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Fine Line Features
TypeDivision
IndustryFilm production
Founded1991
FounderIra Deutchman
Defunct2005
FateFolded into Picturehouse
SuccessorNew Line Cinema (film library)
Picturehouse
Headquarters4000 Warner Blvd, ,
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Ira Deutchman (president)
ProductsMotion pictures
OwnerWarner Bros. Discovery
ParentNew Line Cinema

Fine Line Features (often spelled as FineLine Features) was the specialty films division of New Line Cinema. From 1991 to 2005, under founder and president Ira Deutchman,[1] Fine Line acquired, distributed and marketed films of a more "indie" flavor than its parent company, including such critically acclaimed films as Hoop Dreams, The Player, Short Cuts, Night on Earth, Spanking the Monkey, Shine, My Own Private Idaho, Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle. In 2005, New Line teamed up with fellow Time Warner subsidiary HBO to form Picturehouse, a new specialty film label into which Fine Line was folded into.[2]

Fine Line Features DVD releases were split between HBO Video and New Line Home Entertainment. When New Line Home Entertainment ceased to exist in 2010, it was folded into Warner Home Video (now Warner Bros. Home Entertainment).

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New Line Cinema

New Line Cinema

New Line Cinema is an American film production studio owned by Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) and is a film label of Warner Bros.

Ira Deutchman

Ira Deutchman

Ira Deutchman is a producer, distributor and marketer of independent films. In 2000, he moved into film exhibition as co-founder and managing partner of Emerging Pictures, a New York-based digital exhibition company, which was sold in January 2015 to Vancouver-based 20 Year Media. He also served as Chair of the Film Program at Columbia University School of the Arts from 2011 to 2015, where he has been a Professor since 1987. Deutchman is a member of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He was one of the original creative advisors to the Sundance Institute and formerly served on the board of advisors for the Sundance Film Festival. He has also served as a board member and former board chair for the Independent Feature Project, the board of advisors for the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival, the Williamstown Film Festival, IFP/West, and the Collective for Living Cinema, and was a member of the board for Kartemquin Films.

Independent film

Independent film

An independent film, independent movie, indie film, or indie movie is a feature film or short film that is produced outside the major film studio system, in addition to being produced and distributed by independent entertainment companies. Independent films are sometimes distinguishable by their content and style and the way in which the filmmakers' personal artistic vision is realized. Usually, but not always, independent films are made with considerably lower budgets than major studio films.

Hoop Dreams

Hoop Dreams

Hoop Dreams is a 1994 American documentary film directed by Steve James, and produced by Frederick Marx, James, and Peter Gilbert, with Kartemquin Films. It follows the story of two African-American high school students, William Gates and Arthur Agee, in Chicago and their dream of becoming professional basketball players.

Night on Earth

Night on Earth

Night on Earth is a 1991 art comedy-drama film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch. It is a collection of five vignettes, taking place during the same night, concerning the temporary bond formed between taxi driver and passenger in five cities: Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Rome, and Helsinki. The action in the vignettes takes place at the same time, moving from Los Angeles in the United States to Helsinki, Finland. The scene in each city appears to occur later and later in the night due to the changing time zones. Jarmusch wrote the screenplay in about eight days, and the choice of certain cities was largely based on the actors with whom he wanted to work. The soundtrack of the same name is by Tom Waits.

Shine (film)

Shine (film)

Shine is a 1996 Australian biographical psychological drama film based on the life of David Helfgott, a pianist who suffered a mental breakdown and spent years in institutions.

My Own Private Idaho

My Own Private Idaho

My Own Private Idaho is a 1991 American independent adventure drama film written and directed by Gus Van Sant, loosely based on Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV, Part 2, and Henry V. The story follows two friends, Mike Waters and Scott Favor, played by River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves respectively, as they embark on a journey of personal discovery that takes them from Portland, Oregon, to Mike's hometown in Idaho, and then to Rome in search of Mike's mother.

