LORRE A. MCIVER

Venice Film Festival 2022

Venice Film Festival review — Bones and All shows sympathy for the diabolical

...Their wrestling with their secret imperative and its terrible consequences recalls Peter Lorre’s heartbreaking child killer in Fritz Lang’s M (“Kann nicht, muss!”)....

September 2, 2022

ExplainerCharts that Matter

Timber prices fall as US consumers swap DIY for going out

...Lumber prices have plummeted 48 per cent to $875 per thousand board feet from a peak of $1,686 in early May, reflecting a sharper than expected pullback in renovation projects....

June 21, 2021

FT Live

Managing Operational Risk in M&A Transactions

Examining the value of business licensing and property tax in the deal cycle

ExplainerScottish National Party

Sturgeon vs Salmond: the big questions ahead of first minister’s inquiry appearance

...“We now have a fracturing in the SNP that was not there before,” said Mciver. How damaging are the allegations against Sturgeon?...

February 28, 2021

ExplainerCharts that Matter

Lumber prices soar to all-time high on renovation demand

...“Many people staying at home decided to do new renovations, whether it was to build decks or a new room,” said Chris McIver, vice-president of sales at West Fraser, North America’s largest lumber producer...

August 24, 2020

Film

BingeWatch — fatale attraction of classic film noir

...Fritz Lang’s M (1931), starring Peter Lorre, was pretty much the template....

August 27, 2020

ExplainerScottish independence

Can Sturgeon secure a new Scottish independence vote?

...Andy Mciver, a former Scottish Tory head of communications, said the Conservatives should accept a pro-independence victory in the elections as a mandate for another referendum....

December 17, 2019

FT Live

Investing in America

Foreign companies as drivers of US growth, resilience and competitiveness

ReviewTelevision

The Name of the Rose, BBC2 — a monk murder mystery starring Rupert Everett and John Turturro

...It’s barely possible to go over the top with this ripe material; Michael Emerson makes a brilliantly hysterical, Virgin-venerating Abbot, backed by Peter Lorre-lookalike Maurizio Lombardi as Berengario of...

October 4, 2019

Streaming services

Streaming wars heat up with Big Bang Theory and Seinfeld deals

...In comparison, Hulu had bought the rights to Seinfeld in 2015 for about $20m a year. The Big Bang Theory, a comedy produced by Chuck Lorre, ended its 12-year run on CBS in May....

September 17, 2019

ReviewMusic

Three world premieres show that opera still matters in Germany

...The children’s chorus and little supernumeraries are extraordinarily well drilled, Scott Hendricks makes the homicidal hero very much his own, more feverish everyman than Peter Lorre’s psychotic maniac in...

May 7, 2019

Chinese politics & policy

China orders retrial of Canada drug smuggler amid Huawei tension

...China released a third Canadian, teacher Sarah McIver, in recent days. Authorities in both countries said her case was different from the other two, which are widely seen as retaliation....

December 30, 2018

IPOs

Missing the jackpot: Jackpotjoy replaces boss 9 months after IPO

...Mr McIver will remain at the group until January 31 to help with the transition....

October 16, 2017

World

White House Countdown – Saving Melania

...At least there is an acknowledgement of a direct link between the two texts. Ms McIver said she tendered her resignation to Trump but he refused to accept it....

July 20, 2016

World

White House Countdown – Saving Melania

...At least there is an acknowledgement of a direct link between the two texts. Ms McIver said she tendered her resignation to Trump but he refused to accept it....

July 20, 2016

Small Talk - CompaniesKate Burgess

Intertain looks to pull in the punters with online bingo

...The technology is comparatively straightforward, says Andrew McIver, Intertain's chief executive. The art is in creating a buzz....

September 25, 2016

US & Canadian companies

Intertain considers London listing

...Mr McIver led Sportingbet for seven years, leaving following its joint takeover by William Hill and GVC holdings in 2013 in a deal worth £485m....

June 28, 2016

FT Live

Business of Entertainment Summit

Capitalizing on Disruption

US presidential election

Trump faces toughest test yet — to unite rather than divide

...In a statement, Ms McIver said she had offered her resignation from the Trump Organization following the incident but the Trump family had rejected it....

July 20, 2016

US presidential election

Immigration fears boost Trump far from Mexican border

...We need to know who’s coming and who’s going,” said Mr McIver, who owns a warehouse in nearby Salisbury. Worcester County is a Republican corner of a Democratic state....

July 4, 2016

Markets InsightDan McCrum

Investors must ask corporate tourists tricky questions

...New chief executive Andrew McIver, a Brit who joined in June, says the company’s auditors BDO have extensive experience in assessing these sorts of matters, and will scrutinise the final earn-out calculations...

September 23, 2016

World

White House Countdown – ‘Vote with your conscience’

...(FT) Who is Meredith McIver?...

July 21, 2016

Companies By Region

Daniel Stewart backers suspend judgment

...Earlier this year, Andrew McIver, Sportingbet’s chief executive until the gambling group’s takeover in 2013, was made a non-executive director in a move that is billed as a board “refreshment”....

October 8, 2015

Life & Arts

Peter Lorre’s gift for macabre ubiquity

...“Yes,” hisses Lorre with a dulcet, deranged passion, “for the love of God!” He caught a final Hollywood role, as befitted an immigrant actor, in a film by a darling of the European continent....

August 29, 2014

ReviewLife & Arts

M – film review

...The great Peter Lorre whistles a tune and our skins prickle in horror. So begins M, Fritz Lang’s 1931 Meisterwerk, now gleamingly restored and reissued....

September 4, 2014

Retail & Consumer industry

Sportingbet takes 35% hit to profits

...Mr McIver said the board remained confident of meeting expectations for the full year....

November 30, 2012

Retail & Consumer industry

Takeover target Sportingbet reports loss

...Revenues fell 5 per cent to £195.9m, despite a 14 per cent rise in the total amount wagered to £2.3bn. “I would be surprised if we’ve hit the bottom in Europe,” said Mr McIver....

October 3, 2012

Letter

Belgium must obey EU law on online gambling

...A direct complaint against Belgium was lodged in 2010....

November 18, 2012

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