Movie+Industry

**There are alot of American made movies, that have been filmed in New Zealand. Here are a few some of us chose, and re-searched about. By Letitia, Savannah, Sacha and PJ.**
Savannah

 NZ Filmed Film: Yogi Bear

 Main Point/ Story Line

 Jellystone Park is celebrating its 100 anniversary, however it may be for the last time, because attendance is down and Mayor Brown wants to close the park and sell the land to get more money than he is already making. If the park is closed, Yogi Bear and Boo Boo will lose their home. They join forces with Ranger Smith to save Jellystone from closing forever. Yogi must really prove in this endeavor that he is "smarter than the average bear".

 Location Filmed In New Zealand: Woodhill Forest, Auckland, and the Aratiatia Rapids in Taupo, which played the role of the ‘Jellystone Park’.

 They chose these specific locations because it was very green, and filled the role of the plece they were looking for.

 Why did the ‘Yogi Bear’ Directors Choose New Zealand as their filming location?

 “We wanted our film settings to be pure, and thats what we think New Zealand is. This gorgeous country is all greenland, and one of our Technicians that were working for us had been to the Woodhill Forest in Auckland, and we decided it would be a perfect setting for this film.”

 -Eric Breveg (Director of ‘The Yogi Bear Movie’.

**Sir Peter Jackson **  ** Sir Peter Jackson is a movie director, he has directed famous movies like, The Lord Of The Rings, King Kong, The Hobbit and The Lovely Bones. His very first movie that he directed was called ’Bad Taste’, for that movie he did all the special effects and the make-up effects. He won a golden globe award for The Lord of The Rings: The return of the King for best director for 2004 he won the exact same thing in the same year but for the Saturn Award. He has won 18 awards in total. He was born on October 31, 1961. His wife is Fran Walsh and they have two children. He writes his scripts with Fran. He owns two houses in New Zealand’s capital, Wellington. He is very well known and famous in New Zealand. ** **By Letitia **

“Boy”  The movie “Boy” was made in 2010 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Taikia Waititi is the directer of the movie “Boy”,he is also a character in the movie, he is Alemain (“Boy”dad) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- “Boy” lives with his nan and cousin’s and brother. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- “Boy” is a 11 years old <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- “Boy” dad was arrested for robbery <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- “Boys” hero’s are: Micheal Jackson, Alemain ( Dad ) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- “Boy” is waiting for his dad to came home because he is in jail. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-“Boy” likes this girl at his school, her name is Shardanay <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This is the Plot of the movie It's 1984, and Michael Jackson is king - even in Waihau Bay, New Zealand. Here we meet Boy, an 11-year-old who lives on a farm with his gran, a goat called Leaf, his younger brother, Rocky (who thinks he has super powers) and several cousins. Shortly after Gran leaves for a Tangihanga (funeral) in Wellington for a week, Boy's father, Alamein, appears out of the blue. Having imagined a heroic version of his father during his absence, Boy comes face to face with the real version - an incompetent hoodlum who has returned to find a bag of money he buried years before. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">By Sacha <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">media type="youtube" key="rBC0bEwlEvg" height="219" width="392"

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #38761d; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">King Kong <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #38761d; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">King Kong is a remake of the 1933 movie also called “King Kong”. King Kong is a fiction and and adventure movie including King Kong, a giant man-eating gorilla, dinosaurs and giant bugs/insects and bats. The movie is directed by Sir Peter Jackson, created in New Zealand and the United States. The movie is released in December 13th 2005 for New Zealand and December 14th 2005 for The United States. The main characters include Naomi Watts as Ann Darrow, Jack Black as Carl Denham and Adrein Brody as Jack Driscall.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #38761d; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Story Line/Plot: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #38761d; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In 1933, a film maker, Carl Denham needs to find a lady to star his latest film. He soon finds a redundant actor, Ann Darrow, together, they travel on a ship to Skull Island. Living on this mysterious island is a giant gorilla and this beast now has Ann is its grasps. Carl and Ann's new love, Jack Driscoll must travel through the jungle looking for Kong and Ann, while avoiding all sorts of giant creatures and beasts, but Carl has other plans in mind.

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