Warner Bros. just dropped the first full trailer for the upcoming "Justice League" movie and it looks pretty awesome. The movie will unite Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Cyborg, Flash, and Aquaman on screen for the very first time. The movie is scheduled to hit theaters in the United States on November 17, 2017.
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If your dream is to work in television or you already do, a new survey shows what you can (or should) make. But in the process, it also highlights the pay disparity for women and minorities.
On Monday, New York-based production services and career consultants, Brits in the Box, and online production job site, ProductionBeast, released their 2016 Annual Production Salary Report.
The report focuses on non-union salaries in TV and digital media production. Its results were drawn from 302 respondents who completed the anonymous survey distributed through the mailing lists and social media channels of both companies.
In addition to finding that the median TV salary amounts to $78,000 a year, the survey found that women and minority professionals are being paid lower than their male and white colleagues. According to the survey, the median annual earnings for women were 11% less than men, and non-white talent made just 63 cents to every dollar earned by those identifying as white.
Here's a deeper look into what the survey shows about TV industry salaries:
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Director Daniel Espinosa gets ambitious right from the start of his sci-fi thriller "Life," in theaters Friday. He delivers a single continuous shot in an opening scene that lasts for over five minutes and shows the crew of the International Space Station receiving the capsule that holds the first ever life-form from Mars.
The scene follows the crew members (Jake Gyllenhaal, Ryan Reynolds, and Rebecca Ferguson) floating in zero-gravity conditions as they race to make sure to capture the capsule before it zooms past the space station.
The continuous shot (known as a "oner") floats in and out of different areas of the space station, even turning upside down at one point to show just how insane the layout of the ISS is. All the while, the shot peeks out of the window into space to build the drama of the capsule getting closer and closer.
Espinosa knew he wanted to do the oner as soon as he got the "Life" script.
"The oner in cinema history belongs right now to two genres: the gangster movie and the science-fiction picture," Espinosa recently told Business Insider. "I did my gangster movie ["Easy Money"] and I didn't do a oner and I always blamed myself for it, that I didn't throw myself out there. So when I got this one, I thought I have to do a oner, to understand the claustrophobia and the ballet that these characters have to do to survive."
Though he went in with the right intentions, the execution turned out to be a lot harder than he anticipated.
"Halfway through I thought that I had gone mad," Espinosa said, "that this was completely impossible."
Looking for guidance, he reached out to three-time Oscar-winning cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki.
"He did it for 'Gravity' and he said, 'A oner in zero gravity equals vomit,'" Espinosa said.
But at the end of the day, the director was in good hands. His cinematographer Seamus McGarvey is known for creating one of the greatest oners of all time in the 2007 movie "Atonement."
"He was great support," Espinosa said of McGarvey.
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As one of the world's most popular, most widely played games, "Minecraft" attracts a large swath of players. Many of these folks are just like you and me — casual, into playing fun games, but maybe not ready to dig in and spend, like, years handcrafting a massive world.
And then there's a small section of that massive playerbase that takes the game's creation aspect to stunning heights. Such is the case with the "Kingdom of Galekin," an enormous, incredibly ambitious world that one "Minecraft" player has been building for nearly five years.
In both size and detail, the Kingdom of Galekin is insanely impressive. Check it:
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When ESPN’s highly acclaimed "30 for 30" documentary “O.J.: Made in America” won the best documentary Oscar at this year’s Academy Awards, it was the happy ending director Ezra Edelman and his crew hoped for after two years of making the film and over a year promoting its airing on ESPN and unconventional Oscar-qualifying theatrical release.
But for ESPN Films' senior vice president and executive producer Connor Schell, it was quickly back to business. Though the network’s seven-and-a-half hour documentary that used the incredible rise and fall of football hall-of-famer O.J. Simpson to explore issues of race and class in Los Angeles garnered unanimous esteem within the industry and the network's first-ever Oscar, ESPN Films isn't through telling unique stories from the sports world.
"We're trying to continue to push and evolve the genre and come up with new ways to tell stories and new voices to tell them with," Schell told Business Insider.
ESPN Films' newest endeavor is a podcast. The "30 for 30 Podcast" was announced at this year's SXSW and will look at stories that don't necessarily fit in movies or short film form.
"There have always been stories that we thought were really interesting but unable to bring to life visually," said Schell, "and so this opens up this whole new type of story we can tell."
