Warning: Spoilers below if you haven't seen "Deadpool 2."

• "Deadpool 2" screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick believe the time-travel aspect will be used sparingly in the franchise.
• But it could potentially help to further the storylines of fringe characters who were introduced in the movie.

With Cable showing up in "Deadpool 2," it doesn't just mean the franchise is one step closer to having a real X-Force movie (as opposed to the one attempted in the sequel), but also that there are limitless possibilities due to the time-travel device he's brought along with him from the future.

Cable (played by Josh Brolin) is a soldier from the future who, thanks to time travel, returns to the present day to try and kill a young mutant named Russell (Julian Dennison) who killed his family. But things change when he comes across the Merc with a Mouth. By the end of the movie, Russell lives, Cable decides to not go back to the future, and Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) borrows the device to time travel at the end of the movie and fix a few things — like save his girl Vanessa (Morena Baccarin) and kill Ryan Reynolds before he can make "Green Lantern."

And now with the time-travel option, screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick are given endless possibilities for the franchise going forward. Are the mutants that Deadpool brought together to form X-Force in the movie really dead? And what else could Deadpool do with the device? Could he stop Charles Xavier from becoming a paraplegic? That one is probably not likely. However, there are a lot of places the franchise can go now.

Currently, it's a good way to calm down people who got a little overexcited about the X-Force gag in "Deadpool 2," like Deadpool comic creator Rob Liefeld.

"We told Rob, 'There's this time machine that allows us to go back and resurrect anybody,'" Reese said. "We told him just imagine that Shatterstar got resurrected at the end of the movie but we didn't show it."  

The screenwriters told Business Insider that at the moment, time travel isn't planned to be a major part of the "Deadpool" movies going forward, but that doesn't mean it won't work for the other characters we saw, maybe only for a brief time, in the sequel.

"The way they are fooling with time, there's always ways to bring me back," Terry Crews, who plays Bedlam in "Deadpool 2," pointed out to Business Insider.

And hey, we know for sure X-Force member Peter is coming back!

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• Netflix is dominating its competition in consumer perception of original programming, according to new research from Morgan Stanley.
• 39% of respondents in a Morgan Stanley survey said that Netflix had the "best original programming" — more than double HBO's second-place tally of 14%.
• The subscriber count for HBO's premium streaming service is surging, however.
• HBO Now is projected to rapidly expand its lead in domestic subscribers among premium OTT services by the end of 2018.

Netflix's original programming is blowing away its competition in the eyes of consumers, but the subscriber count for HBO's streaming service is surging, according to new research from Morgan Stanley and Alphawise. 

Netflix will spend an estimated $8 billion on content this year. An increasing percentage of those funds will go toward the production of original shows and movies (with over 1,000 originals projected this year), as Netflix moves away from licensing content from studios like Disney, which is slated to debut a Netflix competitor in 2019.

And Netflix's massive investment in its "Netflix Originals" appears to be increasingly paying off, as favorability for the service's original programming has grown in each year of Morgan Stanley's annual survey. 

In the firm's 2018 survey, 39% of respondents said Netflix had the "best original programming" among all subscription services, a 6% rise from 33% last year.

Netflix's figure more than doubled HBO, which came in second place this year with 14% of respondents, roughly the same figure it posted in 2017. Amazon Prime (5%), Hulu (4%), Showtime (3%), and Starz (2%) followed. 32% of survey respondents answered "Don't know," while Cinemax, Encore, Epix, and "Other" rounded out the survey with 1% or less each.

Morgan Stanley wrote that the second season of Netflix's "Stranger Things," released in October 2017, was likely the "largest driver" of Netflix's increase in favorability for this year's survey.

The firm also projects a rapid expansion in the reach of HBO's premium streaming service, HBO Now, which is expected to build on its lead among "over-the-top" (OTT) services from traditional media outlets. 

By the end of the year, HBO Now is projected to reach 7 million US subscribers — more than double the 3.1 million subscribers that Showtime and CBS All Access are projected to reach in 2018. 

Overall, HBO's cable and premium subscriptions reached a count of nearly 38 million US subscribers at the end of 2017, while Netflix reached nearly 53 million domestic subscribers, according to Morgan Stanley.

But it's not an "either/or" situation for the two entertainment giants. Morgan Stanley notes that 53% of Netflix subscribers in 2018 are also subscribed to at least one premium network, with many holding an HBO subscription.

HBO Now's rapid growth in 2017 led a massive increase in OTT premium subscribers across all providers. Total OTT premium subscribers hit 10 million last year, which more than doubled 2016's year-end count.

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• Gaming phenomenon Fortnite just received $100 million in prize pool money from Epic Games to fuel its venture into competitive gaming.
• The sum is a large one for the world of eSports.

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Fortnite, the largest and most popular free-to-play game in the world right now, just got $100 million in prize pool money to venture into eSports.

The investment made by Epic Games, the developer behind Fortnite, means that $100 million will fund the prize pools for Fortnite competitions, which will kick off later this year. As far as competitive gaming goes, that prize pool is a large one. But it makes sense for a gaming phenomenon that rakes in $223 million a month, according to SuperData.

In a blog post on the Epic Games website, the Fortnite Team wrote, "We're getting behind competitive play in a big way, but our approach will be different — we plan to be more inclusive, and focused on the joy of playing and watching the game."

With Fortnite's already wild success, along with such a large sum for prize money, the game will likely prove to be a big player in eSports.

Besides Fortnite's flashy new prize pool, the largest sum provided for competitive gaming prizes is DotA 2's eSports tournament, The International, which had a comfortable $23 million pool last year according to ESPN.

Fortnite's Battle Royale mode currently has about 45 million people playing across a wide range of devices, including PlayStation 4, Xbox, PCs and Macs, and iPhones. It's coming to Android phones later this summer. It's also completely free.  

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• Google deserves a lot of praise for creating YouTube TV and Apple deserves criticism for failing to launch similar service first, according to analysts with AllianceBernstein.
• Not only is YouTube TV cheaper than cable TV, the service is also better, according to the analysts. 
• Apple reportedly sought for years to create a service that competed with cable TV but now must watch a top rival get to market first.

YouTube is doing to TV what should have been done — and could have been done by Apple — awhile ago, according to Toni Sacconaghi Jr. and Corry Wang of research firm AllianceBernstein.

On Monday, the analysts released a witty and persuasive report applauding YouTube TV, Google’s challenger to cable television, for creating the kind of simplified and inexpensive service that viewers have long sought. One of their main conclusions though is that Apple positioned itself years ago to beat Google to market — Apple’s cofounder Steve Jobs promised not long before his death in 2011 that the company was near to remaking the TV experience. But while Apple sat idle, Google leapt ahead.

“In 2015, the Wall Street Journal reported that Apple planned to offer a streaming TV service with 25 channels for $30 to $40 month,” the analysts wrote. “But it's now 2018... and we're still waiting.”

Analysts and technologists have long said that TV and film were ripe for a takedown, the same kind of disruption that blew up the music and newspaper sectors. Netflix has certainly shook up Hollywood, but when it came to TV, especially cable TV, the tech guys moved slowly.

Now here comes YouTube TV: The service represents a major step forward, says Sacconaghi. YouTube TV debuted in February 2017 and over time has acquired all the top TV networks and many of the largest cable news and entertainment channels, including CNBC, CNN, AMC and FX. When it comes to sports, YouTube TV features ESPN, the MLB Network and NBC Sports.  

Sacconaghi based some of his research on his own cord-cutting habits and YouTube TV subscription. He argues that YouTube TV now offers as many channels as some cable providers. According to him, YouTube TV wins in any kind of bang-for-the-buck contest.

In the past, the Sacconaghi monthly family cable bill totaled $250, but by going with YouTube TV, he nearly halved that cost.

He now pays $35 a month for YouTube TV, as he signed up before the price rose to $40. On top of that, he pays the $100 that his cable provider charged him for unbundled phone and Internet service. His monthly bill now totals $135.

“YouTube TV remains a shockingly good deal,” the analyst wrote. “And remember, this is with no yearly contract, and no hidden fees.”

