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How successful 2017's top Oscar movies really were at the box office

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Though they're certainly not lacking in attention, a number of the nominees for best picture at Sunday night's Oscars actually didn't get that much attention at the box office. 

Several of the films nominated — from winner "Moonlight" to "Hell or High Water" —didn't do big business in theaters. That’s because quite a few of the 2017 Oscar darlings are indie movies that just didn't get the exposure that the wide releases did — and had much smaller budgets.

We took a look at every 2017 best picture nominee’s budget and compared it to its domestic box-office gross, based on numbers from Box Office Mojo.

While some movies didn’t make anything close to blockbuster money, every movie on the list exceeded its budget and didn’t lose any money. 

It’s no huge surprise that “Hidden Figures” has made the most domestically, since it seems to have the most commercial appeal out of all the nominees on the list, with its moving true story and a star-studded cast. Though it's still a notable achievement for the best picture contender that's led by black actresses (and one with a modest budget).

“La La Land” also has commercial appeal and, with its 6 wins and 14 nominations, a lot of Academy appeal, too. The fact that the stylish and modern movie musical stars Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling certainly helped.

The third at the box office, “Arrival,” benefited from its sleek sci-fi concept and marketing, plus marquee names in Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, and Forrest Whitaker. It was also the most expensive to make on the list.

See below how all the 2017 Oscar best picture nominees did at the box office compared to their budgets:bi graphics_best_picture_budget

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The Oscars mistakenly used a photo of a living person in its tribute to dead movie talents

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You can add another gaffe to Sunday's wild Oscars ceremony.

While every year viewers and fans closely watch the awards show's "In Memoriam" tribute for the people it doesn't include who died over the past year, rarely do we see the awards accidentally include a person who is still alive.

During Sunday's "In Memoriam" segment, the producers mistakenly used a photo of a living woman for Janet Patterson, a four-time Oscar nominee for costume design who died last October.

The photo used was of Jan Chapman, a producer who has worked on several critically acclaimed movies. She was nominated for an Oscar for the 1993 film "The Piano."

"I was devastated by the use of my image in place of my great friend and longtime collaborator Janet Patterson," Chapman told Variety. "I had urged her agency to check any photograph which might be used and understand that they were told that the Academy had it covered. Janet was a great beauty and four-time Oscar nominee and it is very disappointing that the error was not picked up."

The Oscar producers may have made the mistake due to Patterson and Chapman having both worked on "The Piano," as well as the 2009 period romance film "Bright Star."

An ABC representative didn't immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment on the mistaken photo.

As for who was left out from the "In Memoriam" tribute this year, The Hollywood Reporter found four omissions: actors Garry Shandling, Doris Roberts, and Robert Vaughn, and producer and director Dan Ireland.

President Donald Trump's son Donald Trump Jr. used the mistake to chime in with his thoughts about the Oscars on Twitter, saying, "Interesting mistake, its almost like Hollywood doesn't really care about the little people behind the scenes..."

 

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The world's biggest game, 'Minecraft,' just surpassed 121 million copies sold (MSFT)

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More than just popular, "Minecraft" is ubiquitous. I've said it before, I'll say it again: "Minecraft" is this generation's "Super Mario." 

To say it's a "big deal" is selling it short. It's on phones, game consoles, and computers. It's a game; it's an education tool; it's even an annual convention. "Minecraft" is a cultural phenomenon.

And that phenomenon just hit a new sales milestone: 121 million copies sold.

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For context, that's nearly 30 million more copies sold of a single game than Nintendo sold of all games on its last console, the Wii U. Heck, it's three times the number of copies that the original "Super Mario Bros." sold.

It's this continued dominance that helps explain why Microsoft shelled out $2.5 billion for the game back in September 2014— the game is a sales juggernaut, having moved over 20 million units in the last six months. 

Microsoft put together some cute stats to contextualize just how large 121 million people really is:

Of note, those 121 million copies aren't sitting dormant — 55 million people play the game every month, on average. Though it's hard to know for certain, it's very likely that those 55 million monthly players make "Minecraft" the largest active gaming community on Earth. It's no wonder why we get beautiful works of art like this one-to-one re-creation of Vienna— with so many people playing, some folks are bound to create something magical.

