President Trump visited Puerto Rico on Tuesday, 13 days after Hurricane Maria devastated the island — and Stephen Colbert, for one, is very thankful he did.

Why? Because what transpired was comedy gold for the late-night host.

Colbert showed footage of Trump interacting with hurricane victims, in which the president told one couple to "have a good time."

"Have a good time? You’re at a disaster site, you’re not working the floor of your casino," Colbert said.

Colbert then showed footage of a press conference in San Juan, when Trump said that Puerto Rico's weather is "second to none," expect for the hurricanes, "and you really got hit." Trump said this in front of victims and island government members.

"That is 'Trumpsplaining' at it’s best," Colbert said, before moving into his Trump voice: "You probably didn’t notice with your beautiful weather, but you guys had a hurricane, it was a huge one."

At the same press conference, Trump notified Puerto Rico that it had "thrown our budget a little out of wack."

"What! The budget is out of wack?" asked Colbert. "That’s like a fireman rescuing you from a burning building and then saying, 'You do understand what our water bill is going to be now right?'"

But Colbert really got going when talking about Trump's decision to start tossing paper towels into the crowd at one point. (This moment instantly went viral on Tuesday.)

"After that he went to a hospital and distributed antibiotics with a t-shirt cannon," Colbert joked.

Watch Colbert's opening monologue on Trump's Puerto Rico visit below:

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David Simon, creator of the popular HBO series "The Wire," and most recently "The Deuce," has voiced his support for a system of wealth distribution known as universal basic income, in which every citizen receives a regular sum of money just for being alive.

"I think we've reached the point in terms of the death of work, and where we're going in society and automation, that we should already be guaranteeing people a basic income," Simon recently told New Yorker editor David Remnick on The New Yorker Radio Hour podcast.

Simon's body of work, which includes news articles, books, and TV shows, has focused extensively on the nature of American labor. "The Wire" centered on the drug trade in Baltimore, Maryland in the early 2000s. "The Deuce," currently in its first season, explores prostitution in New York City in the early 1970s.

In his podcast interview, Simon pointed to the threat of robotic automation as grounds for implementing basic income. Economists have issued numerous forecasts that predict huge swaths of the American workforce, perhaps as much as 50%, could lose their job over the next 20 years to highly intelligent software and factory robots.

Advocates of basic income say redistributing the wealth produced by those efficient systems — in effect, something akin to a dividend — would give people the means to avoid menial work and still live above the poverty line.

Basic income would be "an incredible boon to the country, and it would honestly take into account that we don't need as many Americans to run this economy as we once did," Simon said.

Critics of basic income tend to voice two big concerns about the system: that giving people free money will sap the drive to work out of potential employees, and that people (especially those in poverty) will spend the money on bad habits.

Simon disagreed, arguing that families who receive between $20,000 and $40,000 a year, depending on the size of the basic income payments, would actually boost the country's prosperity.

"You give families that kind of money, it's all going back into the economy," he said. "It's not going into mutual funds. It's going right back into the economy."

There haven't been any major formal studies in developed countries to determine whether people who get a basic income would work less or use the money to buy things like drugs and alcohol. But studies in the developing world have suggested that when people receive cash transfers on a regular basis, they are most likely to spend the money on education, home repair, or starting or growing a business.

Research in these developing nations has also found that alcohol and tobacco use may decline with basic income, as some experts suspect the extra money alleviates stress and makes people less inclined to drink or smoke to cope with a negative situation.

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Amazon released the trailer for Woody Allen's new film, "Wonder Wheel," on Wednesday.

"Wonder Wheel" promises a glimpse into the less amusing side of Coney Island, and a great performance from Oscar-winner Kate Winslet.

"Wonder Wheel" is set in the 1950s, and follows the lives of Ginny (Winslet) and her husband Humpty (Jim Belushi), as Humpty's estranged daughter Carolina (Juno Temple) resurfaces looking for a place to hide from the mob. And there's also a handsome lifeguard (Justin Timberlake). 

Winslet's portrayal of the over-dramatic and overwhelmed Ginny, who grows more and more rattled by Carolina's presence, seems spot on, as does Belushi's portrayal of her disgruntled mechanic husband. 

