On Wednesday morning, my fiancée urged me to download this free iPhone game called "Ballz."

By Wednesday night, I was hooked.

"Ballz" — from Ketchapp Games, the controversial company behind "2048" and countless other mobile games — has a lot going for it. It's simple, easy to master, and gets better as you play. Oh, and it's also totally free. You can play it on either iPhone or iPad.

Take a look:

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"Ballz" is similar to "Breakout," where you use a ball to break through layers of tiles or "bricks," but with a few twists: Each block has a number, and you must hit the block that number of times in order for it to break.

Also, once the ball floats back down to the ground, all the tiles move down a step. If any tile reaches the bottom of the screen, the game is over.

You start the game with just one ball, but you collect and accumulate more balls throughout the game, which helps break blocks with high numbers.

Hollywood's attention has largely turned to Las Vegas, where this week at CinemaCon studios are show off their most impressive upcoming work.

On Wednesday, Universal had the floor and surprised everyone in attendance with a screening of "The Fate of the Furious." The latest chapter in the hugely popular "Fast and the Furious" franchise has Vin Diesel and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson joining newcomers Charlize Theron and Helen Mirren.

There's clearly a lot of excitement for this movie, which comes out in theaters on April 14. Based on the reactions of those who were in the room, the hype is real.

Excited reactions ranged from "perfection" to "crazy, fun, and yet very different ending." See for yourself:

For the rest of us, we'll just have to settle for watching the trailer daily until the movie hits theaters.

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Samantha Bee challenged President Donald Trump's account of how his healthcare bill failed by comparing it to the ending of the "Thelma & Louise."

"So I guess Democrats kind of won. The same way those cops won that car chase at the end of 'Thelma & Louise,'" the host said on Wednesday's "Full Frontal," comparing the failure of the American Health Care Act (also known as "Trumpcare") to the deadly cliff drop at the end of the 1991 movie starring Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon.

The American Health Care Act saw much opposition from both Republicans and Democrats. Unable to win over enough votes to pass the bill meant to repeal and replace Obamacare, Trump ordered House Speaker Ryan to pull it from the House last week.

"Trump had a 50-50 chance of blaming the correct political party, but he f---ed that up, too," Bee said regarding Trump's statement that a lack of support by Democrats led to the bill's failure.

In reality, the bill was opposed by not only by a number of moderate Republicans but also by many members of the House Freedom Caucus, a group of hard-line conservatives with the numbers and influence to block legislation from passing.

"Your bill was killed by friendly fire," Bee said, attempting to correct Trump's line.

And though Trump said in the wake of the bill's failure that he would be moving on to other issues, recent reports say the House Freedom Caucus and moderate Republicans are trying to find a way to create a healthcare bill they could actually back.

"Sure, go for it, guys," Bee said as a doctored image of Paul Ryan and Donald Trump in "Thelma & Louise" showed. "Maybe the movie will end differently this time."

Watch the video below:

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ESPN wants to make itself a bit more like Netflix, according to the company’s digital boss John Kosner.

In a Bloomberg cover story about how ESPN is adapting to the digital future, Kosner said he had plans to debut a Netflix-like interface in the ESPN app, that will be limited to cable subscribers.

“It will be customized to user tastes and will put live games side by side with episodes of Van Pelt’s show and ESPN’s documentaries, such as the Academy Award-winning O.J.: Made in America,” Bloomberg reported.

“The beauty of Netflix to me is that they’ve said, ‘We’re going to make our best stuff available to you anytime you want it,’ ” Kosner told Bloomberg. “They do it brilliantly, but it’s not rocket science.”

Netflix might argue it a bit differently, given that Netflix thinks its recommendation system is worth $1 billion per year. But the idea still stands: many old-school media companies make it more difficult than they have to for people to find and watch content they love. ESPN doesn’t want to be one of those companies.

Another bright spot in digital ESPN pointed to was the new internet TV packages like DirecTV Now, Sony’s Vue, Dish’s Sling, and YouTube TV. These services compete with cable and satellite by offering convenient packages that undercut on price, usually around $35 to $60 dollars. But they give about the same per-subscriber fee to ESPN as the traditional providers do, so they don’t hurt ESPN’s margins (if ESPN is included in the package).

