While the local movie industry has been tearing itself apart over The Hobbit dispute, the west of Auckland is quietly having its own film crisis.
The Waitakere City Council-supported Auckland Film Studio has run into financial trouble after its main user, Walt Disney New Zealand, pulled out of plans to film the next series of Legend of the Seeker there.
In a financial report dated October 4, studio chairman Ross Jewell said Disney had vacated the premises this year after having signaled it planned to stay. See the full story at Stuff NZ