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Peter Jackson Hopes to Return to Low-Budget Roots Following ‘Hobbit’ Trilogy

After their three-part adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit” wraps in 2014, director Peter Jackson and partner Fran Walsh hope to return to their low-budget roots and make more films in the manner of “Heavenly […]

Wellington’s Film Industry Generates Over $800m

Wellington’s film industry generated $828 million in revenues in the year to April 2012 according to figures from Statistics NZ .  This was up 67 per cent on 2011, with films like The Hobbit. Tintin and […]

Dambusters May Influence The Battle of Five Armies

Back in 2006, Peter Jackson announced his intention to re-make the 1954 classic film The Dambusters.  The film tells the story of how, during World War II, the Dambusters raid saw members of the 617 Squadron […]

Hobbit Cast at Good for Nothing Premiere

Members of the cast of The Hobbit were at the Embassy Theatre in Wellington last night for the New Zealand premiere of the film Good for Nothing.  Good for Nothing is a cowboy film and  is […]

Weta Misses Out On BAFTA Awards

 There were no awards for Peter Jackson’s Tintin  or for Weta Workshop’s visual effects at the BAFTA award ceremony in London last night reports msn nz news. The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, […]

NZ Government Applauds Sir Peter Jackson

On behalf of the government of New Zealand, Arts, Culture, and Heritage Minister Christopher Finlayson congratulated Sir Peter Jackson on the Golden Globe success of The Adventures of Tintin, a Steven Spielberg film which Jackson […]