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 how the Arab world's opinions on Trump are very different.
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The two most popular Amazon original shows in most countries are “The Grand Tour” and “The Man in the High Castle,” and they are central to Amazon’s strategy for world domination, according to Amazon Studios boss Roy Price.
Amazon doesn’t release viewership numbers, but during a MIPTV keynote on Monday, Price revealed that these blockbuster series were the most popular.
“‘The Grand Tour’ is an expensive show but it’s well worth it,” Price said of the new show from the team behind "Top Gear." The Financial Times had previously reported that Amazon had paid $250 million for three seasons of the show, though Price declined to comment on the figure.“It’s actually efficient and good economics,” Price continued.
How is that?
In the subscription video business — Amazon, Netflix, HBO Now, and so on — what moves the needle are the shows that people are talking about, and compelled to see, Price said. Those are the shows that are going to make them sign up for a free trial, or convert a free trial to a paid subscription.
The “real focus is the crème de la crème,” Price said. The “actual shows people are talking about.” That's not the only thing Amazon cares about. Price said that people watch a lot of movies on Amazon Prime, especially when they are new customers. But at the top of the totem pole are the blockbuster originals that can appeal to a global audience. In the hyper-competitive world of peak TV, Amazon cares most about the top 10 shows on its platform, according to Price.
And in deciding which shows will work, though Amazon is a tech company, data can only get them so far. “You can look at what people watch but you can’t be too deterministic about it,” he said. “The show that will be real gamechanger will be a rule breaker, not what people are watching today.”
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"Big Little Lies" ended its critically acclaimed run with huge ratings.
Sunday's finale episode was watched by 1.9 million people, according to Deadline. That's a 34% rise in viewership over the previous week's episode. But what's even more astounding about the finale ratings is that the episode tops a three-week streak of ratings highs for the show. In fact, Sunday's ratings were 64% higher than the show's premiere episode in February.
What that typically means is that positive word of mouth contributed to a huge increase in people tuning in to "Big Little Lies" about halfway through the seven-episode season.
As we argued earlier, while the show was intended for just one season, the willingness of its stars to return and its high ratings performance mean that HBO will almost certainly explore how to extend the story.
If "Big Little Lies" were to be renewed for another season, it would follow a similar decision by HBO for "True Detective," which was intended for a limited run but is currently being eyed for a third season. "The Night Of," which aired as a one-season series originally, is also reportedly being considered for a second season.
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If you follow Vin Diesel on social media, you know that he's a fan of doing karaoke. He's sung everything from Rihanna's "Stay" to an "Oliver Twist" song to "audition" for James Corden's "Carpool Karaoke."
"The Tonight Show" host Jimmy Fallon brought up Diesel's singing talents on the show Monday night.
"Where is this going?" Diesel asked.
And before the action star knew it, Fallon brought a microphone from under his desk.
"But the little twist, I thought it’d be kinda fun if, since it’s 'The Tonight Show,' we wanna do something different. This microphone has a chipmunk filter,” Fallon said.
Diesel took the mic and sang a moving rendition of Bill Withers' classic "Lean on Me," in a high-pitched chipmunk voice.
Check it out for yourself below:
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After a lot of success in translating its comic superheroes to the big screen, Marvel has made an unprecedented push to do the same thing in television.
While there are currently six Marvel TV series, there are at least 11 more shows based on Marvel comics that are in production or being developed right now.
The path to TV hasn't been a smooth one. Last year, ABC canceled the low-rated "Agent Carter" series. And "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." is one of ABC's lowest-rated shows. Plus, after a string of critical successes for Marvel shows at Netflix, "Iron Fist" was hammered with negative reviews.
In light of the bruising critics gave "Iron Fist," we took a look at review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, which assigns a fresh percentage score based on reviews, to see how it ranked against other Marvel shows.
