February 12, 2025

After picking up an Annie Award earlier in the week, Weta added the top VES award – for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature – to its haul for Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. Weta’s work on…

In November, a new type of content studio, Promise, was launched. Backed by high-profile investors, including producer Peter Chernin, Promise announced at its outset that it aimed to produce film and TV series by incorporating generative artificial intelligence tools into…

Last year I published a study which showed that sex on screen has declined by almost 40% over the past quarter-century. At the time, I was asked whether we could see a comparable decline in levels of romance or if…

Thousands of people have gathered at Auckland’s Civic Theatre for the New Zealand premiere of the much awaited film, Tinā. Directed by Miki Magasiva, the film was set in the immediate aftermath of the Christchurch Earthquake in 2011, and focused…