Bingo. New Line Cinema had both film AND distribution rights to LOTR.

Mar 31, 2015
11:04:02pm

byujacob

MGM owned distribution rights to The Hobbit. For a while it was believed that The Hobbit would never be made b/c of the split rights held by different studios.

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My wife wants to know why LOTR was made before the Hobbit

KingDave

3/31/15 9:25pm

Why did Star Wars episode 3 come before 1...........paradox

LasVegasBlue

3/31/15 9:31pm

No. TNT could explain it to you but he has already bored enough CBers today

TNT

3/31/15 9:36pm

Curious

HoustonCougar

3/31/15 9:40pm

Revenge of the Sith came before Phantom Menace?

UneducatedFan

3/31/15 9:48pm

Whoops. meant for LVB.

UneducatedFan

3/31/15 9:49pm

I think it had to do with obtaining rights to the film

BlueBlitzkrieg

3/31/15 9:36pm

Bingo. New Line Cinema had both film AND distribution rights to LOTR.

byujacob

3/31/15 11:04pm

It's really too bad it wasn't made before or along with them. Probably would

ataylor

3/31/15 10:13pm

Bingo.....there was no need to make 3 movies for the hobbit

WJCougar

3/31/15 10:23pm

Because LotR is obviously more movie worthy material

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