Posts by Nathan Pine
Producer Manny Halley Takes Over L.A.’s Pacoima Studios With Long-Term Lease
Producer Manny Halley through his Imani Media Group has taken over Pacoima Studios with a long-term lease for the San Fernando Valley facility formerly operated by Quixote North Valley Studios. It will be rebranded Imani Studio. Halley has a 25-year lease with an option to buy the complex of four sound stages across 125,000 square…
Read More‘Seasons’ Movie Cast Adds Elizabeth McGovern (EXCLUSIVE)
EXCLUSIVE: Elizabeth McGovern (Downton Abbey) has closed a deal to join Lily James, Jack Reynor and Ron Perlman in the new horror film Seasons from Amazon MGM Studios. No word on McGovern’s role. Marking the sophomore feature of Companion‘s Drew Hancock, Seasons follows a husband and wife who buy their dream ranch, only to discover the land is alive with ancient…
Read MorePrime Video To Adapt Stephen King Short Story ‘Crouch End’
Prime Video has greenlit a six-part limited series based on Stephen King’s Crouch End short story. The series will also be titled Crouch End and produced in the UK. The official synopsis reads: “London never sleeps deeply, and its dreams are uneasy. When global movie star Doris Freeman bursts into a London police station claiming…
Read MoreMenace II Society’s Samuel Monroe Jr. Dead at 52 After Meningitis Battle
Samuel Monroe Jr.’s loved ones are mourning his loss. The actor—who appeared in 1993’s Menace II Society, among other roles—died following a battle with meningitis, his mother Joyce Patton shared on Aug. 27. He was 52. “I want to thank all of my facebook family and friends new and old for praying for Samuel Monroe, Jr.,…
Read MoreAnonymous Content Names Steve Shikiya Chief Operating Officer
Veteran media and entertainment executive Steve Shikiya has been named Chief Operating Officer of Anonymous Content. Reporting directly to President and CEO Darren Walker, Shikiya will oversee Anonymous’s day-to-day business operations, including finance, corporate development, business affairs, and human resources. He will work closely with leadership across the management, production and brand studio businesses and…
Read MorePeter Cullen Dead: Voice Of Optimus Prime In ‘Transformers’ Was 85
Peter Cullen, veteran Canadian voice actor who voiced Optimus Prime in the original 1980s Transformers animated series and later returned to the franchise reprising the role in films and TV, and also voiced Eeyore in the Winnie the Pooh franchise, among many others, has died. He was 85. His family tells TMZ Cullen died Wednesday in Los Angeles. The…
Read MoreInside Jennifer Aniston’s Relationship With Hypnotist Jim Curtis
37. We all know that age-old question celebs get asked: Who is their celebrity crush? Well, it turns out Aniston is the answer for quite a few men in Hollywood. Riverdale‘s two male leads KJ Apa and Cole Sprouse copped to nursing crushes on her. Apa admitted to Cosmopolitan that he has a crush on Aniston…
Read MoreHarry Jowsey Confirms New Relationship After Explosive Amber Mozo Breakup
“I don’t enjoy being in a marriage where I’m gaslit, manipulated and emotionally abused,” Mozo added. “I f–king ran for the hills once I saw what you were about when the cameras cut.” And while Mozo and Jowsey initially connected through having both navigated the loss of their fathers, she alleged that he later diminished…
Read MorePlaintiff Reacts To Kennedy Center Warning Of Potential Demolition
A federal judge is holding a hearing on Thursday on another challenge to the Kennedy Center‘s plans to add Donald Trump‘s name to the complex. On Wednesday evening, attorneys for Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH) reacted to the most recent filing by the center, in which they suggested that the complex may have to be torn…
Read MoreFrencken proposes S$100 million placement to fund expansion, potential M&A
It wants to beef up its production capacity and that of its mechatronics and advanced plastic solutions divisions [SINGAPORE] Tech solutions provider Frencken on Thursday (Aug 27) announced that it plans to raise S$100 million through a proposed placement of 44.1 million shares at S$2.2687 each. The proposed placement share price is a 10 per…
Read MoreRosie O’Donnell Joins Producing Team Of London-Bound Musical ‘Indigo’
EXCLUSIVE: Rosie O’Donnell, a longtime autism advocate, has joined the producing team of Indigo, a new original musical about an unconventional family as seen through the eyes of a non-speaking autistic teenager. O’Donnell, who spoke candidly in her recent Off Broadway show Common Knowledge about parenting a a child on the autism spectrum, decided to…
Read MorePrime Video Revs Up Doc Series About F1 Driver Lando Norris
Prime Video is on the starting grid with a docu-series about Formula 1 driver Lando Norris. Lando (working title) is being billed as a “a never-before-seen look at the current F1 World Champion: a man who is not only defending his crown but also giving unprecedented access to a more personal side of his life,…
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