-
Justice League
ShowcaseIssue date: 16 Nov 2017Fuelled by his restored faith in humanity, and inspired by Superman's selfless act, Bruce Wayne enlists newfound ally Diana Prince to face an even greater threat. Together, Batman and Wonder Woman work quickly to recruit a team to stand against this...
-
Thor: Ragnarok
ShowcaseIssue date: 10 Oct 2017Thor is imprisoned on the other side of the universe without his mighty hammer and finds himself in a race against time to get back to Asgard to stop Ragnarok—the destruction of his homeworld and the end of Asgardian civilization—at the hands of an all-...
-
Cliffs of Freedom
ShowcaseIssue date: 21 Feb 2019Cliffs of Freedom is the story of an ill-fated romance between a young Greek village girl and a conflicted Turkish officer during the dawn of the Greek War for Independence against the Ottoman Empire in 1821. Twenty-year-old Anna Christina is...
-
Aquaman
ShowcaseIssue date: 26 Dec 2018Following the events of Justice League, Arthur Curry, the reluctant heir to the underwater kingdom of Atlantis, is caught in a battle between surface dwellers that threaten his oceans and his own people, led by his half-brother Orm, who are ready to lash...
-
Roman Empire - season two
ShowcaseIssue date: 27 Jul 2018This stylish mix of documentary and lavish historical epic chronicles the turbulent, violent reigns of Commodus, Julius Caesar and Caligula. Screen Incentives New Zealand Screen Production Grant (NZSPG)- International Format Docuseries Production...
-
Rampage
ShowcaseIssue date: 12 Apr 2018Primatologist Davis Okoye (Johnson), a man who keeps people at a distance, shares an unshakable bond with George, the extraordinarily intelligent, silverback gorilla who has been in his care since birth. But a rogue genetic experiment gone awry...
-
Maze Runner: The Death Cure
ShowcaseIssue date: 17 Jun 2018In the epic finale to the Maze Runner saga, Thomas leads his group of escaped Gladers on their final and most dangerous mission yet. To save their friends, they must break into the legendary Last City, a WCKD-controlled labyrinth that may turn out...
-
Murder is Forever
ShowcaseIssue date: 26 Feb 2018Murder is Forever is a new crime series from bestselling author and master of suspense James Patterson that features real stories packed with shocking twists and turns. Screen Incentives New Zealand Screen Production Grant (NZSPG)- International...
-
Frontiersman
ShowcaseIssue date: 7 Mar 2018Documentary series profiles intrepid pioneers and explorers, including Daniel Boone, Lewis & Clark, Tecumseh, Davy Crockett and Andrew Jackson. Screen Incentives New Zealand Screen Production Grant (NZSPG)- International Format Television series...
-
Ghost in the Shell
ShowcaseIssue date: 31 Mar 2017We needed an urban environment. We needed a futuristic setting. And we were able to get that in Wellington, New Zealand. I don't know if I've actually been able to pull off this much of a lock down in any other city before, and it's allowed us to...
-
Disney's Pete's Dragon
ShowcaseIssue date: 12 Aug 2016New Zealand has something magical about it, that extra layer of magic we neeeded. And I don't think we would have found that anywhere else. David Lowery, director 100% filmed in New Zealand 74 principal photography...
-
Henry Island
FilmDIRECTOR'S NOTES - Stephanie Donald "Henry lives a detatched, voyeuristic lifestyle - interpreting reality via her video camera. Josephine, a reporter, unknowingly becomes an object of Henry's study. The tables, however, are turned,...
-
The Baker's Brother
FilmRabbit's loyalties to his delinquent brother and the eccentric Mr and Mrs G are put to the test when an unexpected order arrives to bake 330 dozen hot-cross buns by 6:30 the following morning. Familial relations are severely strained as the minutes...
-
Exposure
Film -
A Fine Weekend
FilmOne man's life is waylaid by a brief encounter. It will take his best friend to guide him back to love. Director Armagan Ballantyne's last film, Whistle She Rolls, was selected for the 1996 Venice Film Festival and went on to win second prize ar...
-
A Quiet Night
FilmPhil Hearn is pushing 40 and feels every minute of it. He didn’t plan to have six kids and work a second job driving taxis to feed them all but that’s how his life is shaping up. One stormy night in the city, Hatu...
-
Flames From the Heart
FilmDIRECTOR'S STATEMENT - Robert Sarkies "I got to the movies to enjoy the movie. Others go to chat or eat or sleep or make out. Am I weird?" "We all love going to the movies. There's a romance to it (yes even when you go alone)....
-
La Vie En Rose
FilmAudrey Foggin is a sultry young Catholic woman living in the 1950s. She tries to break free of her drab, conformist existence - dominated by religious guilt and fear - by idealising her postie, Barry. Reality, however, turns out to be rather more...
