• Henry Cavill is reportedly out as Superman, and DC will instead focus on a Supergirl movie.
• But Cavill's Superman wasn't beyond saving, and DC could have learned some lessons from the early years of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
• Chris Hemsworth's Thor was taken in a new direction with "Thor: Ragnarok," and DC could have done something similar with Superman.
• Marvel replaced Edward Norton as the Hulk and hasn't made another Hulk solo movie since 2008, but Superman has proven to be more appealing to audiences.
• The MCU relies on comic books for inspiration, and Superman has 80 years worth of source material to look at.

DC's superhero film universe is in need of saving, but DC and Warner Bros. don't think that's a job for Superman.

On Wednesday, The Hollywood Reporter first reported, which was then followed by other publications like Variety and TheWrap, that Henry Cavill would not be playing the Man of Steel in future films after negotiations fell through for Cavill to cameo in next year's "Shazam!" Instead, Warner Bros., the studio that develops all of DC's film adaptations, will focus on a Supergirl movie about the teenage heroine who is Superman's cousin.

A Warner Bros. spokesperson issued a statement following the reports: "While no decisions have been made regarding any upcoming Superman films, we've always had great respect for and a great relationship with Henry Cavill, and that remains unchanged."

Warner Bros.' statement was neither a denial or a confirmation, but signs indicate that Warner Bros. is indefinitely putting Superman on the backburner: Cavill was just cast in Netflix's "The Witcher" series, and DC has been rethinking its film strategy after the poor reception to "Justice League." Instead of a cinematic universe of connected films similar to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it will focus on standalone stories. 

While the MCU has been a box-office and critical force to be reckoned with that no other studio has been able to compete with, it didn't become that overnight. There are lessons from the evolution of the MCU that DC could have learned from, rather than abandoning its flagship character. Henry Cavill's Superman wasn't beyond saving.

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It may be hard to remember at this point, after both "Black Panther" and "Avengers: Infinity War" broke box-office records this year, but the MCU has had similar problems to DC's that it managed to offset with consistently entertaining, crowd-pleasing films every year. The first two "Thor" movies are two of the worst in the MCU, and "The Incredible Hulk," starring Edward Norton, was a dud.

Thor, even moreso than Superman, is a hard character to translate to the big screen in a convincing way. He's an alien god that few outside of the comic book community knew or cared about before Chris Hemsworth took on the role. It wasn't until last year's "Thor: Ragnarok" that the character found a definitive voice in the MCU, and Hemsworth was allowed to be himself. He's funny, and he brought that to the role.

Cavill was never allowed to embody Superman with much of his own personality, similarly to how Hemsworth didn't in the early "Thor" movies. The Superman of 2013's "Man of Steel" and especially 2016's "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" was a brooding figure, closer to Batman in charisma than what comic book readers, and fans of Christopher Reeve's "Superman" films, were accustomed to. But the MCU didn't give up on Hemsworth's Thor, and DC shouldn't have given up on Cavill's Superman. 

One actor the MCU did give up on was Norton, who was replaced by Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner/Hulk in "The Avengers" and has been in the role since. Norton is known for being a difficult actor to work with, and reportedly clashed with Marvel Studios over the direction of "The Incredible Hulk." That was an instance where parting ways with an actor, and never making a "Hulk" movie again, made sense.

The Hulk has proven to work in a group setting, like the "Avengers" movies, but not in solo films. Before the MCU, Ang Lee directed "Hulk" in 2003, which only made $203 million domestically (adjusted for inflation) and was panned by critics. "The Incredible Hulk," the second movie in the MCU, didn't fare much better. It only made $174 million domestically, and is one of the lowest-grossing and worst-reviewed films in the franchise. 

Superman is a different story.

"Man of Steel" wasn't a box-office smash, but it still made about $670 million worldwide, and raked in $129 million (adjusted) in its opening weekend, which suggested that audiences were interested in a modern Superman movie. It quickly fell at the box office, dropping 65% in its second weekend in theaters, but with stronger reviews it probably could have maintained a larger presence at the box office. 

"Batman v Superman" opened to nearly $180 million (adjusted) at the box office despite horrible reviews, and like "Man of Steel," saw a sharp drop in its following weekends in theaters. But it still made over $870 million worldwide. Apart from "Justice League," in which Superman was absent from all marketing leading up to the movie's release, Cavill's time as Superman was successful enough to give him another shot, and he clearly didn't come with the baggage that someone like Norton did. He's active on social media about his enthusiasm for the role, regularly posting Superman-related images on his Instagram.