The cost savings are only part of the story. Sacconaghi says “we believe this sort of hand-wringing over channel availability and price ultimately misses the point... the fact of the matter is that YouTube TV is not merely cheaper than cable TV, but it is also better.”

The cable companies have tried to respond and close the gap and Sacconaghi gives them some credit for this.  Sacconaghi’s provider, Optimum, now offers to stream video to customers' iPhones and iPads. But he said there is typically one big snag with these offers.

“Cable companies are not tech companies,” he wrote. “Their apps never work quite right. The user interfaces lag. The streams don't buffer properly. Cloud recordings mysteriously fail to record.”

The analyst sizes it up this way: “Once you switch to YouTube TV... everything finally works like it should.”

Finally, the report turns to Apple.

Anyone following tech remembers that Apple once sought to do to the TV what the company did to the Sony Walkman and mobile phones. Shortly before he died, Steve Jobs, Apple’s cofounder, cryptically boasted that he had “finally cracked” the TV experience.

And lots of people thought that Apple had the ability to lure away cable customers. Sacconaghi recalled all the times, going back to 2007, that experts clamored for Apple to develop a cable box, as well as news reports indicating Apple planned to compete for cable viewers. 

Yet, Apple continues to sit it out. 

As for why Apple managers dragged their feet, Sacconaghi says it doesn’t matter. He says whether Apple concluded a subscription TV business wouldn’t be profitable enough, or that it balked at releasing a service without enough of the big cable channels, they erred.

The suggestion is that kind of perfectionism is good when building consumer hardware, but bad for creating consumer services.

“YouTube TV was not hardware,” Sacconaghi wrote. “It was a service, and that meant it could be remotely updated, iterated upon, and constantly improved. And that's exactly what Google did... so now they have the lead. The takeaway here? If Apple truly wishes to become a ‘services’ company someday, it might have to think differently about its product design philosophy and culture."

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• Former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama have signed a multiyear deal with Netflix to produce original shows.
• The conservative backlash on social media has already begun.
• Some are threatening to cancel their Netflix subscriptions over the news.
• It's not the first time: In March, many conservatives were outraged when former UN Ambassador Susan Rice joined Netflix's board of directors.

Former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama have signed a deal with Netflix to produce original TV shows and movies, and the conservative backlash against the streaming service has already started.

Though Obama associates have said it's unlikely for the Netflix programs to be overtly partisan, there are still plenty of people on social media voicing their displeasure with the news — some threatening to cancel their Netflix subscription.

It's not the first time Netflix has faced conservative backlash. In March, Obama-era UN Ambassador Susan Rice joined the Netflix board of directors. Some subscribers were outraged because of inaccurate statements Rice made in 2012 after the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has also been critical of President Donald Trump in the past. During the 2016 presidential campaign, Hastings endorsed Hillary Clinton and said "Trump would destroy much of what is great about America."

"Hillary Clinton is the strong leader we need, and it's important that Trump lose by a landslide to reject what he stands for," Hastings said at the time.

Netflix tweeted on Monday that the Obamas "entered into a multi-year agreement to produce films and series for Netflix, potentially including scripted series, unscripted series, docu-series, documentaries, and features."

Below are some examples of backlash to the news on Twitter:

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• 42-year-old Adam Breeden has been the brains behind popular venues like All Star Lanes, Bounce, and Flight Club.
• The 'social entertainment' venues have changed going out culture in London and across the UK — and they're making their way to the US.
• Under the umbrella of his company Social Entertainment Ventures, Breeden's next launch will be a £6 million digital mini golf venue created alongside the co-founders of Topgolf, and he also plans to launch a bingo venue.
• He told Business Insider how he went from a dishwasher to the founder of some of nightlife's most innovative concepts.

Adam Breeden's first job in the hospitality world involved cleaning dirty plates at a restaurant — and he loved it so much it inspired the rest of his career.

Along with his love of meditation, it was his ability to embrace the restaurant industry's crazy, ever changing culture that has led to his current success.

Now the 42-year-old cofounder of holding company Social Entertainment Ventures, Breeden has been the brains behind some of London's most popular going-out spots, such as the bowling venue All Star Lanes, Bounce ping pong, and the Flight Club darts bar — and he's not stopping there.

Born in Hertfordshire, Breeden told Business Insider: "My mum was a cookery writer, and it gave me quite a lot of inspiration in terms of the culinary arts."

In school, he said he excelled at "anything creative" — and he knew he wanted to open a restaurant.

"I couldn't think of anything more creative than an all-sensory experience," he said. "I announced it to my parents at the time, and they said, 'Why would you want to do that? You're only 16.'"

The first step towards his goal was a job as a dishwasher while he was studying at the University of Newcastle. "I absolutely loved it," he said. "Chefs shouting at eachother, customers coming in... I was only allowed to clean the dirt off the plates, but I realised this is what I've got to do."

As part of his International Business degree, he spent a year studying in Paris. He also worked at Publicis on their "largest account" and was offered a job at the end of it — but turned it down.

Launching London's 'Bar of the Year'

Instead, in 2002, and Breeden and his brother Charles launched The Lonsdale cocktail bar in Notting Hill.

"It was an overnight success," he said. "We won Time Out Bar of the Year, which was like winning the Oscars at the time in the industry."

He added: "The degree didn't teach me much at all in terms of what it's like to launch your own business. It's like riding a rollercoaster naked with lightning going off at the same time."

The brothers became well-known in the cocktail industry, and managed to recruit "half of the best mixologists in London."

Making bowling cool again

Things took a turn when, a few years later, Breeden was introduced to Mark von Westenholz, who had an idea to "take bowling and make it cool again."

He said that at the time, all bars and restaurants were "versions of the same thing."

"We had the idea for All Star Lanes— bringing the West London Notting Hill premium cocktail experience and high heels glamour to bowling," he said. "We thought cocktails, a bite to eat, and something fun to do had to be more compelling."

All Star Lanes opened in London's Holborn in 2006, boasting bowling lanes, a cocktail bar, and a restaurant. Luckily, customers loved the idea — and Breeden said they also got a lot of corporate interest.

"Within the first three to four months of trading we almost broke the operation, it was so busy," he said.

Breeden is no longer involved in the business, but says it's still "going from strength to strength." It now has four London locations, as well as one in Manchester.

"I stepped down when I had more inspiration to do other things," he said — the first of which was Bounce, a ping pong venue.

A social ping pong club

Breeden's co-founder Dov Penzik, an entrepreneur and previous table tennis player, came to him with the idea, which seemed a bit crazy to Breeden at first.

However, he said the pair developed the concept to ensure it would be a "fantastic venue" even without the tennis tables.

"The business was really centering in on that question you have as a group — you want to do something, you don't want to hire a private dining room, you want people to have some fun and do something interesting," he said.

"There was such a shortage of places to do that."

They opened Bounce in 2012 in Farringdon — on the site where ping pong was founded by John Jacques III in 1901 — and were quickly surprised by how much people love ping pong. They opened a second venue in Old Street in 2015, which became profitable in its first month.

Calling itself "Europe's largest purpose built 'Social Ping Pong Club,'" aside from table tennis, Bounce also boasts a cocktail bar and pizza restaurant."

"We went straight to the US and opened in Chicago under the brand AceBounce two years ago," Breedem said, adding that the venue is performing "absolutely fantastically" with plans to roll out across the US.

But Breeden didn't stop there.

"I thought, if you can do it with ping pong, you can do it with other sport," he said.

Making darts digital

He began talking to Steve Moore and Paul Barhan about building a social entertainment venue revolving around darts.

"We needed something else to make it a fun and easy group experience, so the guys went off and nailed what is now trademarked as social darts," he said.

Flight Club opened in 2015 in Shoreditch, with a second location in Bloomsbury in 2017. It offers darts "ochres" or areas with boards that use digital scoring and non-traditional gaming options — as well as instant video replay.

Flight Club is not only rolling out across the UK — where it operates as a separate business to the other brands under the Social Entertainment Ventures holding company umbrella — but also across the US, again starting with Chicago.

