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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,…