Posts by Nathan Pine
Citi profit jumps 40% with higher investment banking, services and wealth revenue
Profit increased to US$5.25 billion, or US$2.85 per share, in the three months ended Sep 30 Published Tue, Oct 13, 2026 · 08:43 PM CITIGROUP’S third-quarter profit rose 40 per cent compared to a year earlier, helped by stronger investment banking revenue and transactions with multinational companies as well as higher wealth management earnings. Trading…
Read MoreChannel 4 Unveils First Microdrama ‘The Guest List’
Channel 4 has unveiled its first microdrama, a female friendship series starring an actor from Netflix’s You. The Guest List is being made in partnership with beauty brand Sol de Janeiro and stars Jadesola Odunjo, who played Victoria in You, alongside Deba Hekmat, Mia Ito Smith and Felicity Ali. Produced by Curly Media, The Guest…
Read MoreKamala Harris Leads Newsom in 2028 Democrat Front-Runners Poll
Former Vice President Kamala Harris has opened up a 15-point lead over California Governor Gavin Newsom in a new poll of potential Democratic presidential candidates for 2028. This is despite having yet to announce whether she will seek the White House again. The Financial Times/Focaldata survey, released on October 11, found that 30 percent of…
Read MoreRaven Banner Boards Sales On Polish Horror ‘Òpi’
EXCLUSIVE: Toronto-based genre specialist Raven Banner Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights to Polish director Marta Giec’s feature directorial debut Òpi ahead of its international premiere at the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival later this month. Rooted in the ancient beliefs and dark folklore of Poland’s ethnocultural Kashubia region, the film follow follows eighteen-year-old Trina as she…
Read MoreMovistar Plus & Skydance Extend Partnership
Spain’s Movistar Plus and Skydance today said they have extended their “strategic alliance” through a new two-year global agreement. The deal extension is one of the first big international pacts confirmed by Skydance since it closed its mega merger with Warners. Under the deal, the two entities will launch a joint label for local original…
Read MoreBlackstone-backed AirTrunk delays Singapore Reit IPO amid AI stock selloff, sources say
Published Tue, Oct 13, 2026 · 07:31 PM [HONG KONG] Blackstone-backed data-centre operator AirTrunk has postponed a planned Singapore real estate investment trust (Reit) initial public offering that could raise about US$1.5 billion, two people with direct knowledge of the matter said, as a tech and AI stock selloff rattles markets. AirTrunk was originally planning to launch the IPO in…
Read MoreTrump says Husted, Ramaswamy are now ahead: What polls show
President Donald Trump said that Republican senatorial and gubernatorial candidates Jon Husted and Vivek Ramaswamy had gained ground in Ohio after his rally in Vandalia on October 3, sharing a chart that showed both running ahead of an unspecified generic-ballot benchmark. “Look what happened in Ohio since my last rally,” Trump wrote on Truth Social,…
Read MoreAnthony Zuiker Launches True Crime App Cinemalistics
“My pitching days are over. That’s it. I quit, starting now… The CSI guy is dead. Welcome to my autopsy.” That was the entry point for CSI: Crime Scene Investigation creator Anthony E. Zuiker‘s MIPCOM Cannes keynote, in which he pulled back the curtain on Cinemalistics, an app that he called “a true-crime studio that…
Read MoreMarion Cotillard Unveiled As Marrakech Film Festival Jury President
Oscar-winning French actor Marion Cotillard has been unveiled as the jury president for the 23rd edition of the Marrakech International Film Festival. Under her guidance, the jury will determine the winner of the Festival’s Étoile d’Or from among the first and second feature films selected for this year’s international competition. “I have been fortunate enough…
Read MoreMalaysia’s Firefly extends Seletar-Subang flight cancellations
Affected passengers will be reallocated to Malaysia Airlines flights from Kuala Lumpur to Singapore [SINGAPORE] Malaysia’s Firefly has again extended its cancellation of flights on the Subang-Seletar route, this time until Wednesday (Oct 14). The airline had earlier cancelled flights between Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport in Subang and Singapore’s Seletar Airport from Saturday to…
Read MoreBBC Studios Launches Scripted Fund & Hires Ben Donald
EXCLUSIVE: BBC Studios has tasked Mallorca Files EP Ben Donald with helping discover the next generation of European hits based on IP, as the producer-distributor launches a central fund for these projects. Donald is taking on a support role with BBC Studios alongside his day-to-day duties running his Cosmopolitan Pictures indie. He will help identify…
Read MoreCollin Gosselin Reveals What It Would Take to Forgive Mom Kate Gosselin
Much of Collin’s early life was documented on TLC’s Jon & Kate Plus 8, which followed Kate and Jon Gosselin’s journey after the then-couple, already a mom of twins, welcomed sextuplets. While viewers may think they already know Collin’s story after watching the reality series, he emphasized that his book will pull back the curtain…
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