Bill O'Reilly stands to receive as much as $25 million in a payout from Fox News after being fired by the network amid mounting sexual-harassment allegations.

A person with knowledge of the matter told Business Insider on Thursday that O'Reilly's amended contract provides that he receive a maximum of one year's salary. The amount the parties settle on could be lower than that, though.

According to a CNN report earlier Thursday citing two sources, the payout is the result of O'Reilly's contract with Fox News' parent company, 21st Century Fox, that was signed in late March.

The sources told CNN that O'Reilly was to be paid about $25 million a year under the contract, which covered him through 2020 0r 2021, which would include the next presidential election. Previous reports said his salary was between $18 million and $20 million.

In creating O'Reilly's contract, the company may have used what it learned from its ousting in July of Fox News CEO Roger Ailes, who had been accused of sexual harassment by multiple women. Ailes was paid the remainder of his contract, a sum reportedly more than $40 million.

According to CNN's sources, Fox placed some exit clauses in O'Reilly's contract in case his employment ended before it expired.

CNN reports that both O'Reilly and 21st Century Fox are barred by confidentiality agreements from speaking about the payout. Business Insider has contacted Fox News and 21st Century Fox for comment.

O'Reilly's exit comes after an explosive report by The New York Times found that Fox and O'Reilly had paid $13 million in settlements to women who had accused the host of making unwanted sexual advances, as well as new accusations of sexual harassment and an exodus of more than 20 advertisers from the time slot of "The O'Reilly Factor," the top-rated show on cable news.

The host said last week he was taking a previously planned vacation. But on Wednesday, Fox issued a statement confirming he would "not be returning to the Fox News Channel."

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Andy Cohen has successfully climbed the media latter from CBS News intern to host and executive producer of Bravo's late night show, "Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen"

Additionally, Cohen is an executive producer of the network's popular and expansive "Real Housewives" empire, hosts and produces pop culture nostalgia series "Andy Cohen's Then & Now," and is set to host the upcoming revival of "Love Connection."

"I the thing that's always gotten me to the next level is passion and excitement that's genuine and authentic for whatever I'm doing," Cohen told Business Insider. He says that positivity and passion for a brand or a job can translate into confidence without stinking of arrogance and unseemly self-assuredness.

Following is a transcript of the video:

ANDY COHEN: I think for me, the thing that's always gotten me to the next level is passion and excitement that's genuine and authentic for whatever I'm doing. And I think that that can be infectious and appealing to people, if you really are excited and confident about your brand or your job or your organization or what you're doing.

And I think that that's — I think that positivity and passion kind of translates sometimes into confidence and having your s--- together even though you may not. And that's a good thing.

How do you be persistent without being annoying? I don't know if I know the answer to that, because you're dealing also with someone else's mood and you can't control that.

Because if you keep coming at someone, and they want no part of it, then — but if they see something in you that
they want to help, then they will.

I think there might be some charm that goes in there,  and some pluck, and some luck. Which is why you just also have to keep trying.

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Ryan Seacrest has a line of suits. Did you know?

It's true — the former host of "American Idol" has a line of suits called "Ryan Seacrest Distinction" that is sold exclusively at Macy's. The suits appear to be your typical run-of-the-mill, mid-priced, perpetually on-sale models that are a dime a dozen these days.

According to the Los Angeles Times, the Japanese brand Itochu makes the dress shirts, Randa Accessories makes the accessories, and Peerless Clothing manufactures the suits.

However, Seacrest's label does not overestimate the intelligence or style sensibility of its target market. To help out customers, the brand has sewn some helpful tags into the suits, which it calls a "style made smart" color-matching system. These tags are printed with the numbers 1-4, according to the color and style.

The theory is: Match the color and style with Ryan Seacrest Distinction accessories and ties, and you can never go wrong because it will always match. This was inspired by how Seacrest actually gets dressed for work, according to the Wall Street Journal, and the idea came from Randa.

This could be useful for formal wear novices who don't know where to start when purchasing and styling their suits. It has the added benefit for the brand of keeping a new customer's purchases all under the same umbrella.

