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…
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…
NZ Prime Minister, John Key, has today told the press that he won’t (ed. can’t?) be getting into a bidding war to keep The Hobbit production in New Zealand just because other countries have been rumoured to be offering the film’s backers more in tax incentives: “I’ve made it quite clear that if it comes…
The irony may not be lost on some. Today a number of Keep the Hobbit in NZ protest marches were held in New Zealand, one message being “hey Warner we’re all Bros here“. Today New Zealand rolled over and prostituted itself to studio bosses, jeopardised its already dwindling employment rights, handed the government their consent…
According to Gordon Campbell the NZ government is considering suspending employment laws for the duration of the filming of The Hobbit movies. ..Incredibly, the government is now talking about suspending our employment laws for the duration of the filming. Judging by what Minister of Economic Development Gerry Brownlee was saying on RNZ this morning, the…
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