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Sara Risher
Joined New Line Cinema in its infancy in 1975 to manage all filmmaking activies, including development, physical production and acquisitions. As President of Production, supervised the development and production of over 50 feature films, including the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Nightmare on Elm Street franchises. Was elevated to Chairman of Production in 1995, and oversaw production of a number of New Line franchise projects, culminating in the Lord of the Rings trilogy LA Femme Film Festival Executive Achievement Award 2007
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Nightmare on Elm Street
Starring Johnny Depp, Heather Langencamp, Patricia Arquette, John Saxon and Robert Englund. Directed by Wes Craven; Jack Sholder; Chuck Russell; Renny Harlan; Stephen Hopkins; Rachel Talalay; and Wes Craven, for New Line Cinema. A vicious child killer Freddy Kruger (Englund) who lived in the town of Springwood has come returned to take revenge on the children of those responsible for his murder. For the children living on Elm Street, Freddy becomes the vehicle for their most terrible, and most real, nightmares. The children of these films must find a way to defeat Freddy, before their last nightmare becomes their last breath.
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Hairspray
Starring Ricki Lake, Deborah Harry & Jerry Stiller. Directed by John Walters for New Line Cinema. Set in 1960's Baltimore, a comedy about a heavy-set teen (Lake) who, against expectations, realizes her dream of becoming a dancer on a TV show. Once in the limelight she uses the forum as a way to express her beliefs in integration, only to clash heads with the shows ex-star and her parents. Remade in 2007 by New Line Cinema as a musical starring John Travolta and Zac Efron.
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Lord of the Rings
Starring Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen, Orlando Bloom & Ian McKellen. Directed by Peter Jackson for New Line Cinema. In mythic pre-historic times, a young hobbit named Frodo Baggins inherits a magic ring from his elderly cousin Bilbo. Wise to the powers that the magic ring holds, the dark Lord Sauron wants it, knowing it will enable him to enslave the people of Middle Earth. In his effort to thwart Sauron, Frodo recruits the fellowship of a wizard, an elf, a dwarf and others, on a mission to destroy the ring by casting it into the volcanic fires of Mount Doom, where it was made. However, the ring unleashes its own powers as a result of the struggle....
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Love and War
Starring Sandra Bullock and Chris O’Donnell. Directed by Richard Attenborough for New Line Cinema. The true story behind Ernest Hemingway's classic World War I novel "A Farewell to Arms" explores the romance that develops after an 18 year-old Hemingway is nursed back to health by Red Cross nurse Agnes Von Kurowsky following an injury on the battlefield. Partially based on Kurowsky's diaries, the summer of 1918 becomes a time that forever changes both of their lives.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Starring Elias Koteas, Corey Feldman & Sam Rockwell. Directed by Steve Barron, Michael Pressman and Stuart Gillard respectively for New Line Cinema. Through contact with a mysterious substance, called Ooze, four little turtles in the canalization of New York mutate into giant turtles. They can speak, walk upright and love pizza. Trained by their mentor in “ninjitsu”, the four must learn to pull together in order to face their arch enemy, Shredder and the Foot Clan.
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The Mask
Starring Jim Carrey & Cameron Diaz. Directed by Chuck Russell for New Line Cinema. After discovering an ancient mask with strange powers, a timid bank clerk is instantly transformed into an indestructible superhero, able to fulfill his innermost desires and whims.
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