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World Cup Audience and Streaming Trends this week: Fox Sports reports smooth technical operations one-third through the 2026 FIFA World Cup, with the biggest; and This matters for World & Travel because it gives a concrete current signal…

Taylor Swift & Travis Kelce Wedding Coverage this week: Adam Sandler officiated Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding at Madison Square Garden, offering simple but; and Maren Morris shared behind-the-scenes photos from Taylor Swift and…

Talent & Creative Signals this week: Warner Records has partnered with Sickamore’s artist development company three times LOUDER (IIIIXL), with Brooklyn; and Fox Corp.

Supergirl box office and DCU future analysis this week: Warner Bros. conducted a ‘bakeoff’ between two versions of Supergirl after test scores landed in the 60s, with the; and Supergirl’s box office underperformance has sparked premature…

Science Fiction this week: Studio Trigger has announced a fourth flagship project at Anime Expo 2026, reuniting director Hiroyuki Imaishi and; and A24 is re-releasing its horror hit Backrooms on July 3 with 15 minutes of new footage from…

Behind the Scenes of VFX in Film and TV this week: The third series of Apple TV+’s Prehistoric Planet, focused on the Ice Age, required Framestore to deliver over 40; and Uber Eck’s Kayak ice cream spot used a hybrid pipeline: physical…

VFX and Production Company News this week: Boris FX, the developer of visual effects tools like Continuum, Sapphire, and Mocha Pro, has acquired iZotope, the; and Boris FX has acquired iZotope, the maker of RX audio repair, Ozone…

VFX and CGI Software Updates this week: Inbibo has released Adonis 2.1, splitting the soft-tissue simulation framework into a base edition (AdonisFX) and a; and Foundry has released Mari 8.

Production software and hardware updates this week: Threadline has launched a Studio tier for its AI editing workspace, adding a native macOS app with ProRes, MXF, and; and Remoto’s Playback 1.