Business | Broadsheet
6 October 2018
Ethical nail polish company Kester Black has created a one-off custom range in partnership with Disney to celebrate Mickey Mouse’s 90th birthday. Australian city guide Broadsheet talks to founder, New Zealander
Film & TV | Comingsoon.net
8 June 2018
“New Zealander Yosan An has joined Disney’s live-action movie Mulan as the main love interest Chen Hongui opposite Liu Yifei (also known as Crystal Liu) who is playing Hua Mulan,” reports Kylie Hemmert for…
Film & TV | Comicbook.com
12 December 2016
“Moana is both a revival of the Disney classic and a bold step away from their time honored tales,” writes Meredith Placko in a review for Comicbook.com.
“While she may be the daughter…
Film | YouTube
13 June 2016
In ancient Oceania in the South Pacific, the young Moana (Auli’i Cravalho) is a born navigator who sets sail in search of a fabled island. During her journey, she…
Music | YouTube
13 April 2016
Disney presents this bonus clip from Muppets Most Wanted with Bret McKenzie singing “I’ll Get You What You Want” with the Muppets.
Film & TV | People Magazine
17 October 2015
14-year old Hawaiian Auli’i Cravalho has been selected to voice the lead in Disney’s new princess movie Moana.
“From baby time to now, I wanted to be a Disney princess and then I wanted to…
Film & TV | Empire Magazine
17 April 2015
Jemaine Clement is set to star in Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The BFG alongside Penelope Wilton and Rebecca Hall.
“In more than 40 years of making movies, I have been on the producing…
Film & TV | Comic Book Resources
8 April 2015
Hollywood star Dwayne Johnson has officially signed on with Disney to play the male lead in their newest film Moana.
The actor will lend his voice to Maui, the lead male protagonist in the upcoming…
Film & TV | Sundance Film Festival
9 November 2014
Disney’s 56th animated film Moana has magic written all over it, according to the Latin Post and New Zealand writer and director Taika Waititi has a hand in it. The film is the studio’s…
Theatre | Australian (The)
22 December 2013
22 December 2013 – South Auckland-born Nick Afoa, 27, makes a “fine musical theatre debut as the adult Simba” in an Australian musical production of Disney’s The Lion King. Afoa, “moves with the exuberant…
Science/Tech | International Business Times
1 November 2013
New Zealand-based technology company Arvus Digital has confirmed that Grand Theft Auto Five (GTA5) developer RockStarNorth used its unique audio technology High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) to AES/EBU digital audio converter the HDMI-2A.
Arvus…
Film & TV | Billboard
10 October 2011
Former Flight of the Conchord Bret McKenzie, 35, has written four original songs for the soundtrack of the new Disney film The Muppets, which will be released on 21 November. McKenzie is also the…
Business | News Corporation | Vanity Fair
1 October 2007
Queenstown-born film producer Tim Bevan (right) features in Vanity Fair‘s annual ‘New Establishment’ power rankings, along with business partner Eric Fellner. Bevan and Fellner founded British film powerhouse Working Title in 1984….
Theatre | Stuff.co.nz
29 August 2005
A new Walt Disney stage production of Beauty and the Beast has proved a double coup for NZ. Weta Workshop is to design costumes for the $1 million extravaganza, which will be presented by…