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This fun hack lets you control Netflix with your mind (NFLX)

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If you are too lazy to use a remote to navigate Netflix, the company has a cheeky solution: mind control.

Netflix periodically holds "hack days," in which employees have 24 hours to come up with wacky Netflix-centric projects to show off.

The best project to come out of Netflix's most recent "hack day" was MindFlix, a special headband to help you surf Netflix using nothing more than your mind. With MindFlix, you can move you head to the side to scroll, and then think "play" on a particular Netflix title and, the video will begin playing.

Netflix's hackers achieved this magic trick by customizing a brain-reading headband made by Muse, which is usually used for guiding meditation.  To be clear, the headband is not actually reading your thoughts, it's simply sensing brain activity and using the feedback to control certain pre-established actions.

Here's the video put together by the Netflix engineers:

And here are the rest of the hack day projects.

If you liked the idea of MindFlix, you might also like a previous Netflix project: socks that automatically turn your Netflix off when you fall asleep.

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Director James Cameron says 'Mythbusters' was wrong about the ending of 'Titanic'

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James Cameron has been mulling the "Mythbusters" experiment that proved a popular theory held by many fans of his blockbuster movie, "Titanic": that, yes, there was room for two on that piece of wood.

In the 1997 movie, Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) sacrifices his position on a floating piece of debris so that Rose (Kate Winslet) could survive the historic ship's sinking. But many viewers have suggested that both could've stayed on the makeshift raft and survived.

That was the question "Mythbusters" set out to answer in a 2013 episode. At first, it seemed as if the movie's deaths made sense when a comparable piece of wood debris seemed too wobbly to hold hosts Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage in open water for any length of time. They then had the idea of using a life vest, which Rose was wearing, wedged under the piece of wood, and that made all the difference. They determined that "Jack's death was needless."

Cameron even made an appearance on the episode and accepted that he "screwed up," but he had a movie script to follow and Jack's death had to happen. But after nearly four years, Cameron has decided that the "Mythbusters" duo got one thing wrong.

In an interview with The Daily Beast, Cameron argued that Jack would've died of hypothermia in the freezing 28-degree water before he had time to repurpose Rose's life vest and secure it to the wooden board.

"[Jack's] best choice was to keep his upper body out of the water and hope to get pulled out by a boat or something before he died," Cameron said. "They’re fun guys and I loved doing that show with them, but they’re full of s---."

Watch the "Titanic" experiment from "Mythbusters" below to see if you agree with Cameron's new assessment:

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Spotify's new refugee-themed playlist is being criticized by some people for being in bad taste

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regina spektorSpotify released a 20-song homage to global artists, called "The Refugee Playlist," in a move on Monday that quickly drew charges of poor-taste from some observers.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on January 27 that restricted people from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the US, in an effort to keep out "radical Islamic terrorists." The ban sparked protests around the world over the weekend.

Tech executives from Google cofounder Sergey Brin to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckberg also chimed in, expressing a range of emotions over how restrictions on immigration might affect the global tech industry.

Not to be outdone, Spotify released a refugee-themed playlist on Monday. It includes such classics as "We Are The Champions," from British rock band Queen, and new hits including "Wavin' Flag" by Somali Canadian artist K'Naan and "Better" from Soviet-born Regina Spektor.

The tracks are all from artists who originated from outside the US, even though most were not actually refugees.

"In a world that welcomes refugees, we get world-changing music from artists like these," the playlist description read.

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The playlist received mixed reactions on social media. Some find the playlist to be in poor taste.

While others found the playlist to be uplifting.

Spotify did not immediately return a request for comment.

You can listen to the playlist and decide for yourself here.

SEE ALSO: 'WE ARE ALL IMMIGRANTS': Execs speak out against Trump's immigration ban

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Ben Affleck will not direct the next 'Batman' movie: 'I cannot do both jobs'

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Ben Affleck has announced that he will not be directing the upcoming standalone Batman movie, "The Batman," according to Variety.

This ends months of speculation that the current Dark Knight would not just be writing the script but helming the next major Warner Bros. release centered on the beloved DC Comics character.

“There are certain characters who hold a special place in the hearts of millions,” Affleck said in a statement to Variety. “Performing this role demands focus, passion, and the very best performance I can give. It has become clear that I cannot do both jobs to the level they require. Together with the studio, I have decided to find a partner in a director who will collaborate with me on this massive film. I am still in this, and we are making it, but we are currently looking for a director. I remain extremely committed to this project, and look forward to bringing this to life for fans around the world.” 

According to sources in the Variety story, Warner Bros. is in full support of Affleck's decision and it was not based on the recent box-office failure of his latest directing/starring effort, "Live by Night" (also released by Warner Bros.).

The search is now on for a new director, with reports having "War of the Planet of the Apes" director Matt Reeves at the top of the list.

