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Known for grisly, gonzo-horrors, what business does Ant Timpson have making a family-friendly film, wonders Karl Puschmann, who talks to the Kiwi film powerhouse about his new film, Bookworm, working with Elijah Wood again, and whether the Canterbury Panther is…

Warner Bros. Discovery reported its second-quarter 2024 earnings Wednesday, which included a $9.1 billion charge related to the devaluation of the company’s TV networks. The $9.1 billion goodwill impairment charge, which is a non-cash, pre-tax figure, comes after an asset…

Bodies representing the UK’s directors, writers and actors have written to big tech firms challenging them for using their work to train generative AI models. The Creators Rights Alliance (CRA) has today penned the letter, citing the need to “safeguard…

The irreverent six-part series follows the lives of five twenty-something Māori & Pāsifika friends as they crash through life in urban Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, warring first with their cultural identities and then with each other. They are messy-ass bitches, doing…

A year ago I wrote a sceptical piece about the just announced Apple Vision Pro. Then, of course, I hadn’t actually seen it. Now I have, courtesy of a demo at the Apple Store, and frankly I was blown away.…

It was 2022. Layoffs, cost-cutting and what appeared to be an inevitable strike from writers was looming and the industry was in flux. That fall, OpenAI released an early demo of ChatGPT in what became the first momentous moment of…

Children’s and family films are to get their own dedicated category at the Bafta film awards. The prize is open to any genre of film that Bafta says has a “specific inter-generational appeal to children, young people and adults”. Films…

When Hollywood writers went on strike in 2007 and 2008, unscripted TV production soared. Scripted projects stalled during the work stoppage, and studios turned to reality TV — a cheaper, faster format that didn’t rely on union writers — to…