"Wonder Wheel" is the first film that Winslet and Allen have worked on together. The actress was originally supposed to work with Allen on "Match Point" back in 2005, but "had to drop out for family reasons," according to Variety.

Allen's film has a December release date, which will allow it to be considered for this year's Academy Awards. This has made some wonder if Winslet could score herself an Oscar nomination for best actress. Many actors have won Oscars working with Allen, including Diane Keaton, Dianne Wiest, Cate Blanchett, Michael Caine, Mira Sorvino and Penelope Cruz. 

"Wonder Wheel" will be released in select theaters December 1.

You can watch the trailer for "Wonder Wheel" here:

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OJ Simpson was released on October 1 from the Nevada prison where he spent 9 years imprisoned for attempted armed robbery. Now, the former "Trial of the Century" defendant and NFL star is looking to cash in on his first post-jail TV appearance. 

According to The Hollywood Reporter, several associates of Simpson have contacted major television networks in pursuit of a seven-figure payout for his first interview, but none of the traditional media outlets are biting.

"It is treacherous," one TV news veteran told THR, while another said they wouldn't touch him with a "10-foot pole."

ABC, CBS, and NBC have all reportedly passed on paying for an interview with Simpson, which would violate their news division standards. A+E Networks and Discovery have also declined. 

The New York Post reported last month that Simpson would be seeking between $3 million and $5 million for an interview.

As THR notes, however, any money that Simpson makes would be subject to seizure for the mostly unpaid settlement that he still owes the family of Ron Goldman, after a civil jury found him liable for the killings of Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson in 1994.

The sum Simpson owes the Goldmans has grown from $33.5 million to close to $70 million in interest for the unpaid settlement, according to THR. 

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Shares of Netflix are up 81% over the last 12 months, and the streak doesn't show signs of stopping, UBS says.

The Swiss bank on Wednesday raised its price target for Netflix's stock to $225 from $190 — well above Wall Street's consensus target of $190, according to Bloomberg.

"We see upside to 3Q guidance based on our analysis suggesting subscriber growth momentum has sustained into 3Q with broad-based year-over-year improvements across almost all markets, similar to the dynamics our analysis showed in 2Q," analyst Doug Mitchelson said in a note.

"This despite what appears to be a weaker original content slate vs. 3Q16, suggesting growth is being driven more by the overall breadth of content on Netflix, streaming hitting critical mass in many international markets and strong markets and tech executions."

To be sure, this won't be an easy quarter for Netflix. The company is planning to spend $6 billion on original content, according to JPMorgan. Many of those shows and movies — including a second season of the wildly popular 80s horror homage "Stranger Things" — won't be airing new episodes this quarter.

International growth has far outpaced additions in the US in recent reports. In July, Netflix's second quarter earnings showed an uptick of 4.14 million subscriptions abroad, versus 1.07 million at home. Both areas were still ahead of Wall Street expectations.

The company is expected to add 3.65 million subscribers abroad and 0.75 million at home when it reports Q3 earnings on October 16.

"We believe Netflix's core competencies in both content and technology will drive a virtuous circle of greater subs and increased viewing time, enabling higher average-revenue-per-user and revenue, which will fuel content spending to attract even more subscribers, and so on," the bank said. "Positioning Netflix to sustain its position as the clear global leader in the emerging online video subscription business."

Shares of Netflix were up 3.2% Wednesday morning. 

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With a career that spans over three decades in TV and movies, Pierce Brosnan has done it all — from belting out songs in the “Mama Mia!” movie to playing James Bond four times.

Since handing in his license to kill as 007 in 2002, following the release of “Die Another Day,” Brosnan has continued his career through a diverse collection of roles. His latest is “The Foreigner,” where he plays a former-IRA-member-turned-British-government-official, who finds himself in a cat-and-mouse game with a persistent father (Jackie Chan) whose daughter died in a terrorist act. And it's one of his best in recent years. The movie also teams Brosnan with director Martin Campbell, who made his first Bond movie, “GoldenEye.”

Business Insider spoke with Brosnan about working again with Campbell, and acting across from Jackie Chan but never actually meeting the man (we’ll let him explain) — but our James Bond questions led to a brief awkward moment.

This interview has been lightly edited for clarity.

