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Irene Gardiner is president of Spada – the New Zealand Screen Producers Guild OPINION: A recent announcement around Budget 2025 has created an unhelpful misconception that the local screen industry has suddenly had a big cash injection. While that would…

Opinion: One of the greatest treats of my 2024 arrived in the middle of winter. I’d signed on to be a regional judge for the Vista Foundation 48Hours film contest, after a few years away. Back before Covid I’d got very…

The Cannes film festival is over for another year. And it’s another year where no New Zealand film got into Official Competition, Critics Week, Director’s Fortnight, or the short film competition. The last NZ feature in Cannes was Cristine Jeff’s Rain 24…

If the United Kingdom has become such a hot spot for Hollywood films and shows, why are so many of its entertainment industry workers out of a job? On the one hand, the country’s soundstages are filled with massive U.S.…

A Hollywood awards body is taking a stand against AI content. The Motion Picture Sound Editors group has announced that its prizes for the 2025 calendar year will not be open to any work in which Generative AI was used…

Netflix co-CEO Greg Peter on Wednesday talked up the company’s investment in UK production and why it’s so extensive: the combination of talent and incentives. “We’ve spent over a billion pounds [a year] on UK productions since 2020, so this…

n the next chapter of Big Entertainment vs. Big Tech, Disney and Universal have filed a lawsuit against artificial intelligence company Midjourney over tools that allow users to create images and videos that can manipulate famous characters at the click…

Dame Julie, a founding force in reality TV and an internationally successful format producer, is the latest guest on RNZ’s multimedia talk show 30 with Guyon Espiner. She is critical of proposals suggested by industry groups and the government that…