Key Secures Pact for New Zealand Filming of ‘Hobbit’
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New Zealand has reached agreement with Warner Bros. Productions Ltd. to keep the filming of two movies based on “The Hobbit” in the country, Prime Minister John Key said today.
The filming of the movies, based on the book by J.R.R. Tolkien and to be directed by Peter Jackson, will promote New Zealand on the world stage, Key said.