New Line Cinema

== Logos ==

1st logo: On a black background, a red line stretches out across the screen. It then "flashes" rapidly, seeming to vibrate and form more lines above. The lines eventually form the words "NEW LINE CINEMA", and when the word is completed the screen begins to flash red. When the flashing is finished, the logo is now red with black segmenting (think of the CBS/Fox logo), and the word "FROM" can be seen above and to the left of the logo. The logo is "wiped" away at the end.

Variants

• New Line used a different logo in print and at the end of trailers and movies from 1967 to 1987; it is the letters "NL" connected together. As far as we know, this was never used as an actual New Line logo.
• There is also a high-contrast version with a dark blue background and "FROM NEW LINE CINEMA" in pink.
• A black and white version can be found on Reefer Madness (A.K.A. Tell Your Children).

Closing Variants

• The end of the original Nightmare on Elm Street just has the NEW LINE CINEMA text with out the "NL" combination.
• There is an ending variant where it it's just the print logo where it says: "FROM NEW LINE CINEMA" and the "NL" combination. This appears at the end of A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge.
• The end of A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors has the "FROM NEW LINE CINEMA" text in the same font as the end credits.

2nd logo: On a black background, we see a box, connected with 2 filmstrips. It glows blue, and "NEW LINE CINEMA" is below, glowing in blue as well. Basically a still of the next logo, but the words are in black.

3rd logo: On a blue/white ethereal background, a black box zooms and twirls from the screen. In the background, several filmstrips float by, as the box is connected by two filmstrips. One of the filmstrips attaches itself to the side of the box, and the other filmstrip tilts to half a right angle and attaches itself to the top right of the box. The background fades to black, with the box/ladder "glowing" blue at the end. The words "NEW LINE CINEMA" fade under the logo.

Variants

• Some showings in Australia have the preceding Roadshow Television logo morph into the black box in the beginning of the New Line logo.
• Beginning around 1991, there is less glowing blue around the box and filmstrips and it has a more purplish tone to it.
• There is a 2.35 scope variant where it is cropped from the 1.85 aspect ratio. This appears on Glengarry Glen Ross.

Closing Variants

• The first closing variant is basically the same as the opening logo. Except, the box and filmstrips are in white. This appears on A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master.
• The second closing variant shows "From" above the company name.
• Starting around 1994, the "From" is gone, though there is space between the logo and company name.
• Monkey Trouble shows a in-credit closing logo: "RELEASED BY NEW LINE CINEMA" with the box and filmbox logo next to it.

4th logo: A black box rotates out from an extreme close-up, with a blue light in the background. Various filmstrips zooms past the box as two more filmstrips rotate in, one attaching itself to the side of the box, and one attaching itself to the top-right to form the familiar logo. The blue light dies down to create a glowing effect around the "ladder" as "NEW LINE CINEMA" zooms-out from below in ITC Garamond Cond Book font. The respective company byline fades-in underneath.

Bylines

• July 29, 1994-November 18, 1994: "A TURNER Company"
• December 16, 1994-1997: "A Turner Company"
• 1997-2001, Mid-November 7, 2003: "A Time Warner Company"
• 2001-2003: "An AOL Time Warner Company"
• December 17, 2003-September 3, 2010: "A TimeWarner Company"
• At the end on some films, the logo is bylineless.

Variants

• From July 29, 1994 to November 18, 1994, a prototype variant of this logo was used. The differences are the light moves all around the logo, before settling it its usual place, and the New Line text zooms out with a trail effect (and starts out black before fading to white); the finished product looks very similar to the 3rd logo's finished product. The Turner byline is used here, sometimes chyroned in on some releases. This was used on The Mask, Corrina Corrina, Wes Craven's New Nightmare NLand The Swan Princess (the theatrical release only, the Turner Home Entertainment VHS from 1995 edits it out. However it is retained on the 2004 DVD from Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment). The second version would make it's debut on Dumb and Dumber, released on December 16, 1994.
• There is a videotaped variation of this logo where the animation runs at a smoother, fast-paced frame rate. This can be seen on original VHS releases of Mortal Kombat and Now and Then.
• On 3D movies, including Journey to the Center of the Earth and The Final Destination, the filmstrips, ladders, and text zoom-in.
• At the end of some movies, such as Elf, the print logo is shown with the words "NEW LINE CINEMA" in a bold Times font to the right of it, and the TimeWarner byline below; this scrolls up with the credits.