Launching in June, the first season will look at topics like the landmark "Dan & Dave" advertising campaign by Reebok that focused on decathletes Dan O'Brien and Dave Johnson in the lead-up to the 1992 Summer Olympics (however, the campaign had to drastically change when O'Brien failed to qualify for the Olympics), and the first all-women's team to make it to the North Pole.
Each episode will have a run time of 30-40 minutes and will be released weekly. Season 2 should be released in the fall.
The Mike and the Mad Dog documentary is particularly special for Schell and many at ESPN as it's a project they have tried to make since Schell and former ESPN columnist Bill Simmons started "30 for 30" back in 2007.
"It was something that we thought about for a long time," said Schell. The documentary will have its world premiere at this year's Tribeca Film Festival in April. "They are legendary figures in sports talk radio, in many ways they created the genre, so to be able to tell that story I think is really excited."
Schell says there are also a few big ideas similar in scope as "O.J.: Made in America" that he has kicking around. Though he was coy about what those actually are, he did hint at one: a project with Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney (who made the "30 for 30" documentary "Catching Hell" in 2011 that looked at the Steve Batman incident during Game 6 of the 2003 National League Championship Series at Chicago's Wrigley Field) on athletes' obsession with physical excellence.
Though Schell admits he's up for exploring almost anything under the ESPN Films banner, one thing he has no interest in is whenever Simpson is released from prison. Simpson is currently serving a 33 year prison sentence in Lovelock, Nevada for felonies including armed robbery. He could be released as early as October.
"I think what Ezra was able to do with 'Made in America' was explore all of these incredibly rich and important themes about our country and the criminal justice system and race and the city of Los Angeles — O.J.'s story was a cipher to take you to all of these interesting places," said Schell. "I'm not sure where that goes from here."
"One of the incredible luxuries of being tied to a dynamic news organization is that it's covering everything that needs to be covered every single day, and that's a key reason ESPN Films has been successful," Schell added. "There's no story we have to tell."
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Warning: Spoilers ahead if you haven't seen "Life."
With a lackluster $12.6 million earned in its opening weekend at the box office and a 67% rating on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the sci-fi thriller "Life" is one of those movies you either love or hate.
But one part of the movie everyone seems to be universally positive about is its ending.
(Spoilers coming!)
The movie ends with the last two survivors on the International Space Station, Miranda North (Rebecca Ferguson) and David Jordan (Jake Gyllenhaal), coming up with a plan to kill the alien on board, which has been named Calvin.
As the alien needs oxygen to survive, they shut down the ISS and lead Calvin to one of the two escape pods. David will stay in the pod and drive it into deep space, where he and Calvin will eventually die, while Miranda takes the other and goes back to Earth.
Things go wrong, however, and with some clever sleight-of-hand editing we are shocked to find that Calvin overpowered David to fly the pod back to Earth and that Miranda's ship, after hitting some debris, malfunctioned and floated out into deep space.
In a movie that's pretty predictable by the standards of a creature feature, the ending to "Life" is a welcome sight.
In fact, director Daniel Espinoza said it was the powerful ending that persuaded him to make the movie.
But to Espinosa's shock, Sony, the studio behind the movie, was all for making the original ending.
"Which was astounding to me," Espinosa said. "To have a studio that would actually support you about the finality of the picture. It was never debated."
Espinosa compares the "Life" ending to that of an old film noir, which often ends with a pessimistic view on the world.
"I agree with that," he said. "That's what we were pointing to here."
"Life" is playing in theaters.
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Showtime has kept many details of its upcoming "Twin Peaks" revival close to the vest. But as the show's May 21 premiere approaches, more news about what to expect has arrived.
More than 25 years ago, in 1990, "Twin Peaks," a mysterious story set in a quaint Northwestern town rocked by a shocking murder, changed TV forever. Created by David Lynch and Mark Frost, the series only ran for two seasons but went on to become a highly influential cult hit, and now it's finally getting its season three.
Entertainment Weekly shared a few more details about the revival in a new feature.
If you're dying to know more about Showtime's "Twin Peaks" revival, here's what we know so far:
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It's been more than two decades since David Lynch directed episodic television. When asked what fans should expect from his directing style for the "Twin Peaks" revival during the Winter 2017 Television Critics Association press tour, he was fairly vague.
