At the 27th Shanghai International Film Festival, industry heavyweights unveiled a sweeping—and government-backed—initiative to breathe new life into martial arts cinema using artificial intelligence. Dubbed the “Kung Fu Movie Heritage Project,” this bold effort aims to digitally restore and reimagine 100 classic films starring legends like Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, and Jet Li . Under […]
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In response to a dramatic slowdown in scripted television production across Los Angeles, major soundstage owner Hackman Capital Partners is taking a bold new direction — opening facilities to social media creators. The landmark Television City in Fairfax has teamed with Interwoven Studios to transform its soundstages into creator-ready production spaces. The move comes amid a sharp […]
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In a significant move that further cements Georgia’s status as a film and television production powerhouse, the Georgia Film Academy (GFA) has announced a new partnership with Assembly Studios that will give students and early-career professionals unprecedented access to one of the state’s most advanced production campuses. Set to launch August 18, the partnership will […]
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High-volume drama, rapid production, and local filming set the series apart As streaming giants recalibrate for a post-peak TV era, Max’s The Pitt has quietly established itself as a prototype for a new kind of series: a high-volume, network-style procedural engineered for efficiency, creative sustainability, and economic sensibility. Now deep into production on Season 2, […]
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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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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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