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Robert Kenneth Shaye (born March 4, 1939) is an American businessman, film producer, actor, director, and writer. Shaye is the founder of New Line Cinema, a film production studio that was most successful for distributing The Lord of the Rings film series, based on the classic fantasy novel of the same name by English author J. R. R. Tolkien and directed by New Zealand filmmaker Peter Jackson.
Sep 18, 2019 · When I learned that Robert Shaye (Bob), founder of New Line Cinema and Unique Features, had directed his third feature, "Ambition," I knew that I had to interview him myself. He produced some of the biggest horror and fantasy films at a time when independent filmmakers and studios were not thought of as mainstream.
Jun 5, 1994 · To branch out, Mr. Shaye set up a division in New York called Fine Line, under Ira Deutchman, to produce and distribute arty or provocative films like Robert Altman's "The Player" and "Short Cuts ...
Mar 11, 2008 · Shaye was the last of Hollywood’s true owner-entrepreneurs, bowing out just two years after DreamWorks’ founders sold their studio to Viacom and three years after Harvey and Bob Weinstein were ...
Sep 18, 2019 · A Chicano I know went to see "American Me," a film by Edward James Olmos that is brave and powerful but unremitting in its portrait of a man destroyed by prison, and came out saying, "If I wasn't Chicano, this movie wouldn't have made me want to know any." Robert Shaye movie reviews & film summaries | Roger Ebert.
Mar 21, 2007 · A self-described film geek, Shaye, who's also an attorney and former Fulbright Scholar, founded New Line in 1967 with a plan to distribute art films. But over the ensuing 40 years, the studio has amassed a library of commercial hits including the Nightmare on Elm Street series, Rush Hour , Wedding Crashers and the Oscar-winning Lord of the Rings trilogy to emerge as Hollywood's leading mini ...
Oct 29, 2019 · The founder of New Line Cinema, who has been behind Oscar-winning films over four decades, is in Abu Dhabi for a series of screenings. Producer Robert Shaye will attend a screening of the 1984 original 'A Night on Elm Street' in Abu Dhabi on Thursday. WireImage. 'm going to talk about my career," says Robert Shaye when I ask the founder of New ...
