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02-06-2025
- Business
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Everything we know about Happy Gilmore 2 as first trailer drops
Adam Sandler is returning to one of the most beloved comedies of his early career, with Happy Gilmore 2 tap, tap tappy-ing its way to Netflix - and now, you can see a trailer of what's to come. Released in 1996, the original Happy Gilmore served as one of Sandler's breakout movies. It arrived hot on the heels of his back-to-school comedy Billy Madison and shortly before megahits The Wedding Singer, The Waterboy, Big Daddy and Little Nicky cemented his status as Hollywood's most bankable leading man. A sequel has long been talked about but never materialised. However, Sandler's recent partnership with streaming giant Netflix not only made him the highest paid actor in show business, but also paved the way for him to return to one of his most enduring and quotable characters. Good news for fans of the Sandman — but what will Happy Gilmore 2 be about? Keep scrolling for all the information you need. Get excited, Happy Gilmore fans - Netflix has unveiled the first trailer for the comedy's sequel, showing Sandler easing right back into playing his beloved character. It offers a hint at the film's storyline as yet again, the unlikely golfer looks to his talents on the green to fund another unexpected bill in life. This time, he needs to win enough competitions to pay for his daughter's pricey ballet school aspirations. As well as a cast of favourite returning characters and some new faces, viewers will also be treated to some cameos from the world of golf as John Daly, Paige Spiranac, Rory McIlroy, Scottie Scheffler, Bryson DeChambeau, Brooks Koepka, Justin Thomas, and Will Zalatoris all put in an appearance. As well as the trailer dropping, Netflix has also confirmed a release date for the much-anticipated sequel. Happy Gilmore is due to land on the streaming service on Friday, 25 July. Production on the sequel officially started in September 2024 with Netflix and Sandler sharing a picture of a familiar hockey jersey. 'It ain't over. The way I see it… we've only just begun,' said the caption accompanying the image. The streamer has been the home of Sandler-related-content since the star signed a high-value deal to deliver eight movies. Previous releases have included stand-up specials, Western comedy The Ridiculous Six, dramedy Sandy Wexler and spooky comedy Hubie Halloween among others. Happy Gilmore 2 will be the latest in this string of Netflix-produced features. Happy Gilmore has a familiar reason for heading back out on the fairway 30 years on as he has yet more bills to pay to keep his family happy. The first Happy Gilmore saw Sandler play a failed hockey player who finds that his skills could be put to better use on the golfing green. When his grandmother's house is put at risk, he enters a professional golfing championship with plans to use the prize money to secure her future but in doing so he must beat smug pro-golfer McGavin. Throughout the movie, he receives training from his one-handed coach Chubbs and gets into a fight with former The Price is Right host Bob Barker. Now, an older Happy is feeling the pressure of helping his teenage daughter realise her own sporting dreams. She's set on attending ballet school, but with the bill coming in at an eye-watering $300,000, Happy needs to dig out his clubs and win some contests. He'll run into friends and foes old and new as he does his best to support those he loves. Of course, there's also time for a few scenes with the likes of Rory McIlroy, too. Sandler will reprise his role in Happy Gilmore 2 as Happy, while Christopher McDonald will return as Happy's pro-golfer enemy Shooter McGavin. Modern Family star Julie Bowen, who played Happy's love interest Virginia Venit, will also be back. Ben Stiller will return as nursing home orderly Hal. Newcomers to the Happy Gilmore 2 cast will include American football star Travis Kelce, musician Bad Bunny, The Substance star Margaret Qualley, comedian Nick Swardson and Uncut Gems co-director Benny Sadie. Sandler told The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon: 'We have a nice something for Travis. He's gonna come by. He's a very nice guy. You guys would love him in real life. What a big, handsome guy. Funny and cool as hell. He's a stud and he's so funny.' In a separate chat with IndieWire, he said: 'And by the way, Benny [Safdie] is in Happy Gilmore 2 and he's going to have a juicy part in that. So it's fun to be [back] with these guys.' Alongside the pro golfer cast, viewers should also look out for star turns from Eminem and Post Malone. Sadly, one person who won't be back is Carl Weathers as Happy's trainer Chubbs after the actor sadly passed away in early 2024. Happy Gilmore 2 is coming soon to Netflix.
