{"id":28615,"date":"2008-04-05T21:30:31","date_gmt":"2008-04-06T02:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2008\/04\/05\/28615-the-bitter-end-of-the-new-line\/"},"modified":"2008-04-26T01:44:03","modified_gmt":"2008-04-26T06:44:03","slug":"the-bitter-end-of-the-new-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2008\/04\/05\/28615-the-bitter-end-of-the-new-line\/","title":{"rendered":"The bitter end of the New Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/newlinelogo.thumbnail.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"169\" alt=\"New Line Cinema Logo\" class=\"imageframe imgalignright no-lazyload\" \/> Last May, New Line Cinema threw a 40th-anniversary party in Cannes. Tied in with a promotional push for the company&#8217;s movie, The Golden Compass, it was a lavish affair. As guests consumed champagne, while admiring the ice sculptures, little did they guess this was more a last hurrah than a birthday bash. For within the last month it has been announced that New Line Cinema is to be drastically downsized and folded into the conglomerate&#8217;s studio outfit, Warner Brothers. Just four years ago, The Return of the King, the final chapter in New Line&#8217;s adaptation of JRR Tolkien&#8217;s The Lord of the Rings, took 11 Oscars, tying with the all-time record set by Ben Hur and equalled by Titanic. The film had already grossed US$1 billion ($1.26 billion) worldwide, only the second to do so after Titanic. That&#8217;s before you take into account the millions accumulated by the previous two films and the money created by merchandise. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/section\/1501119\/story.cfm?c_id=1501119&#038;objectid=10502060\">The bitter end of the New Line<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last May, New Line Cinema threw a 40th-anniversary party in Cannes. Tied in with a promotional push for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[498],"tags":[492],"class_list":["post-28615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-production-studios","tag-wwwnzheraldconz"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-7rx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}