The Independent featured an article on the rise and fall of Bob Shaye and New Line Cinema. Screen adaptations of fantasy novels have been instrumental in both the good and bad times and the article looks into all this is great detail.

Don’t forget that is was Bob Shaye and New Line Cinema that gave Peter Jackson the chance to make the Oscar-winning trilogy of JRR Tolkien’s the Lord of the Rings. Unfortunately, it was also New Line behind the woeful adaptation of Philip Pullman’s The Golden Compass (Northern Lights).

The article is excellent, charting the 40 year history of New Line Cinema. It also goes through the films that succeeded and the turkeys that sunk without trace.

Dial ‘D’ for disaster: The fall of New Line Cinema