Posts by Nathan Pine
Woody Allen Pays Tribute To “Magical” Diane Keaton: “Her Face And Laugh Illuminated Any Space She Entered”
Woody Allen has published a tribute to his long-time collaborator Diane Keaton, who died Saturday, in The Free Press. Allen begins the piece by describing Keaton as “most unique,” before adding that the late actress was “unlike anyone the planet has experienced or is unlikely to ever see again.” “Her face and laugh illuminated any…
Read MoreSTI slips 0.8% amid regional sell-off after Trump’s latest tariff escalation
Property developer UOL is the STI’s top gainer, rising 2.4% or S$0.19 to S$8.15 [SINGAPORE] Shares on the Singapore bourse closed lower on Monday (Oct 13), tracking regional losses as investors digested news of US President Donald Trump’s latest tariff escalation against China. The benchmark Straits Times Index (STI) slipped 0.8 per cent, or 37.22…
Read MoreDamir Ibrahimović Dies: Bosnian Producer Of Srebrenica Drama ‘Quo Vadis, Aida?’ Was 60
Bosnian producer Damir Ibrahimović, who is best known as the producer of Jasmila Žbanić’s 2020 Oscar-nominated Srebrenica drama Quo Vadis, Aida?, died October 9 in Sarajevo. He was 60. The producer, was born on 18 July 1965 in Sarajevo, was regarded as a driving force in Bosnian Herzegovinian cinema as a co-founder of production company…
Read MoreMarjorie Taylor Greene’s immigration comments spark MAGA backlash
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said that immigrant deportations have gone too far, breaking with the hardline approach of the Trump administration and angering the MAGA base she was once a leading figure in. “As a conservative and as a business owner in the construction industry, and as a realist, I can say we have to…
Read MoreBuyers Warm To Will Forte and D’Arcy Carden’s Spray Tan Comedy Drama ‘Sunny Nights’
EXCLUSIVE: Will Forte and D’Arcy Carden are bringing some Sunny to international TV schedules. The pair’s new series Sunny Nights has been snapped up by a raft of buyers as MIPCOM begins in earnest. Canada’s Bell Media, which operates linear channels and the Crave streaming service, has taken the comedy-drama for Canada. German giant ProSieben…
Read MoreS&P 500 risks 11% drop on trade war: Morgan Stanley’s chief US equity strategist
Michael Wilson says the market was poised for a pullback, given elevated investor exposure and high valuations US STOCKS are at risk of sinking as much as 11 per cent if trade tensions between the US and China aren’t resolved before a November deadline, according to Morgan Stanley’s Michael Wilson. The bank’s chief US equity…
Read More‘The Inbetweeners’ Ready To Reunite After More Than A Decade
Will MacKenzie, Simon Cooper, Neil Sutherland, and Jay Cartwright are set for another round of misadventures. The Inbetweeners is poised to return to the screen after more than a decade under a deal struck by Banijay UK and Fudge Park Productions. Banijay did not disclose whether a film or TV series is in development from…
Read MoreFSB warns on emerging threats from stablecoins, private finance
The groundswell of support for deregulation has meant that political appetite for new rules has been in short supply BANK of England Governor Andrew Bailey has vowed to intensify the global policy response to emerging threats from private finance and the growing use of stablecoins. In an address to the Group of 20 nations as…
Read MoreIsrael hostages released: Full list of people freed from Gaza
The first seven living hostages have been handed over by Palestinian militant group Hamas to the Israeli military under a U.S.-brokered deal designed to return all hostages and end more than two years of brutal war in Gaza. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said early on Monday that the first living hostages had crossed into…
Read MoreNew Channel 4 Documentary Analyzes A Sample Of Adolf Hitler’s DNA & Promises “Surprising Results”
EXCLUSIVE: Channel 4 has ordered what is certain to be a controversial documentary that analyzes a sample of Adolf Hitler’s DNA. Blink Films is making Hitler’s DNA: Blueprint of a Dictator. Blink has a sample of the dictator’s DNA, which it said has been verified through scientific testing. The UK-based producer said its doc will…
Read MoreGaza Ceasefire: Trump Lands In Israel As Crowds Gather In Tel Aviv; ‘Youth’ Actor David Cunio Among 20 Israeli Hostages Due To Be Released
Israeli Gaza hostage David Cunio, whose abduction was spotlighted by Tom Shoval’s 2025 documentary A Letter To David, was among 20 people due to be released alive along with his brother Ariel on Monday as part of the Gaza ceasefire deal. The brothers were kidnapped from the Nir Oz Kibbutz during the Hamas terror attacks…
Read MoreAustralian Drama ‘Reckless’ Headed For MIPCOM With Federation International
EXCLUSIVE: Australian drama Reckless will be in Cannes at MIPCOM today, as France’s Federation International introduces it to buyers. We hear BBC Studios Australia’s Kylie Washington, SBS Director of Television Kathryn Fink, and Federation International’s co-chiefs Monica Levy and Guillaume Pommier will reveal details of the show at the Federation Studios showcase, which is expected…
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