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AI protections just signed into law by California Gov. Gavin Newsom aren’t a “silver bullet” that will solve all the problems of the rapidly advancing technology, said SAG-AFTRA’s general counsel Jeffrey Bennett at The Grill conference this week. “It’s a…

Lucy Lawless is best known for her roles in Xena Warrior Princess, Ash vs. Evil Dead, Spartacus and My Life Is Murder. But, at 56, she feels she’s found her calling in a career she initially dismissed. “I had no…

After a string of setbacks in Los Angeles, the Outrageous Fortune star is grateful for his new role on US soap General Hospital. “I was so excited about having a pie today!” Charles Mesure enthuses while tucking into a meaty treat at West…

An international film crew shooting a commercial in Canterbury could bring about $400,000 to the local economy, Brett Mills says – and the film veteran has just made it easier for those projects to happen. The founder of the successful…

The country’s top screen agency is supposed to help people make content. But some producers claim it is deliberately trying to force them out of business.  At the Toronto Film Festival in 2015, English film producer Phil Hunt met a…

In June, Producers Guild of America president Stephanie Allain proclaimed that the issue of producer credits being bestowed as a perk on those who hadn’t done the job had gotten “completely out of control.” The Exhibiting Forgiveness and Hustle &…

The next Whale Rider or Dark Horse could be in the movie-making pipeline if efforts to establish a Tairāwhiti regional film office here are successful. Tairāwhiti-based producer and director Tee Wells, of Tairāwhiti Film Office, has started working on a regional film office (RFO)…