The Hollywood Reporter story on the Affleck news states that Affleck and Warner Bros. executives have been unhappy with the script for weeks. There is currently no release date yet for "The Batman."

Affleck played Batman in last year's "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" and "Suicide Squad."

He will next put on the cape and mask for "Justice League," which opens in November.

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Lady Gaga is the star of Tiffany's debut Super Bowl ad

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Luxury jewelry retailer Tiffany & Co announced Tuesday that Lady Gaga will be starring in its Super Bowl ad.

It will mark the first TV spot from the jewelry company in 20 years and the first time it has ever broadcast a Super Bowl ad.

Tiffany has designed and produced the Super Bowl winners' trophy since 1967.

The spot will air just before the Lady Gaga goes on stage for the half-time show, which once again this year is being sponsored by Pepsi.

The ad launches a new campaign for Tiffany called "Legendary Style" and will launch the HardWear collection. American actress and singer Elle Fanning and Kenyan-Mexican actress Lupita Nyong'o have starred in previous iterations of the campaign.

Tiffany's released a teaser for the ad on Tuesday in which Lady Gaga speaks about the value of creativity:

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Seth Meyers slams 'incompetent' Trump's messy immigration ban

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"Late Night" host Seth Meyers dedicated Monday's edition of his popular segment "A Closer Look" to the fallout from President Donald Trump's immigration ban.

"It was not only cruel and unnecessary," Meyers said of the ban, "it was very poorly thought out."

The executive order — which is being challenged as unconstitutional and called racist and a "Muslim ban" by critics – temporarily blocks travelers from entering the US from seven predominately Muslim countries and bans all refugees from entering for the next 120 days.

While Meyers doesn't approve of the extreme travel measure, he does appreciate the resulting organized protests. Tens of thousands of protesters over the weekend spoke out about Trump's immigration ban at airports and major US landmarks all over the country.

"People are willing to go to s--- places to protest," the host said. "Last week, it was parks. This week, it was airports. Next week, people are going to march for gay rights at the DMV. The tone of the protests made clear that these are not fleeting, spontaneous gatherings but organized resistance that won't go away any time soon."

Of course, a main driver of the protests is the belief that the ban is a thinly veiled act of discrimination against Muslims. Meyers pointed out one protester's sign that read: "First they came for the Muslims – and we said not today motherf---er!"

"A sign I should note was clearly purchased at Samuel L. Jackson's Sign Emporium," Meyers joked.

The scenes at US airports got ugly as thousands of travelers were affected and hundreds were detained upon entering the country, a result of Trump's late Friday timing on the executive order and the lack of communication with the intelligence and travel agencies that would have to carry it out. One New York judge issued an injunction on the ban, stating, "The government hasn’t had a full chance to think about this.”

"Trump is the first president that legally has to count to 100 before taking action," Meyers joked.

The host concluded the fiery segment by referring to Trump's administration as "incompetent authoritarians with nothing but contempt for many of the basic constitutional principles this country has cherished since its founding."

Watch the latest "A Closer Look" segment below:

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Just 5% of people who downloaded 'Super Mario Run' paid $10 for the full game

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Nintendo's first big foray into mobile gaming is fizzling out.

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"Super Mario Run" launched on December 15 exclusively for Apple's iPhone and iPad. It's a free game to download, and you can even play a few levels — but, after that, you've gotta pony up $10 for the full experience. And $10 for an iPhone game is, to many people, an unacceptably high price.

As a result, the game was downloaded over 78 million times, but just 5% of those people shelled out $10 for the game — that's from Nintendo's president. The other 95% chose not to shell out money to buy the rest of the game. And that translates to a surprisingly small amount of money: somewhere in the ballpark of $40 million.

Sounds like a lot? It isn't when you compare it to the heavyweights of mobile gaming. Popular games like "Clash of Clans" and "Game of War" rake in millions every day; the same can be said for "Pokémon GO." And none of those games cost any money up front. 

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That $40 million is actually a tremendously generous guess — we're simply taking the 3.9 million people who paid for the game and multiplying by 10 (the price of the game: $10). And even then, we're rounding up from $39 million. That's before factoring in the standard 30% cut that Apple takes of anything sold on the App Store, or the cost of actually creating the game, or the cost of marketing it.

If we're being real, Nintendo's made far less than $40 million on "Super Mario Run." But let's be generous, for the sake of today's news.

In a seemingly ridiculous turn of events, free games are far more profitable on mobile than ones with a fixed cost. You pay for "Super Mario Run" once and you own the whole game. No ads. No limited time to play the game. $10 gets you full access. But $10 is simply too much to ask for games on mobile. And Nintendo is learning that lesson the hard way.

SEE ALSO: Nintendo's first iPhone game has a long-term revenue problem

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Stephen Colbert reviews President Trump's first week: 'He really got a lot of stuff undone'

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CBS's "Late Show" returned from hiatus on Monday for its first show after Donald Trump's inauguration and host Stephen Colbert felt overwhelmed by what the new president has been up to while he was away.