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One of the best-dressed guys at the Oscars broke all of the rules

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Men hear a lot about rules when it comes it dressing. Generally, you should follow them.

Unless you know what you're doing — then you can do whatever you want.

Take as an example Mahershala Ali, who on Sunday won the best supporting actor Oscar for his role in the best picture-winning "Moonlight."

Ali wore an all-black Ermenegildo Zegna Couture tux, black shirt, and black bow tie, with black shoes. The pocket square: a white and black pattern.

According to the rules, Ali should look like a disaster, but he doesn't. Far from it.

Not only does Ali stand out on the red carpet's sea of blue and black, but he's definitely among the best-dressed men attending the awards. 

How does Ali do it? The answer is, as you may have suspected: carefully. 

None of the parts of his ensemble is the same texture. Move in closer, and you realize that there are contrasting micro patterns embedded into each piece to further separate them from each other.

The blacks aren't the same shade, but they're not so different as to distract the eye. Accessories like the pocket square, silver jewelry, and two-tone shirt buttons serve to give the outfit the depth that a monochrome tuxedo definitely needs.

Make no mistake: this is an expert-level ensemble. It's definitely harder to pull this off than a normal tuxedo, but Ali is able to do it precisely because he knows the rules — and the exact way to break them in order to create something beautiful.

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The 'hero' 'La La Land' producer who gave the best-picture Oscar to 'Moonlight' says the moment was 'terrible'

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"La La Land" producer Jordan Horowitz has been lauded as the voice of reason in the confusion created Sunday night when his film was mistakenly named the Oscars' best-picture winner instead of the actual winner, "Moonlight."

The morning after, Horowitz remained gracious over the defeat of "La La Land," which entered the night with 14 nominations, and the confusion initially surrounding the Oscars' finale.

"Hey, I won the Oscar for best picture. I got to thank my wife and kids," Horowitz told CNN on Monday, a reference to the fact he had time to make his full acceptance speech Sunday night before it became clear that something was wrong. "And then I got to present the Oscar for best picture! Not many people can say that."

"I don't even know entirely what happened," he added. "But life throws you a curveball sometimes."

On Sunday, presenters Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty were given the wrong winner's envelope by the accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers. They announced "La La Land" as the winner because the envelope they were given was a duplicate of the one announcing "La La Land" star Emma Stone's win for best actress. While acceptance speeches were still being made, Beatty and host Jimmy Kimmel informed the "La La Land" team of the mistake. Horowitz was the one to tell the world and set things straight.

"You guys, I'm sorry, no. There's a mistake," Horowitz said. "'Moonlight,' you guys won best picture."

Then when asking the "Moonlight" team to come up to the stage to accept the award, Horowitz said, "This is not a joke."

The producer was called a "hero" and a "gentleman" on social media for the way he reacted to the news of his loss and the win for "Moonlight." A Washington Post article called him "the truth-teller we need right now."

Horowitz gave CNN an idea of what it was like to learn about the error in the moment, after he discovered that the winner's envelope was intended for Stone.

"People started saying, 'Where's the best-picture card?'" he said. "There was confusion onstage."

Horowitz described the incident as "terrible" and "weird," but he suggested he didn't feel as if "La La Land," the musical starring Stone and Ryan Gosling that many had pegged as the frontrunner for best picture, deserved any credit afterward.

"No, this award belongs entirely to 'Moonlight,'" he said of the film about a gay black man growing up in Miami. "I don't want this to take away from them at all ... It's a beautiful film made by some beautiful people."

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The Oscars just had its biggest gaffe in history — here’s what happened

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The 89th Academy Awards proved to be one of the most eventful in history — and one of the most awkward. Just as the cast and crew from "La La Land" were wrapping up their victory speeches, a man in a headset came rushing on stage, and everything went downhill from there. Here's what happened during what the internet is calling "envelopegate."

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Jimmy Kimmel was paid a shockingly small amount to host the chaotic Oscars

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Jimmy Kimmel, who hosted the 89th Academy Awards on Sunday night, disclosed in December how much he was getting paid for the gig.

It turns out he was paid $15,000, which is a lot of money for a few hours of airtime but pretty low compared with his regular pay for "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" — $13 million to $15 million a year — and given all the preparation that goes into hosting a live TV event as widely seen as the Oscars.

"I'm not sure I was supposed to reveal this," Kimmel said in December. "But nobody told me not to. I consider this their fault."

