{"id":28074,"date":"2007-11-24T13:23:47","date_gmt":"2007-11-24T18:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2007\/11\/24\/28074-new-lines-gamble-not-so-boffo\/"},"modified":"2007-11-24T13:25:33","modified_gmt":"2007-11-24T18:25:33","slug":"new-lines-gamble-not-so-boffo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2007\/11\/24\/28074-new-lines-gamble-not-so-boffo\/","title":{"rendered":"New Line’s Gamble: Not So Boffo?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kristin Thompson<\/strong>, author of ‘The Frodo Franchise: The Lord of the Rings and Modern Hollywood’<\/em><\/strong>, writes: Peter Bart\u2019s book Boffo!<\/em><\/em> has a chapter on The Lord of the Rings where he argues that the trilogy was the biggest gamble in Hollywood’s history. I’ve written a response trying to show that Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne of New Line Cinema weren\u2019t risking nearly as much as Bart claims and that the \u201cgambling\u201d aspect of Peter Jackson\u2019s production has been exaggerated in the press. New Line’s Gamble: Not So Boffo?<\/a><\/strong>
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\nOrder ‘Boffo!: How I Learned to Love the Blockbuster and Fear the Bomb’ on Amazon.com Today!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kristin Thompson, author of ‘The Frodo Franchise: The Lord of the Rings and Modern Hollywood’, writes: Peter Bart\u2019s…<\/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":[163,29,31,30],"tags":[283,282],"class_list":["post-28074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-merchandise-books","category-fotr-movie","category-rotk-movie","category-ttt-movie","tag-boffo-how-i-learned-to-love-the-blockbuster-and-fear-the-bomb","tag-peter-bart"],"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