• The entertainment fan community site Fandom – born out of the Wikipedia braintrust – has quietly built a large and deep audience.
• The company's management team is trying to recreate Bleacher Report's playbook – by taking a vibrant website populated largely by content produced by consumers and professionalizing it.
• The company recently received a funding boost from prominent media investor and former top News Corp and AOL executive Jon Miller

While heading up digital sales at Turner, Walker Jacobs was on hand when the company acquired Bleacher Report in 2012.

Now seen as a largely successful deal — Bleacher Report frequently tops category giant ESPN when it comes to social media interactions – at the time there were plenty of skeptics. Bleacher was seen as a scruffy, search-dependent, sports blog run by lots of amateurs.

Now the site is featured prominently on Turner's March Madness and NCAA coverage, and employs former New York Times journalists such as Mike Freeman and Howard Beck.

Jacobs sees an opportunity to re-run the same Bleacher Report playbook in the entertainment category. Three years ago he became COO at Wikia, an under-the-radar community site cofounded by Jimmy Wales (yes, the founder of Wikipedia). 

At the time, Wikia was also a scruffy, user-generated-content-dominated network of blogs that generated lots of traffic from search. Its creators obsessed with all things pop culture. If you ended up doing a search on "Stranger Things" or "Black Panther" or "Doctor Who" chances are you'd end up in a Wikia page.

Over the past three years, with CEO Craig Palmer at the helm, Wikia has gone through a massive, advertiser-friendly redesign, rebranding as Fandom. And it's also hired a slew of professional writers and video producers from companies such as Variety, YouTube and yes, Bleacher Report.

As of January, Fandom reached 48 million unique visitors in the US according to comScore – up 24% over the past year. The company says internal figures put that number at 200 million globally.

And last week – at a time when digital publishing is going through a bit of an panicked period (see LittleThings shutting down) – it received an undisclosed new round of investment from prominent media investor Jon Miller (backed by the private equity/venture capital firm TPG) who's also joining the firm's board

The plan is to put more money into the product and bring on even more professional staff. At the same time, Jacobs is continuing to try and bring more big name advertisers on board.

Wikia got big by going really deep, with the help of users

If you want a glossary of all the spells from all seven Harry Potter books, it's there. If you want to dissect all 800 plus pages on various characters from the show "Lost," you can. The vast majority of Wikia – now Fandom's – content until recently came from passionate users.

"In a way, we'd already done the heaviest lifting a media company has to do, which is to build scale," said CEO Craig Palmer. "For the first six to eight years, we just scaled and scaled and scaled and scaled thanks to our users. We now have 55 million pages of content."

"In 2014 or so when Walker and I met, the key was, 'How do you unlock all that audience value?' So we knew we had to begin the transformation into a modern media company ... We didn’t really need more traffic. We needed to curate the journey."

Wikia had to clean up its look and feel for advertisers. But it had a unique sales proposition

That started with a new name, new design, cleaner pages and better ads. Then, the company had to tell its story to advertisers, who might not know Wikia from Wikipedia.

They did have some major consumer shifts in their favor.

"When I joined, there were all these really interesting trends beginning at the time," said Jacobs. "One thing that was really clear is that young consumers media habits change really fast. Obviously they were using social and mobile more, they were playing video games and they were increasingly spending time with Marvel and Star Wars and Netflix."

"They were consuming media in all these ad-free environments," Jacobs said. "So we kind of said, 'How do we create a media business that celebrates their type of content, and lets advertisers get next to it?'"

Why this is just like Bleacher Report, and why it's not

"If you looked at the entertainment category a few years ago, it was mostly gossip and celebrity content that was aimed at a mostly female, older audience," Jacobs said. "It was almost an extension of grocery store magazines. But all the buzzy activity in the entertainment world was focused on streaming and Thrones and stuff like that."

"Even in the early days of Bleacher Report, they were covering sports differently and winning a lot of brand loyalty, they were still always looking up at the mountaintop and seeing ESPN," Jacobs added.  "For us, we look up the mountain and there is no ESPN."

What's next? More original content. More shows

"What you’re gonna see is us put resources into video and editorial content," said Palmer. "We're not gonna do something loudly, but we'll ccontinue to execute in a thoughtful, responsive way. This essentially gives us more capital to help us scale."

"We're private and profitable. That's a good place to be."

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• Chip and Joanna Gaines opened a new restaurant in Waco, Texas, this week. 
• Magnolia Table is a breakfast-centric spot, serving produce and eggs straight from the "Fixer Upper" stars' garden. 
• This is just the latest addition to the Gaineses' growing local empire that has turned Waco into a tourist destination. 

Chip and Joanna Gaines turned Waco, Texas into a tourist destination. And, they just gave fans of "Fixer Upper" another reason to visit. 

The husband-and-wife duo opened a breakfast-centric restaurant called Magnolia Table in Waco this week, building on their growing local empire of food-and-home-decor tourist hot spots. 

The success of "Fixer Upper" contributed in Waco being named the No. 2 trending travel destination in the US last year by TripAdvisor. In 2017, their expansive downtown Waco hub, Magnolia Market at the Silos, averaged 30,000 visitors a week — an annual total close to 1.6 million people, reports the Waco Tribune.

Magnolia Table gives fans of "Fixer Upper" a new reason to visit Waco. Here's what it's like to dine at the new restaurant that's all about breakfast:

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Joanna Gaines has been teasing the opening of Magnolia Table on social media for weeks.

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• Spotify just filed the paperwork for its direct public listing.
• Like Snap, Facebook, and other tech companies that have gone the traditional initial public offering route, Spotify engineered a firewall to ensure the founders stay in control.
• Spotify has created a class of "beneficiary certificates" that carry voting power but no economic power.
• Spotify has issued 379.2 million shares to founders Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzen, giving them over 80% of the voting power.

