Sources
Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.
Submit a site - Become an editor
Wikipedia. Licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Are you an expert in this subject? Join the discussion and share your knowledge at Wikipedia.org.
New Line Cinema
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| New Line Productions, Inc. | |
|---|---|
 |
|
| Type | Subsidiary of Time Warner |
| Founded | 1967 |
| Headquarters |  New York City, New York, USA |
| Key people | Robert Shaye and Michael Lynne, Chairmen and co-CEOs |
| Industry | Theatrical distribution, marketing, home video |
New Line Cinema, founded in 1967, is one of the major American film studios. Though it initially began as an independent film studio, it is currently 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 (formerly known as Fine Line Features) with fellow Time Warner 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 Lord of the Rings film trilogy that brought prestige to the studio. Prior to this, New Line was responsible for the cult classic Dark City, the Austin Powers film trilogy, the fantasy Pleasantville, the Nightmare on Elm Street series, the films of John Waters, and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles films.
One of the company's early successes was its distribution of the parodic 1936 anti-Cannabis propaganda film Reefer Madness, which became a cult hit on American college campuses in the early 1970s. The studio has also released many of the films of John Waters (not including Cry-Baby which was released by Universal Pictures). A Nightmare on Elm Street was New Line's first commercially-successful series, leading the company to be nicknamed "The House that Freddy Built".
In 1994, New Line Cinema was acquired by Ted Turner's Turner Broadcasting System, which then merged with Time Warner in 1996. While fellow Turner-owned studios Hanna-Barbera Productions and Castle Rock Entertainment eventually became absorbed into Warner Bros. (though Castle Rock operates today as a subsidiary of WB), New Line was kept as its own entity.
In 2007, New Line Cinema and Castle Rock Entertainment collaborated on Fracture, their first joint venture since the mid-1990s before both companies were bought by Turner.
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 German-speaking areas, Singapore, Poland, and the Czech Republic, Village Roadshow Pictures in Australia and New Zealand, Alliance Atlantis in Canada) and Playarte (many times) in (Brazil) to distribute its product overseas.
For a number of years, the studio's video releases were distributed in the US by RCA-Columbia Pictures Home Video (now Sony Pictures Home Entertainment). New Line Cinema celebrates its 40th Anniversary at the same logo on October 5, 2007. The number is written "40" in white Edwardian Script ITC font, The letters "th" flashes in the same logo, the words "ANNIVERSARY" fades in on the bottom of the words "40th" in red Rockwell font at the end.
- The Adventures of Pinocchio (1996) (co-production with Savoy Pictures and The Kushner-Locke Company)
- A History of Violence (2005)
- American History X (1998)
- About Schmidt (2002)
- Be Kind Rewind (2008)
- Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even (1992)
- Blow (2001)
- Boogie Nights (1997)
- Book of Love (1990)
- Cellular (2004)
- Critters (1986)
- Damage (1992)
- Deep Cover (1992)
- Detroit Rock City (1999)
- Dungeons & Dragons (2000)
- Elf (2003)
- The Evil Dead (1981)
- Fracture (2007) (joint venture with Castle Rock Entertainment)
- Full of It (2007)
- Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
- The Golden Compass (2007) - Trilogy Planned
- Gone with the Wind (1939) (1998 re-release)
- Haunted Spooks (1920)
- Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
- Hoot (2006)
- How to Eat Fried Worms (2006)
- Journey 3-D (2008)
- Just Friends (2005)
- The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007)
- Laws of Attraction (2004)
- Little Children (2006)
- Lost In Space (1998)
- Magnolia (1999)
- A Man Apart (2003)
- Martian Child (2007)
- Menace II Society (1993)
- Monster-in-Law (2005)
- Mr. Nanny (1993)
- Mr. Woodcock (2007)
- My Family (1995)
- My Sister's Keeper (TBA)
- The New World (2005)
- No Holds Barred (1989)
- Normal Adolescent Behavior: Havoc 2 (2007)
- Pan's Labyrinth (2006, through Picturehouse)
- Pleasantville (1998)
- Rendition (2007)
- Run, Fat Boy, Run (2007)
- Secondhand Lions (2003)
- Semi-Pro (2008)
- The Butterfly Effect (2004)
- The Butterfly Effect 2 (2006)
- The Last Mimzy (2007)
- The Little Vampire (2000)
- The Notebook (2004)
- The Player (1992)
- The Players Club (1998)
- The Sea Inside (2004)
- Sex and the City: The Movie (2008)
- Se7en (1995)
- Shoot 'Em Up (2007)
- Sid and Nancy (1986)
- Snakes on a Plane (2006)
- Spawn (1997)
- Suburban Commando (1991)
- Surf Ninjas (1993)
- The Time Traveler's Wife (2008)
- The Upside of Anger (2005)
- Wedding Crashers (2005)
- The Wedding Singer (1998)
- Willard (2003)
- Be Kind Rewind (2008)
- Over My Dead Body (2008)
- Austin Powers 4 (2008)
- Semi-Pro (2008)
- Pride and Glory (2008)
- Devil May Cry (2008)
- Run, Fat Boy, Run (2008)
- Harold & Kumar 2 (2008)
- Sex and the City: The Movie (2008)
- Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008)
- Inkheart (2008)
- Meg (2008)
- Nightmare on Elm Street Prequel (2008)
- Shazam! (2008)
- Vampire: The Requiem (2008)
- The Time Traveler's Wife (2008)
- The Subtle Knife (2009)
- The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009)
- Friday the 13th (2009)
- The Amber Spyglass (2009)
- Once on This Island (2009)
- Escape from New York (2009)
- Y: The Last Man (2009)
- Gears of War (2009)
- Final Destination 4 (2010)
- Voltron (2010)
- International Man of Mystery (1997)
- The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
- Goldmember (2002)
- A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
- Freddy's Revenge (1985)
- Dream Warriors (1987)
- The Dream Master (1988)
- The Dream Child (1989)
- The Final Nightmare (1991)
- New Nightmare (1994)
- Freddy vs. Jason (2003)
- Friday (1995)
- Next Friday (2000)
- Friday After Next (2002)
- Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993)
- Jason X (2002)
- Freddy vs. Jason (2003)
- House Party (1990)
- House Party 2 (1991)
- House Party 3 (1994)
- House Party 4: Down to the Last Minute (2002)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)
- The Secret of the Ooze (1991)
- Turtles in Time (1993)
- Rush Hour (1998)
- Rush Hour 2 (2001)
- Rush Hour 3 (2007)
- The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
- The Two Towers (2002)
- The Return of the King (2003)
- Final Destination (2000)
- Final Destination 2 (2003)
- Final Destination 3 (2006)
- Female Trouble (1974)
- Multiple Maniacs (1970)
- Pink Flamingos (1972)
- Polyester (1981)
- Hairspray (1988)
- Pecker (1998) (under Fine Line Features)
- A Dirty Shame (2004) (under Fine Line Features)
- Hairspray (2007) (John Waters wrote the original, but did not direct, and he appears in the film)
- Dumb and Dumber (1994)
- When Harry Met Lloyd (2003)
- The Hidden (1987)
- The Spawning (1994)
- The Seed (2008) (remake of original)
- Mortal Kombat (1995)
- The Journey Begins (1996)
- Annihilation (1997)
- The Mask (1994)
- Son of the Mask (2005)
- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1973) (distributor) (1980 re-release)
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
- The Beginning (2006)
