You've got an empty room in your house, a couple of young kids who like to play Nintendo games, and a penchant for DIY projects. What do you do?

This, apparently, if you're anything like Scottsburg, Indiana teacher Rorie Lizenby:

Pretty intense! But Lizenby brushes off the project as little more than a two-week diversion (while working full-time as a teacher, no less). Here's how she did it!

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First things first: schematics!

Lizenby based her work on a NES-inspired print, originally created by Allen Swart.

"Initially, my intent was not to create an accurate depiction of the original Nintendo controller, just a generic retro gaming controller," Lizenby told Business Insider. "

The first thing she did was put up a background for the massive NES gamepad on the wall.

JAY-Z's new album, "4:44," is an immensely personal and revealing work from the 47-year-old rapper.

Over the course of the ten-track, Tidal-exclusive LP, Jay confronts the turbulence of his relationship with Beyoncé, which began in the early 2000s. They were married in 2008. 

Confirming the rumors of his infidelity established by Beyoncé's explosive 2016 album "Lemonade," Jay has many lines on the album that express regret to his wife for his actions over the years.

Here are all the moments JAY-Z apologized to Beyoncé on his new album:

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"You egged Solange on knowin' all along / All you had to say, you was wrong / You almost went Eric Benét / Let the baddest girl in the world get away" ("Kill Jay Z")

In 2014, JAY-Z was involved in an altercation with Beyoncé's sister Solange outside of an elevator at the Met Gala, and the source of the fight was rumored to be Jay's infidelity. Here the rapper admits that he could have prevented the infamous moment by being honest about his cheating.

Jay also compares himself to R&B singer Eric Benét, who was married to actress Halle Berry from 2001 to 2005, when Berry divorced him for cheating on her.

"I apologize, often womanize / Took for my child to be born to see through a woman’s eyes." ("4:44")

On the album's centerpiece and title track, "4:44," Jay gets brutally honest about his womanizing and infidelity. He mentions how the birth of his daughter, Blue Ivy, changed his perspective of his relationship and granted him a newfound maturity. 

Jay told iHeartRadio that the track is "one of the best songs" he's ever written, and it's certainly the most candid and open we've ever seen the Brooklyn rapper on wax. 

"I still mourn this death, I apologize for all the stillborns / 'Cause I wasn't present, your body wouldn't accept it." ("4:44")

In a truly devastating line, Jay seems to blame his emotional distance and philandering for the miscarriage Beyoncé suffered in 2011, before the birth of Blue Ivy. 

In her 2013 HBO documentary, "Life Is But a Dream," Beyoncé related how she lost her child in the early stages of her pregnancy.

"I flew back to New York to get my check up, and no heartbeat," she said. "Literally the week before I went to the doctor, everything was fine, but there was no heartbeat."

President Donald Trump's latest rant on Twitter has flabbergasted "Late Show" host Stephen Colbert.

“I want to say something right now that I did not think was possible anymore,” Colbert said at the start of his show Thursday night. “I am shocked by something Donald Trump said. I thought by now after five months of this that my soul had calcified into a crouton.”

Colbert is referring to Trump's tweets on Thursday morning aimed at MSNBC "Morning Joe" cohost Mika Brzezinski, in which he wrote: "I heard poorly rated @Morning_Joe speaks badly of me (don't watch anymore)," Trump tweeted. "Then how come low I.Q. Crazy Mika, along with Psycho Joe [Scarborough,] came to Mar-a-Lago 3 nights in a row around New Year's Eve, and insisted on joining me. She was bleeding badly from a face-lift. I said no!"

The shocking tweet is presumed to be a response to a segment the show did that morning which took aim at a fake Time magazine cover featuring Trump that hangs at several of Trump's golf clubs and properties, according to The Washington Post.

"Nothing makes a man feel better than making a fake cover of a magazine about himself lying every day and destroying the country," Brzezinski said.

Trump tweeted 30 minutes later.

“First of all, someone bleeding badly at your door and you say, ‘No’? It sounds like your health care plan,” Colbert said.

The late night host also called Trump's tweets "shocking," "vicious," and a "buffet of s---."

Brzezinski responded to Trump's tweets with her own on Thursday:

The "small hands" jab refers to Trump's annoyance for years that people think he has small hands and fingers.

“Really Mika, making fun of the size of his hands,” Colbert said of the tweet. “I’m more worried about the size of his brain at this point.”

Watch Colbert's entire opening monologue below:

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JAY-Z's new album, "4:44," is available now as an exclusive release on his streaming service, Tidal, but it may be coming to other services sooner than expected.

Sources have told Variety that the album will be available on Apple Music and likely for sale on the iTunes store after a week of exclusivity on Tidal. 

Another source told the publication that the album will be available on all major streaming services, like Spotify.

A possible one-week exclusivity window will come as a relief for Jay fans who were angered by the head-scratching news that only Sprint customers or people who subscribed to Tidal before the album's release would be able to stream the album, as a part of Tidal's $200 million dollar deal with Sprint.

