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A Kiwi director feared his award-winning South Island-shot film would be wiped by airport security scanners before it was processed. Arthur Gay – whose new short film When the Geese Flew premiered in Cannes, France, earlier this year – had to travel…

Ireland will receive an uplift in VFX tax relief, at a 40% rate as an enhancement of the Section 481 tax credit outlined in today’s (October 7) government budget.  The relief is eligible for productions with a minimum of €1m…

There’s no arguing the use of artificial intelligence in film-making is getting a bad rap. Last week’s unveiling of Hollywood’s first AI “actress”, Tilly Norwood, generated howls of protest from actors’ unions across the UK and US, where the industry…

Tilly Norwood was only the beginning. FastStream Interactive, a group that designs tech for interactive TV channels, on Tuesday unveiled its new line of AI-generated TV presenters. The computer-generated images will be placed on FastStream’s interactive TV music channel, ROXi,…

As Lesli Linka Glatter departed the top member post at the Directors Guild of America, she gestured toward some of the union’s unfinished business. “There is still so much to do,” the outgoing union president wrote in a final note…

The Motion Picture Association on Monday called on OpenAI to take “immediate action” to fix the copyright opt-out system on Sora 2, as knockoff videos proliferate online. The MPA issued its first comment on the situation since the release of…

If you work in entertainment, you probably heard some variation of this last year: “Survive ’til ’25.” Things have been bleak. In a recent article from The Wall Street Journal, the reporting goes as far as to call Los Angeles’…

When Sundance vaulted indie filmmakers into the spotlight in the late 1980s, it reshaped cinema and the business around it. A generation of directors, from Tarantino to the Coen brothers, emerged with little more than grit and maxed‑out credit cards,…

A romance set in a psychiatric hospital, Other Halves pairs a middle-class Pākehā woman with a young Pacific Islander. Directed by John Laing and featuring Lisa Harrow in her first local role in 16 years, it challenged social barriers in…

“Avatar: The Way of Water” has become Australia’s second highest-grossing movie of all time. Disney announced on Sunday that the film has officially surpassed A$94 million at the local box office. The film also became the first in history to pass…