To be fair the landscape of NZ was <i>highly</i> suitable to the filming of a Movie like the Hobbit. There were far better reasons for them to be filming there than the Dotcom case. Enough better reasons that it&#x27;s reasonable to conclude the timing in the case was coincidental.<p>I suspect that it&#x27;s also not unusual for Hollywood to sweeten the pot when they want to film somewhere with donations of various types.<p>The connection between the case and those films is extremely tenuous.