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There’s growing concern that the cuts across TVNZ and Newshub won’t be the last for locally produced content. As the nation’s biggest broadcasting companies struggle with falling advertising revenue, the fate of Kiwi favourites such as Shortland Street remains uncertain.…

The quality of video game-to-TV projects is improving because the industry is involving the original creators, and producers who understand the source material, to a greater extent and ‘moving beyond adaptation to co-creation’, execs have suggested. The comments came at…

It’s fitting that in this week’s 20 CEOs, Two Questions series, advertising comes in last. Advertising is the most powerful force in the content business and remains the largest funder of not just news and television businesses, but also many…

Kylie Minogue was one of the biggest TV stars in the country in the late-1980s. But it took the support of the government’s newly-formed screen agency, the Film Finance Corporation (FFC), to provide millions of dollars in funding for her…

It’s been a turbulent start of the year for Whānau Mārama: New Zealand International Film Festival. In February, word spread quickly about the shock resignations of key senior staff. Days later, an official press release announced Paolo Bertolin as the…

New Zealand media feels like it’s in a critical condition this week. And as TVNZ eyes further cost saving, Kiwis are wondering whether the country’s long-running soap is safe. “We need to look at everything across our slate to ensure we…

A global coalition of screenwriters’ organizations and unions, including the Writers Guild of America East and West, has collectively resolved to push for “robust licensing mechanisms” that require clear consent if scribes’ material is used to train AI tools. The…

Unlike most other ROVs, the Luna is designed specifically for underwater filmmaking. It records video at a maximum resolution of 8K/30fps and can descend as deep as 1,000 m (3,281 ft) – so all you giant squids out there, get…

The New Zealand screen sector has been pushed into crisis mode following the market’s two dominant broadcasters, TVNZ and Warner Bros Discovery NZ, confirming significant job losses, cuts to investment in local production and the abrupt axing of local programming.…

As streaming platforms vie to capture marketshare in a view-from-home environment, the recent deal between A24 and Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) brings A24’s eclectic catalog exclusively to HBO and Max after their theatrical runs illustrating the need for studios to…

Somehow, heartbreak feels good in a place like CinemaCon — where no matter how many hits the motion picture industry has taken over the last year (and, uh, it’s taken a lot), exhibitors from all over the world unfailingly come…