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Cinelease, a mainstay in Hollywood motion picture and television equipment rentals for nearly five decades, has been sold to a private investment firm. The Mark Lamberton-led rental company — which is headquartered in Los Angeles but now has locations in…

The visual effects industry is warning without bigger tax breaks for the film industry New Zealand will loose major opportunities and highly specialised workers. Weta FX is considering axing a hundred jobs. It said various factors are driving the decision…

This story was originally published on The Spinoff. This Sunday a quietly powerful observational documentary, Grace: A Prayer for Peace, is premiering at the NZ International Film Festival. In the film, renowned painter and printmaker Robin White pours natural pigment…

It’s hard to compare Dunedin to Hollywood. However, for four decades, the small, academic city in New Zealand’s deep south was home to a powerhouse of global documentary filmmaking. Born in Dunedin’s TVNZ studios in the 1970s, Natural History New…

Jason Momoa’s historical epic Chief of War, launching August 1 on Apple TV+, is a triumph of Hawaiians telling their own stories – despite the fact their film and TV production industry now struggles to be viable. The series stars…

BBC Studios Productions is to launch an AI Creative Lab in a bid to explore how the technology can unlock new possibilities for its global content. The lab will serve as a dedicated hub for experimentation across concept development and…

Edward Saatchi isn’t totally sure people will flock to Showrunner, the new AI-generated TV show service his company is launching publicly this week. But he has a vote of confidence from Amazon, which has invested in Fable, Saatchi’s San Francisco-based…