{"id":70125,"date":"2013-03-23T08:21:50","date_gmt":"2013-03-23T13:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=70125"},"modified":"2013-03-23T08:24:04","modified_gmt":"2013-03-23T13:24:04","slug":"70125","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2013\/03\/23\/70125-70125\/","title":{"rendered":"Hobbit DVD to sell NZ film-wizardry to &#8216;millions&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Flowers-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Flowers\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-50960 no-lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Flowers-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Flowers.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> New Zealand&#8217;s film industry is hoping the flow-on effects from the release of The Hobbit on DVD will extend beyond just increased tourism numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Released in North America this week, it featured a small clip of cast interviews raving over behind-the-scenes footage of New Zealand&#8217;s landscape.<\/p>\n<p>Martin Freeman, who stars as Bilbo Baggins, said New Zealand was &#8220;too perfect&#8221;.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The backdrop is so beautiful, people will think it&#8217;s CGI,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Film New Zealand chief executive Gisella Carr said the short film would attract a lot of film-industry attention towards New Zealand as a destination.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is rare for a global audience to be so aware of where a production is made.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Carr said The Hobbit showcased New Zealand&#8217;s &#8220;film-making wizardy&#8221; and the short film with the DVD would reach millions of viewers. <\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/business\/industries\/8462712\/Hobbit-DVD-will-sell-NZ-to-millions\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand&#8217;s film industry is hoping the flow-on effects from the release of The Hobbit on DVD will&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":69624,"comment_status":"open","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,20,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hobbit-movie","category-new_zealand","category-hobbit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/HBBT_BRCombo.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s1tLoH-70125","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70125","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=70125"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70128,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70125\/revisions\/70128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}