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Christchurch filmmaker Kenta Lord’s WWII drama follows American soldiers through Normandy in this technically accomplished short. Winner of the 2025 OnScreen Student Filmmaking Competition, judges praised its technical mastery and emotional depth, with Kate Rodger calling it.…

Few issues are as widely dissected and discussed within the film business today as the possibilities and consequences of AI technology. When it comes to documentary filmmaking, the discussion takes on a new level of importance, as the form is…

Josh Williams has a story that anyone building the future of artificial intelligence might want to pay attention to. A visual-effects student at Bournemouth University in the U.K., Williams always wanted to make movies but kept slamming into the same…

Jennifer Ward-Lealand, President of Equity New Zealand, has been elected to the top ranks of the Fédération Internationale des Acteurs (FIA) at the organisation’s World Congress in Birmingham. Ward-Lealand joins five other vice-presidents from Canada, Sweden, Uruguay, the UK and…

Australia has always been Baz Luhrmann’s greatest muse. No honour speaks to that bond more perfectly than his new AACTA ambassadorship, alongside his wife and creative partner, Catherine Martin. The visionary director, whose films have long defined Australia on the…

Preliminary bids for Warner Bros Discovery are due November 20, when suitors must submit first-round, non-binding offers, Deadline hears. David Ellison’s Paramount, which made three overtures before the formal sale process started, will be ready. Comcast and Netflix, both of…

Initial footage from the live-action adaptation of The Legend of Zelda has appeared online as filming gets underway in New Zealand. The clip, shared on Instagram by content creator Tonyolsenfilm, appears to show actor Bo Bragason in costume as Princess…

Karl Sölve Steven is a composer of bold, cinematic reach, whose latest work cements his place among New Zealand’s leading screen music voices. Best known as the former frontman of funk-rock band Supergroove, Steven now finds himself at the heart…

The Walt Disney Co. plans to increase its spending on content next year by $1 billion to a total of $24 billion, underscoring how the competition for consumer attention remains fierce — and expensive. “We expect to invest approximately $24…

It has been 20 years since the launch of YouTube, and it is now the most-watched media service on smart TVs in the US, ahead of both Disney+ and Netflix. In the UK, only the BBC iPlayer is more popular…

Longtime NBC and Fox leader Kevin Reilly, who now runs AI startup Kartel, has a message for the entertainment figures fighting AI. Kevin Reilly spent more than three decades overseeing the television fixtures that defined our culture, from Glee to Samantha Bee,…

This year’s AFM has seen a flood of Australian genre films brought to market repped by blue chip UK sales agents, including Cornerstone’s psychological horror From Below, Architect’s Second World War horror Dogs Of War plus Bankside’s creature feature Croak …