New Line Home Entertainment (formerly known as New Line Home Video) was the home entertainment distribution arm of

New Line Cinema New Line Cinema is an American film production studio owned by Warner Bros. Discovery and is a film label of Warner Bros. It was founded in 1967 by Robert Shaye as an independent film distribution company; later becoming a film studio after ...

, founded in 1990. According to New Line's website, ''Misery'' was the first New Line Home Video release. It was responsible for the distribution of all New Line Cinema theatrical films for release on

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and Blu-ray Disc. The company also distributed some feature films from the specialty studio Picturehouse – formerly a New Line/ HBO joint venture – as well as films or non-theatrical programs produced or acquired by New Line Home Entertainment and

New Line Television New Line Television was the television production arm of the film studio of the same name. It was active for about 20 years from 1988 to 2008. History The company was founded in 1988 to produce ''Freddy's Nightmares'', a television series based ...

. In 2008, once its parent company became a unit of

Warner Bros. Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (commonly known as Warner Bros. or abbreviated as WB) is an American film and entertainment studio headquartered at the Warner Bros. Studios complex in Burbank, California, and a subsidiary of Warner Bros. D ...

, New Line Home Entertainment was folded into

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In May 1991, New Line purchased the home video and foreign rights to films held by

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(whose library included films inherited from Embassy Pictures) for $15 million, and thus obtained roughly 600 films. Shortly afterwards, New Line acquired the home video rights to the ''

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'' franchise from

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. Before New Line formed its own video division, many of the company's films were released on video by various distributors. Initial offerings of New Line product came from

(for ''Gizmo!'', ''Fighting Black Kings'' and ''

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''), MGM/CBS Home Video (now MGM Home Entertainment) (for ''

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'' and ''

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''),

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(for ''

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'' and ''

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'', both through Viacom (2005–2019), Viacom), Wizard Video (for ''Pink Flamingos'', ''Female Trouble'', ''Sister Street Fighter'', and ''The Street Fighter's Last Revenge''), and HBO Home Entertainment, HBO/Cannon Video (formerly called Thorn EMI Video and Thorn EMI/HBO Video, later called as HBO Video, finally — HBO Home Entertainment) (for ''Xtro'', ''The Evil Dead'', ''The First Time (1983 film), The First Time'', ''The Exterminators of the Year 3000'', ''The New Barbarians, Warriors of the Wasteland'', ''Stunts (film), Stunts'' and ''Polyester''). Later offerings came from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video and its successor, Columbia TriStar Home Video,

(for the first five ''

'' films, and ''The Hidden (film), The Hidden'' among others), and Artisan Entertainment, LIVE Entertainment (for ''Drop Dead Fred'', ''Glengarry Glen Ross (film), Glengarry Glen Ross'' and the first ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990 film), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' film, through Artisan Entertainment, Family Home Entertainment). When New Line formed the video division, RCA/Columbia and Columbia TriStar distributed VHS releases, while Image Entertainment released the films on Laserdisc. The New Line-Sony partnership stopped in early 1995, when Turner Broadcasting System bought New Line and from 1995 to 1996, New Line's video releases were distributed by Turner Home Entertainment, 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. After 1996, during the Time Warner ownership, New Line distributed their own films through New Line Home Entertainment underWarner Bros. Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video. Their Blu-rays and DVDs not only featured advertisement for New Line, but also advertisement for its then sister studio Warner Bros., who advertised special releases from

. The same went for Warner Home Video's Blu-rays and DVDs; New Line Home Entertainment would advertise their special releases on Warner Home Video's Blu-rays and DVDs. On January 5, 2008, New Line Cinema announced, as did

, that it would exclusively support Blu-ray for their films and drop support of HD DVD. The only New Line Home Entertainment HD DVD ever released was ''Pan's Labyrinth''. New Line pursued a policy of regional lockout with its Blu-ray titles. This was in direct contrast to its corporate sibling

which left its Blu-ray titles region-free. With the studio being folded into Warner Bros., Warner has decided to discontinue this lockout policy with future titles. In 2008, New Line Home Entertainment then folded into Warner Home Video after

acquired New Line. The company parted ways with Canadian film distributor Alliance Films. Warner Home Video, however, continued to use the NLHE logo for some time on Blu-ray and DVD releases of titles prior to ''Valentine's Day (2010 film), Valentine's Day''. But as of 2019, new releases of the said catalog use the Warner Bros. Home Entertainment logo.

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