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		<title>THE HOBBIT, Production Video #3 [HD]</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 11:48:06 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Production Video #3 from the set of THE HOBBIT, 21 July 2011. Peter Jackson channels James Bond movies at Pinewood Studios and talks to Andy Serkis, 2nd unit director and many others.</p>
<p>The production is based in Miramar Studios in Wellington New Zealand and various locations around New Zealand. The movie is to be released for Christmas 2012 and includes Hugo Weaving, Elijah Woods, Cate Blanchett, Stephen Fry and Martin Freeman among many others.</p>
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		<title>Daily English Show #3 &#8211; Taputaputa Bay To Opononi (Video)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2011 13:24:26 +0000</pubDate>
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The Daily English Show, an occasional video series, has hit the road  traveling through New Zealand in a United Campervan. Today Taputaputa Bay To Opononi on the southern shore of Hokianga Harbour.

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<p>The Daily English Show, an occasional video series, has hit the road  traveling through New Zealand in a United Campervan. Today Taputaputa Bay To Opononi on the southern shore of Hokianga Harbour.</p>
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<p><a title="The Daily English Show" href="http://www.thedailyenglishshow.com/" target="_blank">The Daily English Show </a>website can be found <a title="The Daily English Show" href="http://www.thedailyenglishshow.com/" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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		<title>Wind in the Willows Woos Wellington</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>First the hobbits, then Narnia and Tintin, now Toad, Badger, Rat and Mole are to be brought to life by Weta Workshop  of ‘Wellywood’ in a big-screen adaptation of <em>The Wind in the  Willows</em>.</p>
<p>Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame is the next film in the line of best loved classic fiction being created for the big screen. Willows was first published in <a title="1908 in  literature" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1908_in_literature">1908</a>. Others include Tintin and Lord of the Rings.</p>
<p>Filming will begin in New Zealand at the end of this year.</p>
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<p><em>The Wind in the Willows</em> is another prospective blockbuster  for the Weta Workshop team which now holds a raft of major awards .<em> </em>It centers on the story of four furry  friends &#8211; Toad, Badger, Rat and Mole, and their adventurous journey  towards learning the true value of friendship. In the script, written by Bill Marsilli, the friends band together to  save their land from a sinister plot to destroy an uneasy truce between  the peaceful animals of the Willows and what remains of Mankind.<br />
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		<title>Boy Drives Classic Tune to Top of Charts (Video)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 12:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GregR</dc:creator>
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A classic tune is back in the charts after a boost from film-maker Taika  Waititiâ€™s latest film and his own video remake of the eighties hit. Patea MÄori Clubâ€™s original version of Poi E ...]]></description>
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<p>A classic tune is back in the charts after a boost from film-maker Taika  Waititiâ€™s latest film and his own video remake of the eighties hit. Patea MÄori Clubâ€™s original version of <em>Poi E</em> &#8211; which blitzed  the New Zealand charts for 22 weeks in 1984 &#8211; has been revived in  Waititiâ€™s 2010 coming-of-age film <em>Boy</em>. The director Waititi has since released a video mashup of new and original material for the popular song.</p>
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<p>The result is a loving  tongue-in-cheek clip of <em>Poi E</em> that splices shots from the  original Patea MÄori Club video with scenes from <em>Boy</em>, and the  now-older band. The video was put together in just one day.</p>
<p>&#8220;Itâ€™s hard to do something with limited material but I think it  captures the soul of the film and itâ€™s pretty fun to watch. Itâ€™s great  to see a NZ classic get another chance in the charts,&#8221; says Waititi.</p>
<p>And here is the video:</p>
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		<title>Weta Legs &#8211; A World First in Costuming and Creature Performance (Video)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 23:14:09 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Weta Legs are a unique, low profile, professional grade reverse leg  stilt for creature and costume performances in movies, television,  theatre, circus, street performances and other creative performances.</p>
<p>Something previously reserved for commercial film and television  projects, they are the first of their kind available commercially to the  public.</p>
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		<title>The World in our Own Back Yard (Video)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 21:06:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GregR</dc:creator>
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<p>Written and directed by Aya Tanimure from the USA. Sweet As was a   finalist in the Your Big Break competition  a global search for the next   great filmmaker. Their task was to capture the spirit of New Zealand  in  a 3 minute short film. Judged by Peter Jackson and produced by multi   Academy Award winner Barrie Osborne.</p>
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		<title>Twenty questions with Taika Waititi (Video)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:45:17 +0000</pubDate>
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Director of &#8216;Eagle vs Shark&#8217; and &#8216;Boy&#8217; answers  some questions posed  to him by Damian Christie and Dominic Corry.
