Posts by Peter Cox
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Uh oh, it's all coming out now...
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10683359
If, as Peter Jackson says, that 17 August letter was the first request for a meeting they got, then it rather seems the MEAA have just been caught actively disguising the truth to their AE members, and as a result AE members have been caught disguising the truth on TV as well.
My mind is officially blown.
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The request was in the first instance made privately, without the glare of the media on August 17.
So that WAS the first request then.
I have officially never seen anything madder, and on such a grand scale as this. That entire email... I'm just gobsmacked...
I'm honestly just going to have to step away from the computer for the rest of the evening before I say something I'm going to regret.
Words cannot convey what I'm feeling right now...
...actually, they can, which is why I need to walk away.
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I've been told part of the problem is a Film Commission won't fund a film unless it gets a distribution deal first, which puts the Distributors in rather a good position to negotiate a less than splendid deal with the Producers, and that negotiation has little to do with how good the film is (because it hasn't been made yet).
Not being a producer, it's not my area of expertise though.
Funnily enough, it was something Peter Jackson touched on quite strongly in the NZFC report.
It's also interesting that the Film Commission have delayed revealing their response to the review. Probably sensible really, as it was going to be today until the delayed it...
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Done :)
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Whale Rider, possibly.
EDIT:
(from wikipedia)
Budget NZ$$9,235,000
Gross revenue US$41,442,113
Actual profit depends on distribution deals, etc. Doubt anyone creatively involved wound up with terribly much. You'd have to ask John Barnett (good luck there) I wonder if Witi Ihimaera got his %??
Someone could probably trace the net profit through the film commission if they were truly inclined.
Did launch a couple of careers though...
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Bad distribution deals people tell me...
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The Standard's timeline of comprehension:
1. The Union's doing nothing wrong!
2. How dare you say the union's doing something wrong, traitor scab!
3. Oh no, wait - okay, the Union's doing some things wrong.
4. Okay, wait, the union totally stuffed this up.
5. Oh, now John Key and the Studios are taking advantage of it!
6. John Key and the Studio are evil bastards!
7. I hate Peter Jackson.(I'm pretty much just getting this from the headlines)
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there is probably earlier communication over the previous two years between MEAA/NZAE and the producers
You'd certainly hope so. Maybe we could put it into the 'jumping to conclusions' pile, at least for the moment. Still, you'd think the MEAA factsheet would mention them if they existed, surely. I dunno - maybe they just didn't put the fact sheet together properly and implied something they didn't intend to?
And the moment it rather reads like: we've been trying to meet with local producers and SPADA, but they refused and therefore we're targeting the Hobbit...
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You'd think it might be compulsory reading for AE members too. Like - maybe before they go out on TV trying to defend it all?
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The weird thing is that it takes a grand total of 10 minutes work, looking at the 'Hobbit Factsheet' the MEAA first sent out to everyone (and is literally the first mention of all this on the AE website) to see all those issues plain as day.
The whole thing is really just so, so bizarre.