"It: Chapter 2," the sequel to last year's blockbuster horror movie based on Stephen King's novel, officially started filming this week. 

Actor James McAvoy posted a photo to Instagram on Wednesday to mark the occasion. In the photo, he's holding a block of cheese to celebrate the film's setting of Derry, Maine, with the caption "Day 1 on IT 2. Glad you got the memo guys. #passthecheeseplease #derryordairy."

The first "It" movie was both a major critical and box-office success. It has an 85% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes and raked in over $700 million worldwide. Considering its success and the fact that there is still plenty of material from the novel left to explore, the sequel is highly anticipated.

Below is everything we know so far about "It: Chapter 2":

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The movie is set for release on September 6, 2019.

The director of the first film, Andy Muschietti, is returning for the sequel. Muschietti was known for the 2013 horror film "Mama," starring Jessica Chastain, before taking on "It."

Bill Skarsgard is reprising his role as Pennywise, the murderous clown that terrorizes children in Derry.

When Microsoft held an Xbox briefing last week, everyone watching expected a new "Halo" game to be announced. But no one expected "Halo Infinite."

The new "Halo" is the next major entry in the long-running first-person shooter series, and it once again features the iconic supersoldier Master Chief as its main protagonist. And "Halo Infinite" is rife with nods to "Halo" tradition.

But let's be clear: It's not named "Halo 6" for a good reason. The game features a new art style, and is said to take the series in "new and unexpected directions." Since "Halo Infinite" is still early in development, there's only so much to know thus far — but we've put together as much as we could find below:

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1. It stars Master Chief, the supersoldier you know and love.

And not just that, but Master Chief is front and center unlike some previous games in the series. The game's story focuses on him, and you playing as him, and — if history serves as a guide here — shooting like a trillion aliens as him.

2. It continues the story of "Halo 5: Guardians," despite the fact that it's not called "Halo 6."

At the end of "Halo 5: Guardians," which came out in 2015, there were some loose ends.

"Halo Infinite" intends to tie those up, or at least offer a continuation of where things left off.

"In Halo Infinite, the game will focus on the Master Chief and continue his saga after the events of Halo 5," 343 Industries studio head Chris Lee said in a blog post when the game was revealed.

It's not clear who the soldiers are in the image above.

3. It's powered by a custom-built game engine, the Slipspace Engine, which produced the first trailer for the game.

A game "engine" is the software used to build a game. Think of it like Adobe Photoshop: a software tool used to create digital works. 

In the case of "Halo Infinite," the team at Microsoft-owned 343 Industries custom-built their own engine — software tools — to create "Infinite." The project is said to be so ambitious that a custom engine was required. "We knew we had to build new tech to fully realize our goals for 'Halo Infinite'," Lee said.

The new engine is appropriately titled the "Slipspace Engine" — a reference that only the nerdiest of "Halo" fans will understand (myself included).

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It will be part of the MCU's phase 4 line-up.

Phase 4 starts after "Avengers 4" with "Spider-Man: Homecoming 2" (July 2019), and will also include "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3," which doesn't have a release date yet. 

Jac Schaeffer is writing the screenplay.

Scaheffer wrote 2009's "TiMER," the short "Olaf's Frozen Adventure," and 2019's upcoming "The Hustle," which stars Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson. 

Johansson is reportedly contributing ideas to the screenplay. In 2016, Johansson told Variety about the endless possibilities for Black Widow film:

"There’s a lot of places you can go — you can bring it back to Russia. You could explore the Widow program. There’s all kinds of stuff that you could do with it. You could really uncover the identity of who this person is, where she comes from and where she’s part of. There are so many ways you can go. I think it would just have to be very much like its own specific thing. It would have to have its own specific vibe. It would have been totally different than any of the other standalone films. I think if the fans wanted it enough, then it would probably become a reality."

Filming will begin next year.

This probably means that the movie will come out in 2020 or 2021, depending which half of 2019 filming takes place. 

"Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom" may have thrown some new dinosaurs into the mix, including genetic hybrids that could never have existed in reality. But the film doesn't neglect the classics, like T. rex and giant sauropods. 

To get into the spirit of the film, we here at Business Insider wanted to know what it would feel like, size-wise, to stand next to one of these dinos. So we created this graphic, which includes some of the dinosaurs that appear in the film.

*Note that all of the numbers in this graphic, which are taken from a series of dinosaur sizes provided on this Wikipedia page, are measurements based on scientific excavation and analysis and don't necessarily resemble some of the scientifically inaccurate dinosaurs that appear in the film, such as the Velociraptor.

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• The Steam summer sale is now live, starting today (June 21) and ending July 5.
• New games will go on sale daily.
• Check back here for a roundup of the best deals. 

Cue the memes of empty wallets money being thrown at screens: the Steam summer sale is here.

Titled the "Intergalactic Summer Sale," the sale will last from June 21 to July 5. Visit the Steam homepage here to see all of the sale items. The list here will be continually updated with sales that stand out.

