Monday, April 30, 2012 8:57AM - By Travis Woods
One of the primary draws of last week’s CinemaCon was the screening of ten full minutes of new footage from Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit, his adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s prequel to the Lord of the Rings trilogy. The biggest surprise of the new footage? Just how much it angered and disgusted fans.
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Tuesday, September 8, 2009 2:05PM - By Kara Stanford-Jones
There seems to be a lot of money-related issues surrounding the Lord of the Rings trilogy. First, there was the lawsuit between Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema regarding Jackson’s share of the profits, and in 2008 the Tolkien trust filed a similar case regarding their share as well.
However, unlike Jackson the trust owned the rights to The Hobbit, and their lawsuit stopped New Line Cinema from making the film until a settlement had been reached between the two parties.
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