It appears, then, that the length of the "exclusive period" mentioned in the above Tidal/Sprint disclaimer will be much shorter than Jay's many disgruntled fans anticipated.

For now, Tidal and Sprint members can stream "4:44" below:

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Apple and Jay-Z don't see eye-to-eye.

Jay-Z owns a large stake in the streaming service Tidal, which has become known for debuting new music exclusively for a short window and keeping it off competitors like Apple Music and Spotify.

The New York rapper calls out Apple Music exec and industry legend Jimmy Iovine in a song from his new album, "4:44," which is, of course, exclusively available to stream on Tidal (for now).

In the song "Smile," Jay raps about his beef with Apple and the streaming music industry as a whole:

"F--- a slice of the apple pie, want my own cake / Chargin' my own fate / Respect Jimmy Iovine / But he gotta respect the Elohim as a whole new regime / And n----- playin' for power, huh / So our music is ours"

Jay-Z relaunched Tidal in 2014 with a roster of other A-list artists as a response to other streaming platforms paying low royalties to artists. (Tidal claims to pay more royalties and was set up as a co-ownership with Jay-Z's artist friends like Madonna and Coldplay's Chris Martin.)

When Apple launched Apple Music in 2015, it ignited a war with Tidal by paying top dollar for exclusive music releases. Tidal struck back with its own exclusives, like Kanye West's "The Life of Pablo."

But Tidal has struggled to grow its business and faced numerous setbacks over the past couple of years, and Apple was rumored to be eyeing a takeover last fall. Apple's Iovine denied the rumor at the time, and Jay later sold a third of Tidal to Sprint for a reported $200 million.

Whether Jay would have sold to Apple or not, his message on "4:44" is clear: At least he's still his own boss.

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2017 is shaping up to be a huge year for Verizon. Between AOL's merger with Yahoo and major advancements with its 5G network, which it plans to test this year, the telecommunications giant continues to expand into new areas.

We are proud to announce that Marni Walden, the executive vice president and president of media and telematics at Verizon, will be taking the stage at Business Insider's flagship event, IGNITION: Future of Media, November 29-30 in New York City.

Marni has been a rising star at Verizon for some time now, and she is considered to be on the short list to be the company's next CEO. She is a key executive leading Verizon's media strategy, playing a major role with Verizon's new Go90 video service and helping to spearhead the AOL-Yahoo merger. She is also the leader of Verizon's telematics department, which is responsible for much of Verizon's Internet of Things products such as connected cars and fleet management.

We are thrilled to hear her insights into how she plans to integrate AOL and Yahoo and her thoughts about the blurred lines between media and telecommunications.

With IGNITION now less then six months away, the speaker lineup is beginning to take shape. We've already announced that HBO CEO Richard Plepler will be speaking, and we will continue to announce new additions to the lineup in the coming weeks.

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JAY-Z's mother, Gloria Carter, came out as lesbian in an appearance on the song "Smile" from her son's new album, "4:44." 

On the song, Jay and his mother both candidly address her sexuality for the first time in public, according to The Huffington Post. 

"Mama had four kids, but she's a lesbian / Had to pretend so long that she's a thespian," Jay-Z raps on the track, which samples Stevie Wonder's 1976 song "Love's In Need of Love Today."

"Had to hide in the closet, so she medicate / Society shame and the pain was too much to take," he continues. "Cried tears of joy when you fell in love / Don't matter to me if it's a him or her."

Gloria Carter herself appears on a spoken-word outro to the song.

"Living in the shadow / Can you imagine what kind of life it is to live?" Carter asks. 

"The world is changing and they say it's time to be free / But you live with the fear of just being me," she continues. "Living in the shadow feels like the safe place to be / No harm for them, no harm for me / But life is short, and it’s time to be free / Love who you love, because life isn't guaranteed."

Jay has previously spoken out in support of the LGBTQ community, including in a 2012 CNN interview.

"I've always thought [not allowing same-sex marriages] was still holding the country back," Jay-Z told CNN. "What people do in their own homes is their business and you can choose to love whoever you love. That's their business. [It] is no different than discriminating against blacks. It's discrimination plain and simple."

Listen to the song "Smile" below, via Tidal:

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In the previous season of Comedy Central's landmark animated series, "South Park," the focus was heavily on the 2016 US presidential election and the man who would eventually go on to win, Donald Trump.

Creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone used the show's character Mr. Garrison to embody their Trump parody, as the character evolved to take on more and more Trump traits as the season progressed.

The question has been raised to Parker and Stone if Garrison will continue as Trump for season 21, which starts in August. In a recent interview Parker gave to the LA Times, it sounds like a hard no.

"This season I want to get back to Cartman dressing up like a robot and [screwing] with Butters, because to me that’s the bread and butter of 'South Park': kids being kids and being ridiculous and outrageous but not 'did you see what Trump did last night?' Because I don’t give a ... anymore," Parker said.