"You ever regret going on vacation?" the host asked as he pondered how much Trump could do in the week he was away. "The line moves really fast on this ride. Every day, you just get back on the roller coaster and start throwing up. We've got the fast pass."

 He then joked about Trump's many planned repeals.

"You've got to give the guy credit, he really got a lot of stuff undone," Colbert said. "From Obamacare to climate change to torture, he's already moved the country back to 2004. If this keeps up, pretty soon I'm going to launch 'The Colbert Report.'"

Colbert didn't waste any time getting to the most current controversy of the new Trump administration: the immigration ban. In an executive order on Friday, Trump temporarily blocked travelers from entering the US from seven predominately Muslim countries and banned all refugees from entering for the next 120 days.

"There are currently more refugees around the world than at any time since World War II," Colbert said. "The poem on the Statue of Liberty now reads, 'Don't let it hit ya where the good Lord split ya.'"

Like fellow late-night host Seth Meyers on Monday, Colbert expressed his awe of the tens of thousands of protesters who filled airports and US landmarks across the country.

"Do you have any idea how angry how people have to be to voluntarily go to JFK?" he said the New York City airport.

Watch the video below:

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How Amazon is trying to lure in indie filmmakers with a $100,000 bonus

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With the Sundance Film Festival just finished, filmmakers whose films didn't get sold during the festival are now trying come up with a strategy to stay relevant in the eyes of buyers.

In the hopes of attracting some of the movies that aren't having distributors knocking down their doors, Amazon announced before the festival began that any feature film that played at this year's Sundance can join its Amazon Video Direct platform, a service that Amazon touts as being a “self-service publishing interface, without the need for complex negotiations or contracts.”

But numerous filmmakers and producers at Sundance who talked to Business Insider expressed uncertainty about how beneficial the service would be not just to titles at the fest, but for independent films that are desperately looking for some kind of release.

Amazon launched Amazon Video Direct (AVD) last May with the intention, as AVD head Eric Orme told Business Insider, to give filmmakers “another avenue if they don’t feel they will secure distribution.”

It's free of charge to upload any film to the platform. The only requirement is that it must contain captions. You then select the options on how the movie will be viewed — rent, buy, available for free on the site with ads, or available on Amazon Prime. Then the movie is on the service for potentially millions to see.

A filmmaker can track how it’s performing by using their AVD dashboard to see how many people are viewing the content and where in the world it’s being viewed.

But because of the prestige that comes with being selected to show at Sundance, Amazon is dishing out upfront cash to entice filmmakers there.

In a program touted as “Film Festival Stars,” AVD will provide Sundance 2017 titles that join by February 28 a publishing bonus as well as enhanced royalty rates.

The non-recoupable, onetime bonus is $100,000 for titles that were in this year’s US dramatic or premieres categories at the fest. It's $75,000 for US documentaries and documentary premieres. And $25,000 for titles that were in the world dramatic, world documentaries, NEXT, Spotlight, Kids, Midnight, or New Frontier sections.

Only Film Festival Stars receive upfront money for uploading to AVD.

This year’s Sundance titles that join AVD also will get enhanced royalties — 30 cents per hour of views in the US, 12 cents per hour for international views.

The standard AVD royalties are 15 cents per hour in the US and 6 cents per hour internationally. Across the board, the cap for royalties in a month is $75,000. Filmmakers also receive 50% of all purchase/rental fees for their movie (this will also be the split Sundance films receive when going on AVD).

The Sundance titles that join AVD give up their streaming rights for 24 months, and the first 12 months will be exclusive to Amazon.

“We have structured this in such a way that really helps support them if they don't get the options they are hoping for,” Orme said of the Sundance filmmakers, adding that they consulted with filmmakers and distributors to come up with the Film Festival Stars initiative.

But filmmakers at Sundance Business Insider spoke to, along with established directors and producers who didn’t have titles at this year’s fest, voiced concerns about the offer.

Some felt $100,000 comes nowhere near a figure that will recoup the investors of their movies, while others feel the late February deadline is unfair since (outside of the headline-grabbing monster deals during the fest) Sundance titles typically don’t find distribution for six months to a year after the festival.

Black_FieldOn the latter point, Orme said he understands what AVD is offering isn’t for every Sundance film and points out that this is only for streaming rights, and that the publishing bonus money can be used to promote a filmmaker’s title while looking for theatrical distribution.

The problem with that, however, is that most distributors who would entertain a theatrical deal also want the streaming rights to the film.

“I would just want filmmakers to really exhaust all of those other distribution possibilities before giving up streaming, because once you give up streaming, that’s it,” producer Mynette Louie (“The Invitation”) told IndieWire before Sundance began. 

