Posts by Nathan Pine
Blackstone private credit fund has first monthly loss since 2022
Published Sat, Mar 21, 2026 · 09:59 AM [LOS ANGELES] Blackstone’s flagship private credit fund posted its first monthly loss in more than three years, one of the clearest signs yet of weakening performance in the US$1.8 trillion market. The US$83 billion fund, known as BCRed, lost 0.4 per cent in February, according to its…
Read More‘The Last Of Us’ Adds Michelle Mao As Yara & Kyriana Kratter As Lev
EXCLUSIVE: The Last of Us has cast two key roles from the second game, siblings Yara and Lev. Bridgerton‘s Michelle Mao and Kyriana Kratter (Star Wars: Skeleton Crew) are joining the upcoming third season of the HBO post-apocalyptic drama as series regulars playing Yara and Lev, respectively. Seraphites Yara and especially Lev are a major…
Read MoreJohn Fetterman Is Historically Unpopular, Brutal Polls Show
When Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman was elected in 2023, the Democratic Party thought it might have a new kind of leader. The gruff, hoodie-wearing Fetterman was able to win over the working class in the country’s most important swing state and defeat his Republican challenger, Mehmet Oz, despite suffering a stroke in the middle of…
Read More‘Pillion’ Director Harry Lighton Set For Cannes La Résidence Program
UK director Harry Lighton, who made waves last Cannes with debut feature Pillion, has been unveiled as one of six emerging directors selected for the 51st session of the Cannes Film Festival’s La Résidence program. He is joined by Emma Branderhorst, Joecar Hanna, Saulé Bliuvaité, Mansi Maheshwari and Oliver McGoldrick in the session running from…
Read MorePentagon’s Anthropic bashing rekindles Silicon Valley’s resistance to war
Artificial intelligence powerhouse Anthropic’s battle with the Pentagon has sparked some soul-searching in Silicon Valley that could reshape the tech sector’s complicated relationship with war and the White House. Anthropic is the San Francisco-based startup behind the chatbot Claude and some of the most powerful AI on the market. In its negotiations with the military,…
Read MoreBox Office: ‘Project Hail Mary’ Heads To $11M+ Previews, Best YTD
EXCLUSIVE: A non-franchise movie is making waves at the box office and we’re talking about Amazon MGM Studios‘ Project Hail Mary. Sources tell us that the previews for the Phil Lord-Christopher Miller directed sci-fi production are north of $11M, which takes us to an upper stratosphere that’s ahead of another non-franchise movie, Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer…
Read MoreMarlon Wayans Calls James Van Der Beek “Cool As Hell” For Making ‘Scary Movie’ Cameo: “Just The Coolest Moment”
As Hollywood continues to mourn James Van Der Beek‘s death, Marlon Wayans recently recalled the actor’s cameo in Scary Movie (2000). The actor and franchise co-creator, who reprises his role as Shorty Meeks in Scary Movie 6, premiering June 5, said that Van Der Beek “was cool as hell for even doing it,” making a…
Read MoreFedEx CEO says global demand holding amid Iran war, annual profit outlook up on record holiday profit
Published Fri, Mar 20, 2026 · 08:50 AM GLOBAL delivery company FedEx said on Thursday that global demand is holding steady at the start of March despite the war in Iran, while fuel surcharges are sheltering profits from surging fuel costs. US and Israeli attacks on Iran quickly spiralled into a regional conflict that has…
Read MoreRepublican Senator Claims You Can’t Shovel Snow in NYC Without ID
Republican Senator Katie Britt tried to claim that New York City requires identification to shovel show in an attempt to defend the SAVE Act Thursday. At a press conference on Capitol Hill, the Alabama politician tried to argue that because many regular parts of daily life require people to produce identification, Republicans’ extreme voter ID…
Read More‘People We Meet On Vacation’s Amos Vernon & Nunzio Randazzo Tapped To Pen ‘Care Bears’ Movie For Warner Bros.
EXCLUSIVE: Amos Vernon and Nunzio Randazzo, the screenwriting duo behind Netflix’s recent hit rom-com People We Meet on Vacation, have been enlisted to pen the new Care Bears movie for Warner Bros. This follows Josh Greenbaum’s attachment as director, which we scooped last June. It also comes following the duo’s sale of buzzy live-action comedy…
Read MorePeter Thompson, Stage Publicist Who Put Andrew Lloyd Webber, Cameron Mackintosh & Mega Musicals On The Theatrical Map, Dies Aged 81
Peter Thompson, who was the foremost West End stage publicist for four decades, and the man who orchestrated publicity for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats, The Phantom of the Opera, and his other hits, has died. He was 81. His husband Stephen Barton confirmed the news to Deadline. Thompson also launched Cameron Mackintosh’s hit musicals Les Misérables and Miss Saigon.…
Read MoreFFormer Buccaneer & Cineflix Execs Launch High Road Entertainment
EXCLUSIVE: Former Buccaneer CEO Richard Tulk-Hart and former Cineflix Head of Scripted TV James Durie are taking the High Road. The pair have joined forces to launch High Road Entertainment, a new co-production and sales consultancy for the drama biz. It is already working on projects including Greek-set crime series Antiparos in partnership with Tanweer…
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