Here are some of the best deals of the day:

• PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds: $19.99 (33% off)
• Desolate: $13.99 (30% off)
• Fallout franchise: up to 70% off
• Far Cry 5: $44.99 (25% off)
• Dying Light: Enhanced Edition: $19.79 (67% off)
• WRC 7 FIA World Championship: $15.99 (60% off)
• Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality: $14.99 (50% off)
• Black Desert Online: $4.99 (50% off)
• Road Redemption: $9.99 (50% off)
• GORN: $14.99 (25% off)
• ARK: Survival Evolved Season Pass: $22.49 (50% off)
• Everspace: $9.99 (67% off) 
• Project Cars: $7.49 (75% off)
• Dead by Daylight: $9.99 (50% off)
• Undertale: $4.99 (50% off)
• House Flipper: $15.99 (20% off)
• Steam Controller: $33.49(33% off)
• SUPERHOT: $14.99 (40% off)'
• DayZ: $27.99 (20% off)
• Grand Theft Auto V: $19.79 (67% off)
• Stardew Valley: $11.99 (20% off)
• Counter Strike: Global Offensive: $7.49 (50% off)
• Rust: $8.74 (75% off)
• Hunt Showdown: $23.99 (20% off) 
• Sid Meier's Civilization V Complete Edition: $12.27 (92% off)
• Sid Meier's Civilization VI: Rise and Fall: $22.49 (25% off)
• DOOM: $14.99 (50% off) 
• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Game of the Year Edition: $20 (60% off) 
• Squad: $23.99 (40% off)
• The Elder Scrolls Online: $9.99 (50% off)
• No Man's Sky: $29.99 (50% off)
• Cuphead: $15.99 (20% off) 
• Tabletop Simulator: $9.99 (50% off)
• Insurgency Sandstorm (Pre-order): $23.99 (20% off) 
• No Man's Sky: $29.99 (50% off) 

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As Season 4 approaches its conclusion in "Fortnite: Battle Royale," fans have started to speculate whether a large in-game event, similar to last season's meteor shower, will mark the end of an era. 

Clues pointing toward another massive event have already started to pop up around the island and within the actual "Fortnite" game code, which hardcore fans like to dig through every time the developers roll out a new update. 

So far, all signs are pointing at a huge missile, embedded into the side of the mountain just northeast of Snobby Shores, which many fans theorize could completely change a large section of the map. 

Here's what we know about the mysterious missile warnings in "Fortnite":

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The missile first appeared in the side of a mountain at the start of Season 4. It's the centerpiece of a lair owned by a mysterious supervillain.

The lair is located just northwest of Snobby Shores, on the far left side of the map. It sits on the opposite side of the island from the unnamed superhero lair just south of Lonely Lodge. 

If you drop in to the top of the mountain, and come down the western side, this is what you'll see. The missile juts from a hole in the mountain — this is also an entry point for the villain's lair.

At a control panel towards the base of the missile, a hologram has recently appeared, which has led players to believe that a launch could be imminent.

This theory is evidenced by a few images that have been broadcast on many of the TVs on the island. This one depicts an ominous-looking face ...

• Generation Z is moving away from traditional television.
• Marketers say that's a major break from previous generations.
• To sway these teens, some networks are collaborating with social networks and popular streaming options. It's not always successful.

Grace Clark, 17, doesn't like television. She says the episodes are too long. 

"I like YouTube, because the content is shorter and therefore is able to hold my attention throughout the whole video," Clark told Business Insider.

Her favorite is the Vlog Squad, a group of YouTube-famous 20-somethings based in Los Angeles. Several times a week, the group posts instances from their daily lives like flying (but with a llama), going hiking, or rollerskating. "Their content is very comedic but is rarely over 20 minutes," Clark said.

The interest in short but frequent video content from younger, more relatable sources is widespread among Clark's peers. She's considered a Generation Z, the generational cohort of Americans born after 1997. Few of them remember life before social media, the internet, and smartphones.

In a recent Business Insider survey of 104 teens nationwide, only 2% of Gen Zs said that cable is their most-used choice for video content. Nearly a third said YouTube is their most-used source for video content, and 62% say streaming excluding YouTube, including Netflix or Hulu, is their most-used. 

Those who do watch cable television enjoy it largely as a means of bonding with family, the news, or falling asleep. 

That's a remarkable aboutface from previous generations, according to MaryLeigh Bliss, Chief Content Officer at YPulse, a research and marketing firm focused on Gen Z and Millennials.

"It's a major, major shift that we've seen with these young generations," Bliss told Business Insider.

Among American adults, 59% say cable or satellite is their primary method of watching television, according to a 2017 Pew Research study. Less than a third depend primarily on online streaming.

The preference for cable is even more marked among older Americans. For those 65 or older, 84% use primarily cable. 

"Honestly, I don’t watch many cable programs," 16-year-old Grace Serdula told Business Insider. "I watch whatever is on, but I don’t pay enough attention to them. But I find YouTube a better entertainment source. I can watch anything I want."

One key reason for the shift is the increasing use of mobile phones as a way to consume content. The majority of Gen Zs use smartphones as their primary medium to watch videos, while millennials primarily use actual televisions, according to YPulse data. 

It's not because they don't have access to a television. If they're below the age of 18, they likely still live with their parents, who almost certainly have a TV.

Because of the decreasing emphasis on cable TV, this younger generation also has difficulty tolerating traditional ads. Variety reported in June that Fox outlets want to fill some of its commercial breaks with inspirational videos sponsored by pharmaceutical companies or other marketers. 

"That's actively to try to appeal to younger generations," Bliss said of Fox's move. 

Netflix is the top streaming choice for Gen Zs

Netflix, the favored option among Gen Zs for all video content, lacks commercial breaks. It's also primed for binge watching, which is how today's teens are acclimated to watching television.

Unlike previous generations who might tune in for a latest episode installment, Gen Zs told Business Insider that they enjoy watching older shows, too. Teenagers adore "Friends," a sitcom that aired its last episode when some of them may have been in diapers.

"There are more options than on cable, since you can rewind or fast forward and watch older shows like Friends easier," 15-year-old Sadie Madden told Business Insider. 

