The NFL had a high-level meeting with CBS, one of its big TV partners, to talk about how to speed up football games, according to CBS CEO Les Moonves.

The NFL has suffered ratings woes this season, which only partially recovered after the close of the US presidential election. For the regular season, viewership was down 9%, and 6% for the playoffs, according to MoffettNathanson. That's not good, and the NFL is looking to turn it around.

One tactic the NFL has considered is decreasing the number of ads and changing how they appear, multiple NFL execs have said. And now they are in conversations with CBS about it.

On CBS' quarterly earnings call Wednesday, CEO Les Moonves said he'd met recently with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell about how to get the game moving faster. They talked about speeding up instant replay time, and also a potential "reformatting" of ads. Moonves said that didn't mean cutting back the amount of ads shown during games, however.

"If there are ways to do advertising in different ways, we are looking at that," Moonves said.

Even with the ratings decrease, Moonves said he still considers the NFL "the premier property in all of media."

For a full look at the NFL's ratings problem, see our exploration of it.

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Warner Bros. is courting recent Oscar nominee Mel Gibson to helm its "Suicide Squad" sequel, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Sources tell the trade that the studio and Gibson are in early talks and no offer has been made to the actor/director.

But this is the latest indication that Gibson is back in the good graces of Hollywood after a decade of being an outsider following a 2006 DUI arrest and now-infamous anti-Semitic rant while being put into police custody.

His latest directing effort, "Hacksaw Ridge," was well received by critics and went on to make over $100 million worldwide at the box office. The movie received six Oscar nominations, including best picture, best actor (Andrew Garfield), and best director for Gibson.

The renewed interest in Gibson makes sense for Warner Bros. as the first "Suicide Squad" movie directed by David Ayer, though it made over $745 million worldwide, was filled with reported issues during production. Perhaps WB is looking for a more experienced helmer. But at the same time, the movies Gibson has directed have been produced outside of the studio system, Will he play nice on a project that is vital for a studio?

It sounds like there's still a lot of talking to be had before a decision is made (THR also reports that director Daniel Espinosa of the upcoming sci-fi movie "Life" is also on their list). But this might not be the only superhero franchise that wants Gibson.

Robert Downey Jr. has been campaigning for years to get Gibson to direct an "Iron Man" movie. The Gibson comeback might just make Marvel start to take RDJ's talk seriously.

A representative for Gibson had no comment for this story when contacted by Business Insider, and Warner Bros. did not give an immediate response.

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In light of recent allegations that President Donald Trump's senior staff have had potentially illegal communications with Russian officials, Samantha Bee thought it was a good time to focus on Speaker of the House Paul Ryan.

"Loyalty is everything to [Trump]," the host said on Wednesday's episode of TBS's "Full Frontal." "And nobody has reacted to that reality better than Speaker of the House and faithful husky Paul Ryan."

Before she explained why we should care about Ryan, she provided some background on the Wisconsin congressman. Over his career, Ryan has built a "solid reputation" as the "conscience" of the Republican party.

"First of all, in today’s Republican party, that’s kind of like saying Moe is the smart Stooge," Bee joked. "How did a principled social and fiscal conservative like Ryan wind up in bed with a bigoted, adulterous grope machine who wants to blow $25 billion on a coyote urinal?"

Over the course of the 2016 election, Ryan had been critical of Trump's presidential candidacy but he endorsed Trump anyway. Bee played several clips of Ryan then backing several of Trump's controversial appointments, statements, and initiatives.

"Ryan spent the rest of the summer feebly condemning every racist thing Trump said or did while refusing to condemn Trump himself," Bee said. "Watching Ryan play moral watchdog was like watching Taylor Swift pretend to be surprised at an award show: bland and fake, but weirdly compelling."

Bee felt that there was something Ryan could definitely glean from Swift's rise to fame.

"Take another cue from Taylor Swift, Mr. Speaker," she said, showing a photo of Swift with ex-boyfriend and actor Tom Hiddleston. "Know when to dump the guy you’ve only been pretending to like to help your career. It’s kind of hurting your moral compass of the party brand."

