{"id":69950,"date":"2013-03-16T19:47:22","date_gmt":"2013-03-17T00:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=69950"},"modified":"2013-03-16T19:47:22","modified_gmt":"2013-03-17T00:47:22","slug":"kiwis-divided-over-value-for-money-from-hobbit-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2013\/03\/16\/69950-kiwis-divided-over-value-for-money-from-hobbit-films\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiwis divided over value for money from Hobbit films"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/The-Hobbit-Poster-22-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"The-Hobbit-Poster-2\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-54763 no-lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/The-Hobbit-Poster-22-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/The-Hobbit-Poster-22.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> A new survey shows New Zealanders are divided on whether the Government&#8217;s subsidy to ensure the Hobbit was made in the country was value for money. <\/p>\n<p>A UMR Online Omnibus Survey asked 1,000 New Zealanders aged over 18 whether they thought the subsidy was worthwhile. A narrow margin 42% to 38% thought it did represent value for money, with men, older New Zealanders and those on higher incomes more likely to be in favour.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Production of the films had threatened to be taken overseas until the Government stepped in and offered Warner Brothers a tax break worth $25 million and amended employment laws.<\/p>\n<p>The first installment in the trilogy was released in December and has made more than US$1 billion in global ticket sales. An independent report commissioned for the Wellington City Council also estimated that holding the film premiere and red carpet event in the city centre contributed $11,794,995 million to the region late last year.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/tvnz.co.nz\/national-news\/kiwis-divided-over-value-money-hobbit-films-5368864\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new survey shows New Zealanders are divided on whether the Government&#8217;s subsidy to ensure the Hobbit was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":57878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,20,148,392],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hobbit-movie","category-new_zealand","category-hobbit","category-warner-bros"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/100_pure_new_zealand.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-ice","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69950","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69950"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69953,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69950\/revisions\/69953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}