Author name: Mark It

Sara Wiseman has been a fixture on New Zealand television screens for nearly three decades. First appearing in Hercules and Xena Warrior Princess during the mid 90s, her breakthrough role came in 2001 as the formidable Dr Nicky Somerville in…

One of our most successful film and television producers has terminal cancer. In a candid – sometimes scathing – interview over lunch, Steven O’Meagher opens up on an ‘arrogant’ NZ Film Commission, the lack of a hit NZ movie in eight…

Things have gotten a bit more complicated with labor negotiations for IATSE, the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, ahead of the crafts union’s contract expiring on July 31. The national branch of IATSE told members on Thursday, June 6…

The Shrinking Presence of Major Studios From 1995 to 2009, Hollywood’s six major studios—Disney, Warner Bros., Universal, Paramount, 20th Century Fox, and Sony—released an average of 112 theatrical films per year. However, from 2010 to 2023, that number dropped to…

I wanted to say “First music video created by Sora”, but using the word ‘Create’ in that context is to be unfair to the numerous real artists that their footage were trained for this video. In my opinion, a creator…

American streaming platforms have been ordered to direct 5 percent of their Canadian revenues into local content production. The ruling from the CRTC, the country’s TV and telecoms regulator, follows Canada’s Bill C-11, or Online Streaming Act, coming into law…

This story was originally published on The Spinoff Only the two hugely powerful agencies that decide what we fund for our screens.  The NZ Film Commission was founded in the late 70s, tasked with a broad range of functions, most…