New Zealand’s prime minister, John Key, is now defending a plan to come to Los Angeles to meet with Hollywood studios in the wake of the Kim Dotcom case.

Speaking on local radio station Newstalk ZB Monday morning, he said that suggestions that he had become too close to Hollywood since the Megaupload raid were “nonsense.”

"There are a few people that live in fantasy land, who have conspiracy theories," he said.

Fans of The Lord of the Rings will know that the famous fantasy trilogy was filmed in New Zealand. Key says he hopes to draw more American film studios to work in his home country. "While we're doing very well with Warner Brothers, it's quite possible we could do it a lot better, or as well, with many other movie studios like Fox and Universal and Disney and the like, so I'm certainly keen to go and promote New Zealand as a place to make movies," Key said.

Last week, the prime minister personally apologized to Kim Dotcom for having illegally spied on him. Key maintains that this trip to Hollywood is in no way connected to the ongoing case involving the Megaupload mogul, however.

"Either Kim Dotcom has broken the law in the United States and he'll face trial, or he hasn't. But that's got nothing to do with whether New Zealand is a good place to make movies or not," he told Newstalk ZB.

On Twitter, Kim Dotcom said he wasn’t buying it.

“Prime Minister meets studio bosses in Hollywood about doing business in NZ,” he wrote. “Getting paid for the raid.”