{"id":33181,"date":"2009-08-19T14:33:04","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T19:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=33181"},"modified":"2009-08-20T05:32:30","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T10:32:30","slug":"could-mgms%e2%80%99s-changes-be-the-real-dragon-for-%e2%80%98the-hobbit%e2%80%99-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2009\/08\/19\/33181-could-mgms%e2%80%99s-changes-be-the-real-dragon-for-%e2%80%98the-hobbit%e2%80%99-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Could MGMs\u2019s changes be the real dragon for \u2018The Hobbit\u2019 movies?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">News is all over the place today about changes at the top of MGM, one of the studios co-financing and co-producing &#8220;The Hobbit.&#8221; There are lots of stories that tackle the business side of things.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/19\/business\/media\/19mgm.html?_r=2&#038;ref=media\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a> takes a crack as does the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-ct-mgm-sloan19-2009aug19,0,7213585.story\" target=\"_blank\">L.A. Times<\/a> while <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/ind-column\/kavanaughs-takeover-plot-thickens-mgm_5321\" target=\"_blank\">The Wrap<\/a> looks at a possible takeover while <a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1118007435.html?categoryid=13&#038;cs=1\" target=\"_blank\">Variety<\/a> looks at Hollywood&#8217;s reaction and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekfreepress.com\/2009\/08\/19\/do-mgms\u2019s-changes-affect-\u2018the-hobbit\" target=\"_blank\">The Geek FreePress<\/a> examines what it might mean for &#8220;The Hobbit,&#8221; calling this change the possible dragon for the film.<br \/>\nKristin Thompson also weighed in with two seperate blog posts found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kristinthompson.net\/blog\/?p=828\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kristinthompson.net\/blog\/?p=833\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nIf anybody in our spy network has any further info of what this might mean, please send us word at SpyMaster@TheOneRing.net.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News is all over the place today about changes at the top of MGM, one of the studios&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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_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":[22,4,496,498],"tags":[508,357,221],"class_list":["post-33181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","category-hobbit-movie","category-production","category-production-studios","tag-harry-sloan","tag-mgm","tag-the-hobbit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-8Db","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33181","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}