Posts by Nathan Pine
Revised Acquisition Offers For Warner Bros. Discovery Kick Off Next Act In Merger Drama
Word of revised bids by the three companies looking to acquire all or part of Warner Bros. Discovery surfaced Monday, the day designated by the media giant as the deadline for the next round of offers. Paramount, which has already had three proposals rejected by the WBD board, is staying in the hunt, as are…
Read MoreWhoopi Goldberg Reveals Real Reason Behind 2-Week Absence From The View
Whoopi Goldberg is saying “buongiorno” to The View. The Oscar winner was officially back on the daytime talk show for her hosting duties after a two-week absence, during which she filmed a guest starring role on the Italian soap opera Un Posto Al Sole. “We should say ‘bienvenuto,’” cohost Ana Navarro joked on the Dec.…
Read MoreIran’s Jafar Panahi Dedicates Gotham Award To Filmmakers “Deprived Of The Right To See And Be Seen” As He Wins For Original Screenplay And International Feature
Jafar Panahi dedicated his Gotham Award for Best Screenplay for It Was Just An Accident “to independent filmmakers in Iran and around the world” the same day the Iranian director was sentenced in absentia earlier today to one year in prison and a two-year travel ban. His Cannes Palme d’Or-winning drama It Was Just An Accident…
Read MoreUS moves to deepen minerals supply chain in AI race with China
The Asian nation is home to more than 90% of global rare earths and permanent magnets refining capacity [WASHINGTON] The US will seek agreements with eight allied nations as part of a fresh effort to strengthen supply chains for the computer chips and critical minerals needed for artificial intelligence (AI) technology, according to the top…
Read MorePublisher Of ‘The Chronology Of Water’, Adapted By Kristen Stewart In Directing Debut, Is Acquired By Catapult Book Group
EXCLUSIVE: Hawthorn Books & Literary Arts, the indie publisher of memoir The Chronology of Water, has been acquired by the Catapult Book Group. Chronology has gained attention recently due to Kristen Stewart‘s film adaptation, her debut as a director, which premiered in the Un Certain Regard section in Cannes last May. Catapult is an independent…
Read MoreWarner Bros gets mostly cash Netflix offer in new round of bids
[NEW YORK] Warner Bros Discovery was fielding a second round of bids on Monday (Dec 1), including a mostly cash offer from Netflix, in an auction that could wrap up in the coming days or weeks, according to sources familiar with the discussions. Bankers for Paramount Skydance, Comcast and Netflix worked over the long Thanksgiving…
Read MoreGotham Awards Winners List – Updating Live
Refresh for latest… The 35th annual Gotham Awards is underway in Manhattan, and Deadline is posting the winners live as they are announced. See the list below. The ceremony at Cipriani Wall Street kicks off movie awards season, as usual, calling out the first set of names and handing out the first crop of trophies.…
Read MoreRyan Reynolds Makes Hilarious Revelation About His and Blake Lively’s Son Olin
Ryan Reynolds’ son Olin is definitely, maybe a fan of one of his parents’ most panned films. The Deadpool actor revealed that his and wife Blake Lively’s 2-year-old can’t get enough of the couple’s 2011 movie Green Lantern, which notoriously underperformed at the box office. “You laugh, but my son, it’s his favorite movie and…
Read MoreABC News Taps Hanna Battah As Correspondent & Overnight Anchor ‘World News Now’ & ‘Good Morning America First Look’
ABC News has named Hanna Battah overnight co-anchor of World News Now and Good Morning America First Look alongside Sophie Flay. Most recently, Battah was anchor of KDFW-TV’s top-rated afternoon and early-evening newscasts in Dallas, where she was also co-anchor of The Ten, a largely unscripted program featuring wide-ranging live interviews. In her more than…
Read MoreNetflix Gears Up For ‘Culinary Class Wars’ Season 2 With Trailer
Culinary Class Wars are set to resume on Netflix. The first season of the Korean cooking competition series was a major streaming hit, per Netflix, which is dropping the second on December 16. Netflix handed it a renewal in October. Culinary Class Warswas the first Korean unscripted series to top Netflix’s Global Top 10 (Non-English…
Read MorePaige DeSorbo, Jennifer Aniston, Cardi B & More: Celeb Beauty Essentials on Cyber Monday
For those of us who are sale-obsessed, the best deals haven’t ended just yet! Cyber Monday kickstarts the online shopping holiday Cyber Week, with some of the very same sales (or even better ones) that we saw during Black Friday—and yes, that includes our favorite celebrities’ beauty must-haves. Instead of searching through retailers’ pages and…
Read MoreWhy AI is now embedded ‘in almost everything we do’: OCBC’s Praveen Raina
The bank is investing in talent and expanding research partnerships with universities [SINGAPORE] Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a catalyst for OCBC’s technology overhaul, sharply reducing the time needed to rewrite legacy systems, said Praveen Raina, the bank’s head of group operations and technology. Tasks that once required years of manual code review are now…
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