For the customer, it may be easier, but sticking with the system could have the outfit looking like it belongs on a mannequin rather than a human. Still, it's a good place to start if you're unable or unwilling to learn more about properly accessorizing a suit before you dive in.

Distinction first launched in 2014. For the 2017 fall collection, it will add casual "lifewear" clothing to its line of suits.

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HBO just released the first official images from the hotly anticipated season seven of "Game of Thrones," and they look awesome. But also very, very dark. 

Winter is definitely here, after six whole seasons of everyone being told it was coming. Every character is bundled up in furs and coats and dressed in black and other dark colors. Dark times are coming, and it is very clear that no one is safe. 

The images don't tell us everything, of course, but with a closer look, some of them do inform us about where characters are geographically, and suggest whom they're with and where they're headed.

It's all we have until "Game of Thrones" season seven premieres on July 16, or at least until we get a full-length trailer.

Here are the 15 first official images from season seven of "Game of Thrones":

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Daenerys Targaryen and her crew make it to Westeros.

Looks like Dany and her really, really big crew have safely made it to Westeros. Looks like they're staring at something — or someone — important. This is probably Dragonstone, the original home of the Targaryens.

Tyrion Lannister is keeping an eye out.

He's looking sharp but also very tired as Hand of the Queen. 

Missandei is also looking at something.

And it is probably the same thing Tyrion is looking at.

Some smartphone games require little more than opposable thumbs and a pulse. 

Others, like Blackbox, require so much wit and creativity that you'll either end up feeling frustrated or incredibly proud of yourself. 

Blackbox is a puzzle game for iPhone that's rapidly climbing the App Store's top free apps chart — and for good reason. 

The app gives you small challenges that you have to complete by doing everything except touch the screen. Each challenge ends when you "turn on the lights," meaning the small, brightly-colored squares (called lights) change from empty to filled. To do this, you have to use your phone's other sensors, features and functions to trigger the puzzle.  

If that sounds confusing, it is, and Blackbox is hard — I mean really hard — but equally rewarding. Here's how it works.

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When you download Blackbox, you'll be greeted with a short (and sassy) walkthrough of the components of the app.

But those directions are mysterious, only providing the basics before launching you into your first puzzle.

In this puzzle, there are six lights to turn on. The game doesn't give you any directions on how to do that, simply urging you to "Think outside the box," which isn't particularly helpful — unless you notice that the words are reversed, which means you need to flip your phone around until you hit all six lights. 

The main thing to know about Blackbox is that most of the puzzles can't be solved with simple taps or swipes on the screen. Instead, the game uses actions you can complete using the sensors and features within your phone — like changing the volume buttons, altering the screen brightness, plugging into the headphone jack — to solve the puzzles.

With the news that Carrie Fisher will not be appearing in “Star Wars: Episode IX,” it looks like “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” will be the final time we see the late actress play the iconic Princess (now General) Leia.

But according to Oscar Isaac, we are going to get a fiery General Leia in the upcoming "Star Wars" movie.

Isaac talked to Business Insider while promoting his new movie “The Promise” (opening Friday) and he recalled one of his favorite scenes with Fisher in “The Last Jedi,” the follow-up to "The Force Awakens" that comes out December 15.

“It was basically my first day [on set] and we did about 25 takes total. Half of them were on me and half of them were on her,” Isaac, who plays the pilot Poe Dameron in the new "Star Wars" trilogy films, said. “I can’t give anything away but there was a scene where there was some physicality there and it was shot just over and over and over. She relished the physicality of it, let me just say. It was pretty intense. It will be funny to see what they cut together based on that.”

Looking back on working with Fisher on “The Force Awakens” and “The Last Jedi,” Isaac said he feels “fortunate" that he "got to be in her gravitational field.”

“At every moment she would just wander over with her Coke — she was constantly drinking Coca-Cola — and find a way to undercut the situation or to cut through something to make me laugh,” Isaac said.

Fisher died in late December of last year after a heart attack. She had completed filming "The Last Jedi."

Disney CEO Bob Iger made clear there are no plans to revive Fisher's Leia via CGI in future "Star Wars" films.

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An email from a Democratic Party operative may have been Bill O'Reilly's last play to save his job at Fox News amid a growing sexual-harassment scandal.