The Print
02-05-2025
- Business
- The Print
Repairability index on anvil to help consumers take informed decision on buying smartphones, tablets
The panel, constituted by the consumer affairs ministry and chaired by Additional Secretary Bharat Khera, finalised the framework after reaching consensus among industry and consumer organisations. 'The Framework on Repairability Index for Mobile and Electronic Sector' aims to help consumers make informed decisions while purchasing devices, on the lines of energy efficiency ratings applicable for electrical appliances. New Delhi, May 2 (PTI) Smartphone and tablet manufacturers will soon have to rate their products on a repairability index to help consumers take informed decision as a government panel on Friday submitted a report recommending a framework for that. 'Companies are not manufacturing devices for life. They are actually forcing consumers to buy another product because they have planned for their obsolescence. Technology has favoured making sure products fail and have short lifespans,' Consumer Affairs Secretary Nidhi Khare told PTI. The whole purpose of the repairability index is to sensitise manufacturers about their responsibility for providing a repair ecosystem and to also rate their products on the index so that consumers can take informed decisions, she said. The panel has submitted the report to the ministry, Khare said and added, 'The ministry will examine the recommendations and accordingly will issue some guidelines.' In its first phase, the framework will cover smartphones and tablets, after analyzing nearly 20,000 consumer complaints received on the National Consumer Helpline regarding effectiveness of repair ecosystems. '… the next stage could be laptops, desktops and other products,' the committee chairman Khera said. The panel has recommended a five-point rating scale that should be prominently displayed at points of sale, on packaging, and websites. Original Equipment Manufacturers will be responsible for declaring the rating upfront. The rating will be based on several parameters including repairability of key components like display screens, batteries, camera assemblies, charging ports, and speakers; ease of disassembly; types of fasteners and tools used; availability of spare parts; and software update policies. 'If a particular service is satisfactory, it will get a score of five. If it is intermediary, it will get a score of three,' Khera explained. Similar standards exist in the EU, the US, and France, while other countries are working towards implementing such measures. 'India being an important economy could not have been left behind,' the panel chief added. India is the world's second largest market for smartphones after China. While feature phones are not currently covered under the index, Khera indicated that the scope could gradually expand. 'Once this is implemented, there will be learning throughout and then we can increase the scope,' he noted. The consumer affairs ministry will examine the recommendations before issuing guidelines. PTI LUX ANU ANU This report is auto-generated from PTI news service. ThePrint holds no responsibility for its content.
Yahoo
23-03-2025
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Did a topless photo lead a California IVF doctor to kill his wife?
Susann Sills was no shrinking violet, says her friend Chris Solimine. They had met while both earned an MBA at the University of Miami. "Susann was ... smart, witty, sarcastic, but not in a mean way... just enough to dig at you," he said. "Incredibly driven, a loyal friend." And she was an accomplished businesswoman. Together with her husband, Dr. Eric "Scott" Sills, a renowned fertility specialist, they had started their own IVF practice in April 2015. "She started the business ... she built it," Solimine said, adding, "Susann pretty much ran everything with the exception of actually doing the procedures." So, it came as a shock when he read the news that Susann Sills had suddenly died on Nov. 13, 2016, from an apparent accidental fall. "It didn't seem plausible to me that she just fell down the stairs with a migraine headache," Solimine said. But that was the story Dr. Sills had told the 911 operator that morning when he called and reported finding his wife face down on the staircase. Solimine says he wondered if there was more to the story. Rick Leeds, another friend of Susann Sills, said she had left him a troubling message about a month before her death. "She sounded like she was whispering," Leeds said. "It was so different from the happy, jovial, excited voicemails I got before. This one was definitely ... things weren't good." When they spoke, Leeds said it sounded like there was tension over a photo. "She said it was a topless photo of her that had appeared on a ... blog." As it turned out, the topless photo was one that Susann Sills had posted of herself on a political chatroom called "Susann apparently was one of the few women who was involved in this forum," according to former Orange County Sheriff's Homicide Detective Dave Holloway, who was the lead case agent. "She ... kind of threw out on this forum that ... if Donald Trump won the presidential nomination, that she would post a picture of her bare breasts," Holloway said. Leeds says that when he and Susann Sills spoke, it was clear that, "She and Scott were in a really rocky place, and that she was thinking about leaving him." He adds, "Whatever was going on between her and Scott ... and this picture ... was just ... a pivotal point for her." But Holloway and his team had no idea about the photo or what, if any, significance it had on Susann Sills' death when they arrived at the Sills' San Clemente home. "Susann had injuries to pretty much her whole body," said Holloway. "Her face was all bruised up. Her back was bruised up ... both arms and legs ... had bruising and abrasions." "48 Hours" correspondent Tracy Smith asked, "At that point in time that morning November 13th, was Scott Sills a victim or a suspect?" "To us ... he was a victim," Holloway said. "We were going to a house where two kids and a husband just