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New Zealand has been featured as the first country Minecraft players can explore on a free downloadable map – and Rotorua plays a big part. It comes in the lead-up to the release of A Minecraft Movie next weekand was commissioned by Tourism NZ.…

It’s mostly set in a bizarre cubic wonderland, but there’s a little bit of Huntly in the latest big budget blockbuster hitting cinema screens this week. A Minecraft Movie stars Hollywood A-listers Jack Black, Jason Momoa and Emma Myers and…

“Hang on to your vaginas,” says Megan in the trailer of M3GAN 2.0 shown exclusively to CinemaCon attendees during Universal‘s presentation. Set two years after the little robot lady went on a murderous rampage and was subsequently destroyed, M3GAN’s creator…

The global TV and film industry is bracing itself as US President Trump prepares to widen his trade war this week. Since taking office, Trump has announced tariffs on imports from countries such as China, Canada and Mexico, and targeted…

Adam Aron, chief executive of AMC Entertainment, said there’s more agreement around extending exclusive theatrical windows than one might think given the tensions bubbling among the exhibitor community and pretty much exploding at CinemaCon this year. “I have at least…

Inside a soundstage once used by silent film stars Charlie Chaplin and Mabel Normand, Hollywood executives, actors and filmmakers sipped cocktails as they marvelled at what some say is the biggest breakthrough since the talkies: AI-generated video. But whether AI…

This letter is not meant as a complaint, but a stark and sobering reality check on what it truly means to be an Australian filmmaker today. I want to pull back the curtain on the perceived glamour surrounding people like…

Mark Beesley’s gripping documentary recounts the harrowing 119-day ordeal of four men trapped in an upturned trimaran. Mixing raw interviews with spare reenactments, it captures their fight for survival. The epic tale won Best Documentary at the 1997 NZ Television…

By now everyone in Hollywood knows YouTube is a dominant player in the video ecosystem, but a prominent Wall Street analyst argues that YouTube still has a long period of growth ahead of it. MoffettNathanson’s Michael Nathanson writes in a…