants. His three films are all WB films.

31:48Crazy, right? I mean, hey. That's what happened, man. What happened to Warner Bros. Uh, the Maltese Falcon. Also, was that 1946 or something like that? I think 43. Something like that. From Free Bogart. You know the, um, the Maltese Falcon was actually red in person. No, no way. Yeah, but it's just because they film in black and white. So a lot of sets were actually colorful. More colorful than you'd imagine. And so the actual statue of the Maltese Falcon was more red than anything. They know that. The treasure of the Sierra Madre huge influence on there will be also hungry Bogart. Yeah. Bonnie and Clyde. Nice. Warner Bros. Paul Newman here. Cool Hand Luke. Is also a Warner Bros. picture. The most successful movie at its time the adventures of Robin Hood, uh, starring Arrow Flynn. Huge, gigantic release. Really influential for Hollywood. This was the first film that played at the the Egyptian theater in Hollywood. Oh, that's really cool. Yes. I did not know that. It was their first release.

32:50Very cool. The public enemy, which was a huge gangster movie. So I watched that two months ago. It's so good. He's amazing in it. It's crazy. Little Caesar. I don't know this one. I don't know what either. But the jazz singer like I mentioned earlier the first the first feature leg talky released and produced by Warner Brothers. Real Bravo. Great Western. Awesome. Awesome. Western. A star is born. All WB movies. All three of them. That's pretty crazy. Strangers on a train. It possibly hitch cocks most under appreciated film. He doesn't really have a ton of warm brothers releases. Who is he mostly releasing under? Because he also has rope. Universal. I'm sure with Psycho, right? I think it might be. Yeah, I think it might be universal was his or could have been. Actually, I don't I don't know. Paramount. Paramount. Yeah. Paramount. So I get yeah, I think, I think Hitchcock was a paramount guy. And then there's a few more horror films that we missed. So also, um, L.A. Confidential.

33:50Another classic. Oh, that's a good movie. Modern classic for sure. Good pick 97. Great fucking movie. Oh, rope is one of those. Yeah, ropes. Yeah, one of those. The other the other Hitchcock were. I'm sure there might be another one. But he made a ton of movies before he was making the famous ones. Let's talk about some more horror films that we missed. Blade. Was it Warner Brothers? Yeah. The blade trilogy. Beeljuice. Beeljuice is a huge one. Yeah, I mean, the Beeljuice movie just made a ton of money. And I think that they could definitely make another sequel or a prequel or a spinoff or something with Beeljuice. I think it's still very popular. Poltergeist. Yes. That's that Warner Brothers picture as well. That's the other Spielberg. Another Spielberg. Warner Brothers movie. Yeah. Interview with the vampire. Love it. Natural born killers. More of a horror thriller. Stand by me. WB one of those other Stephen King WB movies. Natural born killers are so good. I just saw an interview with Tarantino talking about it in Oliver Stone changed a lot

34:52of the screenplay. So Tarantino doesn't like to I get admit that he's like a screenwriter on that film. After it came out, he was like, he changed it too much. It's not really my story anymore. Interesting. Yeah. But I think it's a really interesting name. I haven't seen it in a long time. He did all sorts of crazy things with the color tone. Changed to the color temperature. Literally like from shot to shot. Like in extreme ways. It's an interesting looking movie. It's very much like this. I want to revisit. I remember seeing it when we were fucking. Yeah. I remember you were probably saying it when we were like 10. Yeah. I thought it was cool as hell. What else do you think from another world? The original original. It's a Warner Brothers. Some Christmas stuff. Elf. How the Grinch stole Christmas. Those are all Warner Brothers movies. Okay. Let's get into animation. Because for us, I think any kid growing up before 2000 WB is what you spent most of you watch mostly WB animation. Looney Tunes all day. Yeah. The Looney Tunes. We watch the Looney Tunes every Saturday. And it was just like the iconic thing you watch.

35:54It was a Looney Tunes all the time. It was so popular. Yeah. I mean, not even connects to the space jam movies which are what your Warner Brothers. But the Looney Tunes for probably a hundred years. Yeah. Or not a hundred years. But what's 50 at least? Whenever they started probably in the 50s or 60s. For from then until 2000, we're the most popular animated product. And he's TV shows on the on the earth. It's interesting the the Looney Tunes IP because it's something that was so iconic for so long. And there's so many, there's a huge array of really fun characters. They're all very different. We love them. They're really iconic characters. But it's an IP that just is not making the transition in the modern era with kids in this era. So just not connecting to it. I was kind of close. It started in 1930, the Looney Tunes. They ran from 1930 to 1969. And then it got revived again in the 70s. And but what's cool is we were watching those. Yeah. We were watching animations made in the fucking 30s sometimes.