Jason Guerrasio: At this point in your career do you not even entertain a project unless it has really interesting pieces to it, like Jackie Chan, or returning to work with someone like Martin Campbell?

Pierce Brosnan: Well, you always try to have interesting elements. You want to be able to get out of bed and kind of go to work and put in a 14-16 hour day, so yes, it better have some point of interest and some meaningful wordsmith or storytelling. And in this particular case it's Martin Campbell. We have a friendship and a relationship of many years. And Jackie, I'm just a huge Jackie Chan fan. I grew up on Bruce Lee and then it was Jackie Chan. He's just one of the great all-around entertainers.

Guerrasio: Did you know Jackie at all before going into this?

Brosnan: No. No, I never knew the man. 

Guerrasio: Did you need a little get-to-know-you meet with him before getting into the intense scenes you two have in this movie? Meet for a drink or something?

Brosnan: No. Not at all. [Laughs] Just showed up for work and if you're cast correctly, and the script has meaning, and you're in the hands of a great director, then everyone knows their job and they know what to do. Jackie and I didn't socialize. We were scheduled for dinners which didn't happen for one reason or another. Mainly because of work. When I wasn't working, Jackie was, and then if he wasn't working, he was back in China working on another movie. The man is completely work obsessed. 

Guerrasio: So did that heighten the scenes because you didn't know him and he's playing a character that's so different from what he's done in the past? 

Brosnan: Jackie was 100% committed to the work at hand, and Martin is a taskmaster in the most glorious fashion. He just doesn't leave the set until the scene is enlivened by the performers. What can I say, I wasn't with Jackie Chan, I was with his character Quan, and that's always wonderful. I fully believed who he was. 

Guerrasio: As the production goes on is there anyone on the cast or crew brave enough to come to you or Martin and ask some "GoldenEye" questions or ask for some stories from set?

Brosnan: Oh yes. Yes. It's a very communal and easy-going atmosphere. And Martin and I would occasionally reference the movie.

Guerrasio: That's interesting. Something would come up on set that would bring back memories of "GoldenEye?" Would it go as far as how to tackle a certain scene? "Martin, remember what we did on 'GoldenEye?'"

Brosnan: No. Nothing like that. Just a quiet understanding of history and what we have done. That's in the past. 

Guerrasio: As the years go by of being removed from Bond do you appreciate it more, or does it become more of a burden? You've said in the past you're marked for life with that role. How do you see it now at this moment in your life?

Brosnan: It was a great job. It was a wonderful part to play. 

Guerrasio: As the years go by do you have a different affection for it?

Brosnan: I’ve always had affection for it. I still have affection for it. 

Guerrasio: Were you shocked Daniel Craig came back for the role?

Brosnan: No. It would have been rude not to. 

Guerrasio: Because I would think that's such a hard role to walk away from. Can you relate to what Craig has gone through? For you, was it hard to walk away from Bond?

Brosnan: What's this got to do with “The Foreigner?"

Guerrasio: Oh, well, I've asked questions about the movie, this is a Q&A, I'm just touching on everything — if that's okay? This is my last one on the topic, Mr. Bronson, was it hard to walk away from Bond?

Brosnan: My name is Brosnan, not Bronson. 

Guerrasio: Did I say that? I'm sorry.

[Pause] 

Guerrasio: Is it hard to walk away from that role?

Brosnan: Completely in keeping with the times.
 
Guerrasio: Another movie I wanted to bring up is "The Thomas Crown Affair," which you also produced. Were you surprised you were never able to do a sequel?

Brosnan: Not in the least. I never wanted a sequel. The studio wanted a sequel. 

Guerrasio: Oh really. Well, one sequel you are doing is "Mama Mia!," are you prepping?

Brosnan: I’m on a plane tomorrow to Croatia.

Guerrasio: Excited to get back into the singing again?

Brosnan: Oh, absolutely. These are dear friends and it's a kick in the pants to play in that movie. It's criminal how much fun we have. 

Guerrasio: And Andy Garcia is coming on this time around.

Brosnan: That I had no idea. Well, you know more than I do. 

Guerrasio: I think that was announced recently. Do you know Andy at all?

Brosnan: I don't. I'm sure it will be fun. I enjoy his work very much. I think I know who he's playing, though. He's going to be great.  

"The Foreigner" opens in theaters October 13.

