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Producer/director Peter Jackson is celebrating. Warner Bros executives were locked in negotiations all day with New Zealand government leaders. Then Prime Minister John Key announced at a press conference tonight that The Hobbit back-to-back movies will be made in New Zealand. That’s a $500+ million project, and the…

New Zealanders are leaving nothing to chance when Warner Bros executives arrive early this week. Prime Minister John Key and other politicians  are trying to salvage The Hobbit situation so the shoot stays in New Zealand. But the studio is eyeing other locations after the production was temporarily blacklisted by…

SAG & AFTRA Nix Non-Union ‘The Hobbit’ For Kiwi & Oz Actors Peter Jackson Slaps Back At Kiwi/Oz Unions New Line, Warner Bros. Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures are concerned by the recent allegations of unfair treatment of actors in New Zealand and instructions from the performers' guilds to their membership…

Already the global screen production industry contributes $2.2 billion to Auckland's economy with over 1440 production and post-production businesses. Recent productions made in Auckland include Warner Bros' 3D version of Yogi Bear, Ice, Tracker, The Hopes and Dreams of Gazza Snell; Disney telemovie Avalon High, Power…