Mountain Scene
By PHILIP CHANDLER
As Queenstown’s tourism economy implodes, the resort’s about to hugely benefit from two TV shoots.
Underway this week is New Zealand romantic comedy
Under The Vines, while the second
series of crime thriller
One Lane Bridge starts next week.
The latter’s being filmed locally and the former more in Central Otago, but both are relying mostly on Queenstown crew and equipment, extras and other services.
He estimates
Under The Vines’ budget is $10 million and
One Lane Bridge’s is $7m to $8m, so that’s $17m in production, of which half will be spent locally ‘‘the other half is spent editing and post-production, which happens in other places’’.