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WPP has unveiled a GenAI-driven project that enables scenes to be created using natural language text-to-video enquiries. The initiative makes it possible to quickly create detailed scenes that are assembled from the huge library of cg assets in the WPP…

Times are tough for everyone working in the US film business, thanks to Covid, the strikes and cutbacks at many of the industry’s significant players. But US producers, whether they make films for the studios, the streamers or in the…

Middle-earth returns to Kiwi cinemas this week, with the new Sir Peter Jackson-produced animated film The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim opening nationwide on December 12. After the New Zealand premiere on Tuesday, the stars and…

A Marlborough screen office is still “finding its feet” but has set a goal to collaborate with at least one production from outside the region in the next year. Screen Marlborough is one of ten screen offices in the country,…

The advertising business roared back in 2024, and is set to continue to grow in 2025 … but linear TV will be the exception that growth. That’s according to the annual end-of-year advertising forecast from the media buying giant GroupM.…

This story was originally published on The Spinoff. If you too feel as if your sense of national pride is sinking into oblivion like a pavlova left outside in the forthcoming hottest summer on record, I can recommend escaping into…

While it feels like it was just yesterday, looking back at our first reports of OpenAI’s announcement of its insanely powerful AI video model Sora confirms that this release has indeed been a long time coming. It’s too long for…

Twenty eight years after featuring in landmark feminist documentary series Women, five interviewees reveal how their lives have changed. Donna Awatere Huata, Miriam Cameron, Sandi Hall, Aloma Parker, and Marcia Russell, candidly discuss work, sex, the media and Māori in…

In November last year, Auckland Council’s economic development agency, Tātaki Auckland Unlimited, launched a “creative quarter” in the city’s western suburb, Henderson. The project, now called the Te Puna Creative Innovation Quarter, encompasses big ideas for grouping so-called creative sector…