Trade Roughage 2/12/08

By Karina Longworth posted 1 year ago

In what is something like the 27th lawsuit to arise from New Line’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, J.R.R. Tolkien’s estate is suing the film studio for $150 million, based on claims that “the trust has not received any of its gross profit participation payments for the three films based on the Lord of the Rings trilogy.” The estate also wants to sever all ties between Tolkien’s works and New Line, which means bye-bye to The Hobbit if the suit is successful.
In more franchise news, the new 3D animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars will debut in theaters this summer before moving to several Turner-owned cable networks in the fall. And for the first time, George Lucas is partnering with Warner Brothers instead of Fox to get his ~~robot drivel~~ works of genius to the masses.
And you thought the reviews of Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead skewed skeevy…Marisa Tomei will play a stripper in Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler.

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