Here's how the Marvel TV shows rank, according to critics:
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Finn Jones stars as the orphaned hero with the killer punch and multimillion-dollar fortune on "Iron Fist."
Rotten Tomatoes score: 17% fresh
Charlie Cox plays the blind superhero with a hankering for vigilante justice on "Daredevil."
Rotten Tomatoes score: 87% fresh
Dan Stevens plays the longtime psychiatric patient who finds out his visions and mental powers actually don't mean he's crazy, and he could be the most important player in an ongoing mutant war, on FX's "Legion."
Rotten Tomatoes score: 90% fresh
Seth Meyers focused on yet another twist the in the investigation into ties between Russia and President Donald Trump's campaign on Monday's "Late Night."
"As of right now, there is still no conclusive evidence connecting the dots that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to help them win the election," the host said. "But there are so many dots. We are covered in dots. The Trump presidency is basically a 6-year-old with chicken pox. And the rest of us are so f---ing itchy."
One dot Meyers explored was the request for immunity from prosecution from Trump's former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, in exchange for his testimony to congressional intelligence committees and the FBI.
Flynn stepped down in February, after 24 days in his post, amid reports that he had misled administration officials about his discussions with the Russian ambassador before Trump was inaugurated. Flynn also famously led "lock her up" chants about Hillary Clinton during the Republican National Convention.
"These days, Flynn is apparently trying to make sure he doesn't get locked up," Meyers said. "There's been a lot of speculation and uncertainty about what exactly a request for immunity means. Does it mean Flynn is worried about criminal prosecution? Or is he just afraid he can't get a fair hearing?"
To help answer those questions, Meyers looked to statements Flynn and Trump had made in which they referred to immunity requests as signs that a crime was committed.
But it seems Trump has changed his mind. He tweeted his approval of Flynn's request, calling the investigation a "witch hunt."
Mike Flynn should ask for immunity in that this is a witch hunt (excuse for big election loss), by media & Dems, of historic proportion!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 31, 2017"OK, but I don't know if I would take legal advice from Donald Trump," Meyers said. "Remember, he's been involved in more than 3,500 lawsuits. And just to give you a sense of what 3,500 looks like, here's a photo of 3,500 people," Meyers said as a photo of the crowd at Trump's inauguration popped on the screen.
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There's something about a good car chase in a movie that's a joy for the senses.
Maybe it's the incredible talent of stunt drivers (and added visual effects in the last 30 years) that makes you feel you're in danger even though you're comfortably in your seat, or the high stakes of the moment in which the characters we're rooting for will either get out of the situation or have a gruesome finale, but an impressive car-chase scene can make even a mediocre movie a beloved classic.
The "Fast and Furious" movies have collectively taken the car chase to the next level. To prepare you for the latest movie in the franchise, "The Fate of the Furious" (opening April 14), we decided to look back on the best car chases ever pulled off.
See where the memorable chases from movies like "Mad Max: Fury Road," "Terminator 2: Judgment Day," and "Bullitt" rank on our list:
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Before Michael Bay brought nerve gas to Alcatraz, he had a Hummer wreak havoc on the streets of San Francisco. When John Mason (Sean Connery) tries to make a run for it in the beginning of the movie, he hops into a Hummer, and let's just say he doesn't obey traffic laws. Stanley Goodspeed (Nicolas Cage) is honestly no better in a commandeered Ferrari.
After taking a dangerous synthetic drug that has given her special powers, Lucy (Scarlett Johansson) is on the hunt for the person responsible for making her this way. In Paris she thinks she's got a lead on one of the bad guys through sensing people's data on their devices and thus begins her insane chase to find the person through rush-hour traffic. At one point driving on the sidewalk, she never gets a scratch on her car, but she leaves destruction in her wake.
Though the original "The Italian Job" had a great chase with Mini cars, it's the 2003 reboot that really pushed the envelope. The custom-made Mini Coopers featured in the scene in which Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron, and Jason Statham race through underground Los Angeles had to be built with electric motors, as combustible engines aren't allowed in the subway tunnels they shot in. And most of the actors did their own stunt driving.
