Why doesn't the South Park shot at Spielberg & Lucas mean anything buy a few tense phone calls?
$500 million in their pocket with no financial exposure on Indy IV.
If they are in the mood, Indy V will happen. Paramount will pay for it and take nothing but distribution again, though this time they may not get as much as 12.5%.
Of course, the really unfortunate part about this is that the slam by Stone & Parker was one of their weakest efforts. How many times can you say, "They raped Indiana Jones" before the joke is done? Where was the next, funnier, idea, whether "ET vs Yoda" or "Transformer Jaws" or Lucas & Speilberg being controled by aliens or Scientologists... I don't know. They are often brilliant and unexpected. This things was a fart joke trading on the word 'rape." Yawn.
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