Who owns Tom and Jerry?

Earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Short Subject Cartoon in 1941. Tom and Jerry, an American franchise consisting of animated short films, feature films, TV shows, and video games. The franchise revolves around Tom Cat and Jerry Mouse. Tom and Jerry’s usual attempts to achieve the best of one another, success depending on the results.

Who owns Tom and Jerry?

For a decade now Tom and Jerry have been the most animated comedy short film ever created. let’s go into history and how it all started. In August 1937, animator and storyman Joseph Barbera began to work at MGM, then the largest studio in Hollywood. He learned that co-owner Louis B. Mayer wished to boost the animation department by encouraging the artists to develop some new cartoon characters, following the lack of success with its earlier cartoon series based on the Captain and the Kids comic strip.

After MGM gave the green light for Hanna and Barbera to continue, the studio entered production on the second Tom and Jerry cartoon, The Midnight Snack (1941). The pair would continue to work on the series for the next fifteen years of their career.

In 1996, WarnerMedia became the current Tom and Jerry franchise owner after purchasing Turner Entertainment. Warner Bros. Animation, also owned by WarnerMedia, has produced direct-to-video Tom and Jerry movies annually since 2005, along with the 2006 TV show Tom and Jerry Tales and the 2014 TV show The Tom and Jerry Show.