Author name: Mark It

Unprecedented scrutiny is being placed on the finance models of unscripted shows as budgets are squeezed, with cost-efficiency becoming the key metric for Stateside execs. With media companies of all sizes facing diminishing ad returns, senior programming execs at The…

AI is “going to disintermediate the more laborious, less creative and more costly aspects of filmmaking,” actor and director Ben Affleck said in a TV interview last year. Affleck cautioned that AI wouldn’t replace filmmaking or screen writing. The conversations…

Among the pleasures of seeing the hit buddy comedy “One of Them Days” over the weekend was that jolt of recognition at the sight of a genuine Los Angeles landmark on the big screen: the Norm’s restaurant on La Cienega…

What kind of deals do entertainment and media giants need in the age of technology giants? It is a question that Hollywood management teams and Wall Street are constantly discussing and assessing. Management consulting firm Bain & Co., in a…

A behind-the-scenes look at the 1980 film Beyond Reasonable Doubt, about New Zealand’s “most controversial murder” — the killings of Jeanette and Harvey Crewe. Arthur Allan Thomas — recently freed from nine years in prison — watches his own trial…

New Zealand’s longest-running soap Shortland Street will be back on UK screens, 15 years after its last air date. The popular series aired sporadically in the UK until 2010 and is returning with new episodes on STV Player. The episodes…

A Tauranga-based Hollywood stuntman and actor has written a film inspired by his mother’s journey as a pākehā woman learning te reo in the 1980s. Pākehā, directed by writer-director and executive producer Mana Hira Davis and produced by Eddie Page…