From: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org (chakram-refugees-digest) To: chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Subject: chakram-refugees-digest V1 #78 Reply-To: chakram-refugees@smoe.org Sender: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk chakram-refugees-digest Monday, December 24 2001 Volume 01 : Number 078 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [chakram-refugees] Re: LOTR and New Zealand ["Cheryl Ande" Subject: [chakram-refugees] Re: LOTR and New Zealand Boeotian wrote: "This all seems correct except that $160 million sounds too little for Pac Ren'scosts for 288 eps. of Hercules, Xena and the lesser shows. Perhaps they spent that much in N.Z. and more in the U.S., for stars, directors, scripts, overhead, etc." I think the answer is the exchange rate. From what I heard from Steven Sears when I heard him speak in Atlanta a US dollar buys about three times amount of goods and services in NZ as it does here. So 160 million in US dollars may be about 480 million in NZ dollars (does that seem like too much). Anyway that's why Xena and Hercules always looked so good. The Americans had million dollar productions for 1/3 the costs in NZ. They then could spend money on music and special effects. CherylA ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 17:39:31 -0500 From: Cousin Liz Subject: Re: [chakram-refugees] Re: LOTR and New Zealand Cheryl Ande wrote: > I think the answer is the exchange rate. From what I heard from > Steven Sears when I heard him speak in Atlanta a US dollar buys > about three times amount of goods and services in NZ as it does here. That's a little high, but not by much. Back in 1997, $100.00 US was around $200.00 NZ, if memory serves. Now, $100.00 US will get you around $240.00 NZ. The Universal Currency Converter(tm) http://www.xe.com/ucc/ - -- Cousin Liz eas01@fast.net Soulmates: http://cousinliz.com Xena Dinosaur Bards http://cousinliz.com/fanfic/fanfic.html ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ End of chakram-refugees-digest V1 #78 *************************************