Posts by Nathan Pine
CapitaLand Ascott Trust, Sheng Siong Group to replace Olam Group, Yangzijiang Financial on STI reserve list
[SINGAPORE] Hospitality player CapitaLand Ascott Trust and supermarket chain operator Sheng Siong Group will be joining the Straits Times Index’s (STI) reserve list, following the December quarterly review. They will take the place of two companies that will be exiting: food and agricultural giant Olam Group and investment management company Yangzijiang Financial, which were added…
Read MoreVincent Lindon & Tahar Rahim Revealed In Fred Cavayé’s ‘Les Miserables’ As Studiocanal Unveils First Look
EXCLUSIVE: Vincent Lindon and Tahar Rahim will hit the big screen later this year in Fred Cavayé’s action-skewed adaptation of Les Misérables and Deadline can reveal the first look. Lindon stars as Jean Valjean, the hero of Victor Hugo’s 1862 classic novel who transforms from hardened ex-convict and parole breaker to benevolent industrialist. Rahim (Madame Web, Monsieur Aznavour)…
Read MoreAustralian Drama Production Spend Leaps 43% To Record $1.8B But Fears Over Domestic Business Remain
Crikey, mate! Australian drama production spend reached a A$2.7B ($1.8B) in 2024/25 as high-budget features, streaming shows and international titles sent records crashing. However, underlying fears about the shape of market continue to fester. The annual Screen Australia Drama Report showed a 43% increase in spend on the previous year, which acts as an answer…
Read MoreSTI slips 0.4% amid fears of US economy slowdown
Across the broader market, decliners edge out gainers 259 to 256 after nearly 1.6 billion securities worth S$1.3 billion change hands [SINGAPORE] The city-state’s benchmark index closed lower on Thursday (Dec 4) as investors turned cautious after the US recorded an unexpected fall in private employment in November that signalled its economy might be slowing…
Read MoreBreaking Baz: ‘The Morning Show’s Billy Crudup & ‘Andor’s Denise Gough Reveal Why Their London Stage Version Of ‘High Noon’ Still Resonates
EXCLUSIVE: The clock is ticking as Billy Crudup (The Morning Show) and Denise Gough (Andor) run a scene from Oscar-winning writer Eric Roth’s stage adaptation of High Noon, director Fred Zinnemann’s classic movie Western released at the height of McCarthyism and the Red Scare. Mood boards adorn the walls of the rehearsal hall in Clerkenwell, London,…
Read MoreAli Cook’s ‘The Pearl Comb’ Sets Festivals Ablaze, Positioning Live Action Short As 2026’s Dark Horse
Ali Cook’s The Pearl Comb arrives at a moment when genre filmmaking feels increasingly bloated, reminding audiences that horror, intelligent horror, still has the capacity to be intimate, layered, and unexpectedly humane. As the British short film continues its remarkable festival run with 60 awards and counting, what stands out most is not its ambition…
Read MoreSimon Pegg Film ‘Angels In The Asylum’ In Talks With Rescue Investor, But “Unlikely” To Fully Repay $5M Owed To Creditors
EXCLUSIVE: Angels in the Asylum, the British indie film starring Simon Pegg and Katherine Waterston, is hoping to secure financing from a rescue investor after shuttering mid-shoot — but it’s not all promising news for those owed money by the production. As revealed by Deadline earlier this year, Angels in the Asylum was mounted without its financing…
Read MoreHepmil founders chose Publicis acquisition over fresh funding round, citing M&A risks
Karl Mak, the startup’s CEO and co-founder, says the team was not confident of executing its own M&A deals [SINGAPORE] While planning for its next phase of growth in the region, local media startup Hepmil Media Group came up against a conundrum – go through another funding round, or sell and be taken over by…
Read MoreGoogle’s 2026 Year In Search — Mikey Madison, Justin Baldoni & ‘The Hunting Wives’ Land On Trend Report
As another year comes and goes, our internet searches live on as a digital time capsule of life in 2025. On Thursday, Google released its annual Year in Search trend report, which shows the search queries that had the highest spikes in traffic during a sustained period in 2025, including first-time Oscar winner Mikey Madison,…
Read MoreRio Tinto outlines plan to cut costs, raise productivity at strategy day
[MELBOURNE] Rio Tinto CEO Simon Trott outlined a plan to focus on cost cuts and productivity gains at his first strategy day on Thursday (Dec 4) as he undertakes a divestment plan to simplify the structure of the world’s largest iron ore miner. Measures that Rio would take include a 4 per cent cut in…
Read MoreData centres are expensive. Reits are ‘powerful tools’ to raise capital – and Singapore benefits
[SINGAPORE] Data centres are expensive – to construct and to operate, as they are also power-guzzling. Amid the AI boom, as demand from hyperscalers for computing power drive up the need for data centre capacity, those costs will stack up even more. Global data centre capital expenditure (capex) hit US$455 billion in 2024, according to…
Read MoreTrump wants Asia’s ‘cute’ Kei cars to be made and sold in US
The ultra-compact cars are tailored to narrow roads with an affordable price tag to match their size [TOKYO] US President Donald Trump, apparently enamoured by the pint-sized Kei cars he saw during his recent trip to Japan, has paved the way for them to be made and sold in the US, despite concerns that they…
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