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“We are not there to be the sex police. We actually want it to look really good and we’re very highly trained in how to do that” –Rebecca Johannsen, on the role of an intimacy coordinator  As the film community…

In a departure from the labor rebellions that roiled Hollywood last year, the latest set of contract negotiations between a major entertainment union and the top studios has unfolded about as smoothly as could be expected. So far. The various…

A new paper published by Adobe reveals details of a hugely impressive new technique that can upscale video by up to 8x. There is, as you might well imagine, a new generative AI at the heart of this.  The entertainingly…

Above the Fold: On Monday, the biggest Māori screen production company faced down the biggest funder of Māori content at the High Court. It was an incredibly tense moment – then, just as quickly, it resolved. Duncan Greive breaks down…

As signatories prepare to negotiate new deals with IATSE and Teamsters, it might seem like the last thing the town wants to chew on is another group claiming it has gotten the short end of the stick. The 86 members…

Congratulations to Steve King and Trevor Rowe who have won the two double passes to THE MOON IS UPSIDE DOWN. All you others make sure you skip along and check the film out at the cinemas #supportlocalfilms…

It’s the 10th season of Loading Docs – an initiative to showcase Aotearoa’s documentary  filmmakers. For a decade, it’s helped mentor emerging talent who’ve gone on to pursue successful careers in the screen industry.  Audiences can support projects and filmmakers…

The story begins with Mark Wahlberg. According to BI in 2020, Netflix paid Wahlberg a whopping $30 million to star in “Spenser Confidential,” which clocks in at 24 on the highest-paid film roles of all time. Critics panned the action…

When RED Digital Cinema recently revealed that it had been purchased by Nikon, it’s probably fair to say that it was unexpected. Who’d have thought a respected, traditional, measured company like Nikon would buy the maverick Californian upstart that broke through the…

TVNZ chief operating officer Brent McAnulty says the broadcaster had to consider “better candidates for investment” in axing Fair Go and Sunday, despite the shows being profitable. McAnulty was amongst a panel of media industry experts fronting a Better Public…

New Zealand’s local production and screen industry is in crisis. But how did it get to this point?  “It’s been years of international streaming companies operating in New Zealand without any regulation,” says Screen Production and Developers Association (SPADA) president…

Behind the scenes, director David Leitch and producer Kelly McCormick have been instrumental in the movement for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts to recognize stunts. The director-producer husband-wife team hasn’t been shy in using their new film, “The Fall…

Documentary as a genre, is more popular than it’s ever been; you only need to look at the top-viewed shows on Netflix, and the audience that programming like BBC’s Earth IIIattracts. But the basic workflows that sit behind creating documentary…