Hedwig and the Angry Inch (film)

Hedwig and the Angry Inch (film)

Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a 2001 American musical comedy-drama film written for the screen and directed by John Cameron Mitchell. Based on Mitchell's and Stephen Trask's 1998 stage musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch, it accompanies Hedwig Robinson, a gay East German rock singer. Hedwig subsequently develops a relationship with a younger man, Tommy, becoming his mentor and musical collaborator, only to have Tommy steal her music and become a rock star. The film follows Hedwig and her backing band, the Angry Inch, as they shadow Tommy's tour, while exploring Hedwig's past and her forced gender identity. Mitchell reprises his role as Hedwig from the original production.

Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle

Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle

Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle is a 1994 American biographical drama film directed by Alan Rudolph from a screenplay written by Rudolph and Randy Sue Coburn. The film stars Jennifer Jason Leigh as writer Dorothy Parker and depicts the members of the Algonquin Round Table, a group of writers, actors and critics who met almost every weekday from 1919 to 1929 at Manhattan's Algonquin Hotel.

HBO

HBO

Home Box Office (HBO) is an American pay television network, which is the flagship property of namesake parent subsidiary Home Box Office, Inc., itself a unit owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. The overall Home Box Office business unit is based at Warner Bros. Discovery's corporate headquarters inside 30 Hudson Yards in Manhattan's West Side district. Programming featured on the network consists primarily of theatrically released motion pictures and original television programs as well as made-for-cable movies, documentaries, occasional comedy and concert specials, and periodic interstitial programs.

Picturehouse (company)

Picturehouse (company)

Picturehouse is an American independent entertainment company owned by CEO Bob Berney and COO Jeanne R. Berney. Based in Los Angeles, the company specializes in film marketing and distribution, both in the U.S. and internationally. Its releases have included Metallica Through the Never, and Adam Wingard’s Sundance Film Festival selection The Guest, an Independent Spirit Award nominee starring Dan Stevens.

New Line Home Entertainment

New Line Home Entertainment

New Line Home Entertainment was the home entertainment distribution arm of New Line Cinema, founded in 1990. According to New Line's website, Misery was the first New Line Home Video release.

Selected films released

1990s

Title Release Date Notes
March 10, 1991 Shadow of China
May 19, 1991 An Angel at My Table distribution only; produced by Film4 Productions
July 26, 1991 Trust distribution only; produced by Republic Pictures
September 29, 1991 My Own Private Idaho distribution only
October 4, 1991 The Rapture
December 6, 1991 Let Him Have It
February 28, 1992 Where Angels Fear to Tread
March 20, 1992 Edward II
Proof
March 27, 1992 Roadside Prophets
April 10, 1992 The Player
May 2, 1992 Night on Earth distribution only; produced by JVC
May 15, 1992 Monster in a Box
July 24, 1992 Afraid of the Dark
August 7, 1992 London Kills Me distribution only; produced by LIVE Entertainment
August 21, 1992 Light Sleeper distribution only; produced by LIVE Entertainment
September 11, 1992 Swoon
October 14, 1992 Simple Men
October 30, 1992 Waterland distribution only; produced by Film4 Productions
February 3, 1993 To Want to Fly
February 12, 1993 Riff-Raff distribution only; produced by Film4 Productions
February 26, 1993 The Last Days of Chez Nous
April 2, 1993 Léolo
April 9, 1993 Bodies, Rest & Motion
April 16, 1993 Wide Sargasso Sea
July 23, 1993 Amongst Friends
August 20, 1993 The Ballad of Little Jo
September 15, 1993 Household Saints distribution only; produced by Jones Entertainment
October 8, 1993 Short Cuts
December 15, 1993 Naked distribution only; produced by Film4 Productions
February 2, 1994 Fiorile
March 11, 1994 Bitter Moon distribution only; produced by Le Studio Canal+
April 13, 1994 Naked in New York distribution only
May 13, 1994 Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Widows' Peak
July 15, 1994 Spanking the Monkey
July 29, 1994 Barcelona distribution only; produced by Castle Rock Entertainment
September 30, 1994 Caro diario
October 14, 1994 Hoop Dreams
November 23, 1994 Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
December 23, 1994 Death and the Maiden
May 3, 1995 Once Were Warriors
May 19, 1995 Little Odessa distribution only; produced by LIVE Entertainment
June 16, 1995 The Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls in Love
July 21, 1995 An Awfully Big Adventure
July 28, 1995 Double Happiness
November 3, 1995 Das Versprechen
Total Eclipse
November 22, 1995 Frankie Starlight
February 9, 1996 Pie in the Sky
March 29, 1996 Carried Away
August 16, 1996 Kansas City
September 13, 1996 Feeling Minnesota co-production with Jersey Films
October 11, 1996 The Grass Harp
October 25, 1996 Normal Life
Twelfth Night: Or What You Will
November 1, 1996 Mother Night
November 20, 1996 Shine
March 21, 1997 Crash co-production with Recorded Picture Company and Alliance Atlantis
The Quiet Room
May 9, 1997 Nowhere
May 16, 1997 Love! Valour! Compassion!
June 18, 1997 Roseanna's Grave
June 25, 1997 Head Above Water co-production with Tig Productions
July 16, 1997 All Over Me
September 5, 1997 Julian Po
October 17, 1997 Gummo with Independent Pictures
November 21, 1997 The Sweet Hereafter distribution only; produced by Alliance Communications
December 24, 1997 The Winter Guest
January 2, 1998 Deconstructing Harry USA distribution only; produced by Sweeetland Films and Jean Doumanian Productions; Buena Vista International handled international rights
April 17, 1998 Wild Man Blues distribution only; produced by Sweetland Films
June 12, 1998 Passion in the Desert
July 10, 1998 When I Close My Eyes (aka Love Letter)
September 11, 1998 Let's Talk About Sex
September 18, 1998 Esmeralda Comes by Night
September 25, 1998 Pecker
December 25, 1998 Hurlyburly
The Legend of 1900
January 22, 1999 The Theory of Flight
January 24, 1999 Man of the Century
April 9, 1999 Lovers of the Arctic Circle
May 21, 1999 Besieged co-production with BBC Films
July 23, 1999 Trick co-production with Roadside Attractions and Good Machine
October 15, 1999 Julien Donkey-Boy with Independent Pictures
December 10, 1999 Tumbleweeds
December 15, 1999 Simpatico

