• Celebrity trainer Corey Calliet put Michael B. Jordan through a grueling weightlifting regimen to make him look like a convincing superhero bad guy in "Black Panther."
• The two worked out for six days a week in the months leading up to production. Jordan would also eat six meals a day.
• Jordan gained 15 pounds of muscle for the role.
• Calliet also worked with Jordan to get him into incredible shape for the movie "Creed."

Michael B. Jordan was in the best shape of his life when he played the title character in the hit movie “Creed,” but to play a superhero villain in “Black Panther,” he knew he had to be superhero big. And there was only one guy who could get him there.

Celebrity trainer Corey Calliet has been working consistently with Jordan since they connected on the set of 2015’s “Fantastic Four.” At that time Calliet said Jordan could barely lift 25 pounds, but by the end of filming one of the movie’s producers asked Calliet to slow down the training because Jordan could barely fit into his Johnny Storm suit.

Calliet said when Jordan contacted him about playing Erik Killmonger in “Black Panther” the actor only sent him a picture of the character from the comic book.

“He told me, 'I need to look like this,' and it's a picture of Killmonger fighting Black Panther,” Calliet told Business Insider. “He was very big, so I knew I had to make Mike look like a free safety or a Marine. If you want to be a villain you have to have that savage type of demeanor. “

To get Jordan to that kind of body type, Calliet would put him through a very different kind of regimen compared to “Creed.”

As Calliet did a lot of cardio work to get Jordan into a boxer look to play Adonis Creed, for Killmonger he needed the actor to put on muscle. That meant doing a weightlifting program to give him intense muscle training.

It was nothing fancy, just basic weight training: bench press, lat pull downs, dead lifts. While also eating six meals a day. They went on for six days a week for a few months leading up to production.

The work then intensified to interval training closer to shooting.

Dumbbell curls to lat pull downs; dips to pull ups to push ups; incline bench press to fly presses.

At one point, Jordan was lifting with 115-pound dumbbells.

Calliet said Jordan added 15 pounds of muscle from “Creed” to “Black Panther.” But the trainer admitted none of it was fun for Jordan, and that’s just what Calliet intended.

“The way I train, the person never gets used to it,” Calliet said. “I would have him do squats and then move right to burpees — that’s not a good feeling. It was nothing that was enjoyable.”

But it’s the finished product that both men strived for, and they can’t be happier with the result. Calliet said he got chills seeing Jordan on screen.

“When I was bodybuilding competing the saying always was, ‘Shows are won from the back,’ so that scene where Killmonger and Black Panther fight, you can see Mike’s back and the definition and the lat spread, all the work we put in is highlighted in that one scene.”

However, the work continues today. With shooting for “Creed 2” beginning in April, Calliet and Jordan have been training getting the actor back to looking like a boxer.

“We were in New York City working out at 3 a.m. the other day,” Calliet said. “I promise you, the body I’m bringing to the screen for ‘Creed 2’ is going to be better than any of the work I’ve ever done.”

"Black Panther" is currently playing in theaters.

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• Jimmy Kimmel gave an emotional plea to President Trump on gun control Thursday, over the school shooting that killed 17 people in Parkland, Florida.
• The host challenged Trump and Republican lawmakers for framing mass shootings as a "mental health" issue and taking money from the NRA.

Jimmy Kimmel addressed the deadly school shooting that killed 17 people in Parkland, Florida, in an emotional monologue on Thursday night's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!"

Kimmel began the monologue by playing two clips of President Trump discussing the shooting, in which Trump said, "No parent should ever have to fear for their sons and daughters when they kiss them goodbye in the morning."

"Agreed," Kimmel responded. "Here's what you do to fix that. Tell your buddies in Congress — tell Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell and Marco Rubio, all the family men who care so much about their communities — that what we need are laws. Real laws that do everything possible to keep assault rifles out of the hands of people who are going to shoot our kids."

Authorities said Nikolas Cruz, 19, killed 17 people and injured 14 more at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school with an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle on Wednesday.

Kimmel continued to address Trump in an emotional plea.

"Tell these Congressmen and lobbyists, who infest that swamp you said you were going to drain, force these allegedly Christian men and women who stuff their pockets with money from the NRA year after year after year to do something," he said.

"Children are being murdered! Do something," Kimmel continued, his voice breaking. "We still haven't even talked about it. You still haven't done anything about this. Nothing. You've literally done nothing."

Kimmel concluded the monologue by addressing how Trump and Republican lawmakers have framed mass shootings as a "mental health" issue. The host said that one of Trump's first acts as president was to roll back a regulation designed to prevent the mentally ill from purchasing firearms.

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• Gael García Bernal returns as star conductor Rodrigo in "Mozart in the Jungle's" fourth season, out Friday, February 2.
• García Bernal talked to Business Insider about fraught relationships between artists, the interplay of tech and art, and what he'll miss most about playing Rodrigo.
• He also shared the origin of Rodrigo catch phrase: "Play with the blood."

For decades, actor Gael García Bernal crossed seamlessly between international cinema and Hollywood, starring in everything from Pixar's "Coco" to iconic Mexican film "Y Tu Mamá También."

