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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…

In terms of glamour and escapism, it doesn’t get much bigger than the Baftas and, while this weekend, the great and the good from British cinema will be getting ready to party, further down the food chain for those working…

Independent Film & Television Alliance (IFTA) is understood to be considering a move from Santa Monica to Las Vegas for its signature American Film Market (AFM) event. Screen understands an IFTA delegation has visited the Nevada desert city to scout…

ITV Studios and Welsh broadcaster S4C joined the billions of younger viewers flocking to YouTube this week, yet a sizeable minority within the industry continue to see it as a lesser form of TV. Quintus Studios chief Gerrit Kemming argues now is the…