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		<title>Release dates for book on the LOTR music</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Doug Adams&#8217; site on the music of the LOTR trilogy has posted a press release giving the publication dates of his book, The Music of The Lord of the Rings Films. That&#8217;s September 28 in Europe and October 5 in the USA and other countries. Here&#8217;s the description of the book itself:
The 416-page full-color volume [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kristinthompson.net/blog/?p=1270</link>
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		<title>MGM financial woes not main cause of Hobbit delay</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Los Angeles Times&#8217; &#8220;24 Frames&#8221; blog has posted a story based on an interview with Guillermo del Toro. In discussing his decision not to direct The Hobbit, he had this to say:
The genre auteur says he has no regrets about departing the New Zealand production, but says that anyone who think that MGM&#8217;s financial [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kristinthompson.net/blog/?p=1264</link>
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		<title>The MGM mess explained</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Friday the Financial Times posted a long story that give the best and most comprehensible rundown on the MGM financial mess that I&#8217;ve seen. There&#8217;s some history of the studio itself, but then a clear explanation of the people involved and how and why MGM got into such a mess. Also why it can&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kristinthompson.net/blog/?p=1253</link>
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		<title>eBay nostalgia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just posted an entry on my other blog, &#8220;Observations on Film Art,&#8221; which might be of interest to Tolkien fans. The topic is how film researchers like me can use eBay as a resource. Naturally my example is The Frodo Franchise and some of the film-franchise-related objects I acquired for possible use as illustrations.
Not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kristinthompson.net/blog/?p=1248</link>
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		<title>Weta carries on the franchise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have to admit that I haven&#8217;t kept up with every new film-related piece of LOTR merchandise. There are quite a few of them, considering that it&#8217;s going on seven years since the last part of the trilogy was released.
Weta Workshop has been busy turning out swords, busts, models, and clothing. Now two new items [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foxtrot features LOTR again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier I complained about having too few good instances of LOTR humor to tag. Now it&#8217;s two in one day! Bill Amend, whose &#8220;Foxtrot&#8221; comic strip has referenced the trilogy many times, now combines the ripped-from-the-headlines-newsworthiness of the upcoming Comic-Con with the timeless topic of Gandalf costumes. (His collection, Orlando Bloom Ruined Everything, is not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kristinthompson.net/blog/?p=1242</link>
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		<title>Harry Potter and Frodo join forces in an amusing mashup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anne Thompson, on her &#8220;Thompson on Hollywood&#8221; blog, has linked to a pretty funny Harry Potter-Lord of the Rings trailer mashup. As she says, it makes bone obvious the LOTR copycatting we all spotted in the recently released HP trailer: &#8220;The new Harry Potter 7 Trailer seems vaguely reminiscent of Lord  of the Rings.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kristinthompson.net/blog/?p=1237</link>
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		<title>Parsing the new Gordon Campbell article</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday TheOneRing.net linked to a story on stuff.co.nz written by Gordon Campbell, a veteran news and media analyst, called &#8220;On the making of The Hobbit.&#8221; It&#8217;s perhaps the most extensive attempt to sum up the current situation in terms of the MGM situation and the ramifications of Peter Jackson&#8217;s potential assuming of the director&#8217;s hat. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kristinthompson.net/blog/?p=1231</link>
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		<title>Elijah Wood presents the Trilogy&#8211;in Italy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Giffoni Film Festival turns 40 this year. It&#8217;s the largest children&#8217;s film festival in the world, held in a small Italian town a bit inland from Salerno, on the Amalfi Coast. The festival offers new films, which compete for prizes and are judged by children from all over the world.
This year the festival will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kristinthompson.net/blog/?p=1226</link>
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		<title>MGM gets sixth debt extension</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not surprisingly, MGM today announced that it has been granted a sixth extension on the principal and interest payments overdue on its $3.7 billion debt. The new deadline is September 15.
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		<link>http://www.kristinthompson.net/blog/?p=1224</link>
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