Daily English Show #11 – Wellington To Blenheim (Video)
December 25, 2011 – 7:13 am | 29 Comments

The Daily English Show, an occasional video series, has hit the road traveling through New Zealand in a United Campervan. Today they travel to the beehive (Parliament), Lyall Bay (check out Maranui Cafe review) then …

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Taika Waititi Interview – Eagle Vs Shark Director
April 2, 2009 – 9:12 am | No Comment

Taika Waititi is interviewed at the 2007 International Film Festival Rotterdam, where he presented his first feature film, ‘Eagle vs Shark’ – an offbeat romantic comedy featuring two socially inept misfits. The movie stars Jemaine …

Speculation on Hobbit Trilogy
March 31, 2009 – 11:41 pm | 3 Comments

Speculation has risen online that there is a planned third movie in the Hobbit series adding to the two movies already in the works from Peter Jackson. As we had reported earlier, Jackson and Del …

Weta Cast – EpisodeVII – The Wotty Cast
March 30, 2009 – 7:13 pm | No Comment

Magnus and Daniel interview Martin Baynton about Weta’s and Pukeko Pictures’ brand new children’s TV series The WotWots. It turns out to be one of our best interviews yet – pre-school television is truly the …

Del Toro Right Choice for Hobbit
March 30, 2009 – 9:43 am | 44 Comments

Award Winning Director Guillermo del Toro and Kiwi Director Peter Jackson are being roundly praised as they embark on a remarkable story telling adventure with not only the The Hobbit, the fourth in the series …

Kiwi Anna Paquin Digs Teeth into Vampire Role (Video)
March 19, 2009 – 8:21 am | 69 Comments

Kiwi Academy Award Winner Anna Paquin has hit the headlines with her character Sookie Stackhouse in the HBO series True Blood. True blood is another masterpiece from Six Feet Under writer Alan Ball.
Stuff NZ describes …

Peter Jackson And Spielberg Riff on Tintin’s 80th Birthday (Video)
March 17, 2009 – 7:52 am | 2 Comments

Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg riff on the Festival d’angouleme, which is a french comic book festival, here is a sample:
spielberg : « bonjour ! bienvenue au Festival d’angoulême. Je suis steven spielberg, avec un …

Peter Jackson’s Lovely Bones Tipped for Oscar Nomination
March 16, 2009 – 12:36 pm | One Comment

“Lovely Bones”, the story of a young girl who has been murdered and watches over her family – and her killer – from heaven has been tipped for a nomination this year in the Academy …

Weta Workshop Podcast Episode 4
March 14, 2009 – 7:11 pm | One Comment

There is a new WetaCast available today (Click on link to get to subscription). Magnus and Daniel are back, with New Website, report with Matt Appleton and Emily-Jane Sturrock from RingCon 2008 in Bonn and …

Ed Brubaker Talks Kiwi Zoe Bell and Angel of Death (Video)
March 14, 2009 – 9:06 am | No Comment

Ed Brubaker talks to ComicBookResources this week about the webisode series “Angel of Death” playing at Crackle.  Best known for Captain America, Daredevil and Iron Fist or Marvel, Ed was instrumental in creating “Angel of …

Game Company Pitches for Peter Jackson’s Hobbits
March 13, 2009 – 8:15 pm | One Comment

Over at CrispyGamer they are reporting that TT Games is pitching for the rights for the up and coming rights issue for Peter Jackson’s Hobbit:
Even more interesting than the leak of the two games currently …

Weta Workshop Whats Wot
March 13, 2009 – 8:09 am | 6 Comments

Peter Jackson owning,  Academy Award winning, King Kong making Weta Workshop brings to life  WotWots, a new television series for preschoolers. Filmed at Wellington and Auckland Zoos, this homegrown series follows the adventures of two …

LOTR’s Haldir in New Comedy (Video)
March 10, 2009 – 7:46 am | 15 Comments

Lord of the Rings’ actor Craig Parker stars in a new series called Diplomatic Immunity on Television New Zealand.
Parker was born in Suva, Fiji. He is most famous for his role as Haldir of Lórien …

Director Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg At it Again
March 9, 2009 – 7:57 am | 6 Comments

We all remember when growing up there were a few treasures that we held onto and still enjoy to this day. For me, one of those (besides Watties Baked Beans) is Tintin, a Belgium comic …

Kiwi Phil’s Amazing Race Diary: Sibera
March 8, 2009 – 8:16 am | 9 Comments

Kiwi Phil is in Sibera on a Amazing Race, go figure.