Posts by Nathan Pine
Bessent flags bigger debt buyback potential, coming fiscal plan
The US Treasury Secretary announces an ‘increased focus on fiscal consolidation’ Published Fri, Aug 21, 2026 · 06:48 AM US TREASURY Secretary Scott Bessent said that he is prepared to expand efforts to buy back costlier debt and that the administration will be unveiling a new fiscal initiative to address the highest borrowing costs in…
Read More‘Outer Banks’ Creators Break Down Season 5’s “Earned” Ending, Supernatural Lean & JJ’s Presence
SPOILER ALERT: The story includes details about Season 5 of Netflix‘s Outer Banks. There were a lot of full-circle elements in the fifth and final season of Outer Banks. The series ended the way it started, with a hurricane. Sarah (Madelyn Cline) wore a version of her iconic Midsummers white dress from Season 1 to…
Read More‘Spider-Man’ Fourth Box Office Weekend Arrives;, ‘Insidious 6’ Opens
Dog days of August? What dog days of August do you speak of? Absolutely none here as Spider-Man: Brand New Day heads for a healthy fourth weekend of $35 million at this weekend’s domestic box office, and $85M worldwide. That 50% fourth-weekend decline is on par with Disney/Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame. As we told you, Spider-Man‘s…
Read MoreOil settles up more than 2% after Trump threatens countries supporting Iran
Shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday was unchanged from the day before Published Fri, Aug 21, 2026 · 06:09 AM [NEW YORK] Oil prices jumped more than 2 per cent on Thursday (Aug 20) to settle at the highest in nearly a month, after US President Donald Trump warned of retaliation against nations supporting…
Read MoreChic Designer Bags Hiding at Nordstrom Rack Ahead of Labor Day
We don’t know about you, but our wardrobe yearns for a new designer bag. Sometimes it’s not that we have nothing to wear, it’s that we need a new piece in our style arsenal to kickstart our inspiration. In other words, a new designer bag is the secret to fixing our styling block. Lucky for us,…
Read MoreOuter Banks’ Chase Stokes Details Saving Madison Bailey From Drowning During Filming
While Bailey was struggling—noting that she couldn’t swim closer to the boat—people on set wrongly believed she and Stokes were just “really committed” to the scene. “Everyone thought it was like, ‘Oh, wow, they’re in the scene. This is great,’” Stokes explained. “I was like, ‘No, she’s drowning.’ I was like, ‘Hey, that’s not acting!’”…
Read MoreCalifornia Pols Race To Fix Film Tax Credits Snafu & Pass Post-Production Incentive
EXCLUSIVE: With a very hard out of less than two weeks, state legislators in Sacramento are either going to be Scrooge or Santa with California’s film and TV tax incentives for the near moribund L.A. industry. It’s a mix result right now with a lot of good intentions, a lot of cooks in the…
Read MoreSons of Anarchy Creator Kurt Sutter Reacts to Spinoff Made Without Him
Indeed, Sutter pointed out that the project is a meta thriller in which the original Sons of Anarchy cast—including his wife Katey Sagal—will portray fictionalized versions of themselves attending a fan convention. From there, the plot will spiral into a series of unfortunate events as dangerous as what once happened to their characters on TV.…
Read MoreAmazon Leaks Jason Statham’s ‘Mutiny’ Movie On Prime; Buyers Fume
Amazon is in choppy waters after accidentally leaking Jason Statham‘s latest big-budget action pic Mutiny on its Prime Video service days before the movie is released in theaters. Deadline understands that the movie was up for a matter of hours earlier this week after a mistake led to it being posted on Prime’s product detail…
Read MoreWGA Rips LA Mayor Karen Bass For Supporting “False Choice” In Paramount-WBD Merger Tangle
The Writers Guild of America fired back at Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass on Thursday after she expressed support for a settlement in the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger lawsuit. Bass joined other state and local Democratic officials, including Gov. Gavin Newsom, in expressing support for a settlement of the antitrust lawsuit filed against the $110…
Read MoreCorinne Foxx Shares Update on Married Life as She Approaches Her Second Anniversary
Corinne Foxx has fully relaxed into married life. In fact, nearly two years after she tied the knot with husband Joe Hooten, the daughter of Jamie Foxx is so comfortable in her relationship that she nearly forgot their upcoming milestone. “I almost forgot we have our anniversary coming up,” Corinne quipped to E! News’ Erin…
Read MoreParamount-Warner Bros Backlash: Hollywood Divided Amid Threats To Leave
Paramount‘s pending acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery has evoked a range of emotion in Hollywood, mainly fear among creatives at the planned merger of two more major studios. But now that uncertainty is tinged with panic after CEO David Ellison threatened to relocate his Los Angeles-based company to Tennessee, Texas or Georgia. Separately, the risks…
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