36:58You know what I mean? And we love them. It's really there's really nothing like the Looney Tunes for kids. Yeah, I mean, Elmer Fudd, 1930s, Bugs Bunny, 1940. Like they were old, old cartoons. But obviously every year they're making new ones. Speedy Gonzalez, 1955. That's why I like going to the Vista and the New Beverly. Because you always see like an old cartoon. Yeah. Short. And I feel like I've seen every single one of them in the past. And they always jog my memory or make me feel some nostalgia. And then another major animated IP that's set from Looney Tunes. It's Tom and Jerry. That we also grew up watching all the time. Tom and Jerry. The same kind of vibe is Looney Tunes, but just different. They weren't connected. Happy feet. Those are huge movies. Yeah, yeah. Batman, Mask of the Phantasm. That's a huge animated movie. So they, yeah, there's a bunch of Batman and so many iconic classic animated movies. And so, you know, Warner Brothers films.

37:58They have a lot. They have a lot of huge IPs and huge properties. I'd also like to talk a little bit about just their assets in general. You know, Warner Brothers. Discovery. They own a lot of stuff. And it's not just movies and it's not just TV. But it's all connected. I mean, Warner Brothers owns Fandango movie ticket purchasing website. Wow. They have a 25% stake in that company. They own some of their smaller studios. New Lens in a castle rock spyglass entertainment. These are all studios you've seen movies of regularly and know by their logos as they come before the TV screens. Cartoon Network, which just got shut down. Unfortunately, the CW. They now own, they own Turner Classic movies. Yeah, to see them. There's now going two paramounts. And again, HBO. And when you think of HBO and Warner Brothers and the streamers, it's not just domestic. It's so many countries have their own versions of these properties of these IPs and of these streamers. Cinemax.

38:59They own cinemax now. Warner Brothers owns TNT. They own TNT sports. They own the studio tours. Warner Brothers studio tour in Hollywood, London, Tokyo, Shanghai. Every like they now these are becoming paramount properties. Those are big money makers. Huge money earners. Warner Brothers games. Avalanche just made the hugely successful Hogwarts legacy with port key games. That movie that game made over $1.3 billion. Massively successful. What else do they have? You guys cooking up a lower the rings one? DC Comics. Not just the movies DC Comics, which includes Mad, Hill House, Murphy Verse. DC Black Label. The Graphic Novels. Wonder Comics. Well, it's from DC Universe Infinite. Discovery Plus. You know, they are the partner for Warner Brothers until now. Adult swims on there. But now they're getting Discovery Studios. AMC Networks. TBS. TNT. TLC.

39:59True TV. Animal Planet Discovery Channel. H-G-T-B-E. The Food Network. Oh, man. Food Channel. Travel Channel. Investigation Discovery Magnolia Network. Oprah. They're getting Oprah. They're getting Oprah's Network. CNN. They're now going to have CNN news and CNN's films International. TNT, like I already said, but TNT is big because they are huge with NCAA, huge with NBA, PGA, Bleach Report, Major League Baseball, Golf, Animal Planet, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Boomerang. What else have a nice channel? Science Channel. Science Channel. Sports is going to be huge for them. Sports is going to be massive for them. I mean, Disney got into that when they got ESPN. All right, now we're on international channels, which we don't know. Don't know the international channels. Super well. But like those are a list of other huge... Crunchyroll. Crunchyroll. Massive Massive Anime. Atlanta Hawks. The Atlanta Thrasher's.

41:01BET. These are all things they have commercial investments in. They're on 50% of Comedy Central. E. E. He's a Time Warner Company. Game Show Network. Ooh, can have a plus. Nice. So good, so good, so good.

42:07Thanks now, and there are up to 60% off. Stock up and save on Ragenbone made well. Vince, All Saints, and more of your favorites. I did I let no rack as a deedus. Why do we rack for the hottest still? There's so many good brands. Join the Nordic Club to unlock exclusive discounts. Shop new arrivals first and more. Plus, buy online and pick up at your favorite rack store for free. Great brands, great prices. That's why you rack. It's nuts. The amount of things they're going to own now, uh, Paramounts. We're not owned, but like partial stakes in. Sure, yeah. TMZ, VH1. Nickelodeon, no Paramounts has Nickelodeon now. I know that, but at the end of the day, it's not just movies and TV that this purchase includes, but includes so much more. It's a media conglomerate. Yeah, they are. And entertainment conglomerate has a lot, has a lot of stuff. It's just one of those things. Yeah, I mean, at the end of the day, Paramounts not just buying movies and TV, they're buying a shit ton of assets

