HBO's original series "Insecure," known for its humorous portrayal of life in LA, has been quietly gaining recognition as a beacon of hot tracks.

The series has a popular Spotify playlist that contains season one and two's soundtrack, with new songs added weekly as season two progresses — the playlist is currently at 137 songs.

The music on "Insecure" features a wide range of styles, from lauded rappers like Kendrick Lamar, and Frank Ocean, to up-and-coming R&B, neo-soul singer SZA. 

Miguel and SZA have debuted new music on "Insecure" this season, and the series also reached out to some of its favorite artists (Jorja Smith, Bryson Tiller, and Jazmine Sullivan) from season one to create original tracks this season. 

Business Insider spoke to "Insecure's" music supervisor Kier Lehman about how he finds "fresh" new music for "Insecure," and how he curated a selection of new and original music to match the current LA vibe of the show. 

This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity.

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"Insecure" looks to give exposure to undiscovered and independent artists.

Amanda Luz Henning Santiago: Can you walk me through how you select music for "Insecure?"

Kier Lehman: It's driven by Issa, and also Melina Matsoukas the executive producer, and Prentice Penny who is the showrunner. At the beginning of season one, we discussed what the sound of the show is. What are some things that are important to them, that they wanted to include. The show is set in LA so it was really important to include, and feature a lot of LA artists. 

We talked a lot about independent artists, and featuring new artists. Giving exposure to underground, and undiscovered artists — as well as including classic songs interspersed throughout the episodes to help ground the show, and give the audience songs that are familiar. [Those songs] kind of bring them back to a certain time, or remind them of a time when that music came out. That also helps bring a little more context to the scenes.

Lehman looks to a wide variety of sources to find new artists for the show.

Henning Santiago: How do you go about finding undiscovered and independent artists for the show?

Lehman: I've always been interested in discovering new artists that are just coming out. But I'm also looking back, and discovering artists that had a lot of influence on the music that's come after them, but maybe didn't get much recognition. I'm always kind of just digging, and looking, and interested, and curious about new music.

People pitch me music all day long because I'm a music supervisor, and I work on exciting projects that people want their music in. So, I get pitched music all day long from major labels, publishers, managers, agents, and artists themselves that I have relationships with. I also look to different resources, like different online magazines, websites, and blogs that write about new music. And I'm active on social media, following artists, and seeing what artists they're talking about.

I also have a lot of relationships with friends, and people in the industry that I trust, who bring me music, and introduce me to different artists. 

Season two featured a lot of new and unreleased music this season.

Henning Santiago: I know that Miguel and SZA premiered some unreleased tracks on the show. How did you get access to that unreleased music? Or, was it a different process with the more well known artists?

Lehman: We have a soundtrack coming out through RCA, and we have close relationships with all the labels. We get advance music from all the labels, but of course we have this special relationship with RCA. They were feeding us a lot of their upcoming releases early, in the hopes that we could work that into the show. The SZA stuff we got from them early, and obviously it fit so well with the show that we were able to use two songs in the first two episodes.

The Miguel track was something where I knew he was working on new music, and he's an LA R&B artist, that fits the sound of the show so well. I was really pushing to get the upcoming music that he was working on, in case something worked for the show. He's signed onto RCA, so I knew we had a little bit of an advantage, and a connection to get it. So, I finally got this track from them, really liked it, and sent it over to the show. I let them know that we had this really great piece of music that was unreleased and coming out, so it would be cool to find a good spot for it. And our editor cut it into this great montage and it works really well, it's a really cool use.

Investors have cooled on ad tech. But they seem to be shifting their attention to companies promising to make TV advertising function more like digital advertising.

The TV ad software startup VideoAmp has raised $21.4 million in new series B round. That brings the company's total funding to $36.6 million.

The new funding round was led by Mediaocean, a company that provides software to many ad agencies for billing and other functions. Other investors included the German media firm RTL Group as well as StartUp Capital Ventures.

In the past few years, advertisers have shown increasing interest in using data and technology to target specific audiences on TV, much like they target people who've recently visited e-commerce sites or searched for products with highly specific ads.

VideoAmp chief strategy officer Jay Prasad told Business Insider that its software can be used not only to help marketers use their own data to target narrow audiences on TV, but also sync that with their digital ad efforts. The idea is that advertisers will be able to track people from device to device (from smart TVs to laptops to phones) and they can be more strategic in their messaging approach.

"This should give brands one common digital data set that they can use to optimize TV and web campaigns,"Prasad said. "They can then make more intelligent ad buys when they go back into the market."

This targeted TV ad sector appears to be heating up. Earlier this year, the TV data and analytics firm Samba TV raised $30 million in new funding. Just a few days ago, RTL fully acquired the video ad tech company SpotX. A slew of other TV-centered tech companies made Business Insider's list of the 19 most interesting ad-tech upstarts of 2017.

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We've been leading up to a big crash at the box office this summer and that's just what happened over the Labor Day weekend.

For years now studios have all gone on break over the long holiday weekend, as most audiences skip the theaters and instead venture on vacations or the beach. But this is the first time in 25 years a movie wasn't released in over 1,000 screens over Labor Day.

That has led to a pitiful box office total that by Monday should land around $100 million domestically over the four days — not the worst in history but pretty bad as its down 22% from last year's total.  

Signs of Hollywood conceding the summer came two weekends ago when the only wide release was the action/comedy "The Hitman's Bodyguard," starring Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L. Jackson. It won the weekend despite a 39% Rotten Tomatoes rating.

Then last weekend, things got worse when the movie biz had its worse box office in 16 years with a total of only $69 million ("The Hitman's Bodyguard" once again won the weekend). We've now hit the wasteland that is Labor Day weekend, and you guessed it, "The Hitman's Bodyguard" won for a third straight weekend with an estimated $10.2 million, according to Exhibitor Relations.

It's the only movie to win the weekend box office three weeks in a row this summer, but it's hard for Lionsgate to have bragging rights when the movie had zero competition.

Labor Day weekend gets so barren studios like to brush off classics and release them in theaters.

