• Ray Liotta said the favorite scenes he did on the NBC show "Shades of Blue" were opposite his costar Jennifer Lopez.
• However, he said J. Lo's "discipline got a little looser" at times and she would show up late to set, which would affect production on those days.

Ray Liotta gave a very honest answer when asked what he thought about working with superstar Jennifer Lopez.

The two have starred together on the NBC cop drama, "Shades of Blue," and with the third and final season premiering on Sunday, it's a good time look back and reflect on the work. 

Business Insider sat down with Liotta on Monday to talk about the show and his career. And, or course, asked what stood out working with J. Lo.

"She had so many things on her plate so I was always impressed that she always knew her lines, and mine," said Liotta, who admitted that when he was approached to do the series the big question mark for him was Lopez and if she would play a convincing police detective who is part of the crew of dirty cops headed by Liotta's character. 

However, Liotta said he couldn't have been happier with her work on the show. Though toward the end there was a bump in the road. 

"As it wore on, I think she knew she was leaving, and I don't want to bash her, but her discipline got a little looser," Liotta said.

"She definitely was there with her lines and dedicated in terms of the work," Liotta continued. "Just every now and then she would come late, and if you come late it's a domino effect. NBC was really strict about a 14-hour workday. They cut if off at 14. So if you're at the end of the day you may only get one or two takes of a scene, so that wasn't exactly the teamwork that was needed."

Despite that, Liotta said his favorite scenes on the show were when he was working opposite Lopez.

With "Shades of Blue" coming to an end, Liotta said he's open to doing more TV work. But next you'll see him on the big screen, as he's starring in Noah Baumbach's ("The Meyerowitz Stories") next movie alongside Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson. He will be playing the divorce lawyer of Driver's character. 

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E3 2018 is here, and the game announcements have been fast and furious.

E3 is the biggest gaming convention of the year, where the top gaming companies from around the world showcase what's coming for popular game consoles like the PlayStation 4, the Xbox One, and the Nintendo Switch.

Though big companies like Microsoft and Bethesda made waves over the weekend during the first two days of E3, the announcements on Monday were similarly huge. We finally got to see the big press conferences from Sony PlayStation, Ubisoft, and Square Enix, to get a glimpse at what's coming down the pipe from these top-tier publishers.

Sony kicked off its big press conference with one of its most anticipated games, "The Last Of Us II" — and fans went wild for it.

It's been two years since fans were treated to a very bloody demo of "The Last Of Us II," the sequel to the critically-acclaimed game from Naughty Dog, the developer behind the gorgeous "Uncharted" games.

At Sony's E3 presser on Monday night, an all-new trailer introduced us to new characters, plenty of action, and a surprising amount of emotion, too. From a technical standpoint — from the facial animations to the way enemies track you and interact with each other — it looks like Naughty Dog's once again created one of the most realistic-looking video games we've ever seen.

Don't miss the new trailer for "The Last Of Us II," which Sony debuted last night:

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"Ghosts of Tsushima" is the open-world samurai game you've always wanted.

The second big announcement from Sony's E3 press conference was "Ghosts of Tsushima," which featured samurai, gorgeous scenery, and sword fights that looked straight out of a movie. This will satisfy your inner urge to travel back in time to feudal Japan (looking at you, fans of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: Turtles in Time").

This week, the video game industry shows off its massive presence at the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3).

E3 is the world's largest computer and video game event hosted by the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) in Los Angeles. It's where professionals, insiders, and enthusiasts go to see what's new in the world of gaming — an industry that supports 200,000 jobs according to the ESA, and has grown significantly in the last five years, as shown by this chart from Statista.

Consumers spent at least $10 billion more on content in 2017 than they did in 2012 (a 54% increase) and spent $7 billion on hardware and accessories in 2017 alone. Those consumers aren't just kids reliant on their parents, either: The average male gamer in the US is 32 years old, the average female gamer is 36, and more than half of the parents in the US "say they enjoy playing video games as much as their children."

Get ready for the industry to get even bigger in 2018 and beyond. 

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• Producer Jason Blum, who's behind horror movies like "Get Out" and this year's "Halloween," fears that Oscar hopeful movies will be wiped out by superhero blockbusters and genre films if the theater business doesn't change.
• Blum says that the window between when a movie comes to theaters and when it is released on home entertainment should be shortened for movies that aren't huge at the box office. 
• Blum's compromise for theaters would be that they receive a cut of home entertainment revenue in return for giving up film screenings.

Jason Blum — the producer behind horror hits like "Get Out," Paranormal Activity," "The Purge," and this year's "Halloween"— has a solution for protecting smaller movies from being swallowed up by superhero blockbusters and popular genre films at the cinema. It just involves a big change in the theater business.

In an interview with Variety, Blum said that the window between when a movie opens in theaters and when it is released to home entertainment should shorten to just two to three weeks for movies that aren't major box office winners. If not, Blum thinks that superhero blockbusters and genre movies like horror will continue to consume the industry. Smaller, Oscar-like movies would go away as more and more directors transition to television.

Blum's compromise for theaters would be that they would receive a cut of home entertainment revenue in return for giving up film screenings.  

“Without a change to windowing it’s going to be low-budget genre movies and superhero movies and that’s it,” Blum said. “The movies that are celebrated at the Oscars are going away because the people that make those movies are going to television. Even David Fincher is working for f—ing Netflix.”

Blum isn't the first person to advocate shortening the theatrical window. It's something that has been debated within the industry for years. Lionsgate's Michael Burns said last year that "it's the right thing for certain movies." And "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" director J.J. Abrams once said that it's "inevitable" if theaters don't offer a better experience to customers.

"Get Out" managed to be both a low-budget genre film and an Oscar contender, and even won the Oscar for best original screenplay at this year's ceremony. It was also a box-office success, making over $170 million at the domestic box office with only a $4 million budget. 

