New Line Cinema

New Line Productions, Inc.
	Logo used since 2011
Trade name	New Line Cinema
Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Film production; Television production
Founded	June 18, 1967 in New York City, United States (as a separate studio); February 29, 2008 (as a unit of Warner Bros. Pictures)
Founder	Robert Shaye
Defunct	February 29, 2008 (as a separate studio)
Fate	Absorbed into Warner Bros. Pictures; currently active as a unit of the latter
Successor	Warner Bros. Pictures
Headquarters	4000 Warner Blvd, Burbank, California, United States
Key people	Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy (co-chairpersons and CEOs, Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group);
Parent	Turner Entertainment (1994–1996); Time Warner (1996–2008); Warner Bros. (2008–2022); Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group (2022–present);
Divisions	New Line Television (1988–2008); Fine Line Features (1991–2005); New Line Home Entertainment (1990–2010);
Website	www.warnerbros.com/company/divisions/motion-pictures#new-line-cinema
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New Line Productions, Inc., doing business as New Line Cinema, is an American film and television production studio owned by Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD). Since 2008, it has been operating as a unit of Warner Bros. Pictures.

It was founded in 1967 by Robert Shaye as an independent film distribution company; later becoming a film studio after acquired by Turner Broadcasting System in 1994; Turner later merged with Time Warner (later known as WarnerMedia from 2018 to 2022, and Warner Bros. Discovery since 2022) in 1996, and New Line was merged with Warner Bros. Pictures in 2008. The studio has been nicknamed "The House that Freddy Built" due to the success of the Nightmare on Elm Street film series. However, their most successful property was their film adaptation of The Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien with considerable commercial success and numerous Academy Awards.

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