Author name: Mark It

Revenues are up, and expenses are down, but the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has more work to do. The film academy, the non-profit best known for the Academy Awards, is on sound financial footing, its fiscal 2025…

The New Zealand screen producers’ guild Spada has accelerated the push for government to regulate international streaming platforms, bolstered by the passing of Australian streaming legislation last month. While the neighbouring territories enjoy close coproduction relationships and reciprocal content licensing…

Netflix has confirmed it will acquire Warner Bros Discovery’s film and television studios and streaming service HBO Max for an equity value of around $108.5 billion. The agreement comes after a weeks-long bidding war where Netflix and David Ellison-led Paramount…

From reality TV meltdowns to Taika Waititi’s rise to Hollywood, NZ On Screen’s new Best of the 10s Collection captures one of the most entertaining decades in New Zealand screen history. Curated by pop culture fanatics Alex Casey and Tara…

Jason Momoa has joined Luciane Buchanan‘s short film Lea Tupu’anga/Mother Tongue as executive producer. Buchanan, Momoa’s co-star in Chief of War, wrote and stars in the short, which has been officially submitted for Academy Awards consideration in the Live Action…

In an industry obsessed with the latest sensors, 8K resolution, and AI-driven workflows, a quiet but powerful movement is growing. It’s a return to the chemical, the tactile, and the analog. Filmmakers, from studio auteurs like Christopher Nolan to independent…

Who was the biggest star at the 2025 edition of Sundance? Jennifer Lopez, perhaps? Oscar winners Olivia Colman, Daniel Kaluuya? Maybe Sarah Jessica Parker, Rose Byrne or singer-actor Sara Bareilles. Based on the gaga reaction of crowds on the street…

Dan Löwenstein started making microdramas in early 2024 and has now made over 20 vertical series. With the traditional biz laser-focused on all things micro – fueled by bullish analyst forecasts – Löwenstein gives Deadline a director’s eye view on …

Showrunner Steven S. DeKnight and leading man Nick E. Tarabay partook in a lively conversation at the London Hotel for The Hollywood Reporter’s first ever ‘Heat Vision Live’ event. Nick E. Tarabay was in France when he got a text…

Reporter Hanafi Hayes meets idiosyncratic New Zealanders living off the grid in this episode of One Man’s View. From Carl Nielsen’s Far North paddocks to Moturekareka island, the series won the 1976 Feltex Award for Best Series.…