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Speaker 1: Out a big old weekend in Wellington. The premiere of

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Speaker 1: the new Avatar film is tomorrow. Kate Winsley, Cliff Curtis,

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Speaker 1: Jermaine Clement, They're all going to hit the red carpet.

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Speaker 1: Two cruise ships ad you and maybe maybe the cricket

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Speaker 1: will still be on. Philippa Mossman is the head of

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Speaker 1: International Attraction and Marketing at the New Zealand Film Film

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Speaker 1: Commission and with us morning.

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Speaker 2: Philippa, good morning, good morning.

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Speaker 1: Imagine you're going to be there as well.

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Speaker 2: I'll be there. There'll be a group of us there tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: And I must say the Wellington city is looking very

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Speaker 2: beautiful at the moment.

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Speaker 1: Well have you gone out and had to look and

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Speaker 1: made sure it's all up to standard and being cleaned?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, the red carpet's cleaned and the Embassy Theater

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Speaker 2: is looking sparkling and it feels like every postcover in

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Speaker 2: those cities flowering all at once.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, beautiful.

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Speaker 2: There's real buzz about the place.

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Speaker 1: Does it actually even really matter what Courtney Place looks like?

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Speaker 1: Because I can't imagine. I mean, what do you people?

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Speaker 1: Do you go to the premiere and then do you hit?

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Speaker 1: Do you hit the strip afterwards.

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Speaker 2: So there will be function after the premiere, not on

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Speaker 2: Courtney Place. But look, I think everybody's just really excited

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Speaker 2: to be gathering in that beautiful Embassy theater and s

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Speaker 2: this is the Australasian premiere for Avatar. James Cameron himself

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Speaker 2: will be there and it's just going to be a

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Speaker 2: really important and exciting occasion for the country.

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Speaker 1: Do you expect that this latest Avatar film is going

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Speaker 1: to be as successful as the predecessors?

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Speaker 2: Oh god, I couldn't. I couldn't possibly imagine it, gom

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Speaker 2: In on that. I know that there's legions of fans.

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Speaker 2: I had spoken to a few people in Los Angeles

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Speaker 2: who had seen the film and you know, say it

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Speaker 2: absolutely spectacular, which is I'm sure is the case. So

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Speaker 2: here's hoping that it is absolutely as successful as the

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Speaker 2: last two.

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Speaker 1: So Philippa, when this was announced that the premiere would

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Speaker 1: be in Wellington, it did feel like it was slightly

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Speaker 1: surprising given the negative store as a negative narrative around

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Speaker 1: the capitol. Do you think it's the last of the

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Speaker 1: big premieres or have we got more and enough pipe

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Speaker 1: work in the pipeline to actually have more of these?

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Speaker 1: Do you think.

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Speaker 2: Look, we have definitely have more in the pipeline and

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Speaker 2: the premiere is in Wellington actually as part of what

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Speaker 2: has been agreed with the companies in terms of what

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Speaker 2: they return to us for the incentives they get for

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Speaker 2: the production here, so that's part of that negotiation. I

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Speaker 2: do think there are still big productions that are going

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Speaker 2: to be attracted to New Zealand, and some of them

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Speaker 2: will will do you know, world premieres like this, but

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Speaker 2: not all of them.

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Speaker 1: Well yeah, hey, thank you very much and enjoy the evening.

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Speaker 1: I hope you've got a beautiful frog for It's Philippa Mossman,

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Speaker 1: the head of the Internetational Attraction and Marketing at the

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Speaker 1: New Zealand Film Commission. Kate Winslette. That's a proper big star,

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Speaker 1: isn't it. Where do you think you take Kate Winslet out?

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Speaker 1: When for dinner you're in Wellington? You've got to go

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Speaker 1: eat out. Everybody goes to that for shack, now, don't

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Speaker 1: they all? Tiger for Shack just off off Courtney Place.

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Speaker 1: So probably just have to go there because because just

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