New Line Folds into Warner Bros
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Deadline Hollywood is reporting that New Line Cinema will become part of Warner Bros, and that Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne will not be coming along.
New Line will be operated as a unit of Warner Bros and maintain separate development, production, marketing, distribution and business affairs operations.
It is not clear if this will have any affect on the HD strategy for New Line (which was to drop HD DVD releases while Warner currently continues into May).
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what does this mean for the consumer? Why are they making this change now?
I assume it’s to save money… but I wonder what it will do for the kinds of movies New Line typically does…
This pissed me off. New Line Cinema did as good a job as any studio when it came to making top quality dvd releases. Warner Brothers was never one of my favorites. Im now afraid that many of their titles will be Warnerized.
Say goodbye to DTS-HD MA on New Line titles….
I am ok with no DTS-MA, if they add TrueHD or LPCM instead.
Somehow I doubt much if any of this will change…
they said they maintains their own stuffs, am I correct?
at first I was disappointed with the news, but seeing that it will maintain its own distribution, etc, it seems we’re not saying hello to Dolby Digital tracks yet.
With any luck, even Warner releases will now be targeted for the Blu-ray audience, with higher bitrate and lossless audio on everything.