Another issue filmmakers have pointed out is that because of the secretive nature of how many people actually watch content on streaming services like Amazon and Netflix, it’s impossible to know if the figures AVD is offering are fair.

“Distributors withhold digital numbers from filmmakers, so there are no digital revenue comps available to run estimates to determine if this is a good deal for my film,” producer Rebecca Green (“It Follows”) told Business Insider. “For example, the deal stipulates that a film makes money per hour viewed, but what is the average length of time a film is watched on Amazon and how does that differ per genre? What statistics do I have about past films released on Amazon Direct, in the same way I can look up box-office numbers for every film released in theaters, in order for me to determine if 30 cents per hour is a good deal for my film? I can tell you that I do not have this information for even my own two films currently in the digital stage of their release. Maybe it is a good deal, but without the numbers to back it up, I really have no idea and neither does any other filmmaker selling their film.”

AVD states it will not announce the Sundance titles that have taken the Film Festival Stars deal until after the February 28 deadline (the titles will then be available on AVD this September), but two filmmakers who have found success already on the platform were at Sundance singing its praises.

Justin Doescher’s “The Break-In” and Danishka Esterhazy’s “Black Field” have been two of the standout titles since the start of AVD, as both have received the platform’s “AVD Stars” recognition — a cash bonus to filmmakers who are top performers on Prime.

Doescher joined AVD right when the service began in May as he had recently finished his movie and was figuring out where to show it other than film festivals.

Not receiving any acceptance letters to attend film festivals and not getting anyone to pay to watch his ultra-low-budget horror movie on Vimeo Pro, Doescher said he instantly found success when “The Break-In” showed up on Amazon Prime through AVD.

“For people who have Prime already it wasn’t a big deal to check out my movie as opposed to Vimeo Pro where they didn’t want to pay for something they didn’t know about,” Doescher told Business Insider.

Esterhazy is a Canadian filmmaker who had a successful festival run in her home country and a TV release, but she found no avenue to get her Gothic drama to an American audience until Amazon came along.

The Break In“I was thinking of trying to put it on iTunes or Netflix,” she said. “But my filmmaker friends who had tried that told me they spent a lot of money to get it on there and nobody watched their movies.”

Uploading “Black Field” for free to AVD was enticing and it has led to Esterhazy’s movie having hundreds of thousands of views on the platform since, according to her.

Both filmmakers were coy about how much they are making from AVD, though they said when they were named AVD Stars they made around $100,000, counting the bonus, in that particular month.

Orme says that like all Amazon initiatives, AVD will be tweaked as it evolves, but from the outside, at least at the moment, filmmakers are still skating carefully around this latest self-distribution option.

"I'm still trying to figure out what the immediate advantages are, unless you made your movie for less than the amount being offered,” said filmmaker Zach Clark, whose movies like “Little Sister” and “White Reindeer” have premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival, followed by distribution. “I just saw that they paid $2 million for a movie that premiered in competition at Sundance, so why offer only $100,000 to everyone else? Streaming rights are increasingly the only rights that matter for independent films, so I would be extremely cautious and skeptical about taking this offer, unless I had a $75,000 movie in competition. And honestly, how many $75,000 movies are in competition at Sundance this year?”

Note: Business Insider is a partner in Amazon Video Direct.

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Susan Buffett reveals the surprising way she found out her dad Warren Buffett was rich

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Susan Buffett didn't find out her father, billionaire Warren Buffett, was rich until her early 20s. And she definitely didn't hear it from her parents.

"I didn’t really have any idea about any money until I was long out of high school and out of Omaha," Susan recently told Business Insider. "There was an article in the Wall Street Journal at one point when I was probably about 22 or 23, I'd say. That was the first time I was like, 'Oh, there's more going on than I knew about!'"

The founder of children's charity the Sherwood Foundation, Susan takes part in a portrait of her father, HBO's "Becoming Warren Buffett," which premiered Monday. In the documentary, Susan provides a lot of intimate details about her parents, growing up in the family's home in Omaha, Nebraska, and what drove her father to give away a large chunk of his fortune to charitable causes.

As for finding out that her father was rich from a news article, she attributes it to her modest upbringing.

"When we were growing up he didn’t have a lot of money and he wasn’t famous," she said. "So we didn’t see anything but a regular, normal situation in our house. He went to the office every day, he came home, he was at the dinner table. He did go upstairs and read the rest of the evening, but he was home. And we lived pretty much like everybody else. Nothing was too different. Really, we lived in what I guess I would describe as an upper-middle-class neighborhood. He still lives in the same house today."

warren buffettThere were certainly signs that her father was doing well, such as when her mother started a scholarship program when Susan was in high school.

"It was only a couple kids a year, but she started as soon as there was some money there to give away," she said.

After thinking on it more, Susan said there was one visit that gave her an early clue that her father was doing pretty well. Adam Smith, who wrote the pivotal book on the financial industry, "Supermoney," came knocking.

