Interesting on the distro rights. But my thought is, if MGM's rights are just first refusal, why has it been such a huge deal for so many years that MGM had those rights? Because I had the impression that it basically held the Hobbit property hostage. That's why New Line kept saying for so long that it would be difficult to do the Hobbit - because MGM had the distro rights. That makes me think MGM has a pretty big say in things. Otherwise, would it ever have been an issue?
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