{"id":36735,"date":"2010-05-25T02:57:13","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T07:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=36735"},"modified":"2010-05-25T03:09:47","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T08:09:47","slug":"mgm-controll-shifted-warner-bros-and-fans-frustrated-over-the-hobbit-potential-greenlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2010\/05\/25\/36735-mgm-controll-shifted-warner-bros-and-fans-frustrated-over-the-hobbit-potential-greenlight\/","title":{"rendered":"MGM controll shifted, Warner Bros. (and fans) frustrated over &#8216;The Hobbit&#8217; potential greenlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2010\/03\/27\/35768-source-mgm-situation-of-great-importance-to-the-hobbit-films\/mgm\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-35775\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/mgm.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mgm\" width=\"108\" height=\"73\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-35775 no-lazyload\" \/><\/a>Ringer spy <strong>Earl<\/strong> provided a story hot of the presses from the Los Angeles Times that says MGM&#8217;s management is no longer in control of the studio&#8217;s fate and that debtholders are now the decision makers.<\/p>\n<p>The MGM Saga is developing into a film-worthy drama all its own (one that will never get a greenlight) and the article states: &#8220;<em>The internal divide and lingering uncertainty demonstrate how tortured MGM&#8217;s reorganization process has been and how the balance of power has shifted from management to lenders.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For fans this means that non-entertainment types are now calling the shots and how that plays out is completely unpredictable. There is one tidbit about the two movies based on J.R.R. Tolkien&#8217;s &#8220;The Hobbit&#8221; to be directed by Guillermo del Toro and produced by Peter Jackson:<br \/>\n&#8220;<em>Though Time Warner&#8217;s bid has not been officially rejected, people at the media giant&#8217;s Warner Bros. studio have been frustrated by the protracted process, in part because it and MGM co-own the rights to movies based on J.R.R. Tolkien&#8217;s &#8220;The Hobbit,&#8221; which are currently in development.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/news\/music\/la-fi-ct-mgm-20100524,0,1377426.story\" target=\"_blank\">The article explains a lot more<\/a> of the intricacies of what is going on. How does this fit with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2010\/05\/23\/36721-crumbses-and-tidbits-hobbit-start-date-casting-3d-discussions\/\" target=\"_blank\">the report<\/a> that filming will start in November? We have our feelers out and will update you as soon as we hear anything definite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ringer spy Earl provided a story hot of the presses from the Los Angeles Times that says MGM&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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":[435,4,153,1156,74,498],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guillermo-del-toro","category-hobbit-movie","category-tolkien-life","category-mgm-production-studios-production","category-jackson","category-production-studios"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-9yv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36735","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}