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		<title>Taika Waititi&#8217;s Sundance Appearance (Video)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GregR</dc:creator>
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		<title>Peter Jackson Talks Lovely Bones (Video)</title>
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		<title>Rhys Darby &#8211; Jetpack (Video)</title>
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		<title>Wellywood, Hollywood As God Intended &#8211; deToro (Video)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:42:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Forbes Names New Zealand Ultra Safe Travel Destination</title>
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<p>Whilst Kiwiland is inhabited by both hobbits and Dark Lords, according to Forbes Traveller, <a title="Forbes Traveller" href="http://www.forbestraveler.com/best-lists/worlds-safest-places-slide-6.html?partner=playlist&amp;thisSpeed=25000" target="_blank">New Zealand is an ultra safe destination for travelling humans</a>:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Kiwis are much more into harming themselves (via rugby or bungee jumping) than assaulting others. As a result, New Zealand boasts among the lowest violent crime rates in the Western world. The islands are too far south to attract tropical cyclones, too far north for Antarctic blizzards. The last fatal earthquake was 1968.</p>
<p>Also included in the list was Singapore, the Swiss, Bhutan and our friends the Irish.</p>
<p>The French are touring New Zealand at the moment and are suffering at the hands of the All Blacks however.<br />
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		<title>Weta Podcast: Richard Taylor and Shane Rangi</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 10:51:06 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>We get an update from Richard on which of the 50 million projects they are working on at Weta and Shane Rangi, kiwi (and Maori) stuntman extraordinaire talks about his work.</p>
<p><span id="more-1222"></span>Shane (Ngati Porou) was in Peter Jackson&#8217;s The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (as the &#8220;Witch-king of Angmar&#8221; &#8220;Easterling NCO&#8221; and Harad <em>mÃ»makil</em> &#8216;driver&#8217;).Â  In 2005 he played General Otmin, general of the White Witch&#8217;s army in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. In 2008, he played the Werewolf and Asterius<a class="mw-redirect" title="King Miraz" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Miraz"></a>, in <em>The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian</em>.Â  Shane also was a stunt man in the three LOTR films, King Kong and X Men 3.</p>
<p>You can find the podcast <a title="Weta Workshop" href="http://www.wetanz.com/listen-to-episode-ix-richard-taylor-and-shane-rangi/" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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		<title>District 9 &#8211; An Allegory for What? (Video)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 22:07:10 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>The new movie District 9 from Peter Jackson and Neill Blomkamp looks to be the real sleeper hit of 2009. If you are into socialogical science fiction, this is it.<br />
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		<title>Doctor Who Daleks Get Weta Treatment (Video)</title>
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<p>Growing up, the scariest alien of them all on our television was the Daleks from Doctor Who.Â  Daleks are organisms from the planet Skaro, integrated within a tank-like mechanical casing. The resulting creatures are a powerful race bent on universal conquest and domination, utterly without pity, compassion or remorse. Their ruthless conquest was the constant battle of the Doctor and his various <em>companions</em>.</p>
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<p><em><strong>Doctor Who</strong></em> is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme follows the adventures of a mysterious traveller known as &#8220;the Doctor&#8221; who travels through time in a <a title="TARDIS" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TARDIS">TARDIS</a>, a 1950s style blue Police Phone Box.</p>
<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 250px"><img title="Doctor Who tardis" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/103/316350537_fd4f2f462c_m.jpg" alt="Doctor Who Tardis" width="240" height="240" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Uploaded on Flickr by aussiegall</p></div>