More than a million subscribers have signed up for ESPN on these services, according to Bloomberg. Whether these subscribers will stay is another question. Streaming reliability on these services has been spotty at best, and part of the draw is the ability to easily cancel. (For a great comparison of the packages available now, see my colleague Jeff Dunn's piece.)

And for a deep dive into the future of ESPN, head over to Bloomberg for the cover story.

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I think I've just about had it with "Mass Effect Andromeda." About five hours into the game, I'm ready to call it quits.

There are just too many frustrations that discourage me from wanting to play more:

• The dialogue is boring
• Character models and animations look terrible
• I don't care about any of the characters, or their motivations
• The gameplay is repetitive and feels too much like errand-running
• You can't pause or skip the many long cutscenes in the game
• Menus are needlessly confusing and frustrating to use
• You have to watch an animation every time you want to visit a new planet, or just look at it

I could go on. Of course, purists will note that the original "Mass Effect" games from a decade ago weren't perfect either, but more than anything, playing this new game just makes me want to go back and revisit those old titles.

Like thousands of other people, I loved, loved the original "Mass Effect" series. Yes, it also started off a bit slow, but I didn't have nearly as many gripes about the characters, their interactions, the story, or the way the game plays. Critics clearly felt the same way: The original "Mass Effect" game received near-universal praise from critics, while "Andromeda" has received mixed but mostly critical reviews.

Bioware, which made the first three "Mass Effect" games as well as the new "Andromeda" title, recently said it is listening to feedback and plans to provide "ongoing support" to the game through software updates. I'm looking forward to seeing how Bioware plans on improving "Mass Effect Andromeda," since there is clear potential despite its many, many flaws — but if there's one thing I actually want from Bioware, it's the ability to revisit those old games. Here's hoping Bioware is planning remastered versions of the original trilogy for newer consoles, because whether you're new to the franchise or you've already experienced Commander Shepard's journey, those games are worlds better than "Andromeda."

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As consumers increasingly watch videos across all devices and screens, it’s clear that the wall between linear TV and over-the-top (OTT) video is deteriorating.

Consumer of nearly all age groups are watching less traditional television, which is starting to negatively affect even the most secure of TV strongholds.

Consider live sports as an example. Ratings for the NFL 2016 season compared to 2015 declined for NBC Sunday Night Football, Fox Sunday, CBS Sunday, CBS Thursday Night, and ESPN Monday Night. And the number of households with ESPN declined from 96.17 million in July 2014 to 88.78 million in August 2016.

But none of this means that TV is dying. It does, however, mean the definition is changing. Millennials are most likely to refer to any content they can watch on any device – television, laptop, smartphone, or tablet – as "TV." Which begs the question: What is the future of TV?

BI Intelligence, Business Insider's premium research service, has the answer in the Future of TV 2017 slide deck, which explores how the TV industry is evolving in the digital environment. This presentation contains more than 35 slides that outline the future of television.

Some of the topics in the deck include:

• The definition of TV, according to millennials.
• Growth in digital media consumption, while traditional TV stumbles.
• Consumer shift from cable TV to broadband.
• Explosion of video content across screens.
• Video usage stats on mobile devices.
• How social platforms drive video usage. 

Companies mentioned in this deck include: ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, ESPN, Amazon, Hulu, HBO, Netflix, Comcast, Viacom, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Snapchat, among others.

To get your copy of this FREE slide deck, simply click here.

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Luc Besson has always had an eye for casting actresses who are mesmerizing on the big screen.

There was Natalie Portman in her breakout role in "Léon: The Professional," model-turned-action star Milla Jovovich in "The Fifth Element," Scarlett Johansson in "Lucy," and for his latest movie, "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets," you can add two more names: Cara Delevingne and Rihanna.

Delevingne is one of the leads in this adaptation of the legendary French sci-fi graphic novel, while Rihanna plays a shape-shifting entertainer named Bubble.

Having already become one of the biggest artists in the music industry, Rihanna has moved her attention to movies and TV of late. She played Marion Crane in the latest season of “Bates Motel” and recently wrapped on the female-focused “Ocean’s Eleven” movie, “Ocean’s Eight.”

Besson talked to Business Insider and other press on Monday after showing the trailer for "Valerian," and when Rihanna came up, he pointed out the surprising ease of working with the pop superstar.