2000s

Title Release Date Notes
January 28, 2000 The Cup co-distribution with Palm Pictures
March 24, 2000 Buddy Boy
March 29, 2000 The Filth and the Fury
July 14, 2000 The Five Senses co-production with Alliance Atlantis
August 11, 2000 An Affair of Love
September 1, 2000 Saving Grace
October 6, 2000 Dancer in the Dark co-production with Zentropa Entertainments, Canal+ and FilmFour
January 12, 2001 State and Main distribution only; produced by Filmtown Entertainment, Green/Renzi and El Dorado Pictures
January 26, 2001 Before Night Falls
Tomorrow
February 2, 2001 The Invisible Circus
June 14, 2001 The Anniversary Party
July 20, 2001 Hedwig and the Angry Inch with New Line Cinema
September 14, 2001 The Prime Gig with Independent Pictures
January 25, 2002 Storytelling co-production with Good Machine
April 12, 2002 Human Nature co-production with StudioCanal and Good Machine; distributed by Pathé in UK
June 7, 2002 Cherish
September 20, 2002 Invincible
February 18, 2003 The Sleeping Dictionary
September 7, 2003 Ripley's Game
September 12, 2003 American Splendor with HBO Films
October 24, 2003 Elephant with HBO Films
July 16, 2004 Maria Full of Grace with HBO Films
September 24, 2004 A Dirty Shame with New Line Cinema
October 22, 2004 Vera Drake with New Line Cinema
October 29, 2004 Birth with New Line Cinema
December 17, 2004 The Sea Inside
April 29, 2005 The Holy Girl US theatrical distribution only; with HBO Films
The Year of the Yao co-production with Endgame Entertainment and NBA Entertainment
June 10, 2005 The Bridge of San Luis Rey co-production with Metropolitan Films and Davis Films

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An Angel at My Table

An Angel at My Table

An Angel at My Table is a 1990 biographical drama film directed by Jane Campion. The film is based on Janet Frame's three autobiographies, To the Is-Land (1982), An Angel at My Table (1984), and The Envoy from Mirror City (1984). The film was very well received. It won awards at the New Zealand Film and Television awards, the Toronto International Film Festival, and second prize at the Venice Film Festival.