After a lengthy buildup, Spotify has finally filed for its direct public listing— the unorthodox process that circumvents the traditional Wall Street initial public offering process wherein banks are hired to find buyers for the shares.

Spotify plans to list on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker "SPOT," according to the company's F-1 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

But once the shares are on the NYSE, technically anyone can buy them up. Spotify's founders, Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzen, have engineered a class of super shares to ensure they retain control of the company, according to the SEC filing. 

Spotify created a class of "beneficiary certificates" that carry voting power but zero economic power. They're worthless other than giving the holder one vote on company matters, and subject to certain exceptions, they will "automatically be canceled for no consideration in the case of sale or transfer of the ordinary share to which they are linked."

Up to 1.4 billion certificates can be issued to holders of ordinary shares, at a ratio of one to 20 per share, at the discretion of the board of directors.

Ek and Lorentzen, who already own a combined 38.9% of the ordinary shares, will each receive 10 beneficiary certificates for every ordinary share they own, for a total of 379.2 million. That gives them just over 80% of the voting power in the company. 

Spotify is taking a different route to going public, but just like high-profile tech IPOs such as Snap and Facebook, this measure effectively creates a firewall that keeps the founders in control, regardless of who buys up shares on the public markets. 

Spotify's beneficiary certificates will, in part, discourage any third-party from trying to buy up enough of the company to shake things up.

"The issuance of beneficiary certificates also may make it more difficult or expensive for a third party to acquire control of us without the approval of our founders," the filing reads.

The filing puts it in plain English — Ek and Lorentzen will essentially have total authority:

"As a result of this ownership or control of our voting securities, if our founders act together, they will have control over the outcome of substantially all matters submitted to our shareholders for approval, including the election of directors."

The board can issue more beneficiary certificates — there are more than 1 billion remaining from the total authorized amount — but, of course, Ek and Lorentzen sit on the board and control the voting power, so they'll have a say in that matter, too.

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• On "Undercover High," seven adults pretended to be teenagers for four months.
• Mostly, it wasn't hard to pass as teens — although one undercover high schooler got braces.
• They took classes, joined clubs, and functioned like regular teenagers.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to relive your high school experience?

Seven adults did exactly that for the A&E documentary series "Undercover High," in which the participants pose as students at Highland Park High School in Topeka, Kansas, for the spring 2017 semester. The undercover students take classes, join clubs, and make friends at the school to get a better perspective on what life is like for teenagers today.

In order to pass as high schoolers, the undercover students needed to make changes to their appearance — sometimes drastic ones. Some of them changed their wardrobes and hairstyles, and 25-year-old Erin even got braces to blend in with the student body.

"Staying in character was one of the hardest things," one of the undercover students, a 23-year-old youth pastor named Daniel, told Business Insider. "Just remembering, OK, I am 18 right now, I'm undercover."

"I knew I dressed a little older, so I grew my hair out, I tried to wear more jeans, typical stuff that an average teenager is wearing," he said. "I hid it pretty well."

Read on to see what the undercover students looked like before they went back to school and after their transformation:

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Gloria, 26

Erin, 25

Shane, 22

• Netflix's movie catalog may have decreased in recent years but it still offers plenty of blockbuster movies to choose from.
• Hulu also offers worthy crowd-pleasers you may not know are available to stream.

While Netflix's catalog of movies has decreased dramatically in recent years to focus on television, the streaming service still offers plenty of big, blockbuster movies that users may not know is available. 

From recent hits like "Beauty and the Beast" and "Doctor Strange" to classic action-adventure flicks like "Armageddon" and "Men In Black," Netflix still has worthy big-screen crowd-pleasers ready for audiences to stream at their convenience. (Thanks in large part to its deal with Disney.)

Even Hulu offers a number of blockbuster choices, including the entire "Indiana Jones" series.

Here are 19 blockbuster movies you may not know are on Netflix and Hulu:

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"Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2"

Available to stream on Netflix

"Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" is the sequel to 2014's "Guardians of the Galaxy," which brought the Marvel Cinematic Universe off Earth and to new worlds. "Vol. 2" pushes the team to their limits with a more personal story, as Star-Lord, played by Chris Pratt, discovers who is real father is: Ego, the all-powerful being played by Kurt Russell. 

"Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring"

Available to stream on Netflix

Netflix only recently picked up the first film in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, and if you have three hours to spare, you can re-visit Middle-Earth at your convenience. 

"Rogue One: A Star Wars Story"

Available to stream on Netflix

If you're excited about "Solo: A Star Wars Story" in May, you may want to revisit the "Star Wars" franchise's first spin-off film, "Rogue One," which portrays the efforts of the Rebels to steal the Death Star plans immediately before the events of "A New Hope."

It's easy to say that the Oscars are out of touch with the regular moviegoer, but when you dive into the numbers it's scary how correct that general thought is.

We looked back at the lifetime domestic gross for the last 15 best picture Oscar winners and matched those with the lifetime gross for the movies that topped those years at the box office. And only once did they match up (2003's "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King").

In fact, most of the best picture Oscar winners didn't crack $100 million at the box office and only two crossed the $200 million mark — and that's counting inflation!

See the last 15 years for yourself below. As you'll see, the numbers don't lie.

Note: All figures are domestic grosses only from Box Office Mojo and are added for inflation.

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2016 Best Picture - "Moonlight" $27.8 million

2016 Box Office Winner - "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" $554.8 million

2015 Best Picture - "Spotlight" $47.8 million

The Oscars are the most celebrated awards show in Hollywood, and they set the conversation about what's great in movies.

But that doesn’t mean that everyone wants to go, or even be in the running to win one. In the 90-year history of the ceremony, some of Hollywood’s finest haven’t been there to accept their awards or nominations, and some have flat-out rejected the envied award itself. 

