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).
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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.
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.
Simu Liu is representing Canada in a big way.
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.
I'm a Celebrity 's brand new castle camp at Gwrych Castle in Wales, looks to be coming together in exciting new aerial shot as builders continue to work on restoring the building.New drone photos shared from North Wales Live show cranes and workers situated around the 250 acre land, with a white tent covering a secret structure ITV want to keep secret from prying eyes.Since the announcement that the show's upcoming series would take place in the supposedly haunted castle rather than Australia
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.
Naman Ramachandran London-based sales agent WestEnd Films has sold multiple territories on romantic comedy “Falling For Figaro,” starring Joanna Lumley (“Absolutely Fabulous”) and Danielle Macdonald (“Patti Cake$”).The film has sold to Entertainment Film Distributors for the U.K., Twelve Oaks for Spain, Splendid for Benelux, Huanxi Media Group for China, United King for Israel, Investacommerce for the former Yugosvalian territories and Umbrella Entertainment for Australia and New Zealand.
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.
METZ have shared the video for their latest single, ‘Blind Youth Industrial Park’.
Tom Grater International Film ReporterWarner Bros has called time on its long-lasting partnership with Australian company Village Roadshow after four decades of the latter distributing the studio’s films in the territory.Roadshow made an announcement to the Australian stock exchange today noting the arrangement would come to a close at the end of this year.