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It’s all very well to celebrate the high level of employment that resulted from this Disney production. But in return for receiving millions from the government’s screen production fund, the American producers should have enabled New Zealanders to see this spectacular film (with its gorgeous South Island locations) on big screens in cinemas – which is how it was meant to be released – instead of restricting it to pay per view television. Audiences in China and Russia will be seeing it in cinemas. The NZ government should have made a cinema release a basic condition of paying out its grant. But no doubt when the deal was done, no one had dreamt of covid 19.
It’s all very well to celebrate the high level of employment that resulted from this Disney production. But in return for receiving millions from the government’s screen production fund, the American producers should have enabled New Zealanders to see this spectacular film (with its gorgeous South Island locations) on big screens in cinemas – which is how it was meant to be released – instead of restricting it to pay per view television. Audiences in China and Russia will be seeing it in cinemas. The NZ government should have made a cinema release a basic condition of paying out its grant. But no doubt when the deal was done, no one had dreamt of covid 19.