The 5th episode of the new season of "Game of Thrones" included a brief but shocking reveal about Jon Snow that you might not have picked up on the first time around. There were also several callbacks to season 1. Here's a look at everything you might have missed.
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Perhaps fulfilling the destiny of his first name, Leonardo DiCaprio is set to star as Leonardo da Vinci in a film about the life of the Renaissance thinker and artist.
Paramount Pictures beat out Universal in an "intense" bidding war for the rights to the biopic, according to Deadline. The film will be based on an upcoming da Vinci book by "Steve Jobs" biographer Walter Isaacson.
According to a reported DiCaprio family legend, Leonardo DiCaprio got his name after his pregnant mother felt him "kicking like crazy one day when his parents were looking at a portrait of Leonardo da Vinci" in an Italian art museum.
No stranger to biopics, DiCaprio won his first best actor Oscar in 2015 for his role as the real-life frontiersman Hugh Glass in "The Revenant." He was also nominated for his portrayals of Howard Hughes in "The Aviator" (2005) and Jordan Belfort in "The Wolf of Wall Street" (2013).
Walter Isaacson's "Steve Jobs" book became a biopic of the same name in 2015, when director Danny Boyle adapted it for the big screen. Isaacson's "Leonardo da Vinci" book will be released in October.
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HBO's "Last Week Tonight" host John Oliver opened up his show on Sunday by looking back on the horrific events that look place in Charlottesville, Virginia over the weekend.
And specifically, Oliver voiced his frustrations on how President Trump handled it all.
On Saturday, white nationalists protested in the city against its plans to take down a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee. One person was killed and 19 injured after a car ran into a group of counter-protesters. This followed a day of protestors on both sides fighting one another through the streets of Charlottesville.
On Sunday's episode, Oliver pointed out that even after hours to come up with a powerful statement to keep the country at ease, Trump said the following at a press conference before a bill signing:
"We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry, and violence on many sides," Trump said. "On many sides."
After the remarks, many took to social media, including Republicans, stating that Trump should have condemned the white nationalists.
"There honestly aren't many instances in modern American politics where you can honestly think, 'That guy really should have mentioned the Nazis,' but this is emphatically one of them," Oliver said.
Oliver also pointed out that at that press conference, Trump had two other chances to go harder on the white nationalists, but instead stayed quiet as reporters yelled out questions.
"It simply doesn't get easier than disavowing Nazis," Oliver said. "It's as much of a presidential gimme as pardoning a f—ing turkey. It is almost impossible to screw it up, but that's exactly what happened. So there is clearly no point in waiting for leadership from our president in moments like this because it is just not coming. Which means we will have to look to one another because incredibly, in a country where previous presidents have actually had to defeat Nazis, we now have one who cannot even be bothered to f—ing condemn them."
Watch Oliver's entire recap on Charlottesville below:
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Netflix and Disney are in discussions on whether the streaming service will retain Disney’s Marvel and Star Wars films after 2019, Reuters reports. Netflix currently has the first and second installments of the Star Wars trilogy in its catalog and has a multi-year deal with Marvel for certain series including Daredevil and Jessica Jones.
The news comes on the heels of Disney’s major announcement to launch its own Disney streaming service and end its distribution agreement with Netflix for streaming of new Disney releases, both beginning in 2019.
Marvel and Star Wars films are very popular, and keeping them would help Netflix. Marvel films have been successful at the box office for almost a decade, and are the reason other film studios are mimicking their model, according to Collider, while no other entertainment franchise matches the estimated $42 billion total of Star Wars ledger, according to Telegraph. Retaining these films can help Netflix attract and retain subscribers, which is especially important as losing Disney’s catalog in 2019 will likely lead to family subscriber losses.
But keeping Marvel and Star Wars films on Netflix could be beneficial to Disney as well. Disney is considering launching standalone streaming services for Marvel and Star Wars. However, consumers may start to feel inundated with streaming service options, and might opt not to sign up for the possible Marvel and Star Wars streaming services altogether. By keeping this content on Netflix, Disney can still monetize from licensing agreements, rather than investing additional capital into streaming services that users may not sign up for.
Regardless, Netflix’s original content still positions it well to attract subscribers. The streaming giant won’t be left completely vulnerable should it not secure the Marvel and Star Wars rights. Its $6 billion original content budget and planned 1000 hours of planned content for 2017 is sure to provide ample original programming for viewers to watch. Additionally, Netflix has proven it can develop quality content — it received 91 emmy nominations for its programming in July. Moreover, shows like House of Cards and Stranger Things have strong fan bases that drive viewers to seek out and view on Netflix, more so than Marvel and Star Wars content.
