{"id":36721,"date":"2010-05-23T04:53:32","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T09:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=36721"},"modified":"2010-05-25T01:25:46","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T06:25:46","slug":"crumbses-and-tidbits-hobbit-start-date-casting-3d-discussions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2010\/05\/23\/36721-crumbses-and-tidbits-hobbit-start-date-casting-3d-discussions\/","title":{"rendered":"Crumbses and Tidbits: &#8220;Hobbit&#8221; Start Date, Casting, 3D Discussions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><strong><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-36723\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2010\/05\/23\/36721-crumbses-and-tidbits-hobbit-start-date-casting-3d-discussions\/peter_jackson_king_kong_premiere\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-36723 no-lazyload\" title=\"peter_jackson_king_kong_premiere\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/peter_jackson_king_kong_premiere.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"144\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><em>LA Weekly<\/em> columnist <\/span><\/strong><strong>Nikki Finke<\/strong> seems to have some new information that even the Eagles, ahem, the rest of the inerweb hasn&#8217;t caught wind of yet. Reporting\u00a0over at\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2010\/05\/peter-jackson-talks-up-new-king-kong-attraction-at-universal-studios-hollywood\/\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline.com<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"> on Peter Jackson&#8217;s plans for the new <em>King Kong 360 3D<\/em> attraction at the Universal Studios Hollywood studio tour, she digresses to update fans on a few things &#8220;Hobbit&#8221;, all of which seem to indicate that serious matters are ongoing even as we wait and watch and speculate.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div><em>On The Hobbit front, I&#8217;m told that both scripts are in, that discussions are underway right now to determine if they&#8217;ll shoot in 3D. (I think it&#8217;s inevitable). They will set everything in place in a New Zealand powwow next month, and then casting will begin for a November start.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>There seems to be no indication that the uncertainty surrounding MGM&#8217;s situation is impeding the progress on these films in any way (yet), but as reported recently by the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/BT-CO-20100518-714493.html?mod=WSJ_latestheadlines\" target=\"_blank\">Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/strong> and by our friend and messageboard member\u00a0<strong>Kristin Thompson <\/strong>over at her blog\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kristinthompson.net\/blog\/?p=1168\" target=\"_blank\">The Frodo Franchise<\/a><\/strong>, MGM&#8217;s creditors do indeed seem to be close to a plan to resolve the studio&#8217;s financial woes.<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LA Weekly columnist Nikki Finke seems to have some new information that even the Eagles, ahem, the rest&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"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":[162,22,4,74,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events-screenings","category-headlines","category-hobbit-movie","category-jackson","category-hobbit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-9yh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36721","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}