After the chaos that erupted at the end of the awards show when "La La Land" was incorrectly announced as the best-picture winner, Kimmel may have more to complain about when it comes to his relatively low pay.

"I knew I would screw this show up. I really did," Kimmel said jokingly after the mistake was corrected and the "Moonlight" team was brought up to receive its rightful award.

A caveat is that ABC, the network that broadcasts Kimmel's late-night show, is also the network that broadcasts the Oscars, so Kimmel may have stipulations in his contract for hosting these events.

Kimmel's contract with ABC ends in 2019, and he has said he's considering retiring from late-night TV.

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Amazon's doing something incredibly smart with its Twitch service: selling games to viewers (AMZN)

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Amazon's purchase of video game streaming Twitch for $1 billion has been paying off for years already, but it's about to become an even smarter investment with the introduction of a new service.

Starting this spring, people watching games on Twitch will be able to buy whatever game they're watching — directly within Twitch. As you might imagine, Amazon is taking a cut.

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And that cut adds up quickly — it's this exact business model that makes Valve-owned Steam such a juggernaut. On an even broader scale, this is how Apple makes money on the iPhone/iPad App Store. 

The twist with buying games directly through Twitch is that part of the cut also goes toward the streamer (as long as the streamer is part of Twitch's "partner program," that is). That means Twitch streamers can make a cut of the profits from the sales of whatever game they're streaming.

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It also means that the large, loyal audiences that follow Twitch streamers can be directly monetized — Twitch already makes money from those audiences through advertising, as well as through a paid "Pro" service that removes adds and grants other benefits. This enables yet another avenue for Amazon to cash in on the millions of people watching game streams on Twitch.

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When the service launches this spring on Twitch, you won't be able to buy every game you see being streamed — just those where the game's developer and/or publisher worked with Twitch to make it happen. There are some notable names among that initial list, such as Ubisoft and Telltale Games, but all the highest-profile game makers are missing: companies like EA, Activision, Sony, and Microsoft are all missing.

A brief video introducing the service was created by Twitch, which we've embedded below — check out the full blog post from Twitch right here.

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RANKED: The 10 most talked-about moments of the 2017 Oscars

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There were plenty of memorable moments from Sunday's Oscars.

From the huge best-picture announcement gaffe and the first Oscar win for a TV series, "O.J. Made in America," to Jimmy Kimmel's blistering jabs at President Donald Trump during his opening monologue, the show certainly kept up a raucous energy.

But what really had viewers talking? In order to find out, Amobee Brand Intelligence— a company that provides marketing insight and measures real-time content consumption across the internet, social, and mobile —analyzed which moments from the 2017 Oscars stoked the most Twitter activity.

Take a look at the 10 most talked-about moments from Sunday's Oscars show:

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10. "O.J.: Made in America" wins for best documentary feature, the first time a TV series has won an Oscar. (It was also shown in theaters.)

9:12 p.m. ET — 25,7oo tweets.



9. The "In Memoriam" segment, which honored Gene Wilder, Patty Duke, Garry Marshall, Anton Yelchin, Mary Tyler Moore, Prince, John Hurt, Nancy Reagan, Debbie Reynolds, and Reynolds' daughter, Carrie Fisher, among many others.

11:26 p.m. ET– 26,000 tweets



8. Casey Affleck wins best actor for "Manchester by the Sea." Surprisingly, the controversy surrounding sexual harassment allegations against the actor didn't factor much into the night.

11:52 p.m. ET – 26,900 tweets



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The 7 biggest award-show fails of all time

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On Sunday night, perhaps the biggest awards show mistake ever was made at the 89th annual Academy Awards when Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway mistakenly announced "La La Land" as the best picture winner, when the winner was actually "Moonlight."

Everybody makes mistakes, even celebrities at tightly orchestrated awards shows. But some mistakes are just a little more high-profile than others. 

Quite a few celebrities have announced the wrong winner over the years, or made things a little awkward at various awards shows from the Oscars to the Golden Globes.

Keep reading to see more awards-show mistakes:

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"La La Land" wins best picture for 90 seconds

At Sunday's Oscars, presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway announced "La La Land" as the best picture winner, though Beatty seemed confused about the card he was given. As the speeches were happening, a serious-looking man came onstage and everyone involved with "La La Land" suddenly changed their looks from excited to disappointed: The presenters had the wrong envelope, and the best picture winner was actually "Moonlight."