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Larry David debuted his impression of Bernie Sanders during season 41 of "Saturday Night Live" to wide acclaim.

The impression was almost not an impression at all, because the point was that the two are basically the same. It was almost like they're related.

And on the season four premiere of the PBS show "Finding Your Roots," David and Sanders discovered that they actually are. 

Interviewing David and Sanders separately, host Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explained how guests’ DNA are compared and matched for similarities. In front of each guest was a book that would reveal his cousin.

“I hope it’s a good athlete,” David said. When he opened the book and saw a photo of Sanders, he laughed and said, “What the hell?!” 

You can watch the clip below:

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In today's world, when you have a lyric stuck in your head but don't know the song it comes from, the answer is just a quick search away. 

Tracking this impulse, Amazon has released a list of the song lyrics that people have most frequently asked about on its Alexa devices.

"The most requested lyrics don't always correspond with the title or chorus of each song," the company notes in a release, explaining the double appearance of a certain Justin Timberlake song on its list. 

From "We all live in a yellow submarine" to "swish swish bish," these lyrics have confounded and intrigued Alexa owners enough to inquire about the songs they originate from.

Here are the 13 song lyrics that people get confused about the most, according to Amazon Alexa data:

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13. "...we all live in a yellow submarine" — The Beatles, "Yellow Submarine"

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12. “...the battle of Yorktown” — Hamilton Cast Recording, "Yorktown"

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11. "...tell me what you want what you really really want" — Spice Girls, "Wannabe”

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All you "Fast and the Furious" fans are going to have to wait a little longer to see the next installment in Universal's lucrative franchise.

The studio announced Wednesday, according to The Hollywood Reporter, that it's delaying the ninth movie by one year. The untitled movie, which currently has no director attached, was slated to open April 19, 2019. It will now open April 10, 2020. 

There are no details yet on why the movie was pushed back, but the speculation will certainly begin.

Vin Diesel, who is also a producer on the movies, will return. But after his very public spat with his co-star Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson leading up to the release of the most recent movie, "The Fate of the Furious," it's unknown if Johnson will be returning.

Is the studio trying to get more time to mend fences? Or is it taking time to hire another major star to take Johnson's place?

Another theory is that the planned spinoff movie from the franchise, which is to star Johnson and Jason Statham, could now take that 2019 release slot. Perhaps the studio is going with the game plan of "Star Wars" of having spinoff movies put between the years of the main story franchise releases.

Business Insider contacted Universal for comment but did not receive an immediate response.

"The Fate of the Furious" proved global audiences still loves the franchise. The movie earned over $1.2 billion worldwide when it was released over the summer. Over $1 billion of that came from overseas.

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Video games never look as good as "Cuphead." 

Just look at this:

That winking, sinister-looking cigar you see above is one of the game's many bosses. And that frustrated-looking guy with a cup for a head? That's actually not the eponymous "Cuphead," but instead is his trusty partner "Mugman." 

The game is so gorgeous because it's hand-drawn — something few games pull off, and no games pull off as well as "Cuphead." The game launched recently on Xbox One and PC, and it's more than just a pretty face.

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First things first: What you don't do in "Cuphead" is deal with the devil. Don't! Seriously. He's The Devil!

Jokes aside, that's the main premise of "Cuphead": fulfilling the terms of a deal with the actual devil.

The game starts by Cuphead and his brother Mugman making a devilish mistake: gambling at a casino owned by Lucifer himself. Full of hubris, with dollar signs in his eyes, Cuphead bets it all on a single throw of the dice — and the devil wins, of course. He always does!

For repayment, instead of taking Cuphead's soul, he's sent on a mission to retrieve the soul contracts of the devil's debtors. What does that mean for the game? It means you're facing down a ton of elaborate boss fights, as well as the occasional "run-and-gun" level — think: "Contra," or "Metal Slug."

"Cuphead" is a 2D side-scroller. Remember "Super Mario Bros."? That's a 2D side-scroller. "Cuphead" is reminiscent of games from the Super Nintendo era (early-to-mid-'90s) in terms of how it plays.

There's a lot going on in the image above, I realize, so allow me to break it down:

- Both Cuphead and Mugman are playing through this level, moving from left to right — you can see Cuphead walking along the ceiling, while Mugman is hopping around on the ground.

