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Tolkien’s Heirs Want Production of ‘The Hobbit’ Film Stopped - 7/28/2009
schoollibraryjournal.com - 7/28/2009
Tolkien’s Heirs Want Production of ‘The Hobbit’ Film Stopped - 7/28/2009
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s Heirs Want Production of The Hobbit Film Stopped By Rocco Staino -- School Library Journal, 7/28/2009 Will The Hobbit (Houghton, 1938) make it to the big screen? Not if the heirs of J.R.R Tolkien have it their way. Tolkien s estate has filed a lawsuit in the Superior Court of Los Angeles that ...

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Bibliophile Stalker:  July 29, 2009 Links and Plugs

SF Signal:  SF Tidbits for 7/29/09

The Wertzone:  Tolkien Estate continues legal battle with New Line Cinema

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July 29, 2009 Links and Plugs
Bibliophile Stalker — ... Larke on Where did the Stormlord come from? Janice Hardy on Broken, but Still Good. Pimp My Novel on In Defense of Agents. Maja Djikic on A Voyage. The Intern on small press roundup, part 1. News INSTACONTEST! Eternal Kiss anthology! Online U.K. Bookseller Opens Digital Storefront in the U.S. The Booker Longlist. Tolkien’s Heirs Want Production of ‘The Hobbit’ Film Stopped. Literary tattoo anthology calls for ...

SF Tidbits for 7/29/09
SF Signal — The New Yorker chats with Ursula K. Le Guin about The Left Hand of Darkness. [via Locus Online] The Vietnam News interviews the head of the VFSF, biologist and SF writer Vu Kim Dung. [via The World SF News Blog] Locus Online has the Scribe Award Winners, honoring the best in media tie-in fiction. Tolkien's heirs want production of The Hobbit stopped. [via Locus Online] Sez Joe Abercrombie: "RPGs have nothing ...

Tolkien Estate continues legal battle with New Line Cinema
The Wertzone — Eighteen months ago, the Tolkien Estate filed a lawsuit against New Line, the company that made the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy, for non-payment of agreed royalties. According to the Tolkien Estate, the agreement signed between J.R.R. Tolkien and United Artists back in 1968 ensured that Tolkien or his heirs would receive 7% of the gross of any film or films based on his books The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Producer Saul Zaentz picked up the rights (with the same conditions attached) to The Lord of the Rings (but ...

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