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This story was originally published on The Spinoff. Earlier this month, it was revealed that long-running Māori news and current affairs shows Te Karere and The Hui missed out in the 2025/26  funding round of Te Māngai Pāho, the Māori…

OpenAI’s Sora 2 has set a new technical benchmark for text-to-video generation, but its release has also ignited the most intense copyright dispute the film and television industry has faced since the dawn of YouTube. As the entertainment world rallies…

Collaborations, M&A, vertical video, YouTube, rights and brands set to dominate global industry It was a mixed ecology at Mipcom this year, with returning US studio giants such as Sony Pictures Television joining incumbent distributors, first-timers YouTube and zombies from…

The New Zealand Screen Awards (NZSA) have announced the finalists for 2025, celebrating the depth and diversity of creative talent across Aotearoa’s screen industry. From more than 700 entries across 57 categories, this year’s finalists reflect the vibrant storytelling, creativity,…

South Pacific Pictures (SPP), part of the All3Media group, is producing new seasons of The Traitors for both Australia and New Zealand. SPP is behind The Traitors Australia for Network 10, and is also producing the upcoming third season of…

In two decades, the app has grown from a user-generated circus into the most powerful platform on earth. CEO Neal Mohan on his $100 billion vision for YouTube’s future and the disruption it’s left in its wake. For a moment,…

Few producers embodied the fearless ingenuity of New Zealand’s early screen renaissance quite like Grahame “Superfly” McLean. A man of boundless energy, wry humour, and unrelenting curiosity, McLean’s multi-hyphenate career, spanning theatre, film, and television – helped lay the groundwork…

An aspiring New Zealand film-maker was stabbed to death in his bathtub – now his debut thriller is set for its premiere amid international interest. Mark Henry Willis, 58, was murdered by his kitchen knife-wielding partner, Carol Coade, 61, inside…

Traditionally most of us think of NZ as having a strong screen production industry. And that was certainly the case 4 or 5 years ago with seemingly jobs aplenty and heaps of international productions being shot here. But that no…