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News Digest: Dungeons & Dragons Movie, Magic: The Gathering Values Statement Updated, New Warhammer
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<blockquote data-quote="Abstruse" data-source="post: 7731194" data-attributes="member: 6669048"><p>Yeah, it's one of those aspects of the film business that the vast majority of people don't know about. It's why I tend to go off on these tangents (like that middle paragraph) every time the rights to the D&D movie comes up so people can understand what all is going on. And even then, it's just the bare surface of things.</p><p></p><p>Another recent example: The announcement about a month or so ago that Amazon was doing a Lord of the Rings series. The immediate reaction from a lot of people was "Silmarillion!!111oneone" Well, they can't. New Line (which is owned by Warner Bros) kinda screwed over Christopher Tolkien on money he was owed. And the licensing deal Warner Bros had was only for Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, meaning they could only draw from those two books (and the appendices) for their adaptations. The film rights for the Silmarillion and all the rest of the Middle Earth works were still with the Tolkien Estate. And because Christopher Tolkien kinda hates every single thing to do with Warner Bros after he found out how Hollywood Accounting works, there was no way he was going to sell them the rights no matter what. In fact, he's spent the last decade and change filing nuisance lawsuits against Warner Bros over the rights for anything and everything up to and including slot machines.</p><p></p><p>Then, almost back-to-back announcements, the Tolkien Estate released that Christopher Tolkien was stepping back from managing the estate, while Amazon and Warner Bros announced that they now had the rights to Silmarillion. Funny that. It's almost like the other trustees of the estate saw how much money Warner Bros was trying to throw at them over the rights and Christopher refused to get over his grudge so they forced him out. Of course, no one would ever say that because it's impossible to confirm or deny unless you were there...</p><p></p><p>But all that ignorance of the nuts and bolts of the film industry and IP licensing causes a lot of fan outrage that's misplaced. Which is why I went into detail about the implications of this announcement of a release date, the history of the license, and what this means for the other rumors and news that's been floating around the past year or two.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Abstruse, post: 7731194, member: 6669048"] Yeah, it's one of those aspects of the film business that the vast majority of people don't know about. It's why I tend to go off on these tangents (like that middle paragraph) every time the rights to the D&D movie comes up so people can understand what all is going on. And even then, it's just the bare surface of things. Another recent example: The announcement about a month or so ago that Amazon was doing a Lord of the Rings series. The immediate reaction from a lot of people was "Silmarillion!!111oneone" Well, they can't. New Line (which is owned by Warner Bros) kinda screwed over Christopher Tolkien on money he was owed. And the licensing deal Warner Bros had was only for Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, meaning they could only draw from those two books (and the appendices) for their adaptations. The film rights for the Silmarillion and all the rest of the Middle Earth works were still with the Tolkien Estate. And because Christopher Tolkien kinda hates every single thing to do with Warner Bros after he found out how Hollywood Accounting works, there was no way he was going to sell them the rights no matter what. In fact, he's spent the last decade and change filing nuisance lawsuits against Warner Bros over the rights for anything and everything up to and including slot machines. Then, almost back-to-back announcements, the Tolkien Estate released that Christopher Tolkien was stepping back from managing the estate, while Amazon and Warner Bros announced that they now had the rights to Silmarillion. Funny that. It's almost like the other trustees of the estate saw how much money Warner Bros was trying to throw at them over the rights and Christopher refused to get over his grudge so they forced him out. Of course, no one would ever say that because it's impossible to confirm or deny unless you were there... But all that ignorance of the nuts and bolts of the film industry and IP licensing causes a lot of fan outrage that's misplaced. Which is why I went into detail about the implications of this announcement of a release date, the history of the license, and what this means for the other rumors and news that's been floating around the past year or two. [/QUOTE]
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