The good news: Phil Goff is off to Australia.
The bad news: he has a return ticket.
But he won’t be back in time to help or hamper desperate effort to repair the damage done by threats of an international actors’ boycott of The Hobbit.
As the movie moguls fly in, Phil Goff flies out – but will he confront Simon Whipp?
October 25, 2010
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The hobbling of The Hobbit – or how to drive a movie project to some other country
October 1, 2010How do you kill the goose that laid the golden egg and turned our capital into Wellywood?
Very quickly, when you bring in the bloody trade unionists.
NZ Actors Equity has allied itself with Australia’s Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance , which has called for a boycott of The Hobbit films.
Other actors’ unions around the world are supporting that call.
Crazy.
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