Trailer Drops for Amazon MGM’s Action Comedy The Wrecking Crew, Shot in New Zealand
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Cameras Behind the 83rd Golden Globe Awards Nominees: ARRI 35, ARRICAM, and ARRFLEX
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12/01/2026
At YMCinema, tracking the cameras behind major film festivals and awards has become a long-standing editorial tradition. Each year, these lists reveal far more than technical preferences. They quietly expose where cinematic confidence truly lives. The 83rd Golden Globe Awards…
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Disney+ unveils vertical video push
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10/01/2026
Disney+ is set to launch a new vertical video offering in the US later this year as it looks to tap into the fast-growing short-form market.
The move was unveiled at the annual Consumer Technology Association (CES) event in Las…
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How This Became the Season of Hating on AI
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10/01/2026
The moment ricocheted through the Gotham Awards. “Fuck AI,” Guillermo del Toro declared from the stage. And then, just to make sure the room — and world — heard him, the Frankenstein director said it again.
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DocPlay Launches NZ$21.6k Indie Booster to Support Theatrical Release of Australian and NZ Documentaries
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09/01/2026
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Imax Hits Record $1.28 Billion Global Box Office for 2025 as Cinemas Struggle
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08/01/2026
A worldwide theater network expansion helped Imax post $1.28 billion in global box office for 2025, a new company record.
That surpassed Imax’s previous highwater mark of $1.1 billion in global box office for 2019 when measuring ticket sales in…
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Asia Pacific Video Revenue To Hit $196B In Four Years, MPA Predicts
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08/01/2026
The Asia Pacific screen biz will hit revenues of $196B by 2030, according to a Media Partners Asia report.
This represents an expansion of 2.8% average annual growth between 2025-2030, the analyst noted, with online video accounting for all net…
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Queenstown’s beauty is what brings filmmakers from far and wide to shoot content in our southern tourist hotspot.
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08/01/2026
There’s a bold vision from some to build the screen sector further and add new infrastructure to support it – including sound stages.
Whether it is Hollywood blockbusters such as The Lord of the Rings, The Power of the Dog…
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Screen Producers Australia Seeks Approval to Collectively Bargain With Broadcasters and Streamers
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07/01/2026
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Residents warn Ayrburn Screen Hub a ‘Trojan horse’, fear hotel-scale development in rural Lake Hayes
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07/01/2026
A Hollywood-style film studio planned for rural land near Queenstown has drawn strong opposition from residents who say the project risks transforming the area into an urban-scale development.
The Ayrburn Screen Hub is a proposed film and television production complex…
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‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ Crosses $1 Billion After 18 Days
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05/01/2026
“Avatar: Fire and Ash” is blazing past $1 billion at the global box office after 18 days of release. Those ticket sales include $306 million domestically and $777.1 million internationally for a grand total of $1.083 billion.
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Advertising Will Boom in 2026, but Hollywood Is at Risk of Being Left Behind
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04/01/2026
2025 was the year that advertising dealt with shocks to the system: AI disruption reverberated across every part of the ecosystem, Omnicom completed its $13 billion megadeal for IPG, creating a marketing Goliath, and tariff uncertainty threw certain sectors into…
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Women Directors Make Up 8% of This Year’s 100 Top-Grossing Filmmakers in a Steep Drop From 2024, Study Shows
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02/01/2026
A new study describes 2025 as a “Great Recession” for women directors, with just nine women directors attached to the 100 top-grossing films at the U.S. box office.
According to the latest report from the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, of…
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Investment Banker Invasion: How Boutique Firms Dominated Hollywood’s Biggest Deals in 2025
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02/01/2026
Look at the biggest recent mergers and acquisitions in the worlds of entertainment, media and sports, from the record-setting $55 billion buyout of Electronic Arts to the Skydance-Paramount merger and the dueling offers for Warner Bros. Discovery, and you’ll notice…
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Ayrburn’s neighbours declare war on film studio plan
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31/12/2025
2025 will be remembered as the year the Fast Track Approvals Act bulldozed its way across Central Otago, Wānaka and the Wakatipu Basin, unsettling local residents including those living adjacent to the Screen Hub and Accommodation proposal at Ayrburn.