Clark also shared that she loves Pretty Little Liars, which aired from 2010 to 2017.

"I like the fact that these shows are on Netflix because I am able to binge watch them without commercial breaks in between," Clark said.

YouTube offers a different experience than traditional media sources

When teens watch YouTube, they're not seeking fictional plotlines portrayed by Hollywood stars.

One popular usage of YouTube is niche, hobby-driven content. Isabel Lagando, 14, watches lots of beauty and cooking shows. Kay Parker, 15, enjoys watching gaming videos on YouTube. 

"You can check out how a game looks from another person’s perspective before getting it," Parker told Business Insider. "Instead of waiting for something you like to come on it’s available on YouTube 24/7 and you feel like you can watch all of your favorite channels and their videos nonstop without getting tired of it."

Vlogs are also incredibly popular. One of YouTube's most popular vloggers is Zoella, who runs a beauty, fashion and daily life account with more than 12 million subscribers.

Vloggers like Zoella are as pretty and personable as any celebrity. But their transparency and frequent life updates makes subscribers feel more like they're spending time with a friend (albeit one who is an international runway model).

"I find and vlogging interesting because it feels like I’m ... spending a day with a close friend and traveling and whatnot," Serdula told Business Insider. "The videos provide background noise that I can tune into without missing any important plot devices."

How are traditional networks responding?

The amount of homes with cable, satellite, or telco is dropping, according to a 2017 Nielsen report. 

Bliss said the landscape for cable and network companies is "bleak."

Cable is the fifth most-popular outlet for video consumption, according to YPulse data on teenagers. Gen Zs are more likely to watch video content on YouTube, Netflix, Instagram, and Snapchat. 

In response, some cable providers have moved their content onto those more popular platforms. CNN had a Snapchat show, but that flopped after four months. More positively, NBC's "Stay Tuned" Snapchat news show accrued four million subscribers in its first five months — the majority of whom watch three or more times a week.

One notable success story is the ultra-popular Riverdale, the aggressively dramatic reimagination of the Arhcie comics aired through the CW.

As Vulture reported, the CW has a unique streaming deal with Netflix, allowing season one to appear in May 2017 on Netflix a week after the season ended. That gave swaths of viewers access to the show that they might not have had otherwise.

Riverdale's second season reached viewership numbers last fall that the CW hadn't seen since The Vampire Diaries 2012. And that was on their network — not Netflix.

That Riverdale could sway teens to tune in on an actual television with actual commercials is proof of one major point: The entertainment itself is more important than the platform.

"It's still about the content," Bliss said. "You have to make the content that they want to watch. You have to create the entertainment that they think is worth their time."

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Movies will often use live bugs on camera instead of CGI to make their story feel more real and to get your skin crawling. But getting these insects to do what you want requires lots an understanding of how they function.  That's where Steven Kutcher comes in. He's an entomologist who has worked with insects on over 100 major projects including "Spider-Man, "Arachnophobia," and "Jurassic Park."  We spoke with Kutcher about how he gets these tiny actors to do what the directors want and how no one gets hurt during the production. Following is a transcript of the video.

Narrator: Some of the biggest stars in Hollywood are some of the smallest creatures on the planet. Real live insects like spiders, locusts, and butterflies play crucial roles in many memorable blockbuster films. But getting them to perform on camera is no easy task.

Steven Kutcher: Rosie, lift up your leg. This leg. Come on. Oh see, she did this one. Oh, there she goes. And that's just a little trick of putting a little pressure on her back leg that causes her front leg to come up.

Narrator: That's Steven Kutcher. He's an entomologist and the go to guy for all things bugs in Hollywood. He's worked with a variety of insects on over 100 films in his career including "Arachnophobia," "Jurassic Park," and "Spider-Man."

Kutcher: Understanding insect behavior is really the key. It's not training them because you don't have time to train them in the film industry. When you work with insects, you wanna corral the insects. You wanna be able to control them.

Narrator: He's used a number of different techniques to get the bugs to move in the right direction involving lights, air, and temperature.

Kutcher: Let's say you're a bug. How can I make you move? Well, I could blow air at you, like 60 miles an hour air. You're going to move. I could light a little fire under you or set you on something that's really hot. You're gonna get up out of your seat and move. I could chill down the room. 

Narrator: For example, let's take a look at one of the most famous and terrifying spider films of all time, "Arachnophobia."

Kutcher: The great thing about that film was it was before CGI. So we had to do everything real except for one shot.

Narrator: He devised a clever yet simple rig to get all the spiders where they needed to be.

Kutcher: They would say, "We want a spider to crawl into a slipper "from four feet away." So I came up with this idea of invisible vibrating wires. Chance of vibrating wires that you couldn't see, the camera couldn't see. But I could make the spider go directly to the spot I wanted it to go.

Narrator: Kutcher's first big Hollywood gig was on the "Exorcist II" and it involved working with three thousand live locusts.

Kutcher: There's a scene where James Earl Jones has to look at a cage of locusts and the locusts were all on the ground. But how do you move hundreds of locusts up on the screen? I said, "Get a light, a studio light that gives off heat "and shining against the side of the cage." And they did and all the locusts moved up onto the cage to be near the heat. Then they took the light away.

Narrator: In "Jurassic Park," Kutcher was the man responsible for the iconic dead mosquitoes in amber.

Kutcher: So it's supposed to be a mosquito. First, it's really a crane fly. And I put antenna from another insect on the crane fly. I took a bent insect pin and made it for its mouth part. I created the wings.

