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Screen International’s annual Screen Summit gathered speakers and delegates for a day of sessions focused on the challenges and opportunities facing the UK film industry Screen International’s ‘Building on the UK’s Global Success’ Summit 2025, held on September 30 at BFI…

NBCUniversal and YouTube are back to being buds after the two deeply divided frenemies negotiated a new carriage deal, avoiding a YouTube TV blackout of NBC, Peacock, Telemundo and a whole bunch of cable channels. NBCU executives probably breathed a…

OpenAI is reportedly planning to release a new version of its groundbreaking text-to-video model, Sora, that can generate content featuring well-known copyrighted characters. Well, that should be illegal. If you have created a character and copyrighted it, then you should…

CTV has overtaken cable and broadcast in U.S. viewing, giving advertisers—especially smaller brands—a cost-efficient, full-funnel channel they can no longer afford to ignore. Television viewing in the U.S. has reached a turning point. In May 2025, streaming officially surpassed both…

The Government has appointed former Goldman Sachs New Zealand chief Andrew Barclay as the new chair of public broadcaster TVNZ. Barclay spent more than 25 years at Goldman Sachs, joining in 1999 and rising to managing director in 2006. He…

President Trump revived his idea for a 100% tariff on foreign-made movies on Monday — and this time, he made it sound like he’s really going to do it. Back in May, he said was “authorizing” such a tariff. On…

Like thousands of actors, Tilly Norwood is looking for a Hollywood agent. But unlike most young performers aspiring to make it in the film industry, Tilly Norwood is an entirely artificial intelligence-made character. Norwood, dubbed Hollywood’s first “AI actor”, is…