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Exclusive worldwide rights to motion picture, merchandising, stage and other rights in certain literary works of J. R. R. Tolkien including The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings were sold by Tolkien himself to United Artists in 1969, reportedly for a small amount, [3] [4] and are currently owned by Middle-earth Enterprises (formerly Tolkien Enterprises), inc., an Embracer Group subdivision, [5 ...
Earnings 1: Michael Jackson: Musician: United States Overdose/homicide [4] $275 million 2: Elvis Presley: Heart attack: $60 million 3: J. R. R. Tolkien: Author: United Kingdom Pneumonia: $50 million 4: Charles Schulz: Cartoonist: United States Cancer: $33 million 5: John Lennon: Musician: United Kingdom Homicide: $17 million 6: Stieg Larsson ...
J. R. R. Tolkien: Tolkien Estate (books) Middle-earth Enterprises (Embracer Freemode) (ownership of IP outside of books) New Line Cinema (Warner Bros. Discovery) (films, under sublicense of Middle-earth Enterprises) DC Extended Universe (DCEU) 2013 $7.95 billion: Box office – $7.141 billion [296] Home video sales – $709.4 million [by]
New Line Cinema and Warner Bros Pictures have hammered out a new multi-year agreement with Embracer Group AB’s Middle-Earth Enterprises to team on new The Lord of the Rings movies. Warner Bros ...
The ‘Lord of the Rings’ trilogy hit that increasingly rare sweet spot between the critics and the box office, combining to win 30 Oscars and gross $2.9 billion worldwide. To this day, it ...
Amazon and the Tolkien estate have emerged victorious in a multi-pronged legal battle over “The Lord of the Rings” franchise. In April author Demetrious Polychron published a book called ...
J. R. R. Tolkien, the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, sold the film, stage and merchandising rights of those works to United Artists in 1969. They in turn sold them to The Saul Zaentz Company in 1976, which in turn formed Tolkien Enterprises, now named Middle-earth Enterprises, in 1977. [4] United Artists retained distribution ...
The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien is a 2024 book of poetry of the English philologist, poet, and author J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by Tolkien scholars, wife and husband Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond. Its three volumes contain 195 poems, among them around 70 previously unpublished.