But not all movies can be "Get Out," and as the film industry cozies up to the superhero and horror genres, maybe Blum's fears could come true.

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It's official.

"Avengers: Infinity War" reached a box-office milestone this week, as it crossed $2 billion globally as of Monday after just 48 days in theaters. 

Marvel's superhero blockbuster is currently the fourth highest-grossing movie of all time (for now). It broke a number of records when it debuted, including the record for the biggest opening weekend of all time with over $258 million — it was previously held by "Star Wars: The Force Awakens." "Infinity War" was also the fastest movie to ever reach $1 billion worldwide. 

"Infinity War" is one of only four movies to ever reach $2 billion at the global box office. Below is every movie that has achieved that, along with how much they actually made based on unadjusted numbers from Box Office Mojo.

Can "Infinity War" reach the rest of the pack? 

Below is every movie that has reached $2 billion worldwide:

SEE ALSO: Superhero movies will wipe out Oscar contenders unless the theater business changes, according to the producer of 'Get Out'

4. "Avengers: Infinity War" (2018)

Worldwide gross (so far): $2,001,136,398

3. "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" (2015)

Worldwide gross: $2,068,223,624

2. "Titanic" (1997)

Worldwide gross: $2,187,463,944

• The OriginX is a wall-mounted arcade cabinet with a design based off the original 'Pong' machine.
• It can store up to 10,000 arcade games of your choice.
• The catch: only 50 are being made, and each costs $3,416.

Those with an extra $3,416 laying around and a yearning to experience the nostalgic feeling of playing on an original Pong table are in luck — the OriginX, made by Swedish designer Love Hultén, is being hand-made for a limited edition of 50 units. 

The OriginX is wall-mounted, and based off the original Pong cabinet, complete with a walnut housing, a yellow facade (additional colors are available upon request), and aluminum housing. The interior computer serves as an emulator that allows users to play some classic arcade games with up to two players — but by installing additional hardware or using a USB port, virtually any arcade games can be played on the machine. The cabinet can store up to 10,000 games, Hultén says. 

The 19-inch, 4:3 LCD screen has a "barrel distortion" filter that mimics the effect of playing on an old, classic CRT arcade screen. 

The unit can be shipped worldwide, and all 50 OriginX machines are personally made in Sweden by Hultén. 

And if you're wondering what the significance is behind the $3,416 price tag, it's simply the conversion of the price in Euros. 

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• Netflix announced Tuesday that it extended a deal to keep Anthony Bourdain's CNN series "Parts Unknown" on its service for "months to come."
• Anthony Bourdain died last Friday in an apparent suicide at the age of 61, during the filming of the show's 11th season.
• Fans petitioned Netflix this week, following Bourdain's death, asking the service to renew its licensing agreement for the series past June 16, when the show was expected to leave the service under Netflix's agreement. 
• The first eight seasons of "Parts Unknown" are currently streaming on Netflix for the forseeable future.

Netflix announced on Tuesday that it had extended an agreement to keep the late Anthony Bourdain's CNN travel docuseries, "Parts Unknown," on its service past June 16, when it was expected to leave the service under Netflix's licensing agreement. 

Anthony Bourdain died last Friday in an apparent suicide at the age of 61. He died in France during the filming of the show's 11th season.

Netflix's announcement follows a social-media movement from fans of "Parts Unknown" who asked the streaming service to renew its agreement for the series following Bourdain's death. More than 6,000 fans had also signed a Change.org petition for Netflix to keep the show on its service, as of Tuesday afternoon.

"Netflix, this show isn't just entertaining. It is heartwarming, it is honest and it benefits human kind. Please keep it on the air," the online petition reads.

"Some fans have noticed that Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown was scheduled to come off Netflix US on June 16," Netflix wrote on its US Twitter account on Tuesday. "As of today, we’ve extended our agreement that will keep Parts Unknown on the service for months to come."

The first eight seasons of "Parts Unknown" are currently streaming on Netflix for the forseeable future.

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Back in 2005, Square Enix released "Kingdom Hearts II" for the PlayStation 2. Since then, we've gotten spinoffs, smartphone games, prequels, and even high-def remasters — but never a proper, numbered sequel. 

That all changes on January 29, 2019, when "Kingdom Hearts III" finally releases for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Square Enix used this week's E3 conference to announce not only that release date, but also a deeper look on this long-awaited game.

If you've never played a "Kingdom Hearts" game before, here's the extremely short version.

You, as teenage hero Sora, travel from world to world, fighting the forces of capital-D Darkness. The twist is that each of those worlds takes you inside a Disney blockbuster: At E3, Square Enix showed off worlds inspired by "Frozen," "Tangled," "Pirates of the Caribbean," and Pixar classics "Toy Story" and "Monsters Inc." 

In your quest, you'll enlist the help of characters from the Final Fantasy game series, as well as Disney characters past and present. Indeed, Sora always has Donald Duck and Goofy at his side, plus a rotating selection of Final Fantasy and Disney characters to round out the adventuring party.

But enough about that. Here's what we learned about "Kingdom Hearts III" at E3 this week:

The "Kingdom Hearts" series casts you as hero Sora (left), as you travel between Disney-inspired worlds, righting wrongs. This time, that includes "Frozen."

The footage shown at E3 hints at your task: The mysterious Unversed are trying to convince Queen Elsa to use her powers for evil. It's up to Sora, and his sidekicks Donald and Goofy, to convince her to ... let it go.

We also got new looks at the series' signature fast-paced combat. Sora uses the Keyblade — literally a sword shaped like a giant key — to fight off enemies. On each world, he gets theme-appropriate powers, like "Blizzard Break," seen here ...

It's E3 2018, the biggest week for the video game industry, and Nintendo's presentation on Tuesday did not disappoint.

