There were a number of rumors about David Harbour during the filming of Stranger Things 5.. Now the star is being interviewed and opening up in ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY about his personal mental health since 1999…
“I have been in therapy since I got sober in 1999,” Harbour shared in a Future of Personal Health article, per Entertainment Weekly. “When I quit drinking, it forced me to confront a lot of demons that rose to the surface,” Harbour added, emphasizing how important therapy has been for him in getting through.
The 50-year-old Netflix star noted he “has not had a manic flare-up since I started psychoanalysis with a good therapist.”
Describing those episodes, Harbour explained that his thoughts become “disordered and chaotic,” with meaningless details suddenly taking on significance.
He added that the flare-ups were accompanied by what he described as a “fundamental narcissism,” which made him feel like the center of everything.
According to Harbour, a recent change in his approach has made a significant difference. “Only recently have I started intense psychotherapy, and it has made a world of difference in my treatment,” he said.
In a new interview with The New York Times, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos said that, should the WBD acquisition go through, the streamer will commit to 45-day theatrical release windows for the legacy studio’s upcoming releases.
Sarandos insisted that Netflix has no intentions of disrupting “a theatrical distribution engine that is phenomenal and produces billions of dollars,” and that he believes there is value in the movie theater experience.
“I’m giving you a hard number,” Sarandos said. “If we’re going to be in the theatrical business, and we are, we’re competitive people — we want to win. I want to win opening weekend. I want to win box office.”
“I mean, like the town that Sinners is supposed to be set in does not have a movie theater there,” Sarandos reasoned. “For those folks, it’s certainly outmoded. You’re not going to get in the car and go to the next town to go see a movie.”
Matthew McConaughey may have figured out a potential way to fight AI using his image..
The Wall Street Journal reports that McConaughey has filed eight trademark applications to the US Patent and Trademark Office that featured videos and audio clips of him “staring, smiling and talking.”..
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All 8 have been approved..
“My team and I want to know that when my voice or likeness is ever used, it’s because I approved and signed off on it,” McConaughey told the newspaper in an email. “We want to create a clear perimeter around ownership with consent and attribution the norm in an AI world.”
The goal is to pave the way for litigation in case a company or individual were to attempt to profit from the actor’s likeness with the help of AI.
“In a world where we’re watching everybody scramble to figure out what to do about AI misuse, we have a tool now to stop someone in their tracks or take them to federal court,” one of McConaughey’s attorneys, Jonathan Pollack, told the newspaper.
No more frailty in Hollywood as this may lead the way for more such trademarks..
This news is coming from some LUCASFILM PR releases..
Lucasfilm announced that after 14 years of leading the studio, President Kathleen Kennedy is stepping down from her role. Kennedy will return to full-time producing, including the studio’s upcoming feature films The Mandalorian and Grogu and Star Wars: Starfighter.
So gone.. but not totally..
Dave Filoni, who worked closely with creator George Lucas to build the Lucasfilm animation department on Star Wars: The Clone Wars and helped launch Star Wars live-action series alongside Jon Favreau on The Mandalorian, will take on creative leadership of the company as President and Chief Creative Officer and Lynwen Brennan will serve as Co-President.
While she is not being trashed by Lucasfilm on the way out, fans are certainly pointing out her biggest flops..
This summation from detractors on social media:
– Over a dozen high profile canceled projects
A Star Wars Trilogy that damaged the brand
Indiana Jones 5 was seemingly meaningless
An inability to get anything made; even simple slam dunk projects like Rogue Squadron
The Willow Series was a complete disaster and there’s no way to legally watch it anymore Outside of Rogue One and Andor..
Another reaction: Finally, the long nightmare ends. Kathleen Kennedy is out as Lucasfilm president after 14 years of turning Star Wars into a lecture hall disguised as space opera.
New records from emergency responders obtained by The New York Times show that Good was not breathing but had an irregular pulse when local medics arrived at the scene, and had no pulse by the time they removed her from her car. This comes after an initial video captured by bystanders showed ICE agents screaming at a medic who offered help as Good lay dying in her car.
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“Can I go check a pulse?” a man said after Good was shot, his hands in the air.
“No! Back up!” an ICE agent told him.
“I’m a physician!”
“I don’t care!” the agent replied, before another came up and said they had their own EMS on the way. They arrived and performed CPR on Good—who had two gunshots in her chest and one on her arm—before taking her to the hospital, where she later died.
DEVELOPING
Meanwhile..
Federal officers in the Minneapolis area participating in its largest recent U.S. immigration enforcement operation can’t detain or tear gas peaceful protesters who aren’t obstructing authorities, including when these people are observing the agents, a judge in Minnesota ruled Friday.
U.S. District Judge Kate Menendez’s ruling addresses a case filed in December on behalf of six Minnesota activists. The six are among the thousands who have been observing the activities of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol officers enforcing the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area since last month.
