Canadian film director James Cameron has confirmed he is planning not one but two sequels to his 3D sci-fi epic, Avatar, which earned a special effects Oscar for the Wellington-based Weta Workshop.

NZ short film Poppy has been awarded the Computer Animation Festival's Jury Prize ahead of the SIGGRAPH 2010 International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, which is being held in Los Angeles on the 25th - 29th July.

The Christchurch International Antarctic Centre will invest in excess of $4 million this year with the purchase of the Hukawai Glacier Centre at Franz Josef and the opening of a new 4D theatre concept at The Antarctic Centre in Christchurch.

Wellington, March 8 NZPA - The Weta Digital team from Wellington has won the Oscar best visual effects.

The team of Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew Jones were on stage to accept the Academy Award for their work for the blockbuster Avatar.

New Zealand box office for James Cameron's Golden Globe-winning motion picture epic AVATAR has now hit $10.9 million ($NZ) after just 5 weeks in cinemas.

MPDA figures show that AVATAR is the fastest film to achieve $10 million in New Zealand, reaching that point 31 days after release.

December 22nd 2009 - When a top director hasn’t made a film in 12 years, there will always be a level of hype surrounding their return to the director’s chair.