Where was Pete's Dragon (2016) filmed?
2016 film by David Lowery
Pete's Dragon (2016) was filmed in Wellington, Rotorua, Invercargill and Tapanui — 4 recorded filming locations in New Zealand. Every one is a filming-location statement on Wikidata, not a guess.
See them on the map → Wikipedia Source data
Filming locations
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🏙 Towns & cities
Wellington
🇳🇿 New Zealand
capital city of New Zealand; urban area of the cities of Wellington, Lower Hutt, Upper Hutt, and Porirua
“Live-action filming locations included Bay of Plenty, Taupō and Wellington, while CGI was done at Stone Street Studios.” Wikipedia
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🏙 Towns & cities
Rotorua
🇳🇿 New Zealand
city in Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
“Shooting took place in and around Wellington and Rotorua, before transferring to Tapanui, where the old Blue Mountain Lumber mill was used as the mill in the film, and the main street became Millhaven for two weeks.” Wikipedia
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🏙 Towns & cities
Tapanui
🇳🇿 New Zealand
human settlement in Clutha District, Otago Region, New Zealand
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🏙 Towns & cities
Invercargill
🇳🇿 New Zealand
city in New Zealand's Southland region
Also per Wikipedia's Production section
Wikipedia’s Production section names 2 more places. A sentence in an article is weaker evidence than a Wikidata statement, so these are listed apart, never mixed into the statement list, and the claim links straight to where it came from.
Places whose own article says it was shot there
1 place whose own Wikipedia article names this film as something shot there, where Wikidata records nothing and this film’s own article does not say so either. The weakest evidence on this atlas: no pin on the map, and nothing in the downloads. Each sentence is quoted whole and linked to the article it came from, so it can be judged rather than taken on trust.
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Tapanui New Zealand
“In 2015, Tapanui was a filming location for the Disney production Pete's Dragon, with the main street and old timber mill serving as their equivalents in the fictional town of Millhaven.” Wikipedia
Recorded only at country level
Wikidata also records this film as shot in New Zealand, without saying where. Those statements are true but unmappable — a pin in the middle of a country would claim something nobody wrote — so they are listed here instead of guessed at.
Also shot in these places
- Ghost in the Shell 2017
- Power Rangers S.P.D. 2005–
- Wellington Paranormal 2018–
- After the Party 2023–
More filmed in New Zealand
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002
- Mission: Impossible – Fallout 2018
- Mulan 2020
- Ghost in the Shell 2017
- M3GAN 2022
Every filming location in New Zealand →
Frequently asked questions
How many filming locations does Pete's Dragon have?
4 places recorded on Wikidata, and 2 places named in its Wikipedia article, labelled per Wikipedia, across New Zealand.
Which other productions were filmed at the same places?
Ghost in the Shell (2017), Power Rangers S.P.D. (2005–), Wellington Paranormal (2018–) and After the Party (2023–), each listed on this page.
Where does this information come from?
Filming location statements on Wikidata, plus places named in the production's own Wikipedia article, which are labelled per Wikipedia. Nothing is scraped from listicles and nothing is generated.