Warner Bros Entertainment won award as worst transnational corporation in NZ...

Image via WikipediaAn industrial dispute over The Hobbit films which bitterly divided public opinion in New Zealand last year, resulted in Warner Bros Entertainment being awarded a few weeks ago, the title of worst transnational corporation operating  in New Zealand for 2011.

The "Saurons of Cinema" - Warner Bros Entertainment  wielded such power as to influence the New Zealand National Government to rewrite legislation in their favour after threatening to take film making away from New Zealand to other countries, something that would have costed scores of jobs in NZ.

They gained about $100 million dollars in tax write offs.

But the bottom line here is that such interference in New Zealand politics sets a precedence for all future negotiations between the NZ government and other transnational companies.

Film-maker Peter Jackson has  also had his reputation badly dented as well. A brilliant film-maker he may
well be, but a rat-bag businessman who  is prepared to use any tactic to get his own way is the way many saw him during the dispute..

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Sir Peter Jackson may direct The Hobbit himself...

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I am – Hercules!!



If you were to make a list of the movies you’d most like to see Peter Jackson direct, what would be on top?



From yesterday’s Dominion Post of New Zealand:



Sir Peter Jackson says he will step into the breach and direct The Hobbit himself if it becomes the only way to ensure the US$150 million (NZ$219m) film is made after the sudden departure of director Guillermo del Toro.





Jackson met studio representatives yesterday to begin the search for a new director but wouldn't rule out directing The Hobbit himself if a suitable person could not be found.



"If that's what I have to do to protect Warner Bros' investment, then obviously that's one angle which I'll explore," he said. But stepping in as director would be difficult as he had signed writer and director contracts with Hollywood studios for two other films, with one likely to begin next year. "The other studios may not let me out of the contracts."





So it kinda sounds like Jackson is willing if he can wriggle free of prior commitments. But those commitments remain a mystery!



Find all of the Post’s story on the matter here:  http://www.aintitcool.com/node/45331

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