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Speaker 1: Now a massive film production is coming to New Zealand.

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Speaker 1: Amazon and MGM will primarily be shooting The Wrecking Crew.

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Speaker 1: This is the film The wreck and Crew, which stars

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Speaker 1: Jason Molmore, Dave Batista and Timmy ware and Morrison in

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Speaker 1: the city of Sales and Auckland is because it's expected

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Speaker 1: to be the biggest production made here in New Zealand

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Speaker 1: since The Lord of the Rings TV show Bugger Off

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Speaker 1: to the UK. Nick Hill is chief executive of Tartuki

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Speaker 1: Auckland Unlimited and is with us.

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Speaker 2: Now, Hey, Nick, Hi, Heather.

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Speaker 1: How big a deal is this for Auckland.

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Speaker 2: It is a big deal and the timing couldn't be

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Speaker 2: better given the challenges that we've had economically.

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Speaker 1: Okay, how long is it going to be here for?

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Speaker 2: They'll probably film for two to three months, but they'll

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Speaker 2: employ about fourteen hundred people. Yeah, and it will be

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Speaker 2: all over the region, so I think it'll be very

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Speaker 2: visible to people and it's.

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Speaker 1: Where are they filming?

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Speaker 2: Nick tell us, Well, they will certainly film in this

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Speaker 2: city scene, but also other parts around the region and

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Speaker 2: I think Auckland will actually get to show itself off

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Speaker 2: in a major movie.

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Speaker 1: So we're going to be able to fill our eyes

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Speaker 1: with Jason Momoor in real life we.

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Speaker 2: Are, and maybe even some car chases around our streets.

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Speaker 1: Much less interesting to the ladies neck, much less interesting.

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Speaker 1: Of the fourteen hundred, how many of them are that

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Speaker 1: we basically they're using our crew, they're not bringing their own.

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Speaker 2: A large number of them will be local, if not,

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Speaker 2: if not most of them. We have very good crews

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Speaker 2: here that are definitely international, and we've become very used

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Speaker 2: to working on these international productions.

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Speaker 1: Now. I don't want to be ungrateful because you know,

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Speaker 1: three months is three months, but three months is also

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Speaker 1: just three months. Is there anything after that?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? So the pipeline at the moment is actually very strong.

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Speaker 2: But the challenge with these things is they're all projects,

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Speaker 2: so they all kind of have an ending. But we're

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Speaker 2: doing really well because of the US dollar and Auckland

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Speaker 2: and New Zealand is considered absolutely first rate for making

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Speaker 2: these sorts of films. So right now the situation looks

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Speaker 2: very good.

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Speaker 1: So is this a case now if I look at

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Speaker 1: this and I say, okay, Auckland is now the place

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Speaker 1: where we do the filming, not so much Wellington? Is

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Speaker 1: that fair?

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Speaker 2: No? I mean where Auckland's about sixty percent of the

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Speaker 2: screen industry. It's always had a role, but Wellington's are

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Speaker 2: also important and New Zealand itself a relatively small part

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Speaker 2: of the international market, so on the whole we're actually

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Speaker 2: selling New Zealand rather than Auckland or Wellington, and there's

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Speaker 2: always competition for studio space when these big productions come along.

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Speaker 1: Nick, it's good to.

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Speaker 2: Talk to you.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Nick Hill of Auckland Unlimited. He's

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Speaker 1: the chief executive there. For more from Heather Duplessye Alan Drive.

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