Weirdly, Leonardo DiCaprio never boycotted the ceremony in protest of his many losses, but it looks like that paid off in the end. He doesn’t have to worry about that anymore — and neither do we. 

Here are some actors and filmmakers who've skipped (or rejected) the Oscars:

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Marlon Brando

Knowing he was a shoe-in to win best actor for his role as Vito Corleone in "The Godfather," Brando boycotted the Oscars in 1973. In his place, he had Native American activist Sacheen Littlefeather attend. She went onstage to accept his award, and when she read Brando’s speech about the mistreatment of Native Americans in film, she got booed.

Roman Polanski

The director didn't attend the 2003 ceremony that awarded him a statue for best director for his work on "The Pianist." But even if he tried, he likely wouldn't have made it, since he is still a fugitive in the US in a conviction for unlawful sex. Harrison Ford accepted the award on his behalf.

Michael Caine

Michael Caine wasn’t around to accept his first Oscar win for best supporting actor in "Hannah and Her Sisters," because he was busy filming "Jaws: The Revenge," a movie with a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Caine learned his lesson, and showed up in 2000 to accept his deserved win for a supporting role in "The Cider House Rules."

Glenn Weiss has made a career directing some of the most nerve-wracking live television shows ever created.

Working on the Emmy Awards, Tony Awards, American Music Awards, BET Awards, Super Bowl halftime show, and New Year's Rockin' Eve, Weiss thought he'd seen it all over a 30-year career.

But then came last year's Academy Awards.

It was the second time he had directed the epic show, and everything was running smoothly until the final award of the night: best picture.

You know the rest.

The presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway were given the wrong envelope, they incorrectly said "La La Land" won, and the cast and crew came onstage, setting up one of the most incredible live moments in TV history. A "La La Land" producer, Jordan Horowitz, realizing his movie did not win, held up the card revealing that the real best-picture winner was "Moonlight."

A year later, Weiss is preparing to direct another Oscars telecast (airing Sunday), but he still can't shake those infamous few minutes of live television.

"I had no idea that one shot of a card that says 'Moonlight' will probably define my career for the rest of my life," Weiss told Business Insider over the phone.

Here Weiss breaks down how his team captured the best-picture win at the 89th Academy Awards.

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"I really thought he was just being funny"

In retrospect, Warren Beatty's reaction to seeing what was inside the envelope he and Faye Dunaway were given spoke volumes. But at the time, Weiss just thought Beatty was putting on the same act he was doing during rehearsals.

"Warren and Faye were very playful with each other during rehearsals," Weiss said. "So when he started doing that I really thought he was just being funny."

Once "La La Land" was announced as the winner, Weiss said, he and his team were getting ready to present the host Jimmy Kimmel's closing bit and the end credits.

"It didn't feel like anything was wrong — looking back, Warren was looking for help," Weiss said.

Still on the live broadcast, Beatty eventually told the audience that he had been given not the card for best picture but a duplicate of the card announcing Emma Stone as the winner of best actress for "La La Land."

"All my years of training at that moment went 180 degrees"

Weiss said he wasn't notified that something was wrong until a minute and a half after "La La Land" was announced. By that time, the producers of the movie had begun giving their acceptance speeches.

"I hear in the headset from my lead stage manager, 'The accountant just said he thinks we gave the wrong winner,'" Weiss recalled. "I said, 'Get out there and get this fixed.'"

The broadcast showed a person with a headset walking into the camera frame onstage. Weiss said he allowed that to be seen because he decided instantly to show what was unfolding, which goes against everything he was taught.

"When you direct live television, your training says if something is going so wrong that your stage manager has to go out there, you're going to do a wide shot," Weiss said. "That's just what we do when we try to keep shows clean. All my years of training at that moment went 180 degrees. I basically thought, something really bad just happened — I don't want the headline tomorrow to be we tried to cover it up."

Weiss showed all the whispering and scurrying onstage as producers gave their acceptance speeches and members of the crew tried to obtain the correct envelope.

Weiss was "obsessed" with getting a shot of the card that named the real best-picture winner

Weiss said he became "instantly obsessed" with finding someone holding the correct winning card.

"I basically told one of our camera operators who didn't have an assignment at that moment to just go tight on the card if anyone holds it up," Weiss said.

The director said all he was trying to do in the moment was show the audience watching at home what they all were seeing. And then the "La La Land" producer Jordan Horowitz lifted up the card that said "Moonlight" was the winner.

"When that card was held up and we took the shot, honestly, I was just doing what my gut told me to do," Weiss said. "Now, it's the most talked about thing. It's crazy."

Weiss said the significance of that shot didn't hit him until the next day when he began seeing the shot in newspapers and on TV. He acknowledges that didn't make him that pleased.

"I felt really good about that television show I made," he said. "The next morning reading about this one shot of the card was weird because I really thought the show was beautiful."

• MoviePass CEO Mitch Lowe explained why a "small percentage" of MoviePass subscribers were terminated in the beginning of February.
• Lowe addressed the customer service issues the company has been dealing with since its gigantic increase in subscribers.

In the beginning of February, a “small percentage” of MoviePass subscribers were startled to find an email in their inboxes from the app announcing their accounts had been terminated. The reason: They had allegedly violated the company’s terms of service.

This move led to a slew of complaints on social media by those who received the email, and many stories from those who claimed MoviePass had canceled their subscriptions without proper cause.

Since then, Business Insider has received over a dozen emails from customers who believe they should not have lost the service. Some said they had spent hours trying to get through to a customer service agent to plead their case, only to be told they either had violated the terms of service and nothing could be done, or that their request to be reactivated would be sent to another department. This led to days of waiting for the customers to learn their fate.

So why did MoviePass delete accounts, and what do customers need to do to make sure they never get flagged by the app?

Business Insider had a phone call with MoviePass CEO Mitch Lowe to get answers.

