{"id":21827,"date":"1999-11-03T22:43:37","date_gmt":"1999-11-04T04:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/1999\/11\/03\/media-watch-one-news\/"},"modified":"1999-11-03T22:43:37","modified_gmt":"1999-11-04T04:43:37","slug":"media-watch-one-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/1999\/11\/03\/21827-media-watch-one-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Watch: One News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The News item Xtem<\/b> was talking about has been posted on their website<\/a>. There’s a RealAudio clip of the article. But just in case you can’t access it here’s the text:<\/p>\n

WELLINGTON ENJOYS RINGS PROSPERITY<\/p>\n

Filming of the three part
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blockbuster ‘Lord of the
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Rings’ is proving a big
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winner for Wellington. <\/p>\n

Cafes, landlords, hire
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companies and retailers all
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say they are reaping
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benefits from the making of
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the movie.<\/p>\n

“We’re hoping for a lot more
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from it. It’s good work,”
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says Vaughan Clark from
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Triple A Cranes.<\/p>\n

‘Lord of the Rings’ is
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spending a hundred million
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dollars in Wellington alone. <\/p>\n

They are hiring a thousand
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locals as extras, and the full
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time staff from overseas are
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keeping real estate agents
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busy. <\/p>\n

“On the residential side it’s
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stopped the decline and
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that has got to be good for
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everybody. On the industrial
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commercial side it’s taken
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up slack that nobody knew
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what to do with,” says Brian
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Baker from Home Rent.<\/p>\n

Director Peter Jackson has
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taken over factories and
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warehouses that were left
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empty by the demise of
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other businesses.<\/p>\n

And he is keeping
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booksellers happy too.<\/p>\n

“Since the movie started it’s
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just been amazing. We can’t
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get enough of it basically.
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The publishers find it hard
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to keep up with supply,”
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says Bruce Caddy of
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Dymocks Booksellers.<\/p>\n

Supplying food for the stars
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is also big business.<\/p>\n

“They come for lunch or they
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come for a quick morning
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tea or they come for
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takeaways,” says Penny
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Pennington of the Chocolate
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Fish cafe<\/p>\n

And locals seem to be
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getting the odd glimpse at
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the stars.<\/p>\n

“One day Elijah Wood yelled
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out to Liv Tyler, ‘You don’t
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need your sunglasses and
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your collar turned up here
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Liv, it’s quite casual'”,
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Pennington said.<\/p>\n

The hobbits the elves and
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the auks invade
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Queenstown next week<\/center> <\/p>\n

Published Wednesday, November 03, 1999<\/i><\/p>\n

Thanks to Spy-Hunter<\/i> for the tip!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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