UK Daily Telegraph Pans An Unexpected Journey: Boring

Following glowing reviews of An Expected Journey by New Zealand’s politicians the UK’s Daily Telegraph has published a scathing review of the film, awarding it only two out of five stars. Film buff Robbie Collin thought the film was overly long with poor special effects, eked out to three episodes to maximise box office takings…

Hobbit Could Be Made In England

Today’s meeting between New Line/Warner and the NZ government has ended inconclusively, with studio executives asking for larger incentives (tax breaks) and changes to labour laws to keep The Hobbit movies in NZ (link) In Britain, for films with a core expenditure of more than £20 million, the film production company can claim a payable…