"I may have been a senior in high school then," Susan recalled. "And I remember Adam Smith came to visit our house in Omaha. And I remember when I heard the name of the book was 'Supermoney,' I was like, 'Okay, that’s something' [laughs]. But I still don’t really think we talked about it."

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The best movies and TV shows coming to iTunes, Amazon, and HBO Go in February

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With the Academy Awards coming at the end of February, this is a good time to catch up on the nominated movies you missed in theaters.

On iTunes you'll be able to buy (and soon rent) titles like "Arrival," "Hacksaw Ridge," "Manchester by the Sea," and "Moonlight" (to name a few). 

And Marvel hit "Doctor Strange" (Oscar nominated for best visual effects) is also available on iTunes as well as Amazon.

Below are all the titles that will be available in February, and we've gone ahead and highlighted some in bold we think you should definitely check out:

SEE ALSO: 100 movies on Netflix that everyone needs to watch in their lifetime

iTunes

Available February 1

“Arrival”
“The Edge of Seventeen”
“Tyler Perry’s Boo! A Madea Halloween”
“Bleed for This”

Available February 7

“Hacksaw Ridge”
“Manchester by the Sea”
“Nocturnal Animals”
“The Eagle Huntress”

Available February 14

“Doctor Strange”
“Moonlight”
“Allied”
“Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk”

Available February 21

“Moana”
“Jackie”
Bad Santa 2”

Available February 24

“Fences”



Amazon

Available February 1

“Forces of Nature”                                                                                                                     “American Teen”                                                                                                    
“Care Bears Movie”                                                                              
“Dead Heat”
“Diamonds Are Forever”                                                   
“Die Another Day”
“Drop Zone"
“The Edge of Seventeen”
“Escape from Alcatraz”
“The Firm”
“Frankie & Johnny” 
“Goldfinger”
“Hoosiers”
“I Went Down”
“Judgement Day”                                          
“Kiss the Bride”  
“The Living Daylights”              
“Live and Let Die”
“Man with the Golden Gun”       
“Margin Call” 
“Never Say Never Again”    
“Octopussy”    
“Payback”     
“Pretty in Pink”  
“Rob Roy”    
“The Running Man” 
“Sabrina”
“Sabrina” (1995) 
“Soapdish”
“The Spy Who Loved Me”  
“Untamed Heart”  
“Wild Bill” 
“The World is Not Enough”
“You Only Live Twice”
“Into the Wild”  
“Thelma & Louise”  
“Teen Wolf”
“NUTS!”
“Hook”

Available February 4

“Yellowbird” 

Available February 6

“The Detour” (Season 2)                                                                                           
“24: Legacy” (Season 1)                                                                 

Available February 7

“Creative Galaxy Heart Day Special” (AMAZON ORIGINAL, Season 2)           
“Disierto”                                           

Available February 9

“Legion”  

Available February 10

“The Collection” (Season 1)

Available February 12

“Girls” (Season 6)  
“Last Week Tonight” (Season 4)   

Available February 14

“Doctor Strange”   

Available February 15

“The Americans” (Season 4)

Available February 16

“Author: JT Leroy Story”(AMAZON ORIGINAL)       
“Full Frontal with Samantha Bee” (Season 1)     

Available February 19

“Billions” (Season 2)
“Big Little Lies” (Season 1)                                                                                    

Available February 21

“The Tunnel” (Season 1)       
Bates Motel (Season 5)                                                                                       
 
Available February 21

“Captain Fantastic”

Available February 24

“10 Cloverfield Lane”

Available February 26

“Touched with Fire”

Available February 27

“Havana Motor Club”



HBO Go/Now

Available February 1

“42”

“A Bigger Splash”

“The Breakfast Club”

“Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason”

“Broadcast News”

“Clockers”

“Crooklyn”

“Crossroads”

“December Boys”

“Do The Right Thing”

“Earth Girls Are Easy”

“Hard To Kill”

“Interview With The Vampire”

“Journey to the Center of the Earth”

“Just Married”

“Men in Black II”

“Mo’ Better Blues”

“Mystic River”

“Out For Justice”

“The Princess Diaries 2 Royal Engagement”

“Raging Bull”

“Rain Man”

“Rendition”

“Road to Perdition”

“Rosewood”

“Sixteen Candles”

“Snow Dogs”

“Unfaithful”

“The World According to Garp”

Available February 4

“The Huntsman: Winter’s War”

Available February 5

“Crimson Peak”

Available February 9

“Sinister 2”

Available February 11

“Central Intelligence”

Available February 13

“The Young Pope” (Season Finale)

Available February 18

“The Legend of Tarzan”



Available February 25


“Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates”



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People think Netflix makes more interesting original shows and movies than HBO and Amazon

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Netflix is leading its streaming video competitors when it comes to value and original content, according to a new survey of cord-cutters and likely cord-cutters by Forrester.