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Warning: Spoilers for "Game of Thrones" season seven episode five, "Eastwatch." If you aren't caught up on the series, read at your own risk.
This week's episode of "Game of Thrones" was quite peaceful, despite Daenerys starting the episode burning two men alive via Drogon.
This week had a few reunions that set up new, unconventional allies — and some old ones who came together again. Every character is like a piece on a chess board, and they're just getting closer and closer to the endgame.
It was quite a relief to have a little break from the action, but that just means that next week will be full of it. And we have some questions before we get there.
Here are all the questions we have after this week's episode of "Game of Thrones":
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Cersei reveals that she's pregnant with Jaime's child. She could be lying, but judging by her brief scenes with Qyburn, it looks like she is — and that she's refusing moon tea, which would kill the baby.
But Maggy the Frog's prophecy has proven accurate over time: she had three children, and all of them are dead. Will this child live? Probably not, and it could be the death of her. This sense of hope — that she and Jaime can live a happy life with a child together — could lose her the war, and her life.
Bronn organizes a secret (and surprise) meeting with Tyrion in King's Landing. Tyrion convinces Jaime to ask Cersei to take the army of the dead threat seriously. Because it's not a threat: it's inevitable. And if everyone who is living is fighting each to her, they'll all be dead very soon. That means this fight for the Iron Throne will have been for nothing.
This week, Arya stalks Littlefinger in Winterfell. Littlefinger is clearly trying to create tension between Arya and Sansa, and unfortunately knows that Arya is onto him. But in her training with the Faceless Men, Arya became an expert in knowing when people are lying, so we're hoping that she uses this skill (and her other skill of wearing other people's faces) to end Littlefinger's trip up the chaos ladder once and for all.
Smartphones aren't going anywhere anytime soon. It'll be another decade (or more) before your digital life is projected into the world around you, viewed through seemingly magical augmented-reality glasses.
You know the kind: The Google Glasses of the world, worn like sunglasses, which appear to "project" stuff like email or directions directly into reality when they're actually just overlaying your vision with digital information.
For many folks in Silicon Valley, augmented reality is an inevitable evolution of the current smartphone-obsessed world we live in. That begs the question: What will that world look like? A new Xbox One and PC game called "Tacoma" offers a vision into that worryingly-believable future.
Let's take a look.
In the future where "Tacoma" is set, employees of the Venturis corporation are working on a space station. A condition of their employment is having their entire lives recorded through augmented reality. As a result, your exploration of the now-abandoned space station is filled with ghostly replays of their lives.
In a nod to another potential AR feature of the not-so-distant future, each employee's job is designated by the symbol on their back. Above, the station medic plays a game of pool.
The skeletal frames recorded by the space station's monitoring system enable the player to see a surprising amount of human interaction.
Also of note: ID tags pop up over people, like in a virtual world. There are a variety of less-than-savory connotations to this concept — perhaps those ID tags also show annual income, or other status measurements — but in the world of "Tacoma," it's solely used as a personnel badge.
Imagine this concept playing out in real life, though:
You go to meet your friend at Central Park, but it's huge. Where are they?! You call your friend, and their face pops up a foot away from your own on a projected screen. "Where are you?" you ask. "Right here," your friend says — and instantly, a real-world indicator shows their location. Your AR glasses guide you to the friend, seamlessly, while walking — projecting directions into the world around you. No stopping to check your phone or look on Google Maps or whatever else. It's this promise that makes AR so appealing, and the logical successor to smartphones.
There are a lot of single "Bachelor" and "Bachelorette" contestants who are left looking for love and still want to be on TV.
So ABC decided to take some of those rejected contestants and fly them to a remote tropical resort in Mexico, and let the drama unfold on "Bachelor in Paradise."
Season four of "Bachelor in Paradise" premieres Monday night, despite fears that the show would be cancelled.
Season four's production had been halted temporarily following allegations of "misconduct" on the set involving two controversial contestants, that many speculated could result in the end of this ratings juggernaut.
A producer on the show allegedly filed a "third-party complaint" tied to "misconduct" involving contestants Corinne Olympios and DeMario Jackson. The incident was reportedly related to a drunken hook-up caught on camera.
