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Paramount’s Maria Kyriacou is stepping down from the company after four years in the role, as the US studio shifts its strategy towards US content rather than international fare. Kyriacou was most recently president of broadcast & studios at Paramount…

The Costume Designers Guild, IATSE Local 892, has launched its Pay Equity Now campaign, which focuses on achieving parity with their male-dominated creative department head counterparts.  This comes as IATSE looks toward beginning negotiations on its contract with studios in…

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was established in 1928 to award cinematic achievements to the films they deemed most deserving. Finally, after nearly 100 years of the little golden man we know only as Oscar, they are…

There seems to be a love story between RED and ARRI, as they have partnered together to develop a custom Raptor XL, especially for ARRI Rental’s acclaimed DNA lenses. This collaboration was made for the upcoming TRON movie. The question…

Two Tongan-New Zealand filmmakers are behind the short film Lea Tupu’anga Mother Tongue, helping people to grapple with cultural identity and language trauma, as the story explores a young woman’s journey to reconnect with her Tongan heritage. The film was…

After Danny Cron graduated from the California Institute of Arts in 2018, he did exactly what his instructors at the Valencia school recommended: he booked showcases in hopes of finding his first big acting gig. But when the representation didn’t…

“Oppenheimer,” a sprawling examination of the dawn of the Atomic Age, kicked off the race for the 96th Academy Awards on Tuesday, earning 13 nominations. It was followed closely behind by “Poor Things,” a feminist fantasy set in a steampunk…

When it comes to Hollywood, the one thing that everyone wants is IP. They want that intellectual property that they can turn into movies and TV shows and that has some audience recognition that brings in ticket sales and eyeballs. …

Punk arrives in New Zealand, a little bit late, in Head South, the new dramedy from New Zealand director Jonathan Ogilvie (Lone Wolf, The Tender Hook) which opens this year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) on Thursday, January 25.  Ogilvie…