While Breeden still sits on the board, his focus is on the concepts that lie under the Social Entertainment Ventures umbrella — Bounce, Flight Club USA, and his two latest ventures, Puttshack and Hijingo.

'The world's finest mini golf experience'

Puttshack, a £6 million investment which opens in London's Westfield Shepherd's Bush shopping centre in June, was inspired the technology created by co-founders Steve and Dave Jolliffe of Topgolf, which, with more than 40 sites, is a US phenomenon according to Breeden.

"It was arguably the first social entertainment concept," he said, explaining that the technology automatically scores the game for you. "It predates All Star Lanes by three years."

The Jolliffe brothers have helped Puttshack bring that same technology to mini golf. Breeden says you'll walk through the door, be greeted by screens where you'll punch yourself in and select a tee-time and restaurant booking, be allocated a course, and receive your ball from a dispenser.

The experience will involve animation reflective the game play and score, sound effects, and cameras around the course which will film you and send you video of your best shots.

"I believe it to be the world's finest mini golf experience," he said, adding that the company plans to launch a second venue in the No 1 Poultry Building, another as part of the extension of the intu Lakeside shopping centre in Essex, and four more across the UK a year later.

"That's not including the US," he added, where he expects to roll out Puttshack in 2019

While details are minimal, his next venture will take on bingo, infusing "technology and traditional number play to unlock a ground-breaking twist on bingo like never before," according to the company.

Breeden has partnered with Rebel Bingo creator James Gordon to launch Hijingo in the UK, with plans to launch three venues within its first 12 months in major UK cities, including London.

London is 'way ahead of the rest of the world'

While Bounce, Flight Club, and Putthack are all heading Stateside, Breeden said that London is "way ahead of the rest of the world when it comes to social entertainment."

"Without question the space is exploding," Breeden said. "We've seen a number of other people do different concepts, whether it involves table football, arcades, or other mini gold experiences, or copy cats of Bounce up and down the country."

He added: "You'd ordinarily expect these things to come from the US... London is spearheading the charge."

He believes the same applies to the restaurant scene in general.

"I honestly think London trumps New York now in terms of the restaurant scene," he said.

Using meditation to stay creative

With so many concepts in his past, present, and future, Breeden certainly knows he has to keep the momentum going to be successful — but he also knows how important it is to take the time to slow down.

"I meditate every morning," he said. "Without that I don't think I would have the space in my brain to be creative."

He also recently brought a CEO on board to run Social Entertainment Ventures so he can keep that creativity going.

"My role is creating new concepts, continuing to innovate," he said. "If you're not moving, you're going backwards, particularly in the restaurant business."

He added that his role has been a lucky one in many ways, and emerging younger generations have made it a "fascinating time" to be in the business.

"In the past, when you were young, you drank in order to make friends and meet a love interest," he said. "Now, we have the internet for that.

"Younger generations aren't turning to alcohol to fulfill their social needs and desires... You have to work harder to make things more interesting."

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• Kensington Palace, next to London's Hyde Park, is home to 15 high-ranking royals.
• Prince William, Kate Middleton, and their three children share a grand 20-room apartment that spans four storeys.
• Prince Harry and Meghan Markle live in a cottage on the palace grounds, which is where Harry proposed. It's now their marital home.
• Princess Eugenie and her fiancé, Jack Brooksbank, recently moved in as well.
• Six senior royals of the same generation of Queen Elizabeth II also have rooms there.
• The queen and Prince Philip live in Buckingham Palace, about 2 miles away.

With a royal birth, a royal wedding, and another royal wedding to come, 2018 is shaping up to be a year of massive change for Britain's royal family.

And the royal property that's ringing in the changes more than any other is undoubtedly the historic Kensington Palace in London, which is now home to 15 members of the royal family, spanning three generations.

The palace, a royal residence since the 1600s, has taken on three new arrivals this spring, making it easily the most bustling of the royal family's many grand homes.

Within its grounds are a host of separate properties, ranging from relatively humble cottages, to a grand 20-room apartment occupied by Prince William, Kate Middleton, and their young family.

As well as royal living quarters, which tend to be relatively sedately decorated, it is also home to lavish state rooms used for grand occasions, like this one:

Here's a breakdown of who's who, and where they live in Kensington Palace:

Prince William, Kate Middleton, Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis: Apartment 1A

William, Kate, and their children are not only the largest group of royals in Kensington Palace but the closest to the throne.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, they have the best rooms going. The family of five occupies Apartment 1A, a collection of 20 stately rooms with a commanding view of Hyde Park.

They moved to Kensington Palace full time in October 2013, not long after their first child, Prince George, was born. Princess Charlotte followed in 2015, and Prince Louis in April 2018.

The public rarely get to see inside, but photographers were allowed to take photos of a reception room when William and Kate hosted the Obamas in 2016:

We also saw another view (or maybe even another room) where Prince George played on a rocking horse before meeting the US president.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle: Nottingham Cottage

Significantly less grand is the two-bed cottage inhabited by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.

They lived there before they got married on May 19, and came back two days after the ceremony to make it their marital home.

The cottage, nicknamed "Nott Cott" and often described as "snug," has been Harry's home since 2013.

Meghan moved in just after their engagement was made public in November 2017. Harry proposed to Meghan when they were spending an evening together at Nottingham Cottage, surprising her while they were roasting a chicken.

After announcing their engagement, they gave an interview from the cottage, sitting on its sofa, which is one of the only times the public has seen inside:

Traditionally, royal couples have been given bigger residences after getting married, but it remains to be seen whether Harry will move.

Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank: Ivy Cottage

The newest royals at Kensington Palace are Princess Eugenie, who is William's and Harry's cousin, and her fiancé, Jack Brooksbank, a London socialite.

According to The Sun, the couple moved into a cottage right next to Harry and Meghan's about the same time Kate was in hospital delivering Prince Louis.

The couple announced their engagement in January, a few weeks after getting engaged while vacationing in Nicaragua.

They are getting married at Windsor Castle in the same chapel as Harry and Meghan this October, but the occasion is likely to attract much less publicity.

The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester: Apartment 1

The Duke of Gloucester, one of Queen Elizabeth II's cousins, lives in Apartment 1 with the Duchess of Gloucester, his wife.

Like William and Kate's home at 1A, the dwelling is a large complex of rooms in the main palace building. The two used to be one enormous set of rooms until they were divided in the 1950s.

The complex has 21 rooms, slightly pipping the size of William and Kate's, but few details are available other than its overall size.

Prince and Princess Michael of Kent: Apartment 10

Prince Michael of Kent, another of the queen's cousins but from a more junior line, lives in the main palace building with his wife.

She is known as Princess Michael in the old-fashioned tradition by which the wives of princes take their husband's name.

This same rule means that Kate can technically be referred to as Princess William of Cambridge, and Meghan as Princess Henry of Wales, but the name is not widely used.

Their apartment, No. 10, consists of five bedrooms and five receptions rooms. They used to have use of the property rent-free, but since 2008 they have been paying a reported£10,000 ($13,600) per month in rent.

The Duke and Duchess of Kent: Wren House

The Duke of Kent, Prince Michael's older brother, also lives in the Kensington Palace grounds with his wife, the Duchess.

Their home, Wren House, is named after the famous British architect Christopher Wren, who built St Paul's Cathedral and several properties for the royal household.

Few details about their home have ever been made public. It is physically between Ivy and Nottingham cottages and appears to be of a similar size.

What about the queen?

Queen Elizabeth II lives at Buckingham Palace with her husband, Prince Philip. It's about 2 miles from Kensington Palace, across Hyde Park and Green Park.

It's not quite as cosy as living on the same property, but if Her Majesty ever wants to drop in on her cousins, grandchildren or great-grandchildren, they aren't far away.

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Amazon has cut one of its most successful original series, "Transparent," which will end after its fifth season.

But "Transparent" is only one of many shows Amazon has canceled this year.

In January, Amazon had a big night at the 2018 Golden Globes, with high-profile wins for its hit comedy series, "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel."

