URGENT! New Line Folded Into Warner Bros; Bob Shaye And Michael Lynne Exiting

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The End of New Line As We Know It
Published 2/28/2008 by karina at SpoutBlog
... reports that Time Warner is getting rid of New Line heads Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne and is absorbing the “indie” into the general Warner Brothers machine. Nikki Finke has the full press release. ...

BREAKING: New Line Cinema Says Goodbye!
Published 2/28/2008 by Erik Davis at Cinematical
... We here at Cinematical have some good friends over at New Line, and we wish them well in their future endeavors. For more on this, read the official press release here, and the internal letter after the jump ... ...

New Line. Fade to Black.
Published 2/28/2008 at GreenCine Daily
"New Line's 40-year run as an independent studio ended Thursday when Time Warner said it would fold the company into Warner Bros," reports Variety. Erik Davis (Cinematical) and Nikki Finke have more. Comments (0) Comments on this Entry:

Andre Benjamin's "Semi-Pro" looks to have big weeekend
Published 2/29/2008 by Wooohah at Wooohah!
... New Line Cinema has a sure hit on their hands with the Will Ferrell and Andre Benjamin comedy Semi-Pro opening in theaters today. So how does New Line celebrate? By folding their company into Warner Brothers. We all knew it was coming here in Hollywood and I even wrote a piece last month how if New Line folded it might affect the producing deals it has with Dr. Dre, T.I. and Kanye West. You can read about it ...

'The Hobbit' is Safe! (And Other Grim Fallout from New Line's Demise) [The Shaye After]
Published 2/29/2008 by STV at Defamer
... was the most recent and most expensive example of New Line's practice of selling off foreign territories for upfront productions costs, costing the studio nearly 75 percent of the film's $330 million global box office. WB's international presence means it can keep those rights, though it's mostly too-little, too-late with New Line's output deals soon expiring and cheap genre films pledged for the future. NIKKI FINKE GETS TO BE EXTRA-ANNOYING. Yet another foregone conclusion appearing on Deadline Hollywood Daily begins with Finke shouting ...

New Line Merges With Warner Bros.
Published 2/29/2008 at I Watch Stuff - The Best Movie News Ever
... Hopefully this merger will be as seamless as when the WB Network merged with UPN, and I barely even noticed it was a different channel I was skipping past. If nothing else, maybe now we'll finally be able to order a chess set with Looney Tunes characters dressed as Lord of the Rings characters. It could only be rights issues keeping such an obvious product from existing. New Line Folds Into Warner Bros. [Deadline Hollywood]