Trying to kick out those that are taking advantage of MoviePass

Lowe said MoviePass started terminating accounts after it found a group of repeat offenders who consistently violated MoviePass' terms of service. The violations were found by a loss prevention team Lowe hired, and included users checking in for a basic 2D ticket but then getting a 3D, RealD, or IMAX ticket; using MoviePass to obtain movie-theater gift cards; or buying concessions along with a ticket, according to Lowe.

Lowe said these overcharges “cost a lot of money” for MoviePass to cover.

The reason why the MoviePass MasterCard is able to buy more than a 2D movie ticket, Lowe explained, is because MoviePass always keeps more than a 2D ticket price on the card just in case a movie theater suddenly raises the price. That way the MoviePass customer won’t get shut out of a movie they are allowed to see with the app.

“We’re trying to run a business, we offer a great service at an amazing value, and you have a small percentage of people who are taking advantage of us to the detriment of our customers who are enjoying the service,” Lowe told Business Insider.

Lowe pointed out that MoviePass even sent out a warning email a month ago to some of the customers who were part of the group of accounts terminated in the beginning of February. The warning said they had been violating the terms of service and if they continued to do so, their accounts would be canceled.

However, Lowe did admit that upon further review, MoviePass found not all of those accounts were terminated due to the fault of the customers. The aftermath has highlighted that MoviePass needs to have a better relationship with movie theaters and improve its customer service.

Making inroads with movie theaters and winning back customers

A majority of the MoviePass customers who contacted Business Insider had similar theories for why their accounts were flagged: They all bought tickets at the box office (rather than a kiosk) and a theater staff member did not know how to properly run the transaction.

This has occurred in numerous ways. One example given was the box office combining the charge of the MoviePass subscriber and non-MoviePass patron with them, causing the MoviePass subscriber’s account to look like it went over its allowed total. Another was a situation when the theater’s box office was also the concession stand, and the theater staff combined both the MoviePass charge and the concession.

Some theaters that accept MoviePass have caught onto this happening and have taken steps to better educate their staff and patrons.

In fact, one customer sent Business Insider a photo of the sign their local theater has put up to help remind MoviePass customers how to correctly use it.

“I know for a fact theaters are taking advantage of the customer in this scenario,” Lowe said.

Lowe stressed that despite having a MoviePass subscription — which means with the service you get to see one movie a day per month — you should look at your theater receipt to make sure your charge is done properly by your theater.

And to help theaters better understand how to accommodate MoviePass subscribers, Lowe said he'd hired on four additional staff members to MoviePass' movie theater relations team. He also said MoviePass would have a presence at April’s CinemaCon, the annual movie theater convention, in hopes of improving its relationship with theater owners.

“We need to do a good job in better communicating to the exhibitor community so they can help us help their customers,” Lowe said.

But what happens if a MoviePass subscriber realizes they were overcharged? What are they supposed to do so MoviePass doesn’t terminate their account?

The logical answer would be to call MoviePass customer service, but since the app changed its price plan to $10 a month, its customer service has been overwhelmed by new subscribers. If you take a glance at the MoviePass social media accounts, you will notice they are flooded with complaints from subscribers who can't get through to anyone in customer service.

However, Lowe is confident that is about to improve.

“We are not fulfilling quickly the customer service demand and a lot of that is because we were not working with the right provider nor had the right team in place,” he said. “And we have just recently put in a new leader in that group and brought in a new provider that is essentially starting this week. We’re making some big improvements.”

Lowe said the company’s revamp of its customer service includes having over 100 full-time customer service reps on the team.

“It’s definitely not something I’m proud of,” Lowe said of the customer service woes. “It’s just not been as easy as throwing bodies at it. It’s a combination of a lot of different things. But I feel very good about our new direction and its ability to create a much better experience for our customers.”

And it starts with reactivating the customers who had their accounts deleted but had legitimate excuses for charges larger than their allotted amount per-movie.

Lowe said that roughly 10% of the members terminated in early February have been reinstated.  

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• The 90th Academy Awards airs Sunday, March 4 at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.
• You can only stream the Oscars ceremony on ABC's website and app with a participating TV provider in a select list of markets, or through a subscription-based service.
• ABC's red-carpet coverage, which starts at 6:30 p.m. ET, will be available to stream for free.

The 90th Academy Awards airs Sunday, March 4 at 8 pm ET on ABC, with Jimmy Kimmel returning for the second year in a row as the ceremony's host. 

For those without access to a television set, the options for streaming the show online are limited.

The Oscars ceremony will be available to stream on ABC's website and app, but only with a participating TV provider in the following markets: Chicago, Fresno, Houston, Los Angeles, New York City, Philadelphia, Raleigh-Durham, and San Francisco. (DirecTV subscribers have a more extensive list of available markets.)

Additionally, subscription-based services like YouTube TV, Sling TV, and Playstation Vue will also stream the Oscars through ABC.

ABC's red-carpet coverage starts at 6:30 pm ET and is available for streaming for free as "The Oscars: All Access," through ABC's website and app, and on Facebook Live.

E!'s red-carpet coverage starts at 5 pm ET and will be available to stream on the E! website with a cable login.

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• In the wake of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on February 14, President Trump resurfaced the ongoing debate over violent video games.
• "The level of violence on video games is really shaping young people's thoughts," Trump said last week. On Thursday, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced an upcoming meeting with game industry executives.
• The argument that violent video games cause gun violence is contradicted by one major piece of evidence: The same games are sold around the world, yet gun violence is far more prevalent in the United States.

On February 14, yet another school shooting happened in the United States.

At Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, a 19-year-old gunman killed 17 students and staff members with a legally purchased AR-15 rifle. Survivors of that tragedy have become activists, helping to rekindle and fuel an ongoing push for gun control.

And that push has spurred lawmakers to act.