But playing the quirky superstar conductor Rodrigo on Amazon's "Mozart in the Jungle," for four seasons and counting, is a role that will stick with him. That's not just because he's played it for so long, but because as a character, Rodrigo lets García Bernal explore an alternate life he might have enjoyed, he told Business Insider in a recent interview.

"As actors you get a chance to live different lives," García Bernal said. "But sometimes you get a chance to live lives you wish you did."

Business Insider caught up with García Bernal ahead of the Golden Globe-winning show's fourth season, which is available to stream on Amazon Prime Video starting Friday, February 16. In our interview García Bernal went deep on the interplay between art and technology, romantic relationships between artists, and how he came up with one of Rodrigo's catch phrases: "Play with the blood."

This interview has been lightly edited for clarity.

Nathan McAlone: Your character has an interesting relationship to a robot this season [no spoilers]. How do you personally feel about technology and art, and the interplay between them?

Gael García Bernal: It’s like recently, the machine that finally won Go [the strategy board game, beating the best human player]. The interesting thing about this is that we always count now on our asset [as humans] that we can make mistakes. Those mistakes are sometimes incredible accidents. That's something apparently robots don't do as well. Maybe that’s needed for music to exist in a way, to be vibrant, to be alive, to be warm, to lead you to places. It is interesting to entertain the idea if it’s possible [for a robot to make, or help make music]. Because also music is mathematical. You can transcribe it into mathematics. You would expect it to be quantifiable. I don’t know. For example, biology used to be a descriptive science, and now it’s a quantifiable science. You need a computer to sequence DNA, and those kinds of things. Was that good? Yeah, it was good because now we can understand how mathematics goes deep into something really small, or really big. If that can be translated into music in particular, I don’t know. I have no idea. In a way I hope it can.

McAlone: In this season, there’s the idea of relationships between artists, and what each person needs at what point, and how that interacts with career aspirations, and your journey as an artist. Did any element of that resonate with you in your life?

García Bernal: It’s difficult to talk about the relationship aspect of people who do the same thing. Is it expected that there will be a natural competition? Yeah, maybe. Will it be positive or negative competition, you never know. On the book, maybe it’s not good. Maybe some people know how to deal with it. It’s complicated. There’s no right or wrong. But it’s also part of any journey with a couple — you live with things, struggles, this and that. If there is no struggle, you invent one.

McAlone: What aspect of your character was most challenging for you as an actor?

García Bernal: Definitely it’s very challenging to stand in front of a group of musicians and play. It’s really daunting.

McAlone: Did that get easier [as the seasons progressed]?

García Bernal: Yes, easier, but not in the sense that I know how to. Now I have no problem making a fool of myself. I don't care that much.

McAlone: It’s a very playful show generally.

García Bernal: Yeah, and you reach a certain proximity and understanding with music.

McAlone: What's your personal relationship with music?

García Bernal: I've always listened to music, of course. I’ve always admired symphonic, classical music, but I was never as close as I am now to that type of music. I engage with it, play with it, I've incorporated it into my life. I listen to that music every day.

McAlone: How did the “play with the blood” [one of Rodrigo’s catch phrases] come about?

García Bernal: I think it was an improvisation actually. I was looking for a word of ... play with “passion” would be too lame. Come on, play with ‘blood,' play with more ... Play with the pancreas. A bit more crazy. And then it just stayed. Like many things Rodrigo now does. Like Hailey [played by Lola Kirke], calling her “Hai-lai” was a mistake, and we just stuck with it.

McAlone: How did that happen?

García Bernal: Well, it was Rodrigo not being able to say certain names. And now every person he meets he changes the name. I like playing with that. Now it became him.

McAlone: What will you miss most about Rodrigo when the show eventually ends, about inhabiting him?

García Bernal: The proximity to music. Rodrigo is also a vessel for me. As actors you get a chance to live different lives. But sometimes you get a chance to live lives you wish you did. And this one, with Rodrigo. It is now after experiencing him [I realize] he is a kind of person that I would have liked to be. And I’m very happy that I'm able to be that person, now and then. His craziness. His impunity. The way he manages to go through the world and think about music, and doesn't really incorporate all the other noise that comes into life. The craziness of it all. I miss that even when we are not doing the season.

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Netflix has been doing nostalgia better than just about anyone in recent years.

As the company has leaned into making its own shows, a big piece of its strategy has been reviving fan favorites like "Full House," "Arrested Development," and "Gilmore Girls." Most recently, the service brought back the reality series "Queer Eye." 

Given Netflix's love of data, this commitment to nostalgia makes sense.

If you can see that people keep binge-watching "Gilmore Girls" over and over again, why not make a new series? You already know there's an audience for it. (That seems to have translated into viewership, at least for the "Gilmore Girls" and "Full House" revivals).

But are these revivals any good?

To try and answer that question, we turned to reviews aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, and looked at what the critics had to say. Here's a list of shows Netflix has brought back from the dead, ranked from worst to best in critical reception, along with a short description (we excluded kids' shows). We also split the two versions of "Wet Hot American Summer" for clarity.

Nathan McAlone contributed to an earlier version of this post.