Then it turned around and canceled three shows at once: "Jean-Claude Van Johnson," "One Mississippi," and "I Love Dick." In April, it canceled "Mozart in the Jungle," another Golden Globe winner, after four seasons. 

In May, Amazon announced that "Transparent" would end after the upcoming season five. Its star, Emmy winner Jeffrey Tambor, was fired from his starring role after being accused of sexually harassing two women on the set (he has denied it). 

The string of cancellations in 2018 comes as Amazon continues to clean house after a management shakeup.

In October, Amazon Studios head Roy Price resigned after allegations of sexual harassment surfaced, and CEO Jeff Bezos has reportedly directed a change in strategy at the company, which led to Amazon in November grabbing the rights to make a TV series based on "The Lord of the Rings."

Here are the shows Amazon has killed, along with their critic and audience ratings from Metacritic:

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'Transparent': Canceled after five seasons (2014-2018)

Amazon description: "When the Pfefferman family patriarch makes a dramatic admission, the entire family's secrets start to spill out, and each of them spin in a different direction as they begin to figure out who they are going to become."

Critic rating: 87.5/100

Audience rating: 6.8/10

'Mozart in the Jungle': Canceled after four seasons (2014-2018)

Amazon description: "What happens behind the curtains at the symphony is just as captivating as what happens on stage. Created by Paul Weitz (About a Boy), Roman Coppola (The Darjeeling Limited), and Jason Schwartzman (Rushmore). Brash new maestro Rodrigo (Gael Garcia Bernal) is stirring things up, and young oboist Hailey (Lola Kirke) hopes for her big chance.."

Critic rating: 78/100

Audience rating: 7.9/10

'One Mississippi': Canceled after two seasons (2015-2017)

Amazon description: "Love is in the air when we pick up with Tig, Bill & Remy, living together again in Mississippi. It's a season of new beginnings and new relationships for each of them. Tig's back on the radio, but her outspoken point of view proves controversial for the local market. A chance to take a bigger stage in New Orleans comes with more reach, and responsibility."

Critic rating: 77/100

Audience rating: 6.7/10

• "Fortnite" just got a ridiculous new item: Jetpacks!
• Jetpacks are available in all versions of "Fortnite" with the latest patch, 4.2.
• You can shoot at enemies while in mid-air, but can't aim precisely while flying.

The world's most popular game, "Fortnite," just got a hilarious new addition: Jetpacks!

In the latest update (4.2), which arrived on Tuesday morning, "Fortnite" creator Epic Games added some pretty amazing stuff. There's a new game mode ("Solid Gold v2"), which makes all the weapons on the map legendary weapons. There's a new hero for the "Save the World" mode of the game. There's even a tease of a second new mode "coming soon," called "Close Encounters," which outfits the map with only shotguns and jetpacks for pick-ups. Who will survive?

But let's not kid ourselves: The most exciting addition in Tuesday's patch is a jetpacks. Here's how they work:

As Epic Games points out in its patch notes, you can't "enter Targeting Mode while in the air" — which is to say that you can't aim carefully while flying. You can shoot your gun, or throw explosives, or whatever else while using the jetpack.

But be careful, as the jetpack has limited power and needs to be grounded in order to recharge. Falling from its peak height results in death — the best use of the jetpack seems to be in exaggerated jumps. You actually activate the jetpack by jumping, then pushing jump again while in mid-air.

The jetpack is part of a new class of item in "Fortnite," referred to as backpacks. Backpacks occupy an item slot, and take a moment to equip (similar to consuming a shield potion). Epic hasn't announced other backpacks thus far.

Jetpacks are sure to cause major change in how "Fortnite" is played, which is probably why it's a limited time item.

It's not clear how long it'll be around, and Epic isn't saying (we asked). But if you're not enjoying the jetpack, don't worry too much about how it impacts gameplay — it's not permanent. And if you are into it, get in while the getting's good!

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• Fans of the actor and artist Donald Glover have taken over a Reddit page dedicated to President Donald Trump.
• Most of the top posts on the subreddit, /r/thedonald, now feature images of Glover and links to his work. 

Fans of Donald Glover, the multitalented performer and actor, have taken over a Reddit page dedicated to promoting and discussing President Donald Trump.

As of Tuesday, the first few pages of the subreddit, /r/thedonald, were filled almost entirely with images of Glover and links to his work.

Not to be confused with the more notorious Trump subreddit /r/The_Donald, which has over 600,000 followers, the subreddit in question has about 17,000 followers.

But Glover's near-complete takeover of the top pages on a subreddit once devoted to Trump makes for an entertaining spectacle.

Scroll through the page and click on a link that reads "Proof the Donald colluded with Palestine," and you'll find a picture of Glover with his "Community" costar Danny Pudi, who played Abed Nadir, a Palestinian-American character.

Elsewhere on the subreddit, users have shared several photos of the Disney character Donald Duck and at least one of the actor Donald Sutherland.

But the majority of the top posts are dedicated to Glover, whose profile is on a rapid rise of late.

Glover has an acclaimed role as Lando Calrissian in the upcoming "Star Wars" spinoff "Solo: A Star Wars Story," which opens nationwide this Friday.

Glover, whose musical stage name is Childish Gambino, also scored his first No. 1 single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart last week with "This Is America." Numerous Redditors have shared the viral music video on /r/thedonald.

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The second season of Netflix's popular but controversial series "13 Reasons Why," based on the book of the same name, premiered on the streaming service last week.

If critic reviews are any indication, there are plenty of reasons why this sophomore season is even more problematic than the first.

Season 2 currently has 28% on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, as of Tuesday morning. The first season garnered controversy for its depiction of mental illness and other issues, including a graphic scene in which a female student kills herself. Despite this, it still managed to achieve a much higher 80% critics score on RT.

Last year, Netflix addressed complaints about "13 Reasons Why" with a message at the beginning of the series asking viewers to reach out to a suicide prevention network if they are affected by the content. There is also a new video message that plays at the beginning of the series that warns some viewers it "may not be right" for them if they struggle with any of the issues the series is about.

So, what happened with season 2, and why does it have such a low Rotten Tomatoes score compared to the first season? The second season also depicts troubling issues, but critics say it doesn't pull enough from the source material and loses the narrative structure of the first season, which some say has been problematic. 

"The show has sacrificed the momentum associated with season one's structure," wrote CNN's Brian Lowry.

Furthermore, the actual content of "13 Reasons Why" is still unsettling for many. A media watchdog group has requested that Netflix pull the series because of its content. And experts told Business Insider that season 2 fails to address a dangerous problem, in that Hannah — the character who took her own life in season 1 — is still a prominent character in the second season. 

"There was a kind of romanticization, and at the core of the story was this idea that you can kill yourself and be dead and yet not really be dead," Don Mordecai, Kaiser Permanente's national leader for mental health, said. "Because, of course, [Baker] continues to be a character — she's in scenes, and she's still there in many ways."

In general, Season 2 seems to create more controversy for itself but fails to deliver an equally engaging storyline, which critics liked about the first season. 

Read more critic reactions to "13 Reasons Why" season 2 below:

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"It’s one thing to offer new perspectives on a complicated narrative. It’s a whole other thing to add layers that drain the emotional logic out of what we saw before."

Jen Chaney, Vulture

"As drama this is pointless, cumbersome, baggy, badly written, ponderous and boring. That’s less than half of the 13 reasons why you shouldn’t bother."

Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

"13 Reasons Why’s second season doesn’t seem to realize where the show’s strengths actually lie. The season doubles down on drama, intrigue, and violence, to the point where it starts to feel like a po-faced version of Riverdale."

Caroline Siede, AV Club

• MoviePass' parent company, Helios & Matheson, hit an all-time low Tuesday.
• The stock is now trading more than 98% below its October prices.
• Follow HMNY in real-time here. 

Shares of Helios & Matheson, the technology company which bought MoviePass in last year, plunged 11% to a new low $0.50 Tuesday morning.

The previous low of $0.55 was set Monday following a week of declines. 

Shares of HMNY are now trading at less than 2% of their all-time high, set in October, when the MoviePass acquisition was announced.

