The Film Industry and The Dark Knight

The three main stages that a film go through:

• Production
• Distribution
• Exhibition

1.  Briefly Explain the information provided on this homepage: 


http://www.warnerbros.com/mainhomepage.html

Warner Brothers Logo

As soon as the website loads a film trailer plays automatically, which is situated in the centre of the page and immediately grabs the attention of the viewer.There are, in total, three videos to choose from to watch and a staggering forty nine photos available to view, all relating to 'The Dark Knight.' There is also an online synopsis and cast information aswell as icons five posters available for download. The website's background in a dark black shade, which represents the genre of the film and also relates to what the character batman always dresses in. There are links, for example, available for people to sign up to email updates, which gives people interested in 'The Dark Knight' an opportunity to follow stages of the film. There are also links to company information, such as careers and the chance to buy 'The Dark Knight on DVD.


Note down five facts about this studio 


http://wbsf.warnerbros.com/indexvipredir.html

1. The Warner Brothers studio consists of a 110 acre facility which has thirty sound stages and a twenty acre backlot, used for outdoor scenes.
2. Warner brother had eighty six features alone in 1929.
3. In the Warner brothers studio facility another Studio called the Jungle set was constructed in 1956 for the movie Santiago. It was designed to simulate a wooded area and it has a lagoon that holds over 250,000 gallons of water.   
4. In 1995 Warner Brothers fifth broadcast network, called 'The WB.'
5. Two new exterior sets were constructed on the backlot AT Warner Brothers studios replacing Laramie Street, now Warner Village. It consisted of eleven new England-style homes covering approximately 42,000 square feet of office space which debuted in 2004. 

                           

The Warner Brothers Studio Site

Find two other companies:

Warner Brother's own half on the CW television network in America.The other half of the company is owned by the CBS corporation.The "CW" name is derived from the first letter of the names of these corporations (CBS and Warner Bros.)

Another company Warner Brothers own is New Line 

Cinema, also known as 'New Line' it is an American film studio which merged with Warner Brothers in 2008.