After the surprise success of "John Wick," stuntmen-turned-directors Chad Stahelski and David Leitch were in high demand, and when it came time for the two to choose between a project they were working on and a John Wick" sequel, the two had to divide and conquer.

So, Stahelski took "John Wick: Chapter 2" and Leitch (also signed on the direct "Deadpool 2") took the Cold War-era spy thriller "Atomic Blonde."

Based on the graphic novel, "The Coldest City," Charlize Theron plays MI6 agent Lorraine Broughton, who travels to Berlin to investigate the murder of a fellow agent.

Also starring John Goodman, Toby Jones, James McAvoy, and Sofia Boutella (Jaylah from "Star Trek Beyond"), the trailer that just went live on Friday teases a movie that has all the makings of being as good as the "John Wick" movies.

And having already wowed us in "Mad Max: Fury Road" and the trailers for "The Fate of the Furious," we are loving Theron's head-first dive into genre movies. "Atomic Blonde" looks to be her most ambitious offering yet.

Watch the NSFW trailer below. "Atomic Blonde" opens in theaters this summer.

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Director James Cameron has never been one to rush a project, and the "Avatar" sequels are a perfect example.

"Avatar 2" was originally supposed to be released in 2014, five years after the 2009 original, which went on to become the highest-grossing movie of all time. But that didn't happen, and then the sequel missed a couple other dates over the years, and now the latest projected 2018 release isn't going to happen either, according to Cameron. This is the fifth date set for the sequel's release and the fourth delay.

In a recent interview with the Toronto Star, Cameron broke down the complexities of making not just one sequel, but four:

"Well, 2018 is not happening. We haven’t announced a firm release date. What people have to understand is that this is a cadence of releases. So we’re not making 'Avatar 2.' We’re making 'Avatar 2,' '3,' '4,' and '5.' It’s an epic undertaking. It’s not unlike building the Three Gorges dam. [Laughs] So I know where I’m going to be for the next eight years of my life. It’s not an unreasonable time frame if you think about it. It took us four and a half years to make one movie and now we’re making four. We’re full-tilt boogie right now. This is my day job and pretty soon we’ll be 24-7. We’re pretty well-designed on all our creatures and sets. It’s pretty exciting stuff. I wish I could share with the world. But we have to preserve a certain amount of showmanship and we’re going to draw that curtain when the time is right."

Cameron has been known his whole career for his intense work ethic and attention to detail, so no one should think he's gliding around in his submarine and not working.

But Cameron is also always pushing the technology of cinema, so it shouldn't be a surprise if Cameron's delay is so the tech can catch up to his vision.

So as we patiently wait for our next trip to Pandora, you can head over to the "Avatar" attraction that is coming to Disney World later this year. Check it out below.

20th Century Fox did not immediately response to Business Insider's request for comment.

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Liberty Media CEO Greg Maffei seems to have a strange, love-hate relationship with Pandora.

One day the media tycoon is professing his admiration for the streaming music company, stoking anticipation that he might acquire it.  

The next day his company poo-poos Pandora's business model in public and sends its stock tumbling.

The one constant is that, over the last few months, the comments of Maffei and Liberty Media have reliably sent Pandora stock into a tizzy. It almost seems like he enjoys toying with Pandora's stock.

Take last month, when Maffei commented on Pandora. “Not clear that the valuation makes sense," he said. "At the right price, interesting. Not clear this is the right price.” Pandora stock sank around 6%.

Many observers, including activist investor Corvex, think Pandora should sell itself. And Liberty Media, which controls satellite-radio powerhouse Sirius XM, seems like the only buyer in town. Maffei reportedly made an informal offer for Pandora at roughly $15 a share early last year. So when Maffei opines about the company, Pandora investors get whiplash.

How bad has it gotten? Here's a graphic showing how Liberty Media's actions have moved Pandora's stock: 

1. On July 21, 2016, The Wall Street Journal reported that “Mr. Maffei floated an offer to acquire internet-radio company Pandora Media Inc. for roughly $15 a share.” Stock movement: Up 5%.
2. On December 2, 2016, CNBC and Bloomberg reported that Pandora was open to selling itself, and that Liberty Media CEO Greg Maffei expressed an interest. Stock movement: Up 16%.
3. On January 5, 2017, Sirius XM CFO David Frear said, "With respect to all the chatter about acquisitions, you have to look at them as sort of being not very likely." He also said that "on the Pandora front, they've got a big change in strategy with this move into the interactive sort of music business, which we've been public in our doubts about it." Stock movement: Down 5%.
4. On February 28, 2017, Liberty Media CEO Greg Maffei said, “Not clear that the [Pandora] valuation makes sense … At the right price, interesting. Not clear this is the right price.” Stock movement: Down 6%.
5. On March 1, 2017, Liberty Media CEO Greg Maffei said, “[Pandora is a] great product — way under monetized.” Stock movement: Up 2%.
6. On March 7, 2017, Liberty Media CEO Greg Maffei said that Pandora was “overvalued” and that $10 per share was something that could work. Stock movement: Down 6%.

Perfectly legal

Can Maffei, who reportedly has already offered (at least once) to buy the Pandora, keep making public comments that mess with Pandora's stock price?

"When buying and selling stock there's a lot of latitude," Greg Sichenzia, a lawyer who advises companies on securities law, told Business Insider. "You can't lie. You can't commit fraud." But Sichenzia said there's a lot of room when it comes to your personal opinion, even about a public company you might buy. Sichenzia said the times when this kind of thing actually becomes an issue is when short sellers falsely bash a stock and then ride it down. This isn't close to that.

"One guy's opinion should not move a stock," Sichenzia added. If it does, there's a bigger problem with your business. 

Liberty Media and Pandora declined to comment on the situation.