Big players like Microsoft, Sony, and publishers like Ubisoft and Bethesda had already debuted their new titles coming to game consoles over the past several days, but all eyes were on Nintendo as the only big presentation on Tuesday.

In case you missed the presentation, or you just want to get straight to the highlights, these were the 3 biggest announcements from Nintendo's presentation at E3 2018:

1. "Super Smash Bros. Ultimate" will release on December 7, 2018, exclusively for the Nintendo Switch.

Let's get the biggest announcement out of the way: The biggest game coming to the Nintendo Switch in 2018 was finally given an official name ("Super Smash Bros. Ultimate") and an official release date (December 7, 2018). Fans were thrilled by what they saw.

Unlike most presentations we've seen at E3 2018, Nintendo spent the vast majority of its presentation on this single game — in fact, it spent 24 out of the 42 total minutes of its Nintendo Direct video talking about "Super Smash Bros. Ultimate."

The most notable highlights:

— The new roster will include every character from past "Super Smash Bros." games, as well as new characters like the Inklings from Nintendo's newer "Splatoon" franchise and the long-awaited Ridley from the "Metroid" games.

— Plenty of levels from other "Super Smash Bros." games will return, but there will be new maps as well.

— You can play the game with any Nintendo Switch controller, or any Nintendo GameCube controller (sold separately).

— Nintendo made "tens of thousands" of updates to how the game actually plays, from level-design tweaks, to changes in how characters look and play, to the many items available to be used in the game, to "Final Smash" attacks, and more.

Check out Nintendo's video detailing "Super Smash Bros. Ultimate":

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2. After a years-long drought, "Mario Party" will make its triumphant return with the release of "Super Mario Party," coming to the Nintendo Switch on October 5, 2018.

It's been three years since the last "Mario Party" game was available, but that was on the Wii U console, which didn't sell very well. For many, it's likely been a long time since they've seen or played a "Mario Party" game.

So as one of Nintendo's most popular franchises, and one of the longest-running minigame series of all-time, fans were delighted to see a new entry coming to the Nintendo Switch: "Super Mario Party."

From what Nintendo showed, "Super Mario Party" looks like one of the most creative games Nintendo has ever come up with.

If you've never played "Mario Party," expect a virtual board game for up to four players, with traditional dice roll-based gameplay broken up by quick minigames.

The minigames you play this time out will take advantage of the Nintendo Switch's unique motion controls and technologies. In this new game, for instance, you can put two Nintendo Switch consoles next to each other and play on one giant display. It's really neat, and looks perfect for parties, as the name would suggest. 

• Ray Liotta said if he could work with any filmmaker right now that he hasn't yet in his career, it would be Woody Allen.
• The actor best known for starring in "Goodfellas" said he doesn't believe the sexual-assault accusations against the legendary director.

If Ray Liotta could drop everything and work with a director he hasn't had the chance to yet in his almost 40-year career, it would be Woody Allen. 

That's what the legendary "Goodfellas" actor told Business Insider on Monday while promoting the last season of his NBC series, "Shades of Blue" (the season 3 premiere is on Sunday). 

"I don't think he did what they accuse him of," Liotta said, referencing the recent spotlight on past sexual-assault allegations against Allen. "For his particular case, I don't buy it."

Liotta's comments are a rare show of support for the director. Since the #MeToo Movement began, Allen has lost many allies in the industry as numerous actors have publicly apologized for being in movies made by the director. Some have even donated the salaries they earned working on his movies to charity.

All of this stems from Allen's adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow, publicly accusing Allen of molesting her when she was 7-years-old, an accusation she has stood by. One of her brothers, Ronan Farrow, has written that he believes her. Allen has denied all allegations.

The perception of Allen could also be impacting him at the box office. His latest movie, "Wonder Wheel," only earned $15.3 million in theaters, and a  majority of that came from overseas (it made only $1.4 million domestically). Amazon Studios, which released the movie, is reportedly in "serious conversations" to cut its multi-film contract with Allen. It's supposed to release his next movie, "A Rainy Day in New York."

Liotta did not elaborate on why he doesn't buy Farrow's allegation, however he's not alone. In May, Moses Farrow, Dylan's other brother, wrote a blog post defending their father, stating he was present when everything allegedly happened. In his lengthy post, Moses claims Dylan's accusations on what happened are inaccurate.

In response to Moses' blog post, Ronan responded with a note that concluded with "I believe my sister."

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• President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Tuesday to wade into a feud with the actor Robert De Niro.
• An outspoken critic of Trump since the 2016 presidential election, De Niro has chastised Trump in multiple public appearances in the past few days.
• De Niro said "f--- Trump" on stage to a standing ovation at the Tony Awards on Sunday night, and then apologized for "the idiotic behavior of my president" in a speech in Toronto on Tuesday. 
• "Robert De Niro, a very Low IQ individual, has received to [sic] many shots to the head by real boxers in movies. I watched him last night and truly believe he may be “punch-drunk,'" Trump tweeted.

President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Tuesday to reciprocate a war of words with the actor Robert De Niro, after De Niro chastised Trump in multiple public appearances in the past few days. 

De Niro, who has been an outspoken critic of Trump since the 2016 presidential election, said "f--- Trump" on stage at the Tony Awards Sunday night, and received a standing ovation. On Tuesday, De Niro apologized for "the idiotic behavior of my president" in a speech at the groundbreaking of a restaurant in Toronto, CNN reported.

Hours later, Trump addressed the actor in a tweet.

"Robert De Niro, a very Low IQ individual, has received to [sic] many shots to the head by real boxers in movies. I watched him last night and truly believe he may be “punch-drunk.” I guess he doesn’t...," Trump tweeted, "...realize the economy is the best it’s ever been with employment being at an all time high, and many companies pouring back into our country. Wake up Punchy!"

