As Quentin Tarantino gears up his eighth film, "The Hateful Eight," he's got a lot to think about. There's the sprawling cast, the plans to shoot and project the film in 70mm, and the fact that production is beginning next month. But he's also got his eye on a longer term goal — retirement — and he's got a plan. “I don’t believe you should stay on stage until people are begging you to get off,” he told distributors at AFM (via Deadline). “I like the idea of leaving them wanting a bit more. I do... Читать дальше...
NASH is a liver disease that may affect as much as 12 percent of the U.S. population, Genfit's Dean Hum said.
Arrowhead Research Chief Executive Chris Anzalone contends the company's hepatitis B drug has potential.
Merck hoped to trump Gilead's hepatitis C treatment with its own shorter therapy, but early results aren't promising.
Japan's current account balance remained in the black for a third straight month in September.
Cheaper energy prices more of a positive than a negative, analysts say. Major averages are climbing despite slumping oil and gas prices.
Ukraine's currency lost nearly 5 percent of its value on Monday after a weekend that saw the heaviest shelling in a month hit the east.
Seven of 21 new ministers face prosecution, taking the total to almost one third, a higher proportion than before the weekend expansion.
Now as the debt comes up for repayment, Gazprombank , is shut out of global capital markets by Western sanctions.
Net neutrality will protect consumers and benefit the entire Internet economy, Free Press CEO Craig Aaron told CNBC.
Is it time to start thinking about Bradley Cooper as an Oscar contender? To hear his "American Sniper" co-star Sienna Miller tell it, he's turning in something special in Clint Eastwood's upcoming film. “His performance is completely compelling. He’s just unrecognizable,” the actress told EW. “He was training four to six hours a day. He put on 40 pounds of muscle. He looked and sounded like a different person. I’m pretty sure he didn’t break character for the entire thing. He dived into this completely head-first. Читать дальше...
The SEC declined BATS Global Markets' proposal to list exchange-traded funds that don't disclose holdings everyday.
While weakness in South Korea's exports may get laid at the feet of the weak yen, the real cause may be further afield.
"Well, I fucking love the 'Foundation' novels by Isaac Asimov —they're certainly not unknown, but that's a set of books I think everyone would benefit from reading,” screenwriter Jonathan Nolan told us in our “Interstellar” interview last week. “That's a set of books where the influence they have is just fucking massive; they have many imitators and many have been inspired by them, but go back and read those, and there are some ideas in those that'll set your fucking hair on fire." Hint much? Читать дальше...
Craig Spencer, the New York City doctor who contracted Ebola, is being released from Bellevue, the NYT reports.
He tackled the weather in 2009 ("Owning the Weather"), pro-wrestling in 2012 ("Fake It So Real"), and this year documentarian Robert Greene has taken on another tempestuous, albeit much more intimate, subject with "Actress." It's the portrait of Brandy Burre, playing herself, as an actress who voluntarily placed her career on the back burner in favor of playing some of life's hardest parts: a mother raising children and a partner trying her best to maintain a happy home life. She's a familiar face to the perceptive viewer with a great memory... Читать дальше...
Natural gas futures swung wildly before closing lower for the first time in 10 sessions.
Okay, here's a question for the most diehard fans of "Evil Dead": Why? 30 plus years after Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell brought their cabin-in-the-woods tale to cinemas and made their mark on the horror genre, why do we need more? Certainly, the "Evil Dead" remake (which they are still trying to fashion into a trilogy) didn't bring anything new to the equation, but since the fans have been clamoring for more Campbell-as-Ash action, they're gonna get it. On TV... Starz has ordered up "Ash vs. Evil... Читать дальше...
The Veterans Affairs Department will implement a major overhaul to improve customer service.