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Category: Arts & Entertainment News
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Netflix’s ‘The Ribbon Hero’ Anime Looks Wildly Different From Osamu Tezuka’s Classic Manga
Science Fiction this week: Netflix’s upcoming anime film ‘The Ribbon Hero,’ premiering August 8, is a modern reimagining of Osamu Tezuka’s 1953; and Netflix canceled the sci-fi series ‘The Boroughs’ after its first season, despite it…
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Software and Tool Updates, RealityScan 2 2 Widens GPU Support, and more.
Software and Tool Updates this week: Epic Games’ RealityScan 2.2 expands GPU hardware support to include AMD Radeon and Radeon PRO cards, enabling mixed; and Reallusion has replaced its 30-day iClone trial with a free, perpetual…
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Gear, Tools, and Industry Trends, E-commerce EU Withdrawal Button, and more.
Gear, Tools, and Industry Trends this week: A TecnoTur advisory clarifies operational steps for digital merchants, particularly authors selling audiobooks and; and A 2026 Amazon Prime Day roundup highlights discounts on established…
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AI’s Impact on Marketing and, Four Advertising Myths That Won t Survive AI, and more.
AI’s Impact on Marketing and Advertising this week: Basis CMO Katie McAdams argues that the impending automation of media buying via autonomous agents will scale and; and ZeroGPU is commercializing small language models (SLMs) for…
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Major Events and Brand Activations, Grand Ex 2026 Google Cloud Opus Agency Gramercy, and more.
Major Events and Brand Activations this week: Google Cloud’s Tech Immersion training program, executed by Opus Agency and Gramercy Tech, won the 2026 Grand Ex; and The 2026 Cannes Lions festival saw major technology and media companies…
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Design & Architecture Highlights, Material crafted plant waste, and more.
Design & Architecture Highlights this week: Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts has showcased a series of design projects, including a material; and Snøhetta has released plans for a mixed-use building in Miami’s Design…
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Museum News & Major Art Projects, Crystal Bridges Museum Appoints, and more.
Museum News & Major Art Projects this week: Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and its satellite, the Momentary, have appointed Courtenay Finn as chief; and Archaeologists at the Casas del Turuñuelo site in Spain have uncovered the…
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A24 Will Survive the AI Backlash, but Some Are Convinced the Company Has ‘Sold Its Soul’
Film and TV Development this week: A24 has entered a $75 million research partnership with Google DeepMind to develop AI workflows for filmmaking; and A first-time feature director details the development and production of his debut film…
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VFX Craft and Industry Events: From, Raising baa Aussies who, and more.
VFX Craft and Industry Events: From ‘Stranger Things’ to SIGGRAPH this week: Framestore’s Melbourne office led VFX for *The Sheep Detectives*, creating all sheep digitally without a single; and Super Renders Farm’s 2026 guide details the…
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Netflix Sci-Fi Cancellations and, Netflix Is Officially Removing, and more.
Netflix Sci-Fi Cancellations and Controversies this week: Netflix is removing the two-season sci-fi drama ‘Between’ from its platform on July 1, 2026, a decade after its; and Netflix has canceled The Boroughs less than a month after its…