All New Zealand articles – Page 5
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NewsVertigo acquires Taika Waititi exec’d ‘Baby Done’ for UK and Ireland (exclusive)
Comedy starring Rose Matafeo set for release in 2021.
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NewsRialto goes on acquisitions spree for Australia, New Zealand (exclusive)
Titles include US box office hit ‘Becky’ and Sundance title ‘Spree’, starring Joe Keery of ‘Stranger Things’.
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NewsTaika Waititi’s Piki Films signs indigenous writers for three projects about colonisation (exclusive)
Company will develop two features and a detective series.
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NewsNew Zealand Film Festival unveils 2020 programme including physical screenings
The festival is Marten Rabarts first edition since taking over in October 2019.
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NewsOdin’s Eye seals deals on Danish hit ‘Into The Darkness’ (exclusive)
Anders Refn directed the wartime drama, which outperformed ‘1917’ and ‘Bad Boys For Life’ at the Danish box office.
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NewsParkland Pictures seals deals on pilgrimage doc ‘Camino Skies’ (exclusive)
Sales include France, Brazil, and German-speaking Europe.
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NewsWeta Digital announces first CEO, launches animated unit
Majority owners Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh to create animated projects for the company.
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News‘The Trip To Greece’ tops New Zealand box office as cinemas return to full capacity
However the total box office for the week was just 17% of the comparable week last year.
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NewsThomasin McKenzie to star in ballet drama ‘Joika’ for Anonymous, Four Knights, Embankment
Production will begin in New Zealand in early 2021.
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NewsScreen Talks: VFX leaders on adapting to lockdown, looking to next stage
Avatar sequels scheduled to resume production in mid-June in New Zealand.
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NewsFormer Goldcrest executive Bill Gavin dies aged 83
Gavin worked on films including ‘Gandhi’ and ‘Whale Rider’.
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News‘The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A F*ck’ set for documentary adaptation (exclusive)
GFC Films and Universal Content Group acquire rights to the international bestseller.
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NewsGreenham Common protests documentary in the works from Universal Content Group, GFC Films (exclusive)
Feature documentary will tell the story of the women’s peace camp and the part it played in the demise of the Cold War.
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NewsFestival Scope, Shift72 join forces as online film festivals proliferate
Paris-based festival platform specialist and online streaming expert sign exclusive deal.
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NewsHighland Film Group boards ‘Pierre The Pigeon-Hawk’ for sales
Project in pre-production at India’s Toonz Media Group studio in New Zealand.
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Reviews‘The Luminaries’: TV Review
Eva Green and Eve Hewson star in Eleanor Catton’s adaptation of her own Booker Prize-winning novel
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NewsBehrouz Boochani’s asylum seeker drama ‘No Friend But The Mountains’ heads to big screen (exclusive)
Iranian-Kurdish journalist’s book recounts seven-year detention on Australia’s notorious Manus Island.
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NewsVertigo Releasing, Rialto Distribution forge Australia and New Zealand co-venture (exclusive)
Under the new partnership, the duo has already acquired 15 titles for release in ANZ this year.
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NewsJulian Fellowes to adapt ‘The Wind In The Willows’
Weta on board; shooting to take place in New Zealand.
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FeaturesTaika Waititi on the eight-year journey behind awards contender ’Jojo Rabbit’
Waititi wrote a spec script for the film back in 2011.