Posts by Nathan Pine
Banijay Unveils New Sales Team Led By Cathy Payne
With its new catalogue of more than 250,000 hours of content since the All3Media merger, Banijay Entertainment has set out the shape of its sales team under chief Cathy Payne. Payne’s five Banijay Rights lieutenants will be Matt Creasey, Senior Executive Vice President, World excluding EMEA, Stephen Driscoll, Senior Executive Vice President, EMEA, Rachel Job,…
Read MoreAirtel Money plans UK IPO that may rank as biggest in five years
Published Thu, Oct 1, 2026 · 03:59 PM [LONDON] Airtel Mobile Commerce is looking to raise £529 million (US$702 million) for its shareholders in what could be London’s biggest initial public offering in five years. Existing investors including the Qatar Investment Authority and Mastercard are offering 270 million shares at a fixed price of £1.96,…
Read MoreTokyo Film Festival Unveils Competition Line-up With World Premieres From Garin Nugroho, Milcho Manchevski & Qiu Jiongjiong
Tokyo International Film Festival has announced its full line-up including the 15 features selected for its Competition section, seven of which are world premieres. Indonesian filmmaker Garin Nugroho’s historical drama Red Before Dawn will be receiving its world premiere at the festival, along with Macedonian filmmaker Milcho Manchevski’s Sister Brother Manhole Cover, and two Chinese…
Read MoreTed Sarandos Has No Regrets Over WB, Talks Overall Deals & Casey Bloys
Appearing at Bloomberg’s Screentime hours after Paramount’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery overcame the last hurdle when a federal judge approved the settlement with the state attorneys general, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos was asked whether he regretting going after Warner Bros. given the scrutiny from Wall Street the streamer has been put under since then.…
Read MoreCar-leasing director jailed for almost 5 years over evasion of S$11.1 million in duties, taxes
[SINGAPORE] The Singaporean director of a car-leasing company was sentenced on Wednesday (Sep 30) to four years and seven months’ jail for evading duty and goods and services tax and underpaying the additional registration fee (ARF), which resulted in a total shortfall of S$11.1 million. Mah Chee Wern, 48, the director of car-leasing firm Karkaunsl…
Read MoreSIA, Scoot extend cancellations of Middle East flights to December
The flight cancellations follow previous extensions of the halted Middle East routes [SINGAPORE] Singapore Airlines (SIA) and its budget arm Scoot are extending their flight cancellations between Singapore and the Middle East until December. The affected SIA flights are SQ494 (Singapore to Dubai) and SQ495 (Dubai to Singapore), which will be cancelled until Dec 1,…
Read MoreUniversal Studios Execs Promise New Sound Barrier To Reduce Rollercoaster Noise; Angry Residents At Community Meeting Demand Fast Fix
At least 350 people on Wednesday attended a meeting to address the screams coming from Universal Studio’s new Fast & Furious rollercoaster that opened Sept. 16. Neighbors of the amusement park — who were required to RSVP for the meeting that was closed to the press — were greeted at Universal’s stage 7 with slides…
Read MoreBen Affleck Praises Smart Use Of AI In Hollywood
Donald Trump could have done a lot worse than inviting Ben Affleck to his AI lunch with tech CEOs this week at the White House. Unlike the heads of OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and more, the Oscar winner and InterPositive founder isn’t playing defense or doom and gloom when it comes to the quickly evolving technology…
Read MoreChina’s Tencent leases 100,000 chips from Oracle to accelerate AI push: report
Tech giant agrees to a five-year lease across multiple Oracle data centres in South-east Asia Published Thu, Oct 1, 2026 · 12:37 PM TENCENT signed its largest overseas lease deal with US cloud provider Oracle to access about 100,000 advanced AI chips that were not available in China, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday (Sep…
Read More‘KPop Demon Hunters 2’ Targeting “A Very Broad” Theatrical Release
KPop Demon Hunters has broken streaming records for Netflix, amassing 325.1M views in its first 90 days on the platform and spending 63 consecutive weeks in the Global Top 10. The direct-to-streaming animated Sony title showed a massive box-office potential too — two months after KPop Demon Hunters‘ debut on Netflix, its singalong version grossed…
Read MoreAnthropic’s IPO pitch embraces AI’s promise and peril
Risk section spans nearly a third of prospectus, exceeding business-description pages [SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK] Anthropic is planning what could be the largest initial public offering in history. But if AI continues on its current trajectory, humans may not be around much longer to enjoy it. That and other paradoxes flow through the roughly 300-page initial…
Read MoreConan O’Brien Laments The Decline Of Writers’ Rooms
Conan O’Brien remembers the good ol’ days but warns things are changing. Asked whether he believed comedians were losing something by having fewer opportunities to be in a writers’ room, the former Tonight Show host said it was a “real problem”. “When I first was put into a writer’s room when I was 22. I…
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