New Line Cinema

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

Past notable releases

• Critters (1986 movie)
• Mondo Trasho (1969) & Pink Flamingos (1972) by John Waters
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1975)
• The Mask starring Jim Carrey
• The The Lord of the Rings trilogy
• The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles films
• The Nightmare On Elm Street series
• The Mortal Kombat series (although they have now lost the copyright)

A Nightmare on Elm Street was New Line's first commercially-successful series, leading the company to be nicknamed "The House that Freddy Built".

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