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12. "Fuller House" — 32%

Critic rating: 32%

Audience rating: 73%

Previous network: ABC

Netflix description: "The Tanner family's adventures continue as DJ Tanner-Fuller shares a home with her sister Stephanie and friend Kimmy who help raise her three boys."

11. "The Killing" (Season 4) — 47%

Critic rating: 47%

Audience rating: 80%

Previous network: AMC

Netflix description: "Seattle homicide detectives Sarah Linden and Stephen Holder are deeply affected by the murders they investigate in this dark, acclaimed crime series."

10. "Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later" — 76%

Critic rating: 76%

Audience rating: 70%

Previous network: Film by USA Films

Netflix description: "A decade after their wild summer as junior counselors, the gang reunites for a weekend of bonding, hanky-panky and hair-raising adventures."

• "Black Panther" earned $25.2 million at Thursday preview screenings.
• That's the best-ever for February and the second-best out of the Marvel franchise.

Hold on tight, because it looks like the box office for "Black Panther" is going to be out of this world by the end of the weekend.

The Thursday preview numbers are in and the latest Marvel movie took in $25.2 million, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

That's the best Thursday preview for February (beating out "Deadpool," $12.7 million) and the second-best preview for a Marvel movie (just under "Avengers: Age of Ultron," $27.6 million).

This all looks to be leading up to the movie having a gigantic opening weekend that could be north of $170 million domestically by the time we get to Presidents' Day on Monday.

Directed by Ryan Coogler ("Creed"), the first-ever standalone Marvel movie focused on a black character has been a hit with critics, as it has a 98% Rotten Tomatoes score (the best ever for a Marvel Cinematic Universe title).

And with this kind of Thursday performance it's pretty certain that general audiences are going to love it, too.

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• A number of Twitter users are being called out for posting fake claims of racially motivated assaults at showings of Marvel's "Black Panther.
• Many of the false claims have used unrelated photos of physically abused women.

A handful of Twitter users have been called out for posting fake claims of racially motivated assaults at showings of Marvel's "Black Panther," Buzzfeed reported Friday.

Many of the false claims have used unrelated photos of physically abused women to suggest that assaults took place at screenings of the film on Thursday.

Others on Twitter have called out the fake claims of assault, citing the original photos of the abused women used in the fabricated posts. 

Twitter has already taken down a number of posts previously reported by Buzzfeed.

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• Atari is taking a major step back from video games. The company is creating a new cryptocurrency named "Atari Token."
• The Atari Token is being created specifically for use on a new digital platform that Atari is working with an outside party to build.
• The new platform is being built on blockchain technology.

Forget about "Pong" — Atari's next big move is into an entirely new industry: cryptocurrency.

Atari SA, the French holding company that now oversees all "Atari" properties, announced earlier this month that it's working on a cryptocurrency named "Atari Token." Moreover, that cryptocurrency is intended for use on a new digital entertainment platform. 

Atari itself isn't creating either. Instead, a company named Infinity Networks is collaborating with Atari on the project. In exchange for a "long-term license" to use Atari's name, Infinity Networks is creating a blockchain-based platform — a storefront, essentially — for various forms of digital entertainment, "ranging from video games to movies and music." 

Additionally, Atari is taking a minority stake in Infinity Networks in exchange for use of Atari's brand name (in addition to potential future royalties and earnings from the platform). 

If all of this sounds a little strange to you, that's because it's all pretty strange. Atari's history is long and storied, and it's directly intertwined with the rise of the video game industry.

The company is largely credited with having created the game industry — first with games like "Pong" and "Breakout" in arcades, and then with home game consoles like the Atari 2600. It's also notorious for having helped bring about the crash of the game industry in the early '80s.

Since those days, Atari has devolved from a game developer/publisher and hardware manufacturer to little more than a famous brand name. The current incarnation of "Atari" is a re-branding of a French company previously named Infogrames. There are actually several different business entities named some derivation of "Atari" at this point — Atari SA is the parent company that's responsible for the Atari Token and this upcoming blockchain-based digital storefront.

That parent company is currently attempting a big turnaround for Atari, and it looks like the latest efforts are working. The announcement alone was enough to bolster Atari SA's stock — Bloomberg reports that it leapt by more than 60% on the news. It's unclear when the new platform will launch, or when Atari Token will become available for purchase.

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• Netflix's new original series "Everything Sucks!" does not suck at all.
• It takes awhile to get good, but it's worth your time.
• It's reminiscent of "Freaks and Geeks," but set in the 90s.
• It tells the story of a teenage girl coming to terms with being gay, and her classmates who are trying to figure out who they are. 

By now, you may have heard the hype around Netflix's "Everything Sucks!," which made its debut Friday and has been called the service's next "sleeper hit." 

In the weeks before its release, the show's been unfairly compared to "Stranger Things," simply because it features a young cast and takes place in a nostalgic decade: the 90s.

Like "Stranger Things," "Everything Sucks!" is a love letter to the decade, but there are absolutely no Upside Downs, shadow monsters, Eggo waffles, or Winona Ryders. Just the ups and downs of being a teenager, set to 90s songs from your favorites including The Mighty Bosstones, Ace of Base, Oasis, and Tori Amos.

But it's still definitely worth your time.