"First, it was just the same as all the others," Lynch said. "I see it as a film, and film in parts is what people would experience. And it was a joyful, fantastic trip with this great crew and great cast. This word 'expect' is a magical word, and people expect things, and their expectations are met, hopefully, when they see the thing."
Despite long days during the shooting of the series, star Kyle MacLachlan expressed his awe of Lynch's work ethic.
"It didn't matter how long [the shoot day was], he was there. He was always up, cheerful, and smiling, and so were we," MacLachlan, who's playing FBI agent Dale Cooper again, said.
Lynch had his work cut out for him.
“I think it took me six hours and a few cups of coffee to read, but it was wonderful,” MacLachlan told Entertainment Weekly of the first time he read the script.
"[It was] both the same and different," Lynch said at TCA of returning to Washington. "If you go back 25 years in any town and revisit it again, it's that way. It's many things remain the same. But also, you feel a change."
With "More Life," Drake's clinched his seventh consecutive No. 1 album on the Billboard 200, even though he's technically not even calling this an album.
The 22-track project, which Drake has famously called a "playlist," was released on March 18 and is only available digitally.
It earned 505,000 equivalent album units in the week ending March 23, according to Nielsen Music. That's the biggest week for an album since Drake's last one, "Views," which came out in May 2016.
According to Billboard, Drake’s seventh No. 1 album puts him at a tie for the second most in hip-hop ever, along with Kanye West and Eminem. The three are right behind Jay Z, who has 13. "More Life" also broke streaming records for Apple Music and Spotify.
Of the "More Life" sales, a record 257,000 units were driven by streaming equivalent album units, accordig to Billboard. That means Drake has beaten his own record for most debut streams of an album (he previously held it with "Views").
It's a sign not only that Drake continues to reign as king of streaming music, but also that his music doesn't rely on physical sales and traditional promotion to set records.
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West.Frontier and CableTV.com teamed up to determine each state’s most talked-about HBO original series.
Together, they analyzed Google Trends and state statistics to look at each state’s HBO obsession, excluding talk shows, historical dramas, and miniseries. They also only included shows that ran for more than one season before the end of 2016.
The results? Very unexpected, since they had little to do with ratings, and included shows that have been off the air for some time.
It turns out “Game of Thrones” isn’t the most popular show in all 50 states. That crown goes to “Divorce,” which won the most with 12 states, according to the data. "Oz" — a really dark show about a prison that ended in 2003 — makes a surprising number of appearances on the map, too.
The data also proved that "Westworld" is the most popular in states with a lot of pot smokers, like Colorado, Washington, and Masschusetts.
"West.Frontier wanted to partner up with CableTV.com to leverage their huge data pool," Chelsi Archibald, a copywriter for West.Frontier, said. "We were surprised to find the progrmas that seemed the most well-known in terms of pop-culture exposure were often not the most-watched depending on the region. States are especially loyal to shows based on the history or culture of the region."
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If you've been waiting to get your hands on a Nintendo Switch, you may have to wait a whole lot longer.
Despite Nintendo reportedly doubling production from 8 million to 16 million over the next financial year, video game retailer GameStop has said it expects supply shortages until at least 2018.
The retailer's COO Tony Bartel explained during the company's Q4 earnings call that they are struggling to keep stock on the shelves.
"There's tremendous demand for [the Switch] and we just don't know how high it is because every time we get it out in our stores it's literally gone," Bartel said.
He added that he anticipates GameStop will be "chasing supply this entire year," including throughout the holiday season.
For now, it seems like the only sure-fire way to get your hands on a Switch is by emptying your wallet on eBay, where sellers are fetching nearly twice the console's MSRP.
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It's really hard to hide from the diversity issue that's plaguing Hollywood, unless apparently you're Aaron Sorkin.
The Oscar-winning screenwriter and creator of TV shows like "The West Wing" and "The Newsroom" sounded legitimately shocked when the topic came up while he was onstage at the Writers Guild Festival on Saturday, according to a Variety report of the event.
While Sorkin looked back on his career and talked about issues of the day with moderator Elvis Mitchell, the topic moved to the need for more diversity in writers' rooms for TV shows. It seemed like Sorkin had genuinely never realized it was an issue in the industry.
“Are you saying that women and minorities have a more difficult time getting their stuff read than white men and you’re also saying that [white men] get to make mediocre movies and can continue on?” he asked the audience, Variety reported.
While conversation shifted to other topics, Sorkin still couldn't let go of this new insight.
