Hollywood's endangered entrepreneurs

IT'S hard to imagine New Line Cinema without Bob Shaye, its prickly paterfamilias. The company is being absorbed into Time Warner's Warner Bros. film division, with Shaye and most of the employees being cast adrift. Long after he'd sold his company in 1993, Shaye continued to treat New Line as his personal mom-and-pop movie store.

By Patrick Goldstein

March 11, 2008