- Usually, both Cuphead and Mugman (or just one of them) is walking along the ground. 

- Cars are moving along from right to left, both on the bottom of the screen and along the ceiling.

- A crazy duck with wheels is an enemy you can either kill or avoid.

- There's a twinkling playing card in the middle of the screen, which flips the level's gravity. You jump toward it, press jump again when you touch it, and suddenly you're walking on the ceiling (or vice versa).

This barrage of stuff is typical of "Cuphead." The image above is of one of the game's run-and-gun levels, meaning you progress from left to right until reaching an endpoint, but a similar barrage of stuff is typical of the game's complex, gorgeous boss fights.

Rather than jumping on the heads of your foes (a la "Super Mario Bros."), Cuphead and Mugman have handguns. I mean that literally — their hands shoot bullets.

You start the game with a standard pea shooter — hold down the button and Cuphead keeps firing, automatically — but can quickly upgrade your weapons. Part of what makes "Cuphead" feel fresh and modern, despite its anachronistic trappings, is stuff like the gun upgrade system.

You find gold coins scattered around the world map, as well as in the run-and-gun levels — those coins can then be traded for new weapons, power-ups (like extra health), and other stuff. At any given time, Cuphead (and Mugman) can only have two weapons equipped. Thus, you must choose carefully for whatever you're doing next; perhaps you're going to fight a boss that is often very close to you, so you should use a short-range weapon. It's more complex than that, but there's a level of tactical depth in "Cuphead" that makes it feel shockingly modern.

SeaWorld Entertainment, the owner of the SeaWorld amusement parks, was reportedly approached by a UK-based theme park operator about a deal and the stock is jumping in after hours trading.

According to Bloomberg, Merlin Entertainment approached SeaWorld about a possible acquisition. Merlin operates the Legoland theme parks.

SeaWorld is already working with bankers on a possible sale and Merlin is not the only possible buyer to approach the company, Bloomberg said.

The firm and its parks, which combine rides with live animal entertainment, have faced a stretch of difficult years after the documentary "Blackfish" showed the possibly harmful impact of captivity on SeaWorld's signature orcas.

The backlash to the film contributed to declining attendance and profits. In order to combat this, SeaWorld announced it would no longer breed its orcas and would phase out shows featuring the whales.

In response to the news, shares of SeaWorld spiked at much as 14% in post-market trading. As of 4:36 pm ET, the stock was up just a bit over 4%.

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Do you hear it? The wave is coming. Soon, we'll be overwhelmed by dozens of blockbuster video games arriving all at once.

As usual, the back half of the year is awash with major game launches, from the highly anticipated "Destiny 2" to the also highly anticipated "Super Mario Odyssey" in October. Whether you're looking to pair up with friends online or to tuck into a personal adventure, there's something great coming for you in the next few months.

Let's dive in!

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"Tacoma"

What it is: "Tacoma" is the story of six crew members of a space station (named Tacoma), set in the near future of 2088. You're a forensic investigator, essentially, but in space, digging through notes and audio logs and other detritus of people's lives. If you played "Gone Home," you'll find "Tacoma" immediately familiar.  

Release date: August 2

Platforms: Xbox One, Windows 10 PC, Mac, Linux

"Uncharted: The Lost Legacy"

What it is: "Uncharted," the third-person action series featuring Nathan Drake as he traipsed around the world, as we know it is over. With "Uncharted 4: A Thief's End," the series was officially sunset — until "Uncharted: The Lost Legacy," that is. The new game extends the series by following Chloe Frazer as the main character. If you liked the high-octane, Indiana Jones-esque gameplay of previous "Uncharted" games, "The Lost Legacy" is more of that with a new set of characters in a new environment.

Release date: August 22

Platforms: PlayStation 4

Read our review right here.

"Madden NFL '18"

What it is: Do we need to spell out what "Madden" is? Probably not, right? A new "Madden" game comes out every August, and 2017 is no different. "Madden NFL 18" is a simulation in which you can live out your wildest NFL dreams. There's a new story mode, and this is the first time EA has made the game using its proprietary Frostbite game engine, but if you're getting "Madden," you probably don't need to hear about any of that — you just wanna play some football. We understand! This will be your chance to do just that.

