Posts by Nathan Pine
‘Harry Potter’ Studio Proof Inc. Returns To Australia With New Studio
EXCLUSIVE: L.A-based Proof Inc. is returning to Australia with the opening of a studio in Brisbane. The company, which bills itself as “the world’s first studio dedicated exclusively to visualization and has credits for work on everything from Harry Potter to Michael, has launched Proof Australia, as it reestablishes a permanent base in the country.…
Read MoreIncentive Fomo, uncertainty drive new Category A COE record in ‘re-run of 2025 mania’
Awareness that incentives will be reduced in 2027, strong demand are keeping premiums high for mainstream cars [SINGAPORE] A longer than usual break between Certificate of Entitlement (COE) bidding rounds helped push mainstream car and commercial vehicle premiums to new heights in July’s first round of bidding which ended on Wednesday (Jul 8). But industry…
Read MoreBBC A “Disinfectant” To Disinformation On YouTube & X/Twitter, Says New Boss
BBC director general Matt Brittin has said that the British broadcaster will double down on YouTube and X/Twitter to counter the tidal wave of disinformation online. Brittin may have spent the majority of his career at Google, but it did not stop him from acknowledging that YouTube is a breeding ground for deliberately deceptive information.…
Read MoreWhich states are pausing data center tax incentives—and why
Arizona has become one of the latest states to pull back from tax breaks for data centers, freezing new state tax incentives for three years as lawmakers reassess whether subsidies created more than a decade ago still make sense in the age of AI. The three-year suspension, included in the state budget that took effect…
Read MoreParis Court Rules Bolloré Does Not Exercise Control Over Vivendi
The Paris Court of Appeal ruled on Wednesday that French tycoon Vincent Bolloré and his Bolloré Group do not exercise control over media and entertainment group Vivendi. The ruling, which was confirmed by Vivendi in a statement, is significant because a decision in the opposite direction could have triggered an obligatory buyout of Vivendi by…
Read MoreBBC To Review Content Acquisitions Amid ‘Scooby-Doo’ Storm
The BBC‘s new director general will review the UK broadcaster’s foreign content acquisitions strategy amid anger over the corporation outbidding commercial rivals for U.S. series. Matt Brittin said he wished to examine whether the BBC is getting the “balance right” with buying in content, opening up the possibility that the broadcaster could cut its acquisitions…
Read MoreAll ‘Harry Potter’ & ‘Fantastic Beasts’ Films To Stream For Free On ITVX
ITV has magicked up a deal with Warner Bros. Discovery to stream all 11 of the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts films for free on its streaming service. ITVX is now home to the eight Harry Potter movies and the three films in the Fantastic Beasts franchise for an undisclosed period of time. ITVX has…
Read MoreTitan submersible widow reflects on search and life after loss
On June 18, 2023, Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son, Suleman, boarded Titan, a submersible operated by OceanGate and bound for the Titanic wreck site in the North Atlantic Ocean. Christine Dawood gave up her seat so her son could join her husband on the journey and waited with her daughter for their return on…
Read MoreSingapore stocks rise amid mixed regional showing; STI up 0.5%
Published Wed, Jul 8, 2026 · 06:04 PM [SINGAPORE] Singapore stocks ended higher on Wednesday (Jul 8). The benchmark Straits Times Index (STI) gained 0.5 per cent or 27.33 points to finish at 5,369.57. UOB led the gainers on Singapore’s blue-chip index, rising 3.9 per cent or S$1.64 to S$43.33. The other local banks also…
Read MorePaweł Pawlikowski’s ‘Fatherland’ To Open Sarajevo Film Festival
Paweł Pawlikowski’s Fatherland is set to open the 32nd Sarajevo Film Festival and the Polish helmer is set to personally welcome audiences at the gala screening on August 14. The film, which rounds up Pawlikowski’s Cold War trilogy, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year where it won the Best Director award. Fatherland centers on the relationship between Nobel…
Read MoreJesse Eisenberg On His New Film And The Surprise Success Of ‘A Real Pain’
How many Oscar-nominated Hollywood stars can you name who have donated one of their kidneys to a complete stranger? As of now, the list probably just comprises Jesse Eisenberg, the awkward leading man in David Fincher’s 2010 film The Social Network turned Oscar-feted writer-director of the 2024 Holocaust-themed road trip A Real Pain. Eisenberg recently…
Read MoreTrump calls Spain “terrible partner,” threatens to cut off all trade
President Donald Trump has said that Spain is a “terrible partner” in NATO and threatened to cut off all U.S. trade with the country. “Spain is a terrible partner in NATO. They don’t participate. They don’t pay. I don’t want anything to do with Spain,” Trump said at the NATO summit in Turkey on Wednesday.…
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