Author name: Mark It

For the penultimate part of my decade-by-decade history of cameras, let’s imagine ourselves at the start of the millennium. Digital technology seems to have taken over everything. In the UK, digital TV has been launched and DAB radio is well…

Judd Apatow spoke to Vulture in a recent interview about the current state of television, including why the trend of rewatching older series and licensing pacts between streamers is “scary.”  “I’m of two minds,” Apatow said. “There’s a part of…

“We Were Dangerous” is a surprisingly funny film for a movie whose central conflict is the sterilization of a group of young women on the fringes of society in 1950s New Zealand. Knowing the project, which debuted at SXSW in…

Michigan desperately wanted a Hollywood makeover. And for $500 million, studios were more than happy to help. When the state started writing checks in 2008 from one of the nation’s most generous film incentive programs, productions flocked there, making box-office…

Aye yai yai, the debate around AI. In a new NRG (National Research Group) poll shared exclusively with IndieWire, 42 percent of film and television production professionals say AI “will harm people” in their field. Yet nearly a third (32…

It was only a matter of time. Once Sora was announced, it was clear that studios and coms filmmakers would be interested in exploring the benefits. If this program worked effectively, there would be a streamlining of costs and a…

In just over three weeks, the entire industry will be in Las Vegas for the opening day of NAB Show 2024. To be honest it doesn’t feel like a year since the last one, the weeks have whistled past and…

Showing the impact of the tragedy on the community, the new local film is founded on connections, from its high-flying Kiwi stars, to the close collaboration with the families involved in the real-life tragedy. Two of New Zealand’s best actresses,…