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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kengar" data-source="post: 1261327" data-attributes="member: 3230">I got this from the LOTR RPG message boards:"The stickler is in Hollywood only - while New Line has the rights to make a film of The Hobbit, the rights to distribute such a film are owned by MGM/United Artists, due to old arrangements. So, one studio can make the movie, but can't distribute it, while the other studio can't make the movie, but could distribute one. And no, I have no idea how this kind of nonsense is allowed to happen. "EDIT: So New Line just needs to throw UA/MGM a piece of the action and it's all good, right? I mean, if you figure the Hobbit would cost approx 1/3 that LOTR did and New Line would be footing the production bill, the film should still make more than enough to see everyone a fat profit. Especially if they were clever and released it at something like Christmas 2008 and led it off by screening the extended versions of the trilogy in theatres that December as well!Oh wow, can you imagine going to see the Hobbit and then the LOTR EE on the big screen in order?!?  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>