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Guillermo Del Toro: getting behind local feature
Producer Bonnie Slater has scored a major coup in persuading The Hobbit director Guillermo del Toro to help raise money…
Playpen: before the invention of the close up
Not sure why, but we found this hysterically funny.
'The Lovely Bones': will they or won't they be unearthed first in Wellington
Contrary to reports elsewhere, the world premiere for Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones is not slated for 11 December or…
Australian Film Critics Association: new award announced
The Australian Film Critics Association is proud to announce the opening of its Annual Competition for excellence in film writing.
HK Film Festival: seminar
The Hong Kong Film Festival kicks off in Auckland on Wednesday with a screening of Ann Hui’s The Way We…
ScreenHub: competition time
It's competition time here at ScreenHub. Following our exhausting (if not exhaustive) trawl through the submissions to the NZFC review,…
Qantas Film & TV Awards: the after-match brawl continues
TVNZ has explained its reasons for pulling out of screening the awards as being economic, specifically the low ratings of…
BRIEF: NZ Box Office w/e 9.9.09
The Ugly Truth hangs on to top spot, while spellcheck favourite Inglourious Basterds climbs one spot to take the runner-up…
NZFC Review: Submissions round up
The criteria for the review are reasonably well-known, and we won't revisit them here, but it's fair to say they…
SPADA: Conference speakers announced
The rumour mill has been kicking around a few names of late for the person who'll give the John O'Shea…