Posts by Nathan Pine
Canada’s Next Chapter
At the dawn of 2026, amid the snow-covered peaks of Davos, where the world’s elite convene each year, a rallying call reverberated through the Swiss Alps from a country more readily associated with consensus than conviction. It was Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney who plainly named the mokita at the heart of global politics: With…
Read MoreBox Office: ‘The Odyssey’ Grossing $15M In Thursday Night Previews
EXCLUSIVE: Universal‘s Christopher Nolan epic The Odyssey is sailing to previews tonight around $15M give or take. If that figure posts, it will rank as the best previews we’ve seen so far this year for a live-action title, ahead of Lionsgate’s Michael ($12.6M previews, $97.2M U.S. opening). On Rotten Tomatoes, the audience score for The…
Read MoreIndia’s SBI Funds Management attracts US$31 billion in bids in country’s fourth-most-subscribed IPO
India’s largest asset manager oversees funds worth US$131 billion as of March 2026 Published Fri, Jul 17, 2026 · 01:32 PM INDIA’S SBI Funds Management drew bids worth 3 trillion Indian rupees (US$31.14 billion), making the asset manager’s US$1.03 billion initial public offering (IPO) the country’s fourth-most-subscribed issue. The subscription numbers include US$278.5 million raised…
Read MoreFrasers Property Industrial CEO Reini Otter to step down; Ian Barter named interim leader
[SINGAPORE] Frasers Property announced on Friday (Jul 17) that the CEO of its industrial and logistics arm, Frasers Property Industrial, is set to step down on Dec 17. Reini Otter, 55, will be leaving to “take on a new career opportunity”, Frasers Property said, after a 28-year tenure with the group, including the last seven…
Read More‘God Of War’ To Recast Lead Kratos After Ryan Hurst Was Injured On Set
EXCLUSIVE: This is a shocker: Prime Video‘s God Of War will have a new actor playing Kratos as the lead role in the high profile fantasy drama series is being recast, Deadline has learned. The decision, made after a careful consideration by the studios on the show, Sony Pictures Television and Amazon MGM Studios, comes…
Read MorePVR Inox’s Sanjeev Kumar Bijli On India’s Box Office Recovery, Cinema Expansion & Cannes Acquisitions Haul
EXCLUSIVE: India’s theatrical market is one of the few in Asia that has outstripped pre-pandemic revenues, despite the growth of streaming, the slowdown in the Hollywood pipeline and all the other factors that have hampered box office in other international territories. In 2025, box office reached a record-breaking $1.48BN, due to a string of Hindi…
Read MoreIPOs of tiny foreign firms nearly vanish in US after pump-and-dump crackdown
2026 sees micro-cap IPOs raise under US$300 million, against US$1.6 billion in all of 2025 [WASHINGTON] Initial public offerings of tiny foreign companies in the US have all but disappeared this year after regulators cracked down on apparent pump-and-dump schemes, many of them based in Asia, that authorities say cheated mom-and-pop investors around the globe. Only…
Read MoreSinclair-Owned ABC And NBC Stations Carry Trump Primetime Speech
A number of ABC and NBC stations owned by Sinclair Broadcasting ended up airing President Donald Trump’s primetime speech on Thursday, after ABC News and NBC News said earlier in the day that they would only carry the address on their streaming sites. Trump’s address tonight began at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT and lasted…
Read More‘Special Forces’ Star George Santos Addresses “Haters” & Defends Co-Stars Brandi Glanville & Candace Cameron Bure
Expelled Congressman and former politician George Santos is defending himself and his Special Forces co-stars from all the criticism following their casting announcement. Santos took to social media to address the hate he and co-stars Brandi Glanville and Candace Cameron Bure have been receiving after it was revealed they would be starring in the Fox…
Read MoreDonald Trump Says ABC And NBC Should Lose Broadcast Licenses Because They Didn’t Carry His Primetime Address On Election Claims
Donald Trump lashed out at ABC and NBC, the two networks that chose not to carry his speech live on their broadcast platforms, as he delivered a 25-minute long speech full of claims that included China obtaining voter registration data and the “deep state” withholding that intelligence from him. Without evidence, Trump claimed that ABC…
Read MoreABC, NBC And CNN Won’t Carry Trump’s Speech On Their Linear Networks
UPDATED with CNN plans, 3:34 PM: ABC News and NBC News said Thursday afternoon that they will carry Donald Trump‘s primetime address tonight only on their respective streaming sites, ABC News Live and NBC News Now, and not their broadcast networks. CBS News has yet to reveal its coverage plans. The address is expected to…
Read MoreAsian stocks slip after AI valuation fears spark Wall Street chip selloff
Published Fri, Jul 17, 2026 · 09:25 AM ASIAN stocks edged lower on Friday (Jul 17) after a selloff in chipmakers dragged down Wall Street as investors questioned whether massive artificial intelligence investments can justify lofty valuations. Oil climbed. The MSCI Asia Pacific Index slid 0.3 per cent, with declines in Japan and Australia. South…
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