News Feature by: David Tiley
Wednesday 1 September, 2010
Not too many commissioning editors can claim to have saved six hundred thousand people from being infected by HIV/AIDS in a single year. Welcome to the tragic, heartening world of Dr Garth Japhet.

Wednesday 1 September, 2010
Screen Hub will launch a new, mobile phone directory of the New Zealand and Australian film and television industries in November. Screen Hub mobile will place more than 7,000 film and television contacts at you fingertips. Simply search and click once to call or email anyone on the database. One click will even add that person or company to your phone's contacts.

Tuesday 31 August, 2010
The interest is mainly outside of the top 5, which changes only with some snappy fish taking over Harry Brown's #5 spot. Avatar returns, slightly longer than before. Boy and Home By Christmas both shape up to ship out for video release. Predicament opens at #8, which does not bode well for either its overall earnings or its longevity.

Tuesday 31 August, 2010
Aussies sometimes have a reputation for not liking their own movies, but they certainly liked one of ours this last weekend. Boy lived up to the promise its Australian festival outings suggested it was capable of delivering, topping the limited release Aussie box office rankings.

Monday 30 August, 2010
Auckland's Flux Media got paid out by Ettamogah in April for its work on an animated TV show, but only after months of legal wrangling. Other workers on the show, from both Australia and further afield, have still not been so lucky.

Monday 30 August, 2010
The Emmy awards provided gongs to lots of first-time winners, with most of the usual suspects taking back seats for a change. The nominations list ran to 80 pages. Happily, the winners' list only runs to two.

Friday 27 August, 2010
Two documentaries made by Dunedin production company NHNZ have reached the top five in the July best-sellers list for documentaries in all retail stores in New Zealand*.

Friday 27 August, 2010
Late on Friday afternoon, MediaWorks issued a statement concerning speculation about the future of Campbell Live. The statement came in response to a column in Friday's Herald, which opened “TV3 owner MediaWorks is questioning if the nightly Campbell Live is sustainable on its present ratings.”

Friday 27 August, 2010
Following up research it carried out in 2006, on how young people in New Zealand were using the entertainment mediums, the Office of Film and Literature Classification did it all again, and discovered that young people are watching DVDs more often and going to the cinema less often.

Friday 27 August, 2010
Three of the top five step down to avoid an ass-kicking from Angelina Jolie, as Salt takes the top honours for the week.

Friday 27 August, 2010
Television New Zealand today reported underlying earnings (before reorganisation costs, programme amortisation revision, interest, financial instruments, share of associates and tax) of $12.9 million for the financial year to 30 June 2010, a $2.8 million (28%) increase on the previous financial year.

Friday 27 August, 2010
Jason Stutter's Predicament opened Thursday, receiving less than glowing reviews and raising the old question of whether local films receive preferential treatment from critics.

Friday 27 August, 2010
The best-known international speaker at SPADA's annual conference this year will be Lord David Puttnam, Academy Award winner and producer of Chariots of Fire, The Mission and The Killing Fields.