Narrator: And he worked with a live mosquito in the DNA Explainer video.

Kutcher: So I would chill the mosquito down so that it wouldn't move. And then I would drip honey on it. And then it got tumbled down with the honey.

Narrator: In the 2002 movie "Spider-Man," there's a scene where Peter Parker first gets bitten. Kutcher was actually above Toby McGuire with a paint brush.

Kutcher: And what the spider will do is it will crawl along the edge until it reaches this part and then it will hang on. And I would just tap it like this which would cause the spider to web down.

Narrator: While he says he rarely ever gets bitten or stung, he takes precautions to protect the other human actors. In "Roadhouse 66," Judge Reinhold is driving a car and I had to have a scorpion crawl over his shoulder. So I put a little cap on the scorpion's stinger that looked like the stinger so it wouldn't hurt him.

Narrator: And there's also a rule on set that no bugs are hurt during production. - In making of a movie, you can't harm a cockroach, or a fly, or a maggot. But if the fly flies to craft service, you can swat it. 

Narrator: He can get some of his bugs from pet suppliers, but most he goes out and collects himself. And Kutcher's home is also full of bugs, by choice.

Kutcher: Right now, I have mosquitoes, crane flies, caterpillars in my refrigerator. The world is filled with people who do not like insects which is a great opportunity to teach those people the joys and wonders of all of the arthropods in the world and how you can relate to them. And when you understand how they work, the world is a better place.

Kutcher: To make the spider go, I just tap her back legs. And this gets her to crawl up. To make her stop, I cover her eyes. She has eight eyes. She's just looking for a dark place.

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• A campaign has started online to remake "Star Wars: The Last Jedi," claiming that a group of producers will provide the budget.
• "The Last Jedi" director Rian Johnson mocked the campaign on Twitter, quoting one of its tweets and saying, "please actually happen."
• A vocal subset of fans and internet trolls have voiced their disdain for the movie since its release in December, going so far as to hijack its Rotten Tomatoes audience score and send death threats to Johnson.
• Johnson, meanwhile, is attached to write and direct a new trilogy of "Star Wars" films.

A new campaign to remake "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" was heavily mocked on Twitter on Thursday, and the film's director, Rian Johnson, joined in as well.

The campaign seems to have started this month, as a Twitter account by the name of "Remake The Last Jedi" tweeted for the first time on June 14. But it gained attention this week after tweeting over two dozen times on Wednesday and continuing throughout the day on Thursday. More and more people began to take notice, and ridicule, the account and the campaign's website, in which people can pledge a certain amount of money "to have your voice heard."

Johnson quoted a tweet from the campaign on Thursday with the caption: "please please please please pleeeeeeeaaaase please actually happen please please please please please," and numerous praying emojis.

While "The Last Jedi" made over $1 billion worldwide ($620 million in the US) and was a critical hit, a vocal subset of "Star Wars" fans and internet trolls have voiced their disdain for the movie since its release in December, particularly in how it depicts Luke Skywalker and Rey's parentage. A group claimed to hijack the movie's Rotten Tomatoes audience score, which is 46% compared to its 91% critic score. Johnson even said that he received death threats after the movie was released.

Johnson has addressed the fan outcry against "The Last Jedi" in the past. In a December interview with Business Insider, Johnson said he didn't take it personally if fans reacted negatively to the movie because he realized the fans were passionate. But he also said that the "negative stuff" is "not the full picture of the fan."

He went on to say, "[George] Lucas never made a 'Star Wars' movie by sitting down and thinking, 'What do the fans want to see?' And I knew if I wrote wondering what the fans would want, as tempting as that is, it wouldn't work, because people would still be shouting at me, 'F--- you, you ruined 'Star Wars,' and I would make a bad movie. And ultimately, that's the one thing nobody wants."

The "Star Wars" fandom has been particularly toxic since Disney took over the franchise, even driving stars like Daisy Ridley and Kelly Marie Tran off social media after harassment.

But Johnson will probably get the last laugh. The filmmaker is on board to write and direct a new trilogy of "Star Wars" films. Lucasfilm is reportedly putting future standalone films on hold to focus on what the next trilogy will be after "Episode IX," so it's likely that we'll be seeing more Johnson-directed "Star Wars" movies in the near future.

Even Seth Rogen got involved, and had a back-and-forth with the campaign on Twitter. Rogen at point asked how they got investors when they have nothing to show for it, to which the campaign responded "It's a pretty solid brand..." Okay, then.

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• Steam's massive summer sale event had hardly begun before the website crashed Thursday. 
• The sale began at 1 pm, and reports of issues with the site began as early as 1:13 pm ET. 
• The site appears to be working again.

Within a few hours of the beginning of Steam's Intergalactic Summer Sale, the website was completely down. 

The sale is one of the biggest events of the year for Valve's mega-popular PC game storefront, with hundreds of games going on sale from June 21 to July 5. 

According to downdetector.com, reports of issues with the Steam website began to spike shortly after 1 pm ET, with 274 reports of website failure filed not long after. 

Those looking to get their hands on some sweet deals had to wait a little longer — but the good news is that the site is back up, as of about 4pm ET. 

Valve did not immediately respond to a request for comment. 

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• Pokémon Go finally started rolling out the Pokémon trading feature on Thursday.
• The bad news is that when the feature launched, you had to be level 40, the game's max level, to take advantage of the new features.
• The good news is that Niantic, the game's developer, has a history of making new features available to small groups first, so as not to overload the servers. Indeed, later on Thursday, Niantic gradually started opening it up to players of level 30 and above.
• Still, players are frustrated: Niantic first promised these features in 2016, and being so close and yet so far is taking its toll.