We are at a pivotal moment in time on another level.. especially with this:
🚨#BREAKING: The Department of Homeland Security has announced and is advising its U.S. citizens to be prepared to present proof of citizenship.
So this might be our last Stranger Things post…at least the last one about the actual writing of the show.
Get this…we still haven’t watched the documentary on Netflix, and honestly we’re not even sure we will. Between clips circulating online and commentary from people who already watched it, we feel like we’ve seen enough to know that maybe we don’t want to sit through it. One of the most poignant parts of the documentary seems to be a discussion about the ending sequence…and that’s the part that bothers a lot of people, including us. There’s this notion being floated that fans would experience “demo fatigue”…that there are too many Demogorgons, that viewers would somehow be tired of them by the final episode. Matt Duffer and Ross Duffer apparently point out that there are six Demogorgons attacking the kids simultaneously and maybe that’s enough.
But someone else…an astute writer involved with the show…correctly points out that it would be crazy not to have Demobats or Demogorgons in the abyss, because that’s their native environment. The response? A simple “hmm.” And then it went away.
Somehow this idea of demo fatigue took hold, despite the fact that no one actually had it. By episode 8, a lot of us weren’t fatigued by Demogorgons at all. We were fatigued by what we were being put through in season 5. Listen…it’s easy to do 20/20 hindsight, Monday-morning quarterbacking, all of those familiar terms. But there’s real criticism worth sticking here.
One of the greatest cinematic finales ever is Return of the Jedi. That movie had multiple battles happening all at once across the galaxy…and guess what? Viewers weren’t fatigued. They were on the edge of their seats. You had Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker facing off, the Ewoks taking down stormtroopers with sticks and stones, massive space battles unfolding, and the Emperor overseeing it all. It worked.
Stranger Things season 5 episode 8 could have been that. There could have been military battles on Earth…simultaneous battles in the abyss…chaos in the Upside Down…all happening at once. And we would have eaten it up, because that’s what we were waiting for.
If the Duffers still wanted the graduation scene and the nostalgic ending with Dungeons & Dragons, nothing would have stopped that. Those moments could still exist. What’s troubling is the documentary’s implication that episode 8 was still being written while episode 8 was already being filmed.
That’s not a minor detail.
It feels like they didn’t fully watch their own show, or weren’t mindful of its most basic promises…like Hopper spending years promising Joyce Chianti at Enzo’s, not Chardonnay. Basic things, Duffer Brothers. Basic things.
At this point it’s done. We’ll probably debate season 5 for a long time, and some people will choose to treat season 4 as their personal finale. But if there’s one last thought worth leaving here, it’s this…hubris.
The idea that success, praise, and constant fanfare can make people feel invincible. And when you’re making a show for fans, even if you don’t want to admit it, maybe you talk to them. Maybe you listen. Yes, it’s your show…but it was also ours. Collectively, Stranger Things belonged to all of us.
And it feels like, in the end, the Duffers took that away.
Deadline is among those reporting that this weekend there’s expectations that 28 Years Later will unseat Avatar from the box office.
It’s a four-day weekend for Hollywood and there’s hopes that the newest zombie flick will make more than 20 million. And you know what, the movie Primates didn’t do half bad last week so maybe in these cold January weeks we still love and have that affinity for horror.
Bone Temple releases Wednesday in the UK, France, Belgium and Indonesia, then in Australia/New Zealand, Brazil, Germany, Mexico, Italy, Netherlands and Saudi Arabia on Thursday, followed by Japan, Poland and Spain on Friday. That’s a 98% offshore footprint, except Korea and Thailand…
Timothy Busfield, the actor and director, turned himself in to the authorities in New Mexico on Tuesday and was booked on charges of child sex abuse, the Albuquerque police said. The case involves two boys who were appearing on a television drama that he was producing in New Mexico.
This is developing,,
The actor also released a video tape today denying accusations and saying he will fight the charges.
Tmz Splash this on their website today with other news networks quickly picking up on it, and insult her around the world along with a presidential response that in past administrations would have been considered scandalous. Now it’s just a blip on the nightly news.
TRUMP toured the Ford F-150 plant at the Detroit Economic Club before giving a speech … while walking the factory floor on his tour, someone began shouting at Trump. It’s hard to make out the full sentence shouted at Trump, but it seems to have included the words “pedophile protector.”
At this point it was pretty clear what the president was mouthing back to the worker followed by the one finger salute. No more information has been gathered but of course the media will be chomping at the bit to talk to the worker and find out more, meanwhile we will all simultaneously move on to the next big issue an hour from now…
The Defense Department has spent more than a year testing a device purchased in an undercover operation that some investigators think could be the cause of a series of mysterious ailments impacting US spies, diplomats and troops that are colloquially known as Havana Syndrome, according to four sources briefed on the matter.
A division of the Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Investigations, purchased the device for millions of dollars in the waning days of the Biden administration, using funding provided by the Defense Department, according to two of the sources. Officials paid “eight figures” for the device, these people said, declining to offer a more specific number.