Forrester found that only 5% of US adult respondents thought that Netflix ($9.99-a-month) was too expensive, compared to 11% for Hulu ($7.99-a-month), and 18% for HBO Now ($14.99-a-month). Bringing up the rear, in terms of value, were the streaming services put out by broadcast networks. CBS All Access and NBC's SeeSo (its comedy offering) saw 23% and 24% of respondents think they were too expensive, respectively. All Access costs $5.99-a-month for the base plan, and SeeSo costs $3.99.

One thing driving this sense of value could be Netflix's bounty of original content.

Netflix will release a whopping 1,000 hours in 2017 (and spend $6 billion). That means you'd have to spend an insane 41 days binge-watching Netflix to see it all. Its royal drama about the life of Queen Elizabeth II, "The Crown," also recently picked up Netflix's first Golden Globe in a best show category, when it won best drama series.

This push seems to have worked.

60% of Forrester respondents said Netflix had interesting original content, compared to just 36% for Amazon Prime, which has less selection, but has historically done well in awards shows, especially with its original comedies like "Transparent" and "Mozart in the Jungle." Though HBO has made its name on its marquee shows, it also trailed Netflix at 45%.

Here is a full chart of how some of the top streaming services stack up against each other, from Forrester:

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'It's all mental with him': Warren Buffett's late wife revealed why it took the billionaire so many years to start giving away his fortune

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"The Oracle of Omaha" is regarded today as one of the most generous philanthropists in the world, with lifetime giving topping $25 billion.

But it actually took billionaire Warren Buffett several decades to start donating his massive fortune — a decision his late first wife Susan grappled with, according to the new HBO documentary "Becoming Warren Buffet."

"The biggest thing about making money is time," Buffett, now worth more than $73 billion, says in the documentary about his decision to save his earnings. "You don't have to be particularly smart, you just have to be patient. Susie didn't want to wait as much as I did — she never quite appreciated compounding like I did."

In 1977, when their three children were grown, Susan left the family's home in Omaha, Nebraska, to focus on her charitable work.

"My mom moved to San Francisco and I think one of the reasons it was so important for her to leave Omaha was because she just left like she was kinda trapped in this environment, that everybody knew who she was, and she couldn't have her own identity," said the couple's youngest son Peter.

"[My dad] knew that there was something [my mom] needed to do, and that she really recognized that the money gave us all, and her, a choice in a lot of ways that a lot of people didn't have," their eldest son Howard said.

Susan chose to dedicate her time and money to charity, while Buffett continued working and growing his fortune (the two remained close friends, and legally married, until her death in 2004).

"It was a time where Warren was criticized. There was this very, very rich man who was getting richer every year, and really wasn't giving any money away and there was terrific criticism by some people, which Warren never said anything about," said Sandy Gottesman, a friend of Buffett's, as well as an investor and early backer of Berkshire Hathaway.

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"That is a disagreement we have," Susan said in an interview recorded prior to her death, which is included in the documentary. "I run a foundation now. I think we should be giving more money away. But I understand why we don't — because it's business."

She continued: "To me, the crux of it is: It wasn't the money itself. You can see that in the way he lives. He doesn't buy huge paintings or build big houses or anything like that. It's all mental with him, and the money is his scorecard. He used to say to me, 'Everybody can read what I read. It's a level playing field.' And he loves that because he's competitive. So he's sitting there all by himself in his office reading these things that everybody else can read. But, he loves the idea that he's going to win."

In 2006, two years after Susan's death, Buffett ramped up his giving, promising to gradually donate all of his Berkshire Hathaway stock to philanthropy.

In 2010, he teamed up with fellow billionaires and close friends Bill and Melinda Gates to start The Giving Pledge, vowing to donate 99% of his fortune to charitable causes in his lifetime. He stated in his 2010 Giving Pledge letter, "to date, 20% of my shares have been distributed (including shares given by my late wife, Susan Buffett). I will continue to annually distribute about 4% of the shares I retain ... this pledge will leave my lifestyle untouched and that of my children as well. ... And I will continue to live in a manner that gives me everything that I could possibly want in life."

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The 'I'm a Mac' guy from the Apple commercials is now promoting an Android phone (AAPL)

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Justin Long, the actor probably best known for his role as the "I'm a Mac" guy from Apple's classic TV commercials, is now appearing in a commercial promoting the Huawei Mate 9 Android phone.

Watch the commercial, which makes some sly nods at Long's past with Apple, here:

"I have a ton of experience in tech," Long says in the 60-second commercial.  As Campaign US reports, it was indeed Long's association with Apple that made him a shoe-in for the gig. Now, instead of promoting Apple tech, he's pitching a phone running its biggest rival in the smartphone world.