<p>The series is the longest-running science fiction television show in the world, running from 1963 until 1996. The series was resurrected in 2005 and still runs today with the eleventh Doctor, Matt Smith.</p>
<p>The trademark DALEK is owned by the BBC, who with clever foresight secured the rights in 1964 and continues to this day to be a revenue earner for the corporation.</p>
<p>Weta Workshop is a licensee for the Doctor Who since 2008. They produce a range of very high quality Doctor Who replicas. Dave Tremont is a Senior Workshop Artist at Weta <a title="Dr Who Online" href="http://www.drwho-online.co.uk/features/interviews/davetremont.aspx" target="_blank">remembers being scared to death:</a></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>Having the crap scared out of me watching a Dalek approaching the terrified  	Barbara, actually it was just the sucker arm that was approaching Barbara. I  	donâ€™t remember anything from the caveman story but remember a lot from â€˜The  	Dead Planetâ€™. I would watch the stories in absolute terror and fits of  	shaking but could not stop watching. I was mortified if we had to go out and  	would miss an episode or would go and bug the neighbors if our TV broke down  	(which was often).</em></p>
<p>You can see one of the their Dalek replicas here:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoPc_jGgHD0">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoPc_jGgHD0</a></p>
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		<title>Peter Jackson Talks Lovely Bones</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:31:38 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>While the rest of use are worrying about the economy and whether we have jobs, there is one person who is having one hell of a year and has so much work he does not know what to do. And that is Mr Peter Jackson of Manuka St, Miramar Wellington.</p>
<p><span id="more-1152"></span>While tackling two Tintin Films and two Hobbit films and over $500M in movie making purchase orders, Mr Jackson talked to <a title="USA Today" href="http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2009-04-19-bones-jackson_N.htm" target="_blank">USA Today</a>.</p>
<p>On the subject of novel adaptation:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">In the case of <em>The </em><em>Lovely Bones</em>, I felt that it was subject matter not often dealt with in film, and with a tone that is also rare. Losing loved ones is something we all have to deal with, and when that story is partly told from the loved one&#8217;s point of view, it becomes quite interesting â€” especially with Susie&#8217;s sense of humor. Add to that the fact that Susie is killed by a man living just down the street, and it now becomes a very unique thriller.</p>
<p>Over at <a title="Slash Film" href="http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/04/23/empire-spill-tintin-beans-galore-second-film-coming-really-soon/" target="_blank">Slash Film</a> he discusses three different Tintin films:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">We were originally planning three to be in production at the same time in different stages, and we may well do that. At the moment we have this one and the studio[s] is financing the second one as well, which is in pre-production.</p>
<p>There is also <a title="showbiz.com" href="http://www.aceshowbiz.com/news/view/00023734.html" target="_blank">speculation online</a> about who exactly will direct the third film, the first being Spielberg and the second Jackson.</p>
<p>With the release of Lovely Bones in November and District 9 in August, the team at the arguebly the number one motion capture production house in the world have their work cut out.<br />
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		<title>Whats With The Wot Wots? (Video)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>As we have previously <a title="Kiwibloke" href="http://www.kiwibloke.org/kiwi-films/weta-workshop-whats-wot/" target="_blank">talked about</a>, Weta Workshop has a new childrens TV series called Wot Wots. You can now see a full episode right here.</p>
<p><span id="more-1143"></span><span>The new TV series is about two young aliens who land their spaceship in a zoo and spend their days exploring their new environment, wondering what they will grow up to be..</span></p>
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		<title>Gooey Romance Epic Wins People Choice Award (Video)</title>
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Issac Westenra, youngerÂ  brother of Kiwi singing superstar Hayley Westenra has picked up the People&#8217;s Choice Award for most views in the 2009 Cadbury Creme Egg Gooeys Film Festival.

