Posts by Nathan Pine
Broadway Contributed $21B To NYC Economy Even As Production Costs Soar
Broadway contributed $21 billion to the New York City economy during the 2024-2025 season, supporting 114,600 full-time equivalent jobs and generating $979 million in taxes for the city, even as production costs have soared over the past six years. Those figures come from the Broadway League‘s latest annual report Broadway’s Economic Contribution to New York…
Read MoreWhat’s Next for Christina Applegate After MS Misdiagnosis
After openly detailing her health battle and feeling like one of the “poster children for MS,” Applegate admitted she feared that she let people down. “Everything that I was doing, it’s like I had a reason,” the Married…With Children actress shared. “I had a f–king reason as to why my day sucked every day. And…
Read MoreWizards get devastating AJ Dybantsa injury news before NBA opener
The Washington Wizards will begin the 2026-27 NBA season without the player expected to become the centerpiece of their future. Rookie forward AJ Dybantsa has been ruled out of Wednesday’s season opener against the Milwaukee Bucks because of a left ankle injury, according to Josh Robbins of The Athletic. The news delays the highly anticipated…
Read MoreEverWonder Inks Overall Deals With Zeberiah Newman & Vanessa Golembewski
EXCLUSIVE: EverWonder Studio, the company behind Netflix’s Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model, is getting into the overall deal business. EverWonder, which is backed by Jeff Zucker’s RedBird IMI-backed, has struck production deals with Zeberiah Newman and Vanessa Golembewski. Newman directed the Jamie Lee Curtis-documentary Stop The Insanity: Finding Susan Powter and Hulu’s Unleashing…
Read MoreJudi Dench Laments “Waste Of Goodwill & Talent” In ‘Cats’
Seven years have passed since Cats, but the spectacular musical flop still makes Judi Dench cringe. Writing in her new memoir, Is It Too Late to Make a Run for It?, the Oscar-winner lamented the “waste” of “goodwill and talent” on Tom Hooper’s 2019 adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s stage show. Dench says she has…
Read More‘You Can See Everything’ Wins Monday Box Office; Looks to Take Down ‘Clayface’
Look out, Clayface, because Nathan Fielder and Elizabeth Holmes are out for blood. And not the Theranos kind. Like box office blood. After overperforming to $15.6M No. 2 opening, The A24 Gen-Z skewing feature documentary, You Can See Everything, won Monday with $2.57M, clocking Paramount/Legendary/Capcom’s Street Fighter to second with $1.9M. The less than $10M…
Read MoreChristina Applegate Reveals MS Misdiagnosis: “I Am Back At Square One”
Christina Applegate, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis back in 2021 and has become a leading advocate for people coping with the disease, revealed shocking news Tuesday: She was misdiagnosed and does not in fact have MS. In an emotional episode of MeSsy, the podcast she hosts with Jamie Lynn Sigler as, in Applegate’s description,…
Read More‘Unsolved Mysteries’ Returns As Video Podcast
EXCLUSIVE: Unsolved Mysteries is back and it has a new form. The iconic true-crime series is returning as a video podcast. This comes more than three years after its previous audio-only podcast ended and a couple of years since Netflix released new episodes of its reboot. Jordan Murphy, who previously hosted NBC’s Tool Academy and…
Read MorePrince Harry Admits He’s Grieving Broken Relationships With Prince William and King Charles
Aside from reports that the royals were up in arms over Harry’s book, Spare was officially greeted with a wall of silence from the palace. But Harry insisted in multiple interviews that this wasn’t him trying to stick a fork in his relationship with his family, but rather clear all the cobwebs and air the dirty laundry so they could…
Read MoreCheese recall update in 13 states as FDA issues highest risk warning
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued its highest-risk warning for recalled Graziers raw milk cheese products on Monday, amid concerns over a multi-state E. coli outbreak that has sickened 13 people and hospitalized eight. The Class I classification, issued on Monday, applied to all affected Graziers raw milk cheese products manufactured by California-based…
Read MoreSnap Taps Robert Downey Jr. To Boost New SPECS AR Glasses
Robert Downey Jr. is launching a collection of original episodes touting SPECS, as the actor partners with Snap as Honorary Chief Customer Experience Officer for its the new augmented reality glasses. The short videos, which demonstrate applications showing how wearers can elevate workspaces, master golf, relax with an entertaining show, or develop artistic skills, are…
Read MoreNetflix’s Jinny Howe Restructures UCAN Scripted Operation By Genre
EXCLUSIVE: Jinny Howe, Netflix‘s Head of UCAN (U.S.-Canada) Scripted Series, is introducing a new structure to the division she has overseen for almost 14 months. The changes include breaking the teams into genre-specific pods, Cole Galvin being elevated from Director to VP and Neil Thomas to Director, with former Media Res President of Scripted Lindsey…
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