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Apr 15 2008 6:48 AM
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adnana
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Back in early March when we first heard that New Line Cinema would be absorbed into Time Warner, industry sources predicted that in the process nearly 75% of their staff would be laid off as part of the reshuffling. Those estimates were a little low.
This morning Variety is reporting that they’re firing… well… just about everyone. 450 employees are being kicked out the door, leaving only 40 or 50 behind to mind the store, or whatever’s left of it. Additionally, another 40 will be offered jobs inside Time Warner, which I guess means New Line Cinema pretty much no longer exists. Does it?
That’s where I start getting a little bit confused. In February Time Warner announced that a scaled down version of New Line would continue to exist, managing its own development, production, marketing, and publicity, though in a much more scaled down manner. But it’s hard to imagine them accomplishing much with no one left to answer the phone, let alone make an actual movie.
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Mar 21 2008 6:17 AM
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adnana
Toby Emmerich has been named President & COO, New Line Cinema and will lead its reorganization to become a stand-alone production entity as part of Warner Bros. Entertainment, it was announced today by Barry Meyer, Chairman & CEO, and Alan Horn, President & COO, Warner Bros.
New Line will continue to maintain its own development, creative and production teams. In addition, New Line's marketing, publicity, distribution, business and legal affairs and physical production will report to Emmerich, but will closely coordinate with their Warner Bros. counterparts.
Emmerich will report directly to Horn. He will also work closely with Jeff Robinov, President, Warner Bros. Pictures Group, as New Line will utilize WBPG's existing infrastructure to reduce costs and take advantage of Warner Bros.' industry-leading scale.
"There isn't a better person than Toby to help us keep New Line vibrant, relevant and a key asset for Warner Bros.," said Meyer. "We are thrilled that he and New Line are now part of our family."
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Mar 12 2008 6:05 AM
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adnana
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Jason Patric and Thomas Dekker will join Cameron Diaz and Abigail Breslin in the drama "My Sister's Keeper" for New Line.
Director Nick Cassavetes' adaptation of Jodi Picoult's novel follows a former district attorney (Diaz) and her fireman husband (Patric) who are sued by their 13-year-old daughter (Breslin) for emancipation.
The daughter was conceived and underwent several operations to help save her ill older sister (Sofia Vassilieva). Dekker (Fox's "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles") plays the older sister's boyfriend and a fellow cancer survivor. Alec Baldwin and Joan Cusack also star.
The film is shooting in Los Angeles with New Line's Merideth Finn and Mark Kaufman overseeing production for the studio.
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Mar 05 2008 7:25 AM
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adnana
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Turner Broadcasting's TBS and TNT are trying to corner the market on theatrical prebuys, locking up the cable-TV rights to four high-visibility movies set for release by New Line and Picturehouse later this year: "The Women," "Journey to the Center of the Earth," the Zac Efron vehicle "17 Again" and the Vince Vaughn-Reese Witherspoon comedy "Four Christmases."
New Line has also linked up with the Sundance Channel, which has bought cable rights to 11 titles, led by Picturehouse's "La Vie en Rose," which earned Marion Cotillard the Oscar. The deal is one of the biggest network-window movie contracts in Sundance's 12-year history.
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Feb 27 2008 7:05 AM
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adnana
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Finally - a more substantive glance at the upcoming Sex and the City Movie!
While I will undoubtedly watch the release, I must say the newest trailer gives the film a much darker tone than I would have liked to see. (You can view it for yourself, after the jump.) Is it because the show is best served on the small screen? Should the series only be viewed in 30-minute snippets? Is the teaser simply a bad representation?
Regardless, the clip does give us a few juicy tidbits:
Apparently Mr. Big’s (full) name is John James Preston. (I think I like him better when he’s not an actual person.)It looks like Steve may have cheated on Miranda. (The Steve I know would never do something like that.)Commitment-phobe Samantha may be wandering from Smith Jerrod.Charlotte is indeed pregant. (She adopted that kid for nothing.)And last but not least, Carrie’s planned wedding to Big falls apart?
