Faux ‘Hobbit’ Flick Retitled ‘Clash Of The Empires’

COMMENTS (10)

• They should call it The Hobbit Empire Strikes Back then Disney will sue them on behalf of George Lucas. Clash of the Empires could still get them in trouble with Warner Bros. it’s too similar to Clash of the Titans. It will create confusion at the Red Box with idiots not understanding what they really want to spend their money on.

  Comment by Herman Munster — Thursday December 13, 2012 @ 12:25am PST  Reply to this post

  • They should call it the Rocky Hobbit Picture Show and turn it into a cult classic.

    Comment by Jared — Thursday December 13, 2012 @ 2:05pm PST  Reply to this post

• Seems unjust. If a company wants to release a movie with the word Hobbit in it, and hobbit isn’t copyrighted, then they ought to be able to. It’s basic artistic freedom. Seems like this is just a studio buying a restraining order because they have way more money for lawyers than the little insurgent mockbuster studio. So what if they are capitalizing on the other’s marketing, that’s just smart business, every studio copies hits. If what they’re copying was an original creative work then it wouldn’t be so easy to emulate on the dvd cover. Consumers buying Asylum’s movies aren’t that confused. Sure they might initially mistake the one for the other when the dvd catches their eye in the store, but then they look at it and read the back and realize it’s not the same. Then maybe 1 in 50 buys the Asylum dvd because they figure it might also be entertaining, even though they realize it’s a different film.
  If I wanted to release a film titled The Dwarf And The Dragon about dwarves fighting a dragon with a wizard and a brave midget, then what right does anyone have to stop me? Seems like if Asylum’s lawyer budget was bigger there would be no restraining order.

  Comment by Andrew — Thursday December 13, 2012 @ 1:24am PST  Reply to this post

  • All this movie company does is try to rip off other movie titles in order to confuse customers who might choose them, in error. It’s completely by design. I have no problem with studios suing them.

    Comment by Tim W. — Thursday December 13, 2012 @ 9:28am PST  Reply to this post

• Hobbit is a trademark owned by the Tolkien estate. There are no Hobbits in nursery rhymes or fairy tales. the term was created by Tolkien for his book the Hobbit. It’s not like Elf, Dwarf, Goblin, etc.

  Comment by Joe — Thursday December 13, 2012 @ 7:14am PST  Reply to this post

• All Warner Bros. did is take a movie out of complete obscurity, I doubt anyone had ever heard of this film before the law suit, and set it up to make a much larger amount of money. This will only persuade this “mock” production company to keep ripping good movies off. All press is good press.

  Comment by Jay — Thursday December 13, 2012 @ 10:24am PST  Reply to this post

• It doesn’t matter if they hit the Asylum with the TRO. The movie is for sale under the name “Age of the Hobbits” in Walmarts and on Amazon right now. Thanks for giving the mockbuster more press, Warner Bros!

  Comment by cireyerihs — Thursday December 13, 2012 @ 11:48pm PST  Reply to this post

• This is the worst movie ever..

  Comment by brian — Friday January 4, 2013 @ 7:28pm PST  Reply to this post

• This is movie is hot garage I’m so sick of shit vidoes like this.we ( the consumers), r being ripped off because there’s no way to really know what’s bullshit and what’s not by reading the label.

  Comment by Tony — Sunday January 6, 2013 @ 10:25pm PST  Reply to this post

• If people can’t read the back of a DVD and tell one movie from another, then they deserved to be ripped-off. And yeah, Bai Ling is a great actress, particularly so in Clash of the Empires.

  Comment by Justin — Friday February 15, 2013 @ 7:32pm PST  Reply to this post