The Fall of NEW LINE CINEMA: How One Scrappy Studio Almost Took Over Hollywood & Fail

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A look back at the entire history of New Line Cinema, tracking the film studio from Bob Shaye's founding through the success of A Nightmare on Elm Street to the acclaim of Lord of the Rings into how The Golden Compass and Warner Bros brought the studio to an end. What made New Line special? What does the future hold? Will they please stop making Lord of the Rings movies? All this and more!

I look at how New Line Cinema evolved from the home of Freddy Krueger to taking a risk on a beloved fantasy trilogy to being adsorbed by Warner Bros.

GoodBadFlicks looks into the history of the 50s teen coming of age film Book of Love. Directed by Robert Shaye.

A look back at the history of New Line Cinema and their genre films.

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From it's humble beginning in the 90's New Line Cinema was gonna be a studio with a mission and that mission was making successful movies that would be guaranteed blockbuster hits. And starting with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series of films they were hits and paved the way for New Line Cinema to produce movies that became hits. And it continued with The Mask and other movies. But it wasn't until Austin Powers debuted that New Line Cinema became huge and when Austin Powers debuted in theaters it broke records for New Line Cinema so much that they expanded the Austin Powers trilogy with the two Austin Powers sequels. But I think why New Line Cinema went downhill was because they hadn't come up with successful movies and the only other movie that was successful was The Lord Of The Rings and just like Austin Powers they made sequels to Lord Of The Rings as well. Because in their eyes New Line Cinema saw sequels as a way to make more money and comedies were hits in their eyes. But I wouldn't be surprised if New Line Cinema files for bankruptcy in the coming years

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I give my prediction on what might happen to New Line Cinema, if Paramount succeeds at its goal of buying Warner Bros.