{"id":1740,"date":"2006-02-10T10:40:12","date_gmt":"2006-02-10T16:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2006\/02\/10\/hobbits-witches-king-kong-lift-new-zealands-filmmakers\/"},"modified":"2006-02-10T10:40:12","modified_gmt":"2006-02-10T16:40:12","slug":"hobbits-witches-king-kong-lift-new-zealands-filmmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2006\/02\/10\/1740-hobbits-witches-king-kong-lift-new-zealands-filmmakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Hobbits, Witches, King Kong Lift New Zealand&#8217;s Filmmakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">Feb. 10 (Bloomberg) &#8212; New Zealand&#8217;s film industry is showing it&#8217;s not all scenery and hobbits. The South Pacific nation&#8217;s movie business, catapulted to fame by Peter Jackson&#8217;s &#8220;Lord of the Rings&#8221; trilogy, which was filmed in the country, is tapping a surge in funding to make films such as Toa Fraser&#8217;s &#8220;No. 2,&#8221; winner of the world cinema audience award at last month&#8217;s Sundance Film Festival. Local studios have gained from Hollywood-funded productions such as &#8220;King Kong,&#8221; the latest blockbuster by New Zealander Jackson, and Andrew Adamson&#8217;s production of &#8220;The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,&#8221; both filmed in the country. That boosted production financing to a record NZ$596 million ($406 million) in the year ended March 31, 2005, from about NZ$300 million in 1999. [<a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=10000088&#038;sid=aQVGu_EThawk&#038;refer=culture\" TARGET=NEW>More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 10 (Bloomberg) &#8212; New Zealand&#8217;s film industry is showing it&#8217;s not all scenery and hobbits. The South&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-main-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-s4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}