Press Releases

He’s one of New Zealand’s hottest new exports but Kiwi comedian Rhys Darby, reckons there’s no place like home.

One of the world’s most celebrated footballers has arrived in New Zealand.

One of New Zealand’s best known entertainers, Rob Guest, has died in Melbourne.

Hammonds Scenic Tours this year celebrates 50 years operating as a tour coach business in and around Wellington and beyond.

A British expatriate couple has made double New Zealand history by getting married on the capital city’s cable car in what’s thought to be the country’s shortest marriage ceremony.

New Zealand and India have agreed to negotiate a film co-production agreement.

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.

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’.