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Tolkien Trust Sues New Line, May Kill "Hobbit"
oboreruhito writes "The AP is reporting that the Tolkien Trust and HarperCollins are suing New Line Cinema for $150 million in compensatory damages, unspecified punitive damages, and a court order revoking New Line's rights to produce any more films on Tolkien properties. The Tolkien Trust says that New Line paid them only $62,500 to make 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy of films — instead of the agreed-upon 7.5 percent of gross receipts of all film-related revenue. The suit may set back, if not kill, a film adaptation of Lord of the Rings prequel 'The Hobbit,' which Peter Jackson had recently signed up to make after his own legal row with the studio over payment for the sequels."
Thats what you get when you do business with Jews.
Yeah the big actors are all hurting bad aren't they...
. . . or cousin, or son of an important investor, because that's the only way an idiot like him could be allowed to post 'The Lord of teh Rings' on the front page of /.
That's one of the dumbest comments on the movie industry/hollywood I've seen. "They do "creative" accounting so that no film ever makes money on paper." Let's try: http://www.swivel.com/data_sets/show/1000791 The top 20 movies have made between $284M and $717M, according to that page. I think they are "making money on paper", unless I'm missing something here?
We are one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. Back to you with the weather, Bob!
Not really, no. Digg is the future of these types of sites -- no abusive admins, user-generated content, no thinly veiled product advertisments. And what does Slashdot have? "Ooh, if you pay us you get a little * next to your user-name, and you get to read the shitty troll submissions and Digg posts even earlier than the anonymous trolls do!"
Thanks for your commentary however, I believe I'll just add in a few lines here for the spambots to pick up:
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There you go. Enjoy!
anything can can reall7 ask of hapless *BSD the last night of The public eye:
The spelling is irrelevant. Your logic is flawed.
Who cares? Jackson was a wife beater. And if you ask me... Bilbo Baggins was a child molestor.
Everyones a troll, I just have the balls to admit it!
I don't really see why a director should get a piece of that action, not like he wrote the story or anything..? What a greedy industry :o
which is totally what she said