“What was amazing was all the entourage is out, she's on the set by herself, totally open, and you can mold her how you want,” he said. “There's no distance, nothing. She waits for you to do something with her. She offers herself like clay.”

He admits, however, that he was shocked to get her on the set at all. It seems she basically never has free time.

“The most difficult thing was trying to catch her to get her on set,” Besson said. “I think her schedule is worse than any president in the world — I couldn't believe it. She can land at midnight, work until 2am, and I thought I was busy. But she's the queen.”

“Valerian” opens in theaters through STX Entertainment on July 21. See the trailer below:

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Netflix debuted the full-length trailer for its original movie "War Machine" starring Brad Pitt on Thursday.

"War Machine" is written and directed by David Michôd, who wrote and directed 2010's "Animal Kingdom."

From the producers of the Oscar-nominated  "The Big Short," the film is based on the book "The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America’s War in Afghanistan" by the late Michael Hastings. The film is fiction, but Pitt's character is based on General Stanley McChrystal, who was fired after Hastings published an exposé about him in Rolling Stone, and it has a decidedly satirical bent. The film follows Pitt's character, who is brought in to command NATO forces in Afghanistan.

In the trailer, Pitt's character tells the president of Afghanistan, played by Sir Ben Kingsley, "My team and I are about to embark on a new direction."

When asked what that direction is, Pitt says, "We build Afghanistan into a free and prosperous nation."

"Sounds a lot like the old direction," Kingsley says.

The film also stars Tilda Swinton, Topher Grace, and Anthony Michael Hall. It makes its debut on Netflix on May 26. 

You can watch the trailer below: 

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WWE fans are gearing up for the company's biggest annual event: WrestleMania. The top WWE superstars will face off in Orlando in an event that the company spends the entire year building towards. 

We talked to one of the biggest WWE stars on the card, Charlotte Flair, who will face current champion Bayley, Sasha Banks, and Nia Jax in a "Fatal 4-Way" match for the WWE Raw Women's Championship. 

We spoke with Charlotte on the phone and asked her about the fitness and diet regimens she undergoes ahead of such a highly-anticipated event. 

WrestleMania airs Sunday, April 2 at 7 pm ET live on WWE Network.

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‘Blades of Glory’ hit theaters 10 years ago today. I was 12 years old at the time, and there was nothing that could get me in a theater faster than a new Will Ferrell movie. To this day, I have never laughed harder in a movie theater than I did on March 30, 2007. I left the theater fully confident that I had seen a comedy classic.

But despite generally favorable reviews and nearly $150 million at the box office, ‘Blades of Glory’ has been all but cast aside in favor of 2007’s shiny new toys: 'Superbad' and 'Knocked Up.' And while the aforementioned films are both truly hilarious and worthy of the praise they’ve received, they’ve had their time in the sun.

I’ve probably seen ‘Blades of Glory’ 10 or 15 times since it came out. It is truly a delightful movie from beginning to end, and it pains me to know that there are millions — if not billions — of people around the world who haven’t experienced this piece of classic American cinema.

Allow me to walk you through a few clips and make the case for why ‘Blades of Glory’ deserves your time, attention, and most importantly, your respect.

'Blades of Glory' is unabashedly ridiculous.

Let’s start with the premise. ‘Blades of Glory’ stars Will Ferrell and Jon Heder as Chazz Michael Michaels and Jimmy MacElroy, two of the best professional male figure skaters in the world. When the rivals get banned from men’s singles forever after fighting on the gold medal stand, the only way to get back on the ice is to team up and skate as the world's first all-male pair.

From the get-go, this movie is completely committed to its ridiculous premise. Jimmy MacElroy was plucked out of an orphanage and trained Rocky IV-style to be the best skater in the world. Chazz, meanwhile, is an “ice-devouring sex tornado” who learned the craft by skating in Detroit’s frozen underground sewers as a young boy.

Their acts reflect their upbringing, and when the two take the medal-stand at the beginning of the movie, all hell breaks loose.

The supporting cast is stacked, and they leave it all out on the ice.

Let me drop some names: 

 Will Arnett. Amy Poehler. Rob Cordry. Jenna Fischer. Nick Swardson. Craig T. Nelson.

If you're reading those names and thinking Huh, if only all those people would get together and make a movie, it would probably be one of the funniest things I've ever seen in my entire life, then you'd be right. Because — surprise! — that's the cast of 'Blades of Glory.'