De Niro's first prominent act of speaking out against Trump arrived in a PSA video preceding the presidential election in October 2016, when the actor called Trump a "dog," a "mutt," a "con," and an "idiot," and said of then-candidate Trump, "I'd like to punch him in the face."

While most of De Niro's words about Trump were bleeped during Sunday night's Tony Awards, you can watch an uncensored video of his comments below:

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• Fans are really happy about Nintendo's E3 presentation, which lasted only 42 minutes but packed a punch.
• Other game companies could learn a thing or two from how Nintendo approaches E3, the biggest industry event of the year.

Nintendo just delivered an incredible presentation at E3 2018— and it pulled it off by keeping it simple, and focusing on games that are actually arriving in the next six months.

At first blush, it looks like fans are really happy about all the announcements:

— "Super Smash Bros. Ultimate" is the biggest Nintendo beat-em-up of them all, with every character from past games and tons of tweaks and new surprises. It's coming December 7.

— "Super Mario Party" brings back the popular minigame series in a big way, with some really creative new ways to play with others. It supports up to four people (this is a party, after all), and it arrives October 5.

— Plenty of third-party support for this Nintendo console is a very good look. The games announced included "Fortnite" (available for free starting today) from Epic Games, "Octopath Traveler" from Square Enix, "Wolfenstein II" from Bethesda, "Dragon Ball FighterZ" from Bandai Namco, "Hollow Knight" from Team Cherry, and several others.

But aside from the individual announcements, Nintendo had a great E3 presentation because it played to its strengths — something other game companies could focus on for future events.

A video presentation gives Nintendo the ultimate control

Nintendo doesn't approach E3 like other companies.

Over the past several days, we've seen Microsoft, Sony, Bethesda, Ubisoft, and others present their new games at E3 by having live events, complete with executives introducing new titles on a physical stage, with a live audience to react to them.

Nintendo, on the other hand, doesn't hold live press conferences at E3. At all.

Instead, it films pre-recorded videos and puts them online at a given time, which it appropriately calls "Nintendo Direct." Nintendo holds several of these "Direct" video announcements throughout the year, but E3 is where Nintendo focuses on the games coming out over the next year.

By filming its presentation ahead of time, Nintendo can control the overall flow of the show, from start to finish, by using clever editing, music, and more. Yes, there is a certain charm to live events, but as Nintendo has shown, the only thing that really matters in the end is whether or not people were impressed with what they saw. So whether it's live or pre-recorded, presentation matters — and Nintendo certainly benefitted (and avoided some embarrassing hot mic situations) by having more control.

Nintendo knows where its bread is buttered

Nintendo didn't talk about many games during its live stream, but it did focus on a handful of games almost exclusively.

Nintendo's video presentation for E3 2018 was 42 minutes long. Of that total time, Nintendo spent over half of it (24 minutes) talking about "Super Smash Bros. Ultimate."

Nintendo clearly knows where its bread is buttered: "Super Smash Bros." is one of the company's most popular game franchises, so it went into heavy detail on all the changes. Casual fans got a chance to learn more about the intricacies of the game, but it was really directed at the series' longtime, hardcore fan base. The decision to support the Nintendo GameCube controllers, for instance, which pro players insist on using when they play "Super Smash Bros." in competitive tournaments, is a nod to that.

Nintendo doesn't have any other game like "Super Smash Bros." To use a comparison to drive home this point, the second-biggest game announcement during Nintendo's Direct event was "Super Mario Party," and that was given less than two minutes' time. People don't play "Mario Party" for a living, but they do with "Super Smash Bros."

Rival game makers like Sony and Microsoft did unveil major exclusive games coming to their platforms this week — "The Last Of Us II" for PlayStation 4, and "Halo Infinite" for Xbox One — but those games only got several minutes of airtime each.

Nintendo knows people want games sooner rather than later

One of the biggest trends at this year's E3 is how many games are coming out next year or later. (Spoiler alert: It's most of them.)

Nintendo, on the other hand, spent most of its presentation talking about games coming out in the next six months.

"Super Smash Bros. Ultimate" arrives in December. "Super Mario Party" arrives in October. "Mario Tennis Aces" arrives later this month. "Fortnite" and "Hollow Knight" arrive today.

On the other hand, most of the bigger games coming to rival consoles have vague release dates. We don't know when "Halo Infinite" is coming to Xbox One. "The Last Of Us" looks great, but we still don't have a date — it's probably sometime in 2019 though. And who knows when "The Elder Scrolls VI" or "Death Stranding" are coming?

Nintendo gave fans a tangible reason to get excited: You can actually count the number of days until its games are out.

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• The world's most popular video game, "Fortnite: Battle Royale," is officially coming to the Nintendo Switch, with cross-platform play with players using iOS, Mac, Windows PC and Xbox One.
• PlayStation 4 owners, however, will not be able to play online with Switch players, and are restricted from bringing their Fortnite progress and Battle Passes between the two consoles.

Nintendo announced at E3 on Tuesday that the world's favorite video game, "Fortnite: Battle Royale" will finally be available on the Nintendo Switch starting today. However, there are a few setbacks for the game's cross-console compatibility, particularly with the PlayStation 4, that have already inspired backlash from many gamers.

First, the Switch version of the game will support cross-platform play with players using iOS, Mac, Windows PC and Xbox One, but not PlayStation 4, meaning a Switch user will not be able to play Fortnite online with a Play Station 4 user. Although, this is what we've come to expect from Sony, who hasn't allowed any cross-play with the PlayStation 4 in the past. 

The larger issue is that Fortnite players are unable to log in to their Epic Games accounts--which you need to play Fortnite--on both a Switch and the PlayStation 4. 

Specifically, those who have used a PlayStation 4 to play Fortnite by linking their Epic Games account with the PlayStation Network, will not be able to use that Epic Games account on a Nintendo Switch.

And those who have just today logged in to their Epic Games account on a Nintendo Switch first will find that they are now unable to play with the same account on a PlayStation 4.