But jokes aside, Bee wanted viewers to know why she thinks it's important that we should care about Ryan.

"Consider if in theory, a hypothetical president – we’ll call him Doug – were to collude with a foreign enemy, engage in self-dealing, defy a co-equal branch of government, share state secrets with the entire early dinner seating of his private club, be clinically bonkers, or worst of all, lie under oath about an alleged sex act, guess who would be expected to draw up articles of impeachment."

Watch the video below:

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Actor Ashton Kutcher made an emotional speech on Wednesday at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing in Washington. Kutcher is the cofounder of Thorn, an anti-human trafficking organization that builds software to fight the sexual exploitation of children.

In the testimony Kutcher lists horrific things he’s seen happening to children across the United States and the world — from Cambodia to Mexico, to New York and New Jersey. He even cites a video he saw of a child his daughter’s age being raped by an American man, who “thought she was engaging in play.” 

"The right to pursue happiness for so many is stripped away, it's raped, it's abused, it's taken by force,” Kutcher said. “I’ve been on FBI raids where I’ve seen things that no person should ever see.” 

Kutcher hopes to find funding for Thorn so he can continue the fight to protect human rights and stop human trafficking. He emphasized the extreme importance of using technology to fight the war against the sexual exploitation of children.

"Technology can be used to enable slavery, but technology can also be used to disable slavery," he said.

Kutcher also noted that in the past six months, Thorn identified 6,000 trafficking victims, and 2,000 of them were underage. 

You can watch the full testimony below:

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TV producer Ryan Murphy considers the 2016 presidential election scary enough to feature on his FX anthology show, "American Horror Story."

The seventh season "is going to be about the election that we just went through, so I think that will be interesting for a lot of people," Murphy said on Wednesday's episode of Bravo's late-night talk show "Watch What Happens Live."

When host Andy Cohen asked if there would be a character based on then-Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump, Murphy played coy.

"Maybe," he teased.

Murphy also shared that the seventh season will begin shooting in June. Sarah Paulson and Evan Peters are already confirmed to return for the next installment.

In January, FX renewed "American Horror Story" for two additional seasons, which would take it through season nine.

Each season of "American Horror Story" focuses on a new story about a different theme or location, though frequently uses many of the same actors. Previous seasons were set in an insane asylum, a New Orleans witch coven, a circus, and a hotel.

The sixth season, "American Horror Story: Roanoke," wrapped its run in November of last year. It followed a family being haunted by the tortured spirits of a supernatural cult that previously lived on the land their home was built on.

Watch Murphy announce the theme for the next season of "American Horror Story" on "Watch What Happens Live" below:

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Comedy greats Will Farrell and Amy Poehler will share the screen in the comedy "The House" this summer as they play parents who can't afford to pay for their daughter's tuition to college so they decide to start an underground casino to earn some quick cash.

With that premise anything goes and by the looks of the trailer it does. The "Saturday Night Live" greats have to do everything from building out more features once the casino gets popular, like a fight night, to sending a message when they find a cheater.

Check out the trailer below. "The House" opens in theaters June 30.

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In an explosive new video, YouTube star PewDiePie fired back at the Wall Street Journal report that caused both Disney and YouTube to cut ties with him, over videos containing anti-Semitic messages.

PewDiePie, a 27 year old from Sweden named Felix Kjellberg, whose foul-mouthed gaming videos have netted him 53 million subscribers, made $15 million in 2016, according to Forbes.

But the world's highest-earning YouTube star had a dramatic fall from grace earlier this week, when YouTube cancelled the second season of his show on their premium service, YouTube Red, and Disney's Maker Studios backed out of a joint venture with him.

These drops came after a Wall Street Journal review of Kjellberg’s channel, which concluded that he'd posted nine videos since August that “include anti-Semitic jokes or Nazi imagery.”

