How the Shoot of the Hobbit Has Affected the Nz Economy
The adaptation of the 1937 novel The Hobbit by JR Tolkien, relate the story of Bilbo Baggins during his trip with a company of 13 dwarves led by the legendary warrior Thorin Oakenshield. The movie is definitely filming in New Zealand after some difficult negotiation between Warner bros and the New Zealand government,. The government of New Zealand offer Warner Brothers lobbying campain, which will be detailed later, to film “The Hobbit” in New Zealand. So the question that can be ask is what will win New Zealand to let and help the Hobbit film in New Zeland, and how will it affect the New Zealand film industry and New Zealand society ? To answer this question firstable we will talk about the issues that meet the producion of the Hobbit to be filmed in New Zealand and then we will see the benefit than can bring to film the Hobbit in New Zealand.
Remain us that the decision to film The Hobbit in New Zealand was a long process, not only for the Warner but also for the New Zealand government. When Peter Jackson has announced that the hobbit will be shoot in New Zealand, the government saw there a lot of benefit that it will bring to the country, an impact in labour, expenses made in New Zealand with the jobs that would be created but also in the touristic domains. But then the hobbit production giant Warner Bros threatened to relocate the shooting elsewhere. Reasons were financial and juridical. Indeed Warner Bros wanted an assurance that employment “uncertainties” were cleared up to their advantage and more money from taxes rebates. (NZPA, Hobbit drama- Govt comes out on top, 2010) Remember than the production of The Lord of the Rings went through an employee juridical problem. In 2005 took a dispute over the statue of employees in The Lord of the Rings. A special effects worker James Bryson had taken legal action against Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson because he was made redundant, claiming that he was an employee rather than a contractor and
Remain us that the decision to film The Hobbit in New Zealand was a long process, not only for the Warner but also for the New Zealand government. When Peter Jackson has announced that the hobbit will be shoot in New Zealand, the government saw there a lot of benefit that it will bring to the country, an impact in labour, expenses made in New Zealand with the jobs that would be created but also in the touristic domains. But then the hobbit production giant Warner Bros threatened to relocate the shooting elsewhere. Reasons were financial and juridical. Indeed Warner Bros wanted an assurance that employment “uncertainties” were cleared up to their advantage and more money from taxes rebates. (NZPA, Hobbit drama- Govt comes out on top, 2010) Remember than the production of The Lord of the Rings went through an employee juridical problem. In 2005 took a dispute over the statue of employees in The Lord of the Rings. A special effects worker James Bryson had taken legal action against Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson because he was made redundant, claiming that he was an employee rather than a contractor and