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Category: Arts & Entertainment News
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Thailand’s CEA Launches Bangkok International Content Market; First Edition Set For July
Film and TV Development this week: Thailand’s Creative Economy Agency (CEA) is launching the Bangkok International Content Market (BICM), a full-scale; and Zack Snyder is set to write and direct a theatrical reimagining of John…
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FAST channels and ad-supported, FAST Footprint with Three, and more.
FAST channels and ad-supported streaming reshape TV distribution this week: Blue Ant Media has launched three new FAST channels—Shockwave, Wildest, and History & Warfare—on Network 10’s; and Rakuten TV’s new report, The FAST Advantage…
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Audio listening trends: radio still, Nielsen Linear radio continues, and more.
Audio listening trends: radio still leads as podcasts capture a growing share this week: Nielsen and Edison Research data for Q1 2026 shows linear radio (broadcast plus streaming) still commands 62% of; and Nielsen’s Q1 2026 audio report…
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Art meets AI and robotics at Santa Fe’s Currents festival
Interactive Art this week: Currents 2026, the Santa Fe new media festival, runs June 12-21 across eight venues, featuring 53 works that; and Interactive projection mapping has shifted from a one-directional medium to a closed-loop system…
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Strada version 2: peer-to-peer remote editing improved
Media Production this week: Strada has released version 2 of its peer-to-peer remote collaboration platform, emphasizing direct connections over; and Frame.
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VOLUMETRIC HUMANS CONTINUE TO EVOLVE
Visual Effects and CGI this week: Volumetric human capture is advancing beyond proxy-level previs into production-grade photoreal doubles, driven by; and Reallusion’s AI Studio Storytellers series debuts with Space Rocks, a sci-fi short…
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Sports and live events dominate, great viewership divide Why, and more.
Sports and live events dominate viewership as streaming and piracy surge this week: Live sports, particularly the IPL, is pulling away from general entertainment in India as its viewership hits 1; and NHL playoff viewership is surging…
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Banijay Rights, Rakuten TV, Samsung TV Plus and UKTV join Content London to spotlight FAST’s
Audience Behavior & Distribution Shifts this week: Major players from content distribution and platform development are convening at Content London to discuss the next; and The Canadian government has overruled its own broadcasting…
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Banijay Rights, Rakuten TV, Samsung TV Plus and UKTV join Content London to spotlight FAST’s
Audience Behavior & Distribution Shifts this week: Major content distributors and platform operators are convening at Content London to discuss the next phase of FAST; and The Canadian government has effectively nullified its own…
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AJA at Cine Gear 2026 – How ColorBox and UDC-4K Solve the Chaos of Modern Multi-Format Sets
Media Production this week: At Cine Gear 2026, AJA Video Systems showcased two hardware solutions targeting the technical friction points of; and At Cine Gear Expo 2026, ZEISS launched the Panoptes 65 series, a ten-lens prime set…