LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – Peter Jackson has won the first stage in a legal battle against Hollywood studio New Line Cinema over profits from The Lord of the Rings, the NZ Herald reports.
A judge ordered the studio, which financially backed the trilogy, to pay US$125,000 ($168,500) to Jackson in legal costs and to hire an outside document retrieval service after it failed to produce potential evidence in the case, latimes.com reported.
