[Oyarsa]

For those of you who were unaware of the New Line Cinema lawsuit, this thread at the same source gives background: http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2008/02/11/28369-tolkien-estate-sues-new-line/

[Old Sarge]

BTTT for later

[Jotmo]

The address leads to a page with another link with details. That link is dead.

Could you fill us in a bit?

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

This kind of thing is standard operating procedure in Hollywood. Anybody who has a share of the Net Profits never sees a penny, since the studios place all kinds of general overhead expenses against the movie’s profits before calculating Net Profit. To make money you have to get a part of the Gross Profit.

[Mamzelle]

re: They added more specific claims as to how they contend that New Line misrepresented the amount of expenses that it had in order to avoid paying the royalties due.)))

This is a common way that studios screw artists. However--both the Hobbit and the LOTR are now out of copyright to my old-fashioned way of thinking. It used to be that authors only had fifty years before a work of art went into the public domain.