Author name: Mark It

Explainer – For a little country at the bottom of the world, New Zealand has a blockbuster impact on the film industry. Everything from hit Minecraft and Avatar movies to Marvel superhero epics to Oscar-winning drama like The Power of the Dog has ties to New Zealand,…

Produced by John Barnett, What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? continued Jake the Muss’s story, becoming the second-highest-grossing Kiwi film of the ’90s and sweeping multiple NZ Film & TV Awards.…

On 22nd September 1955, British broadcasting changed course. With fanfare at Guildhall and 2,000 invited guests, including representatives from both the BBC and new commercial sector, the UK introduced Independent Television (ITV), its first foray into advertiser-funded TV. This wasn’t…

Just as Warner Bros is opening their seventh original movie this year with Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, the motion picture studio of Harry, Albert, Sam and Jack can celebrate being the first to cross $4 billion at…

The Government will put an extra $2.75 million a year into funding game studios and start-ups by providing more grants for prototypes, development and travel grants, Science, Innovation and Technology Minister Shane Reti has announced. The funding announcement came shortly…

TIFF 50 is now in the rearview mirror, and the picture that emerges isn’t one of frenetic dealmaking, but of structural recalibration. On one hand, Row K secured an eight‑figure U.S. acquisition of “Cliffhanger”, signalling bold new ambition. Magnolia picked…