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Pop-Up Cinema returns to Taupō
Pop-Up Cinema is making a return to Taupō with its first movie sessions of 2025, including te reo and English versions of Moana 2.

Taupō hosts psycho-thriller film
Producers raided Taupō’s senior community for extras and moved into a local resort, to shoot a movie that is about to hit cinemas.

Global bike film festival begins in Taupō
In its 11th year, The Big Bike Film Night celebrates cycling in all its glorious shapes and forms and begins its national and global tour in Taupō on February 19.