Posts by Nathan Pine
Joel Edgerton To Be Feted At Camerimage
Joel Edgerton will be awarded the Camerimage Film Festival’s Actor’s Award during this year’s event, which will run from 15 Nov to 22 Nov. Born in Blacktown, New South Wales, Edgerton’s career began on the stage. His first on-screen performance was on TV. He starred in the Aussie series The Secret Life of Us, for…
Read MoreBreaking Baz: Tessa Thompson’s Scorching ‘Hedda’ Is A Woman “In Charge Of Her Own Destiny”
EXCLUSIVE: Tessa Thompson as Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler in filmmaker Nia DaCosta’s sublime Hedda is a woman in charge of her own destiny. Studying literature would’ve been a whole lot more fun if this voluptuous, 1950s-set re-imagining had been included on my school’s curriculum. In fact, every drama student who wants to fully understand the randy old Norwegian man of…
Read MoreWhy Golden Bachelor Gerry Turner Didn’t Call Off Wedding to Ex Theresa Nist
Jenn Tran & Devin Strader Status: Split During the season 21 finale of The Bachelorette, it looked like The Bachelor alum Jenn Tran was finally getting her happy ending with her final pick Devin Strader. But Jenn revealed on After the Final Rose back in September 2024 that Devin gave her the cold shoulder as…
Read MorePrince Naseem Boxing Biopic ‘Giant’ To Open Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Festival As 2025 Lineup Unveiled
Rowan Athale’s biopic Giant, starring Amir El Masry, as British-Yemeni boxing champion Prince Naseem ‘Naz’ Hamed, will open the fifth edition of Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea International Film Festival. The news was announced at a press conference in the festival’s home city of Jeddah on Tuesday, as the event unveiled key sections for its upcoming…
Read MoreUS office S-Reits could be on the cusp of a comeback
[SINGAPORE] For years, Singapore-listed real estate investment trusts (S-Reits) that focus on office assets in the US have been pummelled – first by the Covid-19 pandemic and a subsequent shift in work trends, and then by rising interest rates. But the worst could be over, with interest rates now edging downwards, and leasing demand and…
Read MoreInaugural HollyShorts Dubai 2025 Takes Shape With Philip Rachid Unveiled As Speaker
EXCLUSIVE: Iraqi-Kurdish filmmaker Philip Rachid has been announced as a speaker at the upcoming HollyShorts Dubai as its inaugural edition takes shape. The event, which is a spin-off of the popular long-running Oscar qualifying HollyShorts Film Festival in L.A., will run from December 12 to 14. Rachid, who was born in Bulgaria and raised in…
Read MoreAustralia Introduces “Landmark” Streaming Content Quotas
The Australian government has introduced content quotas on global streamers. The rules require Netflix, Prime Video and the other global streamers with more than one million Australian subscribers to spend 10% of their total Australian expenditure – or 7.5% of their revenues – on local originals, whether they are dramas, children’s shows, docs, or arts…
Read MoreJodie Foster, Guillermo Del Toro, Hussein Fahmy & Raouya Set For Marrakech Tributes
The Marrakech International Film Festival will pay tribute to Jodie Foster, Guillermo del Toro, Egyptian actor Hussein Fahmy and Moroccan star Raouya, at its 22nd edition later this month. Foster’s career will be feted with a gala screening of her latest film, Rebecca Zlotowski’s French-language murder mystery A Private Life as well as screenings of…
Read MoreChina accuses Netherlands of not working to fix Nexperia dispute
The resulting chip shortages have threatened to halt assembly lines and lead to worker furloughs in Europe [BEIJING/AMSTERDAM] China’s commerce ministry on Tuesday (Nov 4) accused the Netherlands of not working with Beijing to resolve the dispute surrounding the Dutch government’s seizure of chipmaker Nexperia and warned of further supply chain disruptions as a result.…
Read MoreAramco profit beats estimates in first sign of easing pressure
Net income adjusted for one-time items rose 0.8% to US$28 billion in the third quarter from a year earlier [RIYADH] Saudi Aramco reported profit that beat analysts’ estimates as a boost in production outweighed the impact of weaker oil prices. Net income adjusted for one-time items rose 0.8 per cent to US$28 billion in the…
Read More‘Rise And Fall’ Becomes Amazon MX Player’s Biggest Ever Show
EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MX Player’s Rise and Fall has become the most-watched show in the Indian streamer’s history. Data provided by the service suggests the Banijay Asia-made reality series has set records in viewership, social engagement and audience participation. Over six weeks, the daily show amassed almost 500 million views on the player and topped local…
Read MoreDisney+ Forges Content Partnership With CJ ENM’s Tving For Japan
Disney+ has partnered Korean entertainment conglomerate CJ ENM to bring their originals on the Tving platform to the Japanese market. From November 5 onwards, Disney+ Japan will offer up to 60 Tving titles and CJ ENM series, including Guardian: The Lonely and Great God and Reply 1988. Thriller series Dear X, starring Kim Yoo-jung, Kim…
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