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'''New Line Cinema''' (also known as '''New Line Productions, Inc.''' and formerly known as '''New Line Cinema Corporation''') was originally started in 1967 by Robert Shaye as an indie/low-budget film studio. Their first film was a Czech import called ''The End of August at the Hotel Ozone''. New Line was acquired by Turner Broadcasting on January 28, 1994; both merged with Time Warner (now [[Warner Bros. Discovery]]) on October 10, 1996. Their most successful films are ''The Lord of the Rings'' trilogy released from 2001-2003 respectively. | '''New Line Cinema''' (also known as '''New Line Productions, Inc.''' and formerly known as '''New Line Cinema Corporation''') was originally started in 1967 by Robert Shaye as an indie/low-budget film studio. Their first film was a Czech import called ''The End of August at the Hotel Ozone''. New Line was acquired by Turner Broadcasting on January 28, 1994; both merged with Time Warner (now [[Warner Bros. Discovery]]) on October 10, 1996. Their most successful films are ''The Lord of the Rings'' trilogy released from 2001-2003 respectively. | ||
On February 28, 2008, the company became a genre and low-to-mid-budget unit of [[Warner Bros. Pictures]], | On February 28, 2008, the company became a genre and low-to-mid-budget unit of [[Warner Bros. Pictures]], after CEO Jeff Bewkes fired Shaye as a result of the domestic box office failure of ''The Golden Compass''. The last movie produced by New Line Cinema as an independent company was ''Semi-Pro''. Most of their independent output is owned by Warner Bros. Discovery; however, many of their acquired products, including most of their foreign films, are currently owned by other companies, and the television rights to some of their early-to-mid-1990s features, including ''The Mask'', ''Dumb and Dumber'', and ''Mortal Kombat'', lie with [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios|Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] through [[Epic Productions]] and its Alpha Library Company. | ||
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