With Australians unhappy about celebs moving there, Thor: Love and Thunder director Taika Waititi has a hilarious message for those wanting to move to his home country, New Zealand.

Avatar 2 got rolling again in June, but these days New Zealand is dealing with a few cases of the novel coronavirus once more.

Production on Amazon Prime Video's Lord of the Rings TV series and Netflix's adaptation of the anime Cowboy Bebop, set to star John Cho, is gearing back up. Earlier in the week, it was announced New Zealand had given the green light for Lord of the Rings and Cowboy Bebop to begin filming. The news comes a few months after these projects — among numerous others — went into hiatus as concerns grew over the spread of COVID-19 on sets around the world. [caption id="attachment_720216" align="alignright" width="360"] Image via Funimation[/caption] Now, according to the New …

Not everybody is happy about the Avatar sequel getting back to work.

Avatar 2 is taking a major step forward.

James Cameron has suspended production on his Avatar sequels due to coronavirus concerns in New Zealand, according to the New Zealand Herald. Cameron had been expecting to shoot at Stone Street Studios in Wellington next month, but producer Jon Landau has confirmed that filming has been delayed indefinitely, though Wellington-based VFX company Weta Digital will continue their work on the sequels. "We've delayed it. We had plans to come down Friday night with a group of people and start back up and we made the decision to hold off and continue working here [in Los Angeles], and come …

When Amazon brings audiences back to Lord of the Rings, it'll be in a Middle-earth that looks mighty familiar. The streamer announced today that production will take place in New Zealand, the same country Peter Jackson filmed both his film trilogy and all three chapters of The Hobbit. In a statement, showrunners and executive producers Patrick McKay and J.D. Payne praised the setting as well as the "Kiwi hopsitality" it affords: “As we searched for the location in which we could bring to life the primordial beauty of the Second Age of Middle-earth, we knew we …

Amazon's upcoming The Lord of the Rings series is confirmed to film in New Zealand, which will once again serve as a stand-in for Middle-earth.

Fans have been curious about James Cameron’s Avatar sequels since before the first Avatar even came out. Fresh off of the success of Titanic, Cameron was teasing a potential trilogy of Avatar movies in the mid-2000s, while he was knee-deep in creating the technology that would not only bring Avatar to life, but boost the film to become the highest grossing movie ever made. As we now know, those plans changed after Avatar was released, and there are now a whopping four Avatar sequels on the way. Avatar 2 and Avatar 3 will be released in 2020 …