Press Releases

New Zealand’s award winning special effects company Weta Workshop is taking an exhibition of unique work to Chengdu, China, in a bid to support Sichuan earthquake relief efforts.

New Zealand’s Weta Workshop has won the battle to create costumes for a new Hollywood blockbuster featuring well-known superheroes.

Fans of the Chronicles of Narnia films now have the chance to examine behind the scenes detail with the launch of a new book by the New Zealand special effects company Weta Workshops.

Creative talent at Weta Workshops, New Zealand’s Oscar-winning film industry specialists, can be credited with another world first - this time it's a mechanical replica of an endangered yellow-eyed penguin.

The New Zealand film industry has been given another major boost with news that two sequels to the world's biggest movie, 'Avatar', are set to be made in Wellington.

Movie fans and tourists keen for an insight into the workings of Weta, New Zealand’s Academy Award-wining visual effects studio, are already flocking to the company’s new showcase – ‘Weta Cave’.

Ground-breaking New Zealand technology will be showcased around the world this weekend as Avatar – Hollywood producer James Cameron’s latest cinematic experience opens to international movie audiences.

New Zealand's film industry is on a roll, this time at the 2010 BAFTAs (British Film & Television Awards).

Whakatane – a small east coast town in New Zealand’s North Island – wants to become ‘Kiwi capital of the world’, claiming it’s the only place on earth where it’s possible to hear kiwis calling from the main street.

Whale watching is a year round pastime in New Zealand but come winter, the popular activity takes on a more serious role, and this year a busy migration period is providing valuable data as well as entertainment.