{"id":112082,"date":"2022-02-09T16:28:22","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T21:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=112082"},"modified":"2022-02-09T18:19:22","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T23:19:22","slug":"saul-zaentz-co-to-sell-its-tolkien-rights-holdings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2022\/02\/09\/112082-saul-zaentz-co-to-sell-its-tolkien-rights-holdings\/","title":{"rendered":"Saul Zaentz Co to sell its Tolkien rights holdings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" class=\"intro\">Entertainment rag <em>Variety<\/em> is reporting that The Saul Zaentz Company is set to sell all of its Tolkien IP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company holds, according to its site, &#8220;exclusive worldwide rights to motion picture, merchandising, stage and other rights in certain literary works of J.R.R. Tolkien including <em>The Lord of the Rings <\/em>and<em> The Hobbit<\/em>.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It originally acquired the rights in 1976 in an arrangement with United Artists. It subsequently licensed rights to filmmaker Ralph Bakshi for an animated film (released in 1978) and for director Peter Jackson to produce live-action trilogies of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Variety states that the sale could be worth at least US $2 billion, &#8220;based on recent high valuations for top-tier IP and content producers&#8221;. ACF Investment Bank is currently shopping a deal around with a number of prospective buyers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2022\/film\/news\/lord-of-the-rings-hobbit-tolkien-zaentz-rights-sale-1235176036\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more about the news over on Variety<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"688\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/index-1024x688.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-112083 no-lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/index-1024x688.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/index-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/index-768x516.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/index-238x160.jpg 238w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/index.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>The late Saul Zaentz.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Entertainment rag Variety is reporting that The Saul Zaentz Company is set to sell all of its Tolkien&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":112083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,152,154],"tags":[1167,698,3743],"class_list":["post-112082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-tolkien","category-tolkien-estate","tag-middle-earth-enterprises","tag-saul-zaentz-company","tag-tolkien-rights"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/index.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-t9M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112082"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112087,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112082\/revisions\/112087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}