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A threat of a 25 percent tariff on Canadian and Mexican exports is likely to depress the value of the Canadian dollar even further, making it even cheaper to shoot up north — and sticking it to Gavin Newsom’s plan…

Filming for the new Lord of the Rings film The Hunt for Gollum is set to start at the beginning of 2026 in Wellington. The film will follow the hobbit’s origin story, with English actor Andy Serkis reprising his role…

The award for “the app teens are most likely to use on a daily basis” goes to YouTube, according to a new survey from Pew Research Center. YouTube is visited daily by 73% of American teens age 13-17, easily topping…

The big news in the world of AI is that Sora, the much-hyped generative AI platform, is now accessible to the public. Promising to revolutionize video production, Sora has been marketed as a tool that can democratize creativity. But beneath…

WPP has unveiled a GenAI-driven project that enables scenes to be created using natural language text-to-video enquiries. The initiative makes it possible to quickly create detailed scenes that are assembled from the huge library of cg assets in the WPP…

Times are tough for everyone working in the US film business, thanks to Covid, the strikes and cutbacks at many of the industry’s significant players. But US producers, whether they make films for the studios, the streamers or in the…

Middle-earth returns to Kiwi cinemas this week, with the new Sir Peter Jackson-produced animated film The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim opening nationwide on December 12. After the New Zealand premiere on Tuesday, the stars and…

A Marlborough screen office is still “finding its feet” but has set a goal to collaborate with at least one production from outside the region in the next year. Screen Marlborough is one of ten screen offices in the country,…