The New Zealand home base of Weta Digital, and a host of other NZ film companies, is set to officially become Wellywood, with a Hollywood-style sign to be erected on the hills of the Miramar Peninsula. The term has been used informally for some time but the new lettering -- mimicking the style of the Hollywood sign -- will be almost 12 feet high and more than 90 feet long. It is more diminutive ...
Well, you wouldn't expect Tim Burton to do a remake of Pollyanna , would you? Or Little Women or Anne of Green Gables or anything that might push back against the enveloping voguish "darkness," anything that might create some creative tension.