O'Reilly and his representatives circulated an email from a Democratic fundraiser who supported the liberal-leaning watchdog Media Matters.

Politico reported that the email announced some coming conference calls set for this week in which people associated with Media Matters would discuss its efforts to get advertisers to abandon O'Reilly's Fox News program, "The O'Reilly Factor."

The so-called Stop O'Reilly campaign was well-publicized on social media, with the help of Media Matters' president, Angelo Carusone, who spearheaded similar grassroots efforts targeting former Fox News host Glenn Beck.

Dozens of companies — including Mercedes-Benz and the pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline — fled O'Reilly's program as headlines spread across the internet and airwaves detailing millions of dollars in settlements by O'Reilly and Fox News with multiple women who accused him of sexual harassment.

According to Politico, O'Reilly saw Media Matters' effort as a politically motivated, "left-wing plot" to get him fired, but he stopped short of bringing that email to the attention of 21st Century Fox executives. According to Politico's Joe Pompeo, who saw a Tuesday email exchange between O'Reilly and his representatives, O'Reilly is said to have wrote, "If we show to Fox tomorrow, word will get out and the Thursday call may be cancelled."

It does not appear that the move would have stopped the headwinds O'Reilly was facing. A new accuser stepped forward with harassment accusations the same day, and there were rumblings that James and Lachlan Murdoch — top executives at 21st Century Fox — were already angling to get O'Reilly out of the picture.

In the email, O'Reilly himself had apparently also run out of patience with Fox News Channel, the network he had called home for 20 years: "You all should know that I will not put up with much more from FNC," he wrote.

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Fame certainly has its perks. You get a lot of things for free. You pretty much never have to wait in line for anything. Making money becomes much easier. But there are some negatives. The most obvious is the loss of anonymity.

Brie Larson admits that that’s the biggest thing she’s tried to wrap her head around since becoming a bone fide celebrity after winning the Oscar for best actress for 2015’s “Room.”

“I don't think I'll ever be able to grasp this — I just don't really understand why anybody would care what I have to say,” Larson told Business Insider while doing press for her new movie “Free Fire” (opening Friday). “I’m just a person figuring stuff out. That's the thing I trip out on all the time when I do days and days of press and you're like, ‘Who cares what I think?’”

But people care very much. And Larson has turned that into a positive force. She's used her platform to be vocal about issues that are important to her like support for sexual-assault victims and giving women and minorities stronger voices in Hollywood.

Her visibility will only increase in the coming years as we near the 2019 release of Marvel Studios' first movie with a female lead, “Captain Marvel.” Larson will be our Captain Marvel.

But there is one thing from her old life she can still do.

“One of my favorite things in the world is just to people-watch and to listen,” Larson said.

There are moments when she can go out in public and not be recognized.

“And I'm very paranoid about my privacy so I would be the first to tell you if it's all gone. It's not. I'm grateful for that,” Larson said.

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On Thursday night's "The Late Show," host Stephen Colbert continued to rip into Bill O'Reilly, who was dropped by Fox News following sexual-harassment accusations against the conservative host. O'Reilly could get a payout from the cable news network of $25 million.

"If you do the math, that is twice as much as they paid his accusers," Colbert said. 

To get an idea of what O'Reilly will do next with his career, Colbert turned to O'Reilly's 1998 novel, "Those Who Trespass," which has some troubling signs. Colbert pointed out that the book is dedicated to "the women in my life," and that "the main character of this novel is a brash TV journalist named Shannon Michaels, who is fired from his network news job."

Well, that sounds familiar. Colbert then read from a section after the character is fired that Colbert thinks offers a scary suggestion about O'Reilly's future:

"His career was the source of his feelings of omnipotence and grandiosity. His job gave him daily ego gratification and excitement. It reinforced his opinion that he was a very special human being. He got the attention he craved, the admiration of thousands. Being on TV was like a drug a drug to him, and when it was taken away  from him he had to find a substitute drug: planning and carrying out the executions of those people who had humiliated him."

