--- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@> wrote: > > > > Well, that $100,000.00 investment has turned into a $3 trillion > > worldwide gross...and that's not counting merchandising, rentals, > > DVDs, etc. > > Yeah, but he didn't get a substantial portion of that. as far > as I know. Jackson got $40 million up front, and his production > companies got about 2/3 of the $300 million that it > cost to make.
Zaentz has never done anything in his *life* that he didn't get a significant percentage of. We are talking about the man who kept John Fogerty from recording for over a decade. He held the "rights" to Fogerty's work, based on a contract he had CCR sign when they were young and stoned, and when the band broke up and John wanted to record his own work, Zaentz wouldn't let him. He insisted on his "cut," which was unacceptable to Fogerty, so he kept quiet instead. When he finally outlived the horrific Zaentz contract, he released a solo album containing a song called "Zantz Can't Dance," which was about a rather mean-spirited pig. Saul Zaentz sued him, successfully, and made Fogerty recall the album, and re-release it without that cut. Zaentz got his unfair share of the LOTR movies. You can bet on it. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
