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The New Line-Sony partnership stopped in early 1995, when Turner Broadcasting System bought New Line [5] and from 1995 to 1996, New Line's video releases were distributed by Turner's video division. One New Line film the company merely distributed, The Swan Princess , was released solely on video on August 3, 1995, by Turner Home Entertainment.
New Line wanted a bigger toehold in the fast-growing television movie market, and was also looking to syndicate shows in Europe. Also in 1991, New Line acquired a company called Nelson Entertainment Group. The deal gave New Line home video and foreign rights to a substantial collection of films, some 600 in all.
On December 9, New Line acquired Nelson Entertainment (which by then was renamed Sultan Entertainment), and the latter was folded. The Nelson catalog, including television rights to some New Line features of the period, was sold to Crédit Lyonnais Bank to be incorporated into the Alpha library of Epic Productions , and later to PolyGram Filmed Entertainment .
In 1991, Nelson made a distribution deal with New Line Cinema and their films, as well as those by Embassy Films Associates and De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, were released by New Line Home Video (whose releases were distributed by RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video at the time). On December 9, New Line acquired Nelson (which by then was renamed "Sultan Entertainment") and Nelson was later ...
Embassy Home Entertainment was purchased by Nelson Holdings International from Coca-Cola in 1986 and was renamed to "Nelson Entertainment" on August 15, 1987 and Nelson was bought out by New Line Cinema on December 9, 1991. Some Embassy/Charter videos were still in print by the early 1990s with a New Line Home Video logo on the tape label.
New Line Cinema was established in 1967 by the then 27-year-old Robert Shaye as a film distribution company, supplying foreign and art films for college campuses in the United States. Shaye operated New Line Cinema's offices out of his apartment at 14th Street and Second Avenue in New York City. One of the company's early successes was its ...
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Logo: Same as the 1994 movie logo, but "NEW LINE HOME VIDEO" (later "NEW LINE HOME ENTERTAINMENT" starting in 2001) zooms out from below. The respective company byline fades in underneath. It's also videotaped/digital. Bylines: 1995-1997: "A Turner Company" 1997-2001, 2003-2004, 2005-2010: "A Time Warner Company"