-
Malama
FilmMalama is one of six short films that screened as part of Tala Pasifika, a groundbreaking Pacific Island drama series that screened on TV One in 1996. Malama tells the story of Malama, a young girl who lost her eyesight in a car crash that...
-
Needles and Glass
FilmMa Te Wa Film Productions - established in 1999 to develop Needles and Glass into a theatrical short. Adapted for the screen by Susan Thrasher from the remarkable short story by Fiona Kidman, Ma Te Wa has endeavoured to gather film industry professionals...
-
Philosophy
FilmPhilosophy is an award winning short film about life, death and electricity. Set in a surreal landscape a young student of philosophy hitches a ride in a hearse only to find himself trapped and desperate to escape.
-
Pikowae
FilmSacred land… or Tapu, as Maori put it. This is a world where ritual and prayer is the only formidable respect that will pave our way. Respect of where we are standing. Respect for the events of the past. Respect for whatever immortal spirit waits...
-
The Waiting Room
FilmDIRECTOR'S NOTES - Ian Hughes "The Waiting Room was written in 1995 while I was living in the city of Prague. Hometown of Franz Kafka. It wasn’t until I lived there that I fully comprehended his work. Life was a constant spiral of...
-
The Lethal Innocents
FilmDirector’s Statement - Kirsty Cameron In The Lethal Innocents I wanted to create a suburban fable to tell the story of a girl who does not conform to the cliched ideas of teenage right and wrong. These girls can be called many things –...
-
Nutcase
FilmThis early short from Roger Donaldson is a sci-fi caper for kids. A singing and dancing gang led by 'Evil Eva' holds Auckland to ransom. If they don't get their five mil, Eva will drop a nuclear bomb into the crater of Rangitoto...
-
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
ShowcaseIssue date: 15 Nov 2017Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is the visually spectacular new adventure film from Luc Besson, the legendary director of The Professional, The Fifth Element, La Femme Nikita and Lucy. Based on the groundbreaking comic book series that...
-
The Shannara Chronicles
ShowcaseIssue date: 9 Aug 2017A year after the events of last season, the Four Lands is in chaos. The re-emergence of magic has the populace terrified, and an organization called the Crimson is hunting down magic users, using fear and intimidation to sow discord among the races. Wil...
-
Wonder Woman
ShowcaseIssue date: 14 Mar 2017Gal Gadot stars as the title character in the epic action-adventure from director Patty Jenkins. Joining Gadot in the international cast are Chris Pine, Robin Wright, Danny Huston, David Thewlis, Connie Nielsen, Elena Anaya, Ewen Bremner, Lucy Davis,...
-
Blade Runner 2049
ShowcaseIssue date: 2 Mar 2018Three decades after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what’s left of society into chaos. K’s discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard, a former LAPD...
-
Ash vs Evil Dead
ShowcaseIssue date: 24 Oct 2018Ash vs Evil Dead, a 10-episode half-hour series, is the long-awaited follow-up to the classic horror film, The Evil Dead. The third season finds Ash, having gone from murderous urban legend to humanity-saving hometown hero, discovering that he has a...
-
The Shannara Chronicles
ShowcaseIssue date: 5 Jan 2016Series of adventures, war, and evil that occur throughout the history of the Four Lands. Format Television Series Production Company MTV, Sonar Entertainment, Farah Films Producer Jenna Santoianni Glazier (producer), Tim Scanlan (producer), Tim...
-
Power Rangers Dino Super Charge
ShowcaseIssue date: 30 Jan 2016Format TV Series Production Company Saban Brands Producer Haim Saban (Executive Producer), Chip Lynn (Executive Producer), Brian Casentini (Executive Producer), Sally Campbell (Producer), Jeffrey Newman (Co-Producer), Joel Andryc...
-
Pete's Dragon
ShowcaseIssue date: 15 Sep 2016The adventures of an orphaned boy named Pete and his best friend Elliot, who just so happens to be a dragon. Format Feature film Production Company Walt Disney Pictures Producer James Whitaker (Producer), Barrie Osborne (Executive Producer), Adam...
-
The Light Between Oceans
ShowcaseIssue date: 3 Nov 2016In the years following World War I, a lighthouse keeper and his wife are faced with a moral dilemma when a boat washes ashore with a dead man and a two-month-old infant. When they decide to raise the child as their own, the consequences are...
-
Z for Zachariah
ShowcaseIssue date: 29 Aug 2014Format Feature film Production Company Material Pictures Producer Skuli Malmquist, Thorir Sigurjonsson, Joni Sighvatsson, Tobey Maguire, Matthew Plouffe, Sophia Lin, Steve Bannatyne (Executive Producer), Steven Johnson (US Line Producer), Murray...
-
Slow West
ShowcaseIssue date: 15 May 2015Format Feature film Production Company See-Saw Films, DMC Film and Rachel Gardner Films Producer Iain Canning and Emile Sherman (See-Saw Films), Conor McCaughan (DMC Film) and Rachel Gardner (Rachel Gardner Films). Director John Maclean