Screen rebate not a handout to Hollywood elites: James Cameron

Screen rebate not a handout to Hollywood elites: James Cameron
James Cameron's Avatar movies have created thousands of jobs. (Image: Getty)
Paul McBeth
Filmmaker James Cameron pushed back on the Act Party’s claim that the screen rebate is simply a subsidy for Hollywood elites, saying it actually brings money into the economy. Cameron – who’s made three of the four biggest box office hits in history – was the keynote speaker at the Screen Production and Development Association (Spada) conference in Wellington on Thursday, having first come to shoot in New Zealand in 2007 for the first Avatar movie. “We came out of it with this really powerful sense that t...

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