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| A Look Back At 2000 From A New Line Perspective |
| 2002-03-03 |
| Maybe 2000 wasn’t such a good a year for production company New Line. But with Lord of the Rings coming up in 2001, this could change. Fast. If “Little Nicky“ is any indicator, New Line Cinema may be about to relive its darkest hour. The ill-conceived Adam Sandler comedy cost a whopping $80 million to make, more than $35 million to market, and it won’t gross more than $45 million in U.S. theaters. The maverick company with a stellar track record for hitting it big with smaller, relatively inexpensive movies, such as the “Austin Powers“ series, is playing the major studio game of paying top dollar for stars, scripts and sets. And “Little Nicky“ is just the first in a series of upcoming big-budget blockbuster bets for New Line, an autonomously run unit of Time Warner. The last time the house that Freddie Krueger built tried to play the big-studio game was in 1996, two years after the then-29-year-old independent was bought by media mogul Ted Turner. The suddenly brimming company coffers prompted New Line to brazenly rush to make big, risky movies. The result was a string of epic flops, including “The Long Kiss Goodnight,“ “Last Man Standing“ and “The Island of Dr. Moreau.“ |
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