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Gone are the days of six-fingered hands or distorted faces — AI-generated video is becoming increasingly convincing, attracting Hollywood, artists, and advertisers, while shaking the foundations of the creative industry. To measure the progress of AI video, you need only…

Peter Jackson’s splatter classic was made on weekends with mates, homemade rigs and buckets of fake blood. This rare making-of documentary captures the chaos and creativity behind the film that kicked off Jackson’s career.…

Filmmakers don’t have it easy these days. Between fighting for visibility in a world shaped by creators, short-form content, and fluctuating algorithms, and navigating the aftermath of strikes and the growing role of AI, there’s pressure at every level of…

This story was originally published on The Spinoff. Rachel Lang was listening to National Radio in the shower one morning in 2003 when a news report came over the airwaves that left her stunned. It revealed that the median income…

UK broadcasters have started more wholly embracing YouTube as a distribution platform in the last couple of years. Channel 4 struck a deal to start running full episodes of some of its TV shows on YouTube back in 2022, and…

The U.K. government has firmly rejected calls for a 5% levy on streaming platforms and mandatory IP retention rules, instead emphasizing the benefits of a “mixed ecology” that welcomes both international investment and local production in its formal response to…

There is music to be found in everything. A strike thuds against a punching bag. A wave crashes into the side of a boat. Someone recites a monologue. It’s all music in the right hands. For Arli Liberman, those sounds…

This story was originally published on The Spinoff. It was the beginning of July, 2024, and the National Party’s Paul Goldsmith (of Ngāti Epsom fame) was staring down the barrel of a smoking gun. It had just taken the lives…