On-demand might not save Pandora

Liberty Media's actions have had such an effect on Pandora because, fundamentally, Pandora is a company with an uncertain future. The long-term prospects of Pandora seem to rest in the success of its upcoming on-demand product, Pandora Premium. The service will compete with the likes of Spotify and Apple Music. That product had been shown to press and investors, and is scheduled for release this month.

Pandora's internet radio service has secured a massive and loyal audience, and the company hopes that audience will pay a monthly fee for its new service, which lets users listen to specific songs. Here's a snapshot from a survey of the preferred music service of US subscribers:

The problem for Pandora is that the vast majority of its users don't pay. That hasn't been good for Pandora's bottom line, and is one reason the stock price is sitting at around $12 a share, lower than the $16 IPO price in June 2011.

In January, Pandora announced it would cut 7% of its workforce by the end of Q1 2017. But Pandora is hoping to turn things around with the new on-demand service. The basic idea behind Pandora Premium is that by making a simple and intuitive product, Pandora can convert some its users who might be turned off by the complexity of competitors like Spotify.

Here's an example. One feature that was notable in the Pandora Premium demo was its ability to auto-complete playlists. Half of user-generated playlists have fewer than five songs, the company said earlier this year. To add new ones, Pandora reaches into its data about the songs already on the list and also your listening history, which for some users can go back many years, and add various songs. You can swipe to get rid of them if you don't like Pandora's choice.

Big losses everywhere

Little touches like that might help sweeten the deal for longtime Pandora users — and there are a lot of them — but the broader issue is that even if Pandora's new service is a hit, none of the major players seem to be making any money in on-demand streaming anyway, even as they rack up millions of subscribers.

It's not clear that even with on-demand Pandora will be able to stand up on its own.

This brings us, again, to who a potential suitor for Pandora might be. The big tech players, from Apple to Amazon to Google, already have their own music services. It's unlikely they will buy Pandora. AT&T and Verizon seem much more preoccupied with video, and there hasn't been any chatter on that end. So that leaves Liberty Media, via Sirius XM, as the most likely candidate.

And in a one-buyer scenario, it's hard to see why Liberty Media would pay a premium. "Why should Liberty/Sirius pay up, when they are the only interested buyer and Pandora’s standalone prospects are increasingly grim," BTIG analyst Richard Greenfield wrote in a note last week.

So for the foreseeable future, every time Maffei makes a comment about Pandora being overvalued, or a pretty good business actually, expect Pandora's stock price to go haywire.

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While President Donald Trump has been a source of division among Americans, most of television's late-night hosts are in agreement: Trump makes for good joke fodder and pointed criticism.

But which ones are capitalizing the most in the time since Trump has taken office? Business Insider pulled the Nielsen ratings for TV's late-night shows to find out.

We compared the average viewership for each from January 1, 2016, to February 26, 2016, against the same dates in 2017 to see who had the most growth in viewership year-over-year (and who's been declining). What we found was pretty surprising.

Jimmy Fallon, once the young king of late night, has been dethroned by a rising Stephen Colbert, and political comedy in general is cashing in.

Take a look at the late-night winners and losers under Trump in the chart below:

Samantha Bee saw the greatest increase in her audience under Trump — by a huge 144%. Bee's weekly TBS show, "Full Frontal," premiered only on February 8 last year, however, and had the chance to steadily build her audience from scratch. But her pointed criticism could've fallen flat with audiences. Thankfully for her, that's clearly not the case.

HBO's weekly show "Real Time with Bill Maher" took the No. 2 slot for audience growth with a 68% increase in his audience. Maher saw a spike in viewership recently surrounding his controversial interview with conservative firebrand Milo Yiannopoulos, an episode that saw a 12% boost in viewers week-over-week.

Of course, broadcast takes the biggest piece of the cake. Among those shows, Stephen Colbert's "Late Show" can claim the biggest increase since Trump took office. His decision to go harder on politics instead of ignoring his "Colbert Report" roots, led by a new showrunner brought on last year, seems to have been a good one. Colbert's audience grew 13% over the same period last year.

The greatest fall was that of Jimmy Fallon's "Tonight Show." Fallon has lost about 17% of his audience year-over-year. Fallon, whose show is known for its off-the-wall celebrity games, may have taken a big hit with his softball interview with Trump during the presidential campaign. Once the No. 1 late-night show in broadcast TV, the "The Tonight Show" has lost the ratings war to Colbert in recent weeks. Leaks from the show suggest he's going to try to follow in the CBS host's footsteps and get more political.

Fallon's ratings problem is pretty much every NBC late-night host's problem, as he's not helping to bring eyeballs to the programs that follow him. Seth Meyers, who has been celebrated for his sharp political commentary on "Late Night," is down 8%. Even Carson Daly, who isn't political at all, is seeing a 7% dip in audience for "Last Call."

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You might remember the beautiful yacht we saw brief shots of in the 2012 James Bond movie "Skyfall." Now's your chance to take a look at the whole boat, and if you have enough cash on hand, to make it your own.

"Regina," the 183-foot superyacht owned by Turkish business tycoon Dogukan Boyaci, is on sale for $9.4 with Engel & Völkers Yachting.

This six-cabin yacht sleeps 12 guests and has been re-fitted since the movie was filmed. But it looks every bit as glamorous, even without Bond around.

It was last on the market in 2012, when it was listed for $14 million by Fraser Yachts.

Alex Davies contributed reporting on an earlier version of this article. 

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The 183-foot yacht has 1,140 square meters of sails.

It can cruise at 12 knots (13.8 mph).

It is also equipped with two engines.

Since the release of Alex Gibney's Emmy-winning documentary "Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief" and the A&E series "Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath," fascination over the Church of Scientology has been at an all-time high.