43:07that go into everything that makes out the Warner Brothers company. And in a way, they're buying more of the culture. Yeah. You know, media, news, entertainment, arts, that's all culture. And so, I wouldn't be surprised if in the next five years, there's another huge deal like this with other companies, with other studios. Who's left like on the Sony? But I feel like Sony's got too much, they get too much money generated from the products they make, so they're maybe not at risk. True, Sony Columbia, that's a good point. They might be fine for a while. It's possible, but I wouldn't be surprised if they get a tasty offer. Yeah. It may be sell off Sony pictures, but still be Sony, but sell point Sony pictures to something. Yeah, or sell Columbia to something, even though it's the same. You know, I think that's the one right now, because well, Sony bought Columbia. Yeah, Columbia is Sony. Yeah, I think it was just one, but I think that's the only one that's like really, because Universal's fine. Universal's, well, I don't think they'll ever

44:08get fuck around with getting sold. Yeah. But I mean, that's what we said about Warner Brothers. Yeah. But I mean, Universal Usman hasn't been bought by three different companies over 10, 20 years. Yeah. And Universal does generate a ton of money from their parks. I mean, where's the real world is inside Universal theme parks at the end of the day? I think Sony's the one who, if in the next 10 years, it might happen again at Sony. Sony pictures, I mean. Yeah, for the big conglomerate studios, because there's so many independent studios that do the best they can. They survive as long as they can until they're sold and bought up by bigger studios. Yeah. You know, I think Blumhouse and A24 are safe for now. I think Blumhouse has tied to Universal now. Sure, but they still are independent. Yeah, but they're not going to get bought. They're two days. A24 is still strictly independent. I remember there were talks of Apple TV buying them a few years ago, but I think that they're okay for now. Obviously, Apple is fine. Neon, Neon's still independent too. Neon's still independent. And I think Neon, they're pretty cool. And I think they make, they have, they distribute really great movies.

45:11Yeah, it's, it's shrinking. Yeah, the competition is shrinking in terms of the studios. This is every industry. It's not just media. It's every industry. The major companies are always buying other companies. And the number of competitive players is reduced exponentially in the last 20 years in every facet of industry. So it's not just movies and TV, it's everything. This is just the way the world is. Yeah, and Warner Brothers, you know, this is a historic, historic studio. Yeah. And we talked about this a few times. It's not just because of the streaming war. It's not just because of COVID and lockdowns that has happened. It's not really just the last five years of ups and downs in the box office and spending. It's not wokeness. It's a combination of a lot of things. Yeah. But like Ithi said, in our movie news episode, we've talked about before, it's, you know, when these cable companies started coming in and buying the studio and focusing less on creativity and not really knowing how to manage creativity

46:11and running it more like a tech company, running it like a cable company, like a, like a well-oiled factory machine that doesn't always turn out great profitability. You know, as AOL bought Warner Brothers in 2000. AOL, but it doesn't even exist anymore. Time Warner. AOL still exists. It's not. It's not what's not existed. It's like Yahoo, like they're too big. They're too big. It's not really anymore. AT&T, like these, this is why Warner Brothers got into so much debt, these deals and these businesses changes. Yeah. But their catalog might be the best of any studio. I gotta say, I mean, Warner Brothers has always been my favorite movie studio. It's always, it has most of my favorite movies and filmmakers and franchises. I've always just loved Warner Brothers and, I mean, I think that WB logo, especially as a kid, when you think of Hollywood, you think of the WB logo. Yeah, I mean, yeah, I wonder if it'll go away or if it'll be like Columbia and Sony,

47:13where Columbia is still have it sometimes. I would guess that Paramount will let Warner Brothers run Warner Brothers. Obviously we'll own it, but I do feel like they'll still feel like separate studios. I think it's the way to do it. It's the way to do it. Because it's like one Disney bought 20th Century Fox. Jay changed 20th Century studios and search like pictures. Yeah. But they're still lighting 20th Century's does its thing. Still the same vibe with the old means of credit. Yeah, so we'll see. And it'll take like a year until this is officially done and it comes to fruition. But thanks for turning into this episode on Warner Brothers all time great films and are now going to be owned by Paramount. Pretty crazy time right now. It is what it is. And all we can do is just, you know, keep showing up to theaters and supporting the industry the best we can and just see how things play out. In the meantime, do all things that help our show, guys. Go to patreon.com slash raiders of lost podcasts to get access to the ad free version of every single episode, bonus episodes, bonus content, access to our discord.

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