Contrast this with Hollywood's reaction to movie pirating.
1 posted on
07/16/2009 6:59:56 PM PDT by
ruination
To: ruination
So who is directing the hobbit?
Couldn’t do better than what Jackson did with LOTR. Didn’t even think they could have pulled it off.
2 posted on
07/16/2009 7:05:25 PM PDT by
modest proposal
(We got short-changed.)
To: ruination
Under the old copyright legal tradition, the “heirs” would have long since lost their claims.
5 posted on
07/16/2009 7:12:05 PM PDT by
Mamzelle
(OBAMA MIND TRICK)
To: ruination
Sad they weren’t clued in. As they say here in LA, “there’s no such thing as a back end.”
It also keeps Bawnry Fwank from moving here.
6 posted on
07/16/2009 7:15:00 PM PDT by
jessduntno
(You quit when you're in over your head. You resign when there isn't enough challenge.)
To: ruination
I guess their creativity extends to their bookkeeping.
7 posted on
07/16/2009 7:16:07 PM PDT by
tiki
(True Christians will not deliberately slander or misrepresent others or their beliefs)
To: HairOfTheDog
9 posted on
07/16/2009 7:18:26 PM PDT by
darkangel82
(I don't have a superiority complex, I'm just better than you.)
To: ruination
Having worked in Hollywood, I can tell you these left wing producers are the greediest thieve on earth. They even rip each other off.
10 posted on
07/16/2009 7:20:23 PM PDT by
stephenjohnbanker
(Pray for, and support our troops(heroes) !! And vote out the RINO's!!)
To: ruination
Always a % of the GROSS RECEIPTS!!!!
AND, a very strict payment schedule!!!
Like, MONTHLY!!!
11 posted on
07/16/2009 7:21:35 PM PDT by
G Larry
( Obamacare=Dying in Line!)
To: ruination
I don't understand--
what is the connection here
to Sarah Palin?!
To: ruination
The Tolkien heirs get 7.5% of the gross, or 7.5% of the net, of movie receipts? I've never even been to California, but I know that studio accountants can "prove" that the last Hollywood movie to make money was Gone With the Wind, and that it didn't break even until 1962.
17 posted on
07/16/2009 7:37:16 PM PDT by
Pilsner
To: ruination
I hope the family sues them to hell and back and wins.
20 posted on
07/16/2009 8:34:19 PM PDT by
freekitty
(Give me back my conservative vote.)
To: ruination
Poor studios barely broke even, sniff, and there ain't no contract till a court several years from now sez there is.
Pirating movies? That's not honest! says Hollywood.
23 posted on
07/16/2009 9:14:54 PM PDT by
count-your-change
(You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
To: ruination
Here is the key:
New Line was to pay a percentage of all gross receipts, after deducting 2.6 times the production costs, plus advertising expenses in excess of a certain amount, according to Eskenazi.
To: Deb
Better hop on. The gravy train is leaving the station.
32 posted on
07/17/2009 6:05:31 AM PDT by
AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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