This year, Sony brought out Steven Spielberg's classic, "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," on 900 screens for the movie's 40th anniversary. Marvel used the holiday to release on the big screen a tease of its next TV series, "Inhumans," on just under 400 IMAX screens. Both titles took in under $2 million as of Sunday.

Then there's "Tulip Fever," a movie that has had numerous release date changes over years. The Weinstein Company finally gave the movie to the masses this weekend and audiences were as excited to see it as the Weinsteins were of releasing it.

The movie — sporting a 11% score on Rotten Tomatoes despite having a cast that includes Alicia Vikander, Christoph Waltz, and Zach Galifianakis — opened on under 800 screens and has earned around $1.25 million. 

Despite this summer movie season not being able to crack $4 billion for the first time since 2006 (2017 domestic total: $3.8 billion), the fall brings hope. The Warner Bros. release of the Stephen King classic "It" next weekend is projected to make $60 million.

SEE ALSO: The 24 best movies of the summer, according to critics

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With the summer coming to a close, it's time to get ready for a lot of TV shows coming back with new seasons in September, and your favorite streaming services have you covered. 

Over at Amazon, there's new seasons of "Transparent" and "One Mississippi," while on Hulu you can catch the season premiere episodes of "This Is Us," "Lethal Weapon," and the entire new season of its show, "The Mindy Project."

On HBO Go/Now, the new show "The Deuce" kicks off. 

And, of course, all the streaming services have lots of new movie titles. 

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

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iTunes

Available September 5

“The Big Sick”

Available September 12

“Transformers: The Last Knight”
“The House”
“The Hero”

Available September 19

“A Ghost Story”

Amazon Prime

Available September 1

“American Loser”
“American Ruling Class”
“And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird’
“Autopsy”
“Best Seller”
“Bio-Dome”
“Blood Car”
“Boy”
“Breathing”
“Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations”
“Calloused Hands”
“Carrie”
“Charlotte Rampling: The Look”
“Clip”
“Computer Chess”
“Dark Ride”
“Dead Weight”
“Dirty Dancing”
“Disturbing Behavior”
“Double Headed Eagle”
“Double Take”
“Down to Earth”
“Duane Michaels: The Man Who Invented Himself”
“Dying Breed”
“Free Radicals”
“Ganja & Hess”
“Gogol Bordello: Non Stop”
“Hippie Masala”
“Holes in My Shoes”
“Huff”
“In the Land of the Deaf”
“Indecent Proposal”
“Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love”
“Khodorkovsky”
“Kingdom of Shadows”
“Korkoro”
“La Maison de la Radio”
“Lars and the Real Girl”
“Lipstick & Dynamite: The First Ladies of Wrestling”
“Look Both Ways”
“Man About Town”
“Manuscripts Don't Burn”
“Meditate and Destroy”
“Mistress”
“Mr. X”
“Music from the Big House”
“Nollywood Babylon”
“Offspring”
“Primitive London”
“Princess Kaiulani”
“Pumpkinhead”
“Red Garters”
“River's Edge”
“Sacred Flesh”
“Sacrifice”
“Schoolgirl Hitchhikers”
“Sleepover”
“Successive Slidings of Pleasure”
“Switchback”
“The Black Stallion”
“The Bloodsucker Leads the Dance”
“The Cove”
“The Cup”
“The Dark Half”
“The Fairy”
“The Giants”
“The Golden Child”
“The Hills Have Eyes 2”
“The Last Godfather”
“The New Public”
“The Object of Beauty”
“The Rage - Carrie 2”
“The Revisionaries”
“The Search for One Eyed Jimmy”
“The Sinful Nuns of Saint Valentine”
“The Workshop”
“This Ain't No Mouse Music”
“Truth in Numbers? Everything According to Wikipedia”
“Unsolved Mysteries: Original Robert Stack Episodes” (Season 8)
“Vanishing Waves”
“Videocracy”
“Virgin Among the Living Dead”
“Virgin Witch”
“Web Junkie”
“Wedding Crashers”
“When I Saw You”
“Wide Awake”
“With One Voice”

Available September 2

“Ben-Hur” (2016)

Available September 7

“The Hunter's Prayer”
“Tubelight”

Available September 8

“One Mississippi” (Season 2, Amazon Original)

Available September 9

“The Magnificent Seven” (2016)

Available September 10

“Meri Pyaari Bindu”

Available September 11

“Frantz”

Available September 12

“The Ray Bradbury Theater” (Season 6)
“ReGenesis” (Seasons 2-4)

Available September 15

“An American Werewolf in London”
“Beauty and the Baker” (Season 1)
“Endless Love”
“The Thaw”
“The Women of Brewster Place”

Available September 16

“Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail”

Available September 19

“Straight/Curve: Challenging the Beauty”

Available September 21

“Kill Switch”

Available September 22

“Transparent” (Season 4, Amazon Original)

Available September 23

“Elian”

Available September 25

"Bronte Sisters" (Season 1)
“Falling Water” (Season 1)

Available September 26

“Wishenpoof!” (Season 2a, Amazon Original)
“Unsolved Mysteries: Original Robert Stack Episodes” (Season 9)

Available September 28

“Dance Flick”
“Thursday Night Football (Game 1)