The company revealed earlier this month that it was burning $21.7 million a month, and it said it was down to just $15.5 million in cash. Shares crashed more than 30% on that revelation. They have since plunged to fresh lows.

Some of the skepticism surrounding Helios and Matheson most likely stems from comments made by the company's independent auditor, which said the firm faced "substantial doubt" about its ability to stay in business.

However, not everyone is downbeat on the stock. Some millennial investors appear to be buying the dip, with the company rising to the most popular trade on the brokerage app Robinhood, according to data from the brokerage's website. Last week, the stock saw a roughly 7,000 person increase in holdings on the app, bringing it to the app’s top 32 stocks being bought.

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• AMC's "The Terror" is an amazing limited series starring some familiar faces from "Game of Thrones" and "Mad Men."
• The historical-fiction series is a sci-fi horror twist on the stories of real people who went on an expedition to the Arctic and never returned.
• Business Insider spoke to creator and showrunner David Kajganich, who has been attached to the project since before the novel it's based on came out in 2007. 

Before David Kajganich came to Los Angeles to start screenwriting, he worked as a wilderness instructor and guide.

Years later, that led him to his first job running a TV show: AMC's brilliant and haunting limited series, "The Terror," which aired its finale Monday night. The series, which premiered on March 26, is based on the 2007 Dan Simmons novel of the same name. Both are fictionalized accounts of Sir John Franklin's lost expedition to the Northwest Passage. It stars Jared Harris as Crozier, Tobias Menzies as Fitzjames, Ciarán Hinds as Franklin, and Paul Ready as Goodsir. 

Kajganich told Business Insider he had "a long history" with "The Terror," a project he'd been attached to since 2007. He recalled telling the story of the lost Franklin expedition in his years as a guide. When he started his career in Hollywood, he heard Dan Simmons was writing a novel about the story called "The Terror." Simmons was adding a Victorian gothic horror element to the story. Kajganich got a copy of the book before it was published, and tried to get the rights to adapt it into a movie. He eventually got himself hired as the screenwriter, but it was too late. Universal had another planned project that was too similar: Guillermo del Toro was set to direct an adaptation of an H.P. Lovecraft story called "At the Mountains of Madness," which is also about a disastrous and horrific expedition set in the Arctic.  

Kajganich said the rights to "The Terror" went to HBO, and "for a little while" David Fincher was attached. Over time, the idea shifted from a two-hour movie to a television series, and it was pitched to AMC. AMC declined.

"They said they weren't comfortable with an anthology series at the time," Kajganich said. "'American Horror Story' was just starting its second season, so they could've been ahead of that curve, but they just weren't ready to take the plunge."

The project was with Netflix for a time, but one day, AMC called "almost out of the blue" and said they figured out a model where they could do "The Terror" as a limited series. 

"A lot of people understood that it was a great project," Kajganich said. "They just knew it was going to be an expensive proposition. It's a lot of white guys dressed in winter clothing."

While Kajganich had been in a writers room and has written screenplays across a variety of genres (he wrote the screenplay for "Suspiria," the next film from "Call Me by Your Name" director Luca Guadagnino), he hadn't run a writers room before. So he needed help running the show, and chose Soo Hugh, whose credits include "The Killing" and "Under the Dome." 

Business Insider spoke with Kajganich in early May, and discussed the long development of the project, the benefits of a television series versus a movie, and the decision to completely change Lady Silence, one of the few female characters, from how she's depicted in the book. 

This interview has been edited for clarity and length. Warning: Minor spoilers if you haven't watched "The Terror."

Carrie Wittmer: What were some of the challenges of extending a story that for years you had broken down into a two-hour movie?

David Kajganich: I haven't taken that outline out and reread it, because I'm a ... little bit afraid to confront the fact that I would've been willing to subtract so much of what's great about this book. Ten hours ended up being perfect. We were able to cover all the character arcs we wanted to cover.

Wittmer: You did such a great job establishing all of these characters very quickly. It's devastating that all these people are dead. I mean ... most of them are dead. And I knew that they would be dead, but it still hurt. 

Kajganich: Can you imagine when you first started watching? We really kill off a lot.

Wittmer: Ciarán Hinds went a lot sooner than I anticipated, which was a "wow" moment. I really liked Goodsir. I cared about him very quickly, so much. And even Fitzjames, too. And this cast was just incredible. How involved were you in the casting?

Kajganich: We knew casting was going to be a major success or failure of this show. We have so many characters, and characters who increase in value as the season goes on. We knew we were going to be pulling this fast one with making you think Ciarán [Hinds] was the main character but it's really Jared Harris. We also knew it was going to be exclusively white men and that they were going to be in winter clothing. So we had to cast people who felt different from one another, or differences you could notice under these crazy costumes and darkness and blinding snow. They really had to feel different. Even if you never knew their name, you would know when someone walked in a scene, "Oh, that's that guy." 

Wittmer: You definitely pulled that off. I didn't think about this while watching the show, but you're right — when one of the white guys walks into a room, you know who that white guy is.

Kajganich: We read a lot of people for this show. And we had a lot people come in because there are a lot of parts. We told Kate [casting director Kate Rose James] and she was really happy to operate under this mandate of not casting people because of what they had done, because of something in their previous credits. We wanted to match actors with roles they had never played before because we thought that would be one of the best ways to get all of these actors' A-games ... give them roles that were different. 

Wittmer: There's these men throughout the course of the show who start to show their true colors as their circumstances change. Some are worse than others, and there's certainly this prominent theme of the male ego and toxic masculinity. It's very relevant. 

Kajganich: We talked in the writers room about what we wanted to bring to Lady Silence's character. Our version of her is probably the biggest departure from the book. In the novel, she never has a tongue, so she never speaks. She functions in the book as a kind of, possibly mystical, possibly frightening "other." We wanted to turn her character into a full protagonist on her own terms, and not have her story subservient to any of the male characters. And what comes with that is the unpacking of this toxic masculinity you're talking about. It's one of the ways we assured AMC that this wasn't going to devolve into just a guy show. In the same way we did research about sailing in the 1840s or Inuit culture in the 1840s, we did a fair bit into manhood — the male identity in the Victorian Era. We tried to unpack that in an interesting way for the audience, mostly by using this slow-motion disaster as a chance to show how men with these different sets tools respond to fear. How do different men with different sets of tools respond to alienation and isolation, and all those kinds of anxieties? Hopefully we did an interesting enough job that it doesn't feel like we judged our characters, but it feels like we exposed them.

Wittmer: Is the ending similar to what happens in the books?

Kajganich: No. It's quite different. At the end of the novel, Lady Silence and Crozier marry and have children. We very strictly didn't want her arc to be that she's the wife or the girlfriend, or the lover of any of our characters. We didn't want to simply use a female character as a sexual character or a romantic interest. We wanted to see if we could pull off a season of television where a female character didn't have to engage on any of those levels: she was engaging with the story in a way that she's Crozier's equal as the season goes on. They are both captains who weren't ready to be captains when they were promoted through this disaster, and they both lost their ships, and they both have to pay the price of that at the end of the show. If one wanted a final coda to a season of TV that was about unpacking the consequences of toxic masculinity, I think it's a pretty provocative way to end the show, and it's definitely not how the book ends.

Wittmer: I can't imagine the show with Lady Silence as a romantic interest. That would've been strange. 

Kajganich: It would've been. We were just delighted to be able to have a character like her on the show, functioning with her own story on her own terms. It was really a joy to plot.

Wittmer: And the actress [Nive Nielsen] is amazing.

Kajganich: Ah, she is amazing. From the beginning — and we prayed that we would have enough time and we did, thank goodness — we knew that we didn't want to cast European or Asian actors in these Inuit roles. We really wanted to find Inuit actors for them. The difficulty in that is finding a way into these Inuit communities, many of which don't have internet, or if they do it's pretty limited access. So we hired casting consultants who are part of the Inuit community and have worked with the Inuit community to help us get the word out. Nive had acted once before in a small role in a Terrence Malick film [2005's "The New World"] and she's the front woman of a band [The Deer Children]. So she felt really comfortable in front of the cameras on set with the crew surrounding her. She's so grounded that she wasn't thrown by walking into a community where she was one of the only female actresses. We had plenty of women on the crew and that was helpful, but the very first scene she shot is a scene from episode two where she has to argue with Jared Harris, Tobias Menzies, Ciarán Hinds, and Paul Ready. 