"Adele Dazeem"

At the 2014 Academy Awards ceremony, John Travolta introduced legendary singer Idina Menzel’s performance of “Let It Go” from "Frozen." For some reason, he called her "Adele Dazeem" with a weird accent.



Steve Harvey crowns wrong Miss Universe

At the 2015 Miss Universe pagaent, in a moment that strongly echoes the Oscar snafu, Steve Harvey announed Miss Colombia as the winner instead of the actual winner, Miss Phillipines. He read the card wrong, and admitted to the mistake live on television. 



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The 20 biggest Oscar upsets of all time — and where the stunning 'Moonlight' win ranks

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Regardless of if you love watching the Oscars or love to hate-watch the awards, the highlight is always when there's an upset winner — and that happened in spectacular fashion at Sunday night's Oscars.

With months of predictions about why a person or film is going to win, there's nothing like watching the genuine surprise and spontaneous, authentic reaction when someone seems to steal away Hollywood's biggest prize. That can range from Roberto Benigni standing on his seat after winning best actor in 1999 to Adrien Brody planting a big kiss on presenter Halle Berry when he won the award in 2003.

And now we can add to that list the shocking best-picture upset by "Moonlight" over "La La Land," and the confusion amid the announcement of the award, at the 2017 Oscars.

Here are the 20 biggest upsets in Oscar history, and where "Moonlight" ranks:

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20. Anna Paquin wins best supporting actress for "The Piano" (1994)

Rarely does the Academy award children, but at 11 years old Paquin took the award, beating out Emma Thompson ("In the Name of the Father"), Winona Ryder ("The Age of Innocence"), Rosie Perez ("Fearless"), and Holly Hunter ("The Firm"), who was also nominated in the best actress category for playing opposite Paquin in "The Piano." She would win in that category.



19. "The King’s Speech" wins best picture (2011)

What was thought to be a film that would showcase Colin Firth's talents to earn him an Oscar (and it did), the movie shocked the likes of nominees "The Social Network," "The Fighter," and "127 Hours" to win the top prize.



18. Grace Kelly beats Judy Garland for best actress (1955)

Judy Garland had an iconic career but never received an Oscar (not counting her 1940 juvenile award for best performance by a child actor). Her best chance was for "A Star Is Born" in 1955 but Grace Kelly got the best actress prize instead. A puzzling choice by the Academy voters, especially since her win went for her role in the forgettable "The Country Girl" when in the same year she starred in Hitchcock classics "Rear Window" and "Dial M for Murder."



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The BMW Tupac was murdered in is selling for $1.5 million

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A tragic piece of history is up for sale — the BMW rapper Tupac Shakur was murdered in is selling for $1.5 million.

Shakur died 20 years ago after being shot four times while the BMW was stopped at a red light in Las Vegas, Nevada. At the time, the BMW belonged to Suge Knight, the co-founder and former CEO of Death Row Records.

Knight posted Shakur's $1.4 million bail in October 1995 under the condition Shakur would sign with Death Row. Shakur did and then released his 1996 double album "All Eyez on Me" — his biggest release and the last before his death. The muder remains unsolved.

Shakur was shot and killed in the BMW on September 7, 1996. Las Vegas police impounded the car and later auctioned it off, TMZ reports. The car has changed many hands since then and is now up for sale by Moments in Time, a memorabilia dealer.

Tupac's final vehicle purchase, a Hummer H1, sold for more than $300,000 at auction May of last year, CNN reported at the time.

Here's a closer look at the car:

SEE ALSO: The incredible rise and tragic murder of Tupac, who died 20 years ago

Here you see the black BMW at a Las Vegas impound lot in 1996.



The 1996 BMW 750il was riddled with bullet holes after the shooting. The indentations are still visible inside the door panels, as you can see pictured here.



The car has more than 90,000 miles logged.



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Why Hollywood finally forgave Mel Gibson at the 2017 Oscars

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There may not be a literal "movie jail" in Hollywood, but it's still real — just ask Mel Gibson.

Gibson graced the Oscars once again on Sunday night and looked in good spirits, as he should have: His movie "Hacksaw Ridge" was a best picture nominee, he was nominated for best director, and it took home two awards (for editing and sound mixing).