Long starred in 66 "Get a Mac" commercials from 2006 to 2009, alongside actor and comedian John Hodgman. Long played the younger, cooler Mac, and Hodgman was the older, stodgier PC. The campaign played a big role in the resurgence of the Mac in 2006, and kept going even after the iPhone was launched in 2007.

Here are all 66 commercials, back to back, in case you have 39 minutes or so to kill:

Long is the second tech spokesperson to change sides in recent memory: In June 2016, Paul Marcarelli — the Verizon "can you hear me now?" guy — jumped ship to Sprint.

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Here's everything we know about Nintendo's new $300 console coming next month, the Switch

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After years of waiting, Nintendo finally has a new video game console on the way: the Nintendo Switch.

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It's a hybrid console — you can play it at home on your living-room television, or you can take it on the go. Here are the basics:

  • It's called Nintendo Switch.
  • It's scheduled to launch on March 3, 2017.
  • It starts at $299.
  • Nintendo has a gaggle of games starring its most prominent creations in the works.

There's of course much more to the Switch than that, and Nintendo just offered a ton of new details. Here's everything we know about the Nintendo Switch, straight from the horse's mouth.

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This is everything that comes in the $299 package.

Here's what's in the box:

- A Switch tablet — the console itself is the tablet.

- A set of Joy-Con.

- The Switch dock, for connecting to your television.

- The Joy-Con dock/gamepad.

- Two wrist straps for making sure you don't lose the Joy-Con while playing a motion game.

- Two cables (power and HDMI).



There are two different bundles that cost the same $299: one has a blue and a red Joy-Con, and the other has two standard gray ones.



Here's a good look at the Nintendo Switch Dock and the "Joy-Con Grip" gamepad:

What you see above is exactly what'll come in the box when Nintendo Switch arrives on March, 3: the Nintendo Switch Dock, the tablet-like console, and a home gamepad with the detachable Joy-Con in-tow. Notably, the controller is actually called the "Joy-Con Grip" — since you can detach each side of the Joy-Con bits and attach them to the Switch tablet, the Grip acts as a means of turning the Joy-Con into a more traditional gamepad.

Of note: Everything in the package is being sold separately. Want another Dock? You can buy one. Need just a left Joy-Con? Can do. Nintendo breaks it all down on its site.



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Jon Stewart goes on a passionate rant about Trump's presidency on 'The Late Show'

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Jon Stewart made a surprise appearance on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" on Tuesday, the first time he's been on the show since the election of President Donald Trump. 

Showing up with an extremely long red tie (a Trump style trademark) and ferret-like hairpiece on his head, Stewart said his look was less an imitation of the president and more his belief of how men dress now since Trump came into office.

"The president sets men's fashion and I saw the inauguration: super long tie, dead animal on head — boom," he said.

But the former "Daily Show" host's main reason for being on the show, he said, was that he had the next three executive orders that Trump was going to sign.

Channeling Trump, he read the first order: "to secure our border China shall immediately and without hesitation send us their wall."

Stewart followed that by saying that America now finally has an official language.

"The official language of the United States is bull----," he added. "And none of that, 'Sure I'll speak bull---- at work but at home I'm going to use facts and real information.' No, bull---- all the time, immersion, it's the only way to be fluent."

And the final Trump "executive order" was more Stewart's patented editorial to America than a joke. Having only been in office 11 days, Trump is "exhausting," according to Stewart.

"The presidency is supposed to age the president, not the public," he said.

He continued: "We have never faced this before, purposeful vindictive chaos, but perhaps therein lies the saving grace of my, Donald J. Trump's presidency. No one action will be adequate, all action will be necessary, and if we do not allow Donald Trump to exhaust our fight and somehow come through this presidency calamity-less and constitutionally partially intact, then I, Donald J. Trump, will have demonstrated the greatness of America, just not the way I thought I was gonna."

Watch the entire Jon Stewart appearance on "The Late Show" below:

 

 

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Squarespace's Super Bowl ad tells the true story of John Malkovich's struggle setting up a website for his fashion label

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When Squarespace first met with John Malkovich last spring, the website-building company had no idea the actor was thinking about building his own website.

Squarespace signed up Malkovich to act out a string of David Lynch characters — including "Twin Peaks" detective Dale Cooper, John Merrick from "The Elephant Man," and Henry Spencer from "Eraserhead" — for its digital marketing push "Playing Lynch."

Andrew Casalena, Squarespace CEO, told Business Insider it was then that Malkovich said "in passing conversation" that he had started a new fashion line — his third, having begun his career in costume design — and wanted to create a website for his eponymous brand. The website now exists, complete with prominent Squarespace branding. 

Casalena said: "When we dug a little deeper into the journey he went through in order to create and establish that line, we realized how similar the story was to so many of our Squarespace customers. This set the wheels in motion for our short film Journey, which is a campaign meant to inspire others to make their next move with Squarespace."