Hulu

Available September 1

“Keeping Up With the Kardashians” (Complete Season 13)
“A River Runs Through It”
“Addam’s Family Values”
“The Addams Family”
“Akeelah and the Bee”
“American Loser”
“An Inconvenient Truth”
“And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird”
“Autopsy”
“Barnyard”
“Batman”
“Batman Returns”
“Best Seller”
“Bio-Dome”
“The Black Stallion”
“The Blue Lagoon”
“Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations”
“Carrie” (1976)
“Contact”
“The Cove”
“The Cup”
“Dances with Wolves”
“Dare Not Walk Alone”
“The Dark Half”
“Disturbing Behavior”
“Dead Hands Dig Deep”
“Defiance”
“Down to Earth”
“Dr. Strange” (2006)
“Dying Breed”
“Eternity: The Movie”
“Fools Rush In”
“Fright Night”
“The Golden Child”
“Gridiron Heroes”
“Harriet the Spy”
“History of Jazz: Oxygen for the Ears”
“Hitch”
“Home Sweet Hell”
“Indecent Proposal”
“Invasion of the Body Snatchers”
“The Invincible Iron Man”
“Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love”
“Kill Me, Deadly”
“L.A. Twister”
“Lars and the Real Girl”
“Last Chance Harvey”
“The Last Godfather”
“The Levenger Tapes”
“The Loved Ones”
“Mad Hot Ballroom”
“Man About Town”
“The Men Who Stare at Goats”
“Mistress”
“The Monster Squad”
“My Girl”
“My Girl 2”
“Nacho Libre”
“The Neverending Story”
“The Object of Beauty”
“Offspring”
“Ordinary People”
“Outbreak”
“The Pelican Brief”
“Planet Hulk”
“Poseidon”
“Princess Kaiulani”
“Pumpkinhead”
“The Rage – Carrie 2”
“Red Garters”
“Remember the Goal”
“Return to the Blue Lagoon”
“River’s Edge”
“Robocop”
“Robocop 2”
“Sanctuary”
“Secretary”
“Shooter”
“The Silence of the Lambs”
“Silent Hill”
“Sinbad: Beyond the Veil of Mists”
“Sleepover”
“Spring Broke”
“Something to Talk About”
“Stomp the Yard”
“Surfer, Dude”
“Switchback”
“Tiger Raid”
“Thor: Tales of Asgard”
“Ultimate Avengers 2”
“Ultimate Avengers: The Movie”
“Ultraviolet”
“Walking Tall”
“You Got Served”
“You Got Served: Beat the World”

Available September 2

“Adventure Time” (Complete Season 8)
“Ben-Hur’
“Freaky Friday”
“Freaky Friday”

Available September 3

“The Eye”

Available September 5

“The Emperor’s New Groove”
“Insatiable: The Homaro Cantu Story”
“Lilo & Stitch”
“The Lodge”
“Returning Citizens”
“Survivor”

Available September 6

“Crash”

Available September 7

“Total Bellas” (Season 2 Premiere)
“Burden”

Available September 9

“The Magnificent Seven” (2016)

Available September 11

“The Orville” (Series Premiere)
“Top of the Lake: China Girl” (3 Day Premiere Event)

Available September 12

“The Mindy Project” (Season 6 Premiere, Hulu Original)
“Filth”

Available September 13

“Anomaly”
“Once Upon a Time in Shanghai”

Available September 14

“South Park” (Complete Season 21)
“Robo-Dog: Airborne”

Available September 15

“Good Behavior” (Complete Season 1)
“An American Werewolf in London”
“Child of God”
“Endless Love”
“The Lookalike”
“The Road Within”
“Skating to New York”
“The Thaw”
“These Final Hours”
“The Women of Brewster Place”

Available September 16

“Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail”

Available September 19

“Straight/Curve: Challenging the Beauty”

Available September 20

“Pirates”

Available September 21

“The Commune”
“Food Evolution”

Available September 22

“Doc McStuffins” (Complete Season 4)
“Interview with a Hitman”
“Kiki”
“Killers”
“McCanick”
“Sword of Vengeance”
“Vengeance of an Assassin”

Available September 23

“Grey’s Anatomy” (Season 13 Premiere)
“Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell” (Complete Season 3)

Available September 25

“Miles From Tomorrowland” (Complete Season 2)
“Power” (Complete Season 3)
“The Double”

Available September 26

“The Brave” (Series Premiere)
“The Voice” (Season 13 Premiere)

Available September 27

“Brooklyn Nine-Nine” (Season 5 Premiere)
“Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders” (Series Premiere)
“Lethal Weapon” (Season 2 Premiere)
“The Mick” (Season 2 Premiere)
“This Is Us” (Season 2 Premiere)
“The ABC’s of Death”
“Frankie & Alice”
“Hammer of the Gods”
“I Saw the Devil”
“Kiss of the Damned”
“Let the Right One In”
“Splinter”
“Survival of the Dead”
“V/H/S”
“V/H/S 2”

Available September 28

“Chicago P.D.” (Season 5 Premiere)
“Empire” (Season 4 Premiere)
“Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” (Season 19 Premiere)
“Star” (Season 2 Premiere)
“Dance Flick”

Available September 29

“Family Matters” (Complete Series)
“Full House” (Complete Series)
“Hangin’ With Mr. Cooper” (Complete Series)
“Perfect Strangers” (Complete Series)
“Step By Step” (Complete Series)
“Chicago Fire” (Season 6 Premiere)
“Ghosted” (Series Premiere)
“The Good Place” (Season 2 Premiere)
“Gotham” (Season 4 Premiere)
“Great News” (Season 2 Premiere)
“Superstore” (Season 3 Premiere)
“Will & Grace” (Season 9 Premiere)

Available September 30

“Hell’s Kitchen” (Season 17 Premiere)
“The Evil in Us”
“Once Upon a Time in Venice”

Sometimes, the best way to spend a long weekend is to curl up on the couch and enjoy a film.

If you're looking for something entertaining and beautiful that'll also make you knowledgeable, there's an incredible variety of science- and nature-focused documentaries and TV shows on Netflix right now.

You can stream compelling documentaries that'll captivate you with the beauty of the planet, you can delve into the details of how food arrives on your plate, or you can explore the mysterious and alien world that exists in oceans around the globe.

But there's a downside to all of those options: It's a lot to choose from. So to make it easier, we've asked our colleagues to pick out some of their favorites from the Netflix documentary selection.

Films come and go from Netflix every month, but as of the date of publication, all these films should be available. We'll update this list periodically to reflect currently available documentaries.

Here are our favorites, listed in no particular order:

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"Cooked" (2016)

What it's about: In this four-part docu-series, journalist and food expert Michael Pollan explores the evolutionary history of food and its preparation through the lens of the four essential elements: fire, water, air, and earth. 

Why you should see it: Americans as a whole are cooking less and relying more on unhealthy, processed, and prepared foods. Pollan aims to bring viewers back to the kitchen by forging a meaningful connection to food and the joys of cooking. [Click to watch]

"Blackfish" (2013)

What it's about: This film highlights abuses in the sea park industry through the tale of Tilikum, an orca in captivity at SeaWorld in Orlando, Florida. Tilikum has killed or been involved in the deaths of three people while living in the park. 