But 10 years ago, the once-superstar actor and Oscar-winning director hit his public rock bottom when he was arrested on a DUI charge on the Pacific Coast Highway in California. It was neither the first nor the last time a movie star will meet that fate, but it's the infamous, hate-filled rant he went on while being placed into a police car that caused his media implosion.

"F---ing Jews ... the Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world," the drunk Gibson slurred that evening in the leaked recording.

Gibson took his hits for the comments, made his public apologies, and met with Jewish leaders to ask for forgiveness.

All wasn't forgiven, but he was on the right track.

In 2010, however, the mega-talent agency William Morris Endeavor dropped Gibson after tapes surfaced of him going into a racist rant and making a death threat against his ex-girlfriend.

mel gibsonFor many in Hollywood, it was the last straw. They turned their backs on him. Since 2006, he's only starred in one studio-backed movie ("Edge of Darkness").

"I think he's essentially been blacklisted in the industry," "Lethal Weapon" screenwriter turned director Shane Black ("The Nice Guys") told Business Insider back in May of 2016. "I think people don't want to work with him."

There have been exceptions. Close friend Jodie Foster cast Gibson in her 2011 directing effort, "The Beaver," and Robert Downey Jr., who found support in Gibson when he had his own substance-abuse problems in the late 1990s, tried to convince Marvel Studios to hire Gibson to direct "Iron Man 3."

But mostly Gibson has been an outcast in Hollywood, and that was most evident in his directing efforts, which had dried up following 2006's "Apocalypto."

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That was, until "Hacksaw Ridge."

As much as we love to see our stars knocked down a peg (whether we acknowledge it or not), we're even more excited when they stage a comeback. And that's where we are in Gibson's career trajectory right now.

The World War II drama "Hacksaw Ridge," Gibson's first directing effort since 2006, has fueled the best press Gibson has gotten in a decade.

Along with earning over $175 million worldwide, the movie and Gibson himself received a warm welcome from the Academy, a sign that Hollywood's elite inner circle has welcomed the 61-year-old legend back into the club.

Taking some good-natured ribbing by host Jimmy Kimmel on Sunday night was sort of the climax to moments this past year when Gibson put on a brave face to take hits from his critics. While promoting "Hacksaw Ridge" on Variety's "Playback" podcast, Gibson spoke about his 2006 arrest, and he was candid, though also much too defensive.

“Ten years have gone by,” Gibson said. “I’m feeling good. I’m sober, all of that kind of stuff, and for me it’s a dim thing in the past. But others bring it up, which kind of I find annoying, because I don’t understand why after 10 years it’s any kind of issue. Surely if I was really what they say I was, some kind of hater, there’d be evidence of actions somewhere. There never has been.

“I’ve never discriminated against anyone or done anything that sort of supports that reputation,” Gibson continued. “And for one episode in the back of a police car on eight double tequilas to sort of dictate all the work, life’s work, and beliefs, and everything else that I have and maintain for my life is really unfair.”

Obviously Gibson has some scars. But hopefully he's aware that in addition to "eight double tequilas" behind the wheel leading nowhere good, the drinks don't excuse the speech or ideas behind them.

It's likely Gibson will never again be the leading man of a studio movie, and perhaps he finds that doing gonzo movies like his most recent "Blood Father" works best for him.

But it's his directing work that might define him for the next decade, and "Hacksaw Ridge" is the foundation for that.

Hacksaw Ridge Mike Rogers Lionsgate final"Ridge" star Andrew Garfield plays Desmond T. Doss (and received a best actor Oscar nomination for his work), an Army medic who served during the Battle of Okinawa and refused to carry a gun. He went on to become the first conscientious objector in American history to be awarded the Medal of Honor.

Gibson's work behind the camera (which earned him best director and best picture Oscar wins for "Braveheart" in 1996) is as moving and bloody as ever.

The film's distributor, Lionsgate, eventually got more comfortable touting Gibson. The first poster for "Ridge" didn't even have his name on it, reading instead "from the acclaimed director of 'Braveheart' and 'The Passion of the Christ.'" But TV spots before the release called "Ridge" "a film by Mel Gibson."