After an investigation into the incident, ABC said no "misconduct" had occurred on the show and filming resumed. Corinne and DeMario are both expected to attend the "Bachelor in Paradise" reunion.
So what's the recipe for ABC's hit drama? A lot of booze, attractive people, bikinis, crying, and constant plot twists.
Here's everything you need to know about the scandalous reality show before the premiere:
O'Shea Jackson Jr. is best known for being the son of Ice Cube. But that's going to change soon.
Since playing his father in the hit N.W.A. biopic "Straight Outta Compton" in 2015, the rising star has been keeping a low profile. However, it seems he was just waiting for the right role, and it finally came with the dark comedy, "Ingrid Goes West" (currently playing in theaters).
In the movie, in which Aubrey Plaza plays Ingrid — a social media stalker who is obsessed with an Instagram star (played by Elizabeth Olsen) — Jackson Jr. plays Dan Pinto, Ingrid's landlord and eventual love interest.
With a role that could have easily been forgettable, Jackson Jr., 26, uses it to become the movie's secret weapon. From his constant vaping to his obsession with Batman (specifically "Batman Forever"), Jackson Jr. elevates the movie's comedy while showing audiences there's a lot more to his talents than impersonating his father's gangsta rap days.
"I looked at 'Ingrid Goes West' as an opportunity to show my versatility as an actor," Jackson Jr. told Business Insider earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival. "People see 'Straight Outta Compton' and they look at that as a big family project, but those people don't know that I went to film school. I went to the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California, so cinema's a very big part of my life."
Jackson Jr. said a big reason why he hasn't gotten the steady work of his fellow castmates from "Compton," Corey Hawkins ("24: Legacy") and Jason Mitchell ("Detroit"), is simply because he was looking for something different than what he was being offered.
"This was the only script where I didn't get a gun," Jackson Jr. said of "Ingrid Goes West."
In fact, it was Jackson Jr.'s fun personality that evolved the Dan Pinto role.
"We realized we had this goldmine and we were just like, 'How can we use this for the betterment of the story?'" director Matt Spicer said of casting Jackson Jr.
That led to Spicer and his cowriter, David Branson Smith, scrapping some of the things about the Pinto character they had in the screenplay, and tweaking it to better fit Jackson Jr.'s colorful personality.
We caught a glimpse of that at Sundance. With a big wide grin and infectious laugh, he's far from the introvert he depicted his father to be in "Straight Outta Compton." And when our interview ended, instead of going straight to his phone as most, Jackson Jr. jumped up and walked over to where his costars Plaza and Olsen were doing interviews, and began making funny faces at them. The two couldn't help but laugh while trying to answer questions.
It might be a little while before we see Jackson Jr. in a comedic role again. He'll next be starring in the bank heist movie "Den of Thieves," and the sequel to 2014's "Godzilla." It seems his master plan is to try out all kinds of roles.
"I came up with this phrase today, I want to be Black Pitt," Jackson Jr. said. "I don't want to be typecast into one role, I want to be versatile. I want to have a long career in cinema."
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Pandora announced Monday that it has appointed Roger Lynch as its new CEO and president.
Lynch comes to the internet-radio giant from Dish's Sling TV, where he was formerly the founding CEO. He will also join Pandora's board of directors.
Pandora's stock was up over 6% in after-hours trading on the news.
Pandora's cofounder and former CEO, Tim Westergren, stepped down in June after Pandora received a $480 million investment from Sirius XM weeks earlier (in a move to remain independent).
Westergren had taken over as CEO last March to guide the launch of Pandora's on-demand competitor to Spotify and Apple Music, Pandora Premium.
But Sirius reportedly had little interest in the new direction. With Westergren out, Pandora appears to have shifted its focus away from the on-demand service, and away from potential international expansion. The company decided to shut down its service in New Zealand and Australia last month to focus on just the US.
Pandora's immediate stock spike seems to show confidence in Lynch's experience in running a streaming company that is charting new territory, while facing tough margins.
"I cannot imagine a more important and exciting time to join Pandora," Lynch said in a statement. "With a massive, diverse and highly engaged audience, a market-leading digital advertising business, a best-in-class product portfolio and an extremely passionate and talented group of people, Pandora is well-positioned to capture an even greater market opportunity."
The company's current chairman, Roger Faxon, announced Lynch's appointment with the following:
"After a thorough and thoughtful search process, we are thrilled to have Roger join us as CEO and a member of our board. Roger brings a stellar leadership reputation, a wealth of consumer experience, and a lifelong passion for music to Pandora – all of which are critical ingredients in the continued evolution of our company."
