There And Back Again...Or Not

Peter Jackson is out as director for New Line's Hobbit project, according to Monday's Studio Briefing on IMDb. Apparently there is bad blood between Jackson and the studio, to do with a lawsuit Jackson filed last year alleging that New Line bilked him out of millions of dollars for the first movie in the Lord Of The Rings series because of fraudulent revenue reporting. I suppose they'll find someone else to direct the picture, and I guess the movie will probably be okay...but what a remakrable example of petty business bickering doing damage to art. Ugh...