“You’re saying that if you are a woman or a person of color, you have to hit it out of the park in order to get another chance?” Sorkin reportedly said.
A lot of recent research had shed light on the inequality in Hollywood productions. One study found 22% of TV creators were female, and only 3.4% of movie directors were female. It also found that only 7 percent of films had a cast whose balance of race and ethnicity reflected the country's diversity.
After listing women and minorities like Lena Dunham, Ava DuVernay, and Jordan Peele who have recently found success, Sorkin then offered to help:
“What can I do [to help]?” he said. “I do want to understand what someone like me can do... but my thing has always been: ‘If you write it, they will come.’"
Needless to say, Twitter has hammered Sorkin pretty hard for his lack of awareness:
"He didn't miss it. He was just dismissing it before and he'll go back to dismissing it again because it doesn't affect his life."
— Molly Lambert (@mollylambert) March 26, 2017
Can't wait for POC & trans actors to play Aaron Sorkin characters & prove we're not so different: we ALL reference '30s screwball comedies.
— Paul F. Tompkins (@PFTompkins) March 27, 2017
Aaron Sorkin: Wait, it's harder to be a minority in Hollywood? Educate me.
*every audience hand goes up*#WGFestival
— Coreena Boothroyd (@caboothroyd) March 25, 2017
Aaron Sorkin just found out about Hollywood's diversity problem https://t.co/9Wt3dj0UKepic.twitter.com/DUPz6tF40W
— Danielle Henderson (@knottyyarn) March 26, 2017
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In February, Ryan Murphy, the creator of "American Horror Story," said that the theme for the seventh season of the FX anthology series will be the 2016 presidential election.
On Sunday at PaleyFest, actress Sarah Paulson — who recently won an Emmy for her role in another Murphy-produced series, "American Crime Story: The People vs. O.J. Simpson" — was asked which "American Horror Story" star should play President Donald Trump by The Hollywood Reporter.
"I'd like to play Donald Trump," she said.
The details for new seasons of "American Horror Story" are kept under wraps, so no further plot details are known. Paulson is set to star in the seventh season, but even she doesn't know if Trump will be a character in it. The seventh season will probably premiere this fall.
Another executive producer on "AHS," Tim Minear, revealed at PaleyFest that the election-themed season came out of "this completely bats--- thing" that he and Murphy made up when pressed for an idea, and now they're actually doing it.
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Speculation has swirled about the future of "True Detective," but it looks like season three will be a go.
Entertainment Weekly reports that creator Nic Pizzolatto has written "at least the first two episodes for a potential third edition" of the HBO anthology crime show.
EW also says that David Milch, the mastermind behind HBO's "Deadwood" and the very short-lived "Luck," will be hopping on "True Detective" to help Pizzolatto.
While there is no official green light yet for the third season of "True Detective," it makes a lot of sense: While the second season of the series — starring Colin Farrell, Vince Vaughn, and Rachel McAdams — was critically panned, the show continued to be a relative hit for the premium-cable network.
The first season of "True Detective," starring Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey, proved to be a massive success for HBO, driving huge ratings and spawning theories all across the internet about its central mystery.
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Have you been assuming "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" or "Avatar" must be the biggest movie ever?
You'd be surprised. When adjusted for inflation to even the playing field, the top-earning films at the US box office include many old classics, from overall winner "Gone with the Wind" to a couple Steven Spielberg favorites and a Disney animation. Oh, and the original "Star Wars."
Check out the biggest blockbusters at the box office in the chart above, which uses data from Box Office Mojo.
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Years ago, eSports was a community of video gamers who would gather at conventions to play Counter Strike, Call of Duty, or League of Legends.
These multiplayer video game competitions would determine League of Legends champions, the greatest shooters in Call of Duty, the cream of the crop of Street Fighter players, the elite Dota 2 competitors, and more.
But today, as the history of eSports continue to unfold, media giants such as ESPN and Turner are broadcasting eSports tournaments and competitions. And in 2014, Amazon acquired Twitch, the live streaming video platform that has been and continues to be the leader in online gaming broadcasts. And YouTube also wanted to jump on the live streaming gaming community with the creation of YouTube Gaming.
To put in perspective how big eSports is becoming, a Google search for "lol" does not produce "laughing out loud" as the top result. Instead, it points to League of Legends, one of the most popular competitive games in existence. The game has spawned a worldwide community called the League of Legends Championship Series, more commonly known as LCS or LOL eSports.