Now the church is being examined through the unique style of BBC filmmaker Louis Theroux. Known as the Michael Moore of Britain, Theroux often stars in his docuseries projects featuring off-beat cultural subjects like "America's Most Medicated Kids" and "Twilight of the Porn Stars." "My Scientology Movie," Theroux's first feature film (directed by John Dower), is less of a broad historic look at Scientology, like Gibney's film, and more a spotlight on the alleged incidents church members have experienced under the thumb of current Scientology leader David Miscavige.

"I had tried to do something on Scientology in 2002, but I reengaged with the subject after our producer Simon Chinn read the Lawrence Wright New Yorker piece [in 2011]," Theroux told Business Insider of the documentary, which opens in theaters and is available on streaming/VOD Friday.

The film follows Theroux as he travels to Los Angeles to investigate what goes on at the church's headquarters. With the church unwilling to cooperate, Theroux enlists ex-Scientology executive Marty Rathbun (who also stars in "Going Clear") to give insight into what goes on there.

This then leads to Theroux asking Rathburn to help him in casting reenactments of incidents that allegedly happened to church members, many of which involve the church's leader, David Miscavige, bullying and physically abusing Scientologists.

As with "Going Clear," making "My Scientology Movie" involved lawyers dissecting every piece of footage in the final cut to make sure BBC Films and others with stakes in the film weren't making themselves legally vulnerable.

Due to differences in laws in the UK versus the US, Theroux believes "My Scientology Movie" was scrutinized more by its lawyers than "Going Clear."

"When you don't have access to a subject and all you have is ex-members and critics, there is this gravitational pull toward telling a certain version of events," Theroux said. "Scientology would say this, and they have a point, that it's like doing a portrait of a marriage in which you're only hearing from the ex-wife and not the ex-husband. So as a journalist it's this nagging feeling that I'm not getting the full picture."

In the movie, many title cards giving information about alleged incidents also include counter-statements from the church. But Theroux believes Scientology's side comes through most clearly in its actions during filming.

In a few instances, Theroux finds camera crews, apparently Scientologists, filming him making the movie. (Scientology informed Theroux that it's making a film on him.) Rathburn also films alleged Scientology members harassing him.

"When they show up saying they are making their own film on me, or filming Marty, as a viewer you no longer have that thought, 'I wonder how Scientology would characterize this?' It strengthens the film," Theroux said.

But Theroux admits he may have gone too far in a key moment in the film. Following an encounter Rathburn has with alleged church members, Theroux and Rathburn discuss the incident, with Theroux reminding Rathburn that when he was in Scientology these were the kind of tactics he instructed people to use on ex-members. This sets Rathburn off, and he curses out Theroux.

"I think I was probably over the line," Theroux said. "Every screening I've been in when that moment plays, it's tense and people think, 'I don't know what I feel about this.'"

But director John Dower believes it needed to be addressed.

"Louis needs to ask that question because Marty had consistently batted it away so many times before," he said. "It so happens that's the only time he could get an answer out of him."

"My Scientology Movie" offers the impression that even if you decide to leave the church, members will never leave you alone — especially if you go public with what goes on inside it.

Since filming wrapped, those involved with the movie have thought the church was behind bizarre moments in their lives.

Dower knows his Instagram account was hacked by the church because, according to Dower, Scientology officials admitted to doing it in one of their cease-and-desist letters to the BBC regarding the film.

Then there are the threats toward Theroux.

The morning of his interview with Business Insider, Theroux was locked out of his email account due to, as he called it, "suspicious activity." Police told him some of the activity came from Clearwater, Florida, headquarters of Scientology.

And a few months ago, the police came to his house telling him they'd been tipped that someone wanted to do bodily harm to him due to his Scientology movie. The church, in fact, was involved.

"I asked the police where the threat came from and they said Scientology called them saying they had heard it," Theroux said. (According to the filmmaker, police told him Scientology said in its tip that it was "concerned" for his "well-being.")

"I was like hold on, that doesn't sound right," Theroux said. "They were the ones who made the call? Now I'm on a special list where if I call the police they are on the fast track to where I am. But my take is it sounded like Scientologists were just trying to wind me up by getting the police to come to my house."

Numerous attempts to contact Scientology to comment for this story were not successful.

Here's a clip from the movie:

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“The Daily Show” host Trevor Noah recently bought a duplex penthouse in New York City, the South African comedian's new home, for $10 million.

Noah's 3,596-square-foot apartment occupies the 17th and 18th floors of a building in midtown Manhattan. Before he bought the penthouse, Noah was renting a two-bedroom unit in the same building, where his rent was $15,000 a month. 

The two-floor apartment has gorgeous views, minimal and modern design, and tons of space, especially for a city like New York.

But it seems like location was the biggest factor in Noah’s decision: The building is only four blocks away from “The Daily Show” studio on 11th avenue. 

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The penthouse is located in Stella Tower, a former telephone building in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan.

The Art Deco tower was designed by Ralph Walker in 1927. 

It’s got dynamite views of midtown Manhattan, including the Empire State Building.

It has three bedrooms, three full baths, and two half-baths.

Through background audio in video footage from his first ride on Air Force One, we know that President Donald Trump wacthes Fox News. And we also know that he spent an evening watching "Finding Dory" while Americans protested his immigration ban. But what are his favorite television shows?

Trump hasn’t exactly released a list of them, but we can tell what he's tuning into from comments and his frequent Twitter posts.

The commander-in-chief reportedly watches a lot of TV, particularly for a US president — so much of it, in fact, that people around him are reportedly concerned about it. Meanwhile, he misses most of his daily briefings.

"For a sense of what is happening outside, he watches cable, both at night and during the day — too much in the eyes of some aides — often offering a bitter play-by-play of critics like CNN’s Don Lemon," The New York Times reported. 