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<p><span>Issac Westenra</span>, youngerÂ  brother of Kiwi singing superstar <a title="Hayley Westenra" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayley_Westenra" target="_blank">Hayley Westenra</a> has picked up the People&#8217;s Choice Award for most views in the 2009 Cadbury Creme Egg Gooeys Film Festival.</p>
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<p><span>The stop motion picture depicts the romantic relationship between two Creme Eggs (Eggward and Megg) and the resulting complicated birth of their offspring. The short film was made over a period of six weeks. All sets/props were also made by Issac including over 2000 photos for the 4min 3sec carmel cinema.<br />
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 12:38:19 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>According to <a title="Empire Magazine" href="http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=24610" target="_blank">Empire Magazine</a>, the second Hobbit Movie will now not be a 60 filler between <em>The Hobbit </em>and <em>Fellowship of the Rings</em> but:</p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>â€œWeâ€™ve decided to have The Hobbit span the two movies, including the White Council and the comings and goings of Gandalf to Dol Guldur,â€ says Del Toro.</em></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>â€œWe decided it would be a mistake to try to cram everything into one movie,â€ adds Jackson. â€œThe essential brief was to do The Hobbit, and it allows us to make The Hobbit in a little more style, if you like, of the [LOTR] trilogy.â€</em></p>
<p>Unfortunately that is only a teaser, for the full story you need to buy the 20th Birthday Edition of the Empire Magazine, which Steven Spielberg will be guest editing.</p>
<p>Also in this edition is more <a title="Empire Magazine" href="http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=24608" target="_blank">Peter Jackson goodness.</a> They also cover the <strong>The Adventures of Tintin:Â The Secret of the Unicorn</strong> in detail.<br />
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		<title>UFO Sighting in New Zealand Town (Video)</title>
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		<title>Chris Pine Talks Star Trek in Auckland</title>
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<p>Chris Pine who plays <em>Captain Kirk </em>in a new more edgy Star Trek talks at the Auckland Premiere of the movie. Kiwi rd of the Rings star <span>Karl Urban stars as <em>Dr. Leonard &#8216;Bones&#8217; McCoy </em>also makes an appearance.<br />
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<p>Karl has been in Shortland Street, appeared in Lord of the Rings and Xena Warrior Princess, a track that many Kiwi stars took to stardom (Zoe Bell, Lucy Lawless etc).</p>
<p>According to IMDB:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>For filming the &#8220;Lord of the Rings&#8221; movies, he [Urban] realized that Eomer was a consummate horseman and he was nowhere near that level, so he invested a lot of time learning&#8211;six to eight weeks, five days a week, two hours a day. He wanted to learn to neck rein, a method of steering a horse using one hand while leaving the other hand free to wield a sword.</em></p>
<p><span>STAR TREK is a prequel to the original Star Trek. </span>It chronicles of the early days of James T. Kirk and the USS Enterprise and therefore the crew is much younger than the team we know and love.</p>
<p><span> The film is directed by J.J. Abrams, produced by Damon Lindelof and Bryan Burk and written by Roberto Orci &amp; Alex Kurtzman.</span><br />
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		<title>Lord of the Rings Tour Big Hit in North America (Video)</title>
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<p>&#8220;Lord of the Rings&#8221; fans are flocking to New Zealand, where the trilogy was filmed to see first hand where the successful film trilogy was made according to <a title="CNN" href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/04/03/movie.tours/index.html" target="_blank">CNN</a>.</p>
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<p>Lord of the Rings Tours &amp; Experiences by<a title="Southern Lakes Sightseeing" href="http://www.lordoftheringstours.co.nz" target="_blank"> Southern Lakes Sightseeing</a> have specialized Lord of the Rings tours. They include experienced storytellers that can accurately point out the scenery and more importantly the relevant sections of the movies. They also include props used in the film. This particular tourÂ  was endorsed by Ian Brodie, the LOTR guidebook author.</p>
<p>If you prefer to see the sites by air, <a title="Glenochy Air" href="http://www.glenorchy.net.nz/" target="_blank">Glenorchy Air</a> offers both ground and air tours to the various location sites here in the South Island of New Zealand. These include the locations used to represent Lothlorien, Amon Hen, Nen Hithoel, Amon Lhaw, Path Galen, Ford of Bruinen, The Pillars of the King on the River Anduin, and the site of Gandalf&#8217;s ride to Isengard.Â  They have both the three rings tour and the two rings tour. The also have an earth-based one ring walking tour around Queenstown environs.</p>
<p>Not to forget Wellington, the home of movie making in New Zealand, <a title="Wellington Rover" href="http://www.wellingtonrover.co.nz/rover_rings_tour.htm" target="_blank">Wellington Rover</a> has a complete full day Lord of the rings tour that includes the Outer Shire which is in Wellington&#8217;s Greenbelt, the Weta Cave and the Eva Dixons Cafe. This is followed by theÂ  Miramar Peninsula for Movie Studio Drive Wellywood Suburbs, home of Weta Workshop and the Peter Jackson empire. That is followed by the Hutt River (Auduin), Harcourt Park (Isengard), and Kaitoke Regional Park (Rivendell).</p>
