NZ out of luck at APAC Awards bash
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December 9, 2025
Tanya Black, Screen Wellington
Tanya Black talks about a big week in Wellington, with a famil tour in town, a new conference running, and the centrepiece event of the Avatar: Fire & Ash premiere on Saturday evening.…
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NZ Box Office Report: 7 December 2025
Zootopia 2 hung on to the top spot on its second weekend, adding $548,657 to take its gross to $1,715,149.
Five Nights at Freddys 2 opened on 82 screens, took $413,877, and settled in to the #2 spot.
Wicked: For…
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Big Screen Symposium – Save The Dates: 3 & 4 July 2026
Script to Screen is excited to announce that the Big Screen Symposium will be back on Friday 3rd and Saturday 4th July 2026. This unique screen industry event will be returning to the beautiful Te Pūtahi Mātauranga/ The Faculty of…
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The cost of being: A screen industry worker saving for their ‘unemployment fund’
This story was originally published on The Spinoff.
Gender: Female.
Age: 26.
Ethnicity: European/Polynesian.
Role: Film/TV production contractor.
Salary/income/assets: Approximately $60,000 solo income (this varies a lot due to the nature of contracting), or $160k combined household income. Earlier this year my partner and I…
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NZ On Screen – Tuesday Spotlight: SURVEY – TIME OUT (1970)
Director Murray Reece experiments with unscripted drama in Time Out, part of the short documentary slot Survey. Featuring Blerta’s Geoff Murphy and Bruno Lawrence, it blurs fact and fiction; Lawrence won Best Actor at the 1971 Feltex Awards.…
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AiMation Studios launches Non-Player Combat AI series
Tom Paton, creator of the AI-animated feature film Where the Robots Grow, launched the AI-generated series Non-Player Combat through AiMation Studios in the United Kingdom. The series places six photorealistic AI contestants on a remote island for a deadly survival competition, where outcomes…
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Paramount Launches Hostile Takeover Offer For Warner Bros. Discovery
Paramount on Monday announced it has commenced an all-cash tender offer to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Warner Bros. Discovery for $30 per share, an operation it says equates to an enterprise value of $108.4 billion. The aggressive…
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The man behind the midnight screenings: Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Rocky Horror Picture Show might be a cult hit now, but it was lucky to survive its first few weeks in cinemas. Now it has the longest theatrical release of any film, running for 50 years and counting.
But it…
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