New York, NY -- Good news for classic movies fans, FilmStruck operated by Turner Classic Movies is adding Warner Bros. films starting today on its website as part of new partnership between the two sister Time Warner companies, TCM's parent Turner Broadcasting System and Digital Networks operator Warner Bros. Entertainment.
According to Turner, FilmStruck says it would add critically acclaimed Hollywood classics from the Warner Bros. library to the service including Casablanca, Singin' In The Rain, Citizen Kane, An American In Paris and hundreds more (by the way, most of these films are also currently available on Disney's Movies Anywhere service). In addition, TCM has launched an new collection available exclusively to FilmStruck, the TCM Select Collection which will offer the most iconic films from the Golden Age of Hollywood with introductions from the cable channel host Ben Mankiewicz.
This new partnership would expand Warner Bros' streaming operations which also operates the Boomerang classic animation service (which features classic Warner Bros. cartoons including Looney Tunes, Scooby-Doo! and Tom & Jerry) with TCM's sister channel Cartoon Network as well as the upcoming DC Comics streaming channel set to premiere later this year and another movie network the Warners operated DramaFever.
Current subscribers to the Warner Archive Collection (also operated by WBDN) will be transferred to FilmStruck beginning on April 26th when the Warner Archive service folds into FilmStruck (although the Warner Archive Collection will continue to release classic films through home entertainment) In 2016, more customers subscribed to Turner's FilmStruck with films based on classic arthouse, foreign and independent features and now with be more with adding Warner Bros.' Hollywood classics to the platform, as the TCM slogan says "Let's Movie."
Josh Albarran contributed to this report.
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