Here are the TV shows that Trump watches:

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"Fox & Friends"

This is probably Trump's favorite show. The president often tweets things that correspond to what’s being said or presented on the show minutes after it airs, or as it's airing. The hosts of the Fox News morning show also sing his praises on a regular basis, and he's known to call in to talk to them.

"The O'Reilly Factor"

In January 2017, Trump's tweets aligned with reporting on another Fox News show. This time, it was "The O'Reilly Factor."

Trump tweeted, "If Chicago doesn't fix the horrible 'carnage' going on, 228 shootings in 2017 with 42 killings (up 24% from 2016), I will send in the feds!" 

The tweet came shortly after a segement on "The O'Reilly Factor" that used the same statistics, and even used the word "carnage."

"Hannity"

Sean Hannity often praises Trump on his Fox News program. In the first week of Trump's presidency, Hannity got an exlusive one-hour interview with him at the White House.

In late February, Hannity criticized the president for being "a little too sensitive" to criticism, but so far, he's gotten Trump's ear more than most.

Some kids going to see Disney's live-action remake of "Beauty and the Beast" next week will get a surprise when they find a playground inside the actual theater where they'll be watching the movie.

On Tuesday, theater chain Cinépolis USA announced it would unveil the country's first dedicated children’s movie-theater auditoriums, called Cinépolis Junior.

Launching on March 16, the day before "Beauty and the Beast" opens in the US, the kid-friendly screens will roll out at Cinépolis Pico Rivera and Cinépolis Vista in Southern California, with more planned to pop up around the country in the near future. (Cinépolis has already opened these kinds of theaters internationally.)

Each auditorium will offer dedicated play areas, comfortable seating alternatives such as beanbags and lounge chairs, and even unique concession choices like popcorn flavors including Cheetos, chili, and caramel.

At a time when many theaters are doing more to limit disruptions, the gimmicks of the kid-friendly theaters horrified some people on social media, though it's hard to imagine a six-year-old disapproving of the setup.

Here's a glimpse at what the kid-friendly theaters with play areas look like:

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Designed for ages 3-12, the theaters allow kids to show up early with their parents to play before the move begins, and they can play for 15 minutes after the movie. Cinépolis USA is also considering leaving house lights on so kids can play during the movie.

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The Cinépolis Junior theaters will feature a 55-foot-long and 25-foot-high play structure with two slides and two main platforms featuring playground equipment.

All theaters will feature beanbag seats and poolside-style lounge chairs.

"Psychonauts" is easily my favorite video game of all-time. So I was incredibly excited to talk to Tim Schafer, the 49-year-old founder of San Francisco-based Double Fine Productions and the creative mind behind this incredible game.

In "Psychonauts," you play as Raz, a kid who runs away from the circus — the family business — and sneaks into a summer camp for psychic children who are all vying to join the Psychonauts, an elite group of psychic heroes. 

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"Psychonauts" gushes with creativity, from the clever and funny writing to the quirky art style to the levels themselves.

When you’re not exploring the Whispering Rock Psychic Summer Camp, you’re jumping into people’s minds using a psychic portal, which lets you help those people by fighting their internal demons and sorting out their emotional baggage — plus several other clever, literal metaphors — as you navigate their unique and bizarre mental worlds.

I’ve played "Psychonauts" to completion three full times over the past decade — the game launched in April 2005 for the original Xbox, and has since become a cult classic.

Right now, Double Fine Productions is working on more Psychonauts experiences.

The company is working on a full sequel to the game coming in the next year or so, called "Psychonauts 2," and just a few weeks ago, Double Fine released a $20 game that covers the events between the first game and its upcoming sequel, called “Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin” — you can buy it right here.

"Rhombus of Ruin" also happens to be Double Fine’s first-ever virtual reality game: You can only play this game if you own a PlayStation 4 with PlayStation VR.

Having tried the game for myself (you can watch our Facebook Live broadcast here), I can say that “Rhombus of Ruin” is one of the best VR experiences I've ever tried and a satisfying Psychonauts adventure in its own right. It does a wonderful job of bringing you back to that bizarre, colorful world first introduced over a decade ago, and the puzzles and dialogue are just as clever and funny as ever. The visuals also look great, thanks to Unreal Engine, and the VR controls are very intuitive: Most of the game involves jumping into the minds of various characters, seeing what they see, and solving puzzles accordingly, a mechanic that works extremely well.

After playing through "Rhombus of Ruin," I got on the phone with Schafer to talk about the future of Psychonauts, building a VR game for the very first time, the new Nintendo Switch, the game industry as a whole, and much more.

This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity.

Quick, think of a fictional archaeologist.

You pictured Indiana Jones, right?

That's not surprising. Harrison Ford's popular character didn't just grab the attention of movie audiences. As National Geographic previously reported, the film franchise inspired a lot of real world interest in the field of archaeology.

Of course, actual archaeology involves fewer boulder traps, melting faces, and big golden statues than the series indicates. In fact, there are certain tropes and clichés that Hollywood tends to get wrong across the board when it comes to archaeology.

Business Insider spoke with three archaeologists about their opinions on some of the archaeological tropes portrayed in television shows and movies.

Here's what they had to say:

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Myth: Archaeology is all about finding treasure

"Since Indiana Jones, people will ask, 'What are you finding?'" said Dr. Bill Kelso, the director of research and interpretation at Historic Jamestowne. "We'll say, 'Here's a line of post holes — this means that there was a wooden fence here.' And they'll say, 'No, no. What are you finding?'"

He said that it's natural to get excited about big discoveries or shiny artifacts, but that archaeology is mostly about trying to reconstruct and answer questions about the past. Kelso said that this is something he tries to instill in the students who enroll in the field school at Jamestown.

"I think that they think archaeology is finding objects that you can pick up and hold," Kelso said. "It takes a while before they understand that, 'Hey, this post hole is the most exciting thing I've seen, and you can't put it in a bag and put it in a museum.'"