Why you should see it: This documentary opens your eyes to the troubles of keeping wild animals in captivity through shocking footage and emotional interviews. It highlights the potential issues of animal cruelty and abuse involved with using highly intelligent animals as entertainment. Sea parks have historically made billions of dollars by keeping animals captive, often at the expense of the health and well-being of animals. This documentary played a huge role in convincing SeaWorld to stop their theatrical "Shamu" killer whale shows. [Click to watch]

"Chasing Coral" (2017)

What it's about: Step into the alien world that teems with life beneath the sea. This film, by the team behind the film "Chasing Ice," is an attempt to document the transformation and loss of coral reefs around the globe. The filmmakers face rough oceans as they dive underwater to plant cameras and document the changes to reefs. What they reveal is both fascinating and tragic.

Why you should see it: Coral reefs cover less than 2% of the sea floor, but a quarter of marine life depends on them to exist. Without these fascinating and complicated creatures, much of the ocean as we know it wouldn't exist. The filmmakers reveal the otherworldly beauty of these underwater creatures, and capture just how fragile their existence is at this point. [Click to watch]

Warning: This post contains spoilers if you have not finished the seventh season of "Game of Thrones."

The season seven finale of "Game of Thrones" left viewers with a ton of questions. 

There's a never-ending number of theories circulating throughout the internet, trying to predict what will happen next season, and who will end up sitting on the Iron Throne. 

It's impossible to know for sure what we're going to see in the eighth and final season of "Game of Thrones" — but that doesn't mean there aren't some fairly clear clues.

Here are a couple of things you can expect from the final season of "Game of Thrones":

SEE ALSO: 31 important questions the 'Game of Thrones' season 7 finale left unanswered

Theon Greyjoy will try to rescue his sister Yara.

In the season seven finale, Theon rallied a group of his fellow ironborn to help him find and rescue his sister Yara from their uncle Euron.

The last time Theon saw Yara, his uncle had taken hold of her after seizing their ships. Theon, instead of attempting to rescue Yara, became overwhelmed and jumped ship, literally. 

It looks as though Theon is slowly starting to overcome the trauma he's endured the past couple of seasons, and we'll most likely see a very different version of him in the final season.

Jon Snow and Daenerys will head to Winterfell.

The last time we saw Jon and Daenerys, they were sailing north. We expect that their eventual arrival in Winterfell will cause some consternation.

It seems unlikely that Sansa and Arya will be thrilled that Jon has bent the knee to a woman they've never met, let alone a Targaryen, without consulting anyone.

And, lest we forget, there's some surprising information awaiting Jon regarding his identity when he returns to Winterfell.

Jon will learn his true parentage.

While there have been a number of hints at Jon's true identity since season one, it was finally confirmed by both Samwell Tarly and Bran Stark in the season seven finale that Jon Snow is in fact the legitimate son of Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark.

Oh, and his real name is Aegon Targaryen. 

This makes Jon the true heir to the Iron Throne. It also makes Daenerys his aunt.

Bran and Samwell resolved to inform Jon that he's a Targaryen when returns to Winterfell. We can't imagine that this information will be great for his relationship with Daenerys.

But Targaryens have been known to wed their siblings, so perhaps this news won't be upsetting to the new couple. 

How can you tell that I'm old? 

The answer: I can't stand playing most 3D games on a touchscreen for very long. I love playing "Minecraft," Microsoft's smash-hit block-building game, on my iPhone with my nephews, but the control feels weird and unnatural to my withered 30-year-old hands. I could play it on PC, naturally, but then I lose the portability. 

This is why I was so eager to try "Minecraft: Nintendo Switch Edition," the $30 version of the game for the new Nintendo Switch console. I thought, perhaps, this version would strike the perfect compromise:

Because the Switch is a TV games console, it uses a traditional joystick setup, the kind I'm very accustomed to. And because you can detach the Switch from the TV, I can take it on the go.

Well, the game met my expectations, and actually exceeded them. And in so doing, it shows off what's so great about both "Minecraft," and about the Nintendo Switch itself. 

Mining and crafting

The actual experience of playing "Minecraft" is exactly the same here as it is on other versions.

In Survival Mode, you begin alone and unarmed, and are challenged to craft tools and weapons in a blocky, charmingly pixelated world. In Creative Mode, you're freed from the shackles of responsibility, and can zip around the world using the game's amazingly intuitive interface to build massive structures limited by your imagination.

This version's sole twist is a Nintendo-exclusive "Mario Mash-Up Pack," which optionally lets you play as various Super Mario characters, while also giving a Mario-style makeover to the game's items, buildings, and enemies. If you happened to play the Wii U version of "Minecraft," it's the exact same here as it was there.

It's a fun addition, but not game-changing (so to speak). If you've ever played "Minecraft" before, and you should, you know what you're getting. One thing I would note is that the game's graphics get just a little worse when the console is in its portable mode, with the distance you can see noticeably diminished. That's a quibble, though.

Playing with power

The real beauty of this version of "Minecraft" comes in the unique stuff that the Switch brings to the table.

Again, I can't get used to touchscreen controls. So having a portable version that supports the Switch's trademark Joy-Con controllers, thumbsticks and all, was a welcome blessing. I found myself playing the game more, and for longer sessions, than I had with other versions of "Minecraft." 

My absolute favorite moment with the game, however, came when I showed it to my nephews. Like the Xbox and PlayStation versions of the game, "Minecraft: Nintendo Switch Edition" supports a split-screen multiplayer with up to four players, so long as the console is plugged into the TV.

When the Switch isn't plugged into the TV, though, you still keep the power to have two local players. It meant that my nephews could play with each other sitting at the coffee table, while a movie played on the TV. They love "Minecraft;" they love playing "Minecraft" with each other, and they were totally into this idea.

The caveat is that "Minecraft: Switch Edition" doesn't support the Switch's nifty method for turning one of its Joy-Con controllers into two, meaning you'll need a full two controllers to take advantage. That part is a bummer.

