METZ drop raging new single ‘Blind Youth Industrial Park’

Tom Grater International Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: AMC Networks’ genre streamer Shudder has landed a major multi-territory deal on The Banishing, Christopher Smith’s horror starring Jessica Brown Findlay that has its world premiere at Spanish festival Sitges this month.Sales agent WestEnd Films struck the deal, which covers North America, UK and Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.

Naman Ramachandran Lena Waithe’s single-camera comedy “Twenties” has found its U.K. home at BBC Three, where it will debut this fall.A key title in ViacomCBS International Studios (VIS) Distribution’s original scripted content slate, the show has also sold to New Zealand SVOD platform Neon where it streams this month.The British public service broadcaster has acquired exclusive U.K.

BENEE will live-stream the final show of her New Zealand tour on October 17. The singer-songwriter is set to perform at Auckland’s Spark Arena in front of a sold-out crowd.The stream is ticketed and will commence at 9.20am BST/9.20pm NZT.

It’s been three years since Lorde released her last album Melodrama, and almost as long since she spoke out on social media (her last Instagram post is from Apr. 2018).

Lorde has hinted that she could be set to release new music next year while encouraging her fans in New Zealand to vote in the upcoming election.The Kiwi pop star’s latest record, ‘Melodrama’, was released in 2017 to huge critical acclaim.

Lorde is possibly hinting at her long-awaited new music!

In the lead up to New Zealand’s general elections on October 17, Jacinda Arden leader of New Zealand Labour and current PM has stated that if re-elected she would ban conversion therapy in the country.The commitment comes, after a recent survey found that more than one in six respondents had been subjected to attempts to stop them being trans or non-binary, Labour Party spokesman Tāmati Coffey said.“Conversion therapy has been linked to severe adverse mental health issues, including depression,

Matt Ratana has told how a planned holiday to reunite with him will now be a visit to his grave. Matthew Ratana, from New Zealand, had been hoping to meet up with the Kiwi police officer, whose late mother Mary was Scottish, during a planned trip to the UK earlier this year.

Leena Tailor A publicist couldn’t have planned it better.

Chet Faker in five years, after having dropped the moniker in 2016.The single, ‘Low’, is also Murphy’s first single since signing to BMG Australia/New Zealand.Listen to the track below:Murphy announced his return to the Chet Faker moniker earlier this week. In an interview with NME in 2016, Murphy said the decision to drop the name had been a “long time coming”.“When I started Chet Faker it was always a project.

Peter White Television EditorEXCLUSIVE: Stefania LaVie Owen, who has starred in Netflix’s Messiah and Hulu’s Chance, has joined the cast of Sweet Tooth.Deadline understands that she is a series regular on the upcoming Netflix drama, which is based on the DC Vertigo comic and comes from Robert Downey Jr. and Susan Downey’s Team Downey, Jim Mickle, Beth Schwartz and Warner Bros.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: Filming has just resumed in New Zealand on Amazon’s sprawling The Lord Of The Rings TV series, an adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy novels, I have learned.

Nancy Tartaglione International Box Office Editor/Senior ContributorJames Cameron provided his Terminator star Arnold Schwarzenegger with an update on the Avatar sequels during a recent chat for the 2020 Austrian World Summit. Speaking by video conference from New Zealand, Cameron said, “We’re 100% complete on Avatar 2 and sort of 95% complete on Avatar 3.” He added that the team is currently working on shooting the remainder of the live action.

Ruby Fields has shared her first new song of 2020.The new song, ‘Pretty Grim’, is out now and the video – directed by Jamieson Kerr – is available to watch below.‘Pretty Grim’ was initially penned by Fields in 2018 following the end of a gruelling Australian tour.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefWarner Bros. is to end its decades-old film distribution relationship in Australia and New Zealand with Roadshow Films.The studio has notified the Australian distributor that its current contract to handle the theatrical releases of Warner titles will not be renewed beyond its expiry at the end of December.

Allbirds is a New Zealand-American footwear company that uses a direct-to-consumer approach and only sells their shoes on their own website and in their own stores. Their goal: designing environmentally friendly sustainable footwear.The Allbirds style is basic design, form and function that you can wear anywhere and everywhere -- their first shoe was the Wool Runner, which is made from New Zealand superfine merino wool.