The Hollywood Reporter
By Jonathan Handel
The Cambodia-made mockbuster will get a theatrical release in the country as "The History of Mankind."
Age of the Hobbits, which a federal judge enjoined
Monday from release in the U.S. under that title, will get a Cambodian
theatrical release, according to local press reports – but under a new
name: “The History of Mankind.”
The story, which appeared in the English-language Cambodia Daily, quotes the mockbuster producer’s location manager in Cambodia, Ung Nareth,
as saying “[Asylum] just asked me at the last minute to give a new
title.” The story said that Nareth did not know whether the request came
as a result of the U.S. court’s injunction.
The injunction was issued Monday in response to a lawsuit filed in November by Warner Bros., New Line, MGM and producer Saul Zaentz alleging that the Age of the Hobbits’ moniker infringed their trademark rights in the term “hobbit” and was an attempt to exploit the release of the big budget The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.
According to the press report, the now-renamed low budget film was
shot in Cambodia and will hit theaters in that country later this month
or in early January. Meanwhile, the Warner Bros. / New Line / MGM film
will be released in most territories today, tomorrow or the next day,
with the U.S. release set for Friday.
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