Two years after overcoming a serious drug addiction, Mighty Ducks actor Shaun Weiss has opened up about his struggle in a rare TV interview. The former child star who rose to fame as Greg Goldberg in 1992’s The Mighty Ducks and as Josh Birnbaum in the 1995 film Heavyweightswas a methamphetamine and heroin addict for […]
Day: January 12, 2023
“Life”: Read the script for the Bill Nighy drama adaptation of a Kurosawa classic
Editor’s note: Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the screenplays of films that will appear in this year’s film awards races. For his acclaimed Sony Pictures Classics drama life With Golden Globe winner Bill Nighy, adapted director Oliver Hermanus ekiruAkira Kurosawa’s classic 1952 film. During several stops at Deadline’s festival studios, Hermanus explained […]
“Armageddon Time”: James Gray and Anthony Katagas on the importance of film and the re-creation of 1980s queens – Crew Call Podcast
How do you convince a studio that your own personal story is worthy of the big screen? When James Gray hosted Focus Features Armageddon time Of his Reagan-era childhood, the filmmaker tells us that “on the microphone it was the details of my own little story; I hoped it would say something about where we […]
DirecTV notes the layoffs of hundreds of employees, citing the “secular decline” of pay TV
DirecTV is laying off hundreds of employees, most of them executives, in a downsizing spurred by cable cutting. Most of the layoffs will affect company executives, who make up just under half of the company’s workforce, according to a person familiar with the move. About 10% of all drivers in a total workforce of about […]
Prostate cancer ‘postcode lottery’: map reveals how a THIRD of men in parts of the UK will go undiagnosed until the disease has spread
Thousands of men in the UK are being diagnosed with prostate cancer late because of a ‘postcode lottery’ of treatment, a charity has warned. Prostate Cancer UK said the percentage of patients diagnosed with the disease when it is too advanced to receive treatment varies significantly depending on where they live. In Scotland, more than […]
"Love when it touches you…" : Anne-Laure Sibon (Star Academy) talks about her love life at TPMP People
Anne-Laure Sibon is back in her love life at TPMP People. Anne-Laure used the Sibon account instagram on December 23 to announce the bad news to his followers. “It’s been almost a year that I’ve had common sense and didn’t say much. I don’t like to share when things are not going well, I prefer […]