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☆ US-Russia collaboration has long endured in space. The Ukraine war could ruin it.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-16 | by ( Tom Porter | Mikhaila Friel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

The International Space Station has long been a symbol of international cooperation. AdvertisementSince the end of the Cold War, the International Space Station (ISS) has been a symbol of international cooperation. By 1988, 15 nations had agreed to participate in the project, then known as Space Station Freedom. Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty ImagesThe Soviets had long-standing expertise in aerospace technology, having launched the world's first space station, "Salyut," in 1971. China has completed several unmanned Moon landings, has its own space station, and has developed a sophisticated commercial and military satellite program.

Persons: —, Peggy Whitson, Vladimir Putin, Jill Stuart, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, Terry Virts, Anton Shkaplerov, Marco Tacca, Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev, Sergey Korsakov, Virts, Michael Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Alexander Grebenkin, Jeanette Epps, Stuart, Verts, Musk Organizations: Astronauts, Service, Space, Veteran, ISS, Imperial College London, Politics, NASA, European Space Agency, ESA, Inter, Soyuz, Keystone, Hulton, Roscosmos, Reuters, Anadolu, Getty, Imperial College, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Elon Musk's SpaceX, The Independent, CNBC Locations: Russia, Ukraine, Europe, China, Japan, loggerheads, Hollywood, Canada, Soviet Union, Milan, Italy, Luhansk, Luhansk People's Republic, Russian, Baikonur, Kazakhstan, The, Soviet Russia

Hedge fund managers gathered Wednesday at the 2024 Sohn Investment Conference in New York to share their best investment ideas. It kicked off with "Next Wave Sohn," a session that features ideas from rising stars within the hedge fund industry. Endocrinology is an $8 billion market, but the cumulative market size, including the company's future therapy targets, is upward of $200 billion, which includes estimates for future obesity drugs, the investor said. It has CA$75 billion market cap with an "unbelievable record of success," according to the investor. The short seller noted that the company has a $5 billion market cap with about $4.8 billion of debt.

Persons: Sohn, Eric Wolff, Wolff, Michelle Ross, Cushing, Ross, Eli Lilly, Crinetics, XBI, Nikhil Daftary, Alimentation, Daftary, Chris Drose, Nate Koppikar, Fahmi Quadir Organizations: Investment, Gumshoe Capital Management Investment, Pason Systems Energy, Pason Systems, Gumshoe Capital Management, StemPoint, Pharmaceuticals, Crinetics Pharmaceuticals, StemPoint Capital, Endocrinology, Novo Nordisk, P Biotech, NK Capital Investment, NK Capital, Starbucks, McDonalds, Bleecker Street Capital, Orso Partners, Justice Department, Federal Trade Commission, Safkhet, Global Education Locations: New York, Canada, U.S

☆ Squeezed by Soaring Rent, Small Shops Get Creative
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-01 | by ( Nina Roberts | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Last March, Emily Schildt opened Pop Up Grocer on a Bleecker Street corner in the West Village, selling artfully packaged condiments, beverages and other products made by small, emerging brands in a pay-to-play business model. Customers can buy artisanal hot sauces or zucchini chips from brands like Peepal People and Van Van that pay a fee to be on the shelves. Typically 150 to 200 brands are on display at a time, and some are replaced on a quarterly basis. One 27-square-foot space in the West Village, an affluent neighborhood in Manhattan, was recently listed for $5,000 a month. But some ambitious entrepreneurs are experimenting with business models, like charging shelf fees or selling wholesale to make ends meet.

Persons: Emily Schildt, Van Van, Ms, Schildt, “ That’s Organizations: Peepal Locations: Bleecker, West, New York, Manhattan

With a dearth of new releases in cinemas, Paramount Pictures' Tina Fey-scripted musical “Mean Girls” pushed its two-week total past $50 million, along with $16.2 million internationally. The top 10 films collectively accounted for just $51.3 million in box office, according to Comscore. The Jason Statham thriller “The Beekeeper,” from Amazon MGM Studios, remained in second place, grossing $8.5 million in its second weekend to bring its total to $31.1 million. Warner Bros. “Wonka,” six weeks into its smash run in theaters, was third, with $6.4 million in ticket sales. In its fourth week of release, the Blitz Bazawule-directed film starring Fantasia Barrino, Taraji P. Henson and Danielle Brooks, grossed just $720,000.

Persons: Oscar, Tina Fey, it's, Ariana DeBose, Jason Statham, “ Wonka, It's, Sydney Sweeney, Glen Powell, Bridget Jones's Baby, Ava DuVernay's “, Aunjanue Ellis, Taylor, Isabel Wilkerson, Yorgos, Emma Stone, Cord Jefferson's, ”, Jeffrey Wright, Jonathan Glazer’s, Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, Fantasia Barrino, Taraji P, Henson, Danielle Brooks, Comscore, “ I.S.S Organizations: Paramount Pictures, U.S, Bleecker, Audiences, Hollywood, Amazon MGM Studios, Warner Bros, Sony Pictures, Searchlight, Globe Locations: Russia

☆ ‘I.S.S.’ review: Ariana DeBose stars in an outer-space thriller that can’t maintain the gravity of its premise
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-19 | by ( Brian Lowry | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —If “Alien” broke ground as a haunted house movie in outer space, “I.S.S.” moves the suspense thriller into a similar confined and tense setting. Set in the near future, the film hinges on a mixed Russian-American crew aboard the International Space Station. Bringing that modern wrinkle to Cold War-era paranoia is ripe with possibilities, especially given the frostier interactions between the US and Russia in recent years. Ariana DeBose in the outer-space thriller "I.S.S." “I.S.S.” premieres January 19 in US theaters.