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By abandoning Cavill's Superman, DC is abandoning one of the most recognizable characters in pop culture whose comic book roots stretch all the way back to 1938, meaning he's celebrating his 80th anniversary this year. That's a lot of years worth of source material, and something the MCU has done so well is take inspiration from Marvel comic books. Comic events like "Civil War," "Planet Hulk," and "The Infinity Gauntlet" have been loosely adapted, and all DC had to do was look at its own rich library of decades of Superman stories if it wanted to breathe new life into the character for the big screen.

"Man of Steel" came at a time when Warner Bros. thought the answer to its Superman problem was in Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight." Director Zack Snyder, known for the bloody "300" and "Watchmen," resurrected Superman with a darker mood — he kills the villain at the end after a battle that destroys an entire city.

Superman needed a makeover, but it's become clear that audiences want their superheroes to be fun, which is what a Superman movie should be. He's not Batman, and in most ways, he's the antithesis of Batman: hopeful, colorful, and inspiring.

Cavill could have been those things if DC had given him a chance.

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• "The Front Runner" delves into the presidential campaign of Senator Gary Hart in 1987, which ended when it was reported that he had an affair. 
• To give an authentic retelling of the events, director Jason Reitman teamed with veteran politics journalist Matt Bai and strategist Jay Carson to write the screenplay.
• The three told Business Insider how they created the fast-paced, often comedic, look inside the campaign trail.

Jason Reitman knew exactly what was wrong with Matt Bai and Jay Carson’s script the moment he held it in his hands.

“He said, ‘I've got good news and bad news for you, the good news is you guys can write, the bad news is you’ve gotten a lot of Hollywood notes and you’re telling a more conventional story than it deserves,’” Carson recalled to Business Insider in a swanky hotel room in Toronto sitting alongside Reitman and Bai.

Carson looks back on the moment with glee because it marked when he and Bai realized they had finally found someone in the movie business who had the leverage to tell the story they had always wanted to tell.

Bai’s 2014 book, “All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid,” is a deep dive into then-senator Gary Hart’s infamous affair that didn’t just ruin his hopes to become president when he ran in 1987, but changed how politics would be covered by the media forever.

Since Bai, the former chief political correspondent for The New York Times Magazine and now Yahoo’s national political columnist, had been writing the book he and Carson — a former political strategist (he was the inspiration for Ryan Gosling’s character in “The Ides of March”) — had been talking about teaming up to write a movie adaptation of “All the Truth Is Out.”

Over the years they made some progress, but as Reitman saw with a quick glance, a few rounds through the Hollywood spin cycle had turned it into a cookie-cutter political drama.

Around 2016, Reitman read Bai’s book and was hooked. In fact, he instantly took out a legal pad while on a flight and began jotting down the story structure for a movie about the Gary Hart scandal.

Reitman got ahold of Bai and Carson and invited them to his office.

“I said, ‘Let’s watch ‘The Candidate,’” Reitman said, referring to the political drama starring Robert Redford. “We watched it and immediately got into conversations about the core idea of the movie we eventually made, which is how do you present a world where a lot of things are happening and it’s the audience’s job to parse through and think what’s important?”

It was the plan Carson and Bai originally had for the story — capturing the frantic pace of a presidential campaign — and by the time the screenwriters left Reitman’s office, “The Front Runner” was born.

Starring Hugh Jackman as Hart, the movie (which screened at the Toronto International Film Festival and will open in theaters November 21) is a fast-moving, fast-talking look inside Hart’s campaign for president, which starts with him being the favorite to the White House and three weeks later comes to a screeching halt when, in April of 1987, The Miami Herald runs a story from an anonymous source that Hart is having an affair.

The movie’s look at how the reporters got the story, and how Hart dealt with the backlash, is a fascinating moment in politics as it was new for everyone. This marked the moment when a politician’s personal life was as much on the table for the press as their political views.

Or as Reitman put it: “As a filmmaker, I have so many questions about how we got here, today in 2018, and this moment was one of the first times I thought, ‘Here’s a thread I want to pull.’”

But he wanted the audience to feel what it’s really like to be on the campaign trail, and no two other people know that environment better than Bai and Carson. The challenge, though, was to put that constant chatter into script form.

“It’s like writing non-fiction but much harder in the sense that you’re importing a lot of information without wanting anyone to feel you’re talking at them,” Bai said. “We really didn’t want to do bad exposition.”

Often Reitman, Bai, and Carson would sit in a room and just talk about campaign life. At some point Reitman would love something that came up in the conversation and write a line of dialogue on a white board. That would basically be the starting point for a conversation in a scene, and then the three would flesh it out.