The good news is that, as promised, Pokémon Go rolled out a new set of social features on Thursday that finally bring the ability to trade Pokémon with your friends, among other perks.

The bad news is that, at least at launch, the feature was available only for players at the game's maximum level of 40.

For context, I've been playing every single day since the game came out in July 2016, and I'm level 32.

On its customer support page, Pokémon Go's developer, Niantic, says that this is a temporary situation and that it will be slowly easing people into the feature, though it didn't give a timetable. Indeed, later on Thursday, Niantic started opening it up to more players — at press time, Pokémon trading was open to players of level 30 and above, and will probably continue to open up throughout the night.

Niantic has a history of this kind of thing. New features, like 20-player raid battles, have rolled out first to those at high levels before coming to the wider base. The ultimate goal is likely to avoid the kind of server instability that characterized the game in its first days.

Still, players are frustrated. The ability to trade Pokémon was first promised in the days after the game's release, so the hype was strong when Niantic announced this week that it would finally arrive. To have the feature and still not know when they can use it has made for some unhappy gamers.

The good news is that this frustration will probably be short-lived. At this rate, it'll be less than a day before everyone has access.

In the meantime, check out our guide on how trading in Pokémon Go will work once you have access.

Niantic did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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There's only one White House staffer who's not family that's been in President Donald Trump's orbit since the early days of the campaign: social media director Dan Scavino.

But the The New York Times reported he could be one of several aides looking to leave the White House later this year.

When former White House Communications Director Hope Hicks' departed the administration in March, Scavino became Trump's longest-serving aide. But he has been by Trump's side since way before his 2016 campaign began.

His relationship with Trump runs all the way back to 1990, when a 16-year-old Scavino was hand-picked to be Trump's caddie. Since that chance selection, Scavino has rocketed high into the ranks of Trump's communications team, and today is part of a small group of people in charge of the White House's messaging.

Here's how Scavino went from cleaning clubs to managing Trump's social media:

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Scavino's family hails from northern Italy. His great-grandfather entered the US through Ellis Island in the early 1900s and soon settled in New York City.

Source: Politico Magazine

After Trump began criticizing what he called "chain migration," many pointed out that Scavino's family itself had came to the US through this process. After his ancestor Vittorio came to New York in 1904, other members of his family followed over the next few years.

Sources: Politico Magazine, Business Insider

Scavino was born in 1976 and grew up in the New York City metropolitan area.

IGTV has arrived. 

Instagram announced its new long-form video app on Wednesday, which is a new way for influencers, celebrities, and anyone with an Instagram account to publish videos for their followers.

IGTV is specifically built for high-quality vertical video longer than 60 seconds. IGTV works as either a standalone iOS or Android app, or as an experience built directly into the main Instagram app. 

The app is available now on the App Store and Google Play store, and if you've updated Instagram in the last 24 hours, you've likely noticed the new IGTV button within the app. 

So for anyone hoping to launch their video career, or just someone hoping to keep up with their favorite stars, here's how to use IGTV:

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Because IGTV and Instagram work closely together, you don't have to create a separate IGTV login. As long as you're logged into the main Instagram app, all you have to do is hit "Continue."

This is the first thing you'll see once you're logged into IGTV. The app automatically pulls videos it thinks you'll like under the "For You" tab.

The video in the background will autoplay, but don't worry — the sound defaults to "off." 

When you want to peruse the available videos, just scroll through the tiles along the bottom. 

Under the "Following" tab, you'll be able to watch videos from creators you already follow on the main Instagram app. Under "Popular," you'll see trending videos from people you don't follow.

The "Popular" tab is similar to the "Explore" tab on Instagram, and is Instagram's way of helping you discover new people to follow. 

This week, Pokémon Go finally gave players the ability to trade Pokémon with each other, fulfilling a promise made back when the game launched in 2016. 

The feature started rolling out on Thursday afternoon — at first, only to players at the maximum level of 40, to the consternation of many. Over the course of the evening, though, that restriction has been loosening to include players at lower levels, and will likely be available for everybody within a day or so. 

That said, developer Niantic is taking a different approach with trading than you might expect - there are all sorts of rules and caveats that come with Pokémon trading, making it a little more complicated than just swapping mega-powerful monsters with strangers. 

Here's how trading in Pokémon Go works, according to Niantic:

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The key to trading is your friends list, which is a new feature in the update.

The more you interact with your friends, the stronger your friendship will get, granting you in-game rewards. At the outset, you'll get the ability to trade anything except the most powerful Legendary Pokémon.

At the strongest level, though, you'll be able to trade anything. Plus, you'll get additional bonuses when you play with your friends, like more chances to catch those same Legendary Pokémon when you complete a Raid Battle.

• Sony refuses to let PlayStation 4 users play games with Xbox One and Nintendo Switch users.
• Microsoft and Nintendo are both vocally pushing for the ability to play some games across competing platforms. "Minecraft" is already able to be played across many — except for PS4.
• Microsoft and Nintendo released a joint advertisement this week showcasing the ability to play "Minecraft" across the Xbox One and Nintendo Switch.
• Though "Minecraft" is also available on PS4, and the commercial is ostensibly for "Minecraft," Sony's console is excluded from the credits.

Microsoft and Nintendo just teamed up to take a powerful shot at Sony's PlayStation 4.

