{"id":22325,"date":"1999-05-07T23:26:23","date_gmt":"1999-05-08T04:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/1999\/05\/07\/new-owner-for-film-unit\/"},"modified":"2008-06-16T00:52:31","modified_gmt":"2008-06-16T05:52:31","slug":"new-owner-for-film-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/1999\/05\/07\/22325-new-owner-for-film-unit\/","title":{"rendered":"New Owner for Film Unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">The Wellington producer-director Peter Jackson is the new owner of The Film Unit, which is the only one-stop  post-production facility in New Zealand.  Based in Lower Hutt, across the harbor from Wellington, it offers 16mm and 35mm laboratory and sound facilities, including a state-of-the-art Dolby mixing suite. Peter Jackson told the Press Association: &#8220;Would I have bought the Unit if it wasn&#8217;t for Lord of the Rings (which is to start shooting in New Zealand this year for New Line Cinema)?  &#8220;I probably would have thought seriously about it, because if I wasn&#8217;t doing Lord of the Rings I would have been doing some other films, and I&#8217;d still want to have the facilities in New Zealand.&#8221; The first of the three Lord of the Rings features is due to start shooting in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wellington producer-director Peter Jackson is the new owner of The Film Unit, which is the only one-stop&#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":[497,5,99,130,74,496,498,149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-production-directors","category-lotr-movies","category-lotr-production","category-old-main-news","category-jackson","category-production","category-production-studios","category-lotr"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-5O5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22325","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=22325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}