Posts by Nathan Pine
Daniel Peddle To Adapt Southern Crime Thriller ‘Cold Moon Rising’
EXCLUSIVE: Daniel Peddle, the director behind The Aggressives and Beyond the Aggressives: 25 Years Later, has signed on to adapt the Southern crime thriller Cold Moon Rising by North Carolina author Michael Sledge. Cold Moon Rising is Sledge’s debut novel. The book tells the story of a violent home invasion that spirals into a web…
Read MoreKieron J. Walsh’s ‘Skintown’ Wins Edinburgh’s Sean Connery Prize
Skintown, the latest feature by Kieron J.Walsh, has won the Sean Connery Prize for Feature Filmmaking Excellence at this year’s Edinburgh Film Festival. Walsh’s Skintown beat out nine other features in the EIFF competition. The prize comes with £50,000 to support future projects. Skintown follows best friends Vinny and Jonty who party, cut deals and…
Read MoreAlberto Barbera Defends Selection Of ‘DAU’
Following weeks of criticism from activists and Ukrainian officials, Venice Film Festival director Alberto Barbera defended his selection of Russian filmmaker Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s feature DAU in a lengthy Instagram message posted on Wednesday. Beginning by describing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as “bloody and cruel”, Barbera said that critics of Venice and its inclusion of DAU…
Read MoreThousands of dogs, cats at risk of euthanasia over screwworm threat
Thousands of dogs and cats in Texas shelters could face an increased risk of euthanasia as state restrictions aimed at preventing the spread of the New World screwworm disrupt a key adoption pipeline that has long helped move animals from overcrowded shelters to homes across the United States. Federal and state officials have imposed controls…
Read MoreFlareFlow & Europe’s Shorts Strike Four-Title Microdrama Pact
EXCLUSIVE: Microdrama platforms FlareFlow and Shorts are sharing the vertical love. The Singapore-based, COL Group-owned FlareFlow and Europe’s Shorts will team on a four-strong slate that they say will “broaden the landscape of microdrama” by dipping into fantasy-led, action, supernatural and revenge-themed storytelling. They say the deal “reflects a shared ambition to move vertical entertainment…
Read MoreAlibaba’s revenue climbs 9% in testament to China’s AI boom
Published Thu, Aug 20, 2026 · 06:33 PM [BEIJING] Alibaba Group Holding reported a 9 per cent jump in revenue, after a boom in Chinese AI development propelled demand for the computing capacity its cloud arm provides. Revenue for the quarter ended June reached almost 269 billion yuan (US$40 billion), broadly in line with the…
Read MorePrime Video To Tell Gary Lineker’s Life Story In Docu-Series
Prime Video is to tell the story of footballer-turned-broadcaster Gary Lineker. A four-part miniseries, Lineker, will look at his 50-year career, which has mostly recently seen him become a media and entertainment business owner through his successful podcasting operation Goalhanger. It will also explore how he went from his ‘Mr Nice Guy’ reputation on the…
Read MoreTim Ryan: Pass Clarity Act to secure blockchain infrastructure | Opinion
Almost every major period of economic expansion in American history was preceded by determined and innovative investments in our infrastructure. Lincoln built the transcontinental railroad that led to the expansion of the Western frontier of America. Former New York Governor Clinton DeWitt championed the Erie Canal, which connected the Hudson River with the Great Lakes…
Read MoreSan Francisco Bay Area dethroned as largest ‘tech talent’ market
The San Francisco Bay Area, epicenter of the artificial intelligence boom, is home to a massive amount of tech workers employed by some of the world’s most valuable companies, from Apple to Nvidia. But for the first time, New York has eclipsed the Bay Area as the home of the largest “tech talent workforce,” a…
Read MoreModerna’s 177% surge burns shorts in ‘painful’ US$5.5 billion loss
The firm’s stock price soars after it says its personalised cancer vaccine helps reduce the recurrence of melanoma in trial Published Thu, Aug 20, 2026 · 05:58 PM [CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts] A record surge in Moderna’s shares delivered a US$5.5 billion blow to short sellers who had bet that the vaccine maker’s years-long slump would continue.…
Read MoreLav Diaz Venice Title ‘Let Us Through, Dear Ancestors’ Gets Sales Deal
EXCLUSIVE: Lav Diaz‘s Venice Film Festival title Let Us Through, Dear Ancestors (Makikiraan Po) has been boarded by Greek international sales firm Heretic. The film, about Spain’s colonial subjugation of the Philippines, is one of the Filipino auteur’s shorter features running ‘only’ 2 hours 31 minutes. The film, which is playing Out of Competition on…
Read MoreSeriesly Berlin Selects 18 Projects For New-Look Pitching Competition
The Seriesly Berlin Project Pitches has selected 18 international projects from the likes of Star Trek: Discovery writer Ted Sullivan and British author Robert Wilson. Participants will take to the stage at the Seriesly Berlin Conference on September 15-16 at the Fotografiska Berlin in a new-look format that divides the projects in three – with…
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