Author name: Mark It

GoPros may be aimed at recording sport, but the latest models have capabilities which make them suitable for certain more cinematic applications, as DP Neil Oseman discovered. Read on…

Can you make a big-budget, sci-fi film that isn’t a franchise, a sequel, or a reboot, and tackle it using an indie mindset? That’s what the team behind the film, The Creator did. The film, which tells a story about…

Despite the length of the SAG-AFTRA strike, a new poll from the Los Angeles Times shows that support for the actors’ strike remains by the American public remains much higher than for Hollywood studios, networks, and streaming platforms.  According to…

Today, leaders of the Australian screen industry, represented by Screen Producers Australia (SPA), the Australian Directors’ Guild (ADG), the Australian Writers’ Guild (AWG), Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC), and the Media Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA), stood together at…

Twenty years ago this month a new channel full of music videos and edgy youth-oriented programming arrived on New Zealand screens. We look back on the glory days of C4. Being at the wrong end of a Top 100 countdown…

In a fireside chat moderated by World Screen’s Mansha Daswani at MIPCOM, BBC Studios’ Rebecca Glashow and Ralph Lee showcased how the company is positioned to manage the disruption in the content business today. Read on…

For the past five months, it’s been “eerily quiet” at Steiner Studios, a sprawling complex of soundstages in Brooklyn. When the Writers Guild of America ended its strike on Sept. 27, Doug Steiner, the chairman of the company, was hoping…

What comes after peak TV? What’s the next labor battle? Whose stories will still be told? THR asked four Hollywood players from different corners of the industry for their predictions on what a post-strike era might look like. The actors…

One night, I was speaking to a class of young film students at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and there were many smart questions about first features, shorts, student films, music videos, commercials, etc… but, I particularly noticed…

A scarcity of roles for older women doesn’t faze actor Robyn Malcolm. She just writes her own. The result is After The Party about Penny, a woman whose world implodes when she accuses her husband Phil (Peter Mullan, Top Of…