Colbert emphasized that he and his team did not make those words up. And then he tried to convince Bill O'Reilly that he never humilated the Fox News host, because the "Stephen Colbert" character on "The Colbert Report," he claimed, was actually played by Steve Carell, who is "long overdue for an Oscar on that one."

You can watch the segment below:

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Jimmy Kimmel created a new drink for Starbucks in response to the uproar over its latest product, the Unicorn Frappuccino.

The late-night host referred to the frosty, pink drink as "Starbucks' latest abomination" on Thursday's episode of ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!"

"It's the first cappuccino that looks like a windbreaker from the '80s," Kimmel joked.

The Unicorn Frappuccino is made with pink powder, mango syrup, and sour blue drizzle. It's apparently so outrageous to many that one Starbucks barista's online video plea for customers not to buy it went viral.

"It's got everything in it, but coffee," Kimmel said. "And when you stir it up, the color changes to pink and the flavor changes. Who says America doesn't invent anything anymore? It's only available through April 23 or when someone dies from drinking it, whatever comes first."

He then introduced his own concoction as Starbucks' other new drink, which he claims was invented to "specifically suit our troubled time."

It's called the "F--k-it-ccino." Its ingredients include pancake batter, French fries, the antidepressant Lexapro, and, oh, coffee.

Watch the spoof below:

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When the second Death Star exploded in "Star Wars: Return of the Jedi," it's pretty likely that every living thing on the nearby forest moon Endor would've died. No Ewoks partying. No smiling Rebel Alliance soldiers. 

It's called the "Endor Holocaust" theory for a reason.

But in the "Star Wars" universe, everyone on Endor is fine. That explosion, seen above, is the plot point that the story arc of the new "Star Wars Battlefront II" is based upon: Revenge.

The new game — expected to launch on November 17 for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC — stars a brand new heroine named Iden Versio. That's her above, turning around. Here she is without that dark helmet on:

You can't tell here, but she's pretty pissed off that the second Death Star just exploded. She'll seek revenge — on behalf of the sad, failing empire — throughout "Battlefront II." Here's what we know about the game so far!

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As you've already learned, "Battlefront II" has a narrative-driven, single-player story campaign — that's a major addition from the first "Battlefront" game, which was primarily focused on multiplayer.

The story focuses on telling the story of "the other side" — that of the Galactic Federation (the bad guys) — after the events of "Return of the Jedi."

It's set in "the 30 years between the destruction of Death Star II and through the rise of the First Order," according to EA, which is to say "Between the events of 'Return of the Jedi' and 'The Force Awakens.'" As such, you'll come across some familiar faces.

As pilot Poe Dameron in the latest "Star Wars" trilogy, Oscar Isaac has become an international star, and that clout also got him the lead role in “The Promise” (opening Friday), a powerful look at the Armenian Genocide.

Also featuring Christian Bale as an American reporter covering the end of the Ottoman Empire and Charlotte Le Bon as the woman both men are in love with, the movie isn't lacking in star power. But Isaac carries it as Mikael, an Armenian medical student who finds himself a target of the Ottoman government when it begins to systematically exterminate Armenians during World War I.

“He had that gravitas and the talent of being a Juilliard-trained actor to take on board not just the accent but the cultural mannerisms of Armenians of that period,” the film's director Terry George told Business Insider of why he cast Isaac. “He studied the village life and did a lot of research but at the same time had the talent to stand up with Christian Bale.” 

Isaac talked to Business Insider about why the Mikael role will never leave him, what he learned from working with Christian Bale, and that time he did 25 takes of a scene with Carrie Fisher for “Star Wars: The Last Jedi.”

Jason Guerrasio: With a role like this that has so much history, is there a fear at all of being over-prepared?

Oscar Isaac: No. No. I think the feeling is always, "I wish I had a little more time." But in the moment of doing it you just let that all go. It's kind of like you see what stays. It's like sifting through something. You just hope that through all of that material, that thinking, wondering, practicing, visits to museums and listening to survivor's tales, working on the accent, that in the moment you let it all go. You trust that stuff is going to be there and it's going to affect your consciousness. 

Guerrasio: Did you have questions for Terry before committing to the role?

