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Helen Kelly, CTU President, said today that the industrial issues concerning the film industry were resolved at a meeting with SPADA last week.
"This established a path that guaranteed films commencing before 31st March next year would use the existing Pink Book and in that period a revised Pink Book would be agreed for subsequent films."
Helen Kelly also holds a sequence of emails between MEAA, the Screen Actors Guild, and Warners showing that MEAA advised SAG on Sunday LA time of a recommendation from NZ Equity that they rescind any forms of advice to their members that they not work on the feature film production The Hobbit, and that Warners were preparing a press release to announce this on Monday LA time.
"I have also repeated the commitment made by MEAA that there will be no disruption to the Hobbit films."
Helen Kelly said that the CTU will work with anyone to ensure that the Hobbit films are made in New Zealand, on time and on budget.
Equity has legitimate issues that they have been seeking to resolve and we support their right to do so and have found a way we believe will do just that.
Helen Kelly said that she also regretted that instead of the resolution calming the waters on this dispute, a 'war of words' with Sir Peter Jackson has broken out, despite our previously productive meeting.
"It is inevitable that this has damaged relationships but we are committed to rebuilding those as circumstances allow".
"The main thing now is to ensure the films are made in New Zealand".
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Helen Kelly and her
Helen Kelly and her Australian Union mate should be sued for the losses that have been incurred by the production company. By their actions the movie is a month behind schedule already costing millions of dollars and threatening many talented people their livelyhood.
When are Actors going to figure out that they are only a mouthpiece for the hundreds of truly talented people who's creative ability makes them look good.They should shut up and learn their lines.
Agreed Murray, What happened
Agreed Murray, What happened here is terrible. The damage has been done; no statement is going to fix this. Helen Kelly should resign, she's clearly incompetent.
Not only incompetent but
Not only incompetent but ignorant and arrogant in the extreme. I deeply regret this uneducated person!!!
I agree. Helen Kelly should
I agree. Helen Kelly should resign!
you stupid stupid woman....
you stupid stupid woman....
Sadly of course the muppet
Sadly of course the muppet actors who supported her are just as stupid if not more so as they will lose money not Helen.
THis is a complete
THis is a complete manipulation to benefit the Australian industry which has been shown up by NZ technically, and exposed as risky for investors due to union shenanigans. For the NZCTU to try it on as well simply exposes their ideology-before-actuality (that's the definition of PC, fyi) mindset. Warners don't give a monkey's about where it's made, and will only keep to the NZ commitment due to Jackson et al crawling on their knees to keep it here. It's nothing to do with tax breaks.. what a crock, as proven last night on Remember..Jackson's contracted; he gets the work and the fee and the residual millions wherever it is made. He's fighting FOR the exact jobs Kelly and co actually don't care about. At last the union movement , as opposed to it's members welfare, have been exposed to the light of public scrutiny. Helen Kelly should be ashamed of herself, and stop lying, and start facing up to the fact they've brought a major employment industry to it's knees. If Warners drop this one then the whole film game is back to the drawing board with no show of major studios coming here for a very lonnnng time. Tahtah 1500-2000 jobs. Thanks Helen Kelly and your horrid hateful cronies.
Alan D - Warners will surely
Alan D - Warners will surely give a monkeys about where The Hobbit is made if a different location makes millions of dollars difference to the budget. This where tax breaks and production incentives are likely to be just as important as any argument about actor's conditions. What did you mean with your lines about the decision having nothing to do tax breaks, "as proven last night on...?" As for the tax break/subsidies question, if you check out the review of the film commission recently co-written by Jackson, you will see the authors arguing that production subsidies are actually crucial to films being made in New Zealand. I would suggest to you that Jackson has partly been attacking Helen Kelly with such gusto because that's more likely to get the public on his side, than to talk about the complexities of tax breaks and subsidies. And by the level of comments posted on this page, I would suggest he has succeeded.
Agreed. :-(
Agreed. :-(
Hi Bob, Reading your email I
Hi Bob,
Reading your email I can see you are a Helen Kelly supporter and you might even think that unions are a good thing for this country. I'm not here to question that.
