Posts by Nathan Pine
London Film Festival Clocks Record Attendance & ‘Hamnet’ Wins Audience Award
Chloé Zhao’s latest feature, Hamnet, has won the London Film Festival Audience Award. The Maggie O’Farrell adaptation was announced as the Audience Award winner this week by the BFI. The film screened as the Mayor of London Gala during the LFF, with Zhao in attendance alongside her leads Jesse Buckley and Paul Mescal and producers,…
Read MoreTCCF: ‘My Camera, My Gun’ Wins TAICCA X CNC Award; ‘Do You Still Love Me’ Sweeps Series Category
Toru Kubota’s war documentary My Camera, My Gun was presented with the TAICCA X CNC Award at the close of TCCF Pitching, a four-day pitching event held during Taiwan Creative Content Fest (November 4-7). The Portugal-Japan collaboration received a cash prize of $30,000 from the two sponsors of the award – TCCF organiser Taiwan Creative…
Read MoreBoustead bags design-and-build deal for semiconductor facility
The contract comprises additions and alterations works to reconfigure an existing chip material manufacturing plant [SINGAPORE] Boustead announced that its engineering and construction business has won a design-and-build contract comprising additions and alterations works to reconfigure an existing semiconductor material manufacturing plant. The announcement to the bourse on Friday (Nov 7) by the infrastructure-related engineering…
Read More‘Stranger Things 5’: Netflix Makes Chilling First Five Minutes Available Before Launch
Netflix has made the full first five minutes of the highly-anticipated new season of Stranger Things available as the streamer contines to build buzz. Stranger Things Season 5 Part 1 launches November 26 but fans can now view the first five minutes in its entirety on YouTube. The episode is titled “The Crawl” and returns…
Read More‘Celebrity Traitors UK’ Distributor All3Media International “Urgently Reviewing Our Processes” After Dramatic Finale Leaks A Day Early In Canada & New Zealand
The seller of Celebrity Traitors UK is “urgently reviewing” its processes after the show accidentally aired a day early in Canada and New Zealand. All3Media International took the blame for the error, which saw the highly-anticipated finale air on Canada’s Crave and New Zealand’s ThreeNow streamers around 24 hours before launching on the BBC. Both…
Read MoreAustralia’s Streaming Quotas Trigger Cautious Optimism Among Producers – Analysis
The route to Tuesday’s “landmark” announcement of streaming quotas in Australia has been long and torturous, and the country’s production community is now beginning to assess what the future will look like. Will, as streamers sources often privately claim, the move reduce investment in the country’s TV and film sector, or does it simply ensure…
Read MoreNetherlands ready to drop Nexperia control if China chip exports resume: sources
[AMSTERDAM] The Netherlands is prepared to suspend a so-called ministerial order that gave it control over Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia in a move that would de-escalate a fight with Beijing that threatens to disrupt automotive production around the world. The Dutch government is ready to shelve the order, which gave it the power to block or…
Read More‘The Assassin’ Season 2 In Works After Becoming Amazon Prime Video’s Top UK Drama Of 2025
EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Prime Video is considering taking another shot at The Assassin. Deadline hears that a second season is in the works at producer Two Brothers Pictures after the success of the first season, which starred Keeley Hawes (Scoop) and Freddie Highmore (The Good Doctor). A deal for the renewal has not yet been agreed, but development is underway.…
Read MoreTAICCA CEO Erica Wang On TCCF Mission, Funding Strategies & Taiwan’s Expanding Role In Tech-Driven Content
Erica Wang Min-hui, CEO of Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA), has just overseen her first edition of the government-backed agency’s flagship event, Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF), but she is no stranger to the organisation and its various activities. Wang joined TAICCA in August, previously holding the post of Deputy General Manager of PwC Taiwan,…
Read MoreBritish Airways-owner IAG third-quarter profit inline with expectations
[LONDON] British Airways-owner IAG on Friday (Nov 7) reported a slight increase in operating profit for the third quarter, largely in line with estimates, but highlighted continuing weakness in its US point-of-sale economy cabin offering. It is the latest airline to signal a slowdown in the crucial transatlantic market as travel from Europe to the…
Read MoreITV Confirms Talks With Comcast Over $2.1B Sale Of Networks Arm
UK network has confirmed it is talks with Sky owner Comcast over a £1.6B ($2.1B) sale of its Media & Entertainment business. News of the potential deal emerged overnight, with Comcast hoping to add the main ITV network, its suite of linear channels and the ITVX streaming business. In a statement to the stock exchange…
Read MoreNorth Korea fires ballistic missile
North Korea fired fired at least one ballistic missile toward its eastern waters on Friday, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said. Relations between the two Koreas remain tense, and the suspected missile test launch was yet another move by Kim Jong Un’s regime to defy U.N. restrictions on its development of strategic weapons. Earlier…
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