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HALO WON'T SHINE Tuesday, October 31 2006 
Although
Microsoft's
Wingnut
Films
and
director
Peter
Jackson's
Weta
studios
had
said
that
they
would
continue
pre-production
work
on
Halo,
a
movie
based
on
the
video
game,
after
Universal
and
20th
Century
Fox
backed
out
of
co-financing
it,
Jackson
and
Microsoft
announced
today
(Tuesday)
that
they
had
changed
their
minds
and
were
shutting
down
the
film
--
at
least
temporarily.
In
a
statement,
they
said
that
they
had
agreed
to
wait
until
backing
was
in
(more)M'SOFT VOWS TO PRODUCE HALO MOVIE AFTER STUDIOS PULL OUT Monday, October 23 2006 The future of the movie version of the hit video game Halo is not doomed, the Los Angeles Times indicated Saturday. The newspaper reported that Microsoft, which developed the game, plans to push forward with the movie version on its own even though its previous partners on the film, Universal and 20th Century Fox, have pulled out, citing an unacceptable budget of $145 million. The studios had unsuccessfully attempted to persuade the filmmakers, who include (more) |
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Shocking fans who had assumed that director Peter Jackson, who was responsible for the Lord of the Rings trilogy, would direct The Hobbit -- a kind of prequel to those films -- and another Lord of the Rings epic, Jackson said on theonering.net website Sunday that he had been advised by New Line that the studio "would no longer be requiring our services on The Hobbit ... [and] was now actively looking to hire another filmmaker." Jackson said that the studio cited the ongoing lawsuit that Jackson filed against New Line in June of 2005, charging that the studio had committed fraud in reporting the revenue for 2001's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, which allegedly resulted in Jackson being underpaid millions of dollars. If the notice from New Line was a ploy to induce Jackson to drop or settle the lawsuit -- as Jackson seems to suggest in his message to "Ringers" -- it apparently failed to achieve its objective. In the message, Jackson said that he was "very sorry our involvement with The Hobbit has been ended in this way. ... This outcome is not what we anticipated or wanted, but neither do we see any positive value in bitterness and rancor. We now have no choice but to let the idea of a film of The Hobbit go and move forward with other projects."