“In the movie, there’s a conversation about where to get beer before the stores close, but there’s another about who is going to Miami, and they both are going on at the same time,” Reitman said. “So, ‘Is this place open? Are you going to Miami? It closes after 6. No, Billy is going. Which Billy? Are you sure that place closes at 6?’”

“With all these conversations crossing one another,” Reitman said, “we had to figure out how do you physically write that on the page so someone reading it doesn’t say, ‘What the f--- is going on here?’”

Reitman said the style they came up for the script was having the dual dialogue running parallel, then below that would be the new dialogue that’s brought into the scene, and that was the layout style through the entire 145-page script.

“In a presidential campaign you’re basically cramming two days of work into one day of life,” Carson said. “Everyone talks over each other, we tried to make it feel like that. This movie was PTSD-inducing for Matt and I in many ways.”

And it didn’t get any easier in post production.

To make it so audiences didn’t lose their minds listening to constant chatter for the length of the movie, sound mixer Steven Morrow (“La La Land,” “A Star Is Born”) took the ambitious step of micing every actor in every scene, even the extras in the background just reading magazines from 1987.

Morrow then in post production, almost like Gene Hackman’s Harry Caul character in “The Conversation,” arranged the sound so what is important is heard crisp and clean and will quickly become dull when another line from another character needed to be heard.

“I have video of his fingers on the mixing board like he’s a piano player and adjusting everyone,” Reitman said. “He got to a mix where your ear is going to a place before the camera even gets there. This is not a movie where the camera tells you where to look, this is a movie where your ears tell you where to look.”

With the movie starting to be shown to audiences, it’s clear this is one that will find a lot of attention come Oscar season. But what does Gary Hart think about his past coming back to the fore 31 years later?

Well, Reitman took the movie to Denver before its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival and showed it in a theater just for Hart and his wife, Lee (who just celebrated their 60th anniversary).

“It was the scariest screening of my life,” Reitman said. “We all went for hot chocolates together after the movie and they started talking about the movie just like it was any old movie, which caught me by surprise. They were both impressed with Hugh, and Gary said, ‘Do I really talk like that?’ And Lee was like, ‘Yes, that's exactly how you talk.’ And then he started talking on a larger scale about what the movie was and what it meant to him. I think he felt that the movie got his story closer to the truth.”

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• Kal Penn, the actor who played Kumar in the 2004 cult comedy "Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle," now has a reason to return to the burger chain in real life.
• This week, the chain is adding Silicon Valley's favorite "bleeding" veggie burger from startup Impossible Foods to the menu at all of its nearly 400 restaurants.
  
• Impossible Foods' veggie burger sizzles and tastes like a beef burger thanks to key ingredient heme, and is backed by Bill Gates and Richard Branson.
  

Kumar is going back to White Castle — this time for a Bill Gates-backed veggie burger that "bleeds."

Kal Penn, the actor who played Kumar in the 2004 cult comedy "Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle," now has a reason to return to the burger chain in real life: the long-time vegetarian can chow down on veggie Impossible Burger sliders, which will be available at all of its nearly 400 restaurants nationwide starting Wednesday.

"This is something that’s like, 'Hey you can have the same meat burger — with all the flavor, texture, everything — it’s just not made from a cow, and by the way it’s way better for you and for the planet,'" Penn told Business Insider.

Backed by investors including Bill Gates and Richard Branson, the Impossible Burger sizzles and "bleeds" just like a traditional beef burger when cooked — only the patty is made from vegetarian ingredients like wheat protein and the essential nutrient heme.

After trying the Impossible Burger for the first time in New York and mistaking it for a beef burger, Penn called up a friend, Jake Crumbine, who'd taken on a role as the head of partnerships at Impossible Foods. When he found out how the company was making "legitimate meat from plants," using heme, he decided to invest a small amount in the company.

"I thought I should probably put my money where my mouth is," Penn said.

From homemade veggie patties to Impossible sliders

For the film, "Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle," set workers had to make miniature vegetarian patties to swap out for the beef sliders in the final scene where Harold and Kumar order their meal.

"The person in charge of props went out of her way to make little mini veggie burgers for me," said Penn. "Who would have thought that 14 years later we could be using Impossible Sliders?"

Before rolling out the veggie sliders across all of its restaurants, White Castle tested them out in a six-month pilot at a selection of locations. To White Castle CEO Lisa Ingram's surprise, White Castle fans, or "cravers," loved it.

So the company decided to make the patties available at all of their restaurants for $1.99.