In May, Parker told Bill Simmons on his podcast the challenges of trying to parody someone like Trump.

“If you have like a little monkey and it’s running himself into the wall over and over and you’re like, ‘That’s funny, but how am I gonna make fun of the monkey running himself into the wall?’ I can discuss the monkey running himself into the wall, I can copy the monkey running into the wall, but nothing’s funnier than the monkey just running himself into the wall.”

To the LA Times, Parker admitted, like "Saturday Night Live," people couldn't wait to see what "South Park" would do every week for its Trump storyline. But he's over it now.

"We probably could put up billboards — 'Look what we’re going to do to Trump next week!' — and get crazy ratings. But I just don’t care," he said.

Before "South Park" returns to the air, Parker will be lending his voice to play the villain in "Despicable Me 3" (opening Friday). This will be the first time he'll be on a project he didn't write and direct since the 1998 comedy "BASEketball."

Now that's a bit of fun trivia you can wow your friends with this 4th of July weekend.

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This week, JAY-Z dropped his highly anticipated and surprisingly excellent album, "4:44," and Calvin Harris teamed up with three hip-hop stars for a modern disco hit. 

Here are the best songs from the past week that you can stream right now:

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JAY-Z — "Smile"

On "Smile," one of the most candid songs in JAY-Z's discography, the 47-year-old rapper speaks openly over a Stevie Wonder-sampling beat about (among other compelling topics) his support for his mom's late-in-life lesbianism. 

"Had to hide in the closet, so she medicate / Society shame and the pain was too much to take / Cried tears of joy when you fell in love / Don’t matter to me if it’s a him or her," Jay raps on the song, which includes a moving spoken-word outro from his mother, Gloria Carter.

Washed Out — "Hard To Say Goodbye"

Chillwave producer Ernest Greene (Washed Out) crafts an immersive and hypnotic tune with "Hard To Say Goodbye," the latest single from his album "Mister Mellow."

Tyler, the Creator — "911 / Mr. Lonely" (feat. Frank Ocean)

Odd Future rapper Tyler, the Creator joins forces with Frank Ocean on "911 / Mr. Lonely," a vibrant track that features a sample from 1970s funk trio The Gap Band and some of Tyler's best rapping in years. 

Federal agents have arrested Fyre Festival pitchman Billy McFarland on suspicion of wire fraud on Friday, nearly three months after the failed music and lifestyle festival left hundreds of participants stranded in the Bahamas.

Prosecutors said McFarland is accused of misleading investors who poured more than $1 million into Fyre Media, based on misrepresentations of the company's revenue.

A statement from Acting Manhattan US Attorney Joon Kim released Friday said McFarland told investors that Fyre Media earned millions of dollars from thousands of artist bookings in 2016 and 2017, but in reality had brought in less than $60,000 from about 60 artist bookings.

McFarland is also accused of providing an altered brokerage statement to an investor that claimed he owned shares of a stock worth about $2.5 million. The shares in question are worth less than $1,500, prosecutors said.

If convicted on the wire fraud charge, McFarland could face up to 20 years in prison.

The Fyre Festival was pitched as a premium luxury music and arts event where participants would be treated to private air travel and beachside accommodations. Tickets started at $1,200 with some reportedly paying close to or more than $100,000 for the weekend.

Billed as something similar to the Coachella Music and Arts Festival, Fyre was supposed to take place over two weekends in April and May. Participants in April quickly found themselves stranded on the island with little food or water, and, at times, no electricity.

McFarland and his co-organizer, rapper Ja Rule reportedly borrowed millions of dollars as they scrambled to get the festival up and running. Both are now facing severallawsuits over the failed event.

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Halle Berry made history 15 years ago as the first woman of color to win the coveted Academy Award for best actress for her role in "Monster's Ball." Since then, only eight women of color have been nominated for best actress, and none of them have won. 

In an interview with Teen Vogue's editor-in-chief, Elaine Welteroth, Berry discussed how meaningless her historic Oscar win felt after the 2016 Oscar nominations were announced and not a single black actor received a nomination.

"I sat there and I really thought, 'Wow, that moment really meant nothing. It meant nothing. I thought it meant something, but I think it meant nothing," she told Vogue.

Despite Berry's initial disappointment at the time of the 2016 Academy Awards, Berry is now contemplating ways she can help cultivate a more diverse Hollywood. 

"It inspired me to try to get involved in other ways, which is why I want to start directing," she told Vogue. "I want to start producing more. I want to start making more opportunities for people of color. I have conversations more deeply with Academy members, and I’m trying to figure out how to help and add more diversity to the Academy.”