President Trump has met with members of Congress since February 14 in an attempt to set an agenda on gun control legislation. Trump even stunned some Republican members of Congress in a recent meeting, pushing for Democrats and Republicans to work together on issues like restricting "military-style" weapons.

But Trump has also suggested that the influence of violent media is to blame for the ongoing issue of gun violence in the US. "The level of violence on video games is really shaping young people's thoughts," he said in a meeting last week. "And then you go the further step, and that's the movies."

Trump is suggesting that violent video games and films are at least partly responsible for the rise and persistence of gun violence in the US.

It's an argument that dates back to the Columbine High School shooting in 1999.

The two Columbine High School gunmen were active "Doom" players. Since the game primarily focuses on shooting a gun — at demons, in outer space — commentators suggested that the gunmen had trained for the real-life shooting by playing "Doom." The game featured a gun as the main point of interaction and perspective — the "first-person shooter" was a relatively new concept in video games back in 1999 — and thus arose suspicion.

If these teenage gunmen were playing this game, and capable of committing such a horrific act, what did that mean for all the other kids playing these games?

But there's a simple reason why that doesn't make much sense: "The same video games played in the US are played worldwide; however, the level of gun violence is exponentially higher in the US than in other countries."

That's according to the Entertainment Software Association, the group that represents major video game industry stakeholders like Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, Activision, EA, and others. It's not surprising that the trade group representing the video game industry feels this way — but it's a hard point to argue.

Though first-person shooter games like "Call of Duty," "Battlefield," and "Halo" are popular with American video game players, they're also popular all over the world. The game industry is a global market, with platforms like the PlayStation 4 that serve territories with extremely restrictive gun laws and territories with relatively lax gun laws.

Even though these games are played all over the world, the United States is a standout statistically in terms of gun violence. If violent games were causing violent behavior, it stands to reason that the connection would be more consistent around the world.

Whether or not it's good for children to be exposed to graphical violence in games, or theatrical violence in movies, isn't clear. It probably isn't. What is clear is that playing violent games and watching violent movies doesn't directly cause violent behavior. We have the evidence to prove it, and it's staring us right in the face.

SEE ALSO: The White House says Trump will meet with video game execs next week — but the games industry says it never got an invitation

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If you're anything like me, you've probably wondered how long you could hide from the real world in your virtual-reality (VR) headset, and questioned what would happen if you spent extended hours in the digital world. 

The easy answers are: not very long, and very unpleasant things, respectively.

The complicated answer is that everyone experiences VR differently, and not all VR headsets or platforms are created equal, so certain games on certain headsets on certain people are going to cause more problems than others. The makers of the most popular VR headsets, the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, recommend taking "at least a 10 to 15 minute break every 30 minutes, even if you don’t think you need it."

Here are a few things that can happen if you spend too much time in VR, and some hilarious videos to demonstrate:

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LOSS OF SPATIAL AWARENESS

In every guide to getting started with VR, step number one is always to make sure that the area around you is clear of any furniture, cables, animals, small children or other things you could trip on, run into, or knock over.

This is especially true for full-room VR experiences like those provided by the HTC Vive, but is equally important for those who are using a stationary or seated game.

Spending more than the recommended 30 minutes in VR will — in nearly every case — cause you to lose spatial awareness of the room around you. After 30 minutes, it is much more difficult to identify where things are in the physical world, from inside your headset.

Here's an example of what can go wrong when this happens:

DIZZINESS AND DISORIENTATION

Disorientation varies very widely among VR users. Those who are prone to motion sickness or vertigo are much more likely to experience uncomfortable disorientation while in VR, but the feeling can happen to anyone that hasn't taken a break in awhile. 

Games that involve flying, high-speed movement, heights and falling are known to cause extreme disorientation and should be avoided by anyone prone to this kind of reaction. 

Makers of VR headsets say that you should take off the equipment immediately if you feel dizzy at all, to avoid accidents like the one this guy had:

SEIZURES

Most makers of VR equipment don't recommend people with epileptic conditions or special sensitivities to rapidly changing light try the experience, but these symptoms can occur even if the user has never experienced a seizure before. 

According to the instructional booklet that comes with the Oculus Rift:

Some people (about 1 in 4000) may have severe dizziness, seizures, eye or muscle twitching or blackouts triggered by light flashes or patterns, and this may occur while they are watching TV, playing video games or experiencing virtual reality, even if they have never had a seizure or blackout before or have no history of seizures or epilepsy.

The likelihood of having a VR-induced seizure is compounded by the number of hours you spend in the headset without a break, so a good rule of thumb is to treat VR like playing a sport. Every so often, take a break for water, and catch your breath.

• The Gridiron Club and Foundation, a charitable journalistic organization, hosted its 133rd anniversary dinner at The Renaissance Washington Hotel on Saturday.
• President Donald Trump gave a joke-filled speech to members of the press and many top members of his administration who were in attendance.
• Here are the best jokes from Trump's speech, according to the White House pool report compiled by Yahoo News correspondent Hunter Walker.

Trump on the slew of news and scandals: "Another calm week at the White House. ... We finally have it running like a fine-tuned machine."

On senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner losing his security clearance: Trump said he was late to the dinner "because Jared couldn't get through security. ... Ivanka, you've got to do something!"

On Pence being a good "straight man": "He is straight!" Pence begins every day asking, "Is he impeached yet?"

On Attorney General Jeff Sessions: "I offered him a ride over and he recused himself."

On former White House strategist Steve Bannon: CNN lost its "very best reporter. ... That guy leaked more than the Titanic."

On former aide Omarosa Manigault: People say, "somehow you're still doing great without Omarosa. ... Omarosa, you're the worst!"

On White House turnover: It's "exciting and invigorating. ... I like turnover. I like chaos. It really is good."

