Warner Bros.-Seven Arts (W7 for short) was formed in 1967 when film producer Eliot Hyman's Seven Arts Productions acquired legendary movie mogul Jack L. Warner's controlling interest in Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. for $95 million and merged with it. The deal included Warner Bros. Records, Reprise Records and the studio's animation unit and the pre-1944 black and white and post-1948 Technicolor Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies cartoon libraries. That same year, Warner Bros.-Seven Arts purchased Atlantic Records from Ahmet Ertegun, his brother Nesuhi Ertegun and Jerry Wexler. via Discogs →