Wittmer: Wow.

Kajganich: In retrospect, it was a crazy thing to ask her to do first. But she wanted to! She wanted to just break through the ice and start working. And boy did she nail that scene — and every scene she's in. She's fantastic. 

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• The Canadian musician Grimes, who is dating Tesla CEO Elon Musk, wrote that Musk has not prevented Tesla employees from unionizing in a now-deleted tweet, BuzzFeed reports.
• Grimes' tweet followed a series of tweets Musk wrote on Sunday, in which he said employees at Tesla's production plant haven't unionized because "they just don't want to."
• A unionization effort at the company's Fremont, California, factory began in 2017.
• Tesla and Musk have denied claims of retaliation against pro-union employees.

The Canadian musician Grimes, who is dating Tesla CEO Elon Musk, wrote that Musk has not prevented Tesla employees from unionizing in a now-deleted tweet, BuzzFeed reports.

"he has never prevented them from unionizing it's quite literally fake news.  trust me, i've investigated this heavily and even visited factories etc," she wrote on Monday. "i have the receipts but since it effects [sic] others i'll wait til i ama w imminent new music b4 i answer more queries."

Grimes' tweet followed a series of tweets Musk wrote on Sunday, in which he said employees at Tesla's production plant haven't unionized because "they just don't want to."

"They can form a union whenever they want & there's nothing I can do to stop them," he wrote. "California is a very pro-union state. They just don't want to."

A February 2017 Medium post from a Tesla employee describing challenging work conditions at the Fremont, California, plant where Tesla makes its cars led to a unionization effort from some employees at the factory. In October, the United Auto Workers (UAW) filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board claiming Tesla fired employees who had attempted to unionize.

Tesla denied the UAW's accusations at the time and, on Sunday, Musk addressed them on Twitter. In response to a Twitter user who asked about the UAW's complaint, Musk said a small percentage of Tesla employees were fired last year after performance reviews.

"About 2% of Tesla, incl salaried & hourly, union & non-union were let go in annual review," Musk wrote. "Only known union person fired was a guy who repeatedly threatened non-union supporters verbally & on social media & lied about it."

In April, the Center for Investigative Reporting published an investigative report saying Tesla had misreported workplace injuries and failed to take some safety measures at the Fremont factory. In a blog post, Tesla denied the allegations in the report, calling it "a completely false picture of Tesla and what it is actually like to work here" and "an ideologically motivated attack by an extremist organization working directly with union supporters to create a calculated disinformation campaign against Tesla."

Two days after the article was published, California's Division of Occupational Safety and Health confirmed it was investigating workplace conditions for Tesla employees.

If you've worked for Tesla and have a story to share, you can contact this reporter at mmatousek@businessinsider.com.

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The latest “Star Wars” release, “Solo” (opening Friday), looks at not just a young and idealistic Han Solo as he begins his path to becoming one of the most infamous pilots in the galaxy. It also shines a spotlight on the origin story of Han’s true love, the Millennium Falcon.

Before becoming one of the standout ships in the Rebel Alliance fleet against the Empire in the Skywalker “Star Wars” saga, it was the prize possession of card hustler Lando Calrissian. In “Solo,” the ship has a slightly different look (no gap in the front of the ship, and much cleaner), but shows the traits that will make it one of the most beloved aspects of the franchise. The ship’s main highlight in "Solo" happens when Lando teams with Han and Chewbacca and they use the ship to complete what will become one of the Falcon’s most legendary adventures: the Kessel Run.

With Han getting his origin story, we thought this would be the perfect time to recount just how the Millennium Falcon was born through the sweat and tears of a small group of designers who, under the guidance of George Lucas, made the iconic ship for the first movie in the “Star Wars” saga, “A New Hope.”

Business Insider spoke to Roger Christian — who was the set decorator on “A New Hope” (and won an Oscar for his work) — about the movies that inspired the space western style of the Falcon, the truckloads of airplane scraps he collected to create the interior sets of the ship, and how he crafted the famous dice that hung in the cockpit.

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Creating references for a space western.

It was around 1975 that Roger Christian began work with production designer John Barry, and art directors Norman Reynolds and Leslie Dilley, at a small studio outside of London on designs for “Star Wars.” All of them worked for a small wage George Lucas paid them out of his own pocket, as no studio had greenlit the movie yet.

“The difficult thing, especially with science fiction in 1975 and 1976, is there’s nothing to reference,” Christian said. “Flash Gordon, ‘Barbarella,’ Robby the Robot, nothing was real at all. So all we had was a communication and it just happened that my DNA matched George’s.”

Christian said Lucas’ vision of “Star Wars” was a space movie that was also a “dusty western.” So for the Millennium Falcon specifically, Christian said he saw the ship having a worn-out look that was “always dripping oil and being repaired again and again.” Those thoughts would then be matched with references to the movies they would watch at night in the studio.

“We used to watch 16 millimeter prints and project them at the studio, we very much related to ‘Solaris,’” Christian said, referring to the classic Andrei Tarkovsky sci-fi epic.

This would all lead to sketches by Ralph McQuarrie that were the first visuals of what “Star Wars” could become.

“Ralph is the unsung hero of this whole process,” Christian said. “He was in the army and understood all of that and the mechanical reality of things. So when George arrived with six paintings from Ralph that included Tatooine, Darth Vader, and the Millennium Falcon, all of it showed exactly what we were all thinking.”

Building the Falcon out of junk.

By the end of 1976, “Star Wars” had found financing and the team moved to Elstree Studios in the UK to begin making the sets. Immediately they realized they didn’t have the space to build a full-scale set of the Millennium Falcon, so they built half of the exterior along with specific sections of the interior of the ship.

Christian’s idea of the Falcon having this look of, well, as Luke Skywalker famously said in the first movie, “a piece of junk,” led him to the junkyard.

“I had the idea that if I bought scrap junk airplanes I could break it down and build the sets,” Christian said. “That was key to making the Millennium Falcon.”

With an okay from Lucas, Christian set out to get the airplane scraps, which entailed him getting on a prop plane and flying to three different airfields that were basically airplane graveyards.

“I went in and found mountains of junk,” he said. “I could buy it for nothing. I bought 20 jet engines, a ton of cockpit gear, containers that they used to heat up food, anything I could get my hands on."

It was all sold by weight so most if was very cheap to purchase because it was light metal for airplanes.

“It would be 50 pounds for a whole load,” Christian said.

Back at Elstree, the prop room was completely cleared out and a giant 18-wheeler pulled right up and all the airplane scraps Christian bought were unloaded into the room. The prop department was then instructed to break it all down, as Christian would then use certain pieces for the interior Falcon sets.

“I had no clue if any of this would work,” Christian said. “But George loved it.”

Matching the work done in America — sometimes to a fault.

The team at Elstree weren’t the only ones working on making the Falcon. Back in the US, visual effects artist Joe Johnston (he would go on to direct “The Rocketeer,” “Jumanji,” and “Captain America: The First Avenger”) and his team were building a model of the ship, which would be be used for the exterior shots as well as a guide for the art team in the UK.

But this was the 1970s, and the process to see each team’s work took days and led to miscommunication at times.

“There weren’t any fax machines back then, we had a pouch that would be mailed every Tuesday to America and Thursday it would come back,” Christian said. “We were sent pictures of the model and John Barry and the draftsman had to match that. They would build it full scale and I would find scrap that I could match and stick to the sides. It was a brand new process. No one had done this before.”

When they were done with a section in the UK, they would then take pictures of the Falcon set and send them back in the pouch to the US so Johnston and his team made sure the model matched.

However, Christian pointed out that their pouch system wasn’t mistake free. There is one error to this day that’s on the Millennium Falcon, though it’s impossible to find.

Christian said one Thursday the pouch came back and Johnston wrote a note to the team, “You built in my mistake.”