<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 510px"><img title="Hobbiton" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/1/2292058_7ee6434311.jpg" alt="Uploaded on Flickr by Jared Kelly" width="500" height="333" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Uploaded on Flickr by Jared Kelly</p></div>
<p>One of the ultimate Lord of the Rings experience is Hobbiton. Situated in the 1250 acre Alexander Farm (which is a working sheep farm) Hobbiton is the Shire, home of Bilbo Baggins. Orginally developed in 1999 for 3 months of filming, the majority of the Shire remains for tourists and vistors. To many this is the highlight of a complete Lord of the Rings tour. This attraction is run by Hobbiton Tours. You can find tons of information <a title="Hobbiton Tours" href="http://www.hobbitontours.com" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
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<p>Here is the promotion video:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KjQ2sypLKY">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KjQ2sypLKY</a></p>
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		<title>48 Hours of Furious Filmmaking in New Zealand</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>This years 48 hours of Film-making is back on in New Zealand. The challenge is for independent teams (not Peter Jackson or the Weta guys)Â  to create a short form video over one weekend.</p>
<p><span id="more-1078"></span>The filmmakers do not know what genre they will required to create until the start of the competition. All creativity including the writing, story boarding, shooting and post production must occur within the 48 hours beginning Friday 8th May 2009. Each team competes within 7 city groups, Auckland, Hamilton, Gisborne, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin as well as another group for Out of Towners.</p>
<p>A few days later the short films will be shown to the audience in heats to play off for a chance to be in the City finals where they will be judged by a team of professional film makers. The competiton includes winners for each city group as well as a crazy Peter Jackson Wildcard competition. So get out your VHS copy of Meet the Feebles.</p>
<p>Last year over 600 teams competed in the competition creating a range of films, you can view all the winners in the screening room <a title="48hours NZ" href="http://www.48hours.co.nz/screening-room/" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
<p>Some of the guidelines include:</p>
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<li><em>DO NOT take prop guns/knives/weapons out in public places. This is a really bad idea that could end up with you being arrested or worse. Even if you have notified the police that this is what you are planning on doing, they have to respond if someone claims to have seen someone with a weapon and doesn&#8217;t understand you are making a film, and it will be a hassle. Just don&#8217;t do it. The police have been pretty accommodating but after previous armed offender call outs you may just find yourself being charged or at the very least getting a large bill for wasting their time.</em></li>
<li><em>Unless you have a pyrotechnics licence and a registered safety officer on set, DO NOT consider trying to do any sort of real explosion, we don&#8217;t care how small. If you want to do anything but it doesn&#8217;t look or feel safe &#8211; just don&#8217;t do it. Don&#8217;t be stupid. Play smart, play safe.</em></li>
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<p>Last years winner were a group of faux street rappers doing a finger dance face off. Here is the 2008 winning film F*Dance from Puppy Guts in Wellington.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrDQlGRUAMQ">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrDQlGRUAMQ</a></p>
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		<title>Weta Workshop&#8217;s Richard Taylor Talks Dr Who (Video)</title>
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		<title>Worlds Largest Piano Built By A Kiwi Teenager (Video)</title>
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<p>The world&#8217;s largest piano was unveiled last week in a farmers barn outside of Timaru by the world&#8217;s youngest piano maker.</p>
<p><span id="more-1054"></span><span>Adrian Mann, definitely the world&#8217;s youngest piano maker and possibly New Zealand&#8217;s youngest inventor has completed the world&#8217;s largest and longest piano. He started the piano at 16 years old, 4 years later he has completed the 5.7 metre-long piano. </span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>With no plans available for such a project, Mr Mann found himself having to design many of the piano&#8217;s components. He hand-made four sets of the 700mm long piano keys before he was satisfied.</em></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>When traditional piano-building materials weren&#8217;t available, he improvised. The spruce used for soundboards wasn&#8217;t available so Mr Mann cross-cut Canadian Douglas Fir bought from a salvage yard instead. An estimated 85 per cent of the piano is made from recycled materials.</em></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>For the past three months, he has worked 12 hours a day to complete the piano, named after the great-great grandfather who brought his family to New Zealand in the 1880s.</em></p>
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		<title>Richard Taylor and Weta Workshop Honored (Video)</title>
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<p>Richard Taylor the the Weta Workshop team were honored this week at World Class New Zealand Awards.</p>
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<p>Taylor co-founded special effects company Weta Workshop in 1994, along with Tania Rodger and film director Peter Jackson. Taylor has won five Oscars during a career for films such as <em>The Lord of the Rings</em> trilogy, <em>King Kong</em> and <em>Heavenly Creatures</em>.</p>
