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    New Tools, Timeless Storytelling

    • 10.06.2026
    • By Vatsal Sheth

    In this episode of Industry Spotlight by Creative First, actor and co-founder of Prismix Studios, Vatsal Sheth, joined Lohita Sujith, Sr. Director, Copyright & Digital Economy, Motion Picture Association, to discuss his journey into AI-driven filmmaking and the role emerging technologies are playing in reshaping content creation.

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    Jamie Campbell Bower on Building Vecna From the Inside Out for “Stranger Things” Season 5

    • 10.06.2026
    • By Bryan Alkemeyer

    Since appearing in Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd, British actor Jamie Campbell Bower has starred in numerous fantasy productions. He played King Arthur in the television show Camelot, the vampire lord Caius for the Twilight films, the Shadowhunter Jace in The Mortal Instruments, and the sorcerer Grindelwald in the Harry Potter franchise.

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    Canada’s National AI Strategy “AI for All”: Does Copyright Exist in the AI World?

    • 09.06.2026
    • By Hugh Stephens

    If it does, you would never know it from reading Canada’s new AI strategy just released by the Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation, Evan Solomon.

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    Building a Better Beast: Prosthetics & Special Effects Guru Barrie Gower on Evolving Vecna for “Stranger Things” Season 5

    • 09.06.2026
    • By Evelyn Lott

    When audiences were first introduced to Vecna in the fourth season of Stranger Things, the malevolent telekinetic being from the Upside Down immediately became one of the most memorable creatures in the series’ history.

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    From “Star Wars” Superfan to Villain: Jonny Coyne on Playing Lord Janu Coin in “The Mandalorian and Grogu”

    • 08.06.2026
    • By Hugh Hart

    At 18 years of age, Londoner Jonny Coyne says he knew, when he saw the first Star Wars movie, that he was part of an “extraordinary” moviegoing phenomenon.

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    Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” Creating Mythic Demand for Tickets

    • 05.06.2026
    • By The Credits

    A Christopher Nolan movie is an event. This has been repeated so many times at this point, it’s become a Homeric myth all its own, only, it’s based on factual evidence we can see and report with our own eyes.

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    The CRTC Streaming Announcement, and CUSMA: An Update (It’s Changing by the Day)

    • 04.06.2026
    • By Hugh Stephens

    Canada officially informed the US and Mexico that it wished to renew CUSMA, and Dominic Leblanc, Minister responsible for Canada-US Trade (among several other responsibilities) went to Washington to meet with US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer.

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    From Bogart to Bold Color: How DPs Darran Tiernan and Peter Deming Captured Nic Cage’s “Spider-Noir”

    • 04.06.2026
    • By Hugh Hart

    Director of photography Darran Tiernan knows his way around supervillain stories, having served as the primary cinematographer for The Penguin.

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    “Spider-Noir” Colorist Pankaj Bajpai on Crafting Two Worlds—From Lush Color to Gritty 1930s Monochrome

    • 03.06.2026
    • By Daron James

    “Originally our focus was black-and-white and we were committed to making a period piece that had the spirit of that time and era,” senior colorist Pankaj Bajpai tells The Credits about MGM+ and Prime Video’s Spider-Noir, a live-action drama inspired by the comic “Spider-Man Noir,” set in 1930s New York which tells the story of struggling private investigator Ben Reilly (marvelously portrayed by Nicolas Cage).

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    The Recent CRTC Decision on US Streamers and CUSMA

    • 02.06.2026
    • By Hugh Stephens

    Will the CRTC Decision Requiring US Streamers to Make Additional Financial Contributions to Canadian Production Lead to Retaliatory US Tariffs Impacting Other Sectors because of CUSMA’s Cultural Exception Clause?

    Should Canada Rescind the CRTC Decision Now to Facilitate CUSMA Negotiations?

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