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Tolkien Estate Sues New Line Cinema (Failure to Pay Royalties Apparently)
Yahoo! News (AP) ^
| 2/11/2008
| Alex Veiga
Posted on 02/11/2008 5:48:45 PM PST by Pyro7480
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Jackson's production company also tangled with New Line in 2005 over profits from the films. A lawsuit was settled last year.Between the above and the subject of the article, it seems like New Line has a problem with paying up on what it rightly owes people.
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posted on
02/11/2008 5:48:53 PM PST
by
Pyro7480
To: HairOfTheDog; RosieCotton
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posted on
02/11/2008 5:49:24 PM PST
by
Pyro7480
("Jesu, Jesu, Jesu, esto mihi Jesus" -St. Ralph Sherwin's last words at Tyburn)
To: Pyro7480
New Line is pretty scummy for doing this.
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posted on
02/11/2008 5:51:39 PM PST
by
VictoryGal
(Never give up, never surrender!)
To: Pyro7480
"Nassty. trickssy hobbitsesss!"
This apparently happens a lot. The authors of books and writers are at the very bottom of the totem pole. Which is another example of how backwards hollywood is...the very people who CREATE the thing are least valued.
I recall Winston Groom had to sue over Forrest Gump because the studio tried to claim they didn’t make a profit. If memory serves, his cut came after all “expenses”. I don’t recall the outcome of the suit, but to claim that movie didn’t make money is simply laughable.
To: Pyro7480
Tolkein estate, meet Hollywood accounting.
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posted on
02/11/2008 5:54:04 PM PST
by
Bubba Ho-Tep
("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
To: Pyro7480
it seems like New Line has a problem with paying up on what it rightly owes people.It would seem so. I was pleased that PJ was able to settle his differences, they seemed irreconcilable for a while there. I hope this too, gets taken care of so we can look forward to a Hobbit movie.
To: Old Sarge
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posted on
02/11/2008 5:56:41 PM PST
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MS.BEHAVIN
(Women who behave rarely make history)
To: Pyro7480
That’s some pretty serious coin. New Line should probably pay up before some “nassssty orcssesss” come collecting.
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posted on
02/11/2008 5:57:18 PM PST
by
Pablo64
(What is popular is not always right. What is right is not always popular.)
To: Pyro7480
To think that Hollywood is full of socialist, liberal, communist leaning wannabes... Oddly, it doesn’t strike me as funny that they’d impose a “tax” on the original content, depriving authors and writers of a share of the same.
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posted on
02/11/2008 5:59:26 PM PST
by
coconutt2000
(NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
To: Pyro7480
The MPAA are such fine, upstanding people, so concerned about respecting copyright...
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posted on
02/11/2008 6:00:06 PM PST
by
sourcery
(Electile Disfunction: The inability to get excited about any of the available candidates)
To: Pyro7480
So we’re back to no “The Hobbit” movie again?
To: sourcery
The MPAA are such fine, upstanding people, so concerned about respecting copyright...Aren't these the same people that will sue a 12 year old for downloading a movie?
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02/11/2008 6:11:10 PM PST
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The Iceman Cometh
(Evil has a name and it is Hillary!)
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02/11/2008 6:14:46 PM PST
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SevenofNine
("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
To: 2Jedismom; 300winmag; Alkhin; Alouette; ambrose; Anitius Severinus Boethius; artios; AUsome Joy; ...
Sounds like New Line doesn't like sharing their profits with anyone.
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posted on
02/11/2008 6:16:12 PM PST
by
ecurbh
(Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.)
To: Pyro7480
Also I should like to know about risks, out-of-pocket expenses, time required and renumeration, and so forth’ (Bilbo) - by which he meant: ‘What am I going to get out of it? and am I going to come back alive?’ “
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posted on
02/11/2008 6:17:13 PM PST
by
Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
To: Pyro7480
Time for New Line to re-jigger the books so that they don’t show a profit.
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posted on
02/11/2008 6:18:43 PM PST
by
Nachoman
(My guns and my ammo, they comfort me.)
To: Pyro7480
The thing that would truly put the fear of God into them would be to give the property rights to the films to the plaintiff.
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posted on
02/11/2008 6:21:05 PM PST
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elmer fudd
(Fukoku kyohei)
To: al baby; Auntbee; BJClinton; Dashing Dasher; dfwddr; exile; feinswinesuksass; Finger Monkey; ...
For those of you who really give a rat's ass. :)
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To: ecurbh
Does seem to be a recurrent theme, doesn’t it?
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posted on
02/11/2008 6:23:42 PM PST
by
BibChr
("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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