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Shonda Rhimes isn't just good at making good TV.
The creator of hits like "Grey's Anatomy" and "Scandal" is really good at making true broadcast TV.
And if more people like Rhimes decide they don't like that medium as much as Netflix's more lucrative and less rigid one, that spells trouble for major TV networks and their advertisers.
Because if the best creators no longer want to work with CBS, ABC, NBC and Fox, what are these networks left with, but the leftovers?
Rhimes, who just inked a big Netflix deal, has been particularly prolific at a unique, some would say fading, form of TV. Call it the buzzy-but-still-mainstream-enough network drama. Besides "Scandal" and "Grey's," she's responsible for "How to Get Away With Murder" and the former ABC hit "Private Practice." The Wall Street Journal reported that she brought in $2 billion for the network.
Besides tons of revenue, Rhimes filled ABC's schedule with hour-long shows that played out over 22 episodes a year. In an age where TV 'auteures' turn to streaming services to make six episode 'seasons,' making as much TV as Shondaland churns out is a very particular, increasingly rare set of skills.
Some of the top creators in TV have been more vocal about what a grind that kind of schedule is creatively. That's part of the reason why Tina Fey was happy that "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" went from NBC to Netflix. A few months ago, "Gilmore Girls" creator Amy Sherman-Palladino told the Journal that she was probably done with network TV, given its storytelling limitations.
Rhimes hinted at this dynamic in the announcement of her Netflix deal, according to the New York Times.
"[Netflix chief content officer] Ted [Sarandos] provides a clear, fearless space for creators at Netflix. He understood what I was looking for — the opportunity to build a vibrant new storytelling home for writers with the unique creative freedom and instantaneous global reach."
Of course, beyond the creative freedom, there's the $6 billion or so Netflix plans to spend on shows this year that has a way of attracting talent.
Shonda Rhimes' move to Netflix is bad for all of network TV, not just ABC.
So if the trend continues we will just refer to the entertainment industry as the Netflix industry?
— Jim Gaffigan (@JimGaffigan) August 14, 2017There's a lot of truth in this comment. Netflix is like the Yankees going after whichever free agent it wants. And unfortunately for their longevity, the broadcast networks risk becoming small market teams (or even worse, Netflix's minor league system).
It's why folks like Chuck Lorre (creator of "The Big Bang Theory" and "Two and a Half Men") and 70-year old Dick Wolf ("Law and Order" and umpteen Chicago-set dramas on NBC) can pretty much write their own ticket. It's also part of the motivation for Disney planning direct-to-consumer subscription offerings.
More importantly, it's vital for broadcast networks to find new creative talent that not only knows how to create a show that resonates, but one that plays well in the TV networks' 22-episodes a year business model – and ideally is so good that people have to tune in live. It might be time to keep more of an open mind regarding truly original series like Netflix's "Stranger Things," for example, which was rejected by lots of networks.
Otherwise, the more Shondaland fans that get their crazy twist fix from streaming ad-free shows, the fewer people will flip on ABC on Thursday nights. And eventually there'll be fewer advertisers willing to stick with network TV.
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Airtime flies.
The video chat app was launched by Napster cofounder and former Facebook president Sean Parker with massive fanfare in 2012, only to disappear just as quickly.
But it was reborn last year as a group video viewing/social product, and Airtime now has "has millions of users," according to president Daniel Klaus, who joined the company in 2013 following the initial product's shutdown. According to Klaus, every night "thousands or rooms light up with three to five people, and they hang out and sit and watch videos together."
That's the basic idea of Airtime. Think of Skype or Facetime, but with groups of friends talking to each other, and seeing each others faces in virtual rooms all via their smartphones. And besides talking, friends can share videos from YouTube or playlists from Spotify on Airtime, letting everybody hang out and experience the content together.
Since rebooting last year, Klaus told Business Insider that Airtime has proven particularly popular among teens and college kids, though he predicts the behavior will soon become universal. Currently the average user spends 12 minutes a session on Airtime and roughly an hour a month co-consuming content. The biggest Airtime fans come back five and six times a day.
"Sean Parker has always had this vision that the next wave of the internet was going to be about being together," said Klaus. "The next whole phase of growth we'll see is that you can be in real time with real people."