Arnett and Poehler, in particular, shine as Stranz and Fairchild Van Waldenberg, the brother and sister duo who were the best in pairs skating until Jimmy and Chazz team up. Their dynamic with their little sister Katie, played by Jenna Fischer, is gold in each and every scene. 

But the real draw here is Will Ferrell. And I'd make the argument that Chazz Michael Michaels is the funniest role Ferrell has ever had.

"But what about 'Anchorman'?!" I imagine you're shouting at your computer screen right now. "Or 'Old School'??! Or 'Talladega Nights'?!"

Those are all great movies, yes, and the roles are quintessential Ferrell. But note the distinction that I am making: this is Ferrell's funniest role, not necessarily his best. 

Plain and simple, no other character allowed him to let loose the way that Chazz Michael Michaels did. Let's take a look at a pair of Chazz scenes.

Every movie set in the jungle has its stories, but this one is going to give you the creeps. 

While showing footage of his upcoming movie "The Lost City of Z" at CinemaCon on Thursday, the film's star Charlie Hunnam (best known from "Sons of Anarchy") revealed to the audience some of the perils of making a movie that's set in the Amazon, including insects crawling into your body and nearly getting struck by lightning.

“The greatest ordeal was in my hotel room — a beetle had burrowed into my ear and I woke up to a sound of a drill in my ear,” Hunnam said, according to The Wrap. “Years ago, I had a similar experience where I had a girlfriend who had a moth fly into her ear so I knew what had happened.”

Hunnam went on to tell the audience that it was 3 a.m. when the beetle made its way into his ear. Not wanting to wake up anyone, he decided to “MacGyver this” and try to get it out himself by using a Neti Pot. But it didn't work. So he went back to sleep.

That's right. Charlie Hunnam felt something crawling in his ear so he went back to sleep!

He woke again after feeling the beetle move once more. This led him to finally contacting the producers of the movie who then got him to the hospital to get it out.

Oh, Hunnam also said he almost got hit by lightning on the set, too. 

“A lighting bolt struck about where the speakers are [pointing to something onstage] and knocked me off my feet — and I was like, ‘Okay, let's go!'”

That near-death experience is still tame compared to what happened to the person he's portraying in the movie. "The Lost City of Z," based on the 2009 David Grann book of the same title, retraces the journeys of explorer Percy Fawcett to find the ancient lost city. In 1925, he disappeared with his son in the Amazon while looking for it. 

Made through Amazon Studios, the movie will be in theaters April 21 and then available for streaming on Amazon after its theatrical run. 

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Seth Meyers dedicated "A Closer Look" on Thursday's "Late Night" to explaining President Donald Trump's record-low approval rating among Americans and how recent events didn't seem to be helping the matter.

Polls released this week showed that Trump's already low approval rating dropped again. A Gallup tracking poll had it at just 35% on Wednesday, The Hill reported.

"This is supposed to be the honeymoon period," Meyers said. "And Trump should be good at those. He's had three of them.

"To give you some perspective, 35% is worse than Richard Nixon's approval rating during Watergate and George W. Bush's approval rating after Hurricane Katrina."

The low rating arrives amid the failure of the Republican healthcare plan, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes' recent actions that have cast doubt on the committee's investigation into the Trump team's potential ties to Russia, and a vote in Congress to dismantle rules that would have made companies unable to buy and sell consumers' online history and data without their consent.

Even some of Trump's most ardent supporters are losing trust in the president, Meyers said.

The host used two recent developments to show why he believes trust in the president is at an all-time low. First, a recent report said Nunes received information from White House sources that led to his claim last week that members of Trump's transition team might have been "incidentally" surveilled.

"That means Nunes went to the White House to brief Trump on information he got from the White House," Meyers said. "It's like when you send yourself an email reminder, and two minutes later go, 'Oh, a new email!'"

Then there was the vote to gut Obama-era rules about internet privacy, which has become a hot-button issue among legislators and citizens.

"If this bill sounds outrageous to you, you're not alone," Meyers said of the resolution passed by Congress on Tuesday. "The question now is will there be as much grassroots resistance to Trump's agenda going forward as there was to his healthcare bill? So far, all signs point to yes."

Watch the most recent edition of "A Closer Look":

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As the calendar moves to April, you will get the chance to stream some great movies and TV.