Since we're talking about businesses here, that powerful shot came in the form of an advertisement — a seemingly innocuous commercial for "Minecraft" that showcases the ability to play the game across competing game consoles. In "Minecraft," players on Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PC/Mac, iOS and Android can play the game together.

There's just one platform missing from that: Sony's massively popular PlayStation 4. 

Of the big three game console makers — Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo — Sony is the final holdout when it comes to multiplayer gaming across competing systems. Moreover, Sony is even outright locking some game accounts to the PlayStation 4: "Fortnite" players started the #BlameSony hashtag over the past few weeks due to the revelation that, if you tie your "Fortnite" account to a PlayStation 4, you can't sign in with it anywhere else.

Thus, Microsoft and Nintendo are taking advantage of Sony's mistake, and they're going all in. Nintendo's latest commercial for "Minecraft" even features an Xbox One controller alongside a Nintendo Switch controller:

That's a pretty big deal in the world of video games.

Sony and Microsoft and Nintendo are direct competitors in the video game space, and seeing two of them team up against the other to change a pillar of console gaming is more than rare — it's unprecedented. This is not a thing that happens.

For its part, Sony hasn't said much about its stance on multiplayer gaming across platforms. Some PlayStation 4 games, including "Fortnite," allow limited cross-play with PC/Mac and iOS/Android, but not the Xbox One or Nintendo Switch. And, at one point in 2017, "Fortnite" briefly supported cross-play between Xbox One and PlayStation 4 players before it was turned off (Epic Games said it was a bug). 

Which is to say one thing: Cross-play is technically possible, but without Sony's support, PlayStation 4 players are left to play games mostly with other PS4 owners while Xbox One and Nintendo Switch players have a more open experience. 

Check out the full ad right here:

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It's officially the first weekend of summer, and we're here to help you with your binge-watching plans, in case you're the kind of person that prefers air conditioning to the heat. 

Every week, we comb through Netflix's selection to find you a handful of movies to watch over the weekend.

We select a few that have come onto the service within the past week and mix in a couple of old favorites you might have missed.

From rom-com "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days" to indie hit "Tangerine," these are some awesome movies on Netflix that you can watch over the weekend.

Here are seven movies on Netflix you should definitely check out or revisit (along with their Rotten Tomatoes scores and why you should watch):

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"Us & Them" (2018) — a Netflix original

Netflix description: Two strangers meet on a train and form a bond that evolves over the years. After a separation, they reconnect and reflect on their love for each other. 

Critic score: N/A

Audience score: N/A

This love story spans over a decade, and captures the evolution of a romantic relationship perfectly but in a unique, whimsical way. 

"The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" (2009)

Netflix description: When a deal with the devil comes due, the immortal Doctor Parnassus must renegotiate the pact to save his daughter and right the wrongs of his past.  

Critic score: 64%

Audience score: 60%

This was Heath Ledger's last film. It also stars Andrew Garfield (before he was famous), Christopher Plummer, Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell, Jude Law, and Tom Waits. Imaginative but a bit messy narratively, this dark Terry Gilliam film perfectly represents his aesthetic, and is very reminiscent of his earlier work.

"Just Friends" (2005)

Netflix description: Years after high school, a once-portly nice guy comes home for the holidays and reunites with a former crush he still has feelings for. 

Critic score: 42%

Audience score: 71%

This slapstick comedy starring Ryan Reynolds turned him into the star he is because he carries the movie. It's slightly stupid, but just good enough that it's worth revisiting if you haven't seen it in a while. 

• Stephen Colbert joked on Thursday about First Lady Melania Trump's wearing of a jacket that read, "I really don't care, do u?," to visit immigrant children in Texas whom the Trump administration has separated from their parents.
• "I’m going to guess this is one message she did not steal from Michelle Obama," Colbert said.

Stephen Colbert took apart the Trump administration's decision to send First Lady Melania Trump, whom Colbert referred to as Trump's "most high-profile detainee," to visit the immigrant children whom the administration has separated from their parents in Texas as part of a crackdown on illegal immigration. 

"When I heard she was doing this, I thought, okay! This is what First Ladies often do. You go to a troubled area. They see the children. They show that we care. You can’t mess that up," Colbert said on Thursday's "Late Show."

"Guess what? I spoke too soon," he added.

After assuring the audience that his show had repeatedly verified the image "because we thought this has to be fake," Colbert showed pictures of Melania, en route to the detention centers, wearing a jacket that read, "I really don't care, do u?" 

Colbert noted that the First Lady's spokeswoman said in a statement that the jacket had "no hidden message." 

"Right, it's definitely not hidden," Colbert joked. "It's right on the back. And, I'm going to guess this is one message she did not steal from Michelle Obama."

The "Late Show" host then wondered how many staffers would have been fired for such an incident in a previous administration.

"Because, in the middle of the worst moral scandal in recent memory – so bad that her husband backed down for the first time in memory – people who were supposedly on her side let her get on a plane with a jacket that said, 'I really don't care, do you?'"

"For the record: We do," Colbert added.

Watch the monologue below:

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Every week, Business Insider suggests five potentially overlooked movies currently playing in theaters you should check out this weekend.

Some may be harder to find than others, but these movies are the perfect watch if you are looking for plans, especially if you have MoviePass, which lets you see any movie you want in theaters for $10 a month. It's a great way to get you in the theater for movies you may not have considered otherwise.

This week's movies include the beloved Mr. Rogers documentary "Won't You Be My Neighbor?" and Blumhouse's new sci-fi movie "Upgrade."

