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Several Apple TV+ Shows Score Golden Globe Nominations

Several Apple TV+ Shows Score Golden Globe Nominations

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Apple today announced that several of its TV shows have been nominated for the 82nd Annual Golden Globe Awards. Popular series Slow Horses has been nominated for Best Drama, while Disclaimer, a psychological thriller miniseries starring Cate Blanchett, has been nominated for Best Limited Series. Slow Horses stars Gary Oldman and Jack Lowden have been nominated for Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama, while Disclaimer’s Cate Blanchett and Kevin Kline have been nominated for best actor awards for a limited series. Jason Segel and Harrison Ford, the stars of hit comedy Shrinking, have been nominated for best comedy performance and best supporting role, respectively. Jake Gyllenhaal, star of Presumed Innocent, has also been nominated for best actor in a TV drama. The Golden Globe winners are set to be announced on January 5, 2025. Apple previously won Golden Globes for Killers of the Flower Moon and Black Bird, and its original TV shows, movies, and documentaries have earned a total of 535 wins and 2,402 award nominations across the Oscars, Golden Globes, …

Boston Globe paywall strategy: Chief commercial officer interview

Boston Globe paywall strategy: Chief commercial officer interview

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Boston Globe office. Picture: Craig F Walke Like so many regional media brands, the Boston Globe nearly went out of business in 2009 after the financial crash. Today it stands out as an exemplar of how journalism can not just survive but thrive in the digital age. In the latest Press Gazette Future of Media Explained podcast, the title’s chief commercial officer Kayvan Salmanpour explained how the multi-Pulitzer Prize-winning title carried off an evolution many other regional publishers have struggled to replicate. The episode, which was sponsored by digital publishing platform Quintype, also featured insight from that company’s vice president of international partnerships Chad Hussain. Privately-owned Boston Globe Media does not publish financial results but today has close to 1,000 employees, with 261,000 digital subscriptions and 75,000 in print. London’s main news publisher, the Standard, is believed to have somewhere between 100-150 staff left after moving to free weekly publication last month and it has made seven straight years of losses. The reported GDP of the greater Boston area (at around $500bn) is only slightly …

Film star hailed across the globe, from Japan to US

Film star hailed across the globe, from Japan to US

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Alain Delon, on arrival at Haneda airport, Tokyo, March 29, 1963. THE ASAHI SHIMBUN VIA GETTY IMAG Famed in Italy for his work with Luchino Visconti and Michelangelo Antonioni, Alain Delon enjoyed international renown in many other countries too, where his films were revered. As soon as his death was announced on Sunday, August 18, tributes poured in from the media, starting in Japan. Many, like the daily newspaper Yomiuri, labelled him a nimaime – a kabuki theater term designating “the handsome, seductive man with gentle gestures and words.” The paper Mainichi meanwhile published a portfolio entitled “The journey of the most handsome man,” showing the actor on his frequent trips to Japan. Read more Subscribers only Italy salutes Alain Delon, the French actor who is part of Italian history In the 1960s and 1970s, Delon’s popularity in Japan was enormous. Surpassing that of Hollywood stars, he appeared in numerous advertisements, such as the one for clothing manufacturer D’Urban. Its slogan, spoken in French by Delon: “D’Urban, c’est l’élégance de l’homme moderne” (“D’Urban, it’s the …

This Golden Globe Nominee Has Joined The Cast Of The Long-Awaited Peaky Blinders Movie

This Golden Globe Nominee Has Joined The Cast Of The Long-Awaited Peaky Blinders Movie

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More casting details have been announced for the upcoming Peaky Blinders movie. A film based on the Steven Knight’s award-winning BBC drama has been in the pipeline for years, with Cillian Murphy confirming last month that he’d be back in action as Tommy Shelby in a new feature-length story, which is being produced by Netflix. It’s now also been revealed that he’ll be joined in the cast by newcomer Rebecca Ferguson. The Swedish star is best known for her work in films like Dune, The Greatest Showman and the Mission: Impossible series. Rebecca was also nominated for a Golden Globe for her performance in the historical drama The White Queen, and more recently appeared in the Apple TV+ series Silo. Rebecca Ferguson at the Dune: Part Two premiere in February Peaky Blinders first aired on the BBC in 2013, and ended up running for a total of six seasons. During its time on air, the show picked up a handful of TV Baftas, with Cillian also picking up a Best Actor nomination at last year’s …