Turns out the previous round of photos of the model sent to the UK were taken when Johnston was still working on it.

“Just before they photographed it, Joe didn’t like one piece and pulled it off, expecting to replace it,” Christian said. “They photographed it before he did that. The photo came back in the pouch and we built it. So somewhere on the Millennium Falcon there’s glue marks where a piece is missing that we built full-scale. Neither Joe or I can remember where it is exactly. It’s on there somewhere.”

• Meghan Markle — now known as Meghan, Duchess of Sussex — is set to experience some major life changes now that she's married into the royal family.
• Before she wed Prince Harry, Markle's daily schedule included time to run, practice yoga, and cook meals with her royal then-boyfriend.
• As the Duchess of Sussex, Markle now has many additional royal responsibilities and commitments.
• But it's quite likely that she won't scrap her old routine entirely.

Meghan Markle's life has completely changed now that she's married into Britain's royal family.

As a royal, she must abide by certain rules— both official and unspoken. She is living with her new husband and 13 other royals in Kensington Palace, which has been a royal residence since the 1600s. And she's already received a number of official new titles, including a particularly odd one: "Princess Henry of Wales."

But it's unclear how much Markle's marriage to Prince Harry will alter her usual daily routine. Previously, as founder and editor-in-chief of the now-defunct lifestyle site The Tig, Markle was very open about her schedule, habits, and strategies for leading a fulfilling life.

Given her commitment to pursuits like healthy eating and yoga, it's likely that some aspects of her old routine will carry into her new life as the Duchess of Sussex.

Here's a look at the new Duchess of Sussex's daily schedule:

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Mornings are a big deal for Markle. She wrote on The Tig that mornings help set "the tone for our day ahead," according to Refinery 29. The Tig even published Markle's wake-up playlist, complete with hits from the Jackson 5 and Ingrid Michaelson.

Source: Refinery 29

Morning exercise is a must for both Markle and her new husband, according to the Daily Mail. She reportedly jogs around the Kensington Palace Green on a weekly basis and is an avid practitioner of yoga.

Source: Daily Mail

It's no secret where she got her love of yoga from. Doria Ragland, Markle's mother, has worked as a yoga instructor and introduced her daughter to the practice. The Duchess of Sussex told Women's Health that yoga "is in my blood."

• Though the major multiplexes say they can't stand MoviePass, independently owned movie theaters are willing to play ball.
• Chains like Landmark Theatres and Studio Movie Grill have partnered with the app.
• However, there are others that just tolerate MoviePass because their audiences use it.

When MoviePass announced a radical change to its business model last summer — offering monthly subscriptions for around $10 a month to see a single movie at a theater, once per day — the major multiplex chains instantly opposed it. AMC Theaters, the biggest chain in the world, even announced that it was consulting its lawyers to find a way to not accept MoviePass.

But for independent theater owners, and theaters run by non-profits, the reaction to MoviePass’ bold new endeavor has been a feeling of cautious optimism. 


Unlike the large chains, arthouse theaters are more willing to take chances to potentially get more people through the turnstiles, as they historically have constantly had to find ways to keep the doors open. This has led to some theater owners fully buying into MoviePass’ popularity, going as far as doing partnerships with the company. However, there are many also keeping an arm’s distance and waiting to see if the company can prove it can overcome its financial woes.

“We don’t promote it, we don’t oppose it, we want to make our customers happy and if they want to use MoviePass then we do it,” Dylan Skolnick, co-director of Cinema Arts Centre, an arthouse in Long Island, told Business Insider. 


And that’s the same sentiment made by most theaters owners and marketing heads Business Insider spoke to. Theaters are reimbursed the full ticket price from MoviePass for the tickets their customers purchase. Independent theaters are happy to take the money MoviePass is giving them and willing to take the grief from their customers when the MoviePass app doesn't work or there are claims of being overcharged — as long as MoviePass keeps sending the money. 

“My only concern is if this company does shut down that the customers who have gotten used to it and love it will go back to how they felt about movie tickets,” said David Huffman, director of marketing for Cleveland Cinemas, which operates 46 screens at 7 locations. “I fear the backlash will be on us.”

But then there’s the concern from some who wonder what happens if MoviePass can sustain itself and gets bigger. Some independently owned theaters offer memberships to theatergoers for discount tickets and other perks. MoviePass now puts a wrinkle in some of those offers. 


“That realization hit me a few weeks ago,” said John Ewing, cofounder and director of the non-profit Cleveland Institute of Art Cinemateque. “I realized the main perk for being a member of ours is to save money on ticket prices and a number of regulars do have MoviePass. So we might be hurt when it comes time for membership renewal. Though I would like to think that these people are in our court enough that they would still support us.”

One option for some of these theaters would be to discontinue using MoviePass, but that comes with its own dilemma — as AMC's lawyers likely learned. Because MoviePass works through MasterCard that means theaters would have to discontinue accepting MasterCard as well. 


“You really don’t have any choice,” Skolnick said. “We already annoy people a little because we don’t accept American Express.”

Finding success in partnering with MoviePass


Then there are those theaters that have gone into a partnership with MoviePass.

In late March, MoviePass announced it was partnering with one of the country’s largest arthouse chains, Landmark Theatres. MoviePass is now integrated into the ticket system for the chain’s 255 screens in 53 theaters in 27 markets.

MoviePass members who use the service at a Landmark theater receive perks they don’t get at other theaters, like e-ticketing and advanced seat reservations through the app. In return, MoviePass receives a discount on the tickets it has to pay for.

It’s similar to a deal MoviePass has been doing with Studio Movie Grill. The in-theater dining chain that has 314 screens in 30 locations in 9 states agreed to a partnership with MoviePass in 2016, long before the app slashed its price to $9.95 last August.

Studio Movie Grill founder and CEO Brian Schultz has zero regrets. Because his chain was one of the few that partnered with MoviePass before the onslaught of new subscribers, he’s been able to track how it’s helped his company and it's striking.

“We’re seeing more exploration on the smaller indie films but we’re also seeing pretty high attendance on non-peak third and fourth week on the big movies,” Schultz said of MoviePass usage at Studio Movie Grill. “It’s driving us off-peak.”

Schultz said that attendance due to MoviePass for big opening weekends like “Avengers: Infinity War” or “Deadpool 2” was very low due to the high volume of presale orders for those movies. But where he's seen a spike in MoviePass usage is for those same titles when audiences return to see the movie again the following weeks.

The push of MoviePass during those low traffic periods helped Studio Movie Grill score record attendance in 2017.

Schultz did not go into specifics on what his partnership deal with MoviePass entails, only saying that on “incremental attendance” from MoviePass he pays them a fee.

“We don't want to share in the revenue, what we’ve asked exhibitors is to give us the same bulk rate discount they would give anyone who is going to buy $20,000 to $100,000 worth of tickets a month,” said MoviePass CEO Mitch Lowe, who compared what they want to the 20%-25% discount Costco receives for selling AMC tickets in bulk. “The bottom line is it’s really in exchange for us driving a whole bunch of more people to your theater at our cost.”

Lowe said that currently MoviePass has partnered with independent theaters representing 2,000 screens and hopes to get to 5,000 screens by the end of the year.

However, even if MoviePass grows substantially in the coming years — it currently boasts that it accounts for 6% of the domestic box office — people who work in the movie theater space tell Business Insider it would be quite difficult for the company to make a deal where it would get a taste of box-office profits from exhibitors. That's mainly because theaters see so little already.

“The general percentage that the distributor gets is usually between 35% and 40% of the box office, it can be a little higher,” veteran movie booker Jessica Rosner said. “If you're the venue and MoviePass wants a percentage of what’s left? That’s crazy.”

Numerous theaters voiced a concern to Business Insider that MoviePass' next move may be to try and take a percentage of concessions made by theaters (which is the lifeblood of movie theaters). Lowe said currently MoviePass has no plans to propose a partnership where it would receive a percentage of concessions that were driven by MoviePass subscribers.

Despite the ongoing discussion of how a popular service like MoviePass can make money in a business where the pie has been divided so many ways for so many decades, everyone universally agrees that the service is good for theater attendance — which suffered a 25-year low in the US last year.