On Monday, Kjellberg published a furious response to the report. "It was an attack by the media to try and discredit me, to try and decrease my influence, and my economic worth," he said in a YouTube video.

He characterized the report as part of a pattern of media animosity toward YouTube stars. “The media generally doesn't like us very much ... because they are scared of us," he said.

Kjellberg took significant time to address one particular video, which had received the most criticism. That video from January 11, since taken down, featured Kjellberg hiring two men to make a sign that read “Death to All Jews,” using the freelancer website Fiverr, which allows users to hire freelancers to perform various tasks for $5. (YouTube pulled ads from the video.)

“My intention was just to show how stupid the website is and how far you could push it by paying five dollars," Kjellberg said.

“A lot of people loved the video, and a lot of people didn't,” he said. "And it’s almost like two generations of people arguing whether this is okay or not." While he admitted that the joke had gone too far, he only apologized for his words insofar as, "I know they offended people."

Kjellberg didn't blame Disney or YouTube for cutting ties with him, and said they were forced to do so by the report. Beyond cancelling his premium show, "Scare PewDiePie," YouTube also removed Kjellberg from its preferred advertising program.

As to White nationalists supporting his videos, Kjellberg said that he does "not support these hateful groups in any way.”

Kjellberg wound down his video by declaring that the "reaction and outrage has been nothing but insanity.”

“I’m still here, I’m still making videos. Nice try Wall Street Journal," he said. "Try again mother*******,” he went on, flipping off the camera.

Watch the full video here:

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Bill Maher broke his silence about Jeremy Scahill's protest of the booking of controversial far-right journalist Milo Yiannopoulos on Maher's HBO talk show, "Real Time," and Scahill's decision to cancel his appearance on the show.

Scahill, the founder of the journalism website the Intercept and a frequent "Real Time" guest, announced his decision to cancel his appearance on Maher's show on Wednesday over the booking of Yiannopoulos on the same episode airing Friday.

In Scahill's lengthy statement, he said that he feared Yiannopoulos' appearance on the HBO show would be used by the writer and Breitbart editor to "legitimize his hateful agenda."

Scahill also said that while he respects Maher, he finds some of the host's opinions "offensive," and said Maher's comments on Islam and Muslims "veer into vitriol."

In a statement issued late on Wednesday, according to Deadline, Maher responded to Scahill's critique of his comments surrounding Islam and Muslims, and the host argued that the journalist's decision not to engage in debate with Yiannopoulos is indicative of why "liberals will continue to lose elections."

“My comments on Islam have never veered into vitriol. Liberals will continue to lose elections as long as they follow the example of people like Mr. Scahill who’s[sic] views veer into fantasy and away from bedrock liberal principles like equality of women, respect for minorities, separation of religion and state, and free speech. If Mr. Yiannopoulos is indeed the monster Scahill claims — and he might be — nothing could serve the liberal cause better than having him exposed on Friday night.”

Yiannopoulos has been at the center of several uproars surrounding his politics, which have been associated with the alt-right and white nationalism, though in an interview with Business Insider, he disowned the alt-right movement, saying he doesn't want to be associated with "fringe factions" that have "genuinely racist, anti-Semitic, and prejudiced leanings."

Earlier this month, a violent demonstration on the University of California, Berkeley, campus led to the cancellation of Yiannopoulos' appearance there as part of a book tour. President Donald Trump threatened to pull federal funds from the university as a result.

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Following the smash success of M. Night Shyamalan's "Split" at the box office, we now know how the movie pulled off its shocking final moments. And it turns out it involved the rare cooperation of a studio not involved with the movie.

Warning: Spoilers ahead if you haven't seen "Split."

At the end of "Split," we find that the character with 24 split personalities played by James McAvoy lives in the same cinematic world as a character from another Shyamalan movie when Bruce Willis suddenly appears, playing David Dunn, the main character from 2000's "Unbreakable."

The appearance by Dunn hints that Shyamalan is planning a sequel that will feature characters from both movies. The director has also fed that theory on Twitter.