White Castle isn't the only chain that's had success in adding the Impossible Burger to its menu. Fatburger, a regional chain loved by stars like Nicki Minaj and Kanye West, has been "selling the Impossible Burger like crazy," since adding it to its lineup last year, Andy Weiderhorn, the CEO of parent company Fat Brands Inc., told Business Insider.

"We’ve had a whole crop of people who come to our restaurants looking for the Impossible Burger, either never knowing we had veggie burgers before or looking for it specifically," Weiderhorn said.

That's something that can't be said of most vegetarian fast-food options.

"You no longer have to make a choice between something that’s environmentally conscious and something that tastes really good," Penn said.

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• While Ibiza is known as a party capital of the world, many wealthy and famous head to the lesser-known pastoral north of the island to relax.
• One of the most luxurious and secluded resorts on the island is Atzaró Hotel and Spa, an agrotourism resort where Rihanna, Shakira, and other celebs have stayed.
• I recently spent the day at Atzaró to see what it's like to live like a popstar. The food was good, the drinks were strong, and the grounds were stunning.

The Spanish island of Ibiza is world-famous as a vacation and partying hotspot for the wealthy and the famous.

Every summer sees the usual influx of actors, billionaires, and models and their entourages flooding in for wild parties at the island's bumping clubs and beautiful beaches.

But what if you are looking for something a bit more secluded, classy, and chic? Ibiza has that, too.

Enter the Atzaró Hotel and Spa, an agrotourism resort hidden in the northern countryside of the island. Considered one of the more prestigious hotels on the island, the resort opened in 2004 after being converted from a 300-year-old traditional farmhouse into the lavish 10-acre estate and gardens it is now.

The hotel's hidden, serene location has made it a favorite of celebrities ranging from popstars Rihanna and Shakira to actress Kate Hudson, among others. 

I recently visited Atzaró Hotel and Spa on a recent trip to Spain. Keep reading to see what it's like:

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Getting to Atzaró is a bit of a schlep. Located near Santa Eularia des Riu in the north of the island, it was a 30-minute ride from Sant Antoni de Portmany, one of the major towns on the island. It's about the same distance from Ibiza Town.

The drive there was gorgeous. The ride revealed a lush, green countryside that I didn't even know existed on Ibiza. Located down a small country road, Atzaró is named after the mountain behind the property.

The property was originally a finca, or Spanish farmhouse, built some 300 years ago, that served as the family home of owner and CEO Victor Guasch.

• Aaron Paul has been cast in "Westworld" season three as a series regular, according to Deadline.
• Paul won three Emmys for his portrayal of Jess Pinkman on "Breaking Bad."
• "Westworld" is nominated for 21 Emmys this year for its second season.

A "Breaking Bad" star is joining "Westworld."

According to Deadline, Aaron Paul has been cast in season three of the HBO sci-fi drama as a series regular.  

Paul won three supporting actor Emmys for his role as Jesse Pinkman in AMC's hit drama, "Breaking Bad." Since the show ended in 2013, Paul has had a role in Hulu's "The Path," which ended this year with its third season, and stars in Apple's upcoming anthology series, "Are You Sleeping?"

"Westworld" is nominated for 21 Emmys this year for its second season, including best drama series, best actress Evan Rachel Wood, best actors Jeffrey Wright and Ed Harris, and best supporting actress Thandie Newton. 

The 70th Emmys air live on NBC on September 17 at 8 p.m. ET.

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• "Venom" is officially rated PG-13, not R as some fans expected.
• According to Erik Davis, managing editor of Fandango, it's so that "Venom and Spider-Man can face off at some point down the line."
• Sony's deal with Marvel Studios allows Sony to develop its own Spider-Man movies while the character is included in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

It looks like some fans aren't getting the R-rated "Venom" movie they anticipated.

"Venom," which comes to theaters next month, is officially rated PG-13. According to Erik Davis, the managing editor of movie-ticketing website Fandango, it's because the studio, Sony, wants the character to meet the more family-friendly Spider-Man in future movies.

Davis tweeted on Thursday, "#Venom is officially rated PG-13. Hearing from studio sources the reason is so that Venom and Spider-Man can face off at some point down the line. If the movie is R, it’s hard to do that."

The "X-Men" franchise has managed to balance both PG-13 rated and more violent R-rated movies like "Logan" and "Deadpool," but it appears that Sony doesn't want to take that risk with "Venom."

Venom is one of Spider-Man's most popular villains in the comics books, but has also been depicted as an anti-hero, and that seems to be the direction the movie is going. The character debuted in 1984 and was first portrayed on the big screen by Topher Grace in "Spider-Man 3."