Parker – famously portrayed by Justin Timberlake in "The Social Network" – may have been a bit early in his vision. Back in 2012, the original Airtime rolled out with a splashy, celebrity-filled launch featuring the likes of Jimmy Fallon and Snoop Dogg. But the product, which was at the time was likened to Chatroullette, fell flat among consumers.
Klaus said that 2012 was so long ago in terms of the evolution of social media, and more importantly mobile, that it's a completely different era.
Now he thinks the world, particularly young people, are ready. "Humans have sought to replicate real world communications on digital since the beginning of time," he said. "They crave that."
And they're not getting that from existing social media, he added. "I think Facebook is one of the great social products of our time, and one of the great social tragedies or our time. Kids feel bored and lonely. You have 500 friends and you don’t really know anyone."
But as apps like the popular Houseparty have proven, group video chat is gaining steam. So much so that Facebook is actively looking to co-opt the trend, reports the Wall Street Journal.
Denisia Milas, a 21-year old college student from Arizona, said she spotted an ad on Instagram for Airtime two months ago and decided to download it after another group chat app her friends had been using proved glitchy.
Now, roughly twice a week she and her friends watch YouTube videos on Airtime, including one featuring her getting her head shaved. Milas said watching her friends reactions are sometimes as fun as the videos themselves
"It's almost like we are all together," she said.
That's the idea.
Airtime still doesn't have a revenue model. The company is kicking around ideas for monetization, including potential subscription offerings and microtransactions, said Klaus.
"We have the most sophisticated video engineering team that exists outside of Facebook and Google in North America," he said. "We've spent a lot of time watching how people use video. I don’t believe anybody has figured out an ad unit in live mobile video."
Still, Airtime is also exploring original content. "We think that's a gigantic opportunity," said Klaus, who noted that MTV is trying to revive its former live music show "Total Request Live." "Our platform is where that kind of show should exist," he said. "Those kids don’t even know what MTV is."
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After big concerts and festivals, your Snapchat feed is likely full of footage of the stage interspersed with your friends rocking out. With its new Crowd Surf feature, Snapchat wants to take your second-hand viewing experience to the next level.
Built in-house by Snap's research team, the proprietary machine learning technology stitches together Snaps submitted to Our Story, and uses geolocation and timestamps to piece the audio together into a semi-seamless video.
The technology was put to the test this weekend during Lorde's performance at San Francisco's Outside Lands.
A button at the bottom of the screen lets viewers watch from multiple perspectives. During Lorde's performance you get views from the VIP section and people scattered at various angles around the stage.
The technology relies on people taking Snaps at the same time from a lot of different places. In the case of the Lorde concert, you only get snippets of full songs, and while the audio is seamless, the video jumping from person to person is disorientating. You also get the classic front facing shots of a random person's face.
For the video to actually be something worth watching, a lot of people would need to be taking steady Snaps, but in theory the technology could be used for most audio-centric events like concerts and speeches.
A Snapchat spokesperson told Business Insider that Crowd Surf will begin slowly rolling-out at select events.
Crowd Surf is just the latest update to Snap's story feature. Since launching in 2014, Snap has tried to pull viewers in with curated event coverage and its Discover content. The company has struggled since its March IPO, and continues to search for new ways to serve ads to the millions of viewers that open the app everyday.
Snap has faced tough competition from Facebook after it launched its own Stories feature on both Facebook and Instagram. Facebook hasn't made any moves into editorial curation, and for the moment Snap rules the space.
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Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci appeared on CBS' "Late Show with Stephen Colbert" Monday to discuss his unexpected departure from President Donald Trump's administration.
During the show, Colbert showed a photo of Scaramucci and former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus, who also left the administration amid loud rumors he and Scaramucci were not getting along.
That feud reached a boiling point last month when Scaramucci accused Priebus of leaking information on the inner workings of the White House in a profanity-laced tirade captured during an interview with the New Yorker's Ryan Lizza.
"Were you brought in just to get rid of [Reince Priebus] and Sean Spicer," Colbert asked.
Scaramucci began: "I don't wanna say it that way. I would say —"
"Say it like The Mooch, say it like The Mooch," Colbert chided. "Give me some Mooch, give me some Mooch, here."
"So The Mooch [of] Long Island would say there was no love lost there," Scaramucci said, amid a raucous applause. "Obviously, look at the picture."
"The weird thing about my relationship with Reince is we were actually pretty good friends when I was a political donor writing checks to the [Republican National Committee]," Scaramucci said.
"But once I became part of the administration or was about to enter the administration, for whatever reason, it was a little more adversarial."
