Lord of the Rings heirs sue New Line Cinema
The heirs to the land of author JRR John Ronald Reuel Tolkien ar suing the producer of 'The Noble of the Rings' movies, Fresh Transmission line Cinema, all over profits from the megahit trilogy.
The trustees of the writer's Brits charity, The J.R.R. Tolkien Combine, and the original publishers of 'The Overlord of the Rings', HarperCollins, hold cited a failure to give a contractually agreed 7.5% of receipts earnings for the three films based on 'The Nobleman of the Rings' novels.
They ar seeking in surplusage of $150m in compensatory damages, unspecified punitive indemnity and a court decree giving the faith a right to end Freshly Line's rights to score more films based on the author's ketubim, including 'The Hobbit', according to the statement.
The suit follows 'Lord of the Rings' director Putz Jackson's case against New Line for underpayment that was settled in Dec. When that handle was finalised, Helen Hunt Jackson signed on to be administrator producer of 'The Hobbit'.
Fresh Line, a division of global media pudding stone Time Warner INC, declined to remark on the fresh suit.
A argument from the trustees said: "Newly Telephone line has not paid the plaintiffs even i centime of its contractual share of gross revenue despite the billions of dollars of 144 tax income generated by these wildly successful question pictures."
"To pretend matters worse, to date New Line has even prevented the plaintiffs from auditing the shoemaker's last two films of the series."
The trustees were paid an upfront fee of around $62,five hundred in an "upfront sequel fee" and zip more, trustee spokesman Lonnie Soury said.
The ternary movies, 'The Maker of the Rings: The Society of the Ring', 'The Maker of the Rings: The Twin Towers' and 'The Nobleman of the Rings: The Retort of the King', took in almost $3bn at worldwide box offices.
Petey Pablo