On who will leave the White House next: "Steve Miller or Melania?"

On the #FreeMelania hashtag about first lady Melania Trump: "She's actually having a great time."

On House minority leader Nancy Pelosi: "Man, she's crazy, but she's a fine woman."

On former Vice President Joe Biden's potential 2020 bid: "I would kick his ass like no other. ... Man, would he be easy."

On the North Korean conflict: Secretary of state Rex Tillerson and I should smoke a "peace pipe" with the Koreans.

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• With an estimated $65.7 million this weekend, "Black Panther easily wins the box office for third-straight weekend.
• "Red Sparrow" came in second with $17 million, and "Death Wish" took third with $13 million.

"Black Panther" is box office king once again.

The latest Disney/Marvel sensation took in an estimated $65.7 million, according to boxofficepro, to win the weekend for a third consecutive weekend.

The movie has now earned over $500 million domestically, making it the second-highest grossing Marvel Cinematic Universe title ever, passing "Avengers: Age of Ultron" ($459 million) and behind "The Avengers" ($623.3 million).

Coming in second place was 20th Century Fox's $69-million racy spy drama "Red Sparrow," starring Jennifer Lawrence. The title took in $17 million, following luke-warm reviews and negativity directed at its sexually explicit scenes.

In third was MGM's $30-million "Death Wish," a reboot of the 1974 Charles Bronson hit about a father who seeks out vigilante justice. Starring Bruce Willis in the lead, the movie took in $13 million. This as the gun debate is at its peak following the horrific school shooting in Florida in February.

"Black Panther"'s box office thrown will get its greatest challenge next weekend when Disney releases Ava DuVernay's anticipated "A Wrinkle in Time." It will be interesting to see which comes out on top.

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• "Saturday Night Live" took on the latest White House news this week, from Hope Hicks' resignation to President Donald Trump's gun control plans.
• There was also an amusing skit about "The Grabbies" award show honoring sexual harassers.
• Charles Barkley was the host and Migos was the musical guest.

Hope Hicks (played by Cecily Strong) said goodbye on "Saturday Night Live" this week with a letter summarizing her "semester abroad at the White House."

Hicks resigned as White House communications director this week. During "Weekend Update", Strong-as-Hicks said the media had been "insanely nice" to her because her "hair and face are good."

After saying how exciting it was to work with "bad boys" at the White House, she read a statement she prepared saying goodbye to all her friends, from senior counselor Kellyanne Conway and President Donald "Donny" Trump to her "BFF" Ivanka Trump.

"To everyone else at the Trump White House, I'll see you guys at the reunion in 10 years — seven with good behavior," she said.

Trump on his wild week of gun control, tariffs, and turnover

In the cold open of the show, Alec Baldwin revived his Trump impression to speak from his bipartisan meeting with senators on gun control, saying he'd take everyone's guns away — "even the whites."

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, played by Strong, whooped next to him. "She hasn't been this excited since women were allowed to get jobs," he said.

Holding Vice President Mike Pence's hand to console him because he "hates" the proposal, Baldwin-as-Trump joked that Pence (played by Beck Bennett) worried it was a "gateway touch."

Echoing Trump's comments last week that he would have run into the Florida school to stop the shooter even if he didn't have a gun, Baldwin said the guy with a gun "wouldn't know what hit him" because he can run so fast.

"Bing bong ding dong dang — he's finished!" he said, adding, "I'd run to North Korea, again completely unarmed, I'd find Little Rocket Man — bing, bong, bang, bing, bing, boom ... I'd throw him right over the great wall of Korea!"

Baldwin-as-Trump lamented the loss of Hicks, saying his son-in-law and senior adviser "Jared Kushner's basically the hottest chick left in the place — and he's probably going to jail soon, so he's out."

Referring to the fictional land from the "Black Panther" movie, he said "Wakanda is laughing at us — they've got flying cars, people!"

Baldwin-as-Trump said he was going to run the country like a business, and "That business is a Waffle House at 2 a.m."

Finally, he said Jeff Sessions should resign, and Kate McKinnon appeared to play the embattled attorney general.

'The Grabbies' roasts Hollywood

The cast interviewed stars on the Red Carpet who were all up for the "coveted Grabby awards" honoring sexual misconduct.

"I'd like to thank guns for pivoting the national conversation away from harassment," one of the nominees, played by Pete Davidson, said. "I'd also like to thank my uncle for always saying, 'Boys will be boys,' even when it was like, OJ."

The skit skewered Hollywood for rampant sexual harassment on the eve of the Academy Awards.

Elsewhere on the episode, host Charles Barkley delivered a monologue about athletes getting political, Leslie Jones reported on her time at the Winter Olympics, and Barkley starred in a parody commercial about arming cockroaches with guns.

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• "Red Sparrow" director Francis Lawrence gave us insight on what he did to make his movie's star, Jennifer Lawrence, feel completely comfortable on a set that included a lot a nudity and sex scenes.
• He had a three-hour talk with Jennifer in her backyard after she agreed to do the movie.
• Though not done on purpose, shooting a nude scene the first day of shooting helped.

Director Francis Lawrence was wrapping up editing on “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2” when he was handed the book, “Red Sparrow.” For someone who had just spent the last five years making three movies in the globally successful YA franchise, the novel by Jason Matthews was a welcome sight. And he had a feeling the franchise’s star, Jennifer Lawrence, would be into it as well.

“I know for a fact she was starving to do different stuff,” Lawrence told Business insider of Jennifer’s need to take on roles that were very different from Katniss Everdeen at the time they wrapped the “Hunger Games” movies.

He instantly called Lawrence and pitched her the idea of playing the character in the book that grabbed him the most, Dominika. A young Russian ballerina who after an injury — and scared she will lose the financial support of the Kremlin to take care of her ailing mother — agrees to become a “Sparrow,” part of a Russian intelligence service in which agents use their sexuality to accomplish missions.

