Posted on 02/11/2008 5:48:45 PM PST by Pyro7480
The only thing in this world more mythical than hobbits are residuals in Hollywood.
Many years ago I was a Hollywood entertainment attorney. Every nasty rumor you have ever heard about the ethics of producers and studios is true. It is the most dishonest bunch I have ever encountered.
If the contract was for payment to be made based on profit, we all know that they would never see a dime. However, the contract appears to be based on the "gross." Now if New Line prove they had no "gross" that would indeed be an accounting miracle. I hope this goes to a jury and the jury slams New Line.
Wow! I thought I was the only one who knew about lustful elf-maidens and roller-skating dragons!
The water was nowhere more than a few feet deep, and the boggies had little difficulty making their way across. "This is indeed a queer river," said Bromosel, as the water lapped at his thighs.
The movies were pretty good, though I was disappointed that they cut out Tom Bombadil. They did stay relatively true to the tales though, and kept a good sense of right/wrong and good/evil.
Huh—I thought Tolkein sold the rights to LOTR many years ago for a pittance, claiming it was “unfilmable”—I didn’t know there was anything contracted for a share of gross receipts.
Won’t help them in this case - the agreement was for a percentage of gross receipts, not gross or net profit...:) Smart of the Tolkien trust!
In his hand he carried an ancient and trusty weapon, called by the elves a Browning semi-automatic.
New Line Cinema fights to the death on this one.
No... That's diffrnt I think.
The Hobbit movie was hung up on a dispute between PJ and New Line. Which has apparently been resolved.
Dagnabit! Where is my copy????
Grundig blaupunkt luger frug
Watusi snarf wazoo
Nixon Dirsken nasahist
Rebozo boogaloo!
Vas ist? Ver is der handsome Farahslaxer?
Yeah, Arwen saved Frodo, not Glorfindel. While I enjoyed the movies quite a bit, I was annoyed by a number of things such as Arwen's "you want him, come and claim him". I've read the trilogy 5-6 times in the past 30 years or so and I have to roll my eyes at that one. Glorfindel sets Frodo on his horse and sends him across the ford of Bruinen thereafter invoking Elrond's invokation to have the ford wash the riders away. In the movie...Arwen does it and rides across with him.
Bombadil would be extremely difficult to adapt to the screen since he's essentially insane. An immortal with unlimited powers, as he was before and he will be after. He makes Treebeard seem like a hatchling. I can't imagine how you could do Tom without going way into some weird Monty Python type of world where you find a refuge in the middle of war where people feel that basket weaving is the most important task of the day, everything else being useless dreck.
Boggies are an unattractive by annoying people whose numbers have decreased rather precipitously since the bottom fell out of the fairy-tale market. Slow and sullen, and yet dull, they prefer to lead simple lives of pastoral squalor.
Oh you bet! A royalty of 7.5% on gross receipts of $6 BILLION would be a $450 million dollar payout... You can bet that New Line will push themselves to bankruptcy over this one!
In their midst was a towering dark shadow too terrible to describe. In its hand it held a huge black globe and on its chest was written in cruel runes, “Villanova.”
“Aiyee,” shouted Legolam, “A ballhog!”
True, he was pretty loopy. I loved his portrayal in "Bored of the Rings" as Tim Benzedrine and his wife Hashberry. Strobe candles, indeed!
When they get around to doing The Hobbit, I want to see what they do with Beorn.
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