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Joanna Pettet, Actress in ‘The Group’ and ‘Casino Royale,’ Dies at 83
Joanna Pettet, the London-born actress best known for Sidney Lumet’s ensemble drama The Group and the 1967 James Bond spoof Casino Royale, has died at the age of 83. She died on Tuesday at Temecula Valley Hospital in California, according to her friend and former manager Pam DuBois. Her death fell exactly 31 years after…
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Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX are bigger than the last 25 years of tech exits
SpaceX has floated on public markets at a $1.77 trillion valuation, with AI firms Anthropic and possibly OpenAI expected to follow, and their combined scale is drawing attention for eclipsing decades of technology exits. According to the latest NVCA-PitchBook Venture Monitor report, cited by TechCrunch, these three offerings together are set to “generate more value…
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War inside Commonwealth Bank as staff seethe over ‘top performers’ LinkedIn boasts from lavish awards trip while 800 jobs disappear
Commonwealth Bank of Australia is facing internal discontent after it flew its top-performing staff and their families to a luxury resort in Cairns, Far North Queensland, for a multi-day conference and lavish awards night, just five weeks before announcing a fresh round of job cuts. The event, held on the last weekend of May, was…
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Ari Aster & Lars Knudsen Join Doc ‘Crows Are White’ As Exec Producers; Film Gets U.S. Release Date
Filmmakers Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen have joined the documentary Crows Are White as executive producers through their Square Peg banner, marking the company’s first foray into documentary film. The move coincides with the announcement of a US theatrical release for the feature, the debut of director Ahsen Nadeem, giving the previously festival-only title a…
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Ex-Pineapple Street Pair Launch New Podcast Shingle, Set Projects With Dan Taberski, Amy Poehler & Patrick Radden Keefe
Two former senior executives of Pineapple Street Studios have launched a new podcast production company, Please and Thanks Productions, roughly a year after the acclaimed studio was shut down following the bankruptcy of its owner, Audacy. Joel Lovell, previously Executive Editor, and Henry Molofsky, an Executive Producer, were both at Pineapple Street from its 2016…
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Sony Music to Shutter Newly Unionized Punk Merch Warehouse
Sony Music has announced it will close a Minneapolis warehouse run by Kings Road Merch, which fulfils merchandise for punk acts including Rancid, Descendents, Dropkick Murphys and Converge, prompting staff to accuse the company of union-busting. Warehouse workers had voted unanimously to unionise on 11 May this year under Teamsters Local 970, citing pay discrepancies…
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‘I’m Taking This Extremely Seriously’ – Yungblud Pulls Out of Canadian Festival, Shares Statement – Loudwire
Musician Yungblud has withdrawn from an unnamed Canadian festival, issuing a public statement in which he said he was “taking this extremely seriously.” The article, as published by Loudwire, reports the cancellation and shares the singer’s own explanation for stepping away from the scheduled appearance. The substantive details of the article — including the name…
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Tesco’s overseas empire is in retreat – but shareholders have no complaints
Tesco is reported to be exploring the sale of its remaining overseas operations, its “central Europe” division of 560 stores across Czechia, Slovakia and Hungary, having engaged bankers to weigh its options. This marks the effective end of the global ambitions set out by former chief executive Sir Terry Leahy, who in 2007 predicted half…
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Kiko Kostadinov and ASICS Release the ILARGI FF II tabi
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Mick Jagger & Ronnie Wood Debut New Stones Song Lamenting America
The Rolling Stones have previewed a new song, “Ringing Hollow”, from their forthcoming album Foreign Tongues, due out this Friday. Rather than the elaborate rollout used for earlier tracks, Mick Jagger and Ronnie Wood, joined by touring keyboardist Matt Clifford, unveiled it with a surprise stripped-down acoustic performance at a listening party held on Wednesday…