Jennifer was intrigued and Francis got 20th Century Fox involved, which fast-tracked a script. But as the script for “Red Sparrow” was being written, Lawrence admits he was convinced something was going to go wrong.

“She wasn’t going to want to do the movie once she read it because of the content,” he thought.

In 2014, Jennifer Lawrence’s phone was hacked and nude photos of the actress leaked online. She said afterward that it was an experience that “was so unbelievably violating that you can't even put into words.” After going through something like that, would she be comfortable doing a movie where her character endures violent sexual encounters and in one scene is completely nude?

Not being shy about addressing nudity

Around March of 2016, the actress read the script and contacted Lawrence to tell him she wanted to do the movie. Without hesitation he drove to her house to talk. But it wasn’t because the director wanted to dive in on discussions about the character. He wanted to be very open with his star about the sexually graphic nature of the role.

Lawrence said he sat and talked to the actress for three hours in her backyard about what the role entailed and gave her a step-by-step game plan of how he would shoot these sensitive scenes.

“I said, ‘Let’s just start being frank right away about the content of the movie,’” Lawrence said. “Because it's easy to get shy about it and next thing you know you're on the day of a tough scene and she's nervous and we haven't really talked about it. I didn't want it to happen. I didn't want to walk on egg shells or her to be walking on egg shells, and I wanted a partner that was going to think about the scenes with me. She felt ownership of it and she collaborated and made sure that those kind of scenes always were truly married to the fabric of the narrative and character and tone.”

He also made her a promise: She would see the finished movie before the studio or producers and could take out any scenes that made her uncomfortable.

“The studio and producers wouldn’t ever get the dailies until we saw them, there was a system in place,” Lawrence said. “We showed Jen, she did not nix anything, and then I showed the producers and studio.”

Feeling protected on set

After working on three movies with Jennifer Lawrence, Francis had come to realize that the Oscar winner was unlike many of the greats when it came to how she performed. Many in her caliber are most comfortable with lots of discussions with their director before (and during) shooting about the character and scenes. The director was shocked to learn she was nothing like that when he first directed her on “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.”

“I assumed, like most great actors, she would want to do a lot of discussion and go through the script,” Lawrence said. “I remember she went to me, ‘Well, I'll do that if you want me to.’ And I said, ‘What?’ And she said, "Yeah, I mean, I don't really like to rehearse, I feel kind of stupid rehearsing, but I will if you really want me to.’ She was just the opposite of any other actor I have ever worked with in that sense.”

So for shooting “Red Sparrow,” Lawrence knew all he had to do was give his star some general direction and then let her shine when the cameras rolled. But her unique style is partly why Lawrence wanted to make sure she would be fully protected on set. He didn’t want her performance to feel constrained or timid.

Lawrence believes because the first scene they shot for the movie had nudity in it, which he said was not planned, Jennifer was able to instantly be comfortable with the movie’s tone because she saw firsthand how it was handled.

The scene (mild spoiler head) shows Dominika as she follows her old ballerina dance partner and his girlfriend into a steam room and attacks them (payback for the injury they caused to Dominika that ended her career) while they are nude and having sex.

“She saw how we approached it — even though we had talked about it — how we actually physically approached shooting a scene where there's nudity,” Lawrence said. “The actors were basically entirely naked for the bulk of the day. She saw that everyone was really respectful, she saw that the crew in the room was down to the bare minimum, she saw that we put the video monitors in a tent so that people couldn't gather around, she saw people standing just off camera with robes so they could get thrown on the actors right away. She saw how comfortable the actors were doing that scene, I think that was the biggest thing, seeing the comfort of the actors.”

As the movie progresses Jennifer has a nude scene along with doing numerous sexually graphic scenes, including one sequence when she fights off a rape attempt while taking a shower.

You’re either comfortable in your own skin or you’re not

Jennifer Lawrence has said while doing press for “Red Sparrow” that the movie’s sexual tone made her feel “empowered.”

"I feel like something that was taken from me I got back,” she told “60 Minutes.” And Francis believes this was the kind of project the star needed after going through the leaked nude photos experience. But the director wasn’t going to push, she had to be willing.

“That’s how I was when I gave her the script,” he said. “There was no convincing, she just had to make the decision all on her own. I feel as an actor, whether you’re a man or a woman, if there’s nudity in the role it’s a choice you make — I’m comfortable in my own skin, I’m in; or I’m uncomfortable and I’m out — but I think that Jen would probably say that she found this to be a more moving experience for her.”

"Red Sparrow" opens in theaters on Friday.

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With the Academy Awards being handed out on Sunday, all of Hollywood will converge for the industry's biggest night to celebrate the best work of last year. But are they really?

There's a handful of movies that didn't get a single Oscar nomination and it's kind of criminal that the Academy didn't recognize them.

So the least we can do is give them a shout out.

From "Wonder Woman" to "The Lost City of Z," here are 10 movies that should have received Oscar nominations.

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"Battle of the Sexes"

A look at the legendary tennis match between Bobby Riggs and Billie Jean King earned acting nominations for Steve Carell and Emma Stone at the Golden Globes, but when it came Oscar time both were snubbed — which I honestly don't have a problem with.

But the movie should have received a nod in the production design and/or editing category.

Its authentic early 1970s look was spot on and throughout its editing telling the journey of Riggs and King leading up to their big match was perfect. And the way the finale was cut is fantastic. Tennis is a tough sport to portray correctly on screen, and editor Pamela Martin cut the match sequence better than most ever have. 

"Girls Trip"

There's always one actor that everyone gets behind for an Oscar nom and when it doesn't happen the shock just elevates that actor's exposure, and Tiffany Haddish is the latest example.

