Posts by Nathan Pine
ScreenSkills Report: Film & TV Declined 13% As Indie Credit Questioned
The leading UK film and TV training body has questioned whether some of the projects benefitting from the new indie movie tax credit will ever make it to the big screen. ScreenSkills unveiled a report this morning analyzing the short-term past and predicting the future of the local film and TV industry, which found that…
Read MoreUS issues new travel warning for Saint Lucia
The U.S. Department of State has upgraded its travel advisory for Saint Lucia to “Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution” over concerns about crime affecting both residents and visitors to the Caribbean island. The updated advisory was issued on July 10 and warns that violent crime could occur anywhere in Saint Lucia, including in areas that…
Read MorePlayhouse Studios Buys Halo Post Assets & Launches Playhouse Post
EXCLUSIVE: Irish producer Playhouse Studios has bought the assets and Noel Street facility of Halo Post and will soon launch its own post house as a result. The deal, financial terms of which weren’t revealed, for Halo comes after Mojo Bridge, the parent company that housed the famed Soho post house, went into administration in…
Read MoreAustralia’s SBS Buys Icelandic-Portuguese Drama Series ‘Cold Haven’
EXCLUSIVE: Icelandic-Portuguese crime thriller Cold Haven has found a home in Australia. Public service network SBS has acquired the show for its streamer, SBS On Demand, and will launch on July 15 after a deal with distributor About Premium Content (APC). Cold Haven follows Maria (Maria João Bastos), a Portuguese woman who has relocated to Iceland…
Read MoreEricsson Q2 profit tops expectations, warns on AI costs
Ericsson reported operating profit of 6.52 billion Swedish crowns (US$671.70 million) for the second quarter Published Tue, Jul 14, 2026 · 04:20 PM [STOCKHOLM] Swedish telecom equipment maker Ericsson reported a second-quarter core profit above market expectations on Tuesday (Jul 14), aided by cloud services and orders but warned that it is under pressure from…
Read MoreCautious woman carried carbon monoxide detector—but it was already too late
A health-conscious New York woman had made a habit of taking a carbon monoxide detector with her when she traveled, unaware that she was already battling another undetected illness. Health is a common concern among Americans today. An American Psychiatric Association poll of just over 2,200 U.S. adults found that 55 percent were “very” or…
Read MoreDBS initiates coverage on JustCo with ‘Buy’, S$1.06 target price
DBS says the regional co-working player is at an inflection point as demand for hybrid working rises [SINGAPORE] DBS on Tuesday (Jul 14) initiated coverage on homegrown co-working player JustCo with a “Buy” and a 12-month target price of S$1.06. Analysts Dale Lai and Derek Tan said that the regional co-working player is at a…
Read MoreNvidia halves Asia buyer list in China chip crackdown, steps up due diligence: report
Published Tue, Jul 14, 2026 · 01:08 PM NVIDIA has more than halved the number of Asian customers authorised to buy its AI chips after creating a new “white list” of companies that have passed tougher compliance checks aimed at preventing the products from reaching China, the Financial Times reported on Monday (Jul 14). Over…
Read MoreNolan Says Without Oppenheimer Success, There Would Have Been No ‘Odyssey’
“I will never get a chance to get high with you in a dorm room,” said Jon Stewart on The Daily Show tonight, preparing Christopher Nolan for his somewhat unusual questions about The Odyssey. Among the queries: Why didn’t the cyclops tell a joke? What happened to the wheels on the Trojan horse? And is…
Read MoreDistribution to paid-in capital a key metric for general partners as demand for tangible outcomes rises: MSCI
Survey also finds that many in the sector feel they are lagging in tech, risk-preparedness [SINGAPORE] General partners are now concentrating on the distribution to paid-in capital (DPI) metric, said index provider MSCI in a survey of 130 general partners across the world on Tuesday (Jul 14). Limited partners (LPs) are now demanding a more…
Read MoreState AGs Seek Temporary Restraining Order To Pause Paramount-WB Merger
State attorneys general are now seeking a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction to pause Paramount‘s proposed merger with Warner Bros. Discovery, warning that the company may otherwise close the transaction as soon as July 22. That date is around the time that the European Union is expected to issue its decision on the transaction,…
Read MoreKarlie Kloss Double Dates With Taylor Swift’s BFF Este Haim After Travis Kelce Wedding
Who attended Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding? There was quite the evergreen group of friends that stepped out at Madison Square Garden to see Swift and Kelce say “I do.” Seriously, the guest list was over 1,000 people. On Swift’s side, her longtime friends including Abigail Anderson Berard, Selena Gomez and her husband Benny…
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