What started as friends gathering in each other's homes to host LAN parties and play into the night has become an official network of pro gaming tournaments and leagues with legitimate teams, some of which are even sponsored and have international reach. Organizations such as Denial, AHQ, and MLG have multiple eSports leagues.
And to really understand the scope of all this, consider that the prize pool for the latest Dota 2 tournament was more than $20 million.
Websites even exist for eSports live scores to let people track the competitions in real time if they are unable to watch. There are even fantasy eSports leagues similar to fantasy football, along with the large and growing scene of eSports betting and gambling.
So it's understandable why traditional media companies would want to capitalize on this growing trend just before it floods into the mainstream. Approximately 300 million people worldwide tune in to eSports today, and that number is growing rapidly. By 2020, that number will be closer to 500 million.
Financial institutions are starting to take notice. Goldman Sachs valued eSports at $500 million in 2016 and expects the market will grow at 22% annually compounded over the next three years into a more than $1 billion opportunity.
And industry statistics are already backing this valuation and demonstrating the potential for massive earnings. To illustrate the market value, market growth, and potential earnings for eSports, consider Swedish media company Modern Times Group's $87 million acquisition of Turtle Entertainment, the holding company for ESL. YouTube has made its biggest eSports investment to date by signing a multiyear broadcasting deal with Faceit to stream the latter's Esports Championship Series. And the NBA will launch its own eSports league in 2018.
Of course, as with any growing phenomenon, the question becomes: How do advertisers capitalize? This is especially tricky for eSports because of its audience demographics, which is young, passionate, male-dominated, and digital-first. They live online and on social media, are avid ad-blockers, and don't watch traditional TV or respond to conventional advertising.
So what will the future of eSports look like? How high can it climb? Could it reach the mainstream popularity of baseball or football? How will advertisers be able to reach an audience that does its best to shield itself from advertising?
Robert Elder, research analyst for BI Intelligence, Business Insider's premium research service, has compiled an unparalleled report on the eSports ecosystem that dissects the growing market for competitive gaming. This comprehensive, industry-defining report contains more than 30 charts and figures that forecast audience growth, average revenue per user, and revenue growth.
Companies and organizations mentioned in the report include: NFL, NBA, English Premier League, La Liga, Bundesliga, NHL, Paris Saint-Germain, Ligue 1, Ligue de Football, Twitch, Amazon, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, ESPN, Electronic Arts, EA Sports, Valve, Riot Games, Activision Blizzard, ESL, Turtle Entertainment, Dreamhack, Modern Times Group, Turner Broadcasting, TBS Network, Vivendi, Canal Plus, Dailymotion, Disney, BAMTech, Intel, Coca Cola, Red Bull, HTC, Mikonet
Here are some eSports industry facts and statistics from the report:
In full, the report illuminates the business of eSports from four angles:
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Facebook has decided that the future of social networking looks a lot like Snapchat.
After replicating Snapchat's Stories format in Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger, Facebook on Tuesday is releasing Stories in its main mobile app. Aptly named Facebook Stories, the feature is being made available globally after being tested in Ireland and a few other countries over the last few months.
With Stories, Facebook's nearly two billion users can post photos and videos in chronological order that disappear after 24 hours. Like Instagram, the feature will sit at the top of Facebook's mobile app. Special effects, such as location-based filters for cities like San Francisco, can be placed on top of content before it's shared.
So far, Facebook has been reluctant to acknowledge Snapchat, which calls itself a "camera company," as the inspiration behind the recent slew of camera-centric changes to its suite of apps. But with the launch of Facebook Stories, the company is admitting that Snapchat's youthful, creative approach to messaging is worth fully adopting.
“We’ve seen this do well in other apps," Facebook product manager Connor Hayes said during a recent Q&A with reporters. "This is something that Snapchat has really pioneered, and our take on this is that Stories has become a format that people use to share and consume photo and video across all social apps."
In the countries where Facebook Stories has already been tested, Hayes said that the feature caused people to share more. Facebook has reportedly battled a decline in original sharing, and employees closely monitor how much users choose to freely share on their network.
Photos and videos shared through Facebook Stories can be posted to one's profile for 24 hours or sent directly to someone else. A direct messaging feature lets people respond without going into the standalone Messenger app, which has its own Stories-like feature called Messenger Day.
