A2 New Line Cinema Research

New Line Cinema, is an American film studio founded in 1967 by Robert Shaye and Michael Lynne as a film distributor, later becoming an independent film studio. In 1996 it became a subsidiary of Time Warner and in 2008 merged with larger sister studio Warner Bros.

Unlike other independent studios such as Orion Pictures, Carolco Pictures, or Cannon Films, New Line Cinema grew and prospered to become one of Hollywood's major film studios, culminating in the hit Lord of the Rings film trilogy that brought commercial success to the studio.

Prior to this, New Line was responsible for genre films and cult classics such as Dark City, The Mask, the Austin Powers film trilogy, the fantasy Pleasantville, the Final Destination series, the Nightmare on Elm Street series, the film Friday (and its two sequels Next Friday and Friday After Next), the films of John Waters, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles films, and the highly successful movie adaptation of Mortal Kombat (as well as its ill-fated sequel Mortal Kombat: Annihilation).