Release date: August 25

Platforms: Xbox One, PlayStation 4

Read our review right here.

The sequel to the cult classic dystopian film "Blade Runner," "Blade Runner 2049," will hit theaters Friday.

Denis Villeneuve's new addition to Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner" is already being hailed as a visually captivating sci-fi masterpiece by critics. 

As the "Blade Runner 2049" hype intensifies, you might want to check out some other films with heavy dystopian themes. So we made a list of the best ones.

Here are the 17 best dystopian films, ranked:

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17. "A.I. Artificial Intelligence"

Monica (Frances O'Connor) is given a mecha-prototype called David (Haley Joel Osment), a robotic boy programmed to feel love, in order to cope with her son Martin being put in a medical coma. But Martin eventually wakes from his coma, and is cured of the disease that put him in it. Things don't go smoothly from there.

"A.I.," while heartbreaking at moments, doesn't provide the most nuanced take on human-robot relationships.

16. "The Matrix"

Hacker Neo (Keanu Reeves) meets wanted terrorist Morpheus (Lawrence Fishburne), and is told the reality he lives in is not what he thinks it is.

The special effects used in "The Matrix" were groundbreaking, and the concept of the Matrix toyed with this important question: What happens when the technology we create becomes smarter than us?

15. "Minority Report"

"Minority Report" takes us to a future where the police are allowed to arrest someone before they commit a crime, based on future-predicting technology. When it is predicted that Chief John Anderton (Tom Cruise) will commit a murder of a person he doesn't know, he tries to uncover why.

"Minority Report" proves to be an excellent warning against surveillance, and is an action-packed film that keeps you at the edge of your seat.

Think you can take down the Demogorgon? Now you can find out — from the relative safety of your smartphone, no less — in the new "Stranger Things" game.

Check out this title screen, which can only be described as "rad":

The game is free on both Android and iOS — it's a promotion for the upcoming second season of "Stranger Things," which debuts on Netflix on October 27. That said, the game looks like much more than an advertisement.

You can play as each of the show's main characters, each of which has their own special ability. Lucas has a "wrist rocket," for instance:

"Stranger Things: The Game" looks a bit ahead of where actual game graphics were in the mid '80s. It's more in line with a Super Nintendo game of the early '90s. 

We'll forgive them, though — this isn't just a free game, but a free game that looks surprisingly deep and delightful. Here's where you can download it:

• iTunes App Store
• Google Play Store

Check out a trailer of the game right here:

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Netflix will raise prices for its US subscribers starting Thursday, the company confirmed to Business Insider.

The price of the lowest-tier plan will not change from $7.99 monthly. But the most popular, the "standard plan," which allows HD and two simultaneous streams, will increase to $10.99 a month from $9.99.

The highest-tier plan, which supports features like 4K video resolution and four simultaneous streams, will increase to $13.99 a month from $11.99.

Mashable first reported the price increase.

New subscribers will see the price increase go into effect on Thursday. Current subscribers will start being notified on October 19, and it will take effect in their next billing cycle.

Netflix's price increases always spark drama.

In October 2015, Netflix raised its prices for new members and then embarked on a process of "un-grandfathering" existing customers into new prices. When the bulk of that process happened last year, media and public chatter rose to such a degree that Netflix blamed it for a missed quarter of subscriber growth.

"People don't like price increases — we know that," CEO Reed Hastings said on an earnings call last year.

People may not like them, but price increases will most likely continue to be necessary as Netflix spends more and more on content — close to $7 billion next year, according to its content boss, Ted Sarandos. Funding its original productions is not cheap, and Netflix has made big moves recently, like poaching the TV power player Shonda Rhimes from ABC and buying the comic-book publisher Millarworld.

Still, despite the price increase, Netflix will remain a much better deal than cable in terms of viewing time.

In a report this summer, UBS analysts found that an average pay-TV package cost over three times as much per hour of viewing as Netflix. The per-hour cost of traditional packages was about $0.42, while that of Netflix was about $0.10.

That lead is not likely to be hurt too much by a $1 or $2 price increase.

Here's a chart from UBS that shows how Netflix prices have fared relative to cable prices over time:

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Kazuo Ishiguro was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday.