Players in both scenarios will be met with an error message upon trying to log in on the opposite device, and required to create a separate Epic Games account in order to play on the opposite console.

This means that if you've been collecting V-bucks, rare skins and emotes on an Epic Games account linked to either your PS4 or Switch, you will not be able to bring that progress to the opposite console. 

Many PS4 and Switch owners are already expressing frustration on social media, but this lack of compatibility is particularly unfavorable for players who have purchased a $10 Battle Pass through their Epic Games accounts, which now cannot be accessed on both consoles. A Battle Pass unlocks exclusive challenges and in-game rewards.

Video game commentator and prominent YouTube personality Greg Miller shared a screenshot of the error message he received while trying to log in to his Fortnite account on a Switch:

Here are a few more of the many player reactions from Twitter:

Sony, Nintendo and Epic Games were not immediately available for comment.

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• The big danger of the Justice Department's loss in its attempt to block AT&T's merger with Time Warner is that it will discourage the DOJ from pursuing other antitrust cases.
• That would be an unfortunate outcome, because the case was unusual and doesn't necessarily portend similar outcomes in other cases.
• Indeed, the DOJ has good reason both to block some other outstanding mergers and to believe it could win those cases.

The US Justice Department lost its effort to block AT&T's merger with Time Warner. But the biggest losers could be the rest of us, depending on how federal antitrust regulators react to the decision.

If the lesson the DOJ (and the FTC which oversees mergers), take away is that they should avoid making a fuss about big mergers and acquisitions, we're going to see a wave of consolidation that's inevitably going to lead to higher prices, consumer unfriendly practices, and a stifling of innovation.

Here's hoping that's not what happens. Because the truth is that this merger is distinct from others that are pending or likely to come down the pike in the near future. This merger was always going to be difficult to block. Legally speaking, the case to bar Disney from acquiring Fox's assets or to prohibit T-Mobile from merging with Sprint, is much easier to make.

The problem with the AT&T-Time Warner merger for the DOJ was that this was a so-called vertical merger. The two companies generally don't compete with one another. Their businesses, instead, are synergistic; AT&T will be able to stack Time Warner's movies and TV shows on top its existing telecommunications networks, creating a powerful service to distribute and market a wealth of content to its customers. 

Vertical mergers can pose competitive concerns

That's not to say there aren't potential antitrust problems with vertical mergers. There are. And the DOJ tried to highlight some of them in its court case. Post-merger, AT&T would have the economic incentive to withhold Time Warner's content from its rivals in the pay TV business. Imagine being able to get CNN or TNT from AT&T's DirecTV Now, for example, but not from Dish's Sling TV, say.

Alternatively, AT&T could force pay TV service rivals such as Comcast or Charter higher than normal rates for Time Warner's content. Or it could give Time Warner's networks advantages that it doesn't offer to rivals. In fact, it's already doing that; AT&T mobile phone customers can get a subscription to HBO service included with their monthly wireless bills — but not Netflix or Showtime.

You have to assume the merged companies will use their combined assets to maximize their profits, Carl Shapiro, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley who served as a government witness, said at the trial.

But the DOJ faced some major obstacles, many of its own making. This country has a long history of being relatively lax when it comes to vertical mergers. They just haven't been seen as quite the same competitive threat as horizontal mergers, which is where two direct competitors combine (for example, two hospitals, or two grocery store chains). Indeed, according to one study, before this case, the DOJ hadn't challenged a vertical merger in court in more than 40 years.

The DOJ faced an uphill battle fighting the AT&T-Time Warner merger

What's more, since the time of the Reagan administration, antitrust enforcement and cases have largely focused on the narrow issue of the impact mergers and acquisitions have on consumer prices. Prior to the early 1980s, tie-ups could be blocked out of concern about the size of the resulting company. After that, size didn't matter and might even be beneficial if it resulted in lower prices for consumers.

It's possible that the AT&T-Time Warner merger could result in higher consumer prices. But it likely won't. In fact, even the DOJ acknowledged that AT&T customers are likely to benefit from it. Because AT&T will no longer have to pay to license Time Warner's networks, it'll see lower costs and will likely pass those on to consumers, Shapiro said.

That left the department arguing that the merger would harm competition, that AT&T would use Time Warner as a cudgel against its pay TV competitors. But Federal District Court Judge Richard Leon didn't buy the arguments. And it's not hard to understand why. Much of the case was speculative.

While it's possible AT&T will use Time Warner's networks and content to get a leg up on rivals, it's also possible that the market just won't be affected that much. Time Warner gets a lot of money from Comcast and other pay TV operators. By cutting them off to boost its own pay TV services, AT&T might do itself more harm than good.

Its approval of the Comcast-NBC deal was a bad precedent for the DOJ

And the DOJ had another big problem to contend with. Just seven years ago, it approved a nearly identical vertical merger of a telecommunications company with a cable network operator and content company — Comcast's acquisition of NBC-Universal.

That approval put the DOJ in a weak position to block the AT&T-Time Warner deal. And it allowed AT&T and Time Warner to argued that they needed to combine in order to better compete against Comcast.

What's more AT&T and Time Warner were able to use the results of that deal as evidence in their case. While many worried about the impacts of the Comcast-NBC tie-up at the time, few of the worries have been realized — as AT&T and Time Warner's attorneys pointed out at the trial.

There are good reasons to reconsider the lax treatment of vertical mergers and to be more concerned about consolidation in general. Studies indicate that the trend toward consolidation is thwarting not just competition, but economic growth, wages, and innovation.

But the DOJ needs to lay the groundwork for that reconsideration. It can't just do it in a one-off case that seemed more inspired by Donald Trump's antipathy for CNN than for any concern about competition.

How the DOJ responds to the decision is crucial

So it's no surprise the judge ruled against the DOJ and is permitting the AT&T-Time Warner merger to go ahead. But what comes next is really important.