But behind the scenes, getting Willis to appear as that character for a very short cameo in "Split" was a remarkable feat, and not just because of Willis' fame. "Split" was released by Universal and "Unbreakable" is a Disney property. Studios rarely ever allow characters they own to jump to competing studios' films.

According to the Wall Street Journal, it was Shyamalan's relationship with Disney that made this possible. In 2015, he called Sean Bailey, head of production at Disney, about using the "Unbreakable" character in "Split," which he was writing at the time. After some back and forth, Bailey agreed to let the David Dunn character be in the movie for free. Shyamalan promised Bailey that if a sequel were made, a new deal would be struck.

Bailey and Disney may not have thought much of the decision at the time. "Split" was a thriller made for $9 million under Blumhouse Productions, known for its low-budget genre titles, but Disney sure wants in on the sequel now, since "Split" has earned over $172 million worldwide so far.

According to the WSJ story, Disney expects to work with Universal as a partner in the sequel and share in the profits.

Shyamalan is currently writing the sequel.

Blumhouse and Universal declined to comment for this story. Disney did not give an immediate response.

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Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.) compared the Trump administration to "Stranger Things" on the House floor. He came prepared with a sign, reading "Trump Things" in the same logo style as the popular TV show. 

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Mr. Speaker, like the main characters in "Stranger Things", we are now stuck in the Upside Down. Right is wrong, up is down, black is white. The White House deceives the American people — the American public for weeks about
their contacts with Russia, but an attorney general who followed her conscience is fired. Executive orders are signed to ban Muslims in order to keep us safe, while top security — National Security conversations are held out in the open. President Trump showers praise on a thug like Vladimir Putin, while threatening and bullying our longstanding allies. President Trump signs an executive order to spend $20 billion on a border wall, while Flint, Michigan still goes without clean drinking water. Mr. Speaker, mornings might be for coffee and contemplation, but Chief Jim Hopper is not coming to rescue us. This is not a TV show, this is real life. We have a president unlike any we have ever known, and like Mike, Dustin, Lucas, and Eleven, we must remain focused on the task at hand, and hold this administration accountable, so we can escape from our own version of the Upside Down. 

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Robert Durst — the subject of HBO's popular documentary series “The Jinx“ — admitted to killing his wife, Kathleen Durst, to his longtime friend Susan Berman, a key witness alleges.

Durst has been charged with murdering Berman in her Los Angeles home in 2000. Kathleen Durst disappeared in 1982, and her remains have never been found to this day. 

In a pre-trial hearing in Los Angeles on Thursday, witness Nathan “Nick” Chavin, 72 — another close friend of Durst — said that Durst told Berman that he killed his wife. 

According to the Los Angeles Times, Chavin recalls that Berman said, “Bob killed Kathie.” When Chavin asked Berman how she knew, she reportedly said, “He told me. We have to do what we can to protect him.” 

Chavin was brought into court as a "secret witness," according to the LA Times, and was flanked by bodyguards.

Prosecutors in the current murder trial allege that Durst killed Berman because she knew that he killed his wife, who has never been found. Durst denies murdering both women, though “The Jinx” famously ended with the explosive reveal of Durst saying, “I killed them all” into a mic while in a bathroom when he seemingly didn’t think anyone was listening.

In 2003, Durst admitted to murdering and chopping up the body of his neighbor Morris Black, yet he was not convicted after claiming he did it out of self-defense. 

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To call Felix Kjellberg "internet famous" is to sell him short. The name may not be familiar to you, but perhaps his pseudonym is: "Pewdiepie."

He's a handsome 27-year-old Swedish man who plays video games, records video blogs, and makes millions of dollars doing so (about $15 million last year, according to Forbes).

That's also selling him short — Kjellberg makes his job look easy, which is almost certainly a testament to how hard he actually works. He publishes at least one, often several, videos each day. That's before you start talking about the show he made for YouTube, or the video game about him, or his talent agency, or his book.

