NZ@Noon: Movie madness and Good Samaritans

Award winning producer Barrie Osborne is looking for talent for his latest project. Rotorua will host an open casting call.

Good Samaritans and the chance to be a movie star are just two of the stories making headlines around the regions today.

A Wellington man was overwhelmed by the kindness of two Havelock North women who looked after him after an accident.

Attention, all aspiring movie stars in Rotorua, Walt Disney Studios wants you.

Santa Claus made his debut in Papamoa over the weekend. Check out the gallery here.

The annual Wanganui Jockey Club's Christmas at the Races meeting this week is an end-of-year party planner's dream.

In Masterton, disorderly and violent party-goers spilled out on to the street, causing a police call out.

And finally, a descendant of one of the men who went down with the SS Ventnor in Hokianga has backed calls for the shipwreck to be declared an attraction.