On iTunes you will can buy (and soon rent) hits like "La La Land" and "Split."

Amazon has its original titles like "The Handmaiden" and season three of "Catastrophe" on offer.

Hulu premieres its highly anticipated new series "The Handmaid's Tale."

While on HBO, shows like "Veep," "Silicon Valley," and "The Leftovers" begin new seasons, and the Oscar-winning (it's true — Google it) "Suicide Squad" comes to the channel and its streaming services.

Here's everything coming to your favorite streaming platforms. We've highlighted some standouts in bold:

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iTunes

Available April 3

"The Real Housewives of Potomac" (Season 2)

Available April 4

“Split”
“The Founder”

Available April 6

"Archer" (Season 8)
"The Real Housewives of New York City (Season 9)

Available April 11

“La La Land”
“Underworld: Blood Wars”
"Better Call Saul" (Season 3)

Available April 18

“A Dog’s Purpose”
"Gold"

Available April 20

"Fargo" (Season 3)

Available April 25

“Fifty Shades Darker”

Amazon Prime

Available April 1

“Chaplin” (1992)
“Days of Thunder”
“Eddie Murphy Raw”
“Election” (1999)
“Ella Enchanted”
“Kiss the Girls” (1997)
“Mulholland Falls”
“Robocop”
“Robocop 2”
“Saturday Night Fever”
“Searching for Bobby Fischer”
“Sliver”
“The Ghost and the Darkness”
“There Will Be Blood”
“Tommy Boy”
“What If”

Available April 2

“Hello, My Name Is Doris”

Available April 3

“Real Housewives of Potomac” (Season 2)

Available April 4

“Precious Cargo”
“The Last Exorcism”
“Southern Charm” (Season 4)
“Office Christmas Party”
“Rogue One: A Star Wars Story”

Available April 6

“Archer” (Season 8)

Available April 7

“American Playboy” (AMAZON ORIGINAL, Season 1)

Available April 8

“In a World”
“Barbershop: The Next Cut”

Available April 9

“The Perfect Match” (2016)

Available April 11

“Hidden Figures”
“Better Call Saul” (Season 3)

Available April 13

“The Handmaiden” (AMAZON ORIGINAL)

Available April 14

“Fortitude” (Season 2)
“The Love Witch”

Available April 20

“Fargo” (Season 3)

Available April 21

“Bosch” (AMAZON ORIGINAL, Season 3)
“Thirteen” (Season 1
“Thunderbirds are Go!” (AMAZON ORIGINAL, Season 3)
“American Pastoral”

Available April 27

“American Honey”

Available April 28

“Catastrophe” (AMAZON ORIGINAL, Season 3)

Available April 30

“Animal Kingdom” (Season 1)

Hulu

Available April 1

“1408”
"A Horse Tale"
"Agent Cody Banks"
"Affliction"
"Almost Famous"
"America’s Sweethearts"
"Bad Company"
"Bangkok Dangerous"
"Ben Collins: Stunt Driver"
"Beyond the Sea"
"The Big Empty"
"Bigfoot Country"
"The Burrowers"
"Cadillac Man"
"Call Me"
"Casual Encounters"
"Chaplin"
"Chosen"
"Company Man"
"Cry Freedom"
"Dancer"
"Days of Thunder"
"Deja vu"
"Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo"
"Eddie Murphy Raw"
"Election"
"The Ex"
"Factory Girl"
"Federal Hill"
"Felicia’s Journey"
"Ferris Bueller’s Day Off"
"Fifteen and Pregnant"
"Fight to the Finish"
"Flyboys"
"Frankenstein"
"Furry Vengeance"
"Gator"
"The Giant King"
"The Ghost and the Darkness"
"Guns of the Magnificent Seven"
"Happy Endings"
"Hemingway’s Garden of Eden"
"The Hours"
"I Am Number Four"
"JFK"
"Kiss the Girls"
"Lincoln"
"March of the Penguins"
"Mighty Joe Young"
"Miss Potter"
"Mother’s Day"
"Mr. Brooks"
"Mulholland Falls"
"The People vs. George Lucas"
"The Puffy Chair"
"Return of the Living Dead 3"
"Return of the Living Dead 4"
"Return of the Living Dead 5"
"Road Trip"
"Robocop"
"Robocop 2"
"Robocop 3"
"Saturday Night Fever"
"Searching for Bobby Fischer"
"Serpico"
"Scrooged"
"Shaun of the Dead"
"Sliver"
"The Spirit"
"The Switch"
"Thelma & Louise"
"Tommy Boy"
"Twice Upon a Yesterday"
"Tyler Perry’s The Family That Preys"
"Under the Sea"
"Usual Suspects"
"The Warriors"
"Who Framed Roger Rabbit"
"The Yards"