Isaac: There wasn't so much big general questions, it was more story things. Figuring out the character and trying to understand certain scenes and trying to basically get his ideas and his tone and what he was going after and then trying to sync that with what I was finding interesting about it and then together molding it. 

Guerrasio: This is such an intense role. Can something like this stick with you mentally after you've wrapped on shooting?

Isaac: I’m a human so it's like any work that you do. It stays and it influences you and maybe the specific things that you're fixated on, that goes away —

Guerrasio: There needs to be a decompression moment?

Isaac: Sure. Even if I have to jump into something else. Which, in fact, I did. I think I went right back to shooting "The Last Jedi."

Guerrasio: So that helps because you can't dwell on the character. You have to go right into being Poe. 

Isaac: Right. You're focused on something else. But all of that stays. It becomes part of you. It was an educational process for me because to my great shame I didn't know about the Armenian Genocide before and I think, unfortunately, a lot of us in this country and in the West and all around the world have been purposefully kept in the dark about it. To be a part of something that does shed light on this horror that occurred is very special. And on top of that, to be part of something that's so philanthropic, where the producers really put their money where their mouths are. One-hundred percent of the proceeds go to charity — that's unheard of. 

Guerrasio: On set with Christian Bale, did he bust your chops about "Star Wars," since he went through something similar with the Batman movies? 

Isaac: No. Not really. 

Guerrasio: Did he try to get info about the next movie out of you?

Isaac: No. He didn't want to know any info or anything like that. It was the exact opposite. For me, it was great to see and to learn from him. Here's somebody who just knows how to maneuver so things don't get to him so much. I know there are stories out there of him being difficult, whatever. For me it was like watching a kung fu master. He didn't get caught up in the little things that happen on set or in a scene where insecurities can suddenly bubble up and cause people to behave like a--holes. Just to watch things roll off his back that way, for me, still figuring a lot of this stuff out, it was great to see.

Guerrasio: It sounds from Kathleen Kennedy like "The Last Jedi" will be the last time we'll see Carrie Fisher in the new "Star Wars" movies. Can you give me your fondest memory of working with her on "The Last Jedi"?

Isaac: There was so much. I just remember running lines with her for a scene or going over things and there were some really incredible scenes. I do remember one which was basically my first day where we did about 25 takes in total. Half of them were on me and half of them were on her and... Oh, s---, that kind of gives some of it away. [Laughs]

Guerrasio: Don't give anything away now!

Isaac: Yeah, I can't give anything away. But there was a scene where there was some physicality there and it was shot just over and over and over and she relished the physicality of it, let me just say. [Laughs] It was pretty intense. It will be funny to see what they cut together based on that. But at every moment she would just wander over with her Coke — she was constantly drinking Coca-Cola — and find a way to undercut the situation or to cut through something or make me laugh. 

Guerrasio: I don't know if you saw that HBO documentary about her and her mother, "Bright Lights," but she had cartons and cartons of Coke in her refrigerator. 

Isaac: Yeah. She loved that Coca-Cola. It's just one of those things where I was so fortunate that I got to be in her gravitational field even for a moment.  

Guerrasio: You weren't able to attend Star Wars Celebration. Tell me how you experienced watching the trailer for "The Last Jedi."

Isaac: I watched it that day at home on the live stream with my brother, and it was wild. You don't know what to expect. 

Guerrasio: That was the first time you saw footage from the movie?

Isaac: Yeah. First footage I've seen. I'm just happy that I made it into the trailer! [Laughs] I think it looks great and I think people are really going to be impressed with what [director] Rian [Johnson] has done. 

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Prince died a year ago Friday, and he is still truly missed. His songs made an indelible mark on pop music and the industry behind it.

While he was making albums of his own, Prince, a prolific songwriter and musician, also wrote and produced songs for other artists. And some of them turned into major hits. There are also quite a few covers of Prince songs that became hits for other artists, like Cyndi Lauper and Alicia Keys. 

Prince often used a pen name in these collaborations with other artists to keep his own spotlight away from the songs.

Here are songs by other artists that were actually written by Prince:

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"Manic Monday," The Bangles (1986)

Prince may have not worked a nine-to-five himself, but he sure understood what it was like. For this song, his pen name was just Christopher. 

