Tag: new zealand
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Duchess Kate Dazzles in Jenny Packham During New Zealand Tour
Because Jane is obsessed with Duchess Kate, here are more pictures of her during her New Zealand tour with Prince William and Baby George.
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Photo Gallery: Kate, William and Prince George in New Zealand
Check out some photos of Prince George, who tagged along with his parents, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, on their trip to New Zealand.
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Pic of the Day: Duchess Kate Chuckles at Kiwi’s Tattoo’d Butt
Duchess Kate smiled during a New Zealand powhiri, featuring a tattooed and bare-bottomed Maori warrior wearing a flax skirt with a black thong underneath.
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Vera Rants: Giant Pop-up Book in Hollywood Promotes Hobbit’s New Zealand
Vera rants that a hokey pop-up book in Hollywood does not do New Zealand justice. Flaks promote The Hobbit’s New Zealand, but the lovely country deserves better.
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Frugal Kiwi Visits the Hobbiton Set in New Zealand
Our favorite Frugal Kiwi, Melanie McMinn, recently visited Hobbiton, a picturesque farmland (and working sheep and beef farm) near Matamata in the North Island of New Zealand.
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Air New Zealand and WETA Partner on Hobbit-Inspired Safety Video
Air New Zealand has partnered with WETA Workshop on a brand new Hobbit-inspired Safety Video. It features cameo appearances, including Sir Peter Jackson.
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Giant Gollum Comes to Wellington, New Zealand
Weta Workshop, Peter Jackson’s design company, has installed a suspended 42 foot long and 10 foot high Gollum sculpture in the main terminal at the Wellington, New Zealand airport. Frugal Kiwi’s Melanie McMinn brings us the video.
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The Hobbit (Finally) Begins Filming in New Zealand
After years of financial difficulties, director changes, disputes over distribution rights, Actors Equity lawsuits, Peter Jackson’s hospitalization in February for an ulcer, and every other setback you can think of, J.R.R. Tolkien’s ‘The Hobbit’ finally started filming this week in Wellington, New Zealand. Whew! At this point, you have to think that everyone involved is…
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Hey, New Zealand! Don’t Let Peter Jackson Move The Hobbit to Eastern Europe!
Ooh, don’t get Peter Jackson mad. The Kiwi filmmaker is threatening to move production of ‘The Hobbit’ to Eastern Europe after a Screen Actors Guild member alert went out Friday advising actors not to accept work on the non-union production of ‘The Hobbit.’ It’s part of a showbiz labor effort begun by New Zealand Actors’…