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Keep The Hobbit Film Shoot in NZ Group.

Keep The Hobbit Group Battles Facebook

Following successful and well attended rallies throughout New Zealand on Labour Day Monday, supporters of Sir Peter Jackson and Warner Bros keeping .The Hobbit. film shoot in New Zealand await the results of high level talks between Sir Peter, The Prime Minister of New Zealand, John Key and Warner Bros. executives.

Organiser of the rallies, Auckland actor Mark Harrison commented that he was “blown away by the support” for Sir Peter and Warners. “It was a beautiful day and fantastically heartening to see so many New Zealanders giving up their holiday to support Sir Peter.”

A statement from Sir Peter Jackson read at the rallies assured supporters that their “message to the studio will not go un-noticed.”

Meanwhile, a frustrated Mr Harrison is battling to contact Facebook to have them reinstate the group.s page which has been arbitrarily removed due to unnamed violations of the Facebook terms and conditions. Removal occurred after the page garnered over 10,000 .likes.. The site was removed on Sunday and Mr Harrison has sent three emails to Facebook asking for the page to be re-instated. “We.ve probably missed another 4,000 - 5,000 supporters where, in a country the size of New Zealand, 10,000 fans is equivalent to about 700,000 in the U.S., adjusted for the population difference. Five thousand more would bring our corresponding number above a million likes,” asserts Harrison.

With full and half page ads scheduled to run in Wednesday.s Dominion Post and NZ Herald in support of Sir Peter and Warners, both of which direct fans to the hobbitnz address, it is hoped that Facebook will take immediate action and reinstate the page.

“Tens of thousands of dollars have been raised by members of the film industry to place full and half page ads and both quote the facebook.com/hobbitnz page.” Says Harrison.

“If Facebook don.t sort this out, people will have nowhere to pledge their support. We hope they will hurry up and get back to us. It.s just so disappointing after all the effort Sir Peter.s supporters have shown and it.s an unnecessary distraction.”

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