Mgm And Warner Near On Deal For 'hobbit' Films

By MICHAEL CIEPLY, New York Times
Fri, 10/01/2010 - 2:59pm

MGM and Warner Near on Deal for 'Hobbit' Films

An agreement would allow the director Peter Jackson to begin shooting J. R. R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit” early next year.

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