Fun fact: "Fate of the Furious" director F. Gary Gray also helmed this movie.
Netflix and Marvel just released a new teaser for their upcoming "Defenders" series without an official announcement, and it reveals an August debut date.
In the black-and-white, 17-second teaser, Daredevil (Charlie Cox), Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter), Luke Cage (Mike Colter), and Danny Rand (Finn Jones), aka Iron Fist, are in an elevator together. At one point, Jessica takes out the elevator's security camera with a headbutt. At that moment, the camera's timestamp reads 08:18:20:17. That refers to August 18, 2017, or when "Defenders" will come out on Netflix.
Netflix didn't immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment.
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Comedy Central has chosen "Daily Show" correspondent Jordan Klepper to host a new show in the coveted time slot after Trevor Noah.
The cable channel described the yet untitled new talk show as a companion show to "The Daily Show." It will air Monday through Thursday at 11:30 p.m. beginning this fall.
"Jordan's talent has become so increasingly obvious it would take a real fool to not offer him this opportunity," Comedy Central President Kent Alterman said in a statement on Tuesday.
Klepper started on "The Daily Show" in 2014 under Jon Stewart and became the senior correspondent under Trevor Noah. Viewers will recognize him from his popular field pieces from the Trump campaign and post-election rallies.
The announcement arrives about a year after Comedy Central announced it was canceling Larry Wilmore's "The Nightly Show." The spot after "The Daily Show" was also previously held by Stephen Colbert's "Colbert Report."
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Snapchat wants to convince the public — especially advertisers— that it’s the digital destination where the money and attention traditionally paid to television should land.
To make good on that pitch, Snapchat, and particularly its Discover section, can’t just be a repository for entertainment adapted from other platforms. Snapchat has to nurture its own shows that share some DNA with TV, but feel like they couldn't live anywhere else but Snapchat.
So what does a Snapchat-native show look like?
To find out we talked to Jennie Sutton, a former monologue writer for "The Late Show with David Letterman," and one of the people who has already made one. Sutton is part of the sketch group Dollar Pizza, which produced the ride-sharing comedy “Poolers” specifically for Comedy Central’s Snapchat Discover channel last year.
"Poolers" ran for a week last year in the Snapchat app, with episodes leaving the platform after a day. Because "Poolers" ran on Snapchat, it was shot vertically. But in creating a show tailored to Snapchat, the team actually went one step further, and sometimes “Poolers” features split-screen windows that are stacked vertically, with one camera showing the ride-share driver and the other showing the passengers.
Here’s what that looks like:
But beyond the practical considerations of how to film it, Sutton said having the show run on Snapchat also affected the writing process. The team had to have “a joke every step of the way,” she said. Someone could click out of the app at any moment, so the team had to make sure there was a quick succession of jokes that landed. “It was good. It makes your writing better,” Sutton said.
Even though “Poolers” played on the small screen, Sutton kept coming back to a word: spectacle. They had to grab people’s attention, especially since the videos on Snapchat’s Discover platform only last for a day.
While that feeling made the writing tighter, it had its downsides as well. “It’s great for one-off jokes,” Sutton said. “But in terms of story … you can’t explain anything, you don’t have any time. If you have a joke that you want to revisit, a ‘call back,’ you don't have that luxury. It changes the kind of comedy.”
She said Snapchat has also favored “a lot of talking head stuff” so far, more of a stand-up comedy vibe. That has historically been true on YouTube as well, where a direct interaction with the camera has been a staple of much of the comedy.
But as Snapchat matures as a platform for media, it will no doubt develop its own quirks, pushed by both its technical limitations and the audience it attracts. In particular, Sutton's comments suggest that creators will be acutely aware of how easy Snapchat makes it to get onto the next story if yours is too boring.