The Academy announced Wednesday that it has extended a record-breaking 774 memberships this year, with 30% of invitees going to people of color, and 39% are women, according to Los Angeles Times — the most diverse group of invitees in the Academy's history. Should all 774 people accept their invites, this would drive the Academy's membership of people of color up to 13%, and female membership up to 28%. Critics of the Academy will likely point out there's still more progress to be made, but it does seem to indicate that the Academy has been paying attention to the widespread criticism its faced recently.

Perhaps the biggest criticism the Academy has faced in recent years has come from #OscarsSoWhite, which began as a Twitter hashtag used to call out the overwhelmingly white 2016 Oscar nominations and then quickly gained traction and turned into a movement. The #OscarsSoWhite hashtag resurfaced during the 2017 Oscars (despite there being a much more diverse selection of nominees) in an effort to highlight that there's still plenty to be done to diversify Hollywood.

It sounds like Halle Berry agrees.

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It’s hard to believe, but it’s been ten years since Judd Apatow’s “Knocked Up,” which came out June 1, 2007.

“Knocked Up” paved the way for explicit comedy that tells emotional human stories. It's a laugh-out-loud vulgar comedy, but at its heart it's a love story about growing up.

Director, writer, and producer Judd Apatow started a trend with the movie (one that technically started with “The 40-Year Old Virgin" a few years prior), and his style paved the way for many comedies over the past decade, from “Forgetting Sarah Marshall" to “Bridesmaids."

“The Big Sick" premiered to critical acclaim at Sundance Film Festival back in January, and came out in theaters in LA and New York City last weekend — it gets it wide release on July 14. In its first weekend on limited release, “The Big Sick" became 2017’s highest opening weekend per-theater-average — in five theaters, it grossed $435,000.

It helped to have Apatow involved in “The Big Sick" — he was a producer, and his touch is evident. The script, based on a true story that happened to stand-up comic and “Silicon Valley" star Kumail Nanjiani and his wife, producer/writer Emily Gordon, was written by the husband-wife duo. Michael Showalter of “Wet Hot American Summer” fame directed the movie, and it was released by Amazon Studios/Lionsgate.

The premise feels so ripped from a soap opera that it’s hard to believe it actually happened to Nanjiani and Gordon. In the film, Kumail (played by Nanjiani) meets Emily (Zoe Kazan) when she heckles him at a comedy club in Chicago. They go home together, and despite the fact that Kumail knows he has to marry a Muslim woman (he keeps a box of photos of the women his mom introduces him to) or he will shame the family, he continues to date her — without telling Emily about any of it. Things go very well for Kumail and Emily at first.

The dialogue and both leads accurately capture the awkward and magical progression of a blossoming relationship. There is a scene where Emily tries to leave Kumail's apartment in the middle of the night to poop somewhere else, which goes in a sweet direction instead of the expected gross one. But eventually Emily finds out about the women in the box and they break up. 

Then Kumail gets a call and finds out Emily is in the hospital. He visits her, and a doctor tells him that they need to put her in a medically-induced coma. While Emily is in a coma, Kumail sticks around despite their bitter break-up, which at first annoys Emily’s parents, played by the superbly cast and incredibly funny Holly Hunter and Ray Romano.

Better than any other movie in recent memory, “The Big Sick“ finds the light in the dark. A movie about a girlfriend in a coma — and a man risking cutting ties from his family to be with her — brought some of the biggest laughs I’ve had in years. The longer Kumail sticks around at the hospital, the more Emily’s parents warm up to him. One night, Emily’s parents attend one of his stand-up shows, and Emily’s mom defends Kumail against a heckler who tells him to “go back to ISIS." In another scene later on in the film, Emily’s dad opens up to Kumail about a time that he cheated on his wife. It’s heartbreaking content, but the chemistry and the delivery from Nanjiani and Romano (who is seriously peaking right now) make it one of the sweetest and funniest parts of the movie.

Ten years ago, "Knocked Up" had similar moments, but not on as dramatic a scale. "Knocked Up" also has a hundred dick jokes to "The Big Sick's" two or three (maybe less). That's because "The Big Sick" was written completely from the heart. Nanjiani and Gordon knew they had a story worth sharing, and they didn't sacrifice any time just for the laughs. All of the jokes are natural, and there aren't any scenes (besides scenes that take place at a comedy club) that were written to just be joke-delivery scenes.

This tragic story with a happy ending and a lot of happy moments throughout the journey is one of the best romantic comedies in years. And, just like "Knocked Up" shaped the next wave of comedies, "The Big Sick" will hopefully do so as well — which is a good sign for the future of rom coms, and Nanjiani and Gordon's careers as a screenwriting duo. 

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Tesla, the electric-car and energy-storage company, could become the next big music-streaming service.

Last week, a representative told Business Insider that it was important for its customers to "listen to the music they want from whatever source they choose." The comments followed a report suggesting the company was working on a music-streaming service.

And according to Adam Jonas, an equity strategist at Morgan Stanley, this would make sense.

Silicon Valley is interested "in the potential multi-trillion dollar opportunity selling data, content, and experiences unfamiliar to today's auto firms," Jonas said in a note on Tuesday.

