Inaugural Edition Of New Zealand Film Fest In The Shade To Open With Guillermo Del Toro’s ‘Nightmare Alley’

“RuPaul’s Drag Race” is simply beyond a global phenomenon. The World of Wonder breakthrough series has won the Competition Series Emmy Award four straight times and RuPaul Charles has won best Host for a Reality-Competition series six straight times.

EXCLUSIVE: New Zealand TV personality Craig Busch AKA The Lion Man is attempting to return to TV screens after more than five years with a duo of formats.

#MenInKilts Season 2! pic.twitter.com/UHSz4kJHljSeason 1 of the show saw them exploring their native Scotland and taking part in various events. There was also a heavy food component to the show, with the actors quite happily sampling cuisine wherever they went.

Dancing On Ice star Brendan Cole was rushed to hospital during training for the ITV show after the dancer suffered concussion.The 45 year old former Strictly Come Dancing professional, who accidentally injured his Dancing On Ice partner Vanessa Bauer while they were training on Wednesday 24 November, described how he received treatment in A and E following the nasty fall.

Brendan Cole accidentally sliced his Dancing On Ice partner Vanessa Bauer's back with one of his ice skates during a training session that went wrong.The former Strictly Come Dancing professional dancer is a contestant on next year's edition of the sparkling ice skating competition, and fans could be expecting him to follow in the footsteps of last year's winner James Jordan.

Kelly Clarkson has Radiohead on her mind.

Selome Hailu editorARRAY Releasing, the distribution arm of Ava DuVernay’s Peabody Award-winning narrative change collective, announced its acquisition of award-winning filmmaker Sterlin Harjo’s documentary feature “Love and Fury.”The company acquired North American, UK, Australian and New Zealand rights and will release the film on select screens and on Netflix beginning December 3rd.

Lord of the Rings” is moving from New Zealand to the U.K. — which will be an enormous economic boon to the British entertainment economy.Couple that with a fall in the pound sterling caused by the Brexit vote in 2016, and producing content in the U.K.

Variety can reveal.Season 2 of Amazon Prime Video’s “Lord of the Rings,” which grabbed international headlines when the streaming player moved locations from New Zealand to the U.K., has set its first filming locations.

My Chemical Romance have postponed their Australian and New Zealand shows by a year, citing uncertainty with border and venue capacity restrictions.The band were expected to tour Down Under for the first time in ten years this coming March.

England play their last match of the Autumn Nations Series for 2021 against South Africa this weekend.

Naman Ramachandran Marten Rabarts has stepped down as director of the New Zealand International Film Festival (NZIFF), and is moving on to take up a key role in a new film and arts project in Europe. Rabarts’ decision to leave the role was taken some months ago but he deferred it until he had delivered the current edition of the festival, which is ongoing.

IDLES have announced they’ll tour Australia and New Zealand in October and November of next year in support of latest album ‘CRAWLER’.The band will kick the run of dates off in late October with three shows in New Zealand – Christchurch, Wellington and Auckland. The tour will then continue to Australia, where the band have shows booked in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane and Perth.See tour dates below.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterSaban Films has landed rights to “Here Before,” a psychological thriller starring Andrea Riseborough.When the deal closes, Saban Films will distribute the movie — through its global partner Defiant Screen Entertainment — in North America, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.First-time feature filmmaker Stacey Gregg wrote and directed “Here Before,” which had its world premiere at the SXSW Film Festival.

Two more bodies have been found at the site of a New Zealand coal mine explosion which killed 29 workers, including two Scots, more than a decade ago.

There’s plenty of action on offer for rugby fans this month with the Autumn Internationals in full flow.

Gang Of Youths have announced the release of their highly anticipated third album, ‘Angel In Realtime’.Due out on February 25, the new LP will be the band’s first full-length project in almost five years, following 2017’s ‘Go Farther In Lightness’.The album’s announcement comes with the release of new single ‘Tend The Garden’, a huge tonal change from their recent work, following a lighter, summery route.‘Tend The Garden’ is the fourth preview to be shared from the band’s new album.