{"id":12718,"date":"2008-02-19T11:42:31","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T18:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/02\/19\/fanboy-hates-lawsuits.html"},"modified":"2014-06-13T18:28:53","modified_gmt":"2014-06-14T00:28:53","slug":"fanboy_hates_lawsuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/02\/19\/fanboy_hates_lawsuits.html","title":{"rendered":"Fanboy Hates Lawsuits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hrm.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifi.com\/scifiwire\/index.php?id=48333\" target=\"_blank\">The Tolkien Trust is suing New Line Cinema<\/a>, claiming a 1969 contract gives them 7.5% of the gross of any Tolkien movies, and where&#8217;s the extra $150MM that New Line owes them for the LotR trilogy thankyouverymuch?. No comment one way or the other, except the suit threatens to stop pre-production on <em>The Hobbit <\/em>dead in its tracks.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifi.com\/scifiwire\/index.php?id=48390\" target=\"_blank\">Twentieth Century Fox is suing Warners<\/a>, claiming it has exclusive rights to make a movie based on <em>The Watchmen<\/em>, which Warners is already well under way producing. The suit seeks to halt the production.<\/p>\n<p>*sigh*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hrm.&nbsp; The Tolkien Trust is suing New Line Cinema, claiming a 1969 contract gives them 7.5% of the gross of any Tolkien movies, and where&#8217;s the extra $150MM that New&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[382,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lord-of-the-rings","category-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135364,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/16\/now-getting-lord-rings-tv-series.html","url_meta":{"origin":12718,"position":0},"title":"Why are we now getting a &#8220;Lord of the Rings&#8221; TV series?","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 16-Nov-17 3:18pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Because Christopher Tolkien, at 93, has retired from his role as the (very, very strict) gatekeeper of J R R Tolkien's literary estate. 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