"The potential total addressable market of such a bundled mile (utility + content + data) dwarfs some of the major end markets (PC, smartphones) that Silicon Valley currently services."

By 2030, Jonas forecast, Tesla Mobility — an on-demand service similar to Uber — would have about 2 million cars, and there would be about 7 million privately owned Teslas.

"Tesla wants to be more than a 'dumb pipe'" that moves people around, Jonas said.

The auto industry would be a "money loser" by 2030, Jonas said. However, Tesla would be able to monetize the time that people are spending in their cars, as it and other companies develop what he described as a "living room on wheels."

"These firms could cede 100% of the value of content to the likes of Apple, Alphabet, Pandora, Sirius, or Netflix," Jonas said. "On the other hand, they could say: 'Wait a second. This is our venue. Our OLED screen. Our speakers. Our HMI. Our seats. Our software. Let's at least give the customer a choice of using our own apps before we too quickly go the way of the pure handset manufacturers.'"

Additionally, the buying power of people who own Tesla's electric cars could be well-suited to the market for paid premium content.

Jonas expects that Tesla's peers entering the self-driving and ride-hailing space, including Alphabet and Apple, could also explore original content for their cars' passengers.

But these competitors are bigger and better capitalized than Tesla, meaning they could provide ride-hailing services at a loss and at Tesla's expense, Jonas said.

Music streaming is worth about $50 million in enterprise value to Tesla, Jonas estimated.

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Packed with high-quality releases from some of the biggest names in the industry, the first half of 2017 has been a prolific period for new music.

From the songs of Kendrick Lamar's instant-classic album "DAMN.," to a few stellar singles from R&B artist Frank Ocean, to numerous indie gems, the list of our favorite songs of the year turned out to be an eclectic one.

Check out the 25 best songs of 2017 so far:

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25. Drake — "Passionfruit"

The hit single from his "playlist" album, "More Life," Drake's "Passionfruit" finds the Toronto rapper in the familiar confines of the catchy melancholia he's exhibited on previous hits like "Take Care" and "Hold On, We're Going Home."

24. The xx - "Say Something Loving"

On "Say Something Loving," the English indie-rock trio The xx adds a newfound, welcomed vibrancy to their minimalist production for a compelling song about the "thrill of affection."

23. Lorde - "Green Light" (Chromeo Remix)

Stripping away the bulk of the melodramatic baggage from Lorde's "Melodrama" single "Green Light," the Canadian duo Chromeo builds a fresh, electro-funk track around Lorde's cryptic lyrics about love and nightlife.

There are a lot of great titles coming to your favorite streaming services in July.

You can decide for yourselves if the critics were wrong and titles like “Ghost in the Shell” and “Snatched” are any good. And there are a bunch of “Star Trek” movies coming to Amazon and Hulu to help fill the void until "Star Trek: Discovery" arrives in October.

But let’s face it, you all are waiting to start season 7 of HBO’s “Game of Thrones,” which will kick off July 16. Thankfully, the wait is almost over.

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

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iTunes

Available July 4

“The Boss Baby”
“Free Fire”
“The Promise”

Available July 11

“Ghost in the Shell”
“Gifted”
“Going in Style”

Available July 18

“Colossal”
“The Circle”
“Slight”

Available July 25

“Snatched”
“The Lovers”
“King Arthur”