Chelsea Rose, a Southern Oregon University research faculty member and former member of the archaeology TV show "Time Team: America," said that most movies tend to get artifacts wrong.

"Most artifacts are like broken glass or broken pieces of dishes, but when you put it all together, you can get at a story that has meaning," Rose said.

Myth: Archaeologists basically collect stuff for museums

Rose said that many fictional works also seem to misunderstand the relationships between archaeologists and museums. By focusing so much on the quest for lost treasure or bejeweled idols, movies sometimes portray archaeologists as going out and acquiring items on the behalf of museums.

"It kind of bypasses what we really are after, which is learning about the people who created the stuff," Rose said.

Myth: It's alright if one or two artifacts gets destroyed over the course of your adventure

Whether it's Indiana Jones disrupting Venetian catacombs and stealing golden idols from a Peruvian temple, or the characters in the 1932 version of "The Mummy" appropriating artifacts and tangling with a resurrected priest, it's safe to say that many fictional archaeologists treat their profession with a certain degree of recklessness.

Kelso recalled a scene in "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" where Jones uses the femur of a perfectly preserved skeleton to make a torch. A real archaeologist would likely be a bit more careful with such a find.

"It hasn't been touched in so many centuries," he said. "We need to study this. How did this person die? How old were they? Who are they? The fragility of things is what's missing there. You don't just rip them apart."

However, not all archaeology is dusting off tiny scraps of pottery with toothbrushes, either.

"It's not unusual for some archaeological excavations to look more like a construction site than this so meticulous brushing off with paintbrushes," said Tony Boudreaux, a sociology and anthropology professor at the University of Mississippi and director of the University's Center for Archaeological Research.

"You're just as likely to have heavy equipment moving dirt and people walking around wearing hard hats," he told Business Insider. "But, in some cases, the excavations that you're doing very much require you to go very slowly when you're dealing with delicate, sensitive remains."

In Louis Theroux's first feature film, "My Scientology Movie" (in theaters Friday), the acclaimed British documentarian travels to Hollywood in the hopes of better understanding the Church of Scientology by investigating its most infamous moments with former members.

But, as it typically goes with a Theroux project, the unknown creates the most compelling footage. And there's nothing more compelling in "My Scientology Movie" than the hilarious and surprising moment when, in the middle of Theroux doing an interview with former Scientology member Marty Rathbun, actress Paz de la Huerta suddenly hijacks the shoot.

Dressed in a bikini and sipping a water, she is seen in the background walking by the windows of the hotel room where Theroux and Rathbun are shooting. She suddenly stops, knocks on the room's window, and walks to the room's door, which Theroux opens.

"You can't film me," de la Huerta says, before stepping into the hotel room and talking to the camera.

We'll let the scene tell the rest of the story:

It's one of the many stranger-than-fiction moments Theroux has in the movie, but at one point Paz de la Huerta was going to be a bigger part of the film.

As she says in the clip, de la Huerta has been in over 45 films. Many will also remember her from the first two seasons of "Boardwalk Empire" as Lucy Danziger, Nucky Thompson's girlfriend. (HBO reportedly did not pick up her contract option for a third season.) She's also become a Hollywood fixture for her sometimes wild behavior and partying.

But she also has a connection to Scientology, though she is not a member of the church.

The day after de la Huerta barged in on the production of "My Scientology Movie," director John Dower interviewed her on camera in her hotel room. She revealed that she had participated in a reenactment of an event Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard used to put on with scientist Jack Parsons after World War II.

"She had taken part in a kind of Magick ritual, a reenactment of a Magick ritual," Theroux told Business Insider when the film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival last year, referring to an occult practice.

In the 1940s, before the creation of Scientology, Hubbard and Parsons were part of the California branch of the black-magic cult Ordo Templi Orientis. Parsons used the huge amount of money he got from the Department of Defense for inventing rocket fuel and converted an old mansion in Pasadena into a pagan oasis where strange rituals happened often.

According to Dower and Theroux, de la Huerta said she was the female lead in a reenactment of one of the Magick rituals done in the mansion. It was all part of a performance headed by artist Brian Butler, who is also known as the manager of legendary experimental filmmaker and author Kenneth Anger ("Hollywood Babylon").

Like any good journalist would, Theroux and Dower followed the story, interviewing Butler and Anger as well as going to Pasadena to film the occult mansion. But looking back on it now, they went too far down the rabbit hole.

"Interviewing Kenneth Anger was fun because 'Hollywood Babylon' was kind of a formative book for me back in the day," Theroux said, "but I thought he was going to link it all up — Hubbard's Hollywood years with the current religion — but it turned out to be on odd interview."

Theroux and Dower ended up never using any of the footage in the movie from the de la Huerta lead. But Dower will never forget the last day of shooting de la Huerta.

"She started singing a Charles Manson song," he said. "I realized then we really went too far down the road with all this, but it was good fun."

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CULVER CITY, California — We recently had the opportunity to visit the set of "Jeopardy!" on a taping day and got to talk to the iconic host of the show, Alex Trebek. 

Trebek allowed us to chronicle his entire daily routine, from his morning production meeting with the "Jeopardy!" staff, to sitting in the makeup chair, to the actual taping of the shows. Five episodes are filmed on each taping day, and there are approximately six taping days every month. 

We got to interview Trebek in a few different settings, but we also got to record his interaction with the studio audience. During each commercial break, Trebek takes questions from the audience. It's during these segments that you'll get to see a side of the iconic host that you rarely see on the show itself. 

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There’s something that adult observers — from analysts to regular joes — just don’t get about the way teens watch video, according to "t@gged" writer-director Hannah Macpherson.

“They are watching hours of shows on their phones,” Macpherson told Business Insider.

Older people assume teens are only watching things like YouTube videos, or short viral clips on Facebook, on their phones. But they are actually binge-watching whole Netflix shows on the small screen.

