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All action in the Kiwi film industry | BUSINESS News
Kiwis are heading out to see more movies and the silver screen itself is pulling in more cash for the country.
Statistics New Zealand‘s screen industry manager Hamish Hill said feature film revenue was up 15% to more than $700 million.
“This means that almost 1 in every 4 dollars in the industry came from work on feature films,” he said.
Hill said while not every film made in New Zealand becomes a blockbuster, they can still have a big impact on the film industry.
“Over a thousand businesses, both big and small, contracted services to producers of feature film projects. Thirty-five feature films were completed in New Zealand in 2011,” he said.
Sales from completed works rose five-fold to $116 million, according to Hill, and investment in film productions increased by a third.
“Investment gives us some indication of the level of activity going on in the industry right now,” said Hill.
via All action in the Kiwi film industry | BUSINESS News.
Strange Random Movie Quote:
“You know what your problem is, it’s that you haven’t seen enough movies – all of life’s riddles are answered in the movies.” ― Steve Martin
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Find a roommate in NYC using the Speed Dating Method!
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Strange Random Roommate Quote:
“Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.” – J. D. Salinger
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Sales up but Aussie online commerce still e-volving – Business Australian Broadcasting Corporation
An Australian online retailer is warning the traditional retail model will change in the next decade as a new report finds nearly three out of five Australian adults are shopping online.
The Australian Communication and Media Authority’s ACMA e-commerce report released this week said 59 per cent of adults bought goods or services online in the six months to April 2011, up from 53 per cent from two years ago.
It also found that while people are still mainly buying from Australian websites, overseas-based sites are gaining in popularity – a move that is threatening traditional retailers.
A total of 53 per cent of people surveyed by the report said they bought most often from Australian websites; a drop of 15 per cent from 2009.
ABC News Online asked readers on Twitter why they bought goods online, with most naming price, availability and convenience as reasons to snub traditional retailers.
Online retailer Kogan is warning e-commerce “is still only in its infancy” in Australia and still has five to 10 years of growth left till it reaches the levels of maturity seen in US and UK markets.
via Sales up but Aussie online commerce still e-volving – Business Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Strange Random Online Shopping Quote:
There’s nothing better than online shopping in your PJ’s with a glass of wine with the kids asleep! – Helen Wilson
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Bankers prepare for New Zealand’s privatisation beauty parades | The Australian
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THE Rugby World Cup is months away, but the steady flow of Australian investment bankers to Wellington shows you the coming partial privatisation of some New Zealand government assets is the biggest show in town, as far as equity capital markets are concerned. The beauty parades start next week amid a plethora of people-intensive jobs from overall scoping studies and individual asset-scoping studies to joint lead manager roles which, of course, are where the money is made. In last month’s budget the circa $7 billion in asset sales flagged included three energy companies, starting with Mighty River Power, and coal company Solid Energy and a sell down of the 75 per cent government stake in Air New Zealand. New Zealanders are not big domestic shareholders, in part because the country doesn’t have a superannuation policy like Australia’s.
via Bankers prepare for New Zealand’s privatisation beauty parades | The Australian.
Strange Random New Zealand Quote:
“The first european to find NZ was a Dutch sea-captain who was looking for something else … It takes its name from a province of Holland to which it does not bear the remotest likeness, and is usually regarded as the antipodes of England, but is not. Taken possession of by an English navigator, whose action was afterwards reversed by his country’s rulers, it was only annexed by the English Government which did not want it, to keep it from the French, who did.” – William Pember Reeves 1898
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