Available April 2

"Hello, My Name is Doris"

Available April 4

"Dimension 404" (Series Premiere)
"Precious Cargo"
"The Last Exorcism"

Available April 5

"Preacher" (Complete Season 1)
"Prison Break" (Season 5 Premiere)

Available April 6

"NHL Road to the Outdoor Classics" (Ep. 4)

Available April 7

"The Beach Boys: Making Pet Sounds"
"Steve Byrne: Tell the Damn Joke"

Available April 8

"Camp Lakebottom" (Complete Season 1)
"First Dates" (Series Premiere)
"Barbershop: The Next Cut"
"Beyond the Edge"
"Perfect in ’76"

Available April 9

"The Perfect Match"
"In A World"

Available April 10

"Swelter"

Available April 13

"Short Term 12"

Available April 14

"The Babadook"
"The Man Who Knew Infinity"
"The Straight Story"

Available April 15

"DOT" (Complete Season 1A)
"Sid the Science Kid" (Complete Seasons 1 & 2)
"Sid the Science Kid: The Movie"

Available April 18

"Famous in Love" (Series Premiere)
"My Hero Academia" (Complete Season 1)
"Ain’t Them Bodies Saints"
"Election Day: Lens Across America"

Available April 19

"Pretty Little Liars" (Season 7 Premiere)
"Teen Beach Movie"
"Den Brother"
"The Even Stevens Movie"
"Johnny Tsunami"
"Stuck in the Suburbs"
"Tiger Cruise"

Available April 21

"LA Story" (Complete Season 2)
"Warpath"

Available April 22

"Cesar Millan’s Dog Nation" (Series Premiere)

Available April 24

"Top of the Lake" (Complete Season 1)

Available April 25

"Origins: The Journey of Humankind" (Series Premiere)
"Wayward Pines" (Complete Season 2)

Available April 26

"The Handmaid’s Tale" (Series Premiere)

Available April 29

"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" (Complete Season 4)

Netflix has released the batch of titles that will be removed from its streaming service in April, and it's time to say bye to some classics.

The John Hughes comedy "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," along with two romantic movies, "The Princess Bride" and "Under the Tuscan Sun," are headed out.

Here's everything that's leaving Netflix in March. We've highlighted the titles we think you should watch in bold.

SEE ALSO: 50 movies that critics really hate but normal people love

Leaving April 1

"Ally McBeal" (Seasons 1 - 5)
"Angel" (Seasons 1 – 5)
"Better Off Ted" (Season 1)
"Barbershop 2: Back in Business"
"Bones" (Seasons 1 - 4)
"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (Seasons 1 - 7)
"Chaplin"
"Dollhouse" (Season 1)
"Ferris Bueller's Day Off"
"Firefly"
"House, M.D." (Seasons 1 - 8)
"Lie to Me" (Season 1)
"Menace II Society"
"Resident Evil: Extinction"
"Rosewell" (Seasons 1 - 3)
"Snow Day"
"Stomp the Yard"
"Superman II"
"Superman III"
"Superman IV: The Quest for Peace"
"Superman Returns"
"Superman: The Movie"
"The Agony and the Ecstasy"
"The Boys from Brazil"
"The Escapist"
"The Princess Bride"
"The Riches" (Seasons 1 - 2)
"The Usual Suspects"
"The X-Files" (Seasons 1 - 9)
"Vanilla Sky"

Leaving April 3

"Collateral Damage"
"The Circle"

Leaving April 7

"Legit" (Season 2)
"Wilfred" (Season 4)

Snapchat is tiptoeing into the lucrative world of search with a new feature announced on Friday.

The app's 158 million daily users will soon be able to search for more than 1 million crowd-sourced Stories, a company spokeswoman told Business Insider. Facebook has relentlessly copied Snapchat's Stories format, which shows photos and videos taken in chronological order that disappear after 24 hours, in recent months.