lost their wife and mother." But as they continued their investigation, the questions would mount. Smith goes inside the investigation in an encore of "The Puzzling Death of Susann Sills," airing Saturday at 10/9c* on CBS and streaming on Paramount+. (*basketball delay in the east and central time zones/) Detectives interviewed the couple's 12-year-old twins, Mary-Katherine and Eric Sills. Everyone described the marriage as "loving." The children said their parents rarely fought and were never violent. And they all confirmed that Susann Sills had been suffering from a migraine all weekend. Mary-Katherine, whose room was the quietest, said she had cleaned and tidied it up to look like a hotel suite so that her mom could rest, while Mary-Katherine slept in her parents' bedroom. In his 911 call, Scott Sills said his wife's shoe had come off on the stairs, suggesting she had gotten up in the middle of the night, tripped and fell. A collection of items around Susann Sills' body seemed to support the story of an accidental fall. There was a large stainless-steel cooking pot, which seemed odd at first, but Susann Sills' family had explained she would sometimes carry a bowl when she felt nauseated. And there was an empty bottle of Tramadol, a pain medication, which Scott Sills said Susann Sills often took to treat her migraines. And off to the side was a red and white scarf. Mary-Katherine told investigators her mother had been wearing it around her neck when she was discovered in the morning. But she had taken it off so as not to impede her mother's breathing. During a preliminary examination of Susann Sills' injuries, the deputy coroner had noticed some other injuries to her neck that didn't appear to be consistent with a fall. "Her neck had a pretty pronounced ligature mark," Holloway said, Smith asked, "Is it possible that she could have fallen down the stairs and then somehow the scarf strangled her?" "Could have caught on a banister ... sure, I suppose so," Holloway said, "but we didn't have any evidence of that." Instead, investigators say, they found something suspicious. There was blood in Mary-Katherine's room where Susann Sills had been staying that night, on the curtains, the wall, and the nightstand. And they discovered that Scott Sills, who had been wearing a beanie on his head, had a cut on his head, and a bruise on his forearm. He said he had injured himself while working on his car with his son Eric. Meanwhile Eric told the detectives he'd heard his parents arguing in the early hours of the morning. Scott Sills admitted he had argued with Susann, but said it was because he was upset that she was working late on her laptop, which aggravated her migraines. Smith asked, "When you came to the house, it was a death the time you left, was it a murder investigation? "No," said Holloway, "It wasn't just as clear-cut as that." DNA tests on the blood in the bedroom eventually came back positive for Scott Sills, with a smudge on the wall that showed a mixture of both Scott and Susann's DNA. "They were both there," said Holloway, "There's a fight." And forensic analysis of Susann's phone suggested there was tension in the marriage. In texts sent in late August, less than three months before her death, Susann wrote, "I am trapped" ... "You are killing me" ... "I just want out" and "We just aren't right for each other." In November 2017, a year after her death, the coroner's office cited Susann Sills' cause of death as ligature strangulation, and the manner as homicide. Dr. Sills was now the prime suspect. When investigators interviewed Scott Sills again in August 2018, he denied killing Susann Sills, and for the first time he offered an explanation for the blood in Mary-Katherine's room. He said he'd cut himself while changing a window screen. But on the day of Susann Sills' death, detectives had found something else -- a possible motive. In Scott Sills' home office was a printout of an online exchange between Susann Sills and a male member of dated Aug. 30, 2016. They were discussing that topless photo Susann Sills had posted. The man, who went by "tenpoundbass" wrote: "All I've got to say is you must have a super cool Husband." Susann, aka "turtledove" replied, "He's exhausted, actually. It isn't easy being married to a woman who is partially naked and posing, alluringly, all the time ..." Scott Sills had denied printing the chat. But investigators had later found a copy of the same exchange on his phone. "Does this sound like this could lead to motive?" asked Smith. "Yes," said Holloway. "If it's ... something that's building up in him, some kind of anger ... or jealousy about ... what his wife's doing online without him." "Enough to kill her?" asked Smith. "Mm-hmm," Holloway replied. In April 2019, Dr. Scott Sills was arrested on his way to surgery and charged with the alleged murder of his wife. At his trial in late 2023, Sills' defense attorney Jack Earley argued there was no motive for murder. And that topless photo? He told Smith, "It wasn't a big deal." "It's not striking to you that he had this photo in two places on his phone and then on the printer?" she asked. "No," he said. "First of all, I don't know really who printed this stuff up." And Earley offered a unique theory to explain how the forensic pathologist could have found ligature strangulation. He said one or both of the family's dogs had tugged on the scarf that was wrapped around Susann's neck after she fell on the stairs. "Mary-Kate ... saw the dogs pulling on the scarf," Earley told Smith. "Do you honestly think that the dogs pulled hard enough to strangle her to death?" Smith asked. "No," he said. "That was not the main theory." Instead, Earley focused on another injury identified in Susann's autopsy: a fractured C3 vertebra near the base of the neck, which can be fatal, or at least have left Susann incapacitated. "Their breathing is compromised," Earley explained. "If they're then choked, it doesn't take much to kill 'em." Saturday Sessions: Tune-Yards perform "Heartbreak" Saturday Sessions: Tune-Yards perform "Limelight" How an iconic NYC restaurant is making a comeback