"Nothing Compares 2 U," Sinead O'Connor (1990)

"Stand Back," Stevie Nicks (1983)

Nicks cowrote this song with Prince, and credited his song "Little Red Corvette" as the inspiration for it. 

There are a lot of sequels coming in 2017, and many have already hit theaters. But to the chagrin of Hollywood executives, many are bombing at the box office.

Analysts are crying sequel fatigue, but studios trying to bank on franchises isn't new. They're just doing it a lot more frequently, but with titles people care way less about seeing.

In looking at Box Office Mojo's ranking of some of the highest-grossing franchises adjusted for inflation, it's clear that pursuing sequels has always been a roller-coaster ride.

Business Insider selected some of the most well-known franchises and compared their box-office gross numbers. 

Of those selected, only "The Lord of the Rings" and "Captain America" have seen revenue growth with every installment. "Deadpool" is the highest-grossing movie related to the X-Men universe, and not even the wide praise for 2017's "Logan" could change that. 

Every other franchise lacks a pattern, except that it seems that "Fast and Furious" reached a positive turning point in 2009. (Note: "Fate of the Furious" is still new to theaters, so it has time to earn a lot more.) And people really, really like "Star Wars" movies. Although "A New Hope" still remains the most successful at the box office by a pretty big number. 

See how your favorite franchise did over its lifetime:

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Every year, a new "Call of Duty" game comes out — it's an annual franchise, like "Madden" and "FIFA," except it's a first-person shooter instead of a sports game.

2017 is no different, and this year's "Call of Duty" is on the verge of being revealed. On Friday we found out one crucial detail about the unannounced game, demonstrated in this image:

The new game is named, "Call of Duty: WWII." 

That's important for a few good reasons, but one stands out: It means that the "Call of Duty" franchise is returning to a type of warfare it otherwise abandoned years ago. Aside from the setting, the time period means slower weaponry with less precision and fewer bullets — a notable change from the type of futuristic weaponry seen in recent "Call of Duty" games.

2016's "Call of Duty" was set in space, in a near-future that leaned more sci-fi than gritty realism. You could literally run on the walls, and double-jump with rocket boots.

The newest game in the "Call of Duty" franchise is being created by Sledgehammer Games, the same studio behind "Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare." That's also a good sign, as "Advanced Warfare" was an especially good entry in the annual franchise. 

There's no release date or game console specified in the information provided, but we'd guess that "Call of Duty: WWII" will arrive in November on the Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC. And maybe Nintendo Switch? Maybe.

"Call of Duty" publisher Activision is holding a livestream to fully reveal "Call of Duty: WWII" on April 26 at 1 p.m. ET, which you can watch here.

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It looks like we are going to see more of Hobbs and Deckard in action together.

Deadline is reporting that Universal is in the early stages of developing a spin-off movie from its successful "Fast and the Furious" franchise that will focus on Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Jason Statham's characters.

It's an idea that likely began to get traction after the audience reaction to the two in the franchise's latest movie, "The Fate of the Furious." The actors shared a lot of screen time either trying to destroy each other physically or, when that wasn't possible, trying to destroy each other verbally. Some of the best scenes involve their interaction.

According to Deadline, franchise screenwriter Chris Morgan will be writing the script, which would involve Johnson’s US Diplomatic Security Agent Hobbs forming an unlikely alliance with Statham’s Decker.

This spin-off would likely be released in a time when Universal is figuring out its next "Fast and Furious" movie.

The studio is taking the Disney/Lucasfilm approach to the "Star Wars" universe by expanding its biggest cash-cow property.

But a spin-off featuring Johnson will fuel the rumors that he and "Fast and Furious" star Vin Diesel can't work together, and this is the only way the studio can keep Johnson in the franchise. It's more than obvious from how "The Fate of the Furious" was shot that Johnson and Diesel had very limited screen time together.

It can't be all bad, though. The movie has grossed over $685 million to date and will likely win the box office for a second straight weekend.

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After a new Prince album called "Deliverance" was announced, featuring "undiscovered Prince recordings," a US district judge in Minnesota granted a temporary restraining order to Prince's estate Wednesday night against the planned release of music.