Still, to me, it proves two things. First, Nintendo's boasts of the Switch as a social console are well-deserved. Whether it's attached to the TV, or in your backpack on a trip, the Switch really does let you have fun solo or with friends. 

Second, "Minecraft" is really an extraordinary game. It's incredibly flexible, and is equally as fun on phones, consoles, and PCs. It's no wonder that the game has had such staying power when it's so easy to get started everywhere the game plays. And when Switch players of "Minecraft" get the ability to join their Xbox brethren later this year, you can expect the fun to get cranked up to 11.

SEE ALSO: Every video game would be better on Nintendo's newest console

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As summer begins to transition into fall, we bid farewell to the movies of summer. But not before we reflect on all of the major summer movie flops.

This summer we were treated to a number of spectacular films, like "Dunkirk," "Wonder Woman," and "The Big Sick."

But for every "Dunkirk" there was a "The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature."

We looked to the movie review site Rotten Tomatoes, to round up the worst films of the summer, according to critics.

Here are the 11 worst, along with their Rotten Tomatoes score:

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11. "Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul" — 20%

This family-friendly road-trip film was one of the least enjoyable of the summer. Critic Katie Walsh for the Los Angeles Times explained the film's weaknesses best:

"Though ostensibly presented as a raucous family adventure — a 'Vacation' for the PG crowd — 'Wimpy Kid' is instead a dirge of unfunny scatological material, techno-anxiety and child endangerment masquerading as familial bonding. Settle in for the 'Long Haul,' because this is one bumpy and miserable ride."

10. "Birth of the Dragon" — 19%

The Bruce Lee biopic "Birth of the Dragon," attempts to encapsulate the life of action star Bruce Lee, and martial arts philosophy, "but the film never really gets fully juiced until the climax," according to the New York Times' Glenn Kennt.

9. "Baywatch" — 19%

So many lifeguards in this film, yet none of them could save it. Skimpy swimsuits, weird jokes about male genitalia, and "The Rock" weren't enough to get critics on board with "Baywatch."

"Unlike the setup, the story founders and cramps like a tourist who swam too soon after an all-you-can-eat buffet, which is pretty much the only thing the filmmakers don't toss into the water by film's end," said NPR film critic Bob Mondello.

It's IPO time for cord cutting. 

Roku, the Silicon Valley maker of boxes that let you stream TV shows over the internet instead of paying a monthly cable bill, is going public. 

It's an important moment in a tech storyline that’s been unfolding over the past several years.

Roku's IPO is Wall Street's way of acknowledging that a major disruptive force is upending the media, cable and entertainment industries. Cord cutting isn’t just a fad embraced by tech-savvy millennials; it's a growing business and it's here to stay.

As anyone who invested in Apple at the dawn of the smartphone age a decade ago will attest, getting in early on these kinds of changes can pay off. But although Roku may carry the flag as the first official cord cutting IPO, it remains to be seen whether it’s the right way to bet on the cord cutting phenomenon.

Must-see TV has changed

Roku founder and CEO Anthony Wood sums up the company’s success in a letter to shareholders included in the IPO prospectus: 

"Except for sports and a few other live events, you are probably watching a lot less live TV, and with increasing frequency streaming content to your TV.”

If that sounds like the scene in your house, you’re not alone.

TV time is increasingly about watching Netflix and Amazon shows on your own schedule, and less about tuning into the 11 o'clock news. 

According to an eMarketer report cited by Roku, there were 25 million U.S. "cord-cutter and cord-never" households in 2016.  And that doesn’t account for the people who are currently supplementing their cable TV viewing with healthy streaming habits.

It’s an inexorable trend that Wood suggests can only result in one outcome: the death of cable TV as we know it.

"Just like mainframe operating systems didn’t transition to PCs, and just like PC operating systems didn’t make the transition to phones (is your phone powered by Windows?), TVs will be powered by a purpose-built operating system optimized for streaming."

The next iPhone? 

Just because this smartphone-like technology platform shift is happening though, there’s no guarantee that the Roku TV box will be the next iPhone.

For one thing, Apple already makes its own TV streaming device. To date, the Apple TV hasn't been much of a factor in the market, due primarily to its premium price tag. But Apple could choose to lower that price any time if it wants to turn the screws on Roku. Remember the various, low-cost iPod models such as the Shuffle and the Nano?

Or Apple could out-Apple Roku, and introduce some amazing new feature that makes its streaming box far superior to Roku's bare-bones box. Apple had more than 100,000 total employees last year and spent $10 billion dollars on R&D. Roku had 395 employees devoted to R&D as of June 30 and spent $76 million on R&D last year.

That's not to say money and resources are necessary to win the battle. But in the hardware business, where economies of scale benefit supply chains and distribution, being big certainly helps.

Roku is already licensing its technology to certain TV manufacturers, including Hitachi and Sharp, which incorporate its features directly into their products. That provides Roku's business with some security.

But Roku's technology has a ways to go before it becomes a full-fledged platform in the vein of the Windows or Apple iOS operating systems. Those platforms allow users to access applications, from games to productivity tools, that only work with their particular operating system. There's a growing library of apps for Roku, including screen-savers and the Firefox web browser, but there's little to suggest so far that it's become a mainstream consumer phenomenon — the IPO prospectus provides no information about the usage of these apps.  

Without a unique offering to "lock" consumers into the Roku platform, there's nothing to stop a TV manufacturer from substituting Roku's streaming technology with someone else's.

That said, one "lock-in" benefit that Roku might be able to leverage with TV manufacturers is its ability to insert ads into the videos that its technology streams — getting a cut of those ads could convince TV manufacturers to stick with Roku.

Content is king

There's another existential threat hanging over Roku though: content. The company's product is really just a box that transmits other people's content. To do this, Roku pays licensing fees to companies like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon. If those companies ever decide not to renew the licenses, Roku will be in a tough spot. 

Netflix alone accounted for one third of the 6.7 billion hours of streaming video that Roku's users watched in the first half of this year. Lucky for Roku, it has deep ties to Netflix  — many Roku executives, including the CEO, hail from Netflix, and Roku even rents office space from Netflix. 

