The recently-launched Strong Studios has acquired rights to Alec Sokolow’s script The Tank Job, setting the Oscar nominee as the film’s director.
The Ballantyne Strong, Inc. subsidiary’s first original feature film adapts Norman Miller’s book, The Great Salad Oil Swindle. It’s a true-life crime drama that watches as ex-butcher turned salad oil exporter Anthony “Tino” DeAngelis and his Bayonne, New Jersey blue collar crew nearly destroy American Express and eventually crash Wall Street in their bid to corner the market on salad oil futures in the early 1960s.
Award-winning business journalist, CNBC contributor, author and former hedge fund manager Ron Insana, who heads up Insana Entertainment Group as CEO, brought the idea for The Tank Job to Ballantyne Chairman Kyle Cerminara in January of last year, and they have been collaborating on it ever since. Cerminara and Insana are former colleagues, having worked together in...
The Ballantyne Strong, Inc. subsidiary’s first original feature film adapts Norman Miller’s book, The Great Salad Oil Swindle. It’s a true-life crime drama that watches as ex-butcher turned salad oil exporter Anthony “Tino” DeAngelis and his Bayonne, New Jersey blue collar crew nearly destroy American Express and eventually crash Wall Street in their bid to corner the market on salad oil futures in the early 1960s.
Award-winning business journalist, CNBC contributor, author and former hedge fund manager Ron Insana, who heads up Insana Entertainment Group as CEO, brought the idea for The Tank Job to Ballantyne Chairman Kyle Cerminara in January of last year, and they have been collaborating on it ever since. Cerminara and Insana are former colleagues, having worked together in...
- 4/12/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Rick Santelli, the veteran CNBC correspondent, recently got into an on-air spat with one of his longtime colleagues. Whether he will be given leeway to spar in similar fashion with new co-workers elsewhere in the company is something executives at NBCUniversal ought to work quickly to decide.
During an early-December panel on the business-news network’s “Squawk Box,” Santelli began to yell at Andrew Ross Sorkin, who pressed him on comments he had made about coronavirus restrictions at restaurants. Sorkin pushed his colleague to exercise greater caution about suggesting viewers should be able to crowd into restaurants the way they do into retail outlets.
“Who is this? Who is this?” asked Santelli, even though Sorkin has been a co-host of the program for almost a decade. As Sorkin prodded Santelli to reconsider what he said, the correspondent went into an on-air huff. “I disagree. I disagree! I disagree!” said Santelli,...
During an early-December panel on the business-news network’s “Squawk Box,” Santelli began to yell at Andrew Ross Sorkin, who pressed him on comments he had made about coronavirus restrictions at restaurants. Sorkin pushed his colleague to exercise greater caution about suggesting viewers should be able to crowd into restaurants the way they do into retail outlets.
“Who is this? Who is this?” asked Santelli, even though Sorkin has been a co-host of the program for almost a decade. As Sorkin prodded Santelli to reconsider what he said, the correspondent went into an on-air huff. “I disagree. I disagree! I disagree!” said Santelli,...
- 12/14/2020
- by Brian Steinberg
- Variety Film + TV
In an appearance on “MSNBC Live with Stephanie Ruhle,” CNBC contributor Ron Insana slammed President Trump’s immigration policies, comparing them to “ethnic cleansing.” “I hesitate to use this expression, but it almost feels like a little ethnic cleansing is going on in the United States right now,” said Insana. “People of color are in danger here and this is something that disturbs me greatly.” Insana’s genocide reference went unchallenged by Ruhle. Also Read: Fox News Goes to War With Joy Reid After MSNBC Host Downplays Ms-13 Gang Threat (Video) “Doesn’t that blow your mind, that we’re even saying that?” she said. MSNBC contributor and The Root...
- 2/2/2018
- by Jon Levine
- The Wrap
SAN FRANCISCO -- Executives from several top cable operators called for partnerships with other industries on the first day of the National Cable & Telecommunications Assn.'s annual convention Sunday. Hailing the relative completion of the cable business' $95 billion bandwidth upgrade, Comcast Corp. chief operating officer Steve Burke spoke of deepening "dialogues with industries whose future is intertwined with ours" in his opening remarks at San Francisco's Moscone Center. Burke was joined by his counterparts at Cablevision Systems Corp. and Charter Communications in welcoming new alliances with everyone from wireless phone carriers to Internet content providers in hopes of maximizing the industry's robust pipeline. In a session moderated by CNBC anchor Ron Insana, Cablevision chief operating officer Tom Rutledge dismissed the notion that the industry would have to upgrade infrastructure again to accommodate future content.
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