Miramar Mentor

Peter Jackson was ranked 20th in pay and 12th overall in Forbes’ annual Celebrity 100 List. The accompanying feature was full of praise for NZ’s newest national hero. “Filmmaker Peter Jackson – assiduously disheveled, frequently barefoot and barely 5-and-a-half feet tall – is a giant in Hollywood […] Now NZ’s favorite native son is betting it all on his homeland. He is ploughing upwards of $50 million of his own money into building a studio empire here … “I could go to Hollywood and I wouldn’t have to build any of this,” says Jackson. “I value being a New Zealander who is able to make films in his own country. So we’ve had to spend our own money to increase the infrastructure.”