It’s a totally new way of watching premium TV, and the producers of the future have to be ready for it.

Macpherson came into contact with this behavior in a huge way when she sold "t@gged" to Verizon’s go90 streaming service, which is primarily a phone app. While go90 as a whole has struggled to find its place in the premium video landscape, "t@gged" has been one of its few runaway hits, with episodes getting thousands of comments from viewers on the app, and its first episode sitting at over 1.2 million views on YouTube. (Like Netflix, Verizon won't even tell Macpherson the exact in-app viewer numbers.)

If you watch "t@gged," it's easy to see why it has teens hooked. It's an addictive murder-mystery thriller, set in high school, and the 11- to 15-minute episodes live very naturally on your phone. Each episode has a cliff-hanger scary ending that makes you want to jump straight to the next one. Even as someone way outside the show's intended demographic, I can recognize its quality.

But while it might sound like "t@gged" is a poster child for a new generation of bite-sized TV shows, Macpherson said that Season Two will actually have longer episodes, with 12 “half-hours” that clock in at 22-23 minutes each (a standard length for a TV show with commercial breaks).

The reason: since go90 releases "t@gged" weekly, it was a bit excruciating for people to only have a dozen minutes to hold onto. Turns out that old-fashioned TV had a pretty good length for weekly shows.

TV for the YouTube generation

So some things haven't changed for a show where most people are watching it on their phones instead of their TVs. And Macpherson said there were even some traditional networks interested in buying "t@gged" before go90 put up the winning bid.

But even though "t@gged" is moving to longer, more TV-like episodes for Season Two, that doesn’t mean there aren’t still huge differences in making a show for a generation raised on YouTube, according to Macpherson.

A big part of understanding that came from Macpherson’s partnership with AwesomenessTV, the $650 million YouTube-centric juggernaut, which has made a name for itself by understanding what teens love.

When Macpherson first brought "t@gged" to AwesomenessTV, it was a one-hour pilot. There were more characters, especially adult characters, and subplots like a teacher trying out online dating.

“Awesomeness was so confident in the demo,” Macpherson said. They told her, “Let’s lose the older characters.” Macpherson cut down the show, and focused more on the relationships between the high-school protagonists.

The second piece where "t@gged" differed from traditional TV was in casting a mix of traditional actors and social-media “influencers.”

“I was a little resistant to auditioning YouTubers,” Macpherson said, but some of them ended up being great, and were cast in "t@gged."

This wasn't a suggestion by AwesomenessTV, but more of a mandate.

According to Macpherson, AwesomenessTV has “almost an algorithm” for determining how many YouTube stars versus traditional actors to put in a project. “It is literally a percentage,” Macpherson said. And she understands why. “They are powerful," she said, referring to the YouTube stars. "People watch 't@gged' because of of JC Caylen.” He has 2.7 million subscribers on YouTube.

When it came to shooting the show, Macpherson said she needed it to look good in a theater or on a cell phone, and have everything be legible on the small screen. There were some trade-offs. “You cannot have that massive wide,” she said.

But while there were restrictions — like a small budget necessitating a “two takes max” mantra — there was also a degree of freedom for Macpherson. “I write them all and direct them," she explained. "There’s a degree of trust you would not get anywhere else. Even at Amazon or Netflix there’s still a different director for every episode.”

Macpherson delivered on that freedom, and will soon be making her first big studio movie as well, where there will be a lot more cooks in the kitchen. But first, Macpherson will deliver the second season of "t@gged," which she finished a  25-day shoot in the New Mexico desert for.

And anyone trying to understand how to make a hit TV show for the YouTube generation should definitely tune in.

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The Oscars' best-picture award can go to a low-budget indie darling or a monstrous hit with a blockbuster budget to match. And looking back at the winners, comparing budgets gets tricky because of inflation.

A movie that had what seems like a low budget could actually be quite expensive when adjusted for inflation in 2017. Thankfully, Reddit user Joe Falchetto put all the work of adjusting the budgets of best pictures for inflation into one chart, so we can see what movies really cost the most. 

“Titanic,” the epic 1998 Oscar winner, tops the chart of priciest best pictures by millions of dollars. Behind it comes “Gladiator,” the 2001 best-picture winner, and “Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King,” which won best picture in 2004. 

According to Box Office Mojo, the 1997 budget for “Titanic” was about $200 million. And according to an inflation calculator, that equals $302,603,115.26 in today's US dollars. 

The best-picture winners with the lowest budgets adjusted for inflation include “Moonlight” (2016), “Crash” (2005), and “Rocky” (1976).

“Crash” had a budget of $6.4 million. Adjusted for 2017, that would be $8,227,472.74. The budget for “Rocky” was $1.1 million in 1976, or in today's dollars, $4,694,602.81. 

And although “Moonlight” only came out last year, it’s still subject to inflation: the budget was $1.5 million, which spikes up to $1,517,699.48 today. 

This chart documents the budgets of the last 50 Oscar best-picture winners, adjusted for inflation: 

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One of the great things about Netflix is that it has brought thoughtful, compelling documentaries to a much wider audience — something filmmakers could only dream of a decade ago.

And with binge-worthy titles like "Amanda Knox" or "Metallica: Some Kind of Monster" a click away, you can get a lot of great nonfiction viewing any night of the week. You'll learn a lot more about the world, but don't worry — you'll also be entertained.

Here are 33 documentaries we think you should stream right away on Netflix.

Note: Numerous Netflix titles drop off the streaming service monthly, so the availability of titles below may change.

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1. "13th"

Director Ava DuVernay looks at the history of the US prison system and how it relates to the nation's history of racial inequality.

2. "Amanda Knox"

The murder trial in Italy of the American exchange student Amanda Knox, who is now free, captivated the world in the early 2000s. This Netflix original looks back at the case and gets the perspective of Knox and others closely involved.

