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Meathead wins at Berlin International Film Festival

The 62nd Berlin international Film Festival has awarded a Crystal Bear to New Zealand short film Meathead, for Best Short Film in the Youth Jury Generation 14plus section. Writer/director Sam Holst was in Berlin to receive the award…

Trailer: Two Little Boys

Since its online launch last week, the trailer for Two Little Boys, directed by Robert Sarkies and based on the book by Duncan Sarkies, has had over 100,000 views on YouTube…

Gumboot kicks off Tropfest NZ short film competition

Gumboot kicks off Tropfest NZ short film competition

The humble gumboot will be the star in the Tropfest New Zealand short film competition…

NZ box office 9 to 15 February 2012

NZ box office 9 to 15 February 2012

Romantic drama The Vow, starring Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum, debuts at number one with $618,955…

NZ box office 2 to 8 February 2012

NZ box office 2 to 8 February 2012

Chronicle finishes its debut week at number one with $609,352. In its second week, David Fincher's The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is at second place…

Film societies continue to expand in digital age

The New Zealand Federation of Film Societies will host more than 400 niche film screenings in 15 societies across the North and South Islands in 2012…

NZ box office 2 to 5 February 2010

NZ box office 2 to 5 February 2010

Superpowered teens flick Chronicle debuts at number one with $426,758…

NZ box office 26 January to 1 February 2012

NZ box office 26 January to 1 February 2012

David Fincher’s US version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo finishes its opening week on $493,398 while Sione’s 2: Unfinished Business took $441,296 for a two week total of $1,474,633…

NZ box office 26 to 29 January 2012

NZ box office 26 to 29 January 2012

David Fincher's US version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo debuts in first place with $347,901. Sione's 2 took $316,089 for a two week total of $1,349,426…

NZ box office 19 to 25 January 2012

NZ box office 19 to 25 January 2012

Sione's 2: Unfinished Business tops the box office rankings with a million dollar plus week – taking $984,058 and an additional sum of $49,279 from previews last week…

Sione’s 2: Unfinished Business

<em>Sione’s 2: Unfinished Business</em>

The MacGuffin in the popular and successful Sione’s Wedding (2006) turned on the highly unlikely notion that a bunch of troublesome Samoan friends would be permitted to attend an important wedding only if they were each accompanied by a woman with whom they were in a serious relationship…

Local distributors take issue with release delay claims

Local distributors are taking issue with the claim by Vikram Kumar of the Internet Society of New Zealand that “Hollywood has made up its mind to give it to us six months or two years late…

NZ box office 19-22 January 2012

NZ box office 19-22 January 2012

Despite receiving poor reviews in mainstream press, Sione’s 2: Unfinished Business debuted at number one last weekend…

Academy Award for Fujifilm

Fujifilm Corporation has been awarded an Academy Award (Scientific and Engineering) by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the development of ETERNA-RDS, a black-and-white recording film designed for the long-term preservation and archiving of motion picture films…

2011 a challenging year at NZ box office

The New Zealand box office for 2011 totalled $161.8 million, a nine per cent drop from the 2010 box office take, the Motion Picture Distributors’ Association (MPDA) announced today…

NZ box office 12 to 18 January 2012

NZ box office 12 to 18 January 2012

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows holds the top spot this week on $781,625, for a total box office of $2,326,904 over two weeks…

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