Below are five movies you can see in theaters this week:

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"American Animals"

Release date: June 1, 2018

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 85%

"American Animals" is the MoviePass-funded film that is actually good ("Gotti," not so much). Featuring a great young cast that includes "American Horror Story's" Evan Peters and "Dunkirk's" Barry Keoghan, "American Animals" is a heist movie based on a true story. Barry Layton's experience with documentary filmmaking shines through the narrative in a very literal way.

Description: "American Animals is the unbelievable but entirely true story of four young men who attempt to execute one of the most audacious art heists in U.S. history. The film centers around two friends from the middle-class suburbs of Lexington, Kentucky. Spencer (Barry Keoghan), is determined to become an artist but feels he lacks the essential ingredient that unites all great artists – suffering. His closest friend, Warren (Evan Peters), has also been raised to believe that his life will be special, and that he will be unique in some way. But as they leave the suburbs for universities in the same town, the realities of adult life begin to dawn on them and with that, the realization that their lives may in fact never be important or special in any way. Determined to live lives that are out of the ordinary, they plan the brazen theft of some of the world’s most valuable books from the special collections room of Spencer's college Library. "

"The Book Club"

Release date: May 18

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 53%

While the movie may not have been well-received by critics, it might appeal to an older audience just looking for a funny, relatable movie with a dynamite cast that includes Jane Fonda and Diane Keaton.

Description: "Diane (Diane Keaton) is recently widowed after 40 years of marriage, Vivian (Jane Fonda) enjoys her men with no strings attached, Sharon (Candice Bergen) is still working through her decades-old divorce, and Carol's (Mary Steenburgen) marriage is in a slump after 35 years. The lives of these four lifelong friends are turned upside down after reading the infamous "50 Shades of Grey," catapulting them into a series of outrageous life choices."

"Hearts Beat Loud"

Release date: June 8, 2018

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 91%

"Hearts Beat Loud" is a new feel-good movie starring "Parks and Rec's" Nick Offerman and rising star Kiersey Clemons. The two play a father-daughter duo who join forces to start a band before Clemons' character leaves for college. If you're looking for a heartwarming and funny family film, this may be for you. 

Description: "In the hip Brooklyn neighborhood of Red Hook, single dad and record store owner Frank (Nick Offerman) is preparing to send his hard-working daughter Sam (Kiersey Clemons) off to college, while being forced to close his vintage shop. Hoping to stay connected through their shared musical passions, Frank urges Sam to turn their weekly "jam sesh" into a father-daughter live act. After their first song becomes an Internet breakout, the two embark on a journey of love, growing up and musical discovery."

• The Showtime documentary "Love Means Zero" (airing Saturday) looks at the career of tennis coach Nick Bollettieri.
• But the main focus of director Jason Kohn's movie is the relationship Bollettieri had with his star student, Andre Agassi.
• Kohn talked to Business Insider about why he had to have a confrontational relationship with the coach to get the movie he wanted.

In the 1990s, there was no bigger coach in tennis than Nick Bollettieri. A charismatic motivator with an oversized ego, he also had a gift for molding raw talent into champions.

At his lauded tennis academy, he launched the careers of tennis legends like Jim Courier, Monica Seles, Mary Pierce, Serena and Venus Williams, Maria Sharapova, and Anna Kournikova. By his count, 180 grand slam titles would come out of players he coached.

But his crown jewel was Andre Agassi. 

Coming to Bollettieri’s school as a teenager, Agassi instantly caught the coach’s eye because he was different. His attitude, his game, it all just shouted superstar. Bollettieri, yearning to be a star himself, put Agassi under his wing and the two became inseparable as his pupil became the hottest thing in the sport. 

However, the good times didn’t last forever. Following two grand slam wins with Agassi, in 1993 Bollettieri shockingly left the player he said he loved like a son. And if that wasn’t heartbreaking enough for Agassi, Bollettieri didn’t give a passionate face-to-face goodbye but instead ended it all via a letter to his star. The two have not been on speaking terms since. 

Now decades later, at the age of 86, Bollettieri agreed to sit down with documentary filmmaker Jason Kohn (“Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)”) to talk about it all. But “Love Means Zero” (airing on Showtime Saturday) is hardly a conventional sports documentary that looks back on the highlights of a legendary career. It’s hard hitting and full of confrontation — just like its subject. 

Kohn admits he didn’t have major aspirations for the project. In many ways he saw it as an opportunity to practice storytelling. Unlike his debut feature film, 2007’s “Manda Bala (Send a Bullet),” a complex telling of corruption and kidnapping in Brazil (it won the documentary grand jury prize at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival), Kohn could see from the start how to tell the story of Bollettieri: be as real as possible.


“The biggest learning opportunity was figuring out how do I make this into a real story,” Kohn told Business Insider. “How do I make this into a protagonist who has really clear specific goals and desires with very clear moments of conflict?”

And that was the initial challenge for Kohn: getting Bollettieri to come on board with his idea.


“I was extraordinarily concerned that if I wasn't able to get something real with Nick that this was just going to be a conventional sports documentary, and that was a genuine fear,” Kohn said. “Even though I knew what the story was I didn't mention to Nick that I knew exactly what the story was I wanted to tell. Rather than say, ‘I want to exclusively tell the story about his relationship with Andre,’ what I told him is I wanted to tell a family story and that I wanted to tell a story about surrogate fathers and sons and the relationships between his players. At that point Nick said to me, ‘Well, what about French Open 1989 when I chose [to coach] Andre [Agassi] over Jim [Courier]? They were both my boys.’ And I was like, ‘Nick, that's a wonderful idea!’ Meanwhile, that was the treatment that I had written.”

