NZ film biz churns out hits despite challenges
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WELLLINGTON  - Whether it's Edmund Hillary, the beekeeper who became the first man to conquer Mount Everest, or director Peter Jackson, who went from B-movie auteur to A-list Oscar winner, New Zealanders pride themselves on their underdog status.
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Multiplexes do not want to release the two big movies that released today.
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After years of booming sales  supported by videotapes, DVDs and the Internet, the adult film  industry is being challenged by easy video-sharing Web sites  offering explicit content for free.
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The Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson's remake of movie classic King Kong is to start filming in New Zealand.
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The company has posted impressive growth, but the industry is struggling.
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A test-marketed film turns into a long-running hit
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Bloated with inventory and mired in the  red, the digital camera business of Japan's Olympus Corp.  underscores how making money in the cut-throat market is  getting tougher.
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The company is surviving, but it's hardly inspiring.
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âFierce People,â completed in 2004 and just being released, is the product of a business in which too many movies are vying for too few weekends.
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Business is abysmal at local moviehouses. Weekend attendance was off 27 percent from the 2004 low reached the previous weekend. The opening of the SouthSide Works Cinemas 10 on Friday should more than make
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ItÂs not often that the background score of a film makes a lasting impact on music listeners of this country.
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LOS ANGELES  - The film industry might be tough to break into, but it's surprisingly egalitarian when it comes to houses.
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Rampant movie piracy in the  Asia-Pacific region cost western film producers more than $718  million in lost revenue in 2003, up from $574 million in 2000,  the Motion Picture Association (MPA) said on Friday.
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Many start-ups lose focus chasing new capital. That's why Brash Entertainment raised $400 million in one shot.
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The technical challenge of sharing massive movie files over the Internet has kept the problem of P2P file sharing to a minimum for the movie industry.
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Falling through the creditor cracks, Movie Gallery is braced for a bumpy landing.
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If the video game industry is beginning to rake in revenue that rivals the movie industry, it&#39;s also beginning to accumulate Hollywood-like headaches.