This decision could seen as an outlier, an unusual case that has little to do with other potential antitrust actions. But the danger is that it will have a broader effect. Some are already speculating that the setback will mean that the DOJ will back off on antitrust enforcement as a result.

That would be a bad outcome. The decision may be a political and public relations black eye for the DOJ. But it says nothing about the legal merits of other cases, particularly those that involve horizontal mergers in already consolidated markets. When they've had the gumption to intervene in such mergers, federal antitrust officials have a track record of success in stopping them.

For example, there's already ample evidence that the wireless phone market can't consolidate anymore without an impact on competition. During the Obama administration, the Federal Communications Commission used that evidence to block AT&T's attempted takeover of T-Mobile and to scuttle the initial merger talks between T-Mobile and Sprint. The argument was simple: with so little competition already, the removal of one more firm would inevitably lead to higher prices and lack of consumer choice.

That business hasn't changed that much since then. It's still dominated by two jumbo firms — AT&T and Verizon — with two large secondary players — T-Mobile and Sprint — accounting for most of the rest of the market. On its face, a case against the now-formal merger agreement between T-Mobile and Sprint should be a fairly easy one to make.

The Hollywood content business is similarly dominated by a handful of big companies. Blocking the biggest — Disney — from getting even bigger by buying up one of its major rivals — Fox — should be a no-brainer for the DOJ. So should be stopping a potential rival bid from Comcast, which thanks to the NBC deal, is also among Hollywood's top players.

Here's hoping the DOJ sees it the same way. Because as bad a defeat as it was just handed in the AT&T-Time Warner case, that result doesn't have to be its Waterloo.

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• Kim Kardashian says she lobbied Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey for the ability to edit tweets — and thinks he was receptive. 
• Twitter users have been asking for the ability to edit tweets since the service was founded. As it is, you have to delete a tweet and start all over if you want to correct a typo or mistake.

Kim Kardashian is taking on a new cause: Getting Twitter to let you edit tweets. 

Over the weekend, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey was spotted at Kanye West's 41st birthday party. Kardashian, who is married to West, says via her own Twitter account that she took the opportunity to lobby Jack Dorsey for an edit button, and that he was receptive. 

"I had a very good convo with @jack this weekend at Kanye’s bday and I think he really heard me out on the edit button," Kardashian tweeted to her 60.1 million followers.

The lack of an edit functionality has been an infamous bugbear since Twitter first started: If you make a typo or a factual error, your only recourse is to delete the tweet and start again. For mega-popular users like Kardashian, where tweets can attract thousands of retweets and replies before an error is even noticed, it's a frustration. 

"Now I see why I was invited!" Dorsey quipped in reply. 

Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Still, Kardashian may have touched a nerve with Twitter users, judging by the swift and positive response to her tweet:

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• Donald Trump showed Kim Jong Un a wild movie trailer pitching a peaceful, prosperous North Korea at the Singapore summit.
• The video said it was produced by "Destiny Pictures," seemingly a play on words to hype the importance of the summit.
• There is a company called Destiny Pictures in California which is not happy at having been inadvertently name-checked in the Trump video.
• Its founder has been busily distancing the company from any association with the White House.

A company in California is distancing itself from a Hollywood-style video Donald Trump showed to Kim Jong Un at their summit in Singapore as part of the pitch for peace.

The four-minute film, in the style of an action movie trailer, said it was produced by "Destiny Pictures," but has since been identified as the work of the US National Security Council.

"Destiny Pictures" appears to have been included in the video as a play on words, to suggest that the summit was the work of destiny.

However, there is a real Destiny Pictures in California, which has been at pains to stress it has nothing to do with the clip.

Mark Castaldo, the company's founder, spent Tuesday fending off calls and emails from people who wrongly thought he was behind the video.

A series of tweets show him assuring various reporters that he was nothing to do with the film and asking him to remove his name from articles about it.

Although Castaldo was not a fan of the video, President Trump was keen on it, and talked it up repeatedly at a post-summit press conference yesterday.

He said that he showed Kim Jong Un the video on an iPad, and that he "loved it."

Trump met with Kim for around 45 minutes. Given that the video is just over four minutes, this means he apparently spent more than a tenth of his time with Kim showing the video.

Trump said Kim's aides were "fascinated" by its optimistic vision of a future North Korea, though he admitted the reality may end up falling somewhat short.

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• "Legion" creator Noah Hawley talked to Business Insider about season two's finale, which aired Tuesday.
• It was the 11th episode of a season that was originally planned to be 10 episodes. Hawley said that there was initially "a critical piece of story that was missing."
• Hawley discussed the mental illness metaphors in the show, his reaction to getting renewed for a third season, how "Legion" is similar to "Fargo," and why he chose The Who's "Behind Blue Eyes" to open the season finale. 
• He also talked about whether his Doctor Doom movie and "Fargo" season four are still in the works.

Noah Hawley, the creator of acclaimed shows "Legion" and "Fargo" on FX, never slows down. 

"Legion," based on Marvel "X-Men" comics about a powerful telekinetic mutant,  just concluded its second season on Tuesday, and FX has already renewed the series for a third season. On top of that, Hawley hopes to write another season of "Fargo" and develop a Doctor Doom movie based on the Marvel Comics Fantastic Four villain. He's also directing the sci-fi drama film "Pale Blue Dot."

It's a wonder he finds time for it all, but we're happy he does.

Hawley spoke to Business Insider about season two of "Legion," the show's mental health metaphors, why he added on an extra episode, and his hopes for his other projects.

(This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity.)

Travis Clark: Were you expecting a season three renewal? What was your reaction to the news?

