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Brat TV, maker of young-skewing online series like Chicken Girls and Attaway General, has received an investment from New Line founder Bob Shaye, who is joining the company’s board. Terms were not disclosed. Brat, which was founded in 2017, says it tripled its revenue to $15 million in 2020 and projects reaching…

Ever since Bob Shaye launched the company in 1967 to release arthouse, foreign language and cult films on college campuses, New Line Cinema had been a studio known for out-of-the box choices necessitated by being the last stop for good material. From the audacious early John Waters films like Pink Flamingos to Wes…

EXCLUSIVE: Alexander Payne has attached to direct a re-imagining of Babette’s Feast, the 1988 Oscar-winning Danish Film which Gabriel Axel wrote and directed from a story by Karen Blixen. The project was set up by Unique Features, the production shingle that former New Line founder Bob Shaye created with his late…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has pacted to make Night Teeth, setting Adam Randall to direct a thriller that is a co-production between Unique Features and 42. Randall recently directed I See You, which debuted at SXSW and will be released theatrically in December by Saban Films. Scripted by Brent Dillon (Black Tide Beach), the…

EXCLUSIVE: Shout! Studios and Unique Features have teamed on a deal for the multi-platform distribution of Ambition, the suspense thriller directed by New Line Cinema and Unique Features founder Bob Shaye that will now hit select U.S. theaters day-and-date in the fall. As part of a multi-year team-up between Shout…

Although he attached to the film a year ago, Frank Langella now finally is firmed to star in the Charlie Kessler-directed Lapham Rising, an adaptation of the Roger Rosenblatt novel. The film was going to shoot last year in the Hamptons, but funding fell into disarray. Now it has come back together with funding from Win…

UPDATED with funeral information: Michael Lynne died Sunday night at age 77. Lynne was Bob Shaye’s partner as they turned New Line Cinema from a small indie distributor to the maker of The Lord of the Rings, Austin Powers and Rush Hour franchises. His death will come as a shock to Lynne’s colleagues in film, art and…