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Warner Bros. Entertainment Incorporated, founded in 1923 and based in Burbank, California, is a Time Warner Incorporated company that produces and distributes feature films, television programming, movie DVDs, interactive games, and other products. The firm's library encompasses 6,600 feature films, 48,000 television titles, and 14,000 animated titles. The company includes the Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Independent Pictures, Warner Bros. Animation, Warner Home Video, and Warner Bros. Television Group (WBTVG) units. The company has produced 'The Jazz Singer,' 'The Maltese Falcon,' 'Bonnie & Clyde,' 'The Color Purple,' 'Unforgiven,' and other movies. In 2007, the Warner Bros. Pictures unit released 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,' 'I Am Legend,' and other features. Since 1999, the business has released 230 local language films. The Warner Independent Pictures business, launched in 2003, finances, produces, acquires, and distributes films with budgets under $20 million. It releases 10 feature films per year. The company was distributor of 'March of the Penguins.' WBTVG produces Warner Bros. Television, Warner Horizon Television, Telepictures Productions, and other primetime and cable programming. It produces advertising-supported video-on-demand, broadband, wireless, and other content. Programs include 'ER,' 'Smallville,' 'Two and a Half Men,' 'Nip/Tuck,' and 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show.' Warner Brothers Animation's library includes Looney Tunes, Merrie Melodies, Hanna-Barbera, and other animated shorts. Warner Bros. Entertainment also includes the Warner Premiere direct-to-DVD production and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment video game businesses. Warner Bros. Consumer Products licenses rights to names, likenesses, and logos. It manages 3,700 licenses
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