<p>The awards were presented on Wednesday night at aÂ  <a title="NZ Herald" href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&amp;objectid=10564750" target="_blank">gala dinner in Auckland</a>:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">For the last 15 years Weta Workshop &#8211; a special effects facility of which Taylor co-founded and is the creative director &#8211; has created models, makeup and monsters for movies like the Lord of the Rings trilogy and King Kong.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">&#8220;He&#8217;s internationally recognised, he&#8217;s won five Oscars, so he&#8217;s hugely famous. He&#8217;s done such a fantastic job for New Zealand and really put New Zealand on the map,&#8221; says KEA&#8217;s global chairman Stephen Tindall.</p>
<p>The awards were organized by Kea New Zealand (of which Kiwibloke is a member) to promote World Class Excellence and creative talent in New Zealand.</p>
<p><strong>THE WINNERS</strong></p>
<p><strong>2009 World Class New Zealand Awards</strong></p>
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<li>Richard Taylor, supreme winner.</li>
<li>Ray Avery, biotechnology.</li>
<li>John Buchanan, finance, investment and business services.</li>
<li>Jane Hunter, manufacturing.</li>
<li>Peter Hunter, research, science, technology and academia.</li>
<li>Phillip Mills, new thinking.</li>
<li>Craig Nevill-Manning, information and communications technology.</li>
<li>Karen Walker, creative industries.</li>
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<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdm62G4BCYk">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdm62G4BCYk</a></p>
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<p>Early <a title="Kiwibloke" href="http://www.kiwibloke.org/kiwi-films/peter-jackson-backs-south-african-district-9/">last month we covered</a> a story about District 9, a sci-fi movie produced by Peter Jackson&#8217;s Wingnut Films and directed by South African <a title="Neil Blomcamp" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0088955/" target="_blank">Neil Blomcamp.<br />
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<p>It seems that Sony has been previewing the movie for the industry.</p>
<p><a title="Firstshowing" href="http://www.firstshowing.net/2009/04/01/showest-first-district-9-footage-keep-your-eye-on-this/" target="_blank">Firstshowing</a> has an update on District 9 which is due out later this year:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>The footage started out like any typical documentary on third world conditions and rufegees, with locals talking about how they don&#8217;t like them. Above the city a giant alien space ship sits dormant, which is what they originally arrived on. But what are their intentions? Well, in one scene where we finally see the aliens as the MNU police attempt to tell them they must leave their shanty home, they find some sort of odd device. It&#8217;s not a weapon, which is what they&#8217;re usually all about. But in looking at it, it explodes and some liquid flies into the face of the man holding it. He&#8217;s taken to a hospital and things begin to go crazy.</em></p>
<p>Over at hollywood insider they <a title="Hollywood insider" href="http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2009/04/sony-reel.html" target="_blank">have more details</a>:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>&#8230;.which is based on a series of short videos Blomkamp had created for advertising Halo 3. The film itself concerns a South African refugee camp for aliens called District 9, and it resembles a combination of 28 Days Later and Cloverfield. Sony execs are psyched about the project and it could prove to be one of the big surprises of the summer. These days, that&#8217;s a hard feat to pull off.</em></p>
<p><a title="Slash Film" href="http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/03/06/what-is-district-9/" target="_blank">Slash Film has a good description </a>of District 9.</p>
<p>If Peter Jackson&#8217;s history is anything to go by, this will be the sleeper of the year.<br />
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		<title>Taika Waititi Interview &#8211; Eagle Vs Shark Director</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:12:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Speculation on Hobbit Trilogy</title>
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<p>Speculation has risen online that there is a planned third movie in the Hobbit series adding to the two movies already in the works from Peter Jackson. As we had r<a title="Kiwibloke" href="http://www.kiwibloke.org/archives/976" target="_self">eported earlier</a>, Jackson and Del Toro are well under way with a remake of the original Hobbit book and another creation that spans between &#8220;The Hobbit&#8221; and &#8220;Fellowship of the Rings&#8221;.</p>
<p><span id="more-988"></span>According the <a title="The One Ring" href="http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2009/03/31/31573-the-hobbittrilogy/" target="_blank">TheOneRing</a>, another third movie is in the works based on previously unreleased material from the Tolkien Estate:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>Our insider also mentioned some legal wrangling with the Tolkien Estate to acquire additional rights to materials not currently under license which would provide the bulk of the plot for the third movie.</em></p>
<p>If speculation is correct, this trilogy will rival in size and scope the first trilogy fondly known as LOTR by fans. The LOTR trilogy has grossed world wide in excess of $US 3 Billion and is the 15th, 2nd and 8th highst grossing movies ever.<br />
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