Colbert pressed Scaramucci on his thoughts toward White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, who Scaramucci has publicly criticized in recent days.
"Is Steve Bannon a leaker," asked Colbert.
"I said he was, and I obviously got caught on tape saying he was, so I have no problem saying that," Scaramucci replied.
"If it was up to me, he would be gone," continued Scaramucci. "But it's not up to me."
Colbert also threw some hardball questions towards Scaramucci, based on Trump's initial response in condemning the white nationalist groups connected to the violent protests in Charlottesville, Virginia.
"Why do you think the president of the United States, who you called, 'the most media-savvy person of our times,' would shank a softball like that so hard, when he should have just come out there and condemned the people who were there to start violence," Colbert asked.
"Well, I think there's a couple issues there," Scaramucci said. "He should have been way harsher on that ... He should have condemned white supremacism and neo-Nazis."
Scaramucci left his multibillion dollar investment firm in the hopes of landing a job in the Trump administration earlier this year. He was hired as the White House's communications director last month. His tenure was short-lived, however. He was forced out 10 days later, after his explosive New Yorker interview was published.
TONIGHT: Anthony #TheMooch@Scaramucci is here and he's revealing who he would front-stab if he was still in the White House. #LSSCpic.twitter.com/sEljprdlH1
— The Late Show (@colbertlateshow) August 15, 2017
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In an interview with former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci, "The Late Show" host Stephen Colbert delivered a line on President Donald Trump that impressed Scaramucci himself.
Colbert initially pressed Scaramucci on why Trump failed to unequivocally condemn the white supremacist groups that were connected to the deadly rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday. Trump initially blamed "many sides" for the violence, only to reverse course two days later after a massive bipartisan outcry.
"Let's be fair to him today though," Scaramucci said. "He did condemn the Nazis today."
"Two days later," Colbert exclaimed. "Does he order his spine on Amazon Prime? Why did it take so long for that?"
"That's a good line," Scaramucci said, amid applause from the audience. "And I said yesterday that he should've been tougher on it."
"I said yesterday, and I maintain that he's got to be tougher on that stuff if he wants his legislative agenda to pass," Scaramucci said. "He's got to move in a more moderate direction, he's got to appeal to people that are independent and moderates that possibly voted for him to help him ascend to the presidency."
Scaramucci appeared on "The Late Show" Monday night and discussed some of the inner workings of the White House that he experienced during his 10-day tenure in the Trump administration, including his public rift with Trump's then-chief of staff, Reince Priebus.
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Warning: Spoilers for "Game of Thrones" season seven, episode five, "Eastwatch." If you aren't caught up on the series, read at your own risk.
Every week the game of thrones changes. This week there was a lot of talking, traveling, and reunions between beloved characters: some good, some unpleasant.
But in the end, there was more getting along than there was action and conflict, which is shocking considering the season is almost over.
Every week, we're rounding up which character was the smartest, dumbest, luckiest, and more in our power rankings.
Here's the "Game of Thrones" power rankings based on season seven episode five, "Eastwatch":
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Gilly makes a discovery that could change the game all of these people have been playing for the past seven seasons: a guy named Rhaegar annulled his marriage so he could marry someone else. This means that Jon Snow is probably not a bastard, and is instead the rightful heir to the Iron Throne.
Randyll and Dickon refuse to bend the knee to Daenerys Targaryen, despite witnessing the wrath of Drogon. Daenerys has Drogon burn him alive. Randyll was a pretty terrible guy and threatened his son Sam's life because he liked books, so he kind of deserved it. But they both had a choice, and they chose to burn.
They're lucky Daenerys offered them life at all.
The summer movie season is supposed to be the time of year when movie studios and theaters cash in.
The big event movies are placed in the summer months to specifically draw in the kids who are out of school. In the past, that's led to a period when the movie industry makes a large chunk of its revenue for the year.
But both studios and exhibitors are suddenly seeing that the game has changed.
Summer movie ticket sales dropped 10% from the previous year in 2016 at the domestic box office. And they were down 12% this summer compared to 2016. The effects can be seen at the country's biggest multiplexes, which saw shares plummet.
It's hard to tell if the summer movie season will ever return to its former glory — especially when it seems the last few summers things on the small screen captured the zeitgeist more, whether it was Netflix's "Stranger Things" or HBO's "Game of Thrones."
But there will always be movies that break through and find an audience, and this summer was no different ("Wonder Woman," "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2").