"Everything Sucks!" is like "Freaks and Geeks" meets "My So-Called Life," but with actual teens playing teens. The very well-cast teens on this show are in the A/V club and the drama club at a high school in Boring, Oregon (a real town, where the series filmed). Despite their differences, the two clubs make a sci-fi movie together, directed by Luke (Jahi Di'Allo Winston). 

In the meantime, the show's female protagonist, Kate Messner (Peyton Kennedy), is struggling with her sexuality: She thinks she's lesbian. The 90s setting, though at times a little heavy-handed, tells a story that would've never made it to television in the actual 90s.  

You should binge-watch "Everything Sucks!" this weekend. It's not the best Netflix original series to date, especially since it takes some time to find its voice. But the excellent final episodes will leave you wanting more.

Here's why you should binge-watch "Everything Sucks!" on Netflix. Warning, mild spoilers:

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All 10 episodes are under 30 minutes long.

With no time to let things linger, the shortened episode length helps the show keep things moving forward quickly. The shortest episodes of "Everything Sucks!"are 22 minutes, and its longest is the 27-minute season finale.

Like Netflix's critical hit "The End of the F---ing World," the show proves that a lot of story can be told in a shorter period of time. For shows like these, it's a huge advantage. 

All those short episodes do add up, but it's worth investing your time. It's better than "Altered Carbon."

It's a messy mix of slapstick comedy, teenage romance, and family drama. And that's the point.

The show is uneven, but that's the point. The lack of balance between the slapstick comedy and the tear-jerking drama captures exactly what being a teenager (and a person) is like.

It takes a few episodes for the show to get really good, but the final episodes are worth waiting for.

The show starts by banging the 90s thing over your head like, say, a snap bracelet. 

But once the story gets deeper into its characters, the references feel more organic and earned. In one of the show's best episodes, the teens take a trip to a film location for their movie. On the way, they're happily singing along to Ace of Base's "It's a Beautiful Life" on a bus. 

After some drama happens on set, the song plays on the bus on their way back to Boring. But this time no one is sitting together, and no one is singing along. Moments like these feel more earned and truer to the characters than some moments in earlier episodes, which makes a second season more promising. 

• The rapper Drake said he gave away the entire $996,631.90 budget of his new "God's Plan" music video during its production in Miami.
• The Miami Herald previously reported that Drake recently donated $25,000 to a Miami high school and $50,000 to a student at the University of Miami. He performs at both locations in the uplifting video.

The rapper Drake said he gave away nearly $1 million in the production of the new music video for his single "God's Plan," which has held the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for the three weeks since its release.

The video opens with lines of text: "The budget for this video was $996,631.90. We gave it all away. Don't tell the label."

In the uplifting video, the 31-year-old rapper donates oversized checks and full carts of free groceries to Miami citizens.

The Miami Herald previously reported that Drake recently donated $25,000 to a Miami high school and $50,000 to a student at the University of Miami. He performs at both locations in the "God's Plan" video.

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• A new game called "MonteCrypto: The Bitcoin Enigma" will award the first player who beats it one bitcoin.
• One bitcoin today is priced at around $10,000.
• There are 24 puzzles to solve to beat the game. 
• The game will be released on February 20.

The first player to beat the PC game "MonteCrypto: The Bitcoin Enigma" will be awarded one whole bitcoin.

At the time of writing, a single bitcoin is priced at around $10,100 — though, given the wild swings in bitcoin's price, who knows what it'll be worth when the game officially comes out on February 20th. Motherboard reports that it'll cost $2.

The game developers, Gem Rose Accent, humorously claim "this game must be amongst the hardest you’ve ever played." To beat the game and claim your cryptocurrency prize, players will have to navigate through a maze and solve 24 "mind bending" puzzles. 

There's a multiplayer aspect to the game, as well, where you can team up with others to find clues and solve the puzzles.

At the same time, there are no rules as to how you or other players should conduct themselves, at least when it comes to beating the game. Other players could just as easily lead you down the wrong path — taking you away from the prize, and themselves closer. 

Check out the YouTube video trailer for "MonteCrypto: The Bitcoin Enigma:"

It's still a few days before that February 20th release. But you can get a headstart by finding a clue in the game website's source code, according to the site's FAQ. To pull up the site's source code, just right-click anywhere on the site and click "View page source." It'll look like a lot of nonsense to anybody who's not familiar with HTML code:

It's not clear where the clue is hidden: It could be in the source code of either the Home page or FAQ page. The other two clickable links lead you to a press kit download and the Steam product page, so there's no source code to browse through there.

I obviously pulled up the source code of both the Home and FAQ page and lazily searched for "clue," and I was met with a message that's not visible on the regular FAQ page. It reads: "haha you really thought this was going to work?" 

Well, you have three days to divine that first clue before the hunt truly begins. And on a final note, in case you're wondering: The developers have provided apparent proof, in the form of a public bitcoin wallet address, that they have a bitcoin to give away. 

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Melania Knavs came to New York in the '90s to pursue a career in modeling. Little did the 26-year-old know, she would soon cross paths with the famous real estate mogul Donald Trump.

Although she was wary at first of entering in a relationship with Trump considering his reputation as a womanizer, Knavs fell in love with "a real man." Seven years later, they married. Today, she is the first lady of the United States.

