“Given the wild afterlife of This Is Spinal Tap, it seems impossible that anyone with a piece of the movie hasn’t made money. And yet this is Hollywood, where studios have claimed that some of the highest-grossing films — hits such as Return of the Jedi, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, and the Lord of the Rings trilogy — somehow haven’t turned a profit. As David Zucker, one of the creators of Airplane!, once said of his own sleeper hit, ‘It made so much money that the studio couldn’t hide it fast enough.'” Bloomberg: This Lawsuit Goes to 11.