LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Movie and music mogul Saul Zaentz has sued the studio behind the hit “Lord of the Rings” movie trilogy for more than $20 million in unpaid royalties, Hollywood trade paper Daily Variety reported on Thursday. Zaentz’s claim against New Line Cinema, a unit of Time Warner Inc., was spelled out in a complaint filed on Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, the paper said. [More]
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The Wellington producer-director Peter Jackson is the new owner of The Film Unit, which is the only one-stop post-production facility in New Zealand. Based in Lower Hutt, across the harbor from Wellington, it offers 16mm and 35mm laboratory and sound facilities, including a state-of-the-art Dolby mixing suite. Peter Jackson told the Press Association: “Would I have bought the Unit if it wasn’t for Lord of the Rings (which is to start shooting in New Zealand this year for New Line Cinema)? “I probably would have thought seriously about it, because if I wasn’t doing Lord of the Rings I would have been doing some other films, and I’d still want to have the facilities in New Zealand.” The first of the three Lord of the Rings features is due to start shooting in September.