Another Twist To The Hobbit Saga

Investor Carl Icahn has thrown another spanner in the works that will hold off the impending chapter 11 bankruptcy of MGM for a while longer. According to an article in the Hollywood Reporter bankruptcy is unlikely now to be filed until mid-week. Icahn has asked that more than a dozen Spyglass film-library titles be removed…

Hobbit Not Out Of The Woods Yet, Folks!

New Line/Warner Bros. have agreed to keep the filming of The Hobbit films in New Zealand after the government agreed to give the movie’s backers an extra $34 million of tax payers money, plus an undertaking to *rush through changes to labour legislation ‘under urgency ‘ to clarify the position of contractors working on film…