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ElevenLabs was founded in 2022 by best friends: Piotr, an ex-Google machine learning engineer, and Mati, an ex-Palantir deployment strategist. Inspired by the ‘poor’ dubbing of Hollywood movies they watched growing up in their native Poland, the pair set about…

OpenAI has again demonstrated the capabilities of its already impressive text-to-video platform, Sora, by asking creatives to produce their own short films using it. The public’s response has been a mixture of awe and fear about the potential uses of…

The BBC is to sign more deals with commercial partners in an effort to shore up its finances, with further cuts to services expected as it faces the potential end of the licence fee. Tim Davie, the director general, will…

Screen Auckland has launched a new website, which can be found here.…

For the penultimate part of my decade-by-decade history of cameras, let’s imagine ourselves at the start of the millennium. Digital technology seems to have taken over everything. In the UK, digital TV has been launched and DAB radio is well…

Judd Apatow spoke to Vulture in a recent interview about the current state of television, including why the trend of rewatching older series and licensing pacts between streamers is “scary.”  “I’m of two minds,” Apatow said. “There’s a part of…

“We Were Dangerous” is a surprisingly funny film for a movie whose central conflict is the sterilization of a group of young women on the fringes of society in 1950s New Zealand. Knowing the project, which debuted at SXSW in…

Michigan desperately wanted a Hollywood makeover. And for $500 million, studios were more than happy to help. When the state started writing checks in 2008 from one of the nation’s most generous film incentive programs, productions flocked there, making box-office…

Aye yai yai, the debate around AI. In a new NRG (National Research Group) poll shared exclusively with IndieWire, 42 percent of film and television production professionals say AI “will harm people” in their field. Yet nearly a third (32…

It was only a matter of time. Once Sora was announced, it was clear that studios and coms filmmakers would be interested in exploring the benefits. If this program worked effectively, there would be a streamlining of costs and a…