But a friendly history doesn't mean much when businesses interests no longer align (Google was an early investor in Uber, now the two companies are locked in a bitter legal fight). And with Roku currently in the final year of its Netflix license, investors should not take anything for granted. 

Roku says it currently has more than 5,000 video streaming channels available on its service. But there's only a handful that really matter. 

None of this is to deny the usefulness of Roku's product, or the small company's incredible accomplishment to date competing in a tough market. As Roku moves closer to its Wall Street debut, the success of its IPO may ultimately be more about investors betting on the company's scrappiness than on the cord-cutting trend.

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Having sold over six million copies since launching in March — making over $150 million— "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" is a bona fide blockbuster.

Even more impressive is that the game technically isn't finished — it's available only through Steam, the world's largest digital game store, as an "Early Access" title. That means you can buy it, and play it, as millions have, but it's not considered a finished product.

At any given point in a day, hundreds of thousands of people are playing "Battlegrounds." And it just passed another incredible milestone: It's the No. 1 most-played game on Steam, with nearly 1 million concurrent players:

That's a tremendously important metric. Steam is, by far, the largest game platform, with somewhere in the vicinity of 200 million active users.

The top two spots are usually permanently occupied by "Dota 2," which is free, and "Counter-Strike: Global Offensive," which costs $15 ("Battlegrounds" costs $30). Both of those games are created and operated by Valve, the same company that runs Steam.

The creative director for "Battlegrounds," Brendan "PlayerUnknown" Greene, celebrated a previous Steam achievement on Twitter:

As Greene points out, "Battlegrounds" now holds the record for "highest peak player count of any non-Valve game." This is especially impressive as the game has been available only since March and, of course, is unfinished, yet it's best the likes of "Grand Theft Auto V" and "Fallout 4" and even Valve's own heavy-hitters.

There's a simple explanation for why it's doing so well: It's an unbelievably good game.

More than just a bizarre name, "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" boasts a brilliant concept: 100 people on a massive island, armed with their wits and a scattered arsenal, fighting to the death. Whoever survives at the end of the match wins — and there can only be one.

The future of "Battlegrounds" is even brighter.

The game is expected to reach "1.0" by the end of the year, and it should arrive on the Xbox One by then as well. All of which is to say one thing: Expect to hear a lot more about "Battlegrounds" as the year goes on.

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Facebook is willing to pay lots of money for sports.

That much is evident by the company's roughly $610 million bid for the rights to stream five years of games from the Indian Premier League, the most popular cricket league in the world.

The IPL announced that 21st Century Fox's Star India won exclusive streaming rights with a $2.5 billion bid on Monday. Facebook posted the second-highest bid. A Facebook representative confirmed to Business Insider that the company bid on the rights but declined to comment further.

Even though Facebook didn't win the rights, its hefty bid shows how much it's willing to pay for sports now that it has its new Watch hub for live, scripted, and episodic video.

During Facebook's first-quarter earnings call earlier this year, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company would try licensing sports games with the goal of "creating some anchor content" that teaches people to think of Facebook as a destination for premium video.

Facebook eventually wants all of its shows and content deals to move to an ad-revenue-sharing model, but right now it's clearly comfortable spending money upfront — even hundreds of millions of dollars — to secure streaming rights for marquee content.

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A legend surrounds Steve Jobs. He is described as brilliant and tone-deaf, dynamic but with a sharp tongue. A bunch of movies and books have sought to describe what made Jobs, who died in 2011, so special and so different.

I just finished reading "Creativity Inc.," the excellent book by Ed Catmull, the president of Pixar and Disney Animation, and Jobs features throughout the book. He bought what became Pixar from Lucasfilm in 1986 and remained involved with the company until his death.

In an afterword titled "The Steve We Knew," Catmull addresses some of the popular depictions of Jobs, and he said many of them missed the mark.

"I worked closely with Steve Jobs for twenty-six years," Catmull wrote. "To this day, for all that has been written about him, I don't believe that any of it comes close to capturing the man I knew.

"I've been frustrated that the stories about him tend to focus so narrowly on his extreme traits and the negative, difficult aspects of his personality."

The book added:

"The word genius is used a lot these days — too much, I think — but with Steve, I actually think it was warranted. Still, when I first came to know him, he was frequently dismissive and brusque. This is the part of Steve that people love to write about ... To let them drive Steve's narrative, however, it so miss the more important story. In the time I worked with Steve, he didn't just gain the kind of practical experience you would expect to acquire while running two dynamic, successful businesses; he also got smarter about when to stop pushing people and how to keep pushing them, if necessary, without breaking them. He became fairer and wiser, and his understanding of partnership deepened — in large part because of his marriage to Laurene and his relationships with the children he loved so much."

One anecdote in the book is about Jobs' design for Pixar's new office building in the late 1990s. His first attempt "was based on some peculiar ideas he had about how to force interaction among people," according to Catmull. For example, there was a single women's and single men's restroom in the building. There was protest, and Jobs backed down from his plan.

Next, he suggested separate buildings for each movie in production, so each team could have its own space. Again, Catmull was less than keen, so he took Jobs to a Disney building known as Northside. There, he saw wide-open hallways, open floor plans, and "accidental mingling" under a single roof.

After the trip, he met again with his architects, and set down the principles for a single Pixar building. It would be designed to "encourage people to mingle, meet and communicate," Catmull said. Jobs presided over every detail of the building's construction, and Pixar workers came to call the building "Steve's movie."

"I worked with Steve for more than a quarter-century — longer, I believe, than anyone else — and I saw an arc to his life that does not accord with the one-note portraits of relentless perfectionism I've read in magazines, newspapers, and even his own authorized biography," Catmull said. "Relentless Steve — the boorish, brilliant, but emotionally tone-deaf guy that we first came to know — changed into a different man during the last two decades of his life."

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"Game of Thrones" is a juggernaut that seems to have conquered every corner of the internet and pop culture.

While the show's season seven finale set a series record with 16.5 million viewers, "Game of Thrones" has always done well in ratings. But that doesn't mean all critics were sold when the show first came out. In fact, there were a few high-profile outlets that panned the show's first season, including The New York Times.

