{"id":13614,"date":"2010-08-17T00:01:21","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T14:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/?p=13614"},"modified":"2010-08-16T19:59:09","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T10:29:09","slug":"story-of-the-week-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/2010\/08\/17\/story-of-the-week-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Story of the Week #1 \u2013 The Salvation of MGM Studios\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2604\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2604\" style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2604\" title=\"MGM Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/mgm_logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/mgm_logo.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/mgm_logo-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2604\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saved from the scrapheap??<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It seems a resolution to the ongoing MGM Studio buyout problem, and the consequent troubles getting the <em>Hobbit<\/em> movies off the ground, is soon to be announced. Spyglass Studios, who produced recent films such as <em>Star Trek<\/em>,<em> GI Joe<\/em>, <em>Seabiscuit<\/em> and others, is currently trying to do a deal which would see it purchase the ailing studio. Whilst not set in concrete at the time we go to print, it seems the deal is all but done according to numerous <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/entertainmentnewsbuzz\/2010\/08\/spyglass-close-to-a-deal-to-takeover-management-of-mgm.html\">online sources<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is great news, if it comes to pass. For one, it&#8217;ll salvage the fortunes of MGM, one of the original Big Five studios that dominated Hollywood for decades in the early days of the industry. Secondly, it&#8217;ll stop the <em>Hobbit<\/em> films, as well as the James Bond franchise, from disappearing into development hell. There&#8217;s plenty of money being bandied about at the moment with this deal, but no doubt they&#8217;ll recoup plenty from both <em>Hobbit<\/em> films and put themselves back into the black.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>More to come.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems a resolution to the ongoing MGM Studio buyout problem, and the consequent troubles&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48482,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-movie-news"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","covernews-featured":"","covernews-medium":"","profile_24":"","profile_48":"","profile_96":"","profile_150":"","profile_300":"","sow-carousel-default":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"Rodney Twelftree","author_link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/author\/rodney\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/category\/breaking-movie-news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Breaking Movie News<\/a>","tag_info":"Breaking Movie News","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48482"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}