Corporate DS/UK/232 Seven Arts Productions; 1957-1967; Production Company. Seven Arts Productions 1957-1967 Production Company.

Defunct. Merged with Warner Brothers, becoming Warner Brothers-Seven Arts. Founded in 1957 by Ray Stark and Eliot Hyman. The company was a frequent producer of movies for other studios, including Lolita for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, The Misfits for United Artists, and Is Paris Burning for Paramount Pictures. Over time they expanded their involvement in movies from just being producers to becoming equity investors with the studios, partnering with legendary horror film company Hammer Film Productions on many projects, and producing Seven Days in May and Promise Her Anything for release by Paramount; on these productions, they retained ancillary rights that they had surrendered on earlier films. In 1967 they acquired Jack Warner's controlling interest in Warner Bros. for $95 million and merged with it, becoming Warner Brothers-Seven Arts. Warner Brothers-Seven Arts deal also included Warner Brothers Records, Reprise Records and the B&W Looney Tunes library (plus the first Merrie Melodie, Lady, Play Your Mandolin!). Later that same year, Warner Brothers-Seven Arts purchased Atlantic Records. Warner Bros.-Seven Arts was acquired in 1969 by Kinney National Company. Due to a financial scandal over its parking operations Kinney National spun off its non-entertainment assets in 1972, and changed its name to Warner Communications Inc., which has since merged with Time, Inc. to form Time Warner. This now-defunct company has no relation to and should not be confused with producer Peter Hoffman's active production company Seven Arts, or the defunct releasing company also called Seven Arts, which was a joint venture between Carolco Pictures and New Line Cinema (the latter of which is now merged into WB) in the early 1990s. International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition - ICA 2004 ISBN 2-9521932-2-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Yes Kstuckey 25/02/2009 Kstuckey 25/02/2009 b949ad1b-1e37-46bf-a65b-a5f3e90d322d