Reply #9: I Only Breifly Glimpsed the Article [View All]

[Beetwasher]

But I get the feeling that what happened is Jackson probably took some points on the merchandising and what's going on is he's claiming they are "hiding" some of the merch profits from him...It all depends on his contract terms and/or whether there IS some funny bookkeeping going on with the studio.

On edit: Yup, I was right, he's alleging some bookkeeping hijinks:

"Jackson and Ms Walsh make 19 allegations, among them that New Line improperly deducted costs relating to home video, used the wrong royalty rate to compute DVD sales, charged too much for subdistribution, did not pay for use of the film’s script and a song lyric written by Ms Walsh in an accompanying video game and incorrectly valued their cut from merchandise sales."