His YouTube channel just passed 53 million subscribers. His videos casually reach tens of millions of people.

He's far and away the most popular YouTuber, by tens of millions of subscribers, which is why it was such a big deal when the Wall Street Journal published a piece this week collecting several instances of Kjellberg using anti-Semitic imagery and phrases in videos he made. Disney, which had a business deal with Kjellberg, immediately dropped him. Google, which owns YouTube, also canned plans for a show starring Kjellberg. And on Thursday, Kjellberg fired back in — what else? — a YouTube video directed at the Wall Street Journal. 

There's a lot to unpack here. Let's dive in.

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First, some background on Felix Kjellberg (a.k.a. "Pewdiepie"): He's a 27-year-old Swedish man who dominates YouTube. His channel has over 53 million subscribers — over 20 million more than the second-most popular channel.

He rose to prominence by doing "Let's Play" videos — playing video games while commentating, and often over-exaggerating his reactions:

But lately he's transitioned into a prolific critic as well. The target of his criticism? The very hand that feeds him: YouTube.

The wait is over, and 80 new Pokémon have officially been released into the wilds of the Pokémon Go smartphone game.

Earlier this week, Pokémon Go developer Niantic announced that 80 new monsters, drawn from the "Pokémon Gold" and "Pokémon Silver" classic Game Boy Color games, would be hitting the game. After leaving us hanging for a few days, those monsters are now out in the wild.

In addition, an update to Pokémon Go on Thursday also added a few new interface updates: When capturing Pokémon, you can choose your Poké Ball and berry from little carousel menus on the sides of the screen, rather than having to dig into your items. 

Here's the new interface:

Otherwise, the new update adds a whole new wardrobe for players' avatars, which means that your character may look a little different than the last time you logged in. The bad news is that you have to pay for new clothing with the in-game Poké Coins currency, which can be earned by playing or purchased with real money.

Finally, the new update also adds Pokémon of different genders, which alters their appearances slightly — opening the door for Pokémon breeding down the line, one of the main features of the Nintendo games on which they're based.

But the main draw is going to be those new monsters, so go forth and prove you're the very best, like no one ever was. 

Within an hour of the new Pokémon appearing, Niantic confirmed on Twitter that the massive influx of players was slowing down the servers, evoking shades of the issues with reliability and latency that the game had during its Summer 2016 launch period.

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The East Hamptons home from the documentary "Grey Gardens" is on sale for nearly $20 million. Built in 1897, the home was refurbished in 1979 by the current owner. The documentary then sparked an HBO film and a Broadway musical of the same title. 

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There must be nights when before going onstage, the late-night hosts look up to the heavens and say, "Thank you."

After Donald Trump's first solo press conference as president on Thursday, their openings pretty much wrote themselves.

That was certainly the case for Stephen Colbert, who came out to his "Late Show" audience guns blazing as he recapped Trump's hour-plus presser that touched on everything from Russia to leaks that are "real" but news about said leaks that are "fake."

It was a performance from the president that many saw as wild and defensive, and which CNN's Jake Tapper called "unhinged."

"He started off by defending the rough start his administration has had by immediately attacking America's true enemy: anybody but him," Colbert said.

After playing a clip of Trump saying in his opening prepared statement that he "inherited a mess" coming into office, Colbert said, "No, you inherited a fortune — we elected a mess."

Then when Trump said that he had the largest electoral college win since Ronald Regan, Colbert corrected him by noting that Barack Obama received 365 electoral votes to Trump's 306.

"Do you think 306 is larger than 365? Wow, Betsy DeVos works quick," Colbert said, referring to Trump's secretary of education.

Watch Colbert's entire opening:

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Seth Meyers scrapped a planned segment of "A Closer Look" on Thursday's "Late Night" after President Donald Trump's first solo press conference became the biggest news of the day.

"Donald Trump held what can only be described as a bats--- crazy press conference that rendered this script completely meaningless," Meyers said as he shredded a previous script about Republican attacks on Obamacare. "Bye, dead jokes."

