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Category: Arts & Entertainment News
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Audience & Distribution August 3, 2026: Marketing Briefing Media, Why Creator Marketing’s Next Phase, Horowitz FIFA World Cup Sets
Audience Behavior & Distribution Shifts this week: Media measurement is moving from a CMO-CFO battleground to a boardroom talking point, with CEOs at Starbucks, P&G; and Creator marketing is now a $44 billion U.S.
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New Releases August 3, 2026: AMC AMCX Stock Jumps, Horror’s Most Disturbing Movies Returns
Streaming & Cinema New Releases this week: AMC Global Media (AMCX) jumped 15% to $11.
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SF August 3, 2026: Batman Caped Crusader Season 2, Axanar Returns After 12 Years
Science Fiction this week: Prime Video’s Batman: Caped Crusader season two premieres July 31, trading the first season’s episodic restraint for; and After a 12-year saga marked by a landmark lawsuit, crowdfunding controversies, and the…
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VFX August 3, 2026: iRender High-Performance GPU Render Farm, How much Intelligence, LaCie 8big Pro5, and more
Visual Effects and CGI this week: iRender’s 2026 guide for freelance 3D artists argues that the cheapest rendering solution isn’t the lowest hourly; and Blackmagic’s DaVinci Resolve 21 ships a suite of on-device neural-network tools, with…
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Media Production August 3, 2026: Frame io Full-Screen Search Comparison, Reallusion Opens RTX Render Beta
Media Production this week: Frame.io shipped a batch of six updates across search, comparison, mobile, integrations, and sharing; and Reallusion has opened public beta access to RTX Render, a path-traced engine integrated into iClone 8…
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Interactive Art August 3, 2026: Animate 18th-Century Painting as Part, Tech Fellowship Programme 2027 Netherlands
Interactive Art this week: Harvard Art Museums tested a generative AI marketing campaign that animated François Boucher’s 1750 portrait of; and The Rijksakademie has opened applications for its 2027 Tech Fellowship Programme, offering…
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Film/TV/Talent August 3, 2026: Sundance Shares Details
Sundance has released detailed plans for its first Boulder edition (January 21–31, 2027), including a consolidated venue footprint within a two-mile radius, expanded competition slates (12 films per section), the…
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Photo & Cinema August 3, 2026: ARRI Brings LogC3, Riedel founder Thomas, Sony FX5 Day-One Supply Warning, and more
Photography & Cinematography this week: ARRI and HONOR have detailed the imaging system for the upcoming Robot Phone, integrating ARRI LogC3, Wide Gamut 3; and Thomas Riedel’s acquisition of ARRI is now official, uniting the German camera…
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New Releases July 27, 2026: Imax 70 mm screenings become, Paramount-Warner Bros Merger Cleared
Streaming & Cinema New Releases this week: Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ has turned Imax 70 mm screenings into a cultural phenomenon, with fans traveling; and The European Commission has conditionally cleared the $110 billion…
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SF July 27, 2026: astronaut Michael Foale about
PBS’s ‘Once Upon a Time in Space’ miniseries, from filmmaker James Bluemel, devotes its second episode to the 1997 Mir collision crisis.