Posts by Nathan Pine
Golden Age: A What LeBron James-Stephen Curry Pairing Could Mean For The NBA’s TV Ratings
Massive interest in the Knicks’ magical title run sent this year’s TV ratings soaring to a multi-decade high, with ABC and ESPN averaging 20.6 million viewers for the Finals. Pop quiz: When was the last time the NBA Finals averaged 20 million viewers? It was in 2017, when they hit 20.38 million. And in 2016,…
Read MoreS&P 500, Nasdaq register best quarter since 2020 despite Iran war
Published Wed, Jul 1, 2026 · 06:19 AM [NEW YORK] The S&P 500 and Nasdaq finished June on Tuesday (Jun 30) with their biggest quarterly gains since 2020 as investors remained upbeat about economic and earnings growth even amid the Middle East conflict. The Dow had its biggest quarterly jump since 2022. The indexes ended…
Read MoreBox Office: ‘Minions & Monsters’ Eyes $170M Global Weekend
Will the Minions continue to prevail at the box office? The little slapstick babbling guys are now teenagers at 16 years old (the first Despicable Me movie came out in 2010) and they’re pushing their seventh movie in the Illumination franchise with Minions and Monsters. Overseas, they’ll continue to translate, with a vibrant foreign weekend…
Read MoreJudge Sidelines Pete Hegseth Policy Requiring Pentagon Press Escorts
A federal judge handed another victory to The New York Times in its challenge to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth‘s more restrictive press policies, this time sidelining a rule that any journalist must have an official escort in visits to the Pentagon. In granting a preliminary injunction to the Times, U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman sided…
Read MorePregnant Anne Hathaway Shows Off Baby Bump in Fiery Red Ensemble
“I didn’t feel fully landed and fully here until I was a mom,” she told WSJ Magazine in 2022. “It’s not like I was lacking integrity, but it made me want to be completely, on every level, true to my word.” She added, “And that meant stopping any nonsense that I had going on inside…
Read More‘Landman’ Original Cast Members Score Big Salary Bumps (Exclusive)
EXCLUSIVE: It pays to be on a massive hit. That is the takeaway for original stars of Paramount+’s flagship series Landman who have successfully negotiated significant raises heading into Season 3, Deadline has learned. That involves the entire original cast of the Taylor Sheridan drama with the exception of lead Billy Bob Thornton, who I…
Read MoreMichael Byrne Dead: ‘Harry Potter’, ‘Braveheart’ Actor Was 82
British actor Michael Byrne, familiar to fans of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, Braveheart, and British TV series such as Coronation Street and Casualty, died June 20. He was 82. UK’s The Guardian announced the news today. Neither a cause nor a specific place of death…
Read MoreQueer Eye’s Jonathan Van Ness Shares He Rehomed His Dog After “Gut-Wrenching” Incident
“Until I got to Liza, and I saw what I knew was immediately a very broken jaw and just started scream-crying [and] howling for Mark,” Van Ness recounted, noting that from there, “we got her to the emergency vet.” And when the feline headed into surgery, the haircare entrepreneur wasn’t sure if Liza was going…
Read More‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ Season 2 Down 59% On Netflix
Harlan Coben‘s latest mystery is dominating Netflix. I Will Find You attracted 34M in its first full week on the streamer, making it easily the most-watched title from June 22 to 28. That’s also up from the 24M views that I Will Find You snagged in its opening weekend, which was already the streamer’s biggest…
Read MoreComcast Credit Downgrade? Moody’s Flags “Reduced Revenue Diversification” After Pending Split
Many of Comcast‘s long-impeccable credit ratings have been put under review for a potential downgrade by Moody’s due to the company’s planned split into two separate companies. A report issued Tuesday by the major ratings agency said the revenue mix that has sustained Comcast for 15 years will no longer be in place once the…
Read MoreLove Island USA’s Tierra “Titi” Davis Allegedly Assaulted and Threatened to Shoot Woman in 2018
Love Island USA’s Vasana Montgomery Breaks Silence on Removal Over Past Racial Slur Tierra “Titi” Davis‘ past has followed her to the villa. As the 25-year-old continues to explore her connection with KC Chandler on Love Island USA season eight after making her debut during Casa Amor, a prior legal conflict has resurfaced. Nearly a…
Read MoreSee Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce’s Red Carpet Set-Up at MSG Ahead of Possible Wedding
What’s the significance of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s rumored wedding date July 3? Aside from July 3 being a blank space on MSG’s calendar, Swift loves to go all out for Fourth of July—which conveniently falls on a Saturday this year. You know, to make it a wedding weekend. But don’t discount the numbers…
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