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Earlier this year, Vin Diesel returned to the blockbuster "xXx" action film franchise with "xXx: The Return of Xander Cage" — a huge hit, particularly in China.
In a new interview with The New York Times, Diesel credits his friend Mark Zuckerberg — yes, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg — with encouraging him to reprise his role as the titular hero Xander Cage.
Says Diesel:
"Of course! I love him. He’s such a great guy and he’s a fan of my work. He probably encouraged me more than anyone else to return to Xander Cage. We were hanging out up at Facebook about two years ago, and I was excited about 'Fast 7.' He said, 'You know what movie I’d most like to see is the return of Xander Cage.' It’s at a point where if Mark and I are together and if I quote a line from a character I played and I do it slightly wrong, he’ll correct me. It’s embarrassing!"
For his part, Zuck feels similarly about Diesel: “When we first met, one of the things that struck me about you is how authentically a geek you were. And I say that as a geek myself with love in my heart,” Zuckerberg told Diesel in a Facebook Live interview back in December 2016, as reported by Gizmodo.
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Shia LaBeouf's latest movie "Man Down" did not get the kind of reception it was hoping for in the UK over the weekend.
The thriller about a veteran (LaBeouf) dealing with PTSD only earned £7 ($8.70 in US dollars) over the weekend, according to ComScore (reported by Variety). That is the equivalent of a single movie ticket, as the UK Cinema Association puts the average movie cost in the country at £7.21.
The only location the film played at was the Reel Cinema in Burnley. It also was simultaneously released On Demand.
The movie, directed by Dito Montiel, had a similar release in the US late last year. Distributed through Lionsgate Premiere, it played in select theaters while also available On Demand and streaming at the same time.
"Man Down" grossed $454,490 in the US, according to Variety. Box-office numbers for the movie are not listed on BoxOfficeMojo.
The movie has a 15% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It also stars Gary Oldman, Kate Mara, and Jai Courtney.
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As a social phenomenon, Pokémon Go may have peaked just a few months after its July 2016 launch.
But in a talk today at the London Games Festival, John Hanke, CEO of Pokémon Go developer Niantic, reveals that the game is still healthy and thriving with 65 million monthly active users.
Just for context, that puts the game ahead of the 55 million monthly players most recently claimed by Minecraft, the phenomenon on which Microsoft bet $2.5 billion. This isn't quite an apples-to-apples comparison, since Pokémon Go is a free download, while Minecraft costs anywhere between $6.99 and $26.95 to get started. It does, however, show that Pokémon Go is doing just fine for itself.
In February, Niantic introduced 80 new Pokémon into the game, in a bid to draw lapsed players back in. While we don't know for sure when most of those 65 million monthly active players joined the game, it seems a safe bet to assume that it worked.
Going forward, Hanke has promised that long-awaited features like player-versus-player battling and Pokémon trading are coming sooner rather than later. If and when Niantic delivers, it should go a long way towards keeping those millions around.
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Twitter won't stream the NFL's Thursday Night Football games again this year.
Instead, Amazon has won the rights to stream 10 of the NFL's games, both companies announced on Tuesday. Amazon paid a whopping $50 million for the deal, according to The Wall Street Journal.
That number is a fivefold increase from the $10 million Twitter reportedly paid the NFL for the same rights in 2016. The deal was a landmark one for both sides at the time, and it signaled Twitter's growing ambitions to become a destination for premium live video.
Twitter had boasted of the NFL deal as a key plank in its plan to reignite its sluggish user growth and to transform itself as the place to go to follow live events. But some advertisers reportedly found the audience for football games on Twitter to be underwhelming. Still, losing the rights to stream the games is an embarrassing loss for Twitter, as its COO/CFO Anthony Noto is the NFL's former CFO.
"Since last year, we have collaborated on over 40 live stream partnerships and we will continue to bring the best live content to our customers around the world," a Twitter spokesperson told Business Insider on Tuesday.
