So Long ‘New Line’, You’ll Be Missed.

After 40 years of good times, New Line Cinema being swallowed up by Warner Brothers. Variety reports that the company that gave us Lord of the Rings, Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1-3, Boogie Nights, and countless other classics has been absorbed as a genre arm of Warner Bros, and all future New Line distributions will be going through WB as a result. Worst of all New Line Founder Bob Shaye (who started the company in his APARTMENT) and co-head Michael Lynne will not be coming along for the ride, along with about 600 other jobs at New Line Cinema.

So let’s take a moment to remember the good times New Line brought us, and how many times New Line was there as some of us were growing up, prompting young kids like me with a dream to take a stand and say proudly “Go, Ninja. Go, Ninja. GO.”

DO IT.