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…
Posted on February 21st, 2012
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…
Posted on February 20th, 2012
The humble gumboot will be the star in the Tropfest New Zealand short film competition…
Posted on February 20th, 2012
Romantic drama The Vow, starring Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum, debuts at number one with $618,955…
Posted on February 17th, 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…
Posted on February 10th, 2012
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…
Posted on February 10th, 2012
Superpowered teens flick Chronicle debuts at number one with $426,758…
Posted on February 7th, 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…
Posted on February 3rd, 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…
Posted on February 1st, 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…
Posted on January 26th, 2012
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…
Posted on January 25th, 2012
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…
Posted on January 24th, 2012
Despite receiving poor reviews in mainstream press, Sione’s 2: Unfinished Business debuted at number one last weekend…
Posted on January 24th, 2012
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…
Posted on January 23rd, 2012
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…
Posted on January 23rd, 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…
Posted on January 20th, 2012