New Line Cinema Company Description
This firm owes a lot to a couple of hobbits and a small piece of pressshusss jewelry. New Line Cinema produces and distributes movies such as the top-grossing The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, winner of 11 Oscars. Other titles have included Rush Hour 3, The Golden Compass, He's Just Not That Into You, and the big screen version of Sex and the City. New Line distributes films on video and DVD through New Line Home Entertainment and licenses and develops New Line franchises (The Mask, Dumb and Dumber) for TV and merchandising through New Line Television. Founded in 1967 by former co-chairman Robert Shaye, New Line is a unit of Time Warner's Warner Bros. Entertainment division.
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