Persons: Ariana DeBose, John Gallagher Jr, Gordon, “, ” Chris Messina, Costa, Pilou Asbæk, Masha Mashkova, Gabriela Cowperthwaite, CNN Films ’, Nick Shafir, burnishing, ” Organizations: CNN, Space, CNN Films, “ Locations: Russian, American, Russia, I.S.S

☆ ‘What Happens Later’ Review: Meg Ryan’s Rom-Com Return
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Kyle Smith | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

David Duchovny and Meg Ryan Photo: Bleecker StreetMeg Ryan and David Duchovny haven’t had a lot of hit movies or TV shows lately—Ms. Ryan hasn’t been seen at all since she appeared in her directorial debut, the indie film “Ithaca,” back in 2016—but it only takes a few minutes of their movie “What Happens Later” to make us remember how much we loved these two ’90s icons in their prime. Trying to build a serviceable romcom around actors in their early 60s presents a challenge, but the key is understanding that nobody makes it to that age without handling as much baggage as an airport. That’s what makes Ms. Ryan’s second directorial effort a surprising treat, and for good measure, the entire movie is set at an airport, that liminal space between two destinations that stands for both possibility and frustration.

Persons: David Duchovny, Meg Ryan Photo, Meg Ryan, David Duchovny haven’t, Ryan hasn’t, ”, Ryan’s

☆ ‘Golda’ Review: Helen Mirren as a Woman at War
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-25 | by ( Kyle Smith | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Helen Mirren Photo: Bleecker Street/ShivHans PicturesThe 1973 Yom Kippur War exists in memory as a relatively straightforward victory for Israel 19 days after a simultaneous attack by Syria and Egypt on either side of it. But the war’s conclusion was anything but foregone, and the sobering biopic “Golda” revisits those tense days with a visceral and admirable sense for how overwhelming it is to lead a nation through war.

Persons: Helen Mirren, “ Golda ” Organizations: Israel Locations: Syria, Egypt

☆ Helen Mirren and Bradley Cooper raise casting questions with 'Golda' and 'Maestro'
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-25 | by ( Brian Lowry | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —Bradley Cooper and Helen Mirren have very different resumes, but they have landed in similar controversies with their latest movies, illustrating shifting standards and sensitivities about actors donning prosthetics to play Jewish characters. The first wave of that discussion came in response to images of Cooper’s makeup to resemble Leonard Bernstein for the upcoming biography “Maestro.” Mirren has drawn more attention in the UK for playing Golda Meir in the historical drama “Golda,” which opens this week. More recently, the debate has often shifted beyond racial and ethnic distinctions to other sources of sensitivity, such as Brendan Fraser wearing a fat suit to star in “The Whale.”Helen Mirren as Israeli prime minister Golda Meir in the movie "Golda." Carey Mulligan as Felicia Montealegre and Bradley Cooper as Leonard Bernstein in "Maestro." “Maestro” is scheduled for limited theatrical release in November and Netflix in December after premiering at the Venice International Film Festival.

Persons: CNN — Bradley Cooper, Helen Mirren, Leonard Bernstein, “ Maestro, ” Mirren, Golda Meir, Golda, Cooper, Mirren, “ Golda, Abraham Lincoln’s, Al Capone’s, what’s, Hollywood’s, Brendan Fraser, ” Helen Mirren, John Hurt’s, ”, Robert De Niro, Jake LaMotta’s, Bernstein, Meir, David Baddiel, Golda ”, Guy Nattiv, David M, Perry, Carey Mulligan, Felicia Montealegre, Bradley Cooper, Jason McDonald, Mark Harris, ” “ Golda ”, Henry Kissinger, Liev Schreiber, wryly, “ We’ve, Mirren isn’t, Ingrid Bergman, Maestro ”, “ Maestro ” Organizations: CNN, Blacks, Daily Mail, Netflix, Venice Locations: “, ”, The, Bleecker, Raging

☆ Meet Peter Tuchman, the most photographed stock trader on Wall Street
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-25 | by ( Morgan Chittum | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Peter Tuchman, one of the most recognizable stock brokers on Wall Street, has been at the NYSE for over 37 years. Tuchman, who has been at the New York Stock Exchange for nearly 38 years, is the most-photographed broker on the trading floor. Tuchman describes the New York Stock Exchange as "the delta of all information" and the "last standing human entity market in the world." He landed a summer job as a teletypist at the New York Stock Exchange days after getting back. In the midst of the craziness, the wildness, and the chaos of the stock market.

☆ Luxury homebuyers want plunge pools, infrared saunas, and 'spiritual concierges,' according to two star brokers who've sold $4 billion of real estate so far this year
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-19 | by ( Zoe Rosenberg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Real-estate agents Fredrik Eklund and John Gomes said luxury homebuyers want wellness perks at home. More than gyms and swimming pools, they're seeking out extras like infrared saunas and plunge pools. On-demand perks like "spiritual concierges" and IV treatments are becoming more popular. Speaking about the year ahead alongside Eklund Gomes Team CEO Julia Spillman, they said wellness perks remain at the top of the list of must-haves for luxury homebuyers of both condos and single-family residences. The Eklund Gomes Team has big plans for the year aheadThe Eklund Gomes Team plans to grow, even as the real-estate market at large is slowing down.

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