Posts by Nathan Pine
‘Hamnet’ Wins Oscar-Predictive Toronto Film Festival People’s Choice Award
[ad_1] The People’s Choice Award from the just-wrapped 50th Toronto Film Festival has gone to Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet, first runner-up is Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein and second runner-up is Rian Johnson’s Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery. Hamnet hails from Focus Features, while latter two are from Netflix. Also in the awards revealed Sunday, the newly created…
Read More‘Materialists’ Tops $100M Worldwide; How Sony & A24 Made A Perfect Match For Summer Box Office Audiences
[ad_1] EXCLUSIVE: Celine Song’s Materialists has crossed the $100M mark globally, with $101.3M through today. Of that, $64.8M is from the international box office. Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions boarded offshore rights on the A24 original out of the 2024 European Film Market in Berlin, and staggered overseas release from June through September this summer, cranking…
Read MoreEmmys 2025: White Lotus Cast’s Paychecks Revealed
[ad_1] The White Lotus cast’s salaries aren’t quite as eclectic as the guests who check into the fictional resort. Fans of the HBO series—which scored 23 nominations at the 2025 Emmy Awards—know the colorful characters featured across its three seasons have ranged from a needy heiress (Jennifer Coolidge) to a sexually forward grandfather (F. Murray…
Read MoreBrookfield in talks to buy Yes! Communities from Singapore’s GIC in US$10 billion deal, FT reports
[ad_1] Denver-based Yes! manages tens of thousands of factory-built affordable homes in the US [SINGAPORE] Brookfield Asset Management is in talks to acquire Yes! Communities from Singapore’s GIC in a deal valued at more than US$10 billion, the Financial Times reported on Sunday (Sep 14). Brookfield has been negotiating the acquisition for months, but no…
Read More‘Sacrifice’ Review: Romain Gavras’ Entertaining Eco-Satire Has A Surprisingly Emotional Impact – Toronto Film Festival
[ad_1] For a book that not many people know about or have read, James George Frazer’s The Golden Bough (1890) has had quite an impact on cult cinema, particularly in the ’70s. For reasons that would take too long to go into here — and thanks to its influence on Joseph Campbell’s 1949 book The…
Read MorePolitics drive investment divide in South-east Asia’s top markets
[ad_1] POLITICAL upheaval is driving a split in South-east Asia’s financial landscape, as investors bet that the worst may finally be over in Thailand but only just getting started in Indonesia. Foreign investors have pulled US$653 million from Indonesia’s stock market this month, the worst period of selling since April as violent protests and the…
Read MoreInside White Lotus Star Carrie Coon and Tracy Letts’ “Open-Minded” Marriage
[ad_1] If you were to ask Carrie Coon, she'd tell you her husband Tracy Letts just wasn't cut out for The White Lotus in Thailand."Here’s the thing about Tracy: He’s allergic to the sun and he hates the… [ad_2] Source link
Read MoreS-Reits deliver double-digit total returns in Q3 as investors await rate cuts
[ad_1] [SINGAPORE] Real estate investment trusts in Singapore (S-Reits) rebounded strongly in the third quarter to date, with the iEdge S-Reit index delivering total returns of 10.3 per cent since end-June, amid ongoing expectations for US interest-rate cuts. As at Sep 12 (Friday), all 30 of the index constituents were in the black for Q3…
Read MoreHedge funds slash bullish oil bets to lowest ever amid Opec hike
[ad_1] [NEW YORK] Hedge funds chopped their bullish position on US crude to the lowest on record as the Opec+ alliance’s latest decision to boost production compounded already-gloomy forecasts that the world is heading towards an oil surplus this year. Money managers cut their net-long stance on West Texas Intermediate by 14,630 lots to 12,657…
Read MoreIce Cube Filmed ‘War of the Worlds’ Scenes With No Director Or Other Actors
[ad_1] Five years after filming War of the Worlds, the pandemic era reboot has finally seen the light of day Ice Cube, who plays government computer analyst Will Radford in the Rich Lee-helmed screenlife flick, recently recalled how he shot his scenes while social-distancing and why it “took a minute” for the movie to get…
Read MoreCardi B’s Daughter Kulture Is Her Mini-Me at New York Fashion Week
[ad_1] But the Grammy winner—who also shares son Wave, 3, and daughter Blossom,12 months, with estranged husband Offset—couldn’t really blame her little girl. “I couldn’t even be mad at her because I wanted to see if she was gonna tell me the truth,” the 32-year-old told The Rundown’s Erin Lim Rhodes at Revolve Festival a few weeks…
Read More‘Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle’ Bound For $56M-$60M Opening, Sony’s Biggest YTD & Besting ‘Bad Boys 4’, ‘Venom 3’ – Box Office Update
[ad_1] SATURDAY AM: Refresh for more analysis and chart… Forget about the biggest anime opening of all-time stateside, that’s easy. Sony has what is their biggest opening of not just 2025 to date, but also arguably bigger than any of their hits last year in Crunchyroll’s Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle which stands…
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