Does anyone know anymore about thsi deal that Disney gets 5% of Lord of the Rings' revenues? See article below.
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Fro-Dough Bagging
Lord of the Rings
By Rick Aristotle Munarriz (TMF Edible)
January 2, 2004
It's been just two weeks since the debut of the final installment in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and it has already taken in more than $500 million in global box office receipts. No, that's really not much of a surprise. Everyone figured that The Return of the King would be a multiplex magnet. The fact that critics and moviegoers are both raving about the classy epic will assure that the movie enjoys a rich theatrical life before moving on to the small screen and beyond.
Distributed by Time Warner's (NYSE: TWX) New Line Cinema in a deal that even finds Disney (NYSE: DIS) slicing a 5% cut, there's clearly plenty of this pie to go around. Another unlikely company that is raking in some Frodo dough is Marvel (NYSE: MVL). No, Tolkien wasn't a comic books illustrator. However, Marvel is the company behind the movie's popular action figures.
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Fro-Dough Bagging
Lord of the Rings
By Rick Aristotle Munarriz (TMF Edible)
January 2, 2004
It's been just two weeks since the debut of the final installment in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and it has already taken in more than $500 million in global box office receipts. No, that's really not much of a surprise. Everyone figured that The Return of the King would be a multiplex magnet. The fact that critics and moviegoers are both raving about the classy epic will assure that the movie enjoys a rich theatrical life before moving on to the small screen and beyond.
Distributed by Time Warner's (NYSE: TWX) New Line Cinema in a deal that even finds Disney (NYSE: DIS) slicing a 5% cut, there's clearly plenty of this pie to go around. Another unlikely company that is raking in some Frodo dough is Marvel (NYSE: MVL). No, Tolkien wasn't a comic books illustrator. However, Marvel is the company behind the movie's popular action figures.