Here's how Snapchat's new search feature works: The company will use machine learning to collect Stories together around certain events, themes or places, like sports games or puppies, from users who willingly submit photos and videos to the app's "Our Story" feature.

Snapchat's human editors previously created themed Stories from user-submitted videos, but this is the first time that users can search for crowdsourced Stories they want to watch. Snapchat will continue to have its employees curate Stories as well, a spokeswoman said. A handful of the company's content editors were laid off last fall.

Becoming a search engine opens up new ad opportunities for Snapchat, which is competing in a fiercely competitive digital ad market dominated by Facebook and Google.

For now, Snapchat isn't monetizing its search capabilities. No ads will be shown in Stories discovered through search, a spokeswoman said. Last year Snapchat paid $114.5 million for Vurb, an app that let people find recommendations for things to do with friends.

Here's a video by Snapchat announcing its new search feature:

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Nintendo has quietly released a small update for its blockbuster hit "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild," the flagship launch game for the Nintendo Switch. 

Nintendo is being tight-lipped about what the patch actually does — the update's official description, via Nintendo's website, says simply that "adjustments have been made to make for a more pleasant gaming experience."

But as GameSpot reports, the hordes of "Zelda" fans out there have observed that the update actually makes the game play much more smoothly, particularly in high-population areas like towns where the frame rate would drop and motion on the screen would generally slow down. 

And Mic has observed that the patch seemingly evens out the game's performance when using the Switch in handheld mode or connected to a TV. Previously, players had grumbled that the game actually performed better when untethered from the big screen.

This isn't a huge jump, to be sure. But it takes a great-looking, great-playing game and makes it even better.

Oh, and in case you're wondering: The version of "Breath of the Wild" for the Wii U, Nintendo's previous console, also got this update. While fewer people are talking about it, presumably it brings similar performance upgrades to this version, as well.

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The ending of "Frozen" could have been very different than the happy one we got, and which helped catapult the Disney movie into becoming an instant classic.

"Frozen" producer Peter Del Vecho told Entertainment Weekly that at first Elsa and Anna were not sisters and weren't royal. Elsa still had her Snow Queen powers, but she was evil.

"We started out with an evil female villain and an innocent female heroine and the ending involved a big epic battle with snow monsters that Elsa had created as her army," Del Vecho said.

This alternate version of the movie opens with the prophecy that “a ruler with a frozen heart will bring destruction to the kingdom of Arendelle.” We learn that Elsa was stood up at the alter on her wedding day and froze her own heart so she will never love again. So Anna and everyone else assume Elsa is the one the prophecy warns of.

Cut to the ending, and Elsa creates an army of snow monsters to attack Anna and Kristoff. To counter the army, Prince Hans (still two-faced) triggers a huge avalanche, not caring that it will put the people of Arendelle in jeopardy. Anna convinces Elsa to use her powers for good to save Arendelle.

Then the twist.

It turns out the prophecy in the beginning is about Hans, not Elsa. Hans is the one with the frozen heart. So Elsa saves Arendelle and her heart is unfrozen so she can love again.

Yeah, that's a lot to take in. And everyone behind the movie thought so, too.

"It wasn’t satisfying," Del Vecho said. "We had no emotional connection to Elsa — we didn’t care about her because she had spent the whole movie being the villain. We weren’t drawn in. The characters weren’t relatable."

Directors Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee went back to the drawing board and began to flesh out the story that would go on to win two Oscars (best animated feature and original song for "Let It Go") and earn over $1.2 billion at the global box office.

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Verizon is planning to launch a live TV streaming service this summer to compete with cable, satellite, and the raft of online competitors that have debuted in recent months, according to Bloomberg.

The idea of an "online" TV package, delivered over the internet to your smart TV, phone, laptop, and so on, has caught fire recently. Companies from Dish (with Sling TV) to AT&T (with DirecTV Now) to YouTube have entered the market. Hulu has a product ready to launch, and Amazon is even rumored to be working on one.

Most of these online TV packages feature "skinny" bundles of traditional channels, with entry-level pricing from $20-$40, in an attempt to lure younger people into the pay TV ecosystem, and to get back those who have dropped their $100-plus cable packages. Verizon's streaming service will have "dozens of channels" and be similarly priced to current offerings, according to Bloomberg.