Noah Hawley: You never take these things for granted. The network is invested creatively in this series, so I had a sense it was coming. Especially with my schedule I have to lock things in if we’re doing them so I’m allergic to uncertainty at this moment. You can’t always make the world act according to your wishes, but the timing all worked out. It’s thrilling to be able to continue this story. Clearly there’s a real journey that we’re going on with these characters that has now taken a turn and is heading into the third act.

Clark: When you were writing season two, did you write it expecting to continue the story or writing it just to write the best story you can?

Hawley: I think I’ve known the shape of the story since the beginning. As much as it may seem like it’s an experiment in storytelling, that doesn’t mean that the story isn’t clear to me. And so the steps that we’ve taken with David [Dan Stevens], and meeting him in the hospital and running away with Syd [Rachel Keller], and going on this journey, is very much for me a metaphor of mental illness on some level ... He was on his meds and everything was working perfectly and then he stopped taking his meds and everything starts to spiral. There’s a metaphor if you think of Syd as the meds, and the moment he starts keeping secrets from her, that’s him going off his meds. We all know how that ends up.

What I like about how the second season unfolded is that it’s not that the stakes weren’t high in the first season, but there’s a whimsy to that first season and parts of the second season. But now by the end, we’ve realized this is adult storytelling that we’re doing and there are some very twisted moral choices that are made and signaled early on in that fourth episode, where we see Syd’s childhood and life, and David is trying to figure out what to learn from it. He arrives at the Disney version which is, "You’re worried that if I see what you really are, I won’t love you." And she’s like, "That’s wrong."

And then we end up at this weirder, darker version where she says, "The bad things that we do, that’s our armor." That establishes this "ends justify the means" idea that he then takes to heart. In the end, he throws it back at her and says, "I’m just doing what you said," and she says, "That’s not what I meant at all." So there's this sort of twisted morality that you don’t normally find in this genre. That whole idea of "good and bad" is much more complicated.

Clark: Season two leaves David in a really bad place and some viewers might look at him as the "bad" guy. How do you look at "good and evil" in terms of this show?

Hawley: It has an echo of "Fargo" for me. In "Fargo," there’s always a moment where the person who’s doing the worst things says, "I’m the victim here." I feel like we have with David this idea at the end that he’s a good person and deserves love. There’s a certain victimization that’s in his DNA; this idea that he never had a chance because this demon came into him when he was a child and his life was basically ruined before it began. He’s a human being and deserves love just like anyone else, and it’s that vulnerability that pushes him to make choices that are not moral on some level because ultimately he is putting himself before [Syd] and before everyone else.

The question becomes, to what degree can we empathize with him because of his backstory, and at what point do we lose him? That moment when Syd says "you drugged me and had sex with me" — where’s the audience at that point? Because it’s true. He wiped her memories so he could keep a relationship with her but then, of course, her consent to anything that happened went out the window entirely. From his point of view, [he loves her and needs her]. It becomes very twisted and you certainly don’t see that normally in these sorts of stories.

Clark: How did you come to realize “Behind Blue Eyes” by The Who was a good fit for the opening scene in the season two finale?

Hawley: As a duet, it’s a really interesting idea. The song is about someone that everyone’s against going "no one knows what it’s like," but [both David and Farouk] are singing it. Farouk [Navid Negahban] obviously has his own story of being kicked out of his body and his country and being a refugee and an Arab man in a story where he’s the only Arab man. From his point of view, he’s the one who’s "behind the eyes" and David’s saying "you don’t know what it’s like to be me" and they’re on a collision course. So if you’re going to have a musical — not saying you should [laughs] — but if you’re going to have one, there should be a story.

Clark: How did the last-minute extra episode come to be?

Hawley: I had found over the course of the season that this show doesn’t want to be long. With "Fargo," we were long sometimes because there’s a lot of story to get across. With "Legion," because of how much we’re asking of the audience in terms of the fantastical nature of it and the non-linear storytelling and the surreal elements, it felt to me the more concise these episodes were the better. So, there were some elements that ended up on the cutting-room floor over the course of the season. A lot of them surrounded [actors] Jean Smart and Jemaine Clement [who play Melanie Bird and Oliver Bird] and that relationship and how he came in and got into her head to seduce her. She has this big turn where she goes over to the dark side, and when we had cut all that stuff out and I watched that big turn, it just didn’t mean enough. We hadn’t earned it yet.

Clark: So the 11th episode came along late and wasn’t always part of the plan, right?
Hawley: We had written a whole series and were filming the "finale," and I just felt, looking at it, that there was a critical piece of story that was missing, and nowhere to fit it in ... My hope with this show is that it’s about the journey and not the destination, and if you’re a fan of this show and like the way we tell stories, then if you can have another hour of it with strong material in it, then it’s certainly justified. The last two episodes as a result have a kick to them. Finally, after this season of detours and meditation, you get the action. You get the fight sequence and the final confrontations. You get all those things and the last two episodes are action-packed in a way the season hadn’t been.

Clark: I really wanted to ask you about some of your other projects. Are you able to give an update on your Doctor Doom movie and whether that’s still in development?

Hawley: Doctor Doom is still moving along. I’m about to direct this film "Pale Blue Dot" and we have another season of "Legion" to do. I think the question now revolves around the merger of Fox and Disney and whether that happens, and what would happen to all those Marvel projects once it does. There is some uncertainty there. I think the film studio [Fox] would like to move quickly and make the movie, that’s my hope. Now we’re just talking about how and when we are going to do that.

Clark: What about "Fargo" season four?

Hawley: My hope is to have a writers’ room in the beginning of next year and to be filming next fall.

Clark: So are you hoping for a 2020 release if it gets greenlit?

Hawley: Yeah, sort of spring of 2020, but it’s up to the network. A lot can happen between now and then obviously, but I’m very excited to return to that world of storytelling. But yeah, busy busy.