It's just becoming more evident that studios need to rethink what they release during the summer to compete with our addiction to streaming and mobile devices.
To look back on summer 2017 at the box office, we broke down the five big winners and losers:
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Warner Bros.'s long-awaited theatrical version of the legendary DC Comics character brought legitimacy to the studio's DC Extended Universe, and won the domestic box office this summer by taking in over $400 million. It's earned close to $800 million worldwide.
Director Patty Jenkins found the perfect combination of action sequences and inspiring origin story to make the movie into a can't-miss event of the summer, which is what Hollywood has craved.
AMC, the nation's largest theater chain, announced in early August that its shares dropped 27%, the biggest one-day decline in the company's history. This was due to the company saying it would record a second-quarter loss. And none of the other chains are doing any better: Regal's net income fell around 30% in the second quarter, while Cinemark's dropped 5%.
For many, most of the movies that hit the big multiplexes felt tired and unoriginal. It also didn't help that many had poor Rotten Tomatoes scores. Speaking of which ...
The review aggregator site really flexed its muscles this summer. With studies now having data to back up the claim that most moviegoers look at the site before deciding on buying movie tickets, more and more studios and distributors are using the "Tomatometer" score in their marketing of a movie — when the score is good.
And this summer when a studio anticipated a bad score, it delayed critics from seeing the movie as much as possible. Sony did that with the releases of "The Emoji Movie" (which on the day of its opening had a 0% rating) and "The Dark Tower." Though both received rotten scores on the site, they had respectable opening weekends ("The Dark Tower" won its weekend). This was partly because there was little competition on those weekends, but also because critics chimed in much later than usual.
The power of the Tomatometer is real!
Netflix cofounder Mitch Lowe has a radical new business model for his startup MoviePass.
For just $9.95 a month, Lowe's company will allow its subscribers to see up to one movie a day in any U.S. movie theater that accepts debit card payments.
As MoviePass will pay the full price of every ticket sold to theaters, the company faces potentially huge losses, and has secured new funding to accommodate the new subscription plan.
The startup announced Tuesday that it had sold a majority stake to big data firm Helios and Matheson Analytics in order to promote a nationwide rollout of its new low, flat-rate service.
"MoviePass was founded to make it easier for passionate moviegoers and casual fans to see films the way they’re meant to be seen — in the theater," Lowe said in a statement. "Our vision has always been to make the moviegoing experience more affordable and enjoyable for our subscribers. We are changing the way consumers think about going to the movies by making it possible to experience a broader array of films — from the latest summer blockbuster to a critically-acclaimed documentary — through a subscription model."
For Helio and Matheson's CEO Ted Farnsworth, the goal of financing MoviePass is to eventually collect data on viewing behaviors from a large base of moviegoers. Farnsworth told Bloomberg that the startup will be able to target ads and market to its subscribers in a manner "no different than Facebook or Google."
MoviePass was founded in 2011 as a $30 per month membership. Mitch Lowe took over the company in 2016, and its service is currently available in 91% of movie theaters across the country.
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This August marks the 48th anniversary of the famed Woodstock Music and Art Festival, which took place on Max Yasgur's 600-acre farm in Bethel, New York.
Every notable musician of the time, from Jimi Hendrix to Janis Joplin, played during the three-day festival. Even with 400,000 attendees, zero reports of violence were made to the police during or after the festival, and with two babies reportedly born on the premises, it certainly was a weekend of peace, love, and music.
Ahead, take a look at those who made it into the music festival's premises and became part of the renowned "Woodstock generation."
Netflix's chief content officer Ted Sarandos doesn't get why the press always likes to pit his company against fellow streaming giant Amazon Studios.
In a wide-ranging feature for Variety, Sarandos opened up about many things, and one in particular was Amazon.
“I don’t think we compete with Amazon in the movie space at all,” Sarandos told the trade. “I frankly don’t understand their strategy. I don’t understand why perpetuating a model that feels more and more disconnected with the population is good.”
There is a major difference between the two: Amazon's movies are released in a traditional theatrical window before they become available on its site; Netflix releases its movies day-and-date, meaning they are available on the site and also in theaters at the same time. Because of this most major theater chains will not show Netflix movies because it's going against the industry's standard of giving a movie 90 days in theaters before showing on any other platform.
Because of this major difference, Sarandos is trying to give the perception that the two can't be rivals in the movie space. But it's hard to believe that.
