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What are you, a bloody socialist?  Money is grease that lets the gears of the world continue to grind.  When are people going to realize that?

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By that logic, 'King Solomon's Mines' with Stewart Granger belongs to South Africa because that's where it was filmed.  Or 'An American in Paris' becomes French because it was filmed in Paris.  Or Clark Gable in 'Soldier of Fortune' belongs to Hong Kong, etc.

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Hmm, the country of origin should be where the production companies are based, don't you think?

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Yes, that is the intention, Lord of the Rings would be US. It is where the production companies are based.

Elwood Blues is right.

-Gerri

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Agreed. LoTR are definately New Zealand imo.

New Line owns the movie rights to the LoTR trilogy and The Hobbit.  The fact that they hired Peter Jackson's production company to make the film doesn't change that fact.  Basically New Line, a US company, hired WingNut, a New Zealand company to make the film.

This is really starting to border on the absurd. 

Another famous example is A Very Long Engagement which was denied public funding from France when it was determined that too much of the other production money for the film was coming from an American source -- Warner.  Link

To me, the important information to track is the country where the actual people that made the film are based. For LotR, that's New Zealand. For A Very Long Engagement, that's France.

Since you think that's absurd, I guess I'll lock these down until the dust settles.

By that logic, 'King Solomon's Mines' with Stewart Granger belongs to South Africa because that's where it was filmed.  Or 'An American in Paris' becomes French because it was filmed in Paris.  Or Clark Gable in 'Soldier of Fortune' belongs to Hong Kong, etc.

This is absurd, because Gerri already said that whoever owns the film at the time it was made is the country of origin.  In other words, the company that caused it to be made, regardless of where it was filmed or the nationality of the cast and crew.

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What are you, a bloody socialist?  Money is grease that lets the gears of the world continue to grind.  When are people going to realize that?

I always thought it was the sweat of the poor that greased the gears that produced the money? 

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New Line is the production company - they own the rights.  That's the end of the story.

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Not hardly.  It's the money of the rich bastard up the road that he puts up to start a company that employs all those poor sweating laborers.  Without him they wouldn't have a pot to piss in.

Socialism has never worked, ever.  For all its faults, the US is the economic pit bull in the world, and is the strongest militarily, and politically, and its citizens have more freedom than any other country in the history of the world.  And that's ALL due to capitalism.

You can believe that or not as you see fit.  But, I can stand on any corner in the US and say that, but I wouldn't try it in very many other places around the world.  You'd get arrested at least, and maybe even shot out of hand, in far too many places that think WE are the evil in the world.

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New Line is the production company - they own the rights.  That's the end of the story.

Clearly not as we are all replying! 

The production company was WingNut, with funding from New Line as the studio. Until Ken or Gerri clarify we can't be certain what they want in the field, but imo to put the money men in, in place of the creatives,  is irrelevant and plain stupid!

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Not hardly.  It's the money of the rich bastard up the road that he puts up to start a company that employs all those poor sweating laborers.  Without him they wouldn't have a pot to piss in.

Socialism has never worked, ever.  For all its faults, the US is the economic pit bull in the world, and is the strongest militarily, and politically, and its citizens have more freedom than any other country in the history of the world.  And that's ALL due to capitalism.

You can believe that or not as you see fit.  But, I can stand on any corner in the US and say that, but I wouldn't try it in very many other places around the world.  You'd get arrested at least, and maybe even shot out of hand, in far too many places that think WE are the evil in the world.

And here we go again with the "Ain't America Great Folks" irrelevances... please tell us about your military again Rifter, all us backwards foreign types love to hear about that too!