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On February 19th, Netflix announced it is creating a dedicated production hub in Toronto, choosing two studio spaces in Toronto that expand its production presence in Canada.

At Cinespace Studios, Netflix will lease four sound stages, along with office space and support space totalling approximately 164,000 square feet.

At Pinewood Toronto Studios, Netflix will also lease four sound stages and adjacent office space comprising a total footprint of approximately 84,580 square feet.

Canadian tech giant Shopify has launched Shopify Studios in Toronto.

The commerce leader, which powers over 600,000 merchants worldwide, launched a full-service TV and film content development and production house dedicated to inspiring entrepreneurship.

According to the company, the studios will leverage partnerships with internationally known creators and producers to develop, produce, and finance projects for streaming platforms as well as traditional networks.

CBS Television Studios announced it will open a major new film and television production studio in the Toronto suburb of Mississauga.

According to a release, CBS Stages Canada will be 260,000-sq-ft, complete with six sound stages, production offices, support spaces, and auxiliary spaces.

The new facility is expected to open in mid-2019 and provide much-needed production space to the Toronto area's rapidly growing film and television industry.

Plans were unveiled for a 400,000-square-foot world-class film studio complex in north Toronto. The First Studio City complex in Markham, Ontario, is being developed by private investors and will house in all 20 soundstages. The new studio, set to cost around $100 million to build and to open in late 2020, is slated to include a 70,000-square-foot "Super Stage," touted as the largest single purpose-built stage in North America. 

Before the arrival of drones, the only way to achieve high-quality aerial images was to rent a helicopter or plane or put your faith in a hang glider. Today, flying cameras are commonplace, which raises an obvious question: is there anywhere else drones can go?

One possibility: underwater. The Gladius Mini from Chasing Innovation is one of a new crop of submersible cameras that hopes to do for underwater photography what quadcopters did for aerial photography.

Profoto christened the era of battery-powered monolights with the B1. With the  B10, it's created an off-camera flash that's lower powered but significantly more compact than the B1X. Unlike the B1, though, the B10 isn't creating an entirely new product category. Several lighting manufacturers have introduced similarly compact, battery-powered strobes hoping to fill the same niche.

PDN handed the B10 over to N.J. commercial photographer David Patiño to shed some light on its performance.

To celebrate the American Society of Cinematographers's (ASC) 100th anniversary, Leica is releasing a special M10-P ASC 100 Edition camera.

The camera includes a pair of Cine Look modes developed in conjunction with ASC members. The ASC Cine Classic mode simulates 35mm motion picture film, while the ASC Contemporary profile "delivers the current digital style of contemporary movies," Leica says.