In the middle of the U.K.’s surging production boom, one company has quietly become indispensable to some of the world’s biggest blockbusters. Clear Angle Studios, a global leader in 3D capture and photogrammetry, is redefining how visual effects are made—and it’s doing so from a futuristic hub inside Pinewood Studios. If you’ve seen the gravity-defying […]
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It took 18 months, but the second shoe has finally dropped. After months of watching news outlets, authors, and niche publishers sue AI companies for training models on copyrighted work, two of Hollywood’s biggest players—Disney and Universal—have joined the legal fight, suing AI image generator Midjourney for what they call a “bottomless pit of plagiarism.” […]
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Walmart has officially thrown its hat into the virtual production ring with the launch of its new state-of-the-art TV studio—complete with a 32-foot curved LED wall—located at the heart of its newly opened Home Office campus in Bentonville, Arkansas. But this isn’t just a facility upgrade. It’s a bold statement: the world’s largest retailer is […]
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Sydney’s screen sector is gearing up for a major expansion—and it’s not happening in the city’s glitzy east. Plans for a $127 million film and television production complex in Oran Park, located in Sydney’s rapidly developing south-west, are now firmly in motion, with developers touting it as a long-overdue solution to the city’s studio space […]
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From tentpole blockbusters to fast-turnaround streaming hits, the Universal Costume House remains one of the industry’s premier destinations for wardrobe and styling. With facilities in both Los Angeles and Atlanta, the collections are vast and production-ready. Both locations have a variety of contemporary and specialty looks for men, women and children In Atlanta, the Legends […]
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Mark Duplass is done waiting for the streamers to come around. Instead, he’s building a new path—one project at a time. As the traditional television ecosystem continues to contract and consolidate, Duplass Brothers Productions is doubling down on an old-school idea with a new twist: make it cheap, keep ownership, and control the path to […]
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At a time when U.S. production incentives remain fractured and fragile, Netflix’s Greg Peters is pointing across the Atlantic for inspiration. Speaking at the Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council event in London, the Netflix co-CEO praised the UK’s production ecosystem as the model the U.S. should aspire to—citing the country’s combination of strong tax incentives, […]
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Paramount Global has initiated yet another round of layoffs, this time trimming 3.5% of its U.S. workforce—amounting to several hundred employees—as the legacy media giant continues to grapple with shifting industry economics, collapsing linear revenues, and a streaming future still under construction. The move comes less than a year after Paramount cut approximately 2,000 jobs […]
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Los Angeles doesn’t let go of its icons easily—but even soap operas need to pack up eventually. After 38 years and over 9,600 episodes at CBS’s Television City, The Bold and the Beautiful is officially moving. Not far—just a couple miles northeast to Sunset Las Palmas Studios—but symbolically, it marks another chapter in the slow […]
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Warner Bros. Discovery is splitting into two companies—one for streaming and studios, the other for global networks. It’s not just a reorg. It’s an admission: in this market, scale without focus is a liability. David Zaslav will lead the newly carved-out Streaming & Studios division, overseeing HBO, HBO Max, Warner Bros. TV, DC Studios, and […]
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