Here's a look at the 13-year marriage of America's first couple:

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Trump met Melania at a party during New York's Fashion Week in September 1998. He was 52; she was 28.

Source: Vanity Fair

He came to the party with another woman, but reportedly talked to Melania while his date was in the bathroom.

Source: GQ

After seeing Melania for the first time, Trump said he "went crazy." He asked for her number, but she asked for his number instead.

Sources: CNN, Vanity Fair

• Shares of MoviePass parent Helios and Matheson fell on news the company had increased its ownership of the movie-theater subscription service.
• Helios and Matheson said it bought more MoviePass shares in order to recoup its cash advances to the movie service.
• Watch Helios and Matheson's stock move in real time here.

Shares of MoviePass parent Helios and Matheson slumped 6.5% Friday after the company announced it was upping its ownership of the movie-theater subscription service to 78% from 62%.

Helios and Matheson said it was acquiring more MoviePass stock in order to recoup its cash advances to the subscription service in the period from December 19 through Thursday. The company granted MoviePass an advance of roughly $45.5 million to support its operations and expansion plans.

"Helios' capital investment has fueled our growth to approximately 2 million subscribers and enabled us to move closer to our vision of transforming the movie industry," MoviePass CEO and Netflix co-founder Mitch Lowe said in a statement.

However, many industry watchers have expressed criticism over MoviePass's business model — which slashed its subscriptions to $9.95 a month for near unlimited theater-going — despite the average movie ticket price in 2017 being $8.97, according to the National Association of Theatre Owners.

MoviePass has also been in an ongoing battle with AMC theaters. In January, the company pulled 10 AMC-run theaters from its platform without giving prior notice to the company nor its customers. AMC has made failed attempts to block the service.

Shares of Helios and Matheson slipped earlier this week after MoviePass announced it was booting a few of its users for violating some of its terms of service.

Helios and Matheson's stock was trading at $4.78 a share, and was down 39.89% for the year.

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• On Friday, Dangerous, the website from far-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos, published a favorable review of "Black Panther."
• Though the review is positive, the reasoning behind it is strange.
• The reviewer compared the film's hero to Donald Trump, and the villain to "Black Lives Matter" activists.

"Black Panther" is breaking records and getting glowing reviews, even in very unexpected places, as pointed out by The Wrap. 

On Friday, Dangerous, the website from far-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos, who got the boot from Breitbart a year ago after comments surfaced where he appeared to condone pedophilia, published a favorable review of "Black Panther." 

Given the track record of Yiannopoulos and his followers — in 2016, Twitter banned Yiannopoulos for encouraging his followers to send racist tweets to "Saturday Night Live" cast member Leslie Jones — a positive review of the movie comes as a surprise.

And the reason behind it is predictably strange.

Reviewer Ian Miles Cheong enjoyed the film, and praised "Black Panther" for its message that "we are all one tribe." He also praised the film for depicting the villain as a "SJW Black Supremacist," and compared the film's hero to Donald Trump. 

“If it wasn’t for the superpowers and science fiction landscape," Cheong wrote, "you’d almost forget you were watching a superhero movie. While there’s enough of the otherworldly to draw you in, it’s the characters at the heart of 'Black Panther' who drive the two-hour ride.”

But the review, which starts with an insult to "leftists" praising the film for its diversity, is definitely far from most people's take on "Black Panther," and why it's a powerful movie.

Cheong tweeted that "the hero is basically Black Trump" and that the villain is reflective of a Black Lives Matter activist:

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It's been more than 15 years since the heyday of CD sales. But the shiny little discs still have their devotees. As this chart by Statista shows, millions of people continue to purchase CDs ever year.

Given that the sound quality of CDs is superior to streaming services like Spotify or Apple Music, it's not surprising that there are audiophile holdouts. But these diehards might be in for some tough times following the announcement by electronics retailer Best Buy that it will stop selling compact discs in its stores.

Best Buy's move could provide the death blow to CDs, or it could signal the beginning of a vinyl-like comeback for people with a yen for "retro" items.

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• J.J. Abrams addressed fan backlash toward "The Last Jedi" in an interview with IndieWire.
• He said that people who feel threatened by women can probably "find an enemy" in "Star Wars."

J.J. Abrams is returning to a galaxy far, far away for next year's "Star Wars: Episode IX," and he seems undeterred by the fan backlash against Rian Johnson's "The Last Jedi."

In an interview with IndieWire, "The Force Awakens" director said that people who are "threatened by women" can find "Star Wars" to be an easy target, and that anyone can "find a problem with anything" in the Internet age:

"'Star Wars' is a big galaxy, and you can sort of find almost anything you want to in 'Star Wars,'" he told IndieWire. "If you are someone who feels threatened by women and needs to lash out against them, you can probably find an enemy in 'Star Wars.' You can probably look at the first movie that George [Lucas] did ['Star Wars: A New Hope'] and say that Leia was too outspoken, or she was too tough. Anyone who wants to find a problem with anything can find the problem. The internet seems to be made for that.”

The sexist backlash against "The Last Jedi" ran so deep that someone made a 46-minute edit of it that excluded all the women. (It was widely mocked.)