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Trailer Drops for Amazon MGM’s Action Comedy The Wrecking Crew, Shot in New Zealand
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12/01/2026
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Cameras Behind the 83rd Golden Globe Awards Nominees: ARRI 35, ARRICAM, and ARRFLEX
Mark It
12/01/2026
At YMCinema, tracking the cameras behind major film festivals and awards has become a long-standing editorial tradition. Each year, these lists reveal far more than technical preferences. They quietly expose where cinematic confidence truly lives. The 83rd Golden Globe Awards…
Read More »
Disney+ unveils vertical video push
Mark It
10/01/2026
Disney+ is set to launch a new vertical video offering in the US later this year as it looks to tap into the fast-growing short-form market.
The move was unveiled at the annual Consumer Technology Association (CES) event in Las…
Read More »
How This Became the Season of Hating on AI
Mark It
10/01/2026
The moment ricocheted through the Gotham Awards. “Fuck AI,” Guillermo del Toro declared from the stage. And then, just to make sure the room — and world — heard him, the Frankenstein director said it again.
Avid viewers of The Studio will…
Read More »
DocPlay Launches NZ$21.6k Indie Booster to Support Theatrical Release of Australian and NZ Documentaries
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09/01/2026
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Imax Hits Record $1.28 Billion Global Box Office for 2025 as Cinemas Struggle
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08/01/2026
A worldwide theater network expansion helped Imax post $1.28 billion in global box office for 2025, a new company record.
That surpassed Imax’s previous highwater mark of $1.1 billion in global box office for 2019 when measuring ticket sales in…
Read More »
Asia Pacific Video Revenue To Hit $196B In Four Years, MPA Predicts
Mark It
08/01/2026
The Asia Pacific screen biz will hit revenues of $196B by 2030, according to a Media Partners Asia report.
This represents an expansion of 2.8% average annual growth between 2025-2030, the analyst noted, with online video accounting for all net…
Read More »
Queenstown’s beauty is what brings filmmakers from far and wide to shoot content in our southern tourist hotspot.
Mark It
08/01/2026
There’s a bold vision from some to build the screen sector further and add new infrastructure to support it – including sound stages.
Whether it is Hollywood blockbusters such as The Lord of the Rings, The Power of the Dog…
Read More »
Screen Producers Australia Seeks Approval to Collectively Bargain With Broadcasters and Streamers
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07/01/2026
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Residents warn Ayrburn Screen Hub a ‘Trojan horse’, fear hotel-scale development in rural Lake Hayes
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07/01/2026
A Hollywood-style film studio planned for rural land near Queenstown has drawn strong opposition from residents who say the project risks transforming the area into an urban-scale development.
The Ayrburn Screen Hub is a proposed film and television production complex…
Read More »
‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ Crosses $1 Billion After 18 Days
Mark It
05/01/2026
“Avatar: Fire and Ash” is blazing past $1 billion at the global box office after 18 days of release. Those ticket sales include $306 million domestically and $777.1 million internationally for a grand total of $1.083 billion.
Read on…
Read More »
Advertising Will Boom in 2026, but Hollywood Is at Risk of Being Left Behind
Mark It
04/01/2026
2025 was the year that advertising dealt with shocks to the system: AI disruption reverberated across every part of the ecosystem, Omnicom completed its $13 billion megadeal for IPG, creating a marketing Goliath, and tariff uncertainty threw certain sectors into…
Read More »
Women Directors Make Up 8% of This Year’s 100 Top-Grossing Filmmakers in a Steep Drop From 2024, Study Shows
Mark It
02/01/2026
A new study describes 2025 as a “Great Recession” for women directors, with just nine women directors attached to the 100 top-grossing films at the U.S. box office.
According to the latest report from the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, of…
Read More »
Investment Banker Invasion: How Boutique Firms Dominated Hollywood’s Biggest Deals in 2025
Mark It
02/01/2026
Look at the biggest recent mergers and acquisitions in the worlds of entertainment, media and sports, from the record-setting $55 billion buyout of Electronic Arts to the Skydance-Paramount merger and the dueling offers for Warner Bros. Discovery, and you’ll notice…
Read More »
Ayrburn’s neighbours declare war on film studio plan
Mark It
31/12/2025
2025 will be remembered as the year the Fast Track Approvals Act bulldozed its way across Central Otago, Wānaka and the Wakatipu Basin, unsettling local residents including those living adjacent to the Screen Hub and Accommodation proposal at Ayrburn.
In…
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