New Line Cinema

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New Line Cinema, founded in 1967, is one of the major American film studios. It is a subsidiary of Time Warner. The current co-chairmen and co-CEOs are founders Robert Shaye and Michael Lynne.

New Line Cinema operates several divisions, including theatrical distribution, marketing, home video, and a unit specializing in independent film called Picturehouse (with fellow TW subsidiary HBO).

Unlike other independent studios such as Orion Pictures, Carolco Pictures, or Cannon Films, New Line Cinema has grown and prospered to become one of Hollywood's major film studios, culminating in the hit The Lord of the Rings film trilogy that brought added prestige to the studio. Prior to this, New Line was responsible for the cult classic Dark City, the hit Austin Powers films, and the fantasy Pleasantville, among others. One of the company's early successes was its distribution of the parodic 1936 anti-pot propaganda film Reefer Madness, which became a cult hit on American college campuses in the early 1970s. A Nightmare on Elm Street was New Line's first commercially-successful series, leading the company to be nicknamed "The House that Freddy Built".

They were also responsible for releasing the Hulk Hogan films, No Holds Barred, Mr. Nanny, and Suburban Commando.

In 1994, New Line Cinema was acquired by Turner Broadcasting System, which then merged with Time Warner in 1996.

In 2006 their Antonio Banderas film Take the Lead, based on the true story of ballroom dancer Pierre Dulaine, became the first Hollywood movie to be officially remixed. Creating an internet, cellphone and iPod viral for the film's promotional campaign, New Line Cinema commissioned UK audio-visual artists Addictive TV to sample the film (both in audio and video) and create a short dance track with accompanying music video made entirely from both the audio and video samples. This was also the first time a movie had been promoted in such a way.

Outside the US, New Line does not distribute its own films. Rather, it contracts other studios (like Entertainment Film Distributors in the UK, Warner Bros. in Germany, Singapore, Czech Republic and Switzerland, Village Roadshow Pictures in Australia, and Alliance Atlantis in Canada) to distribute its product overseas.

[edit] Notable Films

A History of Violence
About Schmidt
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery and its 1997 and 2002 sequels
Babar: The Movie (1989) (distributor)
Battle Royale (2008)
Blade, Blade 2, and Blade: Trinity
Blow
Boogie Nights (1997)
Cats & Dogs
Critters
Domino
Drop Dead Fred
Dumb & Dumber and Dumb & Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
Dungeons & Dragons and Dungeons & Dragons 2: Wrath of the Dragon God.
Elf
Final Destination, Final Destination 2, and Final Destination 3
Freddy vs. Jason
Friday the 13th and its nine sequels
Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
Gone with the Wind (1939) (distributor) (1998 re-release)
Hairspray (1988, and upcoming musical remake in 2007)
The Hidden and its 1994 direct-to-video sequel
I Am Sam
Just Friends (2005)
Killing on Carnival Row
King's Ransom
The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001-2003)
Lost In Space (1998)
Magnolia (1999)
The Man
The Mask (1994)
Meg (2008)
Mondo Trasho (1969)
Mortal Kombat and Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
Monster-in-Law (2005)
Mr. Nanny
The New World (2005)
A Nightmare on Elm Street series
No Holds Barred
Pink Flamingos (1972) by John Waters
Polyester (1981)
Raise Your Voice (2004)
Rush Hour, Rush Hour 2, and Rush Hour 3
The Sea Inside
Se7en (1995)
Silk
Snakes on a Plane (2006)
The Swan Princess (1994) (distributor)
Take the Lead
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles live action films
Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny (2006)
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) (distributor) (1980 re-release)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) and its prequel The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006)
The Upside of Anger
Wedding Crashers

[edit] See also

New Line Television

[edit] External links

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