This has all led to Gibson being thrust back into the global spotlight (whether he likes it or not). He was reportedly in talks with Warner Bros. about directing the "Suicide Squad" sequel. He's also working on a sequel to his mega-hit "The Passion of the Christ." Titled "The Resurrection," it will be "a huge undertaking," according to Gibson (a script is currently being developed).

"Passion of the Christ" had its own controversies surrounding it, of course, but no one could deny its devoted fans and box-office might. Given Gibson's slow climb back to relevance, a movie about the resurrection of Jesus seems like an oddly fitting comeback.

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TERRY CREWS: Here’s how I stay positive every day

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Terry Crews, actor, former NFL player, and the host of Netflix's upcoming show, "Ultimate Beastmaster," discusses how he trys to stay positive and happy everyday. 

You can watch our full interview with Terry Crews here.

FULL TRANSCRIPT:

 

I stay positive by actually choosing things to be thankful for. An attitude of gratitude literally gives you energy.

But I also found that I used to be the opposite. And my wife will tell you, ‘cause we’ve been married 28 years, she knows the other side. I was not a nice person to live with. And … when I saw, personally, the differences in my life from once I was a pessimist to the switch to being an optimist, it’s like night and day.

Instead of looking for what’s wrong with everything, I started to look for what was right with everything. And you start to realize that you only get where your habits take you. So, the way you think gets you what you want in life. If you think everybody is against you, if you think you’re not going to get something, usually you don’t. And it kinda becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. But when I started shifting and saying, “Okay, I’ma go into this place like they want to see me” and say “Hey! Wait! Things are going to be better.” All of a sudden, things got better. And, listen, you can say, “It’s a Jedi mind trick on your own head.” Well, I say do it.

 

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The TV ratings for the Oscars were the lowest in 9 years

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While the biggest gaffe in the Oscars' history certainly makes Sunday's awards ceremony one of the most memorable, the ratings for Sunday's Jimmy Kimmel-hosted Oscars represent a nine-year low for the awards show.

According to Nielsen ratings data, 32.9 million people watched the ABC broadcast. That's compared to the 34.4 million viewers who watched last year's broadcast. So total viewers dropped a pretty tiny 4%.

With that number, the Oscars broadcast is the most-watched entertainment awards show of the past year, including the last Golden Globes and the Grammys, which were watched by 20 million and 26.1 million viewers, respectively. 

But when it comes to paying the bills, it's all about the group advertisers want most, adults younger than 50 years old. In that respect, Sunday's Oscars saw a big loss. It earned a 9.1 rating with that group. That represents the lowest rating for the awards show in nine years, according to Deadline. In fact, it's also the third-lowest rating for the Oscars this century.

For comparison, last year's Chris Rock-hosted Oscars earned a 10.5 rating in the advertiser-coveted 18- to 49-year-old demographic. That represents a 14% drop in ratings year-over-year.

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Trump: The Oscars screwed up because 'they were focused so hard on politics'

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The review of the Oscars many were waiting for from President Donald Trump is finally in.

Trump told Breitbart in an interview published Monday that the Oscars ceremony on Sunday night made its final gaffe — at first giving best picture to the wrong movie, "La La Land," instead of rightful winner "Moonlight" — because it was too busy commenting on politics.

"I think they were focused so hard on politics that they didn’t get the act together at the end," Trump said. "It took away from the glamour of the Oscars. It didn’t feel like a very glamorous evening. I’ve been to the Oscars. There was something very special missing, and then to end that way was sad."

In particular, Oscars host Jimmy Kimmel mocked and goaded Trump multiple times, in a blistering opening monologue and then later live-tweeting at the president. Several winners chimed in with political thoughts during their acceptance speeches.

Trump has tweeted about the Oscars in the past, usually disapprovingly, but he stayed away from tweeting about the event on Sunday night.

Presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway mistakenly announced "La La Land" as the best picture winner after being handed the wrong envelope, and after a mix-up, the "Moonlight" team finally came onstage to accept the honor.

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It seems like we now know how the wrong Oscar envelope got into Warren Beatty's hands

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One of the people in charge of handing out the winning envelopes to presenters at the Oscars on Sunday night may have gotten a little starstruck behind the scenes, possibly causing the worst mistake in Oscar history that's being called #envelopegate.

