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Category: Arts & Entertainment News
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Art & Tech Conferences, Festivals &, Art Basel 2026 Basel, and more.
Art & Tech Conferences, Festivals & Calls for Work this week: Art Basel 2026 Basel Edition will feature curated large-scale installations and city-wide public projects; and SIGGRAPH 2026’s Art Gallery and Art Papers programs have been…
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Immersive Digital Art & Interactive, How Immersive Digital Exhibitions, and more.
Immersive Digital Art & Interactive Exhibitions this week: Immersive digital exhibitions have transitioned from a niche novelty to a core museum offering, now routinely; and Meow Wolf’s upcoming Los Angeles location will feature a major…
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‘John Wick’ Sparks Idea Theft Lawsuit Against Lionsgate
A screenwriter named J.R. Wicker has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Lionsgate, Thunder Road Films, and John Wick scribe Derek Kolstad, alleging that the hit franchise was lifted from his unproduced…
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Pig director Michael Sarnoski locks himself to The Chain
Michael Sarnoski, director of Pig and A Quiet Place: Day One, will direct the pilot for Damon Lindelof’s upcoming HBO series The Chain, an adaptation of Adrian McKinty’s best-selling novel.
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Amazon Has Axed Its New Stargate Series
Science Fiction this week: Amazon MGM Studios has canceled Martin Gero’s planned Stargate revival series, which was set to begin filming this; and Two Gen Z YouTube filmmakers, Kane Parsons (20) and Curry Barker (26), have upended the box…
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VFX EMMY PREVIEW: CONTENDERS STRETCHING THE SMALL SCREEN TO MAKE EPIC TV
Visual Effects and CGI this week: The 78th Primetime Emmy VFX race is defined by ballooning shot counts and compressed schedules, with Foundation S3; and The hybrid DP role is solidifying as virtual production tools like LED volumes and…
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NVIDIA RTX Spark superchip wins support across post and VFX
Media Production this week: NVIDIA’s RTX Spark superchip, combining a Blackwell GPU with a 20-core Grace CPU for 1 petaflop of AI compute, has; and This matters for Media Production because it gives a concrete current signal to track…
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Seattle Artists Breathe Life Into Houses Slated for Demolition
Interactive Art this week: Seattle gallerists Zoë Hensley and Sammy Skidmore launched Once Removed, a project that temporarily transforms; and Colombian artist Delcy Morelos has created a 24-metre-wide installation at the Barbican’s…
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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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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…