Amazon Prime

Available July 1

“1 Dead Party”
“14 Women”
“18 Swirling Riders”
“The 28th Day: Wrath of Steph”
“48 Hrs.”
“8 Heads in a Duffel Bag”
“Abolition”
“Agent Cody Banks”
“Air: The Musical”
“All American Zombie Drugs”
“Amnesiac”
“Another 48 Hrs.”
“Appetite”
“Area 51”
“The Artworks”
“Assassin of the Tsar”
“Bandits”
“Big Foot Wars”
“Blind Heat”
“Blood Moon Rising”
“Blood Reaper”
“Boomerang”
“Boricua”
“Braveheart”
“Breakfast at Tiffany’s”
“Bull Durham”
“Bumblef**k, USA”
“Bunnyman Massacre”
“Carne: The Taco Maker”
“Carnies”
“Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” (2005)
“Clear and Present Danger”
“Cold Mountain” 
“The Corrupted”
“Crystal River”
“Cutthroat Island”
“Day We Met”
“Dead Evidence”
“Death Wish IV: The Crackdown”
“Destination Vegas”
“Dilemma”
“Dirt Merchant”
“Dragonblade”
“Dream a Little Dream”
“Drunk Wedding”
“The Eagle and the Hawk”
“Eight Men Out”
“Elephant”
“The First Wives Club”
“Flashdance”
“Flipping”
“Fly Me to the Moon”
“Foreign Fields”
“Frankenstein Reborn”
“Free Money”
“Frozen Kiss”
“G Men from Hell”
“Gene-Fusion”
“The General”
“Get Well Soon”
“Ghost Bride”
“Godsend”
“The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”
“Gunshy”
“Hazard Jack”
“Hobgoblins”
“House Of The Dead”
“House of the Dead 2”
“The Hunt For Red October” 
“Intimate Affairs”
“Into the Fire”
“Jack in the Box”
“Jezebeth”
“Jingles the Clown”
“John Grisham's The Rainmaker”
“Johnny Guitar”
“Killing Ariel”
“Killing Zoe”
“Kingpin”
“The Last Word”
“Lazarus: Day of the Living Dead”
“The Letter”
“The Little Kidnappers”
“Little Red Devil”
“Lost in Siberia”
“Lovin Molly”
“The Lucky Ones” 
“Manhattan”
“Married to the Mob”
“The Matrix Reloaded”
“The Matrix Revolutions”
“Meeting Spencer”
“Metamorphosis”
“The Midnight Meat Train”
“Model Behaviour”
“Morning Glory”
“Mortem”
“Moscow Heat”
“My Bloody Wedding”
“Nerve”
“New Order”
“Paradise Lost”
“Payback”
“The Peacemaker” 
“Pi”
“Pootie Tang”
“Postmortem”
“Rescue Dawn”
“Rosemary's Baby”
“Scrooged”
“Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan”
“Star Trek III: The Search for Spock”
“Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home”
“Star Trek IX: Insurrection”
“Star Trek V: The Final Frontier”
“Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country”
“Star Trek VIII: First Contact”
“Star Trek Vll: Generations”
“Star Trek: The Motion Picture”
“Suicide Kings”
“Up in the Air”
“Wild Wild West”
 
Available July 4

“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”

Available July 5

“Snowfall” (Season 1)
“Suits” (Season 7)

Available July 6

“The Assignment”
“The Salesman” (Amazon Original)
“Under the Gun”
 
Available July 7

“Begum Jaan”
 
Available July 8

“Our Kind of Traitor”
“Sliding Doors”
 
Available July 9

“Its Gawd!”

Available July 13

“Mr. Robot” (Season 2)
 
Available July 14

“Antarctica: Ice & Sky”

Available July 16

“Game of Thrones” (Season 7)
“Salvation” (Season 1)

Available July 17

“The Strain” (Season 4)
 
Available July 19

“Miss Sloane”

Available July 21

“Niko and the Sword of Light” (Season 1, Amazon Original)

Available July 23

“Insecure” (Season 2)
“Ballers” (Season 3)

Available July 28

“The Last Tycoon” (Season 1, Amazon Original)
“Chef”
“The Living Dead” (Season 1)
 
Available July 31

“Jeepers Creepers”

Hulu

Available July 1

“48 Hours”
“8 Heads in a Duffel Bag”
“Altered States”
“Another 48 Hours”
“Area 51”
“As I Am: The Life and Times of DJ AM”
“Bandits”
“Beverly Hills Ninja”
“The Blob”
“Boomerang”
“Braveheart”
“Bull Durham”
“Cat O’Nine Tails”
“Clear and Present Danger”
“Click”
“Coma”
“Dark City”
“Dead Calm”
“Death Wish IV: The Crackdown”
“The Devil’s Advocate”
“Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood”
“Dream a Little Dream”
“Drunk Wedding”
“The Eagle and the Hawk”
“Eight Men Out”
“Encino Man”
“The Fan”
“The First Wives Club”
“A Fistful of Dynamite”
“Flashdance”
“Fly Me to the Moon”
“Free Money”
“The Furies”
“Get Well Soon”
“Godsend”
“The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”
“House of the Dead”
“House of the Dead 2”
“Hudson Hawk”
“The Hunt for Red October”
“John Carpenter’s Vampires”
“John Grisham’s The Rainmaker”
“Johnny Guitar”
“The Juror”
“Killing Zoe”
“Kingpin”
“Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV”
“Kit Kittredge: An American Girl”
“La Bamba”
“Les Miserables”
“The Letter”
“Lost Souls”
“The Lucky Ones”
“A Man Alone”
“The Mangler”
“Manhattan”
“Married to the Mob”
“The Mask”
“The Midnight Meat Train”
“Misery”
“My Dog Skip”
“Needful Things”
“Nerve”
“Payback”
“The Peacemaker”
“A Perfect Murder”
“Pootie Tang”
“The Presidio”
“The Professional”
“Reasonable Doubt”
“Rescue Dawn”
“Riding in Cars with Boys”
“Road House”
“Rosemary’s Baby”
“Rustler’s Rhapsody”
“Sacred Ground”
“Santee”
“School Daze”
“Scrooged”
“Sense and Sensibility”
“Sniper”
“Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan”
“Star Trek III: The Search for Spock”
“Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home”
“Star Trek IX: Insurrection”
“Star Trek V: The Final Frontier”
“Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country”
“Star Trek VIII: First Contact”
“Star Trek VII: Generations”
“Star Trek: The Motion Picture”
“Suicide Kings (1997)”
“Syriana”
“The Tall Stranger”
“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles”
“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2”
“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3”
“The Pursuit of Happiness”
“The Water Horse”
“To the Arctic”
“Top Dog”
“Top of the Food Chain”
“Up in the Air”
“Walking Tall”
“The Witches”
“Wolfen”