“The industry needs to have years where we have attendance increases or else we can't be a healthy business,” Schultz said. “We can talk about box office and other things, but we need to drive people through the door. MoviePass could be an important piece of driving that. Studios are trying to innovate, I think exhibitors should try to innovate and I like ideas that drive more people to the box office.”

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• Damon Lindelof revealed the first details about the plot of HBO's "Watchmen" TV series in a letter to fans on Tuesday.
• Lindelof said that the series will be an original "contemporary" story with "unknown" characters.
• He implied it will be set in a post-Trump world.
• "Watchmen" is one of the most acclaimed graphic novels of all time. It was originally adapted as a film directed by Zack Snyder.

Damon Lindelof revealed the first details about his upcoming "Watchmen" HBO TV series on Tuesday, and said it will be an original story with "unknown" characters.

"Watchmen" is a 1986 limited comic book series that has since been collected into a graphic novel. It follows a group of masked antiheroes in the aftermath of one of them being murdered, and how their presence changes the course of history — including the outcome of the Vietnam War. It is one of the most acclaimed graphic novels of all time and is considered by many, including its writer Alan Moore, to be unfilmable. 

Lindelof, who co-created "Lost" and HBO's "The Leftovers," is aware of the pressure, and acknowledged fan expectations in a five-page letter he posted to Instagram on Tuesday. But he also revealed key details about the plot of his HBO series, or as he called it: "the only part that really matters."

Lindelof said he had "no desire to 'adapt'" the novel and that the 12 issues that comprise it will not be "retread nor recreated nor reproduced nor rebooted." Instead, it will be an original story that "must ask new questions and explore the world through a fresh lens. Most importantly, it must be contemporary."

Lindelof went on to imply that the series will be set in a post-Trump world in the same way that the novel was "specific to the Eighties of Reagan and Thatcher and Gorbachev." He also said that the events of the novel are still canon in the world of the TV series.

"When the New Testament came along, it did not erase what came before," Lindelof wrote, comparing the novel to the Old Testament.

New characters will also be introduced, according to Lindelof, which makes sense if the series does take place over 30 years after the novel. 

"Some of the characters will be unknown," he wrote. "New faces. New masks to cover them."

"Watchmen" was previously adapted as a film directed by Zack Snyder in 2009, which was more of a direct adaptation of the novel with very few story deviations. It received subpar reviews, and has a 64% on Rotten Tomatoes.

No release date or casting information has been revealed for the HBO series, but if Lindelof's letter is any indication, it will very different from the film (and the novel). 

Read Lindelof's entire letter below:

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ProPublica senior reporter Sebastian Rotella, author of "Rip Crew," lays out what popular TV shows and movies like "Narcos" and "Sicario" get right and wrong about Mexican drug cartels. Following is a transcript of the video.

Sebastian Rotella: I'm Sebastian Rotella. I'm the author of the novel Rip Crew and I'm a senior reporter at Propublica.

"Sicario" was a, was a good movie, and some of the things it portrayed were very accurate, for example that shootout at the border, if you remember in "Sicario" when they're at the border crossing, stuck in traffic, that has happened, and something that I was very worried about when I was covering the border, because you know that is a sort of a prime vulnerability moment when you're stuck in that traffic at the border.

There were other things in, for example, in "Sicario" that I thought pushed the envelope, the sort of gratuitous and casual torture taking place on US territory, that in my experience, you know, it happens very rarely, I'm really not aware of it. And that isn't because there aren't particularly Latin American law enforcement and intelligence and military units that work with the US that engage in that kind of activity, but it tends to happen precisely in those countries. You know, the idea that you would bring someone into the US to do that and expose yourself to all kinds of potential prosecution and scandal, that did not ring true, for example. So it really depends.

I think "Narcos" is quite well-researched. What happens is, and I've done this having written fiction, and having been involved in projects where you move this stuff to the big screen, things have to be simplified, they have to be made dramatic, they have, you lose nuance, and oftentimes, they'll be things that happen in real life that I think would make for good, it would be good on, on a TV show or a movie, but they're harder to portray because oftentimes they happen out of ineptitude.

Right, I mean the scary thing sometimes about this world is the combination of that, how lethal, but sometimes how inept or how unsophisticated some of these actors are, that factor that is hard to portray in the best series this question of ineptitude of the mix of sophistication and coincidence and sort of human flaws, I think when that is draw out in series, that is when they're at their best, because I think that is very human and that is very real. There is still a sense of the drug lords in Mexico. You know people talk a lot about Chapo Guzman, who was just captured.

The thing about Chapo Guzman is he was kind of the last of the drug lords of his style, and one of the reasons that Mexico was so violent, and the drug violence and drug corruption has gotten so bad is precisely because the generation of drug lords like Chapo Guzman has kind of died out, and the people who run most of the cartels now, the cartels are adamized and fragmented for one thing. And the other thing is what you have is a phenomenon, is as the drug lords like Chapo Guzman have faded out, the trigger men, the gun men, who pretty much resolve everything through violence have risen.

So it's not to say that Chapo Guzman and the Arellano-Felix brothers whom I covered in Tijuana years ago and others, weren't violent. They were bloodthirsty and sadistic, but they also had a sense of when to corrupt, rather than kill, when to do packs, when to, how to, how to, how to approach this as a, as a business, as a violent business, but a business, none the less. Whereas the drug cartels like the Zetas, and some of the remnants of other cartels that have risen, the Zetas were former commandos in Mexico actually military men who took over and created their own cartel. Pretty much they resolve everything through violence, so people think about a drug lord sort of sitting on a throne somewhere and running this vast empire and it's much more a series of smaller, very anarchic, dangerous, chaotic empires, that are, you know, that have been splintered and fractured and that unfortunately has created more violence and not less.

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First lady Melania Trump's reserved public persona has been the target of a slew of conspiracy theories since her husband's 2016 election, all of which her staff have been quick to shut down.

It's hard to track which one came first, but it's sure none of them will be the last.

Here are four outlandish conspiracy theories about Trump, and the reasoning behind their spread.

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Some think she's a Russian spy.

As "evidence," internet commenters point to a chat she had with Russian President Vladimir Putin at a dinner for last year's G-20 Summit.

While Trump doesn't speak Russian, she does know English, French, German, Italian, and Serbian, in addition to her native Slovenian — more languages than any previous American first lady.

Many saw her engaged in conversation at dinner with Putin, and reports described the two as friendly during the meal.

But there is no proof that Trump and Putin have had any other interaction, and no reason to think she has performed any work as a Russian spy beyond the occasional satire piece.

She has worked as a model and is a self-described "full-time mom," but hasn't mentioned Russian intelligence as a specialty.

Some think she doesn't live in the White House.

There's a "persistent" rumor that Trump lives in a separate house in DC with her parents and son, Barron Trump.

In a Washington Post story about the first lady's private life, her office denied the rumor as "1,000% false." Trump's spokeswoman, Stephanie Grisham, added, "We laugh at it all the time."

White House social secretary Rickie Niceta Lloyd called the rumor "an urban legend," and press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said it was "ridiculous."

"Just when you think the Washington Post can't get things any more wrong, they do," Sanders said. "The first lady lives here at the White House. We see her here regularly."

Trump took longer than usual to move to the White House after her husband took office, spending the first five months of his presidency in New York City while Barron finished school in Manhattan.

In June 2017, the mother and son finally moved to the White House, and Barron started attending St. Andrew's Episcopal School in Potomac, Maryland, in the fall.

Some think she has a body double.

The theory first sprang to life when some thought Trump had been replaced by a look-alike for a public appearance, and continued when she was pictured alongside a Secret Service agent with similar hair and complexion.

This rumor has been vehemently denied by her spokeswoman, Stephanie Grisham, but that didn't stop the internet from going ablaze.

Business Insider's Kate Taylor dug into the mystery and noticed the agent was always wearing heels in photos of her with the first lady.

The photos of the agent have Trump in them, which would make it pretty hard for her to be a "body double" for the first lady.