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‘Lord of the Rings’ and ‘The Hobbit’ Film and Gaming Rights Up for Sale

Who buys movie/gaming/etc rights?

  • Amazon

    Votes: 63 41.7%

  • Sony(Bungie)

    Votes: 26 17.2%

  • Tencent

    Votes: 2 1.3%

  • Microsoft

    Votes: 47 31.1%

  • Apple

    Votes: 3 2.0%

  • Warner-Discovery

    Votes: 10 6.6%
  • Total voters
    151
Oddvintagechap

Oddvintagechap

Banned
Lord of the Rings The Hobbit

Hollywood is about to stampede into Middle Earth. An array of movie, merchandising, gaming and live event rights to “Lord of the Rings,” “The Hobbit” and other titles from author J.R.R. Tolkien are coming up for auction now that the Saul Zaentz Co. has decided to sell its Tolkien holdings.

The Tolkien properties are projected to fetch at least $2 billion, based on recent high valuations for top-tier IP and content producers.

Amazon is at the top of the list of prime candidates to pursue the additional rights now held by Zaentz.

variety.com

‘Lord of the Rings’ and ‘The Hobbit’ Film and Gaming Rights Up for Sale (EXCLUSIVE)

Movie and gaming rights to 'Lord of the Rings,' 'The Hobbit' and other J.R.R. Tolkien titles have been put up for sale by Saul Zaentz Co.
variety.com variety.com

I think this would be perfect for Bungie and Sony Pictures. I guess Amazon will get the rights.
 
TransTrender

TransTrender

Gold Member
It feels like I need a spreadsheet with all of the specific individual 'rights' that were monetized and then their specific corporate owner as well as their stipulations in order to understand what's going on here.
 
Cyberpunkd

Cyberpunkd

Member
TransTrender said:
It feels like I need a spreadsheet with all of the specific individual 'rights' that were monetized and then their specific corporate owner as well as their stipulations in order to understand what's going on here.
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bitbydeath said:
I thought WB owned this?
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If I understand correctly this is this convoluted part about Tolkien Estate owning rights to book material and Silmarillion, while other companies hold rights to Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit book.
 
GigaBowser

GigaBowser

The bear of bad news
Imagine if they tried to make better movies that trilogy that already released :messenger_tears_of_joy: What a shitshow that would be.
 
IDKFA

IDKFA

I am Become Bilbo Baggins
Oddvintagechap said:
Hollywood is about to stampede into Middle Earth. An array of movie, merchandising, gaming and live event rights to “Lord of the Rings,” “The Hobbit” and other titles from author J.R.R. Tolkien are coming up for auction.
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Whoring out Tolkien's lifelong art to the highest bidder. Is nothing sacred?
 
sankt-Antonio

sankt-Antonio

:^)--?-<
Yoboman said:
Amazon will obviously take it

They'd be stupid not to with the TV show they have
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Don't know, they don't really care about 2h of content in the form of a movie. They already have a series that, if successful, they can milk for ten seasons. If no one shows up for their new series, people won't for a regular LotR remake I think either.

I really don't need another set of movies, remaster the old ones with up tp date CGI and be done with it.
 
IDKFA

IDKFA

I am Become Bilbo Baggins
Tangerine said:
Just wait till the families of dead actors/celebs permit deep fake and voice AI so they can appear in shitty commercials...kept in a state of living death for the rest of time!

So yeah, nothing is sacred.
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That sounds like an episode of Black Mirror. Absolutely hellish vision of the future 🤮
 
K

Kimahri

Banned
Bungie? What now? All they've done for the last 20+ years is shooters. What have they done to make them look like a good fit for lotr?
 
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Ozzie666

Member
IDKFA said:
That sounds like an episode of Black Mirror. Absolutely hellish vision of the future 🤮
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IDKFA said:
That sounds like an episode of Black Mirror. Absolutely hellish vision of the future 🤮
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This was George Lucas's vision. Didn't he buy the the rights to several old famous actors, from Cassablanca etc. Lucas envisioned a time of the digital actor.

He prepared for this like 15 years ago. I am sure he made comments about how it would make, making movies easier. To use digital actors who never age.I am also sure he made some purchases from estates.

He was right. Because it's so close to happening. Not sure it's creepy or awesome though.
 
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kyussman

kyussman

Member
I've no idea what any future games would turn out like.....but at the moment any TV/movie stuff is gonna be full of woke propaganda,so fuck all to look forward to there.
 
IDKFA

IDKFA

I am Become Bilbo Baggins
Ozzie666 said:
This was George Lucas's vision. Didn't he buy the the rights to several old famous actors, from Cassablanca etc. Lucas envisioned a time of the digital actor.

He prepared for this like 15 years ago. I am sure he made comments about how it would make, making movies easier. To use digital actors who never age.I am also sure he made some purchases from estates.

He was right. Because it's so close to happening. Not sure it's creepy or awesome though.
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Not only is it creepy, but it also means we're hitting creative bedrock.

Rather than ushering in a new generation of great actors, we'll just be recycling dead actors, or actors who are retired/too old. We'll just end up relying on the same old IPs rather than striving to create new ones.
 
k_trout

k_trout

Member
kyussman said:
I've no idea what any future games would turn out like.....but at the moment any TV/movie stuff is gonna be full of woke propaganda,so fuck all to look forward to there.
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hobbitses are deeply offensive to people with big hairy feet
 
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LordCBH

LordCBH

Member
Can’t wait for Amazon to make New Middle Earth, it to come out and do gangbusters, and then immediately get completely ruined by studio incompetence. #IWantARefund

Also can’t wait for the shitty Amazon reboot of the films…..
 
Zeroing

Zeroing

Banned
I doubt is Sony, they already have the deals for a similar book that they released the first season… on Amazon lol

Disney… possibly.

Amazon just brought a movie studio and though they own the rights for James Bond so… that company is incompetent.
 
ahtlas7

ahtlas7

Member
Neogafers unite! Let’s pool our $$. I’ll chip in the first $10. Now we just need 20 billion more, who’s next!?
 
Trogdor1123

Trogdor1123

Member
Valonquar said:
Coming Soon to Disney+ Samwise, a TV sitcom that takes place entirely inside Hobbiton
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I’d like to see that actually . They could have some seriously dark under tones in the distant background but have a really strong laugh track.

Animated GIF
 
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Fbh

Fbh

Member
Oh god, here come the 25 thousand spinoffs and TV shows , all infused to the core with 2022+ politics.
 
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