Finance Minister Nicola Willis wants to see the latest film in the Avatar franchise, Avatar: Fire and Ash, premiere in Wellington when it is released at the end of this year, fulfilling a decade-old deal between the film’s producers and the Government.
There is a good chance Willis will get her wish – that at least one of the three sequels to the original Avatar is premiered in New Zealand is one of the requirements the film’s producers must fulfil to receive their final payment under New Zealand’s film subsidy regime.