Trump held the press conference to announce his new choice to head the Labor Department after his original selection, Andrew Puzder, withdrew himself from consideration following intense criticism over past controversies and statements. But the conference went on for more than an hour in a performance CNN's Jake Tapper called "an airing of grievances" and "unhinged."

Aside from Puzder, Trump had another senior staffing issue he needed to address. Earlier this week, Trump's national security adviser, Michael Flynn, resigned after misleading Vice President Mike Pence about his discussions with Russian officials before Trump was inaugurated.

Meyers found Trump's statements around the controversy contradictory. The president said Flynn had done nothing wrong and that he didn't order Flynn to speak with Russian officials, but "would've directed him" to do so had Flynn not done it.

"He did something that I told him to do, so he had to go," Meyers impersonated Trump. "Clean out your desk, buddy. Why are you cleaning out your desk?"

Among the many headline-driving moments during the Trump conference was his reaction to a reporter asking him if he would take a meeting with black and Latino Congress members. He asked the black reporter if she would like to set up the meeting herself and then asked, "Are they friends of yours?"

Meyers described Trump's response as "pretty racist."

"It's racist to assume all black people know each other. You don’t know all orange people. 'Hey, Donald, can you set up a meeting with Snooki and the Lorax?'"

Watch Meyers' "A Closer Look" segment on Trump's press conference below:

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Jimmy Fallon reprised his impression of Donald Trump to reenact the president's strange first solo press conference on Thursday, which generated a lot of headlines.

"This is going to be a crazy one. Daddy came to play," Fallon, sporting a Trump wig and over-the-top orange makeup, said at the beginning of the sketch on Thursday's episode of NBC's "Tonight Show."

Trump held the press conference to announce his new choice to head the Labor Department after his original selection, Andrew Puzder, withdrew himself from consideration following intense criticism over past controversies and statements. But the conference went on for more than an hour in a performance CNN's Jake Tapper called "an airing of grievances" and "unhinged."

In less than three minutes, Fallon employed many of Trump's go-to responses to reporters, including cutting them off while they're asking a question, declaring several outlets "fake news," and denying that he and his administration had made any missteps in the month since Trump took office.

"We've made so much progress," Fallon's Trump said. "In fact, if you ask any American, they'll say that I've managed to make the last four weeks feel like four years. Four more weeks! Four more weeks!"

Aside from Puzder, Trump had another senior staffing issue he needed to address. Earlier this week, Trump's national security adviser, MichaelFlynn, resigned after misleading Vice President Mike Pence about his discussions with Russian officials before Trump was inaugurated.

Fallon mocked Trump's seemingly circuitous logic around whether he was informed of Flynn's communications with Russian officials.

"Look, I knew that he knew that I knew, but he didn't know that I knew that he knew that I knew that he knew that I know that he knew," Fallon's Trump said. "So now, you know."

The host closed out the sketch with a roundup of Trump's most used terms with the help of a "Magic Trump 8-Ball."

Watch Fallon's reenactment of Trump's press conference below:

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Jordan Peele is best known for his comedic work alongside Keegan-Michael Key on their Comedy Central show "Key & Peele" and in their movie "Keanu," but his directorial debut "Get Out" (opening February 24) will show the world that he's also really good at scaring us.

And it's a mission he plans to continue for a while.

In "Get Out," a young black man (Daniel Kaluuya) finds himself in a very messed up situation —actually a massive understatement — when he goes out to the country to visit his white girlfriend's (Allison Williams) family. We won't give anything else away, but if you've seen the trailer, you can get a hint of how Peele created a unique chiller that explores real ideas and attitudes about race, some of them quite ugly.

See for yourself:

But this is far from a one-and-done for Peele. He recently told Business Insider that "Get Out" is the first in a collection of movies he wants to direct that examine what he calls "social demons."

