2010 – the year by numbers
1 Jan – 2.5 terabytes of data on the appropriately named ‘Moon drive’
100 days (or thereabouts) in the edit suite – hats off to Paul Maxwell
$340k – total shoot budget for a feature film
$130k – cost of post production
$445k – amount contributed by private investors
$25k – contribution from NZFC
20 March – screening of rough cut at the Academy cinema Auckland and in Birmingham
170 – audience for the rough cut
30 June – post finished at Images & Sound
17 July – premiere at NZ Film Festival in Sky City Theatre
700 – audience at premiere (sold out)
7 October – beginning of theatrical release in NZ
11 October – gala premiere in London
18 October – gala premiere in London
11 weeks in distribution in NZ













Luke says:
“The moon is so big!
It’s bigger than the room even!”
something we were told by a toddler when we were toddlers.
my brothers loved to recount this one.. it became a great family joke .
The moon is bigger than the room!
even bigger than the sky theatre
January 5th, 2011 at 10:12 am ()