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| The Press Govt to Back 'Land of Narnia' With Sweetner The bright lights of the movie business have persuaded the Government to spend up to $40 million a year offering subsidies to film-makers who shoot most or all of their film in New Zealand. The Cabinet has agreed to allow film-makers spending more than $50m on a film or television production in New Zealand to claim 12.5 per cent of their costs back as a grant at the completion of filming. Those who spend between $15m and $50m in New Zealand can also qualify, provided the New Zealand production costs amount to 70 per cent or more of the total production cost of the film. Regional Development Minister and Wigram MP Jim Anderton said yesterday the grants would create jobs and could bring $300m to New Zealand in the next year alone. Mr Anderton has been trying to lure the makers of the children's classic The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe to Canterbury after the film's director, Kiwi-born Andrew Adamson, expressed an interest in shooting the movie in New Zealand. Walden Media has bought the rights to all seven books in the C. S. Lewis series, known as the Narnia novels. It plans to serialise them into up to five movies at a production cost of about $200m per film. ... Go to: The Press |
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