3. "The Battered Bastards of Baseball"

In a fascinating look at one of the more colorful stories in baseball lore, directors Chapman and Maclain Way follow the Portland Mavericks, an independent baseball team owned by the movie star Bing Russell (Kurt Russell's father) who threw out all the conventions of the national pastime to build a regional sensation in the late 1970s.

The Warner Bros. latest release from its MonsterVerse franchise, "Kong: Skull Island," won the weekend box office with the entertaining blockbuster taking in an estimated $61 million, according to The Hollywood Reporter. But the figure still doesn't come close to what WB put in to make the movie.

This latest look at the legendary Kong went outside the box, placing the monster ape in the Vietnam-era with huge production value, incredible CGI creature fights, a soundtrack full of almost every iconic song from the 1970s, and big name stars like Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson, Brie Larson, John C. Reilly, and John Goodman.

All that totals to around a $185 million-budgeted movie (and another $136 million to market it), according to Deadline.

So even though "Skull Island" exceeded industry weekend projections by taking in $20.2 million on Friday and then had an impressive spike on Saturday with $23.9 million, WB is still looking at a big hill to climb to get in the black.

And the international box office isn't helping, as it didn't even crack $85 million.

"Skull Island" also didn't perform as well as WB's 2014 monster movie "Godzilla," which opened domestically at $93.1 million. Budgeted at $160 million, it went on to earn over $529 million worldwide.

"Logan," Hugh Jackman's final time playing X-Men Wolverine, came in second place with $37.9 million.

And in third is the sensational "Get Out" with $21 million, putting the movie past $100 million total gross, the fastest a Blumhouse Productions release ever hit the mark. The movie was made for $4.5 million.

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The Church of Scientology is legendary for keeping a tight lid on its inner workings. In fact, its current leader, David Miscavige, hasn't done a TV interview in 25 years.

Still, for British journalist/documentarian Louis Theroux, who makes his living profiling the people living in the margins of society, Scientology was the, as he put it, "Holy Grail" of stories. That led to him making the documentary "My Scientology Movie" (currently in theaters, On Demand, and iTunes), which follows him as he travels to Los Angeles to investigate what goes on at the Church of Scientology's headquarters.

But it was quite a challenge at first to make a movie on the church with no access to anyone inside it.

"In 2002, we went through the proper channels and my producer at the time and I took a tour of the Celebrity Centre and then it all fizzled out," Theroux said, talking to Business Insider in a Facebook Live interview. "Eight years went by."

Theroux couldn't figure out how to do his kind of storytelling on the topic.

"I'm not just a reporter, I'm an experiencer of what's going on and we weren't going to do a backward story on how Scientology came into existence. It was to be an immersive piece about what it means to eat, breath, sleep Scientology," he said.

It also wasn't any help that Scientology has been hostile to journalists trying to glean insight about the organization, especially in recent years as questions about the church have ramped up. It has retaliated against projects like the HBO documentary "Going Clear" with smear campaigns.

"They don't let people in, they don't let reporters inside. And they view reporters as being what they call 1.1 on the Tone Scale, meaning on a par with sexual perverts," Theroux said, referring to the scale in Scientology that assesses a human's state.

"We just needed something to get the engine of the film going," the movie's director John Dower said of the block.

Then Theroux, Dower, and the film's producer Simon Chinn came up with an idea: retell the parts that Scientology was keeping from them.

"We came up with the idea of using actors to do reenactments of life inside Scientology," Theroux said.

"The first day of doing the auditions we had no idea if it was going to work and it kind of did," Dower said. They immediately found actor Andrew Perez to play the role of Miscavige.

They then brought on ex-Scientology executive Marty Rathbun to give insight on camera to Theroux and the actors doing the reenactments.

The movie ends up being the type of first-person storytelling Theroux is known for, even if it took extra work to get there. In fact, he even faced physical threats for his inquires into Scientology.

"It's a film within a film," Theroux said. "In life the line between performance and our real selves isn't always clear."

Watch Business Insider's entire Facebook Live chat with Theroux and Dower below:

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The massive open-world of "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild" is dangerous as heck. 

If the Moblins don't get you, the elements probably will. In fact, just existing in the parts of Hyrule, "Breath of the Wild's" massive environment, will kill you.

There are, of course, a few things you can do to help Link survive. He can wear armor, and fight back with weapons, and even drink elixirs that will come in especially useful in extreme temperatures. All helpful, no doubt, but the most helpful tool in Link's toolbox is his ability to cook.

We've already put together the 10 most useful recipes — those are right here— so today we're focusing on one recipe in particular: the most useful recipe you can cook, no matter what the situation, in "Breath of the Wild."

Amazingly, there's only one ingredient:

That's right: the mighty durian fruit!

If you've never spent any time in Asia (particularly Southeast Asia), you may be unfamiliar with the durian. It's a particularly impressive-looking fruit that's notorious for smelling rotten. Some people love it, some people hate it — it's divisive in Asia, where you're likely to see signs in the subway specifically banning it from being eaten. 

Someone at Nintendo must have a particular affinity for it, because durian is far and away the most useful ingredient in "Breath of the Wild."

Just look at what happens when you take five and cook them together:

That's no joke! 

In case it isn't clear, the result of cooking together five durian in "Breath of the Wild" is a restorative meal that also temporarily increases your heart meter by 20 hearts. There are literally no situations in this game where that isn't tremendously useful — even if you're slowly being killed by extreme heat/cold, even if you're falling from the top of a mountain, even if you're fighting Ganon. With that much health, you can withstand pretty much anything Hyrule throws at you.

Better yet, durian is incredibly easy to collect in vast quantity. I've found a super easy location for endless durian, in southern Hyrule:

If you've already found Faron Tower, simply quick-travel to it. If you've not found it, you'll need to eventually — why not go right now? 