Available July 4

“Jonah: A Veggie Tales Movie”

Available July 5

“The Eric Andre Show” (Season 4)
“Prince Avalanche”
“The Sorcerer and the White Snake”

Available July 6

“Under the Gun”

Available July 7

“Pure” (Season 1)

Available July 8

“Our Kind of Traitor”

Available July 9

“Sliding Doors”

Available July 10

“Blood, Sand & Gold”

Available July 12

“The Bold Type” (Series Premiere)
“Humpday”
“Melancholia”
“Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby”

Available July 14

“Uncle Grandpa” (Season 4)
“Da Sweet Blood of Jesus”

Available July 16

“Inside Job”

Available July 19

“John Dies at the End”

Available July 20

“Tagged” (Season 1)

Available July 23

“Touch of Light”

Available July 24

“Guardians of Oz”
“Touch of the Light”

Available July 25

“Midnight, Texas” (Series Premiere)
“Somewhere Between” (Series Premiere)

Available July 26

“Good Ol’ Frieda”
“Oxford Murders”

Available July 28

“Betch” (Season 2)

Available July 30

“96 Souls”

Available July 31

“Jeepers Creepers”

When the original "Shadow of the Colossus" launched on the PlayStation 2 back in 2005, it became a near-instant cult classic. It's easy to understand why: It's a game about conquering huge monsters, and nothing else.

In 2017, "Shadow of the Colossus" is back — a "rebuilt" version of the original game, with gorgeous new graphics.

The unique, gorgeous game is expected to launch in 2018 on the PlayStation 4, but Sony offered an early look recently. Here's what we know!

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"Shadow of the Colossus" is a straightforward game with a surprisingly nuanced story.

You're a man with a sword and a horse.

And you're in a massive open world, empty of other people but rife with the ruins of a civilization.

The animation studio Illumination ("Minions," "Sing," "The Secret Life of Pets") proved once again that it can hang with the likes of Pixar and Disney Animation Studios when it comes to box office coin.

Its latest title, "Despicable Me 3," won the Fourth of July weekend with an estimated $75 million, according to Exhibitor Relations.

The successful franchise, led by the voice talents of Steve Carell, easily ran away with the box office win, as its closest competition, Edgar Wright's latest hit "Baby Driver," came in second with $21 million.

Though it doesn't look like the "Despicable Me" franchise is going to end anytime soon, "Me 3" didn't surpass 2013's "Despicable Me 2" opening weekend of $83.5 million.

Wright's heist/car chase movie, which is a critical darling with a 97% ranking on Rotten Tomatoes, opened on Wednesday and has a five-day total of $30 million (the movie was made for around $34 million).

But there's nothing positive to say about the Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler comedy "The House." Released by Warner Bros., the title only took in $9 million on over 3,000 screens.

That's one of the worst openings ever for Ferrell — even worse than 1998's "A Night at the Roxbury" ($9.6 million). With its litany of big-name stars, "The House" cost an estimated $40 million to make.

The three main wide releases this weekend (but mostly "Despicable Me") helped Hollywood rebound from a dismal Independence Day at the movies last year, which saw lackluster openings from "The Legend of Tarzan" ($38.5 million), "The Purge: Election Year" ($31.5 million), and "The BFG" ($18.7 million).

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Our concept of "the perfect body" is constantly changing. 

Factors like the physical requirements of jobs, availability of food, and cultural trends have influenced our perceptions of humans' physical form. And in the future, journeys into space or the merging of humans with machines might change what we think of as ideal.

Artist Nickolay Lamm has done a significant amount of work on how understandings of an "ideal" female body differ from reality. He wanted to take a look at how Americans' standards for the ideal male body have changed over time as well, so he started collecting photos that depicted that body from the 1870s to today. Then he created models to show how that shape changed over time.

These generalizations don't represent everyone's preferences, of course. And this particular project was focused on body shape and didn't take into account other physical characteristics like skin tone, facial features, or hair color. But these illustrations help show how what we think of as the "ideal male" has changed significantly over the past 150 years.

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1870s: In the late 19th century, being overweight was a sign of wealth, since it suggested one had the means to feast.

This photo shows the members of a "Fat Man's Club" in Connecticut in 1894. The club was founded in 1866, and members had to weigh at least 200 pounds. The idea became popular and spread across the US.

1930s: By this time, excess weight started to get associated with lower classes. Hollywood actors — who had to be fairly fit to look good on camera — started to represent a new ideal.

"I'm not a businessman. I'm a business, man."