The prize committee in Sweden said his works uncovered “the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world.”

Ishiguro has written eight novels since he started working as a full-time writer in the early eighties. Several of his novels have been made into movies (including one that was nominated for eight Oscars), and he's written some screenplays himself. 

The award was announced on The Nobel Prize Twitter this morning:

“If you mix Jane Austen and Franz Kafka, then you have Kazuo Ishiguro in a nutshell," Sara Danius, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, said on Thursday when awarding Ishiguro. "But you have to add a little bit of Marcel Proust into the mix. Then you stir, but not too much, then you have his writings.”

Here's everything you should know about Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro and his novels:

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Ishiguro, 62, was born in Japan in 1954. He moved to Britain when he was 5 years old.

Source: British Council Literature

Ishiguro has written eight books.

His eight books are:

"A Pale View of Hills" (1982)

"An Artist of the Floating World" (1986)

"The Remains of the Day" (1989)

"The Unconsoled" (1995)

"When We Were Orphans" (2000)

"Never Let Me Go" (2005)

"The Buried Giant" (2015)

Source: British Council Literature

His most renowned novel, "The Remains of the Day," was made into a film in 1993 starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson.

The story is told from a first-person point of view. The narrator is Stevens, a butler in Britain, who recalls his life in diary form while the action progresses through to the present day. The novel starts in the years leading to World War II, and advances to the 1950s. Most of the novel focuses on Stevens' relationship with a former colleague, the housekeeper Miss Kenton.

The film adaptation received eight Academy Award nominations, including acting nominations for both Hopkins and Thompson, who lost to Tom Hanks ("Philadelphia") and Holly Hunter ("The Piano"), respectively. Hugh Grant and Christopher Reeve also appear in the film, which lost its best-picture nomination to "Schindler's List."

Netflix's stock is popping, along with the price of its subscriptions.

The company's stock is up 2.69% to about $189.53 on Thursday, following the news that Netflix will be increasing the price of its subscription services to help cover its increasing content production budget.

On Thursday, Mashable reported that Netflix will be raising the prices of its middle- and highest-tier plans for the US by $1 and $2 respectively. The previously priced $9.99 plan will increase to $10.99 and the premium tier will increase from $11.99 to $13.99, according to Mashable. Subscribers to the lowest, $7.99 plan will not see an increase in price, according to Mashable's report.

Netflix confirmed the price increase plan to Business Insider's Nathan McAlone in a statement.

Netflix plans to roll out the price increase in November for existing subscribers and is set to publicly announce the price increase to customers later this month. Netflix told Mashable that it occasionally raises prices in order to add more content and features to the platform.

Netflix reported 51.92 million US streaming subscribers in its last earnings report. While the company doesn't release details on the breakdown of those subscribers among the three plans, an average price increase of $1 per subscriber (based on a $0, $1, and $2 increase respectively for each of the three tiers) would mean an estimated $623 million a year in additional revenue a year for Netflix.

The price increases come as the streaming video space is heating up. Big names in the movie and TV space are starting to pull their content into siloed streaming platforms, which place a higher importance on original content for companies like Netflix as licensed content moves to those proprietary sites and apps. Wall Street has regularly pointed to good original content as one of the biggest subscriber growth drivers for the company, and Netflix recently said it plans on spending $7 billion on creating its own content next year.

Netflix is up 47.69% this year.

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Comedian Billy Eichner said there was only one actor who was willing to talk to the former White House press secretary Sean Spicer in the green room at this year's Emmys.

According to Eichner, who attended the awards show for his nominated series "Billy on the Street," everyone avoided the former White House press secretary - except for the young actor from the "Big Bang Theory" spin-off series "Young Sheldon," 9-year-old Iain Armitage.

"No one would talk to Sean Spicer," Eichner told on "Conan" on Wednesday night.

Spicer surprised the audience at the Emmys when host Stephen Colbert brought him on stage during his opening monologue — and according to Eichner, Spicer retired to the green room after his brief moment on stage and was not well-received by the other actors, with the exception of Armitage.

But apparently Armitage came up to Eichner while he was talking to Jim Parsons (the original Sheldon and star of "The Big Bang Theory") to ask them if he was actually talking to "the real Sean Spicer."

