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EXCLUSIVE: The U.S. studios are aware of the dangers behind “making a wholesale shift to AI,” according to the CEO of a leading artificial intelligence dubbing outfit that says its content has been viewed by more than 1 billion people in the past year. Jesse Shemen, who runs Papercup, was speaking…

Spend on UK film and high-end TV slid sharply to £4.23B ($5.3B) in the strike-hit 2023, according to the BFI’s latest annual stats. The figure was 35% down on a record 2022, the BFI said, while floating the silver lining of £4.3B being nearly level with 2019’s pre-Covid spend. There were other green…

Nearly half of UK film and TV’s ailing freelance community are struggling financially, according to alarming research from the Film & TV Charity (FTVC). The charity surveyed more than 2,000 freelancers for its Money Matters report and found that 40% feel they wouldn't be able to make ends meet for…

The number of scripted TV seasons being ordered in the U.S. has nearly halved since 2019, according to new research from Ampere Analysis, which revealed a “Hollywood displacement” as international orders outpace the U.S. Ampere’s snap research found that 418 shows were ordered last year in the…

FilmLA said Tuesday that on-location production in the city and county of Los Angeles and other local jurisdictions was down more than 32% in 2023, and Q4 even more, as the Hollywood industry continues to recover from two industry labor strikes and a persistent post-Covid production decline in the…

B. Riley analyst Eric Wold, who has stayed generally bullish on the movie theater business despite its recent trials, is now warning investors that the arrival of a “down box office year” has made him “increasingly cautious.” In a note to clients about his 2024 outlook, Wold wrote that he expects…

The Los Angeles City Council is so over the Hollywood strikes. Its members have voted unanimously to expedite entertainment projects in L.A. Council President Paul Krekorian and several of his colleagues introduced the motion last month, and it was approved on a 14-0 vote, with Councilman Marqueece…

U.S. employment rose in November as the jobless rate dipped. Labor settlements in both Hollywood and Detroit helped boost total non-farm payroll jobs by 199,000 last month. Unemployment edged down to 3.7%, according to the U.S. Department of Labor Statistics in its monthly report — an unexpectedly…

Despite the now-resolved writers and actors strikes shutting down Hollywood production for several months, the loss of tens of thousands of Tinseltown jobs this year actually is part of a larger economic contraction, a just-released study claims — and those gigs might not be coming…

Actors have officially given the stamp of approval for their latest deal with the studios. SAG-AFTRA, which opened the ratification vote on November 14, has revealed that 78.33% of ballots were in favor of the November 8 tentative agreement with the AMPTP. That number is much higher than many…

"Dave McLean became not only a friend, but family to me during our eight seasons together on Arrow," Stephen Amell says of The CW superhero series crew member who took his own life on October 9. "It hurts to lose such a vibrant spirit to struggles with mental health." Vancouver-based genny operator…

Refresh for latest updates… A slew of shows are heading back to production this week following the end of a six-month shutdown due to the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Among the shows resuming shooting this week is Law & Order: SVU. “We’re back filming as we speak,” Ice-T, who portrays Detective…