January 6, 2025

Hollywood’s 2024 box office numbers underscored the industry’s ongoing challenges. Domestic revenues fell to $8.75 billion, a 3.3% decline from 2023 and a staggering 23.5% drop compared to 2019. Analysts attributed much of this to the fallout from the previous…

There hasn’t been a major feature film shot in Hawke’s Bay since Geoff Murphy’s 1983 film Utu used our landscapes. But the region is now poised to become a real player in New Zealand’s film scene, with studio proposed, and new short…