"Even Young Sheldon thought it might have been Melissa McCarthy and was kind of confused," Eichner said. 

Eichner said Armitage seemed disappointed upon learning that he was in fact speaking to "the real Sean Spicer," and not McCarthy (who has become known for her immaculate impersonation of him).

You can watch Eichner discussing his "surreal" Emmys green room experience here:

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In Hollywood, when a project has been through the ringer, with multiple directors and casting changes, it often ends up not being very good.

But the Israeli director Hany Abu-Assad (Oscar-nominated "Paradise Now") has defied the odds. His latest movie, "The Mountain Between Us" (opening Friday), is a thrilling love story that will not just keep you on the edge of your seat but also have you reaching for the tissues.

Ben (Idris Elba) and Alex (Kate Winslet) are two people stranded at the Salt Lake City airport as a major storm grounds all flights. Both really need to get home for important events, so Alex comes up with the idea of hiring a pilot (Beau Bridges) with a small plane to fly them back home. But over the snowy mountains of Utah the pilot suffers a heart attack, leading to a dramatic crash landing. Ben, Alex, and the pilot's dog all survive, but with little food they have to figure out quickly how to get rescued.

I know, you're probably saying, "This is a love story?"

But Abu-Assad perfectly eases us through the obvious reaction of shock and fear that would come after surviving a plane crash to the affection that's built between Ben and Alex as they gain their strength and begin the trek down the mountain to find civilization. As the story progresses and the danger builds, so does the sexual tension.

Ben and Alex couldn't be more opposite — he's a surgeon and she's a photojournalist — and that's what builds the conversations between the two and the decisions they make. Ben is structured and needs control. He wants to stay put after the crash and wait for help. Alex is more of a free spirit and decides things on intuition and instinct. There's a lot of "head versus heart" talk in the movie, and it's easy to tell where both stand. But, as they say, opposites attract, and that's certainly the case with these characters.

Through getting to know each other and the feeling that death could come at any moment, a connection builds that finally leads to the two sleeping together. How we, as the audience, go from the hysterics of witnessing a plane crash (all done in a single shot, by the way) to fully believing the love these two people have for each other is a testament to Abu-Assad's storytelling. And all of this leads to an end that will make you feel all warm inside when you leave the theater.

Based on the 2011 Charles Martin book of the same name, the movie has been in development since 2012 and gone through a few cast changes, with first Michael Fassbender and Margot Robbie and then Charlie Hunnam and Rosamund Pike set to take on the journey. The director Gerardo Naranjo (episodes of "Narcos" and "Fear the Walking Dead") was also attached. But I couldn't think of a better duo than Elba and Winslet taking this on.

It's become old hat to see Winslet in unique love stories — from "Titanic" to "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" — and she's perfect in the role of Alex. But it's Elba who gives a performance that finally shows his talents (well, since "Beasts of No Nation," but that feels like ages ago). He plays Ben as a tough guy with a complex outer shell who really is a softie inside. And as he opens up more and more, Elba really shows a range that will make him even more of a heartthrob than he is now.

If that is possible.

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As the monthly Netflix price rises, so will the amount of originals in your Netflix queue.

The weather is cooling, and Netflix knows you want to cuddle up inside and binge on some TV.

Netflix has 15 brand-new original shows, documentaries, stand-up comedy specials, and films arriving in October.

From a revealing new stand-up special from Patton Oswalt, who lost his wife in 2016; to a thrilling cop drama from David Fincher; and the highly-anticipated "Stranger Things 2;" these are all the Netflix originals coming to your way this October.

Here are all the Netflix originals to watch this month:

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"Rodney Carrington: Here Comes The Truth" — available October 3

Netflix description: Comedian Rodney Carrington brings a slew of hilariously uncensored jokes to his debut Netflix Original Stand-up comedy special, “Rodney Carrington: Here Comes the Truth.” 

"Suburra: The Series," Season 1 — available October 6

Netflix description: "Suburra: The Series" is a crime thriller set in Rome that describes how the Church, the state, organized crime, local gangs and real estate developers collide and blur the lines between the legal and the illicit in their quest for power. 

"The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson" — available October 6

Netflix description: David France’s "The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson", is a deeply compelling look at the murder of a transgender legend, known as “the Rosa Parks of the LGBT movement.”