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Amid shrinking funding budgets, slashed opportunities and media outlet closures – there is one bright spark holding on, growing stronger and providing vital talent development opportunities for young people with a passion for screen storytelling. Day One Hāpai te Haeata,…

NYU announced that the university is bringing Runway AI video tools to the NYU Tisch Graduate Program in their Martin Scorsese Center. Here’s what you need to know. Read on…

Starring a 13-year-old Temuera Morrison in his first screen appearance, and a young Ian Mune, this 1973 feature was originally funded in the UK as an eight-part TV series. The film follows Rangi (Morrison) and three friends, as they embark…

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…