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Feb 13 2008 9:41 AM
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adnana
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In a cast shakeup involving the young stars of "My Sister's Keeper," Abigail Breslin will replace Elle Fanning and Sofia Vassilieva is near a deal to replace Dakota Fanning in the New Line drama directed by Nick Cassavetes.
Sources said Dakota Fanning balked at a request that she shave her head for the role and both sisters withdrew abruptly.
Breslin, who was Oscar-nominated for "Little Miss Sunshine," will take over the role of a young girl who sues for emancipation from parents who conceived her as a genetic match so she could prolong the life of her ailing older sister. Vassilieva ("Medium") would play the older sister.
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Feb 01 2008 10:11 AM
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adnana
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The week started with the awesome news that Guillermo del Toro was in talks to direct the two movie adaptation of The Hobbit. Then the news kind of fizzled out. Despite being reported through the mainstream press, no new developments were coming and there were even reports of del Toro talking about his beloved H.P. Lovecraft adaptation. So, what gives?
Well, for right now it sounds like del Toro is pretty much a lock to direct The Hobbit. In fact, The One Ring.net is running a report that says it’s 99% certain del Toro is the man. So why hasn’t there been any further announcements, confirmations, or Hobbit parades celebrating the deal? As with so many things these days, it comes back to the writer’s strike.
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Jan 02 2008 4:03 PM
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adnana
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We're already well aware at how nutty some studios are getting with regards to marketing certain movies. Seeing the Empire State Building lit up yellow in honor of The Simpsons Movie DVD release was just one example of where movie marketing is heading in 2008...
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Dec 18 2007 1:59 PM
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adnana
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Remember that mushy-sounding, Irreconcilable Differences-esque movie starring the Fanning sisters that's in the works? About a little girl who sues her parents for divorce after finding out she only exists to serve as a genetic match for her dying sis? It's called My Sister's Keeper, and it just got a whole lot better-sounding...
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Dec 18 2007 1:50 PM
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adnana
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Academy Award-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson; Harry Sloan, Chairman and CEO, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM); Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne, Co-Chairmen and Co-CEOs of New Line Cinema have jointly announced today that they have entered into the following series of agreements...
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Dec 17 2007 3:57 PM
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adnana
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Good News: Jon Favreau has signed on to re-team with Vince Vaughn on the big screen.
Bad News: The movie is New Line’s romantic comedy disaster Four Christmases...
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Dec 14 2007 4:56 PM
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adnana
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New Line Cinema is probably reaching the point where they wish Lord of the Rings had been a huge failure. They are in court related to dividing up the profits to that epic trilogy more often than a street walker on Sunset Boulevard...
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Dec 13 2007 3:00 PM
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adnana
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Sissy Spacek and Mary Steenburgen are joining Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn for a season of holiday havoc in "Four Christmases" for New Line.
Kristin Chenoweth and Robert Duvall also star in the Spyglass Entertainment romantic comedy from director Seth Gordon and writers Jon Lucas and Scott Moore. Jonathan Glickman, Roger Birnbaum and Gary Barber are producing the film with Witherspoon and Vaughn...
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Dec 12 2007 4:33 AM
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adnana
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The Golden Compass was able to grab $51 million dollars from its overseas showings this past weekend, offering New Line Cinema a little ray of hope that they can recoup their $200 M+ investment with the fantasy picture...
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Dec 01 2007 1:24 PM
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adnana
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After all the controversy between New Line and Peter Jackson, they may have finally mended their fences and made way for PJ to do what he was born to do: Direct a movie version of The Hobbit. A site called MarketSaw claims to have 100 percent reliable intel that Peter Jackson will direct a movie version of The Hobbit, and what’s more the entire thing will be shot in 3D...
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