The Wall Street Journal reports that according to sources close to the situation, PricewaterhouseCoopers managing partner Brian Cullinan was tweeting backstage at the Oscars minutes before the infamous gaffe that led to presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway presenting the best picture category with the wrong envelope.

PwC is the company that audits the Oscar voting and handles the envelopes.

Cullinan was one of two PwC accountants holding envelopes with the names of Oscar winners. He tweeted“Best Actress Emma Stone backstage! #PWC” along with a photo of the actress at 9:05 p.m. PST. That was about three minutes before Beatty and Dunaway went onstage to present the award for best picture.

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The tweet has since been deleted, but The Journal has a screenshot of it.

Cullinan was reportedly supposed to give Beatty and Dunaway the envelope containing the name of the best-picture winner, but the acting legends were given a duplicate copy of the envelope containing Stone’s name as best actress.

As a result, Dunaway mistakenly named “La La Land" as best picture. After the mixup, "Moonlight" rightfully accepted the award.

PwC issued a statement late Sunday night saying it was "currently investigating" the matter. The company has watched over Oscar voting for the past 83 years.

PwC and Cullinan did not immediately respond to Business Insider's requests for comment about The Journal's reporting.

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Netflix's future could be making entertainment for non-humans, according to CEO Reed Hastings

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In a few decades, Netflix could be making shows for robots to binge-watch instead of humans, according to CEO Reed Hastings.

“Over twenty to fifty years, you get into some serious debate over humans,” Hastings said during a talk at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. “I don’t know if you can really talk about entertaining at that point. I’m not sure if in twenty to fifty years we are going to be entertaining you, or entertaining A.I.s.”

This isn't the first time Hastings has talked about the future of A.I. and humans, and his vision of it would make an epic Netflix show.

Hastings believes that in just 5 to 15 years, we won’t be able to tell if we are talking to a human or a robot, he said last year. And that's when the story gets really intriguing.

“Future of intelligence is a race brewing between carbon-based lifeforms and silicon-based lifeforms,” Hastings said last year. “Both are rapidly evolving. It’s unclear which type of intelligence will emerge dominant in 100, 150 years.” Hastings believes that as the power of AI increases, we'll also start to change our genetic code to make humanity smarter, faster, stronger, and so on. The race will be on.

If Hastings was pitching the next Netflix series, it definitely has potential. Imagine a world where robots and humans are fighting for dominance, each editing the very building blocks of their beings to outcompete the other. There could be star-crossed romance, ethical dilemmas, a struggle to find true happiness even as we build ourselves into super-beings.

The question will be who is watching the show: A.I., humans, or both.

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Jimmy Kimmel reveals what the 'mass confusion' was like during the biggest Oscars mistake ever

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Jimmy Kimmel didn't get much sleep after hosting the 2017 Oscars on Sunday night. He went right into taping his ABC late-night show "Jimmy Kimmel Live" the next day and gave his audience a recap of what the awards experience was like, including the epic blunder in which "La La Land" was erroneously named best picture before the honor was correctly given to "Moonlight."

"What a weird thing. Have any of you ever hosted the Oscars before?" Kimmel joked on Monday night's show. "Except for the end, it was a lot of fun."

Kimmel continued to poke fun at what was easily the biggest mistake in Oscars history, in which left people were onstage confused while the mix-up was sorted out.

"It was the weirdest TV finale since 'Lost,'" the host said. "I'm sure you've at least heard, 'La La Land' was simultaneously the biggest winner and loser last night. You know it's a strange night when the word 'envelope' is trending on Twitter."

Presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, it turns out, received the wrong envelope — a duplicate of the one naming Emma Stone as best actress for "La La Land" instead of the one for best picture.

"What we know is Warren was confused, so he handed it to Faye and let her read the winner — in other words, Clyde threw Bonnie under the bus," Kimmel joked, referring to the acting legends' 1967 film, "Bonnie and Clyde."

Some "La La Land" producers got onstage and gave speeches before word got around from the stage manager that the wrong winner was called.

"You kind of figure the host will go onstage and clear this up," Kimmel said. "And then I remember, 'Oh, I'm the host.'"

He said he walked up to the stage only to find "La La Land" producer Jordan Horowitz clearing up the error and asking the "Moonlight" team to come accept the best-picture award. Horowitz was widely praised on social media for the way he handled the confusion and disappointment Sunday.

