Posts by Nathan Pine
Wonder Project And AI Firm Luma Launch Innovative Dreams As Home For “Hybrid Filmmaking”
EXCLUSIVE: Wonder Project, the independent producer of series like House of David, has teamed with pedigreed AI startup Luma to launch a new company, Innovative Dreams. Described as a blend of production services provider, R&D lab and post-production and visual effects house, the new company is backed by Amazon Web Services. Wonder Project has had…
Read MoreHugh Bonneville Narrating ‘Hound Of The Baskervilles’ Podcast Series
EXCLUSIVE: Hugh Bonneville has narrated a podcast version of Sherlock Holmes story The Hound of the Baskervilles. The first episode of the nine-part audio series from podcast network Noiser lands on April 27 with Paddington, Downton Abbey and Twenty Twenty-Six actor Bonneville reading from Arthur Conan Doyle’s original story, which first published 125 years ago…
Read MoreSteven Spielberg Praises Universal For Commitment To 45-Day Window — “Do I Hear 60?” — In Appearance At His First CinemaCon With ‘Disclosure Day’
Steven Spielberg praised NBCUniversal Entertainment chair Donna Langley for moving to a 45-day exclusive theatrical window, accepted an award from the Motion Pictures Association, and sat down with Colman Domingo at CinemaCon to talk about his upcoming film Disclosure Day, a thriller about extraterrestrial life. The subject has always fascinated him, as evident from some…
Read MoreTrump Sued for Firing Most of the Black Officials in Government
A Black former federal employee is suing the Trump administration, claiming he was fired because of his race. Alvin Brown, a Democratic member of the National Transportation Safety Board nominated by President Biden, was fired from his post in May 2025. In his lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court on Tuesday, Brown said that political…
Read MoreCBS Fall 2026 Schedule: Fewer Comedies, FBI Block & ‘Elsbeth’ Shift; ‘Ghosts’ & ‘Matlock’ Benched
CBS is introducing a fall schedule with only two half-hour comedies. It is believed to be an all-time low for the network. The lineup also includes four franchise blocks, FBI on Tuesdays, NCIS on Wednesdays, Fire Country on Friday and, with an asterisk, a Robert & Michelle King pair on Thursday. MIAs are Ghosts and…
Read MoreSnap is cutting 1,000 workers in the latest tech layoff
Snap, the parent company of disappearing messaging app Snapchat, said Wednesday that it’s laying off 1,000 workers to reduce costs. The Santa Monica social media company is pursuing profitability and efficiency as it faces stiff competition for ad dollars from bigger rivals such as Facebook parent company Meta and Google. Snap said it’s slashing 16%…
Read MoreChannel 4 Renews Comedy Thing YouTube Channel With ‘Pun Battle’
EXCLUSIVE: Channel 4 is returning to its A Comedy Thing YouTube channel for a second year with new formats including Pun Battle. Channel 4 said A Comedy Thing, which publishes weekly long-form programming for YouTube with up-and-coming comics, has delivered 6.5 million views on YouTube, clocking up 165,000 hours of watch time with an audience…
Read MoreDune Part Three: Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Denis Villeneuve At CinemaCon
The Fremen descended on CinemaCon, chanting, on Tuesday night — as did Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Jason Momoa and filmmaker Denis Villeneuve to tease Dune: Part Three, including by playing the film’s first seven minutes. The clip opens with Fremen ships sailing through dark, gray, foggy air, crashing down on a planet where it’s raining. They…
Read MoreBroadway’s ‘Cats: The Jellicle Ball’, ‘Death Of A Salesman’, ‘Titaníque’ Open Big
Broadway held strong last week as a bevy of spring arrivals caught ticket-buyers’ attention, with Becky Shaw, Cats: The Jellicle Ball, Death of a Salesman and Titaníque opening to strong reviews and full or nearly-full houses. Most of the nine shows still in previews last week also did well, especially Proof, The Fear of 13,…
Read MoreDemocrats Formally File 25th Amendment Bill to Get Rid of Trump
“I figure that I’m probably going to be saving about $3,000 to $4,000,” Simmons told Fox News Digital. In another interview with Fox’s America Reports, she said half of her income came from tips, and at the White House, she said she made about $11,000 in tips. That would make her income $22,000, a salary…
Read MoreHow Waymo and Waze are pitching in to help solve L.A.’s pothole problem
Waze and Waymo are teaming up to help combat Los Angeles’ growing pothole problem. The companies announced a program that will use Waymo’s self-driving cars to better detect potholes in the city. The data will be available to city officials through Waze’s traffic data-sharing platform, according to a news release last week. The number of…
Read More‘Beef’s Carey Mulligan & Oscar Isaac On Their Season 2 Fight Scene
With Beef back for another dramatic feud on Netflix, audiences are in for a whole new onscreen brawl. While attending Wednesday’s Season 2 premiere in Los Angeles, stars Carey Mulligan and Oscar Isaac detailed how they brought their episode one fight scene to life, as well as the importance of making it “very truthful” to…
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