Posts by Nathan Pine
First Look: Russell T Davies’ Queer Channel 4 Drama ‘Tip Toe’ Sees Alan Cumming & David Morrisey Become Deadly Enemies In The Face Of Creeping Prejudice
Russell T Davies’ first Channel 4 drama since It’s a Sin has dropped first look images of Alan Cumming and David Morrisey as leads. Cumming and Morrisey are playing Leo and Clive in Tip Toe, two opposites who have lived next door to each other in Manchester for almost 15 years. But just as life…
Read MoreEU launches antitrust probe into Google’s use of online content for AI purposes
It wants to know whether Google is distorting competition by imposing unfair terms and conditions on publishers and content creators [BRUSSELS] The European Commission has opened an antitrust probe to assess whether Google is breaching EU competition rules in its use of online content from web publishers and Youtube for artificial intelligence purposes, it said…
Read MoreBreaking Baz: Kate Winslet On Why “Integrity, Grace & Kindness” Mattered On The Set Of Her Directorial Debut, ‘Goodbye June’
EXCLUSIVE: Kate Winslet has made it. Her directorial debut feature, the heart-warming, and heart-breaking, Goodbye June, which the Oscar-, Emmy- and BAFTA Award-winning star shot from a screenplay by her son, Joe Anders, is to be released in select theaters for a limited run Friday and streams on Netflix beginning December 24. Getting the film finished…
Read MoreWarner Bros fight heats up with US$108 billion hostile bid from Paramount
Acceptance of the bid would trigger a US$2.8 billion breakup fee payable to Netflix [LOS ANGELES] Paramount Skydance on Monday (Dec 9) launched a hostile bid worth US$108.4 billion for Warner Bros Discovery, in a last-ditch effort to outbid Netflix and create a media powerhouse that would challenge the dominance of the streaming giant. Netflix…
Read More‘MobLand’ Star Joanne Froggatt Closes Production Company To Focus On Acting & Family
EXCLUSIVE: Joanne Froggatt, the Golden Globe-winning actress who shot to fame in Downton Abbey, is closing her production company, Insight Pictures. Froggatt founded Insight in 2020 and two years later signed an exclusive first-look deal with MGM International Television Productions. Under the pact, she set up Love to Tell the Tale, a comedy TV series…
Read MoreThese Brokeback Mountain Secrets Are What We Got Now
All the Actors Who Turned Down Brokeback Mountain “I was working on it, and I felt like we needed a really strong cast, like a famous cast,” Van Sant told Indiewire in 2018. “That wasn’t working out. I asked the usual suspects: Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Ryan Phillippe. They all said no.” In hindsight, he wasn’t sure…
Read MoreSouth Korea police raid e-commerce giant Coupang over data leak
Personal information of 33.7 million customers had been leaked – almost two-thirds of the population [SEOUL] South Korean police raided the Seoul headquarters of e-commerce giant Coupang on Tuesday (Dec 9) over a recent data leak believed to have affected almost two-thirds of the country’s population. Coupang is South Korea’s most popular online shopping platform,…
Read MoreBHP strikes US$2 billion funding deal with GIP for iron ore power network
The two firms will form an entity in which BHP will hold a 51% stake and GIP the remaining 49% stake [MELBOURNE] BHP Group said on Tuesday (Dec 8) that BlackRock-owned Global Infrastructure Fund (GIP) would invest US$2 billion in Western Australia Iron Ore’s (WAIO) inland power network for a minority stake. The two firms…
Read MoreJon Stewart Likens U.S. Aggression Toward Venezuela To Iraq In The 2000s: “Saddest Part … Is That Dick Cheney Won’t Be Around To See It”
Jon Stewart is getting unmoored in time: The political comedian felt like he was back in the early aughts days of The Daily Show, likening the United States’ military buildup and aggression off the coast of Venezuela to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Kicking off the Monday night episode, Stewart derided President Donald Trump‘s reception…
Read MoreJimmy Kimmel Discusses New Contract, Challenges President Trump To A “Talent Competition”
Jimmy Kimmel will continue hosting his late-night ABC series for another year or “until the world ends – whichever comes first”. It emerged earlier today that Jimmy Kimmel Live! was renewed through May 2027 after Kimmel extended his deal for a further deal. He joked on tonight’s show that the last thing he wanted to…
Read MoreAustralia’s central bank holds rates steady, signals no rush to hike
The mood among consumers, long stuck in the doldrums, has turned positive in a boost to the outlook for household spending [SYDNEY] Australia’s central bank on Tuesday (Dec 9) left its cash rate steady as expected at 3.6 per cent, saying risks to inflation had tilted to the upside but signalled the bank was in…
Read MoreSteven Bartlett’s FlightStory Makes “Seven-Figure” Investment In Maggie Sellers Reum’s Hot Smart Rich
EXCLUSIVE: Steven Bartlett‘s media company, FlightStory, is buying into fellow podcaster Maggie Sellers Reum‘s business Hot Smart Rich (HSR) through a “seven-figure” investment. Terms of the deal haven’t been fully revealed and the size of the stake isn’t known, but the cash will go towards scaling HSR in the U.S. and “aligned” global markets, with…
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