"It was kind of scary in a way," Kimmel said. "That was the producer of 'La La Land' who thought he won. He's standing there holding an Oscar that they're now going to take away from him. My first instinct was to tell him to run."

Kimmel said it was "mass confusion" for everyone at the awards (and for those watching at home), as producers and cast members for both movies were onstage together sorting things out.

"I'm standing there like an idiot feeling bad for these guys — but also trying really hard not to laugh," he added.

Apparently Denzel Washington called out "Barry," hinting for Kimmel to get Barry Jenkins, the director of "Moonlight," to finally make a speech for best picture, which he did, before the night finally ended. But Kimmel on Monday wanted to make clear he had no hand in the best-picture mistake.

"People started speculating, people around me said, 'Did you pull a prank of some kind?'" Kimmel said. "I did not pull a prank. If I pulled a prank, by the way, I wouldn't have just had the wrong winner's name on the envelope. When they opened it, there would have been a Bed Bath & Beyond coupon."

Kimmel also described how the error happened. Though Stone said she never gave up her best-actress card, there are two cards made for each category, "just to make it more confusing," Kimmel joked.

"It wasn't Warren Beatty's fault," he said. "And Faye Dunaway made quite a getaway. She got the hell out of there. She read the wrong name and she split. She wanted no part of it. She was smart, too. And then I spent the whole rest of the night answering questions about it. It was quite an evening."

At least Kimmel has his wicked sense of humor about the whole thing.

Watch Jimmy Kimmel explain the "mass confusion" of Oscar night below:

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Jon Stewart slams media for going easy on Trump's 'lies': 'Take up a hobby. I recommend journalism.'

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Jon Stewart returned to the "Late Show" on Monday, because he couldn't hold in his thoughts on President Donald Trump any longer.

"Jon, you miss it, don't you?" host Stephen Colbert said.

"Yes, I miss it. I spent the whole day yelling about Trump to the animals," said Stewart, who after retiring from Comedy Central's "Daily Show" lives on a 12-acre farm with his wife.

Stewart, who's an executive producer of CBS's "Late Show," proceeded to rant about Trump's characterization of several media outlets as "fake news." But Stewart wanted to make things clear.

"I can't believe the guy has the balls to get away with that," he said. "Trump lies more in one press conference than CNN does in a year. And this is coming from a guy, who as you know, hates CNN."

Stewart mocked recent statements from Trump that have been proven false, including those about the election results and that US murder statistics have risen to a record high. But Stewart had to pause for a few seconds before addressing Trump's recent statement that he is "the least anti-Semitic person that you've ever seen in your entire life."

"I don't think that's true," Stewart said. "He said that to a guy wearing a yarmulke. Donald, you're not even the least anti-Semitic in the clip we showed."

Playing devil's advocate, Colbert told Stewart that he couldn't possibly know if Trump is intentionally lying.

"Stephen, you can. He's lying on purpose," Stewart said, before telling Colbert that the secret to knowing is what he believes is the tell: when the president says, "Believe me."

"Nobody says, 'Believe me,' unless they are lying," Stewart said.

Stewart then turned his attention to the media's coverage of Trump and delivered a message to journalists.

“Hey guys, hey media,” Stewart said. “So, I heard Donald broke up with you. Stings a little, doesn’t it? You finally thought you’d met your match. A blabbermouth who’s as thin-skinned and narcissistic as you are. Well now it’s over! Well, good riddance, I say! Kick him to the curb. It is time for you to get your groove back, media."

He continued, "The whole time you’re all chasing after Donny, the rest of us are thinking, ‘Can’t you see he’s an a--hole?’ No, you try to defend him! ‘No, no, that’s just 'primaries Donald.' That’s just 'election Donald.' You’ll see. We can change him! He’ll get presidential."

Stewart then gave the media a tip about what to do in the wake of Trump's rejection of them.

“Here’s my point, media. Here’s my point," Stewart said. "This breakup with Donald Trump has given you, the media, an amazing opportunity for self-reflection and improvement. Instead of worrying about whether Trump is un-American, or if he thinks you’re the enemy, or if he’s being mean to you, or if he’s going to let you go back into the briefings, do something for yourself. Self-improvement! Take up a hobby. I recommend journalism."

Watch Jon Stewart rail against Trump and the media on the "Late Show" below:

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