Author name: Mark It

The Government has appointed former Goldman Sachs New Zealand chief Andrew Barclay as the new chair of public broadcaster TVNZ. Barclay spent more than 25 years at Goldman Sachs, joining in 1999 and rising to managing director in 2006. He…

President Trump revived his idea for a 100% tariff on foreign-made movies on Monday — and this time, he made it sound like he’s really going to do it. Back in May, he said was “authorizing” such a tariff. On…

Like thousands of actors, Tilly Norwood is looking for a Hollywood agent. But unlike most young performers aspiring to make it in the film industry, Tilly Norwood is an entirely artificial intelligence-made character. Norwood, dubbed Hollywood’s first “AI actor”, is…

Explainer – For a little country at the bottom of the world, New Zealand has a blockbuster impact on the film industry. Everything from hit Minecraft and Avatar movies to Marvel superhero epics to Oscar-winning drama like The Power of the Dog has ties to New Zealand,…

Produced by John Barnett, What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? continued Jake the Muss’s story, becoming the second-highest-grossing Kiwi film of the ’90s and sweeping multiple NZ Film & TV Awards.…

On 22nd September 1955, British broadcasting changed course. With fanfare at Guildhall and 2,000 invited guests, including representatives from both the BBC and new commercial sector, the UK introduced Independent Television (ITV), its first foray into advertiser-funded TV. This wasn’t…

Just as Warner Bros is opening their seventh original movie this year with Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, the motion picture studio of Harry, Albert, Sam and Jack can celebrate being the first to cross $4 billion at…