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Alphabet remains on a roll as its world-beating streaming-video platform YouTube continues to dominate. Wall Street forecast Alphabet Q2 2025 earnings per share (EPS) of $2.20 on revenue of $94.02 billion. The company, formerly known as Google, bested both by…

Production begins this November on A Dog’s Show, a heartwarming family comedy-drama inspired by the beloved New Zealand television series that once turned sheepdog trialling into a national obsession. Set in 1970s rural Aotearoa, the film follows Jack, a disillusioned former…

The woes continued for on-location shoots in Los Angeles during the second quarter of 2025, but there also a modicum of quarter-to-quarter good news on both the feature and small-screen fronts as the regions continues to recover from the wildfires.…

Invisible labor has long powered Hollywood, from blacklisted writers to uncredited directors. But the rise of AI threatens to erase authorship entirely. In 1953, Roman Holiday won the Oscar for best screenplay. The statue went to Ian McLellan Hunter. The…

Early on Tuesday Sky made an announcement to the NZ Stock Exchange (NZX) that it would purchase Discovery NZ, which operates Three, having already put the proposed deal to the Commerce Commission and been told the Commission wouldn’t take any…

A heartfelt but unflinching look at the realities of making a queer coming-of-age film in rural Central Otago. There are a fair share of obstacles — shooting sensitive scenes with child actors, a key cast member having a severe knee…

YouTube should give videos made by channels like the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 more promotion to help tackle a “serious threat” to the UK’s public service broadcasting, according to media regulator Ofcom. Children spend much more time watching YouTube…

The rush to develop further screen studio infrastructure in New Zealand has been disrupted by two studio facility projects collapsing in the past month. Studio New Zealand, initially founded in 2009 to develop purpose-built screen industry facilities, has gone into…

“Money” was the one-word reply given by Tobi Brown of the Sidemen when asked by Netflix UK chief Anne Mensah why the successful YouTube collective had chosen to shift the second season of their reality series Inside from YouTube to…

Instead of spending millions and taking years to complete, creative directors are producing high-grade work using the latest software, but critics voice copyright concerns A US stealth bomber flies across a darkening sky towards Iran. Meanwhile, in Tehran a solitary…

It was while working as a guide on a breast cancer fundraising bike ride across the southern states of the US that Lisa Burd found her path. One of the Aussie riders had a handycam. “Flash in those days”, she…

Netflix admitted during its earnings call on Thursday that it used generative AI to create VFX in The Eternaut, a Netflix original from Argentina that was released in April 2025. The company’s co-CEO Ted Sarandos said that generative AI was…

Jason Momoa has an insatiable appetite for New Zealand. And his latest project, Chief of War, is a smorgasbord of Aotearoa – its landscapes, its culture, its actors and even the All Blacks. The series, filmed in New Zealand and in…

Helped by generous tax breaks, Ireland’s film and TV production sector has never been stronger. When Irish director Dearbhla Walsh started her career in Ireland in the late 1980s, opportunities for budding film-makers were limited. “There was no work in…