Dial 'D' for disaster: The fall of New Line Cinema

[arenean]

From 'Nightmare on Elm Street' to 'Lord of the Rings', New Line Cinema created some of Hollywood's most influential blockbusters. But now its 40-year history is in tatters following a string of big-budget box-office flops. Andrew Gumbel charts the unlikely rise and fall of a Tinseltown institution, while Tim Walker identifies the films that did the damage

The Independent: Dial 'D' for disaster: The fall of New Line Cinema

[Cassandra]

1. Does that mean no more Golden Compass?

Although how they were going to make the second one a children's movie when the main character is dripping blood through the entire story was unclear.

[Tesha]

2. They would have just used a sort of visual "short hand". (NT)

[gatorboy]

3. I think the film was part of the reason for their demise.

Along with Eragon, New Line kept creating expensive epics, trying to copy LOTR's magic. Didn't work

Which sucks because now The Hobbit seems to be in limbo, unless WB can do a quick turnaround :(

[Touchdown]

4. Eragon was 20th Century Fox

But your point is taken. :hi: