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Sky series Bust Up, rolling out from 27 May New trailer for Te Arepa Kahi’s Sgt. Haane, now in cinemas The Time Traveller’s Guide to Hamilton Gardens now in cinemas The Weed Eaters, now in cinemas on 30 April Aussie…

New Zealand’s first urban cop show, Shark in the Park traded rural beats for the gritty streets of inner-city Wellington. Devised by Graeme Tetley (Ruby and Rata), it follows Inspector Brian ‘Sharkie’ Finn (Jeffrey Thomas) and his unit, with character-driven…

After landing a major movie deal for their breakout game, three New Zealand developers say Kiwis are “batting way above average” on the global platform Roblox. Alec Kieft, Matthew Hufton, and Cameron Angland are set to executive produce a feature…

Essential Film Group has now boarded international sales, for horror thriller Mother Knows Best, which has recently wrapped production in Auckland. Frankie Adams (The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, The Wrecking Crew), Rhona Mitra (The Last Ship, Underworld: Rise Of…

TVNZ+ Event Passes for the FIFA World Cup 2026™ are now available for purchase for $44.95. TVNZ today unveils its first paid streaming product: the TVNZ+ Event Pass for the FIFA World Cup 2026™. The arrival of the TVNZ+ Event…

The Advertising Standards Authority has launched public consultation on the Advertising Standards Code Review. It is inviting submissions from stakeholders and members of the public through to 22 June. Read more at Stoppress.
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Thousands of kilometres travelled around Aotearoa. Sold-out screenings. One hell of a movie (and one giant fork). Fresh off its Big Forking Tour, The Weed Eaters opens in cinemas this Thursday April 30, so moviegoers across the country can get…

On Victoria St, Hamilton, Auteur House is attempting the impossible: collecting the entirety of film history under one roof. Behind shelves that seem to bend under the weight of that ambition, founder Richard Swainson chases something close to completeness. Not…

Kiwi star Sir Sam Neill says he is cancer-free after almost five years of living with stage-three blood cancer. “I’ve been living with a particular type of lymphoma for about five years, and I was on chemotherapy, and [it was]…