Movie Maps of the World

Strange Maps has an advertisement from Volkswagen that shows three different maps of the world if we represent them through movie production.

The most bizarre one is the first one based on "average budget per feature film" where New Zealand ends up utterly huge with the author offering the comment that "Australia could fit in between the North and South Islands"

Could the Lord of the Rings really have distorted the stats so much? Probably. It's a sad fact that New Zealand makes very few films and they're probably not enough in number to bring down the average budget down enough. Also, if we're counting Lord of the Rings, (an overseas financed production) why not count say King Kong, 10,000 BC, Wolverine, Narnia, etc...

If we're going to have a small number of really high budget films with a small number of low budget films then not even the United States could compete on that stat with their small number of really high budget films and a really large number of medium and small budget films.