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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’’.
Mountain Scene
December 19, 2020
By PHILIP CHANDLER
Queenstown’s film community is gearing up for a busy February/March with two TV series being shot simultaneously in the region.
First, the second series of TV crime thriller
One Lane Bridge will again be shot around Queenstown, starting mid-February and going for 10 weeks.
Secondly, it was confirmed last week production of New Zealand romantic comedy,
Under the Vines, co-commissioned by TVNZ, will start early February.
This will be set in Cromwell/Clyde, but it’s likely Queenstown-based personnel and equipment will be employed.
One Lane Bridge executive producer, Queenstowner Philip Smith, says in an ideal world one shoot would follow the other.