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Artificial intelligence can be used as a tool, with relatively few limitations, under the agreement struck last week between the major studios and the union representing film crews. The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees released further details of its…

Blackmagic Design has done it again by launching an Android version of its extremely successful camera app. It’s not just about the advanced camera features the Blackmagic Camera for Android gives you. Still, it connects to the whole ecosystem like…

Award-winning Wānaka freelance documentary maker Ben Wallbank struggled to keep up with the Rab Wahine adventure racing team around Fiordland during the GodZone World Adventure Racing Championships in 2023. But there was a reward for his hard slog, trying to…

This story was originally published on The Spinoff It’s been 31 years since a teenage Angela Bloomfield first stepped onto the set of Shortland Street, but those early days on the iconic New Zealand soap are still imprinted on her…

TVNZ says social media images of an executive excursion to Los Angeles were “inappropriate”, as it reveals the full, almost $30,000 cost of the business trip amid a range of job losses, axed shows and a forecast operational loss of…

There’s probably no better time to talk to a filmmaker than the day after a successful film premiere. Packing the Event Chartwell cinema with over 1,300 people, the New Zealand premiere of Ka Whawhai Tonu – Struggle Without End won’t…

In 1995, Costa Botes and Peter Jackson played a brilliant practical joke on us all. New Zealand in 1995 was a very different place. Jim Bolger was the prime minister, while Helen Clark and a sprightly 50-year-old Winston Peters sat…

Heading towards the pointy end of its activities is this year’s edition of the Vista 48Hours competition. Across the motu 570 teams registered for the competition this year, delivering 499 eligible films out of the mid-May shoot weekend. 162 School…

L.A.-based Stability AI named media and tech exec Prem Akkaraju CEO and Napster founder Sean Parker executive chair as the imaging, language, code and audio generative AI company closed an initial investment round. The fresh capital — although it’s not…

With more than a month to go before IATSE‘s current contracts expires, the union and the studios have come to a tentative agreement on a new deal.  As fears of another Hot Labor Summer had Hollywood anxious, the successful negotiation…

Libertine Pictures has commenced production on Red Rocks, a new live-action family adventure drama series for BYUtv (USA) and Sky (NZ), with global leader in kids’ and family entertainment WildBrain securing rest-of-world distribution rights. Adapted from Kiwi author Rachael King’s award-winning…