Hobbit Legislation Makes New Zealand Look “Braindead”

New Zealand’s Green party have spoken out against the recently hastily passed legislation that was introduced as a knee jerk reaction in a desperate effort to keep the Hobbit Films in New Zealand. In a press release issued today the Greens said: National’s legislation makes NZ look Braindead National’s legislation to appease Warner Brothers is…

Hobbit Not Out Of The Woods Yet, Folks!

New Line/Warner Bros. have agreed to keep the filming of The Hobbit films in New Zealand after the government  agreed to give the movie’s backers an extra $34 million of tax payers money, plus an undertaking to *rush through changes to labour legislation ‘under urgency ‘ to clarify the position of contractors working on film…

The Hobbit – It WAS All About The Dollars

See, what did we say? – The Hobbit fracas was all about the dollars. You don’t bring 10 studio executives over from the US, and host them at considerable expense, to talk about NZ employment law and practices. The bust up with the Unions was just being used for additional leverage, so shame on those…