Despite how similarly the Stories feature works across Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp, Facebook isn't letting people cross-post their photos and videos between apps.
Hayes said that the company expects people to use the sharing format differently based on which app they're using.
For example, he said that Messenger Day is intended to help facilitate planning, like a group of friends going to a coffee shop, while the Facebook app is more for sharing bits and pieces from one's everyday life.
Showing ads between Stories or opening up sponsored filters could prove to be a lucrative monetization opportunity for Facebook, which already shows ads in Instagram Stories. Facebook employs a small team of artists who create all of its camera filters, and the company is initially working with six movie studios and two independent artists to license special filters and effects for upcoming movies like "Despicable Me 3."
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Bassem Youssef is a former physician who became a satirist and comedian after the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. He rose to prominence on YouTube and later Egyptian TV, where he satirized both the Muslim Brotherhood and Mohamed Morsi. His new book is called "Revolution for Dummies: Laughing Through the Arab Spring" — here he explains why he doesn't think mocking President Trump is the best way to protest his policies.
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Sony just dropped its latest trailer for "Spider-Man: Homecoming," and it looks pretty incredible. The trailer gives a great look at Michael Keaton's Vulture, and it looks like Iron Man will play a pretty big role in the story as well. The movie is scheduled to hit theaters in the US on July 7, 2017.
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Drake is the undisputed king of hip-hop, and the king of streaming, but now he's taken arguably his most impressive title to date.
Drake's new "playlist" "More Life" (for all intents and purposes, it's an album) already scored the No. 1 album spot on Billboard's chart, breaking his own streaming record at the same time. Now it's also broken the record for the most songs on the Hot 100 singles chart for a solo artist ever, Billboard reports.
Thanks to its streaming power, all 22 tracks on "More Life" are on the Hot 100, along with two other Drake songs. That breaks Drake's own record for the most songs on the Hot 100 at once. But it also passes previous record holder Lil Wayne — and every other solo act in the Hot 100's 58-year history — for the title of most hits: 154 in total for Drizzy.
He did a handy job of jumping ahead of his Young Money record boss and mentor. Weezy had previously broken the record in 2012 with 135 Hot 100 songs, when he passed none other than Elvis Presley (108).
Drake is quite far ahead of friends and competition like Kanye West (81), Jay Z (87), and Nicki Minaj (77), who has the most Hot 100 hits among female solo artists.
Right now both "Passionfruit" and "Portland" off of "More Life" are in the Top 10 of the Hot 100, even though neither has been released as a traditional single. That hasn't stopped fans from making them the next go-to party tracks for spring, though.
You can listen to Drake's "More Life" on Spotify below:
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Seth Meyers doesn't pull any punches when it comes to the failure of President Donald Trump's healthcare plan and what it says about the real-estate mogul's supposed dealmaking skills.
To start off Monday's edition of the "Late Night" segment "A Closer Look," Meyers ran a series of clips in which Trump touted his superior dealmaking talent and how it would help him succeed as president.
"Healthcare was the first test of Trump's supposed dealmaking skills, and it went up in flames," the host said.
Since it was introduced earlier this month, the American Health Care Act, also known as "Trumpcare" or "Ryancare" (after its author, House Speaker Paul Ryan), saw much opposition from both Republicans and Democrats. When it became clear that GOP leadership had been unable to secure enough votes to pass the bill, meant to repeal and replace Obamacare, Trump ordered Ryan to pull it from the House, effectively killing it.
Trump, the author of "The Art of the Deal," was reportedly referred to as "the closer" by Ryan staffers promoting Trump's negotiation ability regarding the AHCA, but that turned out to be insufficient to save the ailing legislation.
The failure also reflected badly on Republicans more broadly. Meyers pointed to Florida Rep. Tom Rooney, who told The Atlantic he had a tough time naming "one thing our party has done that's been something positive, that's been something other than stopping something else from happening" in the eight years he has held office.
"That's like a doctor giving a speech at his retirement party and saying, 'Now that I think of it, every patient I treated died,'" Meyers said.
The question of whether Trump can unite the party and get things done remains. Meyers isn't optimistic, and he isn't impressed by the president's failure to acknowledge his defeat after the implosion of the healthcare bill.
"So now that the dealmaking skills Trump spent the entire campaign bragging about have turned out to be a complete sham," Meyers said, "is the president at least willing to admit that he failed to deliver on a key campaign promise? Of course not."
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