{"id":39389,"date":"2010-10-20T18:06:56","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T23:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=39389"},"modified":"2010-10-27T22:36:50","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T03:36:50","slug":"variety-the-hobbit-boycott-comes-to-an-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2010\/10\/20\/39389-variety-the-hobbit-boycott-comes-to-an-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Variety: \u2018The Hobbit\u2019 boycott comes to an end"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">After a tense standoff, a new actors union in New Zealand announced late Wednesday it won&#8217;t boycott Peter Jackson&#8217;s &#8220;The Hobbit,&#8221; from New Line\/Warner Bros. and MGM. &#8220;New Zealand Actors&#8217; Equity and the Screen Production &#038; Development Association (SPADA) have entered into an agreement to commence good faith negotiations for a new set of conditions which will govern the way in which performers are engaged in the local screen industry,&#8221; read a statement from the groups. &#8220;Talks are to take place over the next six months. As a sign of good faith, while negotiations occur, Equity has agreed that those productions which fully comply with the current guidelines for the engagement of cast in the industry&#8211;&#8216;The Pink Book&#8221;&#8211; will not be subject to industrial action,&#8221; unions continued. <\/p>\n<p>Statement was issued only hours after Jackson and his producing partner Fran Walsh indicated they are ready to move &#8220;The Hobbit&#8221; out of New Zealand entirely because of the threatened boycott. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1118026048.html?categoryid=13&#038;cs=1&#038;nid=2562&#038;utm_source=twitterfeed&#038;utm_medium=twitter&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+variety%2Fheadlines+%28Variety+-+Latest+News%29#ixzz12wXZ1xfn\">More..<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a tense standoff, a new actors union in New Zealand announced late Wednesday it won&#8217;t boycott Peter&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[22],"tags":[1272],"class_list":["post-39389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-hobbit-boycott"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-afj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39389","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}