• LOTR actors settle out of court

  Filed under LOTR Behind The Scenes
  Oct 6

  
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  A group of actors from New Zealand in the Lord of the Rings franchise finally claims their money after the production company settled out of court with them. The 15 actors who filed a lawsuit against New Line Cinema said they were paid royalty statements after appearing in all the movies’ installments. But were surprised to to have found that there was zero revenue from merchandise sales well in fact, toys and other LOTR paraphernalias were selling like hot cakes all over the world. So they hired a lawyer and filed the suit against the film producers in Los Angeles Superior Court for the money the producers owe them. The actors said they initially agreed on a 5% royalty fee of the net revenue from merchandise sales. The lawyer said that up to this date estimate of the LOTR merchandise totalled about $100M US.

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