By Jeremy Fuster

New Line Cinema has not produced a box office moneymaker this year on the level of Legendary’s “A Minecraft Movie” or DC Studios’ “Superman,” but Warner Bros.’ incredible box office hot streak over the past five months would not have been possible without the studio known as “The House That Freddy Built.”

Forty-one years after “Nightmare on Elm Street” put it on the map, New Line — a subsidiary of the Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group — is enjoying an extremely successful year at the box office capped off with the projection-smashing $84 million domestic/$194 million global opening weekend of “The Conjuring: Last Rites.” Combined with the $123.4 million opening of “It” in 2017 and the $91 million opening of its “Chapter Two” follow-up, New Line and Warner Bros. now own the top three highest horror openings in box office history.