{"id":29496,"date":"2008-08-19T08:36:22","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T13:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=29496"},"modified":"2008-08-19T08:36:22","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T13:36:22","slug":"mgm-seeks-600-million-to-make-hobbit-pink-panther-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2008\/08\/19\/29496-mgm-seeks-600-million-to-make-hobbit-pink-panther-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"MGM Seeks $600 Million to Make `Hobbit,&#8217; `Pink Panther&#8217; Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">Some news on the funding behind the upcoming &#8216;Hobbit&#8217; films from Bloomberg.com: <\/p>\n<div class=\"quote\">Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc., the movie studio controlled by private-equity firms, is raising as much as $600 million to produce some of its biggest films including &#8220;The Hobbit.&#8221; [&#8230;] MGM&#8217;s would be the first movie fund completed since Deutsche Bank AG and Viacom Inc.&#8217;s Paramount Pictures scrapped plans last month to raise $450 million. The MGM fund includes &#8220;The Hobbit,&#8221; being produced by &#8220;Lord of the Rings&#8221; director Peter Jackson [&#8230;] &#8221;The Hobbit,&#8221; being directed by Guillermo del Toro, is scheduled for release in December 2011. Jackson&#8217;s three &#8220;Lord of the Rings&#8221; movies, distributed by New York-based Time Warner, each cost about $95 million to make, according to Imdb.com. <\/div>\n<p>Thanks to Diedye for the heads up on the article and click on the link to read the full story. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&#038;sid=ar5SlpnBkxzM&#038;refer=home\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some news on the funding behind the upcoming &#8216;Hobbit&#8217; films from Bloomberg.com: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc., the movie studio controlled&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[435,4,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guillermo-del-toro","category-hobbit-movie","category-jackson"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-7FK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29496","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}