New Zealand Entertainment News

A string of big-budget movies are being filmed or planned, including Peter Jackson's next three projects and a big-screen version of classic cartoon Yogi Bear . That's a major contrast to Australia, where the rising dollar saw Sydney lose two...

Less than a month before the scheduled release of James Cameron's new movie, "Avatar," some scenes from the costly special-effects extravaganza remain unfinished. Pressure to complete the project by the Dec. Jon Landau during a break from supervising the work...

Idol star Stan Walker has vowed to reach into personal tragedy and pain to find his true voice for tonight's finale at the Sydney Opera House. Walker, 19, who is vying with Hayley Warner for the Australian Idol title, will...

The reviewer who detected author Witi Ihimaera's plagiarism thinks the author should re-write the book. Listener reviewer Jolisa Gracewood, who discovered the unattributed material in Ihimaera's novel The Trowenna Sea, said today there were more examples of plagiarism than the...

Encouraging talented artists to showcase their work in form of poetry and writing is the ultimate aim behind the Wasawasa Festival which was launched at the South Pacific Arts Village in Albert Park today...The Arts festival is guided by the...

The singer's father Mitch Winehouse is delighted with his daughter's progress as she battles her drug and alcohol problems and believes she should be given more credit for her hard work. He told Heat magazine: "She's doing fantastic and I...

One of the country's newest arts laureates, author Witi Ihimaera, is buying the remaining stock of his latest novel The Trowenna Sea after a plagiarism controversy. Publisher Penguin Group (NZ) has also announced it is offering to take back stock...