But when WB wants to invest a serious amount of money ,they have to protect that investment. Unions are a huge risk to that investment if they dont want to work together with these companies and instead ask actors not to sign contracts.
So now the movie will move overseas. This has nothing to do with an attack on Helen. The fact that the movie is moving overseas is just the cold hard reality and worst of all, it could have been avoided.
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I accept there might be other risks to shoot the movie in New Zealand, but why add another? Helen should have realised this but she didn't. She has failed NZ and our NZ actors. Now it's time for her to stand up and take responsibility, simple.
-Harry
Bob, fyi... Czech Republic
Bob, fyi... Czech Republic offers tax incentives at twice the 15% we offer, and wages at a 3rd !!!... the scenery of Low Tatras (Slovakia) easily matches the Sthrn Alps. The cinematographic industry matches NZ and Weta can easily set up a digital production base there for the shooting of the two films. There is no language barrier as the whole industry speaks English. Hmmm ... you do the maths (or is empirical evidence too hard for you?) I don't buy the "tax incentives" bunk at all, and Key has assured that he won't play this game anyways. So why do WB even consider NZ?... because until Whipp and Kelly stepped in, they felt they could TRUST the NZ business and production environment. $650m is a lot to trust with. I have good friends in what was the Australian movie industry who simply say that Whipp is so two faced and socialist-theory driven that he's forgotten that workers rights only apply to people with work to do. Ditto Helen Kelly. Ditto in fact all the theorists that have driven manufacturing offshore by pressure not of wages per se, but of idiotic compliances for employers et al. No company with the option of employing here or offshore even blinks at the decision these days, and that's very sad because we're turning into a nation of waiters and burger flippers. I am a realist and a supporter of workers rights. And employers rights. There is a practical medium and it doesn't involve class-war. I beleive that this episode has singly tilted NZ 5 degrees to the right, and that in so doing LAbours'recent left-shift, and even EPMU radical Andrew Little's prospects of PM-ship have gone down the gurgler for a long time, very bright though he is. The country has left that worker-hate garbage behind with the economic ruins of Helengrad, and this has really put a nail in the coffin for union support. Sad because I'm not fan of Key's, but I can certainly see which side our bread is buttered on.
Hi Harry. It sounds like we
Hi Harry. It sounds like we may have to agree to disagree over Helen Kelly’s failure, because I’ve never shared your impression from her arguments in recent days that she is “clearly incompetent” (I presume it was the same Harry who called Kelly that in an earlier post :-)). Though yes, the petty name calling lobbed in both directions by Jackson and (on one occasion to my knowledge) Kelly would have been better avoided. Thankfully Actors’ Equity have now agree to lift the ban, and guarantee no industrial action for the duration of the Hobbit. There also appears to be have been a shift from the Government’s earlier denials last week that Warner Brothers had mentioned tax breaks and subsidies as being a Hobbit issue. Unless of course, Warners decided to delay and drop the “subsidies matter too” bomb, once they got off the plane this week? Hmm...that would be a verrrry strange way to go about it....though as a Warners strategy, arguably not completely crazy, in a world where the NZ Government is under such incredible pressure to keep the Hobbit here. Anyway what makes you so certain that the decision to move the film overseas has already been taken? If that decision was as cast in stone as you say, would the American executives have even bothered flying here to face the music? Surely it would be so much easier for them to whimp out and announce it in a press release. Let's wait and see what happens...there may still be some surprises.
I simply cannot stand this
I simply cannot stand this woman called Helen Kelly. Now that John Key has negotiated with Warners, to keep the Hobbitt filming in NZ, she is still on our televisions, voicing her opinion about everything. John Key would not of had to get involved at all, if she had kept out of Peter Jackson's world. It is now going to cost us, money well spent, for the prosperity of NZ. But Kelly is now saying that is rediculous, and she is hating the law changes for employees and contractors. Gawd she needs to get off the TV and crawl into her hole, and keep that mouth of hers closed. She really is obnoxious. Oh she wants to get back on the gravy train with nutty Labour and horrific Greens.