{"id":38959,"date":"2010-10-05T17:05:57","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T22:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=38959"},"modified":"2010-10-05T17:05:57","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T22:05:57","slug":"the-hobbit-end-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2010\/10\/05\/38959-the-hobbit-end-game\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hobbit End Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">Gordon Campbell with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.co.nz\/stories\/HL1010\/S00029\/gordon-campbell-on-the-end-game-for-the-hobbit.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Scoop.co.nz <\/a>has weighed in on recent events concerning what he phrases as the end game for <em>The Hobbit<\/em>.\u00a0 He states the actors boycott is really just a &#8220;sideshow&#8221; and what matters is &#8220;the production incentives available in New Zealand compared to elsewhere in the world&#8221; as well as &#8220;the late intrusion of the 74 year old corporate raider Carl Icahn into the sale of debt-burdened MGM, which owns a major stake in <em>The Hobbit<\/em> project.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You can read the entire article <a href=\"two factors that matter are (a) the production incentives available in New Zealand compared to elsewhere in the world. This is what Philippa Boyens means when she says Warners are\u2018 running the numbers\u201d on the five or six locations now in the running for the location shoot and (b) the late intrusion of the 74 year old corporate raider Carl Icahn into the sale of debt-burdened MGM, which owns a major stake in The Hobbit project. \" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gordon Campbell with Scoop.co.nz has weighed in on recent events concerning what he phrases as the end game&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[4,333,1156,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobbit-movie","category-hobbit-locations","category-mgm-production-studios-production","category-jackson"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-a8n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38959","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\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}