Investors scour the globe for shelter as Wall Street shakes

Investors scour the globe for shelter as Wall Street shakes

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LONDON : Global investors are eyeing European and emerging market assets to protect themselves from further turbulence in U.S. stocks and bonds as stubborn inflation causes bets on the timing of Federal Reserve interest rate cuts to be revised. April was a washout on Wall Street, with the S&P 500 share index and U.S. Treasuries posting their biggest monthly loss since September. Money managers are now looking for ways to limit losses if the trend does not reverse. That could entail the restructuring of portfolios that had been lifted for years by richly-valued U.S. equities, said Sonja Laud, CIO at Legal & General Investment Management, which manages roughly $1.5 trillion. “Diversification will be a lot more important going forward,” she said, adding that LGIM was not expecting superior returns from global stocks but now preferred European shares to those from the United States. Amelie Derambure, senior multi-asset manager at Amundi, Europe’s biggest asset manager, said she still expected long-term gains from U.S. stocks but had bought put options to protect against a 10 per cent …

Tesla Cuts Prices in China, Germany, and Around Globe After US Cuts

Tesla Cuts Prices in China, Germany, and Around Globe After US Cuts

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By Hyunjoo Jin, Ethan Wang and Christoph Steitz BEIJING/FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Tesla has cut prices in a number of its major markets – including in China and Germany – after price cuts in the United States – as it grapples with falling sales and an intensifying price war for electric vehicles (EVs), especially against cheaper Chinese EVs. The swathe of price cuts comes after Elon Musk’s EV maker reported this month that its global vehicle deliveries in the first quarter fell for the first time in nearly four years. Tesla cut the starting price of the revamped Model 3 in China by 14,000 yuan ($1,930) to 231,900 yuan ($32,000), its official website showed on Sunday. In Germany, the carmaker trimmed the price of its Model 3 rear wheel drive to 40,990 euros ($43,670.75) from 42,990 euros, where the price has been since February. There were also price cuts in many other countries in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, a Tesla spokesperson said. Photos You Should See – April 2024 The carmaker cut U.S. prices of …

Princess Kate receives outpouring of love from across the globe including Commonwealth | Royal | News

Princess Kate receives outpouring of love from across the globe including Commonwealth | Royal | News

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Good wishes have been sent to Princess Kate from royal fans far and wide across Commonwealth countries, as an outpour of love for the royal is shown from across the world. The Rt Hon Patricia Scotland KC who is the sixth Commonwealth secretary general, wrote on social media platform X: “On behalf of our Commonwealth family, I wish Catherine, The Princess of Wales, a swift and complete recovery on this holy Palm Sunday.” Scotland, who was born in Dominica, added: “The Princess, His Majesty The King and @RoyalFamily remain in all our thoughts and prayers.” Princess Kate appeared visibly emotional in a personal video released on March 22, announcing she had been diagnosed with cancer. She explained how when she had undergone abdominal surgery in January at the time she was told her condition was non-cancerous. The future Queen then revealed, in her heart-wrenching statement, that later tests found cancer had been present and she was undergoing treatment. The video was filmed by BBC studios at Windsor on Wednesday, March 20, 2024, and word of …

Simple suppers from around the globe to spice up your dinner routine

Simple suppers from around the globe to spice up your dinner routine

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Sign up to IndyEat’s free newsletter for weekly recipes, foodie features and cookbook releases Get our food and drink newsletter for free Tired of the same old dinner routine? It’s time to shake things up and add a burst of flavour to your evenings with these effortless yet exotic dishes from various corners of the world. Transport yourself to the bustling streets of Beirut with Lebanese flavoured lamb with chickpeas and mushrooms. Tender lamb, fragrant spices and hearty chickpeas are sure to impress even the pickiest eaters. Whether you’re hosting a dinner party or enjoying a quiet night in, this dish is a guaranteed crowd-pleaser. Take a trip to India with curried feta and chickpea pasties. Perfectly crispy pastry encases a creamy filling of feta and chickpeas, creating a mouthwatering fusion of East and west. Serve them up as a quick and satisfying supper or pack them for a delicious lunch on the go. Explore the vibrant flavours of Southeast Asia with vegan jackfruit burgers. Tossed in a savoury sauce and nestled between fluffy buns, …

Exclusive: Life Aboard a Nuclear Submarine as the US Responds to Threats Around the Globe

Exclusive: Life Aboard a Nuclear Submarine as the US Responds to Threats Around the Globe

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There, I was invited into the buzzing corridors of the US Strategic Command (STRATCOM), the nerve center of America’s nuclear arsenal, located at Offutt Air Force Base. This is the place that produced the Enola Gay and Bockscar, the B-29s that dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; the place where President George W. Bush had taken temporary refuge on 9/11. When I arrived, I spotted mechanics attending to two aircraft on the tarmac. One was an E-6B Mercury, a nondescript plane that, if needed, can serve as both a communications relay for ballistic-missile subs like the Wyoming and as an airborne launch control for land-based ICBMs. Nearby was a heavily militarized version of a Boeing 747, the E-4B Nightwatch, which houses the National Airborne Operations Center, which, according to its mission statement, “provides a highly survivable command, control and communications center…in case of national emergency or destruction of ground command and control centers.” Its nickname: the Doomsday Plane. STRATCOM—with its 150,000 service members and civilians—is led by an Air Force four-star, General Anthony Cotton, …