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Category: Arts & Entertainment News
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Audience & Distribution September 21, 2026: Screen Producers Australia joins global push to protect local stories (Tvcentral.Au)
Audience Behavior & Distribution Shifts this week: Screen Producers Australia has joined 22 international screen groups calling on governments to protect domestic; and Roku is introducing a customizable set of bundles with 30 new…
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New Releases September 21, 2026: Tyler Perry’s next Netflix film, Doing Life, will stream on Netflix on Friday, October 2.
Streaming & Cinema New Releases this week: Tyler Perry’s next Netflix film, Doing Life, will stream on Netflix on Friday, October 2; and NAZA, an Israel-Gaza war documentary, is getting a theatrical release in the U.S.
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SF September 21, 2026: All Sci-Fi and Fantasy Titles Releasing This Week on Streaming and in Theaters, Including a Hit Animated Spin-Off’s Second Season
Science Fiction this week: ‘City of Blood’ debuts on Hulu on September 16, 2026. ‘Golden Axe’ premieres on Paramount+ on September 16, 2026; and The BBC dropped an unannounced invitation to tender for Doctor Who on September 17th.
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VFX September 21, 2026: Hardcraft Tames CAD Meshes in Blender
Visual Effects and CGI this week: Vitaliy Yablonskiy’s Hardcraft is a Blender add-on that reads CAD face structure from untouched STEP data or; and A new featurette for ‘The End of Oak Street’ highlights ILM’s Spinosaur.
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Photo & Cinema September 21, 2026: Photographers Outraged After Heavily AI-Edited Image Wins State Fair Photo Competition
Photography & Cinematography this week: An image heavily edited with AI won the Maryland State Fair’s “Neon Lights” photography category, sparking outrage; and Apple’s new three-artist exhibition, What Holds Us, opens in New York this week.
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Interactive Art September 21, 2026: Brazil in Focus: This Month in Architecture, Landscape, and Collective Practice
New York creative agency Basura and musician Big Data have collaborated on a stuffed toy that resembles a data centre and emits a recording from a data centre in Virginia when squeezed. The stuffed toy, called Bezzy, is part of a larger satirical campaign that draws attention to the impact of data centres and AI…
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Media Production September 21, 2026: QScan IBC2026: Frame.io integration, comparisons
Media Production this week: QScan has added direct Frame.io integration and three new file-comparison modes to QScan AQC and QScan Verify, all; and Salma Hayek will direct her first movie, “Arena,” which will star Cara Delevingne and Yura…
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Film/TV/Talent September 21, 2026: Oceanfront Film Finance and Allegro Finance Launch $100 Million Production Financing Partnership
Film, TV & Talent Development this week: Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a standalone postproduction tax incentive into law on Friday in a bid to lure Hollywood; and Oceanfront Film Finance has partnered with Allegro Finance to increase…
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Audience & Distribution September 14, 2026: Fabric Data, TMT Insights Merge to Create Fabric Insights
Fabric Data and TMT Insights are merging to form Fabric Insights, a company combining authoritative data, software, automation, and transformation expertise under one roof.
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Audience & Distribution September 14, 2026: TV Skyline Becomes The World’s First Ultrix FR30 Customer
IBC2026 Product Launches and Tech Partnerships this week: Ross Video has announced that TV Skyline, a leading German broadcast and media services provider, is the world’s; and Grass Valley announced AVORA, a new standalone all-in-one live…