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Category: Arts & Entertainment News
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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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Cyberpunk 2077’s Redemption and New, CD Projekt Red co-CEO, and more.
Cyberpunk 2077’s Redemption and New Spin-Offs this week: CD Projekt Red co-CEO Michał Nowakowski has acknowledged that the studio has ‘indefinitely’ lost the faith of some; and CD Projekt Red co-CEO Michał Nowakowski acknowledged in a…
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Digital Art Highlights at Art Basel, Art Basel 7 highlights, and more.
Digital Art Highlights at Art Basel 2026 this week: Art Basel’s new Zero 10 sector, co-curated by Trevor Paglen, deliberately minimizes screens to challenge narrow; and Art Basel 2026 opens with 290 galleries from 43 countries, featuring…
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AI and the Future of Filmmaking: From, AI Filmmaking How Hollywood, and more.
AI and the Future of Filmmaking: From Production to Festivals this week: Generative AI is restructuring film production workflows, shifting from linear, human-heavy processes to iterative; and ByteDance released Seedance 2.
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Star Trek Expands: New Series, Nathan Fillion s Beloved, and more.
Star Trek Expands: New Series, Comics, and Streaming Moves this week: Dynamite Entertainment has secured the rights to produce a new Firefly comic series, written by Mark Russell and; and IDW Publishing is relaunching its Star Trek comic…
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Legislative Roundup: 59 TV and film productions injecting $1.11B into economy; 11,700 jobs
Film and TV Development this week: Pennsylvania’s Film Office awarded a record $117 million in tax credits to 59 productions, projected to inject $1; and This matters for Film and TV Development because it gives a concrete current signal…
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Theatrical Windows Are Stretching Again — and Hollywood’s C …
Streaming & Cinema this week: Omdia’s 2025 data shows the average first TVOD window for wide releases rose to 39 days, up from 36 in 2024, while; and Steven Spielberg’s original film ‘Disclosure Day’ opened to $44 million domestically and…
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Content Partners Secures Fresh Round of Funding From Carlyle Global Credit
Talent & Creative Signals this week: Content Partners, the pioneer in buying out ownership stakes in film and TV libraries, has secured a new round of; and The Directors Guild of Canada has released a manifesto at the Banff World Media…
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How Film Distribution Rights Work for Indie Filmmakers
Audience Behavior & Distribution Shifts this week: This piece breaks down the mechanics of film distribution rights, emphasizing that rights are divisible by window; and The Video Advertising Bureau’s June 2026 report documents four…
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World’s First AI Art Museum Opens in, World s First AI Museum Is This Real, and more.
World’s First AI Art Museum Opens in LA this week: Dataland, the world’s first AI museum, opens in Los Angeles with a $129 ticket and a biometric data pipeline that; and Dataland, the world’s first AI-dedicated museum, opens in Los…