Film4 Productions

Film4 Productions

Film4 Productions is a British film production company owned by Channel Four Television Corporation. The company has been responsible for backing many films made in the United Kingdom. The company's first production was Walter, directed by Stephen Frears, which was released in 1982. It is especially known for its gritty, kitchen sink-style films and period drama.

My Own Private Idaho

My Own Private Idaho

My Own Private Idaho is a 1991 American independent adventure drama film written and directed by Gus Van Sant, loosely based on Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV, Part 2, and Henry V. The story follows two friends, Mike Waters and Scott Favor, played by River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves respectively, as they embark on a journey of personal discovery that takes them from Portland, Oregon, to Mike's hometown in Idaho, and then to Rome in search of Mike's mother.

Let Him Have It

Let Him Have It

Let Him Have It is a 1991 British drama film directed by Peter Medak and starring Christopher Eccleston, Paul Reynolds, Tom Courtenay and Tom Bell. The film is based on the true story of Derek Bentley, who was convicted of the murder of a police officer by joint enterprise and was hanged in 1953 under controversial circumstances.

Edward II (film)

Edward II (film)

Edward II is a 1991 British romantic historical drama film directed by Derek Jarman and starring Steven Waddington, Tilda Swinton and Andrew Tiernan. It is based on the play of the same name by Christopher Marlowe. The plot revolves around Edward II of England's infatuation with Piers Gaveston, which proves to be the downfall of both of them, thanks to the machinations of Roger Mortimer.

Night on Earth

Night on Earth

Night on Earth is a 1991 art comedy-drama film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch. It is a collection of five vignettes, taking place during the same night, concerning the temporary bond formed between taxi driver and passenger in five cities: Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Rome, and Helsinki. The action in the vignettes takes place at the same time, moving from Los Angeles in the United States to Helsinki, Finland. The scene in each city appears to occur later and later in the night due to the changing time zones. Jarmusch wrote the screenplay in about eight days, and the choice of certain cities was largely based on the actors with whom he wanted to work. The soundtrack of the same name is by Tom Waits.

JVC

JVC

JVC is a Japanese brand owned by JVCKenwood. Founded in 1927 as the Victor Talking Machine Company of Japan and later as Victor Company of Japan, Ltd. , the company is best known for introducing Japan's first televisions and for developing the Video Home System (VHS) video recorder.

Monster in a Box

Monster in a Box

Monster in a Box is a monologue originally performed live on stage by the writer Spalding Gray then subsequently made into a 1992 film starring Gray and directed by Nick Broomfield.

Afraid of the Dark

Afraid of the Dark

Afraid of the Dark is a 1991 French-British drama film directed by Mark Peploe and starring James Fox, Fanny Ardant and Paul McGann. In the film, a boy is convinced there is a murderer about as his mind begins to confuse reality and delusion.

London Kills Me

London Kills Me

London Kills Me is a 1991 film written and directed by Hanif Kureshi and starred Justin Chadwick and Steven Mackintosh.

Artisan Entertainment

Artisan Entertainment

Artisan Entertainment was an American film studio and home video company. It was considered one of the largest mini-major film studios until it was purchased by later mini-major film studio Lions Gate Entertainment in 2003. At the time of its acquisition, Artisan had a library of thousands of films developed through acquisition, original production, and production and distribution agreements. Its headquarters and private screening room were located in Santa Monica, California. It also had an office in Tribeca in Manhattan, New York.

Light Sleeper

Light Sleeper

Light Sleeper is a 1992 American crime drama film written and directed by Paul Schrader and starring Willem Dafoe, Susan Sarandon, and Dana Delany. Set in New York City during a sanitation strike, the gritty neo-noir film stars Dafoe as a high-class drug dealer battling a midlife crisis before becoming embroiled in tragic events following the chance encounter with a former girlfriend. While under-performing at the box office, the film was regarded favorably by critics.

Source: "Fine Line Features", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2023, January 24th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine_Line_Features.

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References
  1. ^ Eller, Claudia (Oct 24, 1991). "Fine Line Features Enters Coprod'n Arena Via 2 Pix". Daily Variety. p. 1.
  2. ^ "Fine Line Features - Filmbug". www.filmbug.com. Retrieved 2021-11-25.


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