Warner Bros.-Seven Arts

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| name = Warner Bros.-Seven Arts, Inc.

| logo = Warner Bros.-Seven Arts logo.png

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| type = Public

| foundation = {{start date and age|1967|7|15}}{{cite web |title=Amended Proposed Decision |url=https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/pages/attachments/2014/08/29/cn-0439.pdf |website=www.justice.gov |access-date=13 November 2018 |date=29 August 2014}}

| defunct = {{end date and age|1969|12|16}}{{cite web |last1=Newspaper.com |title=Warner Bros. Drops Name of Seven Arts |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/580684273/?terms=Warner%20Bros.%20Inc.&match=1 |publisher=Valley Times |access-date=12 September 2019 |date=16 December 1969}}

| fate = Acquired by Kinney National Services Inc. and rebranded as Warner Bros. Inc.

| predecessor = Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.
Seven Arts Productions

| successor = Warner Bros. Inc.

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| location_city = 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California

| location_country = United States

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| area_served = Worldwide

| key_people = Jack L. Warner
Kenneth Hyman

| industry = Film
Television
Music

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| parent = Kinney National Services Inc. (July–December 1969)

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| subsid = Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Television
Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Records
Atlantic Records
Seven Arts Productions
Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Animation

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Warner Bros.-Seven Arts, Inc. was an American entertainment company active from 1967 until 1969.

History

Seven Arts Productions acquired Jack L. Warner's controlling interest in Warner Bros. Pictures for $32 million in November 1966.{{cite AV media|people=Warner Sperling, Cass (Director)|date=2008|url=https://warnersisters.com/ourstore.html|title=The Brothers Warner (DVD film documentary)|publisher=Warner Sisters, Inc.|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160217043304/http://www.warnersisters.com/ourstore.html|archive-date=17 February 2016|df=dmy-all}}{{cite web |url=https://www.warnerbros.com/studio/about/company-history |title=Company History |publisher=warnerbros.com |access-date=30 August 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150926073602/http://www.warnerbros.com/studio/about/company-history |archive-date=26 September 2015 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=http://www.bsnpubs.com/warner/warnerstory.html |title= Warner Brothers Records Story|publisher=bsnpubs.com|date=23 April 2004|access-date=30 August 2015}} The merger between the two companies was completed by July 15, 1967, and the combined company was named Warner Bros.-Seven Arts.

The acquisition included 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{{cite web |url=https://rockhall.com/inductees/mo-ostin/bio/ |title= Mo Ostin Biography|publisher=rockhall.com|access-date=30 August 2015}} and Joe Smith.

The head of production was Kenneth Hyman, son of Seven Arts co-founder Eliot Hyman. The first film of production and distribution was Reflections in a Golden Eye. Cool Hand Luke was the final film produced by Warner Bros. Pictures before and after changing its name.

Acquisition by Kinney

On July 4, 1969, Warner Bros.-Seven Arts was acquired by Kinney National Company, and, in August that year, Ted Ashley became the chairman of the film studio. On December 16, 1969, Warner Bros.-Seven Arts was rebranded as Warner Bros. Inc.

The final film to be released under the Warner Bros.-Seven Arts name was Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, which was released 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 with Warner Bros. reestablished as a major film studio.

In September 1971, due to a financial scandal in its parking lot operation business,{{cite web |url=http://analysesoffinance.blogspot.be/2011/10/list-of-corporate-scandals.html |title= List of corporate scandals |publisher=Financial Analyses|date=4 October 2011|access-date=30 August 2015}} Kinney National spun off its non-entertainment assets as National Kinney Corporation, and changed its name to Warner Communications Inc. on February 10, 1972.