The criticisms ranged from totally valid concerns about pacing, to some pretty low blows like comparing it to the Broadway musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark." Ouch!

Here are the best bad reviews that "Game of Thrones" season one got, which we found via Rotten Tomatoes:

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"'Game of Thrones' serves up a lot of confusion in the name of no larger or really relevant idea..."

"'Game of Thrones' is boy fiction patronizingly turned out to reach the population’s other half ... [It] serves up a lot of confusion in the name of no larger or really relevant idea beyond sketchily fleshed-out notions that war is ugly, families are insidious and power is hot. If you are not averse to the Dungeons & Dragons aesthetic, the series might be worth the effort. If you are nearly anyone else, you will hunger for HBO to get back to the business of languages for which we already have a dictionary."

-The New York Times

"It is to television what the Spider-Man musical is to Broadway."

"'Game of Thrones,' one of the supposed biggies this spring, is a big letdown. Why is it so convoluted and punishing? It is to television what the Spider-Man musical is to Broadway."

-Orlando Sentinel

"There are unscalable slabs of expositionistic dialogue clogging the forward movement of the story."

"[It's] quasi-medieval, dragon-ridden fantasy crap ... There are unscalable slabs of expositionistic dialogue clogging the forward movement of the story. Sonorous and/or schmaltzy talk substitutes for the revelation of character through action. There is the sense of intricacy having been confused with intrigue and of a story transferred all too faithfully from its source and thus not transformed to meet the demands of the screen."

-Slate

In its second-quarter earnings report, Disney announced it would be spending "significantly" to start its own ESPN and movie streaming services.

Disney shares fell after the news, in part because investors were concerned about startup costs, but Doug Mitchelson, an analyst at UBS, has a different view.

"We believe investors are likely underestimating the opportunity for the DisneyPixar over the top service based on our review of the quantity of high quality content that will be available on the service, how well its historical titles have performed in the marketplace when re-released or released as a live action update and due to much of its best content having been held back from being available on any network, whether traditional or streaming video on demand," Mitchelson said.

Mitchelson points out that 18 of the top 100 highest-grossing films of all time are from Disney, and would likely be included in the new service. The service is expected to launch sometime in 2019, and these films may be Disney's biggest advantage over other services.

Netflix, which currently owns the rights to Disney's movies, has said the movies are important to its service. Netflix's chief content officer had previously said that children and families regularly re-watch Disney movies, which is unique to its content. Shares of Netflix fell after Disney announced it would be pulling its movies from the service.

Moving its movie content from Netflix to a proprietary service won't be free for Disney, but investors' worries about the cost might be overblown, Mitchelson believes. 

"Based on our analysis of the potential lost third-party licensing revenue and increased operating costs, we believe our forecasts and Street consensus already fully encompass these launch impacts while not yet including any offset from subscribers to these over the top services," Mitchelson said in a note to clients.

Basically, Mitchelson said the cost of ramping up the new services, about $570 million over the next two years he estimates, is already priced into the stock. Disney is planning to acquire a majority stake in the streaming company Bamtech to help launch the services. Bamtech has helped launch streaming services for entities like the National Hockey League and Major League Baseball.

Disney's strategy differs from other movie studios in that it is especially good at building franchises out of its movies, with lots of merchandise and even theme park attractions in some cases. This franchise building will draw a significant number of users to Disney's new platform which will have a measurable impact on the stock, Mitchelson predicts.

UBS rates Disney a buy, in part because it expects a strong showing from its streaming services. The bank has a price target of $126 for the company.

Shares of Disney have fallen 3.44% this year.

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On Sunday, Michael Jackson's Twitter account posted a short video teasing a new project called "Scream," and details about the potential new album have since come to light.

John Branca, the co-executor of Jackson's estate, told Variety at the Venice Film Festival on Monday that there could be an "interesting record release" from the late singer in the very near future. 

Discussing the premiere of a 3D release of Jackson's "Thriller" video at the festival, Branca said the following:

"Now we have 'Thriller' 3D, and two more announcements are coming up in the next couple of weeks ... Michael had an expression: 'The quality goes in before the name goes on.' So we are not ready to announce them yet."

When asked if an unreleased album could be on its way from Jackson's vaults, Branca said, "I don't foresee us releasing any more unreleased music for quite some time ... That doesn't mean there won't be interesting [new] record releases in the very near future."

On Monday, however, the site HipHop-N-More noted that posters in Germany advertised the "Scream" project as an "album out September 29." 

The Jackson estate's last release of previously unreleased material from the late singer came in the form of the 2014 compilation album "Xscape." The album's Justin Timberlake-featured track "Love Never Felt So Good" charted at no. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100. 

Watch the 15-second teaser video for "Scream" below:

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YouTube's Live service is getting a major update to bring it in line with similar services offered by the likes of Facebook and Amazon.

Three major updates are coming to the service on Tuesday:

1. The ability to stream whatever you want, directly from your iPhone/iPad, through the YouTube app itself.
2. A much-shorter delay between stream and viewer — a new "low latency mode" offers "just a couple seconds" of latency.
3. Moderating chat is getting easier with the ability to pause and moderate as you wish. You can also designate moderation to someone else.

These updates are especially important as YouTube Live attempts to compete with Amazon's Twitch service — a livestreaming service primarily focused on live video games. Twitch has over 1.5 million broadcasters and over 100 million monthly visitors, the company announced in 2015.

YouTube's recorded and produced gaming content is by far its most popular, though that popularity doesn't extend to livestreaming. Amazon's Twitch continues to dominate in that space, and Facebook Live is making moves in the same direction.

Facebook's live service competes on sheer numbers; more people use Facebook than Twitch or YouTube by hundreds of millions of users. 2 billion people use Facebook every month. Even a slight success for Facebook in livestreaming — like, say, a partnership with a major game publisher— means trouble from Amazon and YouTube.

Still, what brings viewers to these services is livestreams — personalities — that they want to watch. To that end, YouTube's making smart moves in updating YouTube Live so that it more closely competes with services like Twitch. The more friendly these services are to creators, the better chance they have of becoming the dominant platform in the ongoing livestream wars.

