Posts by Nathan Pine
‘R.L. Stine’s Pumpkinhead 2’ Launches At TIFF Market, Details Revealed
EXCLUSIVE: Blue Fox Entertainment will launch international sales at the TIFF market to R.L. Stine’s Pumpkinhead 2, the upcoming Tubi Original sequel to the young-adult horror film R.L. Stine’s Pumpkinhead. Written and directed by Jem Garrard, who also helmed the original R.L. Stine’s Pumpkinhead, the sequel continues author Stine’s Pumpkinhead story. The synopsis reads: “When…
Read MoreJustin Trudeau To Launch Production Company At TIFF
Former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is launching a production company with his former Chief of Staff Katie Telford, and it will be called Hope & Hard Work. The pair will officially launch the company at this year’s Toronto Film Festival. They will be repped by 3 Arts. In their official announcement, Trudeau and Telford have…
Read MoreSocial Security COLA update: What today’s inflation report Means for you
Millions of Social Security recipients now have a much clearer picture of how large their 2027 cost-of-living adjustment could be after the federal government released the second of three inflation readings used to calculate next year’s increase. The Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) rose 3.5 percent in the 12…
Read MoreQuiver Distribution Takes U.S. For Jérémy Comte’s ‘Paradise’
EXCLUSIVE: Quiver Distribution has acquired U.S. rights to Oscar-nominated Canadian director Jérémy Comte film feature Paradise. The Canada-France-Ghana co-production had its world premiere in the Panorama section of the Berlinale earlier this year. Quiver is planning to release the film in the U.S. this winter. WME and Global Constellation, a Vuelta company, negotiated the deal…
Read MoreTeen watched 9/11 unfold on T.V—then she enlisted without telling her parents
When I think back to my life before September 11, 2001, the person I was then feels almost unrecognizable. I was 18 and had just graduated high school in the top two percent of my class. I was studying early childhood education at a community college in Arizona and planned to become a teacher. My…
Read More‘The Gentlemen’ Season 2 Loses Half A Million Viewers In The UK
The blaze of Meghan Markle-shaped publicity around The Gentlemen appears to have done little for the show’s UK ratings, according to official figures. Season 2 of Guy Ritchie‘s glossy crime drama premiered on September 3 on Netflix and, after seven days of streaming, the first episode was watched by 3 million British viewers. The Gentlemen‘s…
Read MoreSatellite imagery shows a black plume of smoke across the desert between Medina and Mahd adh Dhahab.
Fire and smoke can be seen coming from Saudi Arabia’s main East-West oil pipeline after a suspected strike by Houthi militants, who have been attacking the kingdom, according to reports citing video and satellite imagery. Sentinel-3 satellite imagery shows a black smoke plume over the pipeline route across the desert between Medina and Mahd adh…
Read MoreSTI inches up 0.1%, bucking regional trend as oil continues surge
[SINGAPORE] Singapore stocks ended higher on Friday (Sep 11), bucking a regional trend as Asian markets slumped amid renewed tensions in the Middle East. The benchmark Straits Times Index (STI) gained 0.1 per cent or 6.18 points to finish at 5,695.93. OCBC led the gainers on Singapore’s blue-chip index, rising 0.7 per cent or S$0.21…
Read MoreJohn Trengove’s ‘The Smell Of Apples’ Sells To France – TIFF
EXCLUSIVE: ARP Sélection has acquired French rights to South African director and writer John Trengove’s Apartheid era drama The Smell of Apples ahead of its world premiere in Toronto. Based on Mark Behr’s eponymous 1993 Booker Prize-nominated novel, the film follows a young boy growing up in a white utopia in Cape Town in the…
Read MoreHow Jimmy Kimmel’s James Talarico interview ratings compare to Trump at RNC
Jimmy Kimmel’s interview with Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico has garnered more than a million views on YouTube, far more than a livestream of the second night of the Republicans’ midterm convention in Dallas that ended with remarks from President Donald Trump. Kimmel told viewers that his interview with Talarico on Thursday would be…
Read MoreZurich Summit: Edward Berger, Robbie Brenner, Oliver Berben, More Join
EXCLUSIVE: The Zurich Summit (September 25 to 27) has revealed its second batch of speakers including Oscar winner Edward Berger (Conclave), Oscar nominee Robbie Brenner (Barbie), Constantin Film CEO Oliver Berben; and Komplizen producer Janine Jackowski (Sentimental Value). Also joining will be director-influencer Zack London, better known as the face of the YouTube/Instagram generative AI…
Read MorePierce Brosnan Says Tom Hardy ‘MobLand’ Feud Was “Storm In A Teacup”
Pierce Brosnan has said that it is all happy families on the set of Paramount+’s MobLand. At the Season 2 premiere in London, Brosnan was asked about the behind-the-scenes drama involving Tom Hardy, who reportedly clashed with showrunner Jez Butterworth and had timekeeping issues on set. “Oh my God, it was a storm in a…
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