Sony, which has held onto the Spider-Man film right since 2002's "Spider-Man," made a deal with Marvel Studios in 2015 in which Marvel could include its own version of Spider-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (played by Tom Holland) while Sony retained distribution rights and final creative control over "Spider-Man" films. That means Sony was still free to develop movies based on Spider-Man characters while the wallcrawler himself showed up in the MCU.

It also means that there's a possibility for Spider-Man to show up in a "Venom" movie, or any other Sony-developed Spider-Man movie. There's a lot of questions that would raise though: Would Sony cast its own Spider-Man separate from Holland's version? Would Holland reprise his role as the character, and would that mean the movies would be part of the MCU?

Those questions aren't likely to be answered any time soon, but audiences can expect a light "Venom" movie in the meantime.

"Venom" comes to theaters October 5.

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Prince Harry turns 34 on Saturday, September 15, just a few months after marrying 37-year-old actress Meghan Markle in a highly anticipated royal wedding in Windsor on Saturday, May 19.

While His Royal Highness Prince Henry of Wales is certainly still young, he's already had a pretty incredible life, which is only set to continue into his and Markle's married life as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.

Aside from his high-profile relationship, Prince Harry travels the world — both with the royal family and as part of this charity efforts — and often competes in Champagne-filled sporting tournaments.

His life hasn't been without hardships, either. He and brother Prince William both struggled with their mental health after the death of their mother, Princess Diana, in 1997.

To commemorate his birthday, we've found the best photos from every single year of Prince Harry's remarkable life. Scroll down to take a look.

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Harry was born on September 15, 1984. Here he is with his mother, Princess Diana, and brother, Prince William.

AGE 1: Harry with Queen Sofia and King Juan Carlos of Spain, Prince William, Diana, and his father, Prince Charles, at the Marivent Palace in Palma de Mallorca on July 9, 1986.

AGE 2: The Princess of Wales holds Prince Harry at the Royal Palace, Majorca, Spain on August 9, 1987.

Warner Bros. is on a box-office win streak. The studio has released three films in the last two months — "The Meg," "Crazy Rich Asians," and "The Nun" — that have landed it at the top of the box office for five weeks in a row.

The only other studio to do that this year was Disney with "Black Panther," which went five straight weeks at the top once it debuted in February. 

Not only has Warner Bros. dominated the domestic box office, but Exhibitor Relations analyst Jeff Bock told Business Insider it has also reigned supreme recently because its movies appeal to foreign audiences.

"It's the sort of play that many studios have been going after, by not casting people just so it will do well in North America, but throughout the world," Bock said.

"The Meg," which was a coproduction with a Chinese company and starred multiple Asian actors, has grossed nearly $500 million worldwide. "Crazy Rich Asians," which is the first Hollywood movie in 25 years to feature an all-Asian cast, has been steady domestically, dropping just 6% and 11% in its second and third weekends after a strong opening.

"The Nun," the latest movie in the "Conjuring" universe, opened this past weekend with $53.8 million, a franchise best despite poor reviews. Bock said it was helped by a lackluster summer for horror, and Latino audiences. It could be dethroned this weekend when Fox's "The Predator" comes to theaters, but if not, "The Nun" will break Warner Bros.' tie with Disney.

We looked back at what was at the top of the box office the last five weekends and how much money the movie made:

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August 10-12: "The Meg"

Weekend box office: $45,402,195 (Opening weekend)

Number 2: "Mission: Impossible — Fallout" ($19,352,090)

August 17-19: "Crazy Rich Asians"

Weekend box office: $26,510,140 (Opening weekend)

Number 2: "The Meg" ($21,151,012)

August 24-26: "Crazy Rich Asians"

Weekend box office: $24,808,202 (only a 6.4% decrease from opening)

Number 2: "The Meg" ($12,812,615)

• Unity Technologies offers the most popular software used to develop mobile video games.
• But the company's long-term future lies outside the game industry, company CEO John Riccitiello told Business Insider.
• The company's tools are already being used to do things such as offer virtual tours of new buildings and real-estate developments.
• But its opportunity outside the game industry isn't a sure thing; it already faces competition from companies that have long catered to the types of enterprise clients that Unity is targeting.

There's a good chance that the last mobile video game you played was powered by Unity Technologies, the 3D engine used in most of the industry's smartphone games, from "Pokemon Go" to "Super Mario Run"

But if Unity CEO John Riccitiello's bet pays off, you could soon end up benefiting from the company's software when you repair a leaky pipe in your house, customize your next car, or get a preview of your next house.

Riccitiello, who took the reins at Unity four years ago, believes that traditional businesses— such as construction, car design