{"id":14165,"date":"2002-04-30T17:57:20","date_gmt":"2002-04-30T22:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2002\/04\/30\/rings-film-empowered-by-short\/"},"modified":"2002-04-30T17:57:20","modified_gmt":"2002-04-30T22:57:20","slug":"rings-film-empowered-by-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2002\/04\/30\/14165-rings-film-empowered-by-short\/","title":{"rendered":"“Rings” Film Empowered By Short"},"content":{"rendered":"

Much has been made of New Line founder Bob Shaye’s gutsy decision to bankroll the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, but what hasn’t gotten enough attention is how much Peter Jackson helped his own cause by paying $50,000 to make a 30-minute short film. [More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Much has been made of New Line founder Bob Shaye’s gutsy decision to bankroll the “Lord of the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-main-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t