Rama’s SCREEN

This is not a movie info but it is movie-related if that makes any freakin’ sense at all. I don’t usually post info like this but since New Line has been a world renown name for about 40 years, it’s only fair to include in today’s things that you might or might not want to know. New Line is known for hits like NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET series, RUSH HOUR series an LOTR series which has sued New Line for not sharing the profit.
Recently, the studio also helped brought us the controversial movie THE GOLDEN COMPASS, which received mixed reviews and failed at the box office.

Today, Warner Bros. has absorbed New Line Cinema, meaning New Line as we know it will no longer exists.
In order not to get lost in the fact and mis-inform you, here is the excerpt from Variety…

The colorful 40-year run of New Line is coming to an abrupt end, costing the jobs of most of the company’s 600 staffers.

The company will be folded into Warner Bros. as a small genre arm, but its two toppers, Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne, will not be part of the package.

No exact numbers have been divulged in terms of how many of New Line’s staffers will remain, but the surviving entity will be a shell of its former self, refocusing on the horror, comedy and urban genre pics that helped put it on the map decades ago.

Time Warner said New Line would continue to have development, marketing, business affairs and some distribution operations, but its films will go out through the Warner Bros. pipes, a change to be phased in after this weekend’s “Semi-Pro.”

In a message to New Line staffers, Shaye and Lynne warned that New Line will probably be a much smaller operation, saying details would be spelled out at meetings Friday in L.A. and Gotham.

“This was a painful decision, because we love New Line, and the people who work here have been like our second families,” Shaye and Lynne said. “But we will be leaving the company with enormous pride in what all of us at New Line have accomplished together. From its humble beginnings 40 years ago, our studio has created some of the most popular and successful movies of all time.”

Well.. so long New Line Cinema, thank you for the movies
You’ll be missed… maybe.
It’s been real and it’s been great.
R.I.P