Verizon's new service will be separate from its millennial-focused video app go90, launched in late 2015, which spent $200 million on video content in 2016, but has struggled to attract a massive audience. On Wednesday, go90 released a complete reboot of its tech platform, which had plagued the service since launch. Go90's tech platform was overhauled by the team from Vessel, a video startup Verizon acquired in October that was widely praised for its tech.

In a recent interview with Business Insider, go90 GM Chip Canter described the new go90 tech platform as the basis for launching a suite of video offerings down the line, once Verizon had nailed the interface.

"Go90 is the first thing we got out to market," Canter said. But the goal for Verizon is to "expand the portfolio and add additional models." It's unclear whether the tech or team from Vessel will power Verizon's new streaming TV service, but Canter's earlier comments suggest it could at least form the basis for it. Verizon declined to comment.

A big weakness of the online TV services so far, especially for DirecTV Now and Sling TV, has been the tech, which has caused spotty functionality and frustration for many customers.

AT&T has said that part of the reason it is betting big on DirecTV Now, its streaming TV service, is that the company envisions a future where 5G unlocks the ability to have a TV plan delivered entirely over wireless data. That would make AT&T a one-stop shop. Verizon likely has similar ambitions.

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Corporate drama and sagging ratings have been plaguing the various television networks of Viacom. But VH1 has broken away from the pack and is currently in the middle of a ratings resurgence.

On Thursday, the company reported that it had just closed its seventh consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth with an average 11% ratings increase in the demographic that advertisers most covet, adults under the age of 50, according to Nielsen ratings data.

That gives VH1 major bragging rights. It's one of only two networks that can claim that kind of growth. The other one is Investigation Discovery.

VH1 attributes the ratings uptick in part to the success of its unscripted slate, which includes four of the top 10 unscripted shows on cable with the advertiser audience in live-plus-three viewing (which includes an episode's first day of viewing and the next three days of viewing via On Demand, DVR, and other platforms). Notably, the Atlanta and New York shows from the "Love & Hip Hop" franchise are ranked No. 1 and No. 2, respectively.

Another contributing factor in the most recent quarter was the move of "RuPaul's Drag Race" from sister network Logo to VH1. Last week's season-nine premiere garnered the drag queen competition's most-watched episode ever with nearly one million total viewers and its highest-rated episode ever in the advertiser demographic.

VH1 also attributes its ratings resurgence to good numbers for its new game show, "Hip Hop Squares," and the tattoo reality series "Black Ink Crew."

Like other networks best known for reality fare, VH1 has been delving into scripted series for several years now. Its new hip-hop drama series, "The Breaks," is attracting the network's biggest 18-to-49 male audience ever.

Last year when Business Insider took a look at the ratings performances of various Viacom networks amid the company's corporate shuffling, we found that VH1 was the group's No. 1 channel with the advertiser-coveted 18-to-49 crowd. Comedy Central and Spike TV came in second and third, respectively.

VH1's ratings success arrives on the heels of several leadership shifts for it, its sister networks, and Viacom at large.

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In a recent interview with Time Out New York, "Ghost in the Shell" star Scarlett Johansson opens up about her thoughts on President Donald Trump's administration.

Johansson has been an outspoken Democrat for years. She gave a speech at the 2012 Democratic National Convention, and endorsed Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential campaign. Earlier this week, she said that she might run for office in the future. She was also at the Women's March on Washington in January, where she gave an inspiring speech. 

"We’ve been kind of complacent," Johansson tole Time Out. "In the United States, we don’t have mandatory military service or a draft or anything like that, so people don’t necessarily think about voting, which in some other places is a life-and-death decision. Now it’s all catching up with us. It has brought us to this new administration, which is scary."

When asked what scares her most about Trump's administration she said, "I’m most concerned about the environmental ramifications because that’s a clock you can’t turn back."

She then added, "someone like Trump has been out of touch with the everyman for decades.”

She also provided some thoughts on how Trump got elected in the first place.

“Most people, when they were voting, were not thinking about the Supreme Court or the Senate or what it could mean for the next 20 years. They were just frustrated and wanted something different," she said. 

"Reform, yes, I’m for that. But being antigovernment altogether? That doesn’t make any sense. It’s ignorant and silly and frustrating. But there you have it — four years! Darkness is nigh."

Still, she said, she's here to "fight the good fight."

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