"In Q1 2017, we aired more than 800 hours of live stream content from over 400 events across sports, news, politics and entertainment. The NFL was a great partner to launch our strategy and we will continue to work with them to bring great content to our passionate sports fans."
Twitter, Amazon, Facebook, and YouTube had all bid to win the rights to this year's football season, according to Recode. While Twitter streamed Thursday Night Football for free to everyone, Amazon will restrict its streams to its paying Prime subscribers. NBC, CBS, and Verizon will also stream the games live to their subscribers.
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By the end of 2017, Netflix will have released 1,000 hours of original shows and movies.
And a few months in, Netflix already has had some highlights, like making its global game-show debut with "Ultimate Beastmaster" and premiering the gorgeous new season of "Chef's Table."
There have also been some not-so-high-lights — particularly Marvel's series "Iron Fist" getting walloped by critics.
But there are still at least 28 shows that Netflix has confirmed it will release before the year is up as it spends $6 billion on content.
To help you keep track, we've updated our list of shows Netflix has confirmed — for certain — are coming out in 2017. This excludes movies and kids' shows, as well as shows that might not come out until 2018 and beyond.
Here are the 28 shows we know Netflix is putting out before the end of 2017, along with their release date, if available:
Netflix description: "Set in New York in 1977, this music-driven drama series chronicles the rise of hip-hop and the last days of disco — told through the lives, music, art and dance of the South Bronx kids who would change the world forever."
Netflix description: "Three bots. And a vault of B movies just begging for witty riffs. Welcome to an all-new era of MST3K."
Netflix description: "Bill Nye hosts a talk show exploring scientific issues from space exploration to fad diets."
Now, after a year of testing, the streaming giant has released its new and improved rating system into the wild. Instead of stars, what you'll see if you fire up Netflix today is both a new “thumbs up/down" feature, which lets you rate titles, and a “percent match” score that predicts the shows and movies you’ll like based on your taste.
Why the big change?
Netflix’s Cameron Johnson, who oversaw the shift, told Business Insider that it all came from the realization that Netflix had always used star ratings differently than the rest of the internet, but that this distinction wasn't clear to users.
Netflix’s star ratings were personalized, and had been from the start. That means when you saw a movie on Netflix rated 4 stars, that didn’t mean the average of all ratings was 4 stars. Instead, it meant that Netflix thought you’d rate the movie 4 stars, based on your habits (and other people's ratings). But many people didn’t get that.
“That’s not the way people are used to using star ratings on e-commerce ratings” Johnson said. Take Amazon, for instance. “In those contexts, those star ratings are an average.” People assumed Netflix was the same.
This was a problem because people weren’t as motivated to rate titles when they thought they were just a drop in the bucket of all Netflix reviews. They didn’t understand that the more they rated, the better the system would be at understanding their tastes. “People don't intuitively think about it that way,” Johnson said.
So when looking for a replacement, Netflix wanted to make sure that was clear. That’s why Netflix settled on “thumbs up/down," which is widely understood to imply that you are training an algorithm to know what you like, Johnson said.
“That simple change led to an over 200% increase” in ratings, Johnson said. The inclusion of a “percent match” number also reinforces the idea that these recommendations are personalized, he added.
The other problem Netflix hopes the change will take care of is people’s tendency to get into critic mode when they see star ratings. Instead of saying how much they enjoyed a show, they tried to assess its objective worth.
“What we observed was a difference between what [users] say,” in terms of ratings, “and what they do,” in terms of actually watching. People might rate a guilty-pleasure sitcom low and then keep watching, and watching, and watching.
“What we saw with ‘thumbs up’ and ‘thumbs down’ more aligned with what people actually play,” Johnson said.
One last hidden benefit to switching: If you “thumbs down” something it won’t ever appear on your Netflix homepage again. Johnson said Netflix subscribers had been asking for a way to get Netflix to stop suggesting a title. Now you have it.
