Posts by Nathan Pine
‘MobLand’ Star Joanne Froggatt Closes Production Company To Focus On Acting & Family
[ad_1] EXCLUSIVE: Joanne Froggatt, the Golden Globe-winning actress who shot to fame in Downton Abbey, is closing her production company, Insight Pictures. Froggatt founded Insight in 2020 and two years later signed an exclusive first-look deal with MGM International Television Productions. Under the pact, she set up Love to Tell the Tale, a comedy TV…
Read MoreThese Brokeback Mountain Secrets Are What We Got Now
[ad_1] All the Actors Who Turned Down Brokeback Mountain “I was working on it, and I felt like we needed a really strong cast, like a famous cast,” Van Sant told Indiewire in 2018. “That wasn’t working out. I asked the usual suspects: Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Ryan Phillippe. They all said no.” In hindsight, he wasn’t…
Read MoreSouth Korea police raid e-commerce giant Coupang over data leak
[ad_1] Personal information of 33.7 million customers had been leaked – almost two-thirds of the population [SEOUL] South Korean police raided the Seoul headquarters of e-commerce giant Coupang on Tuesday (Dec 9) over a recent data leak believed to have affected almost two-thirds of the country’s population. Coupang is South Korea’s most popular online shopping…
Read MoreBHP strikes US$2 billion funding deal with GIP for iron ore power network
[ad_1] The two firms will form an entity in which BHP will hold a 51% stake and GIP the remaining 49% stake [MELBOURNE] BHP Group said on Tuesday (Dec 8) that BlackRock-owned Global Infrastructure Fund (GIP) would invest US$2 billion in Western Australia Iron Ore’s (WAIO) inland power network for a minority stake. The two…
Read MoreJon Stewart Likens U.S. Aggression Toward Venezuela To Iraq In The 2000s: “Saddest Part … Is That Dick Cheney Won’t Be Around To See It”
[ad_1] Jon Stewart is getting unmoored in time: The political comedian felt like he was back in the early aughts days of The Daily Show, likening the United States’ military buildup and aggression off the coast of Venezuela to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Kicking off the Monday night episode, Stewart derided President Donald Trump‘s…
Read MoreJimmy Kimmel Discusses New Contract, Challenges President Trump To A “Talent Competition”
[ad_1] Jimmy Kimmel will continue hosting his late-night ABC series for another year or “until the world ends – whichever comes first”. It emerged earlier today that Jimmy Kimmel Live! was renewed through May 2027 after Kimmel extended his deal for a further deal. He joked on tonight’s show that the last thing he wanted…
Read MoreAustralia’s central bank holds rates steady, signals no rush to hike
[ad_1] The mood among consumers, long stuck in the doldrums, has turned positive in a boost to the outlook for household spending [SYDNEY] Australia’s central bank on Tuesday (Dec 9) left its cash rate steady as expected at 3.6 per cent, saying risks to inflation had tilted to the upside but signalled the bank was…
Read MoreSteven Bartlett’s FlightStory Makes “Seven-Figure” Investment In Maggie Sellers Reum’s Hot Smart Rich
[ad_1] EXCLUSIVE: Steven Bartlett‘s media company, FlightStory, is buying into fellow podcaster Maggie Sellers Reum‘s business Hot Smart Rich (HSR) through a “seven-figure” investment. Terms of the deal haven’t been fully revealed and the size of the stake isn’t known, but the cash will go towards scaling HSR in the U.S. and “aligned” global markets,…
Read MoreGoogle says first AI glasses with Gemini will arrive in 2026
[ad_1] Competition is heating up in the emerging category of AI and augmented reality, or AR, glasses [NEW YORK] Alphabet’s Google said that it’s working to create two different categories of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered smart glasses to compete next year with existing models from Meta Platforms: one with screens, and another that’s audio-focused. The first…
Read MoreRachel Scott Parries By Posting Video Of Donald Trump’s Promise To Release Second Strike Footage After He Called Her “The Most Obnoxious Reporter”
[ad_1] President Donald Trump called ABC News Senior Political Correspondent Rachel Scott “the most obnoxious reporter” for asking a question about his previous assertion that he had “no problem” releasing footage of the Sept. 2 strike off the coast of Venezuela — which killed the two survivors of an alleged drug trafficking boat — and the…
Read MoreChinese clean-energy foreign investment surging, says think tank
[ad_1] CHINESE foreign investment in green power jumped to US$80 billion in the past year as Beijing leveraged its dominance in energy transition technologies, according to Climate Energy Finance (CEF). The funds were pledged in the year to November 2025, the Australian-based think tank said in a report released on Sunday (Dec 7), and compare…
Read MoreNexstar CEO Perry Sook On Being “Whipsawed” By Public Opinions About Pending Tegna Merger – Including President Trump’s
[ad_1] Nexstar CEO Perry Sook said he still fully expects the local TV giant’s pending deal to acquire rival Tegna will get approved despite some surprisingly adversarial comments recently by President Trump. The exec appeared Monday at the UBS Global Media and Communications Conference for a panel focused largely on the $6.2 billion merger proposed…
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