Rialto Distribution has acquired worldwide rights to Tinā and is planning a nationwide U.S. theatrical release on Sept. 5. Hawaii, American Samoa and Guam will release August 29.
The film, written and directed by Samoan-New Zealand filmmaker Miki Magasiva, premiered at the 2024 Hawaii International Film Festival, going on to garner multiple accolades including the Best Narrative Feature Award at the 2025 Palm Springs International Film Festival and the Golden Space Needle Award at the Seattle International Film Festival.
Tinā has grossed over $10 million in box office revenue across New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific and currently stands as the most successful New Zealand release in nearly a decade. Rialto Distribution will spearhead the rest of the film’s international rollout (excluding Australia and New Zealand) following its U.S. debut.
Magasiva’s feature debut is the deeply moving story of Mareta Percival, played by Anapela Polataivao (Our Flag Means Death, Night Shift...
The film, written and directed by Samoan-New Zealand filmmaker Miki Magasiva, premiered at the 2024 Hawaii International Film Festival, going on to garner multiple accolades including the Best Narrative Feature Award at the 2025 Palm Springs International Film Festival and the Golden Space Needle Award at the Seattle International Film Festival.
Tinā has grossed over $10 million in box office revenue across New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific and currently stands as the most successful New Zealand release in nearly a decade. Rialto Distribution will spearhead the rest of the film’s international rollout (excluding Australia and New Zealand) following its U.S. debut.
Magasiva’s feature debut is the deeply moving story of Mareta Percival, played by Anapela Polataivao (Our Flag Means Death, Night Shift...
- 7/10/2025
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Stars: Owen Conway, Robert Sprayberry, Becky Jo Harris, Charlie E Motley, Eva Hamilton, Stephen Moran, Dan Higgins | Written and Directed by Owen Conway
Ghost Town takes place in a boomtown gone bust and involves prostitutes. But that’s where the similarities end, rather than a drama this is a horror film about what seems to be a rather literal ghost town.
Solomon is a drifter in dire straights. His horse has died, he’s out of money and his gun has gone missing. Luckily for him, there’s a town visible in the distance, and a job working for Hagan the owner of the local saloon and whorehouse. He’s not five minutes into the job when one of the customers is shot dead while they’re talking to him.
As if that and having an “insufferable prick”, as one of the girls calls him, for a boss wasn’t...
Ghost Town takes place in a boomtown gone bust and involves prostitutes. But that’s where the similarities end, rather than a drama this is a horror film about what seems to be a rather literal ghost town.
Solomon is a drifter in dire straights. His horse has died, he’s out of money and his gun has gone missing. Luckily for him, there’s a town visible in the distance, and a job working for Hagan the owner of the local saloon and whorehouse. He’s not five minutes into the job when one of the customers is shot dead while they’re talking to him.
As if that and having an “insufferable prick”, as one of the girls calls him, for a boss wasn’t...
- 3/2/2023
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
Seth MacFarlane Returns to an Uptempo Take on Big-Band Jazz With New Album, ‘Blue Skies’ (Exclusive)
For Seth MacFarlane, “blue” means less balladic. He’s announcing a new album on the way, “Blue Skies,” and says it marks a return to a more swinging style than the softer approach he employed on his last record.
Out May 20, the seventh album from the “Family Guy” creator and jazz cat will again see him working with a catalog of classics, and again see him working closely with arranger and conductor Andrew Cottee. Still, it’ll mark a turnaround from their previous release.
“I have long been a fan of Andrew Cottee’s supremely artful and buoyant orchestrations,” MacFarlane tells Variety. “So after our last collaboration, ‘Once in A While,’ a ballad-themed record, I really wanted to hear what he could do with an up-tempo album. As always, Andrew did not disappoint. His arrangements of these 14 songs, carefully selected by the two of us, are yet another shining example...
Out May 20, the seventh album from the “Family Guy” creator and jazz cat will again see him working with a catalog of classics, and again see him working closely with arranger and conductor Andrew Cottee. Still, it’ll mark a turnaround from their previous release.
“I have long been a fan of Andrew Cottee’s supremely artful and buoyant orchestrations,” MacFarlane tells Variety. “So after our last collaboration, ‘Once in A While,’ a ballad-themed record, I really wanted to hear what he could do with an up-tempo album. As always, Andrew did not disappoint. His arrangements of these 14 songs, carefully selected by the two of us, are yet another shining example...
- 4/21/2022
- by Chris Willman
- Variety Film + TV
Stars: Nathaniel Burns, Robert Conway, Dan Higgins, Cameron Kotecki, Chris Beeman, Daniel Link, Victorio Pope, Jeff Yazzie | Written and Directed by Robert Conway
Skinwalker (not to be confused with Skinwalkers aka Skinwalker Ranch) opens in the Arizona High Country in 1883. Two travellers Benny (Nathaniel Burns; Battlefield 2025) and Hugo, played by writer/director Robert Conway come across a Native American burial site. Benny wants to loot it for items he can sell to collectors. Hugo warns him against it, but Benny grabs a Death Totem anyway. Big mistake, shortly after Hugo is bit by a snake and becomes possessed by the spirit removing the totem freed.
Elsewhere Marshall Bascom (Dan Higgins; Exit to Hell) and Deputy Riggs (Cameron Kotecki; Eminence Hill) have tracked down a pair of outlaws. They kill Elmer (Chris Beeman) and capture Maisie who happens to be married to the gang’s leader, Dalton. He and his men,...
Skinwalker (not to be confused with Skinwalkers aka Skinwalker Ranch) opens in the Arizona High Country in 1883. Two travellers Benny (Nathaniel Burns; Battlefield 2025) and Hugo, played by writer/director Robert Conway come across a Native American burial site. Benny wants to loot it for items he can sell to collectors. Hugo warns him against it, but Benny grabs a Death Totem anyway. Big mistake, shortly after Hugo is bit by a snake and becomes possessed by the spirit removing the totem freed.
Elsewhere Marshall Bascom (Dan Higgins; Exit to Hell) and Deputy Riggs (Cameron Kotecki; Eminence Hill) have tracked down a pair of outlaws. They kill Elmer (Chris Beeman) and capture Maisie who happens to be married to the gang’s leader, Dalton. He and his men,...
- 7/30/2021
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
Stars: Clint James, Owen Conway, Megan Drust, Eliza Kiss, Paulina Vallin, Louie Iaccarino, Dan Higgins, Monica Engesser, Pat Kaye, Chad T. Krolczyk | Written and Directed by Robert Conway
When Collin Bastrow is found in the forest, alone and afraid, he has a shocking story to tell. As he struggles to recount the events of the previous night his memories return in a series of horrific flashes of what became of his friends and fiancée. What started as a simple camping trip in the mountains of Northern Arizona quickly descended into an amazing and terrifying story that is truly out of this world. As the sole survivor of this deadly close encounter Collin must try and explain the unexplainable.
The Encounter is a found footage fest of frightening fear film! I may have gone a little overboard there, but to give you a clearer idea of what this film is about,...
When Collin Bastrow is found in the forest, alone and afraid, he has a shocking story to tell. As he struggles to recount the events of the previous night his memories return in a series of horrific flashes of what became of his friends and fiancée. What started as a simple camping trip in the mountains of Northern Arizona quickly descended into an amazing and terrifying story that is truly out of this world. As the sole survivor of this deadly close encounter Collin must try and explain the unexplainable.
The Encounter is a found footage fest of frightening fear film! I may have gone a little overboard there, but to give you a clearer idea of what this film is about,...
- 6/3/2015
- by Richard Axtell
- Nerdly
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