But as Abrams prepares to step back into the Millennium Falcon, these extreme measures from some disgruntled fans don't bother him in the slightest.

He told IndieWire:

"There’s a lot that I would like to say about it, but I feel like it’s a little early to be having the 'Episode IX' conversation ... I will say that the story of Rey and Poe and Finn and Kylo Ren — and if you look, there are three men and one woman, to those that are complaining that there are too many women in 'Star Wars' — their story continues in a way that I couldn’t be more excited about and cannot wait for people to see.”

The untitled ninth installment in the "Star Wars" saga starts filming in June and arrive next year. "Solo: A Star Wars Story" arrives in theaters in May.

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• Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux confirmed they have separated in an official statement.
• An anonymous source reportedly told ET that the couple's disagreements about where to live was a major part in their decision to break up.
• Psychologists and relationship experts agree that discussions around long-term goals, along with where you want to live, should be discussed prior to marriage.

After seven years of being together — two of which they were married — actress Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux have decided to split. The news came out Thursday from an official statement by the couple to the Associated Press. 

"This decision was mutual and lovingly made at the end of last year. We are two best friends who have decided to part ways as a couple, but look forward to continuing our cherished friendship," the statement read. 

While no reasons for the breakup were listed in the official statement, an anonymous source has reached out to ET, suggesting a major reason for the separation is the couple's inability to decide where to live together. 

While Aniston allegedly prefers Los Angeles, "[Theroux] much prefers being [in New York] and that's been a major issue for them for a long time," the source told ET.

Whether or not the story of their coastal tensions is true, it brings an important lesson for any couple to the surface: Talk about where you're willing to live well before tying the knot.

"If you don't deal with an issue before marriage, you deal with it while you're married," Robert Scuka, executive director of the National Institute of Relationship Enhancement, told Eleanor Stanford in the New York Times' viral 2016 article 13 Questions to Ask Before Getting Married.

One of the questions the article suggests asking a partner is "How do you see us 10 years from now?" to help resolve current conflicts while ultimately working towards your larger-picture goals, including how and where you want to live.

Licensed clinical psychologist Andrea Bonior, Ph.D., also suggests discussing expectations about where you want to livewith your partner. "When one person has a solidified vision and the other wants to stay open or changes their mind, that can spell disaster," she wrote in Psychology Today.

Where you want to live is only one element of planning a life together. As Business Insider previously reported, other important questions to ask your partner before getting serious (or married) include:

• Do you want kids?
• How much debt do you have?
• How do you feel about divorce?

They're all hard conversations to have — which is why they're so important.

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What is eSports? History & Rise of Video Game Tournaments

Years ago, eSports was a community of video gamers who would gather at conventions to play Counter Strike, Call of Duty, or League of Legends.

These multiplayer video game competitions would determine League of Legends champions, the greatest shooters in Call of Duty, the cream of the crop of Street Fighter players, the elite Dota 2 competitors, and more.

But today, as the history of eSports continue to unfold, media giants such as ESPN and Turner are broadcasting eSports tournaments and competitions. And in 2014, Amazon acquired Twitch, the live streaming video platform that has been and continues to be the leader in online gaming broadcasts. And YouTube also wanted to jump on the live streaming gaming community with the creation of YouTube Gaming.

eSports Market Growth Booming

To put in perspective how big eSports is becoming, a Google search for "lol" does not produce "laughing out loud" as the top result. Instead, it points to League of Legends, one of the most popular competitive games in existence. The game has spawned a worldwide community called the League of Legends Championship Series, more commonly known as LCS or LOL eSports.

What started as friends gathering in each other's homes to host LAN parties and play into the night has become an official network of pro gaming tournaments and leagues with legitimate teams, some of which are even sponsored and have international reach. Organizations such as Denial, AHQ, and MLG have multiple eSports leagues.

And to really understand the scope of all this, consider that the prize pool for the latest Dota 2 tournament was more than $20 million.

Websites even exist for eSports live scores to let people track the competitions in real time if they are unable to watch. There are even fantasy eSports leagues similar to fantasy football, along with the large and growing scene of eSports betting and gambling.

So it's understandable why traditional media companies would want to capitalize on this growing trend just before it floods into the mainstream. Approximately 300 million people worldwide tune in to eSports today, and that number is growing rapidly. By 2020, that number will be closer to 500 million.

eSports Industry Analysis - The Future of the Competitive Gaming Market

Financial institutions are starting to take notice. Goldman Sachs valued eSports at $500 million in 2016 and expects the market will grow at 22% annually compounded over the next three years into a more than $1 billion opportunity.

And industry statistics are already backing this valuation and demonstrating the potential for massive earnings. To illustrate the market value, market growth, and potential earnings for eSports, consider Swedish media company Modern Times Group's $87 million acquisition of Turtle Entertainment, the holding company for ESL. YouTube has made its biggest eSports investment to date by signing a multiyear broadcasting deal with Faceit to stream the latter's Esports Championship Series. And the NBA will launch its own eSports league in 2018.