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People are outraged by Pepsi's new ad starring Kendall Jenner. We asked Pepsi about the blowback, and it said, "This is a global ad that reflects people from different walks of life coming together in a spirit of harmony, and we think that's an important message to convey." This isn't Pepsi's first ad controversy. In 2013 the company pulled an ad accused of racism and normalizing violence against women.
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Louis C.K. made headlines last year after he sent an email disparaging then-presidential candidate Donald Trump and calling him "Hitler."
On Tuesday's "Late Show," the comedian said he regrets sending it, but doesn't take back his words.
"I don't take it back, I regret it. There's a difference," C.K. told host Stephen Colbert. "I regret saying it. It doesn't mean it's not true. It's a messy thing. It's how I was feeling at the time. And I said it... If you went back and fixed all the mistakes you've made, you erase yourself. There's no point to that."
C.K. further explained that he didn't realize how many people would receive the email and was shocked at the media coverage of the email, concluding, "That's not what I do for a living. That's not what I'm trying to accomplish."
The comedian then told Colbert how he thinks differently about Trump since that email last year.
"Right now, I guess he's not as profound as I thought he was," C.K. said. "I thought he was some new kind of evil, but he's just a lying sack of s---. It's just simple. It's simpler than I thought."
C.K. broke down the type of "liar" he thinks Trump is.
"Like there's liars. Sometimes people lie. That guy lied. They found out that he lied. Then, there's someone who lies once in a while, can't quite stay in the boundaries of truth, somebody who lies sometimes. Then you have a liar, who somebody who's almost like it's a problem. They can't help it. They lie a lot. Then you have just a lying sack of s---. And that's just somebody who's just ughhhh... They just lie. They like it. He likes it. He goes, 'It wasn't even true. And then I said they were liars,'" the comedian said.
"It's just gross. He's just a gross, crook, dirty, rotten, lying sack of s---," he added, to thunderous applause from Colbert's audience.
Watch the interview below:
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Director Ridley Scott originally had quite a different outcome for his "Alien" protagonist Ripley (played by Sigourney Weaver).
The 1979 sci-fi classic is heralded not only as one of the best thrillers of all time, but also for its forward-thinking approach at the time, centering on a strong-willed woman as the hero. But it turns out, in an early version of the script, Ripley would have been killed off at the end of the movie.
Scott told Entertainment Weekly that in the original finale, when Ripley is in the escape shuttle and it's revealed that the alien is on board, the creature gets the better of her.
“I thought that the alien should come in, and Ripley harpoons it, and it makes no difference, so it slams through her mask and rips her head off,” Scott said.
He added that he would've then cut to the tentacles of the alien pressing buttons on the dashboard.
“It would mimic Captain Dallas saying, ‘I’m signing off,'” he said.
That's quite a chilling ending. And Scott almost lost his job because of it.
“The first executive from Fox arrived on set within 14 hours, threatening to fire me on the spot,” Scott said of when he pitched the ending to the studio. “So we didn’t do that [ending].”
It certainly would have been tough to make a franchise with that ending. Scott's latest chapter in the "Alien" franchise, "Alien: Covenant," will be in theaters May 19.
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Netflix just released the first trailer for the highly anticipated second season of its Emmy-winning show "Master of None," which will return Friday, May 12.
The trailer is clearly infused with an international style and music, which reflects Dev's (Aziz Ansari) travels abroad on the upcoming season.
According to Netflix, he'll return to New York City with fresh points of view from his trip. He'll also be recharged and ready to tackle the challenges of his personal and family life, a new career opportunity, and a burgeoning relationship with someone who could be the one.
Ansari and the show's cocreator and executive producer Allan Yang won an Emmy for writing on the show last year. It was also nominated for lead actor, directing, and outstanding comedy series.
Watch the trailer below:
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