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Weta adds VES Awards to trophy cabinet

After picking up an Annie Award earlier in the week, Weta added the top VES award – for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature – to its haul for Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. Weta’s work on…

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8 Day One Shorts confirmed

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Māoriland lays out 2025 programme

Uncategorized / Keith Barclay

The programme is out for the 12th annual Māoriland Film Festival. The festival offers 130 films and digital works from 86 Indigenous nations. This year’s festival theme, Ko te mauri, he mea huna ki te Moana, reflects the life force…

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Bryn & Ku’s Singles Club seeks laughter, reflection, and sense of community

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Aotearoa has a proud tradition of road trips, from the iconic Goodbye Pork Pie to Frickin Dangerous Bro On the Road and NZ Today. Now, it’s time for two women to take the wheel in a groundbreaking new comedy docuseries…

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Secrets At Red Rocks teased

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The Wild Robot, Arcane and Wētā take Annies

Uncategorized / Keith Barclay

The Anime Awards, the highest animation-focused honour in the industry, ran over the weekend, with little in the way of surprises. Favourites Arcane and The Wild Robot were very successful at converting nods into wins. The Wild Robot was the biggest winner of the evening…

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Ready to launch: NZ titles set sail for Japan

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NZ Box Office report: 9 February 2025

Box Office / Keith Barclay

Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown continued to top the chart in its third weekend, playing on 116 screens and adding $194,444 to lift its total to $1,142,776. Mufasa: The Lion King placed at #2, taking $90,930 from 86 screens…

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FIFO finds 2025 winners

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Count us in

Uncategorized / Keith Barclay

This week brought the annual bunfight that is Waitangi Day, a source of pride and prejudice, acknowledged, celebrated or avoided depending on how you feel towards it and what it represents. It is what it has become over the years:…

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Badjelly goes home

News / Keith Barclay

Canada-based prodco and distributor WildBrain has signed a deal to bring Mukpuddy’s new animated kids’ series, Badjelly, to British audiences with ITV, Britain’s largest commercial broadcaster and streamer. Based on Spike Milligan’s book, Badjelly the Witch: A Fairy Story features…

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d8talk gets social with Gen Z

News, Uncategorized / Keith Barclay

No matter where we come from, how we identify ourselves and what we’re into, the desire to find connection is universal. Starting on Valentine’s Day, and running over the next six months, a diverse group of young New Zealanders will…

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Sky sets out its stall

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Despite being currently embroiled in problems around the delivery or otherwise of signals from a dying satellite, Sky New Zealand Originals aims to deliver plenty of strong local content in 2025. Sky has a variety of scripted and factual entertainment…

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New era of Shortland Street has innovative launch campaign

News, Uncategorized / Keith Barclay

Shortland Street: New Blood kicks off on Monday 10th February, stepping into an exciting and action packed three night a week format. Supporting this new era is a bold new marketing campaign, culminating in the first episode streaming live on…

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