When JAY-Z made that famous boast on a Kanye West song in 2005, he was in the midst of his "retirement" from rapping and had shifted his focus to the strictly corporate side of music and popular culture.

In his three-year hiatus from music after the release of 2003's "The Black Album," JAY-Z had become the CEO and president of Def Jam Recordings. He had also expanded on the entrepreneurial projects — including his clothing line, Rocawear, and several other ventures — that would go on to make him one of the wealthiest artists in the music industry today.

Jay's experimentation in the business world would soon carry over into his evolving, risk-taking approach to the business of selling albums.

After the traditional release of his commercially successful 2006 comeback album, "Kingdom Come," Jay flipped the script for his 2007 LP "American Gangster" by keeping the album off of the iTunes store. 

The move foreshadowed more radical album-release strategies to come from the rap mogul — many of which have focused on exclusivity and increasing profit, both in partnerships with various companies and through his streaming service, Tidal, as we will explore.

Jay's 13th studio album, "4:44," is out Friday as a Tidal and Sprint exclusive. 

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2007: Removing "American Gangster" from iTunes

JAY-Z's decision to keep his 2007 album based on the Denzel Washington film "American Gangster" off of the iTunes store was founded in his distaste for single track sales diluting the importance of the album format in the digital era.

"As movies are not sold scene by scene, this collection will not be sold as individual singles," Jay explained in 2007. 

Of course, keeping the album off of iTunes also meant that the artist didn't have to pay Apple 30% of the album's sales. The album went on to become his tenth No. 1 album and has sold over a million copies. 

2011: Staggering the digital and physical releases of "Watch The Throne"

JAY-Z's collaborative album with Kanye West, "Watch The Throne," became the first major album of the internet age to completely avoid leaking before its release date, thanks to the duo's innovative, industry-shifting release strategy. 

Jay and Kanye staggered the digital and physical releases of "Watch The Throne" by a week and made iTunes the first, exclusive purveyor of the LP to ensure that the album wouldn't leak from CD manufacturers.

The strategy instantly became the standard mode of operation for labels to prevent leaks of their high-profile albums. Frank Ocean's 2012 album "Channel Orange" adopted the same staggered release, for instance. 

2013: Giving a million free copies of "Magna Carta Holy Grail" to Samsung users

As part of a $20 million deal between Samsung and JAY-Z's Roc Nation label in 2013, Samsung users were able to claim a million free copies of Jay's album "Magna Carta Holy Grail" through an app, three days before the album saw its wide release. 

The exclusive, Samsung-bought copies did not end up counting toward the album's first week sales total due to Billboard's existing rules on the matter. 

JAY-Z took to Twitter to joke about the sales discrepancy upon the album's release, writing, "If 1 Million records gets SOLD and billboard doesn't report it, did it happen? Ha. #newrules#magnacartaholygrail Platinum!!! VII IV XIII."

Nonetheless, "Magna Carta" went on to become Jay's 13th consecutive No. 1 album, and it is currently certified double platinum by RIAA. 

Kanye West is reportedly leaving Tidal after fighting with Jay-Z's music streaming service over money, according to a new report from TMZ.

The rapper allegedly feels like he's owed more than $3 million for bonuses and reimbursement for music videos after he debuted his album "Life of Pablo" on the service over a year ago, according to the TMZ report. He's reportedly left the company over the fight, according to TMZ. Tidal didn't respond to Business Insider's request for comment.

Jay-Z relaunched Tidal in 2015 with a roster of other A-list artists as an artist-backed alternative to Pandora or Spotify. Tidal claims to pay more royalties and was set up as a co-ownership with Jay-Z's artist friends like Madonna and Coldplay's Chris Martin.

West was one of the original artists to buy into Tidal's mission and fight back against companies like Apple who was trying to build its own competing service. 

Part of Tidal's bid has been to lock artists into exclusive releases on the platform. Rihanna's release of her album "Anti" skyrocketed the app to No. 16 on the top app charts. Jay-Z just released his new album "4:44" on Tidal as well. 

West, though, was one of the biggest exclusives the streaming service nabbed. In February 2016, he debuted "Life of Pablo" on Tidal. At the time, he claimed total loyalty to Tidal: "My album will never never never be on Apple," he wrote. "And it will never be for sale. You can only get it on Tidal."

It later appeared on other services and West was hit with a lawsuit "fraudulently inducing customers to subscribe to Tidal." It was later dismissed.

However, that debut is now leading to a falling out between West and Tidal. According to TMZ, the rapper claims he's owed $3 million, including bonuses for bringing on over a million subscribers to Tidal following his album release. Tidal, in turn, reportedly says that Kanye hasn't delivered the videos as he promised on his contract. The falling out has lead to a fury of lawyers sending letters and both sides threatening to sue, according to the TMZ report.

West's departure would be the latest in a string of high-profile departures from the troubled music service. The company has gone through three different CEOs, including Jeff Toig who departed at the end of May.

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