Netflix and Amazon go after many of the same movies that go to the Sundance Film Festival every year, as well as projects by big name directors and actors floating around Hollywood that need money (something both companies have a lot of). And with the current theatrical 90-day grace period model looking like it will become extinct in the coming years, these two companies will be at each other's throats even more, as Netflix titles will presumably have a better chance to get more theatrical play.
In playing nice with theater owners, Amazon Studios has found more success when it comes to getting its titles into the awards season talk. Last year, its title "Manchester By The Sea" was nominated for six Academy Awards, became the first-ever streaming title to receive a best picture nomination, and took home two Oscars for best actor (Casey Affleck) and best screenplay. Netflix has been nominated numerous times for best documentary, but hasn't been able to crack the big Oscar categories.
Netflix's only attempt to go for the brass ring was 2015's "Beasts of No Nation," the first original movie released by Netflix. Because of Netflix's day-and-date model, the movie didn't get the big release it should have gotten, and on top of that it angered many in the industry. This led to zero Oscar nominations (though Idris Elba should have gotten one).
“I do think ‘Beasts’ is one of the most mischaracterized releases," Sarandos told Variety. "The mistake was putting it on 30 screens. And I say mistake because every time you read anything about ‘Beasts of No Nation,’ it starts with the fact that it failed at the box office. If it had been on two screens, the behavior of a couple hundred people in six major cities would have made it a success.”
The release on 30 screens was the compromise Sarandos made with the movie's director, Cary Fukunaga, who pushed to get his movie in theaters.
And that's the true rivalry Netflix and Amazon have, currently. Everyone from Martin Scorsese (Netflix) to Woody Allen (Amazon) are working with the companies. And one of the deciding factors for many of these great talents is still the question of the theatrical release.
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WARNING: Spoilers ahead for "Game of Thrones."
George R.R. Martin's plan for the "A Song of Ice and Fire" series has changed drastically since he first wrote an outline in 1993. Aside from some gruesome prospects (like Sansa having a baby with Joffrey), one original storyline in particular is extremely off-putting: Jon Snow and Arya Stark falling in love.
And we thought the fans shipping Jon and Sansa were bad enough.
Turns out, Martin had quite the dramatic romance in store for Jon and Arya when he was first plotting out the Stark family dynamics. Jon was always destined to be Lord Commander, but Martin wanted Arya to travel to the Wall along with her mother Catelyn and younger brother, Bran. After arriving at Castle Black, Arya would have discovered that she had feelings for Jon that extended beyond a sibling love.
Here's the excerpt from Martin's original outline [emphasis ours]:
Jon Snow, the bastard, will remain in the far north. He will mature into a ranger of great daring, and ultimately will succeed his uncle as the commander of the Night's Watch. When Winterfell burns, Catelyn Stark will be forced to flee north with her son Bran and her daughter Arya. Wounded by Lannister riders, they will seek refuge at the Wall, but the men of the Night's Watch give up their families when they take the black, and Jon and Benjen will not be able to help, to Jon's anguish. It will lead to a bitter estrangement between Jon and Bran. Arya will be more forgiving ... until she realizes, with terror, that she has fallen in love with Jon, who is not only her half-brother but a man of the Night's Watch, sworn to celibacy. Their passion will continue to torment Jon and Arya throughout the trilogy, until the secret of Jon's true parentage is finally revealed in the last book.
Thanks to the television adaptation, we now have confirmation that Jon Snow's parents are Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark, making Jon Snow the cousin of Arya and the other Stark children. But even as cousins, a romance between Arya and Jon seems completely out of character at this point.
Martin clearly pivoted when it came to their relationship, and mapped out Jon and Arya as bonded outcasts of the Stark clan instead of tormented lovers. And Jon Snow wasn't the only main character Martin planned to connect romantically with Arya.
Her other suitor was going to be none other than Tyrion Lannister.
"Exiled, Tyrion will change sides, making common cause with the surviving Starks to bring his brother down, and falling helplessly in love with Arya Stark while he's at it," Martin's original outline explained. "His passion is, alas, unreciprocated, but no less intense for that, and it will lead to a deadly rivalry between Tyrion and Jon Snow."
Thankfully Martin opted to have a different Stark daughter enter a relationship with Tyrion, but the circumstances of his marriage to Sansa were completely different.
All in all, we're glad the Stark incest was left off the table. Arya's lone wolf character is interesting enough without including a love interest, and Jon Snow's brief love affair with Ygritte was heartbreaking itself without dipping into the same gene pool.
This article has been updated from its original version.
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