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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.…

Major Hollywood equipment supplier ARRI Group has announced the closure of two German facilities and the elimination of 150 positions by year’s end, marking the latest casualty in the film industry’s prolonged production downturn. The Munich-based company will shut down…

Will a recent change to the screen rebate make a difference to our struggling screen sector? NZ producer and screen writer Matthew Metcalfe tells Culture 101 we need to look at how to invest and grow New Zealand talent. He…

Safe to say James Cameron will never cast Tilly Norwood in a movie. During a recent interview with CBS’ Sunday Morning, the director of “The Terminator” explained that even before the invention of generative AI, some Hollywood insiders thought he…

A Los Angeles man who allegedly shut down one of the city’s busiest freeways at rush hour in order to film a music video has been charged nearly two years later. Eduardo Erik Martinez, 33, pleaded not guilty to one…

This story was originally published on The Spinoff. Filmmaker Costa Botes has died, but his mockumentary Forgotten Silver lives on. Ian Pryor reflects on what makes the film so unforgettable. On the set of TV show Worzel Gummidge Down Under,…

Film and television production in the greater Los Angeles area fell 14.2% in 2024 from the year before according to the latest Scripted Content Study by FilmLA. That’s an improvement from a 20% plunge in 2023, with both years disrupted…