Steve Newall: Flicks.co.nz editor ahead of Metallica's Eden Park concert

Auckland's hotels will be completely full next Wednesday - as the city welcomes 57,000 visitors ahead of two major events.

40,000 are expected from Metallica fans alone, with the rock band set to perform at Eden Park.

Meanwhile, nearly 4,000 international delegates are gathering at Aotea Centre for New Zealand's largest ever academic conference, celebrating indigenous education over five days.

Flicks.co.nz editor Steve Newall explained further.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Sunday Session podcast with Francesca Rudkin
from News Talks EDB.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Obviously that is Metallica. They are playing live at Eden
Park this coming Wednesday. News reports through suggests that you
can't get a hotel room in Auckland on that day
because of that and something else as well, so it's
all good for business. The only disappointing thing I'm going
to Metallica this weekend. Disappointing thing is they're not doing
it in the round. They're doing it like a traditional concert,

(00:33):
which doesn't mean the sound. It means the sound won't
be as awesome as it is when it's in the
realm where everyone is close to the speakers, but still
wicked sorry, wickled sorry, and still Metallica is going to
be great. And joining me now is Steve Newell, the
editor from flicks dot co dot Nz. Are you going
to Metallica? Mate?

Speaker 3 (00:51):
I'm looking forward to Wednesday, but of course, real metalers
like myself were at Blood Incantation last night at Double
Way in Auckland, a US prog metal band who I
saw are correctly described on social media as a mix
of Morbid Angel, Andnjurine Dream and Pink Floyd.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
Wow, thank you all right? With Metellica by the way,
evan essence they're playing and that they're quite operatic and
suicidal tendency. So it's going to be a good night
all around for the positive vibes. I'm sure. Hey, the
New Zealand Screen Awards happening Friday, November the twenty first,
and we've heard some nominations.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
Yes, so this is pulling together both New Zealand's TV
and feature film screen industries. I mean, the line's so
blurred now anywhere between those two formats, right, But leaving
the pack of film nominations this year ten are the
rule of Genny Penn and Tanu. I was shadowing the
awards to some extent, like the sad passing of Lee

(01:46):
Tamhori so recently it's gonna be already felt in the room,
I think on Friday night, his sadly final feature, The Convert,
his six nominations across.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
It's a good film. I like it very much.

Speaker 3 (02:02):
It's really interestingly, you know, and sadly bookended Lee's career.
Now with you two really strong.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
He's got something else coming out next year, though, he
was working on one, so he's got one more still
to come. But the Convert with Guy Peace and of
course Ancient Old New Zealand very good watch. Indeed, speaking
about legends, So Tama Hordy never got the Screen Awards
Legend Prize.

Speaker 3 (02:27):
Did he? Yeah? Correct? So the awards will will I
guess it's a career retrospective celebration type award. Previous honorees
include Dame Julie Christie, Oscar Kite, Lee Deri, and Morral
gunn Ian Mune, Andrew Shore, etc. This year, Sir Sam
Neil is the honoree, so it's going to be great

(02:48):
to celebrate him in the room.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
Well, look, he almost died. I mean hello, what were
you saying before? You know, sometimes he can go too early,
but sometimes he can go too late, and we went
too late with Lee.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
It is a shame. I think we will honor his
career this Friday in the room. But it would have
been great to have him there to do that, you know.
So it's a bit of a shame. So elsewhere in
the in the nominees on the small screen side, the
Best Drama category includes shows like Broken Wood, Mysteries, The
Gone A Remarkable Place to Die and Dead Ahead. Shows
like The Restaurant That Makes Mistakes, The Traders, New Zealand

(03:21):
and Match Fit Union Versus League are in the reality
category and Look. Tons of names from Alta and further
abroad are in the Acting and Presented nominees a bit
like Guy Parse mentioned for The Convert. You know you'll
see a couple of international actors in the in this list,
so Acting and presented nominees include the likes of John Campbell,
Julian Dennison, Curta Forester, Elizabeth Hawthorne, Martin Henderson, John Lithgow,

(03:46):
Maneia Poto Sneaking, a couple of internationals, so John Lethgo
and Jeffrey Rush who's also nominated Stars of the Rule
of Jenny Penn, which is James Ashcroft's are really chilling
retirement community thriller I'm based on Stephen King.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
The first time I ever saw John Lithgo on screen,
it was The World according to Garp, and he played
at a transsexual character and the transsexual character's name was ROBERTA. Muldoon.
And I remember going to the premiere and we know,
if you hadn't read the book, you didn't know that
this was happening, and when he said I'm ROBERTA. Muldoon

(04:24):
and Muldoon was still around at the time, the entire
theater laughed.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
I'm in New Zealand. Does love seeing itself on the
screen right, like it doesn't. It doesn't take much for
it for a frous to point and go that's us.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
Yeah, exactly right. Oh great. So this is Friday, November
the twenty first. Are you going to go?

Speaker 3 (04:37):
If you go, I'm really looking forward to this. No,
no tux or tales. I'm still figuring it out, but
I'm really looking forward to walking the red carpet and celebrating.
It's going to be a big night. Fifty seven categories,
so I'm really curious to see. They can't possibly have
fifty seven speeches.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
Ah. No, absolutely, it's going to go go like it
always does. Hey, Steve, thank you so much. Flicks dot
co dot zaid love your website. Whenever I want to
see a film, I always check to see where it
might be streaming, and you're it's definitive your website. And
you know, I haven't on the show for six years
and you're still here and you've made the web than
ever made the website better than ever, exactly right. Thanks

(05:12):
for your time today.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
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