Author name: Mark It

One month ago, heading into the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, the most anticipated title for buyers was not necessarily the action-adventure anthology with Pedro Pascal (Freaky Tales) or the Kristen Stewart-fronted post-apocalyptic love story (Love Me). It was Dídi, a coming-of-age film about a…

The Bafta Film Awards, the most coveted honours in the British movie industry, have been handed out in London. Here’s the full list of winners and nominees. Read on…

If you were to ask the Married At First Sight experts what makes a good relationship, they’d say words such as loyalty, respect and commitment. By these markers, the strongest relationship to emerge from 11 seasons of the dating reality show that…

OPINION: Of all the film festivals that are held in Aotearoa every year, the Māoriland Film Festival is my absolute favourite. The Māoriland festival has been around since 2014. Apart from Covid interruptions, the festival has been proudly presenting films and…

It looks like star director Taika Waititi has found his perfect Lois Lane in Hollywood superstar Amy Adams for his new movie set to film in New Zealand, as more names are reportedly being added to the cast list. Golden…

Whelp, that’s it, folks! In what has been the least surprising announcement ever, OpenAI has revealed their latest text-to-video model, and… well, it’s just about everything we’ve ever dreamed (or feared) about the coming AI video revolution.Just announced today, OpenAI’s…

How does a chemical engineer make a film? Take equal parts curiosity, creativity, culture, complex subject matter and add a generous measure of comedy. Shake it up. Abba-Rose Vaiaoga-Ioasa, scientist, lover of mathematics, and film maker sits across a table…

Wellington Paranormal was born as a highly unlikely spin-off of the Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi-directed cult-smash What We Do in the Shadows. I can promise you nobody was more surprised than Karen O’Leary and I when Jemaine told us…

Screen Australia has announced the latest recipients for the Skills Development Fund and BTL: Next Step initiative, who will share in over $560,000 of Industry Development funding. Since launching in April 2023, Screen Australia’s Industry Development initiatives have provided over…