Posts by Nathan Pine
Microsoft cloud customers face widespread disruptions
MICROSOFT cloud customers experienced widespread service disruptions on Wednesday after the company said “inadvertent configuration change” affected its widely used Azure service. The bug, which began at 1600 GMT, affected Azure Front Door, the company’s content delivery network service that is used by enterprise customers to optimise application performance. In an update at 2230 GMT,…
Read MoreAnthony Mackie, Pablo Schreiber & Ben Foster Set To Fly In Thriller ‘Raven’ – AFM
EXCLUSIVE: Anthony Mackie, Pablo Schreiber and Ben Foster are boarding the Corey Large produced thriller Raven. Ron Livingston and Hassie Harrison are also starring in the movie which Tom Sierchio (Gasoline Alley, The Girl Who Invented Kissing) is directing from his own script. Cameras roll this autumn. Raven follows Fay Darrow (Schreiber), a former Detroit…
Read MoreAndy Cohen Details Getting “So Physical” With Pal John Mayer During Recent Night Out
He fatefully tweeted he was working on a song and wanted to sing it with the 19-year-old Fearless artist. “Waking up to this song idea that won’t leave my head. 3 days straight now. That means it’s good enough to finish,” he wrote in March 2009. “It’s called ‘Half of My Heart’ and I want to…
Read MoreAlphabet hikes capex again after earnings beat on strong ad, cloud demand
STRONG AI demand helped power Alphabet‘s financial results, as both the core advertising and cloud computing businesses of the Google parent beat revenue expectations. Despite whispers of concerns over a developing AI bubble, the search giant boosted its projected capital expenditures for the year to between US$91 billion and US$93 billion. “We are investing to meet…
Read More‘IT: Welcome to Derry’ Creators On Deciding To “Trick The Audience” With Pilot Twist: “Nothing Is Safe”
As one of Stephen King‘s scariest pieces of IP gets the HBO Max series treatment, the bloodbath has commenced with the first episode. Following this week’s debut of IT: Welcome to Derry, the show’s co-creators explained how they pulled off the pilot’s big twist, which they thought they’d “have to fight” the network to keep…
Read MoreEurope: Shares pause at highs after earnings
EUROPE’S Stoxx 600 was muted on Wednesday as investors awaited the US Federal Reserve’s rate decision later in the day, while parsing through a raft of corporate earnings. The continent-wide Stoxx 600 index closed 0.36 per cent lower at 575.40 points after hitting an intraday record high. Most regional bourses ended higher with UK’s FTSE…
Read MoreSophie Flay Joins ABC News As Correspondent And Overnight Anchor
Sophie Flay, general assignment reporter at ABC7/KABC-TV in Los Angeles, is joining ABC News as correspondent and overnight anchor of World News Now and Good Morning America First Look. Sophie Flay ABC/Michael Le Brecht II Flay has worked at the Los Angeles station, owned by the network, since March 2019. She has covered the Monterey…
Read MoreJon M. Chu Explains Why ‘Wicked: For Good’ Won’t Show Dorothy’s Face: “She Is A Pawn”
Whether you prefer Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz (1939) or Fairuza Balk in Return to Oz (1985), the Wicked franchise won’t be associating Dorothy with a new actress anytime soon. Ahead of the Nov. 21 premiere of Wicked: For Good, director Jon M. Chu recently clarified that the second part of his movie…
Read MoreA Guide to Kelsey Grammer’s 8 Kids: What to Know About His Big Family
Kelsey married Camille Donatacci in 1997 and they welcomed daughter Mason Grammer on Oct. 24, 2001, via surrogate. The end of their marriage in 2010 became engrossing fodder for The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, which counted Camille as an original cast member when it premiered that year. Mason, a model and graduate of Emerson College,…
Read MoreSee Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos’ Halloween Costumes Inspired by Love Island
Two hot new bombshells just entered the villa—or rather, the TV studio. Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos opted for a very timely couples costume for the Halloween episode of Live! With Kelly and Mark. And E! News can exclusively reveal their looks based on one of the summer’s biggest shows, Love Island, for their “Live’s…
Read MoreMike Fleming Jr: ‘Road House’ Round Two Pits Doug Liman Vs Amazon MGM In Dueling Sequels; As DEI Wanes, David Oyelowo Leans In
EXCLUSIVE: Looks like there might be a Round Two in the bitter barfight between Amazon MGM and director Doug Liman over Road House. Liman, who revived the franchise with a streamer hit remake that starred Jake Gyllenhaal and Irish MMA fighter Conor McGregor, has quietly acquired the sequel rights to Road House scripted by original…
Read MoreColin Farrell Admits Costar Tom Cruise Was Not Happy He Showed Up Hungover on Minority Report Set
In October 2018, the American Pie star announced he was one year sober in a celebratory and encouraging Instagram post. “I first tried to get sober over 5 years ago, when the weight of my obsession with booze and drugs became too heavy for me to handle,” he wrote at the time. “Turns out this s–t…
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