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Orbital Studios to relocate operations to Television City in Los Angeles
Virtual production company Orbital Studios has a new brick-and-mortar home. The producer whose credits include Netflix’s Nemesis and FX’s upcoming The Drop: A Snowfall Saga is setting up shop at Television City in Los Angeles. Established in 2020, Orbital Studios offers art teams, tools, software and pipelines aimed at making virtual production faster, leaner and…
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Samsung forecasts 1,800% profit surge as AI fuels South Korean memory chip boom
South Korean memory chip manufacturers are experiencing unprecedented financial growth as artificial intelligence infrastructure deployment accelerates globally. Samsung Electronics forecasts operating profits will surge
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Man confronted by neighbour after allegedly spying on Queensland girl through bedroom window
A mother in Queensland, Australia, has praised a neighbour she had never met for confronting a man allegedly spying through her teenage daughter’s bedroom window on the Sunshine Coast. Chad Hillier, of Meridan Plains, gave chase last Wednesday night after his partner spotted the hooded figure outside the house next door, where a 13-year-old girl…
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Aid with strings: African states resist US bilateral health deals
The Trump administration is offering African nations hundreds of millions of dollars to support their healthcare systems and fight disease, but the deals come with strings attached — and several governments are pushing back. This matters because it marks a significant shift in how the US delivers foreign aid: away from the traditional model of…
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Minions and Monsters posts weakest Despicable Me opening as Sky moves to buy ITV
Universal and Illumination’s animated release “Minions and Monsters” recorded a soft domestic debut over the July 4th holiday weekend, taking $36 million to mark the lowest opening in the “Despicable Me” franchise’s history. While Variety’s Rebecca Rubin attributed the result partly to franchise fatigue, she stressed it was not a financial disaster: the film cost…
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Jennifer Garner headlines Peacock’s Nantucket drama The Five-Star Weekend
The Hollywood Reporter’s Angie Han has reviewed “The Five-Star Weekend”, a Peacock limited series starring Jennifer Garner and adapted from Elin Hilderbrand’s bestselling novel. The review, published ahead of the show’s 16 July 2026 airdate, judges the drama a pleasant but ultimately underwhelming summer watch — pretty, polished and easy to binge, yet lacking the…
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England hold off Mexico 3-2 as World Cup clash breaks Telemundo audience records
England’s dramatic 3-2 World Cup victory over Mexico at the Estadio Azteca is on course to become the highest-rated telecast in US Spanish-language television history. Broadcast on the NBCUniversal-owned network Telemundo, the match drew a preliminary total audience of 23.1 million, surpassing Mexico’s win over Ecuador the previous week, which reached 18.9 million. The figures…
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SK Hynix plans $28bn US share listing amid AI memory boom
SK Hynix is experiencing a boom credited to AI. It will ride that to a multibillion-dollar U.S. IPO, expected to take place on Friday.
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Amazon revives Lara Croft across two games and a Sophie Turner series
Amazon is expanding its investment in the Tomb Raider franchise with two new video games and a live-action television series, part of a broader push into classic British characters following its James Bond game “007 First Light”. The move matters because it revives one of gaming’s most iconic heroines, Lara Croft, across multiple formats, with…
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Labour urged to reverse frozen student loan repayment threshold, MPs say
The Commons Treasury Select Committee has said the Labour government has a “moral obligation” to reverse its student loans policy, which the cross-party group of MPs described as “unfair” and amounting to “mis-selling”. The row centres on Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s autumn Budget decision to freeze the earnings threshold for repaying Plan 2 student loans for…