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Last week, I wrote part one of a two-part series on how the film industry has changed, titled “Why the film business is considerably riskier than it used to be.” Today I’m sharing the companion piece, focusing on all the…

UK unions representing freelancers in the TV and film industry have slammed the government for missing the deadline to appoint a Freelance Champion. As thousands of freelancers remain out of work, we are told Bectu head Philippa Childs contacted Culture…

Policeman turned novelist, scriptwriter and director producer Stef Harris says he’s exhausted. After more than a year of intensive plotting and planning, the shooting of his latest film, Blood Moon, starts on Tuesday. While Harris said he was looking forward…

At YMCinema, tracking the cameras behind major film festivals and awards has become a long-standing editorial tradition. Each year, these lists reveal far more than technical preferences. They quietly expose where cinematic confidence truly lives. The 83rd Golden Globe Awards…

Disney+ is set to launch a new vertical video offering in the US later this year as it looks to tap into the fast-growing short-form market. The move was unveiled at the annual Consumer Technology Association (CES) event in Las…

The moment ricocheted through the Gotham Awards. “Fuck AI,” Guillermo del Toro declared from the stage. And then, just to make sure the room — and world — heard him, the Frankenstein director said it again. Avid viewers of The Studio will…

A worldwide theater network expansion helped Imax post $1.28 billion in global box office for 2025, a new company record. That surpassed Imax’s previous highwater mark of $1.1 billion in global box office for 2019 when measuring ticket sales in…

The Asia Pacific screen biz will hit revenues of $196B by 2030, according to a Media Partners Asia report. This represents an expansion of 2.8% average annual growth between 2025-2030, the analyst noted, with online video accounting for all net…

There’s a bold vision from some to build the screen sector further and add new infrastructure to support it – including sound stages. Whether it is Hollywood blockbusters such as The Lord of the Rings, The Power of the Dog…

A Hollywood-style film studio planned for rural land near Queenstown has drawn strong opposition from residents who say the project risks transforming the area into an urban-scale development. The Ayrburn Screen Hub is a proposed film and television production complex…

“Avatar: Fire and Ash” is blazing past $1 billion at the global box office after 18 days of release. Those ticket sales include $306 million domestically and $777.1 million internationally for a grand total of $1.083 billion. Read on…