Posts by Nathan Pine
Brian Cole’s neighbors share new details about pipe bomb suspect
The suspect arrested for allegedly planting bombs outside the Republican and Democratic National Committees on the eve of the January 6 Capitol riots in 2021 is a quiet man who keeps to himself, according to those who live next to him. FBI officers arrested Brian Cole Jr., 30 at his home in a Washington, D.C. suburb Thursday and charged him in connection with the explosives, which failed to detonate. An…
Read MoreSingapore shares dip; STI down 0.1% on cautious sentiment
[SINGAPORE] Both Straits Times Index (STI) and the iEdge Singapore Next 50 Index finished lower on Friday (Dec 5), as concerns on the US economy continued to weigh on local stocks. The STI, Singapore’s blue-chip barometer, dipped less than 0.1 per cent or 3.78 points to 4,531.36 points. The iEdge Singapore Next 50 Index slid…
Read MoreCannes Critics’ Week Unveils 10 First-Time Feature Filmmakers Selected For Next Step Program
Cannes Critics’ Week has unveiled the ten participants selected for the 12th edition of its Next Step program, supporting the first feature films of directors who previously showed their shorts in the section focused on emerging filmmaking talents. Participants this year include France-based Irish-British filmmaker Róisín Burns, whose short film Wonderwall played in the Cannes…
Read MoreTemasek-backed Fullerton pares China hedge fund operations, workforce: source
[SINGAPORE] Fullerton Fund Management, backed by Temasek Holdings, has sharply scaled back its China private fund operations after years of struggling to build scale, a person with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters. The Singapore-based firm has cut its onshore private fund team from nearly 20 people last year to fewer than five and…
Read More‘One Battle After Another’ Tops Sight And Sound’s 2025 Best Films Of The Year List
Paul Thomas Anderson’s sprawling epic One Battle After Another has topped Sight and Sound Magazine’s 2025 poll of the year’s best films. “F**k yeah! It takes my breath away a bit, honestly,” Anderson said in a written statement of the honor. “I remember reading Sight and Sound, as we all do, from when I was…
Read MoreBreaking Baz: UK Comedy Queen Catherine Tate Discovers Riotous Laughter As The Wicked Fairy In London Palladium Panto ‘Sleeping Beauty’
EXCLUSIVE: British television comedy queen Catherine Tate sashays across the room where rehearsals for Sleeping Beauty, the 10th annual feast of fun (and filth), are taking place. Performances begin at the historic London Palladium on Saturday through January 11. Tate’s doing evil witchy things in her role as Carabosse, the wicked sister of King Julian, played by…
Read MoreGerman factory orders jump on 87% surge in big transport items
Demand increased 1.5% from the previous month, which was revised significantly higher to show a 2% gain [BERLIN] German factory orders surged in October, supporting the prospect that Europe’s biggest economy eked out growth in the final quarter of the year. Demand increased 1.5 per cent from the previous month, which was revised significantly higher…
Read More‘Heated Rivalry’s François Arnaud Unpacks Scott’s “Cautionary” Rom-Com Episode, Jokes It’s “A Different Porn Category”
SPOILERS: This post contains details about the Heated Rivalry episode ‘Hunter’ With Heated Rivalry getting LGBTQ fans hooked on the erotic hockey drama in its first two episodes, François Arnaud‘s Scott Hunter bares his soul (among other things) in is this week’s bottle episode. The actor joked to Deadline that ‘Hunter’, which is now available…
Read MoreDGA Plans To Meet With Netflix Over “Significant Concerns” Regarding Streamer’s Potential Warner Bros. Discovery Acquisition
The Directors Guild of America says it plans to meet with Netflix to discuss “concerns” regarding the streamer’s potential acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. After news broke Thursday night that Netflix had won the bidding war for the legacy media company and the two would be entering exclusive talks to secure a deal, a guild…
Read MoreQueen Latifah On Her Upcoming Biopic & ‘The Equalizer’: “I Put A Lot Of Who I Am Into Robyn McCall” – Red Sea Studio
Queen Latifah stepped into Deadline’s studio at the Red Sea International Film Festival in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and gave Deadline the low-down on the upcoming project about her life, and playing Robyn McCall in The Equalizer. Queen Latifah’s Flavor Unit Entertainment is a producer on the biopic, which will be one of several about hip-hop’s…
Read MoreIndia central bank cuts repo rate by 25 basis points, boosts liquidity
[MUMBAI] The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cut its key repo rate by 25 basis points on Friday (Dec 5), in line with a consensus view, as record low retail inflation and a benign outlook for prices provided ample room to further support economic growth. The RBI also decided to conduct open market operations of…
Read MoreCLI-backed SC Capital starts work on US$600 million first phase of Osaka data centre
The 100MW facility in a prime location will have direct access to robust power infrastructure and major network routes [SINGAPORE] Singapore-based institutional real estate investment management firm SC Capital Partners Group on Friday (Dec 5) began construction of a data centre in Osaka, which has been allocated 100 megawatts (MW) of power. The first phase…
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