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MGM plans tentpoles: Hobbit among them

By Karl Schneider     September 11, 2006
Source: Variety


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According to Variety, MGM plans to once again start making and financing tentpole movies and will begin with various highly anticipated projects.

The article states that over the next few years MGM plans to release about six tentpoles, some of which will be budgeted in the $150 to $200 million range.

Some of the films mentioned are: THE HOBBIT , TERMINATOR 4 and a sequel to THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR which would star Pierce Brosnan.

Talk about THE HOBBIT mentions two interesting things: That it may be broken into two films and that the studio wants Peter Jackson to direct. New Line would co-produce the film.

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majorbludd 9/11/2006 3:45:41 AM
the terminator needs Camerons direction...come back Cameron...you jump I jump............
jamesdalton 9/11/2006 4:26:42 AM
The Hobbit was a short children's book. Love LOTR as I do -- there's no way the hobbit warrants a double-movie. That would be stretching the material. ("How did you feel about Peter Jackson's 'The Hobbit?'" "It was a little tired. Like too little butter scraped over a piece of toast..") If there's any movie that deserves (and could benefit from) a double cut-up, "Kill-Bill" release it would be the new Harry Potter film. "Goblet of Fire" was like the CliffNote's version of Rowling's story...
snallygaster 9/11/2006 4:33:16 AM
It would have made more sense to split each of the LotR films (after all, each of the volumes of LotR is split into two "books") into two films. The Hobbit was always a single story. There's no natural point to split the narrative into two movies. I'd rather just see one long movie so it fits the chosen format of the LotR movies. Sounds like MGM is desperate to split one guaranteed hit movie into two.
mopeymatt 9/11/2006 5:27:06 AM
Since when was the Hobbit a short children's book? It's several hundred pages at least.
evilron 9/11/2006 6:54:15 AM
While more is better when it comes to Jackson and Tolkien, I don't think the Hobbit would gain anything by being split into two movies. Either way, I can't wait.
snallygaster 9/11/2006 6:55:47 AM
I seem to recall my paperback copy of The Hobbit was over 300 pages, which is comparable in pages to The Return of the King (if you exclude RotK's appendices and other material). It could certainly fill a movie of the same length as any of Jackson's LotR movies, but splitting the story into two movies would be completely unnecessary.
snallygaster 9/11/2006 7:05:52 AM
I'm surprised nobody's commented on the Thomas Crown Affair sequel. I thought it (along with The Italian Job) were two of the best heist movies in recent years. This is one sequel I would welcome.
smegforbrain 9/11/2006 7:12:33 AM
The copy of The Hobbit that I have comes in at almost exactly 300 pages. It's been awhile since I've read it, but with Tolkien's writing style, the story itself is probably substantially less than that, so the only reason MGM would want 2 movies is to ride the success of LotR and milk it for all it's worth.
dax0761 9/11/2006 7:39:41 AM
MGM seems desperate The Hobbit series is just an attempt to squeeze more out of a franchise that still has a little viability left in it, and the tools dont have to think to hard on a story!! Lord help us if any of these guys has an orginal idea!~! The best new idea in Hollywood was Vincent Chase playing Joey Ramone Oh wait that was fiction on HBO!! Guess HBO tools at least can think for themselves!! Now if they could just think for the rest of Hollyweird!!
dax0761 9/11/2006 7:43:20 AM
Oh about Highlander 2 it is a preety cool movie by itself if you forget its a Highlander Film. The next two well....that was hard to think about !! oh the pain
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