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The Toronto International Film Festival starts on Thursday, which means it’s time for awards season to begin.

That’s right, with all of Hollywood heading to our neighbors in the north, it’s already time to start building the hype for those movies that we’ll be rooting for (or will be tired of hearing about) come Oscar night.

Some of those TIFF titles getting a lot of talk already include the Sundance hit “Call Me By Your Name,” Emma Stone as tennis legend Billy Jean King in “Battle of the Sexes,” and Guillermo del Toro’s latest unique fantasy, “The Shape of Water.”

Here are 18 movies playing at TIFF this year that will be contenders come Oscar time (and coming to a theater near you soon):

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‘Battle of the Sexes’ (Release date: September 22)

Coming off a best actress win for “La La Land” at the most recent Oscars ceremony earlier this year, Emma Stone is looking to return to the big night for a second straight year with her portrayal of Billy Jean King. Stone plays the tennis legend in this look back at King’s historic match against male tennis pro Bobby Riggs (played by Steve Carell, who might get some Oscar buzz, too).

‘Breathe’ (Release date: October 13)

For the directorial debut of Andy Serkis (Caesar in “The Planet of the Apes” movies), he takes on the inspiring love story of Robin (played by Andrew Garfield) and Diana Cavendish (Claire Foy from Netflix's "The Crown"). At 28, Robin was diagnosed with polio and given only three months to live. However, he would go on to live into his 60s and become an advocate for the disabled. Garfield has had a knack, of late, for choosing movies that get award attention, and we’ll see if that continues with this one.

‘Call Me By Your Name’ (Release date: November 24)

An Oscar contender since having its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, this drama starring Armie Hammer as an American student who falls for the son of the teacher he’s staying with abroad in Italy, comes into TIFF with a lot of hype. That hype is likely to only build.

Warning: Spoilers for "Game of Thrones" season seven. If you aren't caught up with the series, read at your own risk. 

"Game of Thrones" season seven had the most battles to date. We even got to see all three of Dany's dragons in action.

There weren't as many deaths as expected, but this is "Game of Thrones" we're talking about, so lots of people still died.

Some of those deaths were sad while others were, dare we say, fun to watch (hello, Sand Snakes). 

We've rounded up season seven's best deaths, from the most satisfying to the most brutal.  

Here are the best deaths from "Game of Thrones" season seven:

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The most frustratingly loyal death: Dickon Tarly

He was just trying to stay loyal to his father, but he should've bent the knee. 

Time of death: Episode five, "Eastwatch."

Cause of death: Dickon, like his father, refuses to surrender and bend the knee to Daenerys Targaryen. Daenerys has Drogon burn him alive.   

The most pathetic death: Wight in a box

Ew, go away captured wight!

Time of death: Episode seven, "The Dragon and the Wolf."

Cause of death: The Hound splits it in half, and Jon Snow stabs it with dragonglass.

The most satisfying death: Obara Sand

Although Obara is on Team Daenerys, most of us cheered when Euron kills her, eliminating her annoying character from the show for good.

Time of death: Episode two, "Stormborn."

Cause of death: In his attack on Yara's fleet, Euron Greyjoy stabs the daughter of Oberyn Martell in the gut with a spear. By the end of the battle, her body is hanging from the ship, so she's definitely dead. 

There are tons of characters on "Game of Thrones," and it's hard enough to remember all the main names sometimes, let alone the minor ones.

And on this show, anyone could come back unexpectedly. So to help you pass the time before season eight premieres, here's our guide to forgotten "Game of Thrones" characters who could return in the final season — some in a very big way. 

Here are some forgotten "Game of Thrones" characters who could return in season eight:

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Salladhor Saan

Don't remember Salladhor Saan? Fair enough. He's barely in the show. He's a pirate and friend of Davos from his smuggling days. In fact, he's a pirate lord and sellsail who commands a fleet of thirty ships. Salladhor is recruited by Stannis Baratheon (thanks to Davos) to help in the Battle of the Blackwater, but abandons the cause after Stannis loses. 

In season five, Stannis and Davos secure a loan from the Iron Bank of Braavos. This allows Davos to pay Salladhor for his service to Stannis' cause, but that's the last time we see him.

Will Davos recruit Salladhor for Team Dany? It's certainly a possibility.

Illyrio Mopatis

Illyrio is a Magister in Pentos and a supporter of House Targaryen. In season one, he sets up the marriage of Daenerys Targaryen and Khal Drogo, and feeds Varys information on Dany and Viserys, who both support the latter's claim to the Iron Throne. In season five, though unseen, he lets Varys and Tyrion stay in his home in Pentos after their escape from King's Landing.

Varys could bring Illyrio onto Dany's team for some more foreign support. He's also super wealthy, which could prove helpful to Dany. 

Melisandre

In season seven, Melisandre leaves Dragonstone before Jon Snow and Davos see her and freak out. She tells Varys she's going to Volantis, but will be back in Westeros. "I have to die in this strange country," she says. "just like you."

Disney CEO Bob Iger released a statement on Tuesday condemning the Trump administration's decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA. 

"The Dreamers impacted by this cruel and misguided decision make significant contributions to our economy and our country," Iger said in a statement.

“I urge Congress to take immediate bipartisan action to pass legislation that will protect these innocent people,” Iger added.

DACA, an Obama-era policy, prevented the deportation of around 800,000 young immigrants living in the country illegally after being brought to the US as minors.

President Trump said in a statement on Tuesday that the action was taken in order to prompt a permanent legislative solution to the issue.

"There can be no path to principled immigration reform if the executive branch is able to rewrite or nullify federal laws at will," Trump said, adding, "It is now time for Congress to act!"

Many congressional Democrats have also condemned the action, labeling it "heartless" and "shameful."

Iger has a history of disagreeing with Trump's policies. In June, the Disney CEO resigned from Trump's business advisory council over the president's decision to withdraw the US from the Paris Climate agreement. 

"Protecting our planet and driving economic growth are critical to our future, and they aren't mutually exclusive," Iger said. "I deeply disagree with the decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement and, as a matter of principle, I've resigned from the president's advisory council."

Michelle Mark contributed reporting to this article. 

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