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Speaker 1: Good news. Amazon MGM are coming to make some movies.

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Speaker 1: The Wrecking Ball is what it's called. It's got Jason

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Speaker 1: Mama de Batista teams and fourteen hundred jobs were expected

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Speaker 1: the New Zealand Film Commission ahead of international attraction. Of

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Speaker 1: Marketing Philippa Mossman is with us on this Philip Morning.

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Speaker 2: Good morning.

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Speaker 1: This feels a bit but it feels a bit funny

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Speaker 1: to me because I've been around long enough to remember

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Speaker 1: the day when we did this every second Tuesday in

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Speaker 1: Wellington and it was the greatest thing in the world.

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Speaker 1: What the hell has happened to the film industry that

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Speaker 1: this is suddenly news.

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Speaker 2: Look, this is a big deal. We've been very busy

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Speaker 2: in recent years and we've got lots of productions that

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Speaker 2: we can talk to I can talk to you about

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Speaker 2: this morning. But it's a really big deal. When any

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Speaker 2: international production is secured to New Zealand, you know, it's

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Speaker 2: a big spinner and a big employer and it's celebrated.

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Speaker 1: Oh couldn't agree more and I'm all for it. Have

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Speaker 1: we have we fallen off the radar a bit with

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Speaker 1: COVID and strikes and stuff like that.

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Speaker 2: No, I not really look the strikes. The US stripes

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Speaker 2: were really problematic everywhere in the world for obvious reasons.

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Speaker 2: Productions from entirely shutdown. But you know, working through that

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Speaker 2: long winter, we rebounded pretty quickly New Zealand and we're

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Speaker 2: currently very buoyant. We've had productions here in the last

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Speaker 2: couple of years from Disney, twentieth Century, Warners, lines Gate.

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Speaker 2: You know, the list goes non Paramount TV here at Warlington, Blumouse, Warners, Netflix,

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Speaker 2: Apple TV. You know, lots of production has been going on.

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Speaker 1: The text deals still work for us.

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Speaker 2: The incentives, yes, this is a cash rebait. They do.

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Speaker 2: Look when you think about this international production from the

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Speaker 2: studios perspective, from the international executives perspective, before they greet

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Speaker 2: any movie or TV shows green, they're figuring out all

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Speaker 2: the essential elements, you know, the rioter, the director of

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Speaker 2: the cast, the budget, where are we going to shoot?

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Speaker 2: And people probably know it's in decades and Hollywood movies

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Speaker 2: were shot mostly in Hollywood, and the reason for that

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Speaker 2: is because other countries offer incentives. Fifteen years ago, studio

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Speaker 2: would budget a couple of places in the US and

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Speaker 2: maybe can that And now when they're thinking where in

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Speaker 2: the world are we going to take this fantastic international production.

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Speaker 2: They might look at fifteen fteen different places, so the

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Speaker 2: film a film common we do everything we can to

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Speaker 2: make sure that one of those places they considers New Zealand.

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Speaker 2: For over one hundred places in the world offering incentives programs,

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Speaker 2: it's fiercely compensive global, globally, and the reason for that is,

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Speaker 2: you know, because of the significant benefits that these productions deliver.

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Speaker 2: Over a relatively short period of time of a production

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Speaker 2: being here, a huge injection of foreign money. New money

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Speaker 2: is made into our country or region or community, you know,

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Speaker 2: spent on humans, on jobs, and on businesses.

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Speaker 1: Exactly. I'm very exciting and still going well. Philip, appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Philip A. Mossman, who's with the New Zealand Film Commission.

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