The "Girls Trip" standout star has gone from obscurity to a pop culture household name. She's hosted "Saturday Night Live" and Paul Thomas Anderson wants to work with her. Yes, it's a bummer she didn't get the Oscar nomination, but we think she's going to be just fine.

"Good Time"

The Safdie brothers' gritty heist-gone-wrong movie showed the mainstream what this duo had been doing in the low budget world for years — and just how great Robert Pattinson is — but where the movie should have found Oscar love is on its music side.

Daniel Lopatin's (aka Oneohtrix Point Never) trippy score matches the movie's fast-paced movement and sucks you in deeper to Connie's crazy night.

• Taraji P. Henson is one of the few Hollywood stars interviewed by Ryan Seacrest on the Oscars red carpet to take a dig at him following the sexual misconduct allegations against him.
• The actress told him, "The universe has a way of taking care of the good people," then flicked his chin.

Ryan Seacrest did his usual red carpet coverage of the Oscars on Sunday for E!, but there was some controversy over that decision this year, as sexual misconduct allegations are hanging over his head.

Seacrest was on the red carpet starting at 5 p.m. ET interviewing stars and getting big names like Oscar nominees Allison Janney and Mary J. Blige to come and talk to him. But he wasn't able to escape some shade from Taraji P. Henson.

While being interviewed by Seacrest, the actress answered a question by saying, "You know what, the universe has a way of taking care of the good people, you know what I mean?" Then she flicked his chin. While she wasn't overtly mentioning the allegations against Seacrest, her look and tone clearly conveyed what she was talking about.

Seacrest answered by saying, "I agree."

The little dig is certain to make headlines as so far Henson is the only star to seemingly address the accusations against Seacrest.

Before Seacrest went on air Sunday on the Oscars red carpet, a report surfaced that E! would be on a 30-second delay to make sure to catch anything shocking that could be said to Seacrest. However, a network spokesperson denied the report, and said it was "business as usual."

Here are some of the reactions to Henson's comment on Twitter:

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• It's Oscars tradition that the winner for best actor the year before presents the best actress award.
• But in January, Casey Affleck withdrew from presenting the best actress award at the 2018 Oscars.
• Affleck has been accused of sexual harassment, and likely withdrew due to the #MeToo movement.

Casey Affleck is not presenting the award for best actress at the 2018 Oscars ceremony Sunday night, breaking a long tradition. Instead, Jodie Foster and Jennifer Lawrence will present the award. 

Affleck, who won the Oscar for best actor last year for his role in "Manchester by the Sea," was accused of sexual harassment on the set of the 2010 film "I'm Still Here." He likely withdrew from the ceremony as a result of the #MeToo movement.

An Academy spokesman confirmed the report of Affleck's withdrawal to Business Insider in January: "We appreciate the decision to keep the focus on the show and on the great work of this year." A representative for Casey Affleck did not respond to a request for comment.  

In 2010, two women who worked on "I'm Still Here," which Affleck directed, sued him alleging sexual harassment. The women claimed that Affleck crept into one of their beds, routinely demeaned them, and encouraged the movie's crew to harass them as well. Affleck denied the allegations and threatened to counter-sue, before eventually settling, according to The Daily Beast.

In an interview with the Boston Globe after his Oscar win in 2017, Affleck said those involved in the lawsuits, including himself, were barred from commenting on them, and that the public didn't know the full details of the cases.

"I believe that any kind of mistreatment of anyone for any reason is unacceptable and abhorrent," Affleck said. "And everyone deserves to be treated with respect in the workplace and anywhere else. There’s really nothing I can do about it, other than live my life the way I know I live it and to speak to what my own values are and how I try to live by them all the time."

It is an Oscars tradition that the best actor for the previous year hands out the award to the new best actress winner.

At the 2017 ceremony, Brie Larson, who won the best actress Oscar in 2016 for her role in "Room," announced and handed out the award to Affleck. Judging by the look on her face when she announced he was the winner, she was not happy. Larson did not clap for Affleck, which she told Vanity Fair was intentional. 

"I think that whatever it was that I did onstage kind of spoke for itself," Larson said. "I've said all that I need to say about that topic."

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Hollywood had its biggest night of the year Sunday, with the 90th Academy Awards ceremony, and the top awards of the night went to the expected winners.

Guillermo del Toro took home the Oscar for directing "The Shape of Water," Gary Oldman won best actor for his portrayal of Winston Churchill in "Darkest Hour," and Frances McDormand won best actress for her role in "Three Billboards."

Best picture went to "The Shape of Water."

The first winner of the night was Sam Rockwell, who won best supporting actor for his role as a corrupt cop in "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri."

The next major Oscar of the night went to Allison Janney for her role as ice skater Tonya Harding's mother in the biographical comedy "I, Tonya."

"Call Me by Your Name" won best adapted screenplay for writer James Ivory, and Jordan Peele won best original screenplay for "Get Out." After 14 nominations, legendary cinematographer Roger Deakins finally won an Oscar for his work on "Blade Runner 2049," despite "Dunkirk" being the favorite to win the award. 

Below are all the Oscar winners, which we'll update live as the show goes on:

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Best Supporting Actor

Willem Dafoe, “The Florida Project”
Woody Harrelson, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”
Richard Jenkins, “The Shape of Water”
Christopher Plummer, “All the Money in the World”
Sam Rockwell, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” - WINNER

Makeup and Hair

“Darkest Hour,” Kazuhiro Tsuji, David Malinowski, Lucy Sibbick - WINNER
“Victoria and Abdul,” Daniel Phillips and Lou Sheppard
“Wonder,” Arjen Tuiten

Costume Design

“Beauty and the Beast,” Jacqueline Durran
“Darkest Hour,” Jacqueline Durran
“Phantom Thread,” Mark Bridges - WINNER
“The Shape of Water,” Luis Sequeira
“Victoria and Abdul,” Consolata Boyle