Prince's estate sued George Ian Boxill Wednesday, the album's coproducer, claiming Boxill was "unauthorized" to release the music, according to Rolling Stone. That evening, a judge agreed with the estate, writing that Boxill "shall not publish or otherwise disseminate any unreleased recordings that comprise the work of Prince Rogers Nelson that are alleged to be within the scope of the Confidentiality Agreement between Boxill and Paisley Park Enterprises." The ruling also ordered Boxill to immediately deliver all of the recordings to the estate.

"Deliverance" is a six-song album featuring music the musician recorded between 2006 and 2008. A track from the album was available earlier this week on iTunes and Apple Music. The full album was set for release on Friday, the one-year anniversary of Prince's death. But since the ruling, no tracks from "Deliverance" are available on any streaming services.

The musician's estate laid out its case against Boxill in a statement on Wednesday.

"During his unparalleled career, Prince worked with many sound engineers, including Mr. Boxill," the statement said. "Like the other engineers that had the opportunity to work with Prince, Mr. Boxill signed an agreement, under which he agreed (1) all recordings that he worked on with Prince would remain Prince’s sole and exclusive property; (2) he would not use any recordings or property in any way whatsoever; and (3) he would return any such recordings or property to Prince immediately upon request.

"Mr. Boxill did not comply with his agreement," the statement continued. "Instead, Mr. Boxill maintained copies of certain tracks, waited until after Prince’s tragic death, and is now attempting to release tracks without the authorization of the Estate and in violation of the agreement and applicable law."

The restraining order is set to expire on May 3.

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Not even James Bond is living as large as you think.

The online marketplace for businesses Bizdaq researched the average salaries for the jobs of various TV, film, and other fictional characters.

Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep) from "The Devil Wears Prada," tops the list with a salary of $2 million. Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) from “30 Rock," takes a close second. As the head writer for a TV show on NBC, her estimated salary is $1.1 million. 

While James Bond’s $101,093 seems hefty to the average person, it’s actually not a lot considering how often he risks his life for the job — unfortunately MI6 is no NBC. He makes slightly more than Sheldon Cooper from “The Big Bang Theory,” and slightly less than Ross Geller from “Friends.”

For the salaries of your favorite characters like Don Draper, Walter White, Ellen Ripley, and Indiana Jones, check out the graphic below:

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The 1990s were quite a time.

Somewhere between "Space Jam," the Backstreet Boys and Rock the Vote!, Nintendo released its Nintendo 64 game console.

Despite its many, many shortcomings, the Nintendo 64 is home to some of Nintendo's most beloved games: "Super Mario 64," "GoldenEye 007," "The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time," and many more.

Having spent many of my formative years with the Nintendo 64, I have a lifelong affinity for the console.

The owner of this highly-customized Chevy 1500 van, however, is clearly a much bigger fan. This is a far cry from your parents' old Dodge Grand Caravan with a flip-down TV screen.

Take a tour of the custom Nintendo 64 van, straight from our mid-'90s dreams.

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The van's not a looker.

It's even got a sun-beaten roof.

But inside, it's a whole other world: The world of September 1996!

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HBO's "Silicon Valley," which returns to the air tonight, is hilarious, but it's also committed to authenticity — even if it means things get weird sometimes.

To get there, showrunner Mike Judge and his crew employ consultants and even a few real-life startups — in addition to reading tech news from sites, including Business Insider — just to make sure things can be as real as possible.

That means going beyond a few nerdy in-jokes and reflecting the real culture of the actual Silicon Valley, capital of the tech world.

Here's how "Silicon Valley" gets the little things right so it can make some big jokes:

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The thing with HBO's "Silicon Valley" is that it's packed to the brim with little, authentic details that make it sometimes feel almost too real. People in San Francisco and the real Silicon Valley often joke that it feels more like a drama than a comedy.

Right off the bat, "Silicon Valley" nailed the look and feel of the massive campuses of tech titans like Google — the fictional Hooli has a very Google-y aesthetic.

That's down to Hooli's ridiculous kitchens, which mirror those of Silicon Valley's most perk-happy companies ...