With Bollettieri on board with the story, the other challenge was figuring out if Agassi would participate in the movie. Initially, Kohn had the project set up as a “30 for 30” documentary at ESPN. But it became clear that the network was only interested in the movie if Agassi was involved. After a year of back-and-forth discussions with Agassi's manager, Kohn finally got the "no" — Agassi would not be in the movie (Showtime snatched it soon after). 

What Kohn realized in that moment was he had been free of a major restriction: working with a temperamental superstar. He changed his story treatment from a 60-minute documentary to a 90-minute feature doc and began tracking down Bollettieri’s former students. 


Kohn’s confidence in the project came from knowing how he wanted to structure the storytelling of Bollettieri and Agassi’s relationship — using the battle sequences from the Akira Kurosawa samurai classic “Ran” as a model for how to showcase three key Agassi matches — and capitalizing on the on-camera personality that Bollettieri would bring.


But the latter turned out to be more than what Kohn bargained for. In an attempt to get Bollettieri out of his usual soundbite speak, the result was constant arguments caught on camera between the two that aren't just entertaining to watch, but a refreshing subplot to the movie. As most sports documentaries are helmed by directors too busy gushing over their subjects to get them to be revealing, Kohn can be heard off camera pleading with Bollettieri to give him genuine answers to his questions.

Kohn said the key to the whole movie was that his producer Amanda Branson Gill had Bollettieri agree to sit down for two days of interviews. It was vital, because what Kohn realized was almost the entire first day was the famous coach doing the shtick he’d done for interviews for decades.


“I was getting very frustrated,” Kohn said. “Nick is self-mythologizing and when you're taking to people who are good storytellers and who have told the same story over and over and over again the actual story becomes extraordinarily detached from what actually happened. It was pretty boring.”

With visions of a conventional sports doc flashing before his eyes, Kohn at the end of the first day finally began to get Bollettieri out of his interview speak by confronting his subject on camera. Kohn said at the end of filming the first day Bollettieri got out of his seat and said to the crew, “You see that? Jason and I are fighting, it's great!"

“I saw how well he responded to that so the second day of the interview I just went in with the idea that we're going to fight now,” Kohn said. "And that was great, I felt really liberated.”


The result is one of the most powerful sports documentaries you’ll see this year. Through the pressing by Kohn, Bollettieri opens up about the controversial decision to sit in Agassi’s box when he played fellow Bollettieri protégé Jim Courier at the 1989 French Open, why he sent Agassi the letter ending his time as his coach, and why his world-renowned academy ended up not making any money. 

But where we find the macho coach’s most revealing moment is when Kohn asks Bollettieri to read a passage from Agassi’s autobiography, “Open,” in which the star writes an emotional letter directly to his old coach. It shows a rare vulnerable side of Bollettieri leading to him finally saying how he feels about his protégé: that he still cares deeply for Agassi. 

Kohn said he offered Agassi a chance to see “Love Means Zero” at a private screening when it was completed, but the tennis legend declined. Though he would have liked to have known what Agassi thought of the movie, it was more important for Kohn to find out what Bollettieri thought. The director admitted showing the movie to his subject for the first time was a strenuous ordeal.

The small screening included some of Bollettieri’s friends, and at the end it seemed the coach liked it, as he then held court and told stories. Kohn snuck out feeling it all worked well. Then around 10:30 that evening, Bollettieri called Kohn.

“I’m thinking, s---, this is when Nick is going to pull his mafia persona," Kohn said. "And then he gave me a world class Coach Bollettieri ‘I’m proud of you’ speech and I was extraordinarily moved. The fact that I was moved was the most surprising thing to me because I wasn't looking for Nick's approval with this picture. I wasn't looking to make him happy. But that was the last thing about Nick's power as a coach and a motivator that I couldn't grasp until it happened to me. To give me the kind of speech I can only imagine he gave some of his players, I loved it.” 

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• The new Mr. Rogers documentary, "Won't You Be My Neighbor?," has been (almost) universally beloved by critics.
• Only one review has so far been negative.
• The movie has a near-perfect 99% critic score and 98% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.

"Won't You Be My Neighbor?," the beloved Morgan Neville-directed documentary about "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" host Fred Rogers, which both critics and audiences have come to adore, has a near-perfect 99% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes. But one negative review is holding it back from the coveted perfect 100% score.

Dan Schindel for The Film Stage is the only critic out of 134 to give the movie a negative review. In the review, Schindel writes, "there are glimpses of a more complex human being throughout the film, one who would have made for a much better subject."

Schindel goes on to say that the movie "brushes by any details of Rogers’ life which suggest a more complex or flawed individual, such as his sometimes seemingly megalomaniacal devotion to his 'mission' or his pressuring a gay cast member to stay closeted. Despite his bland, wholesome image, there are enough hints of a better portrait that could have been made of Rogers to render this one a disappointment."

He ultimately gave the movie a letter grade of "C." But he seems to be alone in his sentiment, particularly among fellow critics. Audiences are also loving the movie, and it has a 98% audience score out of 971 user ratings as of Friday morning. It recently opened in select theaters nationwide after premiering at the Sundance Film Festival in January.

"Won't You Be My Neighbor?" has been praised by critics for its timely reminder that there is still some humanity left in the world. Deadline calls it the "perfect antidote for the Trump era." Indiewire's David Ehrlich writes, "Mr. Rogers began every show by saying 'Let’s make the most of this beautiful day,' but 'Won’t You Be My Neighbor?' never loses sight of the work required to fulfill that hope."

It's hard to argue with that.

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