5th logo: We travel through the clouds to see the 1998 Warner Bros. shield, with the banner on it reading "WARNER BROS. PICTURES" and the standard TimeWarner byline fading in below, both zooming in toward the screen. The shield then breaks up into pieces, leaving the blue part of the shield and the byline. We pan from a day sky to a cloudy night sky. The gold pieces turn into the filmstrips and squares (now rounded at the edges) of the New Line logo while all the letters of "NEW LINE CINEMA", in a stylized flat font, appears flipping in. Also, parts of the WB shield appear in the filmstrips and squares for 3 seconds. The logo shines and the TimeWarner byline fades in below.

Bylines

• January 28, 2011-June 15, 2018: "ATimeWarnerCompany" (with "TimeWarner" in its own logo font)
• July 21, 2018-: "AWARNERMEDIACompany"(with "WARNERMEDIA" in its own logo font)

Variant

At the end of Dumb and Dumber To, a still shot of the logo is used.

6th logo: Same concept as the previous logo, but the 2019 Warner Bros. shield and the 2021 logo background is now used instead. When we get closer to the shield, it shines as the WarnerMedia byline fades out, and in a similar fashion to the last logo, the shield breaks up to transform into the New Line Cinema logo on a more realistic sunset background (using the same design from before, but the line between the text and byline is removed), now in white this time to match with the 2019 WB shield with the white outline (and the reflection of the WB shield is removed in the New Line filmbox logo). The 2019 WarnerMedia byline fades in below (although much earlier this time just as the filmbox finishes forming) as the filmbox and "NEW LINE CINEMA" text shine.

Music/Sounds

1st logo: None, and this increases this logo's scare factor. On Toei productions (such as The Streetfighter and Bronson Lee, Champion), it would use the second half of the specialized theme that played over the Toei logo. Strangely, The Streetfighter's Last Revenge (at least the Wizard Video release) uses an edited version of the second half of the specialized jingle from The Streetfighter.

2nd logo: None.

3rd logo: Usually none or the opening of the film; However, A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child has a quiet flute and string jingle, bells and chimes. The Roadshow Television variant has an extended version of the 1992 Roadshow Entertainment jingle playing over it.

4th logo: A beautiful string fanfare composed by Michael Kamen. It begins with a high violin note that rapidly but calmly descends with many notes, ending with a quiet chime/string theme.

Music/Sounds Variants

• On some movies, such as The Corruptor, and the Blade movies, the opening theme of the movie plays over the logo.
• On Don Juan DeMarco, the fanfare is higher-pitched.
• On The Wedding Singer, there is a re-orchestrated and double-pitched version of the logo's theme, which is echoed more and has a different flute note.
• The theme is shortened on some movies.
• In 2001, a different, short lived, fanfare with flutes and choirs was used. For this one, the New Line Home Entertainment logo was kept silent.

5th & 6th logo: The WB/New Line themes playing for their respective logos. Otherwise, none or the opening theme of the movie.

Scare Factor

1st logo: Medium to high. The ugliness of the logo, the silence, and the black and blood red color scheme may get to a lot, especially after watching A Nightmare on Elm Street. Low to medium with the Toei music and the B&W version, due to the less unnerving color scheme.

2nd logo: None. It's much better than the previous logo.

3rd logo: None to minimal. This is a harmless logo.

4th logo: None to minimal. This is a very popular logo.

5th logo: None to low. The gold logo on a dark, cloudy night sky is a little ominous. Other than that, it's a pretty neat logo, although not as well liked as the last logo.

6th logo: None to low. A great update to the previous logo.