Here's what it looks like when you get there:

The area near the tower is tropical, as is much of the southern border of Hyrule. And that's a good thing for durian hunting — the massive fruit grows in tropical climates! 

Like this plateau, for instance, right next to Faron Tower:

Indeed, those palm trees are indicative of the treasure before you — they're filled with durian. 

All you need to do is hop over to the plateau next to Faron Tower and spend a few minutes loading up Link with more spiky fruit than he knows what to do with.

From there, take the durian you've harvested and put together five in your inventory, which then gets cooked together. No add-ons, no special ingredients — just five durian simmered together in a cooking bowl over an open flame will do it.

Sometimes you'll get lucky, like I did here, and produce a meal with even greater restorative powers than usual — check it out:

That's a full recovery of all my health plus 21 extra hearts. I've been loading up my meal inventory with this dish, and it never fails to get me out of a pinch. 

Do yourself a favor and harvest a ton of durian. You may end up as the smelliest hero in Hyrule, but you're also sure to survive.

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Chris Bukowski says knew he was done with reality TV after he woke up in a Mexican hotel room with no recollection of what had happened the night before.

"I just drank so much," he tells Business Insider. "I honestly didn't remember my time there. That's when I knew I had to be done with it."

The "Bachelor" franchise alum had just left his second season of "Bachelor in Paradise" after one night.

The departure marked the culmination of a few rocky years of reality TV show appearances that Bukowski says nearly ruined his career — and his life.

After graduating from the University of Nevada-Las Vegas with a degree in hospitality management, Bukowski had kicked his career off working in sales, first for the New York Islanders and later for Front Row Marketing Services.

"From a career side, I'm going to say I was doing better than 99% of the people my age," he says. "I was really enjoying my job and I was doing well and making good money. I was only going up from there."

Then, in 2012, he says he got an email from the casting department of "The Bachelorette," a show he'd never watched. One of his friends had submitted him as a candidate for the show. With the support of his family, friends, and employers, he says decided to give it a shot. When he was selected as a contestant for the eighth season, he says his supervisors even gave him the time off to pursue the show. Bukowski ended up making it to week eight out of ten and was one of the final four contestants when he was eliminated.

As soon as he returned home, he received another opportunity, this time to appear on the third season of the spinoff series "Bachelor Pad." The season would start shooting in four weeks, and he decided to quit his job. Unlike "The Bachelorette," contestants on "Bachelor Pad" were paid — and given the chance to compete for $250,000.

"I had no idea what the heck I was doing when I was on 'The Bachelorette,'" he tells Business Insider. "I think that's why it was probably my favorite experience, just because I didn't know what to expect. Going on 'Bachelor Pad,' I felt like a pro. I was just on camera for 30 to 40 days and I was confident in myself because I made it all the way to the hometown dates. Going on 'Bachelor Pad,' I kind of went in there confident and more of looking to just have fun, enjoy myself, and maybe win some money."

However, that's not how things played out. Bukowski ended up getting labeled one of the season's villains.

"I didn't even have a Twitter account before these shows and all of a sudden I had 60,000 Twitter followers," Bukowski says. "People are saying things not only about you, but about your family members. That's just the most disheartening thing that you'll ever have happen."

This is when Bukowski says his career really began to suffer.

Bukowski's dream since college had been to open his own restaurant. After "Bachelor Pad"' he pursued that goal with his business partner and in 2013 opened up the Bracket Room in Arlington, Virginia.

But despite the time commitment it took to run his own restaurant, Bukowski says he still couldn't get the siren song of reality TV out of his head, and he made the "awful decision" to go back on "Bachelor in Paradise" twice and to "party crash" the tenth season of "The Bachelorette," in an appearance that he says was staged.

His TV appearances could help drive revenue and attract customers to the restaurant, he reasoned. But ultimately, he says, he wanted to redeem his villainous image from "Bachelor Pad." 

"I just wanted to fix my mistakes that I made from being on the show previously," he tells Business Insider. "There was just no fixing that, but I thought it was possible. By continuing to go back, I just kept taking steps backwards instead of forwards."

The TV appearances took their toll on Bukowski. While the restaurant itself didn't suffer, Bukowski says his ability to run the eatery began to fray.

"It was hurting me mentally and physically," he says. "When you're not at full strength mentally and physically, then your career will be affected no matter what you do."

After his drunken appearance on "Bachelor in Paradise," Bukowski decided to call the reality TV portion of his career quits. He got the chance to retire on air and read his letter of resignation to the cameras.

"It was a good therapy session for me, where I could just kind of write how I really felt about everything," he says. "That's the best medicine for anything."

Bukowski also decided to switch up his career and move out to LA, where he says there are enough "real celebrities" that he doesn't get recognized as often. He is still involved with his restaurant, but he's no longer runs day-to-day operations.

Today, Bukowski works on his digital web development agency KCM Create, which he cofounded. He is also the head of investor relations at fitness startup Forte and an advisor for the dating app The Catch.

He says that for many reality TV contestants in "Bachelor" franchise shows, and similar programs, taking time off from work to go on camera can be professionally risky and disruptive. But Bukowski says that many contestants see these shows as an opportunity to really launch their careers. And once seasons wrap, some contestants become reliant on earning income through things like social media promotions.

"It's like a spell," he says. "You get a little taste of it and things are easy. You're just hanging out at home, traveling a lot, doing appearances, posting things on Instagram, and getting paid five grand for it. You're like, 'This is great.' Then six months later, that's not happening anymore. That's another reason why people get drawn back into shows and are always trying to stay relevant."

Today, Bukowski says that he does not regret going on the show in the first place.

"I'm definitely happy where I'm at right now," he says. "I wouldn't change anything because everything has somehow benefitted me or made me learn from my mistakes."

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