Now Squarespace is continuing its partnership with Malkovich for its Super Bowl ad. The spot sees an increasingly irritated Malkovich on the phone to the owner of "JohnMalkovich.com"

"You think when people contact the JohnMalkovich.com they're looking for you? Or maybe, maybe they're looking for me!" Malkovich snarls in the ad.

Casalena said he hopes the ad will motivate other people to go out and "stake their claim on the web" and grab their required domains before someone else does.

The Squarespace CEO has loftier ambitions for the ad too: "We also hope that John's story inspires others to pursue their dream, just like he pursued his by branching out into fashion. We want people to realize, that no matter what their passion or interest is, everyone and anyone with a creative idea can make their next move with Squarespace."

Super Bowl LI on February 5 will mark the fourth time in a row Squarespace has advertised in the big game. Each year, Super Bowl ad prices increase in value, with big game broadcaster Fox reportedly asking upwards of $5 million for a 30-second slot this time around.

But Casalena thinks it's a price worth paying: "While it’s definitely an investment, the Super Bowl is a unique opportunity in that people are actually watching the event specifically to see the ads. The audience is huge, and it gives us the chance to do more creatively then we would normally do throughout the year."

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Here's everything we know about the Super Bowl ads so far

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Super Bowl 51 is set to air on Fox on February 5 and, as usual, the big game's broadcast will be stuffed to the brim with big-money ads, reportedly costing $5 million for a 30-second slot.

Brands are now starting to share their ads and teasers as the Super Bowl draws closer.

We'll be keeping you up to date with all the latest commercials, teasers, and other Super Bowl ads news.

Scroll down to see what we know so far about the Super Bowl ads (we've organized all the news in alphabetical order, by brand.)

84 Lumber

Construction-supply company 84 Lumber has splashed out an estimated $15 million on a 90-second ad — its debut Super Bowl spot, AdAge reported. The ad, created by Brunner, will air in the second quarter, before half-time and aims to recruit new employees. 

However, the first cut of the ad has had to be scrapped after Fox rejected it for being "too political," Campaign first reported. The creative had featured a wall blocking people looking for work in the US.

Here's a recent 84 Lumber ad, celebrating its 60th year:

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Audi

The automaker is returning to the Super Bowl for the ninth time, with an ad created by agency Venables Bell & Partners, according to Adweek.

Last year's spot featured David Bowie's "Starman":

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Avocados from Mexico

Avocados from Mexico told Business Insider in December it was coming back to the Super Bowl in 2017. It's the third year in a row the brand has advertised in the big game.

This year's ad will be focused on promoting the fact that avocados are healthy, something the company was not explicitly permitted to do so in the past due to old FDA rules.

The brand released a teaser spot on January 23:

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Ellen DeGeneres hit back at Trump's immigration ban using the plot of 'Finding Dory'

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Ellen DeGeneres claimed she doesn't like to "get political" on her daytime talk show, but she did find a way to criticize President Donald Trump's controversial immigration ban by recapping the plot of her hit summer movie from last year, "Finding Dory."

"I'm not political, so I'm not going to talk about the travel ban," she said on Tuesday's "Ellen Show." "I'm just going to talk about the very nonpolitical, family-friendly, People's Choice-award winning 'Finding Dory.'

Although DeGeneres is the voice behind the animated movie's titular character, she wasn't simply being promotional. Trump actually hosted a screening of the movie for his family, employees, and their kids on Sunday — the day after he signed the executive order temporarily blocking travelers from entering the US from seven predominately Muslim countries and banned all refugees from entering for the following 120 days and banned all Syrian refugees indefinitely.

DeGeneres went on to explain that Dory the fish was in Australia, but her parents were in the US. In the film, she and her fellow fish friends, Marlin and Nemo, travel to America only to find themselves in a marine aquarium, behind a large wall.

"They all have to get over the wall, and you won’t believe it, but that wall has almost no effect in keeping them out," DeGeneres said, a clear gesture toward Trump's planned wall between Mexico and the US.

Back to "Finding Dory": Amid Dory's misadventures in America, she gets separated from her family and needs help. Here's where DeGeneres packs a punch to Trump's ban.

"But the other animals help Dory. Animals that don’t even need her. Animals that don’t have anything in common with her," the host said. "They help her, even though they’re completely different colors. Because that’s what you do when you see someone in need — you help them."

DeGeneres then concluded by telling viewers, "So that is what I hope everyone who’s watching 'Finding Dory' has learned. Tune in next week when I explain women’s rights talking about the movie 'Mr. Wrong.'"

For DeGeneres and those of you who hoped that Trump may have gleaned some of the lessons learned from Dory's story, we have bad news. White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer made it clear that the president didn't actually watch the movie. He made some opening remarks and left.

 Watch DeGeneres criticize Trump's immigration ban using the "Finding Dory" plot below:

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