"I have four other social thrillers that I want to unveil in the next decade," Peele told Business Insider. "The best and scariest monsters in the world are human beings and what we are capable of especially when we get together. I've been working on these premises about these different social demons, these innately human monsters that are woven into the fabric of how we think and how we interact, and each one of my movies is going to be about a different one of these social demons."

Peele's examination of race and alienation in "Get Out" is an impressive, confident directorial debut. We can't wait to see what he will throw at us next, though we're also pretty afraid.

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"Live" host Kelly Ripa's hurt reaction to the departure of cohost Michael Strahan may not have been an isolated incident.

In a recent interview on "Larry King Now," former "Live" cohost Regis Philbin said that Ripa didn't take his retirement very well.

In response to King's question as to whether Philbin keeps in touch with Ripa, Philbin answered, "Not really, no," before adding some explanation.

"She got very offended when I left," Philbin, 85, said. "She thought I was leaving because of her. I was leaving, because I was getting older. It wasn't right for me anymore."

Philbin left the syndicated daytime talk show in 2011 after cohosting it for 23 years. Ripa replaced Kathie Lee Gifford when she left the show in 2000.

Philbin also claimed in the Larry King interview that "never once did they ask me to go back [on the show]."

But as the New York Post's Page Six reported, Philbin and Gifford appeared on the Halloween episode of "Live" in 2015. On the episode, Ripa hugged Philbin and invited him to her home to see her kids.

In a statement to Page Six, Dave Davis, the president and general manager of WABC, which produces "Live," said that Philbin has been asked to appear on the show "several times" and declined offers.

“It was wonderful to have Regis on the show for our 2015 Halloween special," Davis said. "He’s also been invited back several times as a guest, and in fact was confirmed for a date, but was not able to make it at the time.”

Ripa famously went M.I.A. in April of last year for several days after Strahan announced he would be leaving "Live" to join ABC's "Good Morning America." Ripa said she was blindsided by the announcement and angry over how it was handled by producers and ABC. Since then, she has been joined by a revolving list of guest cohosts, presumably vying for the opportunity to fill Strahan's position.

Watch Philbin discuss Ripa's reaction to his retirement from "Live" below:

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Matt Damon plays a mercenary who travels east in search of black powder and instead finds himself battling monsters in "The Great Wall" (in theaters this weekend).

What might have been considered an outlandish blockbuster a decade ago is now looked at more skeptically in 2017. Many see Damon's new movie, an American/Chinese coproduction in which he is the lead and surrounded by Asian actors, as Hollywood's latest example of whitewashing.

#ThankYouMattDamon has even gone viral on Twitter, with people sarcastically thanking Damon for everything he's done for Asian culture.

Now critics have chimed in, and it's not just the whitewashing allegations they see as a problem for the movie, which currently has a 38% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Here's what critics are saying about the movie:

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The movie is just dull.

Though the movie was directed by acclaimed Chinese director Zhang Yimou ("House of Flying Daggers"), its plot and action are predictable and extremely watered down, according to the scribes.

As USA Today puts it: "'The Great Wall' would probably be a lot more culturally offensive if it wasn't such a complete trainwreck."

The Chicago Tribune called it: "A monster movie, a white savior movie, and an extremely tedious movie."

There's some cool CGI, but that's not enough to save it.

As in all of Yimou's work, visual effects are prevalent, but not even beautiful CGI-generated landscapes and huge creature battles will keep you interested.

"There are plenty of fun CGI monster-skewering scenes," Empire said, "but a clunky plot, rigid script, and equally stiff acting make this a crumbling disappointment, if not quite a disaster."

And the dialogue is just plain weird.

There are certain moments in the movie when you don't know if suddenly the actors forgot they were supposed to be playing characters in ancient China. Modern slang is repeatedly used. One character says "b----" and a few say "I heard that!" Pretty sure neither was around in those days.

The Hollywood Reporter sums up the movie this way: "'The Great Wall' is easily the least interesting and involving blockbuster of the respective careers of both its director and star."