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• A judge approved AT&T's $85.4 billion takeover of Time Warner on Tuesday, signaling that other deals could likely be approved as well.
• Disney, which wants to buy 21st Century Fox, sank in early trading as investors await a potential competing bid from Comcast
• Shares of Fox rose more than 7%, while Comcast sank about 3%

Shares of 21st Century Fox rose more than 7% in early trading Wednesday after a Federal judge ruled AT&T could buy Time Warner for $85.4 billion, largely seen as a positive sign for future mergers.

Disney, which has been mulling a $52 billion bid for Fox’s production assets, excluding the Fox News and Fox Business Network channels, fell about 1.85% ahead of Wednesday’s opening bell.

Comcast, the cable provider, will likely enter a competing bid for Fox to challenge Disney’s if the AT&T deal was approved. A Comcast takeover of Fox would be similar to AT&T’s so-called vertical merger with Time Warner in that it would combine two markedly businesses working at separate parts of the ecosystem. Comcast, a distributor of content, would have access to Fox’s popular franchises like X-Men and the Avengers as well its its production studios, to broadcast to its subscribers.

"We see FOXA as a clear winner following today's ruling," John Janedis, an analyst at Jefferies, told clients in a note Tuesday.  "Press reports suggest Comcast will come in with a $60B bid (all cash) vs. Disney's existing $52 billion bid (all stock). However, based on our merger models, we think bids from CMCSA or DIS could reach as high as $80 billion."

The approval on Tuesday, which both the Department of Justice and President Donald Trump had voiced opposition to, is likely to fuel more mergers in the space, Wall Street believes.

“M&A activity across the media and telecommunications landscape has largely been in a holding pattern awaiting the outcome of the T/TWX deal,” said Janedis of Jefferies. “With the deal approved we think it could spur other M&A activity for the group.”

Even outside of media, companies eyeing mergers saw their stock prices rise overnight.

CVS Health, which has proposed a $69 billion merger with health insurer Aetna, was up 1.73% while Aetna was up more than 3%. Express Scripts, which has agreed to be bought by Cigna for $67 billion, was up nearly 6%.

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• John Boyega, who played Finn in "The Force Awakens" and "The Last Jedi," took to Twitter on Tuesday to call out "Star Wars" fans for harassment.
• "Harassing the actors/actresses will do nothing," Boyega tweeted. "You're not entitled to politeness when your approach is rude. Even if you paid a ticket!"
• His co-star Kelly Marie Tran deleted all of her Instagram posts recently after facing months of online harassment. 

The toxicity of the "Star Wars" fandom has reached new heights recently, and actor John Boyega, who plays Finn in the new trilogy of films, is sick of it. Boyega took to Twitter on Tuesday to call out fans for harassment in the wake of his co-star Kelly Marie Tran (Rose Tico in "The Last Jedi") deleting all of her Instagram photos.

Boyega tweeted, "If you don’t like Star Wars or the characters understand that there are decisions makers and harassing the actors/ actresses will do nothing. You’re not entitled to politeness when your approach is rude. Even if you paid for a ticket!"

Tran had faced months of racist and sexist harassment online after being cast in "The Last Jedi." Her character's Wookieepedia page was even edited so her name was "Ching Chong Wing Tong" and her home was "Ching Chong China." She's not the only "Star Wars" actress to distance herself from social media after harassment: Daisy Ridley deleted her Instagram account in 2016.

Boyega also replied to Twitter users who commented on his post. One user, who said he had a YouTube channel and faced harassment, told Boyega to "stop crying and playing the victim." Boyega replied, "Just email me you’re [sic] reactions to scenarios and I’ll be sure to react just like you! Our issues are identical!"

And the replies didn't end there:

But Boyega also thanked "the majority" of "Star Wars" fans for "supporting and putting yourselves in our shoes." 

"You understand that there is a process so much appreciated!" he tweeted.

Boyega isn't the only "Star Wars" major player to address the harassment.

"The Last Jedi" director Rian Johnson tweeted recently, "On social media a few unhealthy people can cast a big shadow on the wall, but over the past 4 years I’ve met lots of real fellow SW fans." 

And Luke Skywalker himself, Mark Hamill, tweeted a photo last week of himself with Tran with the caption, "What's not to love?#GetALifeNerds."

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• Jimmy Kimmel mocked and questioned President Trump's summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in his monologue Tuesday night.
• "Usually when Trump signs an agreement with a foreigner, it's a prenup," Kimmel joked. 

Jimmy Kimmel opened his "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" monologue on Tuesday night by laying into President Trump over his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

"It has been an Un-precidented 24 hours for the United States and North Korea as our president, Donald Trump, met with his favorite Little Rocket Man," Kimmel started out. "A lot of pundits think it was a mistake to meet with an unstable dictator, but Kim Jong Un said, 'You know what? I'm going to do it anyway.'"

Kimmel noted that Trump told the press he had formed a "special bond" with Kim after meeting with the North Korean leader for only 38 minutes. The host added: "That's fast. His dentures take longer to bond than that."

"Trump claims he got North Korea to commit to destroying a missile testing site, and this is a quote, he said 'We didn't put it in the agreement because we didn't have time,'" Kimmel continued. "Usually when Trump signs an agreement with a foreigner, it's a prenup. And that's all in writing."

Kimmel then questioned the potential outcomes of the summit, suggesting that the meeting would cause Kim to do "nothing differently."

"Trump wanted to make it look like he did something big, whether he did something big or not. He was not leaving the summit without claiming he made a deal,” Kimmel said. "So he sets the meeting, he has this sit-down, he hears what he wants to hear — blah, blah, blah. As soon as the meeting's over, he runs out, calls a press conference, declares victory, everyone goes home, Kim Jong Un does nothing differently at all, and we go back to our lives, too."

Kimmel show personality Guillermo Rodriguez and the host proceeded to sit down for a mock summit to sign their own version of the "friendship agreement" that Trump and Kim signed. 

Watch the monologue below:

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