Author name: Mark It

Award-winning film producer Chelsea Winstanley says the end of her marriage to Taika Waititi has helped her grow professionally and personally. “I don’t need anyone else for me to be able to be happy, in control, or do what I…

Former Baywatch and Knight Rider star, David Hasselhoff, is still owed money from an Auckland-based production company, following his recent filming in New Zealand, Stuff has been told. Another US star has filed an application to the Auckland High Court to put…

While there are many uses for the new Apple Vision Pro, the thought of editing video with your hands via AR is very intriguing. Will Apple release a version of Final Cut Pro that is ready for Vision Pro? Heath…

Female directors like Greta Gerwig and Emerald Fennell have made headlines in recent months with their respective box office hits Barbie and Saltburn, but an eye-opening new report shows the film industry is far from achieving gender parity. Findings from a new study were presented at the…

The heads of UK financiers Film4 and BBC Film voiced concern this morning for the future of the indigenous UK film sector, which has seen its market share dwindle in the shadow of big U.S. inward investment and budgets stall at the big UK…

After mastering the art of machine learning (ML) based voice cloning and synthesis, ElevenLabs, the two-year-old AI startup founded by former Google and Palantir employees, is moving to expand its portfolio with a new text-to-sound model. Teased a few hours…

As we mentioned when the news broke yesterday of OpenAI’s new AI text-to-video model Sora being released, this is kind of the least surprising news ever. We’ve known that AI was going to be able to eventually reach the levels…

Tiffen has just announced the new Steadicam G-70×2 Arm, billing it as the result of decades of experience and input from top Steadicam operators combined with today’s latest engineering and component technology. Tiffen says that its new Steadicam G-70×2 Arm, …

As ever, there was a flock of dedicated Kiwi producers who made the trip halfway around the world to do business at Mipcom in Cannes last October. There may even have been a few more at the market than usual, what…