Of course, as with any growing phenomenon, the question becomes: How do advertisers capitalize? This is especially tricky for eSports because of its audience demographics, which is young, passionate, male-dominated, and digital-first. They live online and on social media, are avid ad-blockers, and don't watch traditional TV or respond to conventional advertising.

So what will the future of eSports look like? How high can it climb? Could it reach the mainstream popularity of baseball or football? How will advertisers be able to reach an audience that does its best to shield itself from advertising?

Robert Elder, research analyst for BI Intelligence, Business Insider's premium research service, has compiled an unparalleled report on the eSports ecosystem that dissects the growing market for competitive gaming. This comprehensive, industry-defining report contains more than 30 charts and figures that forecast audience growth, average revenue per user, and revenue growth.

Companies and organizations mentioned in the report include: NFL, NBA, English Premier League, La Liga, Bundesliga, NHL, Paris Saint-Germain, Ligue 1, Ligue de Football, Twitch, Amazon, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, ESPN, Electronic Arts, EA Sports, Valve, Riot Games, Activision Blizzard, ESL, Turtle Entertainment, Dreamhack, Modern Times Group, Turner Broadcasting, TBS Network, Vivendi, Canal Plus, Dailymotion, Disney, BAMTech, Intel, Coca Cola, Red Bull, HTC, Mikonet

Here are some eSports industry facts and statistics from the report:

• eSports is a still nascent industry filled with commercial opportunity.
• There are a variety of revenue streams that companies can tap into.
• The market is presently undervalued and has significant room to grow.
• The dynamism of this market distinguishes it from traditional sports.
• The audience is high-value and global, and its numbers are rising.
• Brands can prosper in eSports by following the appropriate game plan.
• Game publishers approach their Esport ecosystems in different ways.  
• Successful esport games are comprised of the same basic ingredients.
• Digital streaming platforms are spearheading the popularity of eSports.
• Legacy media are investing into eSports, and seeing encouraging results.
• Traditional sports franchises have a clear opportunity to seize in eSports.
• Virtual and augmented reality firms also stand to benefit from eSports.  

In full, the report illuminates the business of eSports from four angles:

• The gaming nucleus of eSports, including an overview of popular esport genres and games; the influence of game publishers, and the spectrum of strategies they adopt toward their respective esport scenes; the role of eSports event producers and the tournaments they operate.
• The eSports audience profile, its size, global reach, and demographic, psychographic, and behavioral attributes; the underlying factors driving its growth; why they are an attractive target for brands and broadcasters; and the significant audience and commercial crossover with traditional sports.
• eSports media broadcasters, including digital avant-garde like Twitch and YouTube, newer digital entrants like Facebook and traditional media outlets like Turner’s TBS Network, ESPN, and Canal Plus; their strategies and successes in this space; and the virtual reality opportunity.
• eSports market economics, with a market sizing, growth forecasts, and regional analyses; an evaluation of the eSports spectacle and its revenue generators, some of which are idiosyncratic to this industry; strategic planning for brand marketers, with case studies; and an exploration of the infinite dynamism and immense potential of the eSports economy.

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Netflix has a lot of original content in store for the rest of this year. 

While Netflix has already released new seasons of a few fan-favorite shows like "Grace and Frankie" and "Lovesick," the streaming service is also set to release some new and anticipated originals. 

We've already seen the premiere of the new sci-fi series "Altered Carbon" and David Letterman's new talk show. Among the shows still to come is the series "Maniac," a dark comedy starring Jonah Hill and Emma Stone.

Netflix has said it will spend $8 billion on shows and movies in 2018 — up from the $6 billion it spent in 2017. 

To help you sort through all of the upcoming content, we've compiled a list of original shows that Netflix has confirmed are coming out in 2018. This excludes movies, kids' shows, and series that might not come out until 2019 or later.

Here are all the shows we know Netflix is for sure putting out in 2018, along with their release date if available:

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"Lovesick" (Season 3) — Released January 1

Netflix description: "In his quest for true love, Dylan found chlamydia. Joined by friends Evie and Luke, he relives past encounters as he notifies all his former partners."

"The End of the F***ing World" (Season 1) — Released January 5

Netflix description: "A budding teen psychopath and a rebel hungry for adventure embark on a star-crossed road trip in this darkly comic series based on a graphic novel.

"Disjointed" (Season 1 - Part 2) — Released January 12

Netflix has managed to breathe new life into a number of TV shows thought dead, including "Arrested Development," "Gilmore Girls," and "Full House." And networks have done the same, rebooting classics like "Will & Grace" and "Roseanne." 

But there are still shows that fans wish had one more season — the guilty pleasures or cult-classics that didn't get enough attention, but gained a loyal following. 

On Friday, Reddit users responded to a question about which cancelled TV shows they loved, and would like one more season of. The results ranged from sci-fi one-season wonder "Firefly," to comedies that didn't gain the audience they deserved, such as "Pushing Daisies."

Below are 11 of the best suggestions from Reddit of shows that needed one more season:

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"Almost Human"

Network: Fox

Seasons: 1 

Year aired: 2013-2014

Reddit comment: "Fox just had to air the episodes out of order and kill another sci-fi show."

"Carnivale"

Network: HBO

Seasons: 2

Year aired: 2003-2005

Reddit comment: "Carnivale was amazing and really deserved an extra season for a conclusion! I’d even settle for a book or graphic novel to get all of my questions answered."

"Dark Matter"

Network: SyFy

Seasons: 3

Year aired: 2015-2017

Reddit comment: "Ended on one massive cliffhanger. Just when the show had truly hit its stride."

• NBCUniversal is using the Olympics to tout its custom Total Audience Delivery metric as an alternative to the classic Nielsen ratings.
• The media company wants to stop advertisers and media journalists from focusing on Nielsen ratings at a time when people are watching less live TV.
• It won't be easy to shift the industry's fixation on this type of data. But most in the TV business recognize that traditional measurement systems are inadequate for fragmented digital viewing.

NBCUniversal is taking reporting ratings for the Winter Olympics into its own hands. The question is whether the rest of the TV industry will follow.

The media giant is using the Olympics to push its case for reporting what it calls Total Audience Delivery. This NBCU-created ratings construct is essentially a medley of data from different sources designed to help get across how many people are actually watching the games, whether on live linear TV, NBCU's apps, or mobile devices.

TAD is NBCU's not-so-subtle message that when it comes to measuring modern TV viewing, the incumbent TV researcher Nielsen can't cut it.

For example, NBCU says it delivered 26 million viewers on Sunday night, an audience it's calling the most "dominant" opening Winter Olympics Sunday ever.

That TAD number is made up of 22.7 million people watching on NBC along with a 15% boost from other platforms.

In fact, NBCU says that this year's games through Monday afternoon had already generated 445 million live-streaming minutes, which is more than the 420 million live minutes recorded during the entirety of the 2014 Games in Sochi, Russia.

"We want a holistic picture and a way to capture all that consumption," Krishan Bhatia, NBCU's executive vice president of business operations and strategy, told Business Insider. "We're going with best measurement available. And there is no single source that can do that for all platforms."

"And this is not just limited to the Olympics," Bhatia added. "If you look at a show like 'This is Us,' 50% of that show's audience is not captured in the linear rating."

Bhatia says what most big advertisers care about is running their ads during a certain time period (during a particular promotion, or holiday season), having their ads run alongside premium content, and reaching the right audience demographics.

And whether people watch on TV, the web, on a Roku, or on their phones — the Olympics delivers on all fronts.

"So if we can track those, it should count," Bhatia said.

Yet the way NBCU compiles TAD reporting is unorthodox and, according to some, less than ideal from a data-science perspective. That's because rather than using a single third-party measurement vendor (typically the preferred approach among media researchers), NBCU pieces together data from Nielsen, Adobe, the advertising technology firm FreeWheel, and Oracle to produce TAD numbers.

NBCU has two overarching goals with TAD. For one, it wants to get the ad-buying world accustomed to thinking of TV audiences as being less confined to live airings of shows and more like something that is compiled across multiple platforms over varied time periods. For the first time, NBCU sold advertisers packages that guaranteed specific audiences across platforms rather than that treated TV and digital audiences and ad sales separately, The Wall Street Journal reported.

In addition, NBCU with TAD most likely wants to nudge the press to stop reporting solely on Nielsen ratings on a given night. The company clearly wants to kill the narrative that took hold during the most recent Olympics, the Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro.

Right out of the gate, reports swirled that ratings for the 2016 Games were down considerably compared with the 2012 London Olympics. That led to stories questioning whether the Olympics were fundamentally in decline as a live TV event and whether millennials even liked sports.

Weeks later, NBCU was able to pump out data showing how many people were streaming various Olympic events on various platforms, particularly younger people. But by then it was tough to change the narrative.

It's hard to communicate all that in a press release, especially as TV media is trained to report straight ratings. Thus, you get headlines such as:

• From Deadline: Olympics Day 1 Viewership Down Double Digits From 2014 With 24.1M For NBC
• Or from Variety on NBCU's claimed Sunday "dominance": TV Ratings: Sunday Olympics Coverage Steady With 2014

As Business Insider has reported, TV measurement is facing something of a crisis, and NBCU wants to be seen as a change agent. Plus, the company spent over $7 billion to secure rights to air the Olympics through 2032, so it needs to get this right.

Over the past few years, NBCU executives have been openly critical of Nielsen's ability to track how people view TV outside traditional live TV viewing. The company has gone as far as publishing an open letter to Nielsen in late 2016 calling for a delayed rollout of its Total Content Ratings product and even hosted an industry-wide summit in November partially aimed at trying to fix media measurement.

Getting a huge industry to change the way it thinks and operates is never easy. But NBCU says however painful, it's necessary.

"It starts at the top. Consumers are shifting the way they watch TV," Bhatia said. "Millennials do watch the Olympics. But the industry is tethered to an airdate. If you're still focused just on ratings, you are missing the point. So when we have discussions with major agencies, we're trying to figure our a new approach."

Part of that approach is partnering with digital platforms to push out Olympics content (though, it's worth noting, not all big tech platforms are part of the mix). The list includes Apple News as well as Snapchat, where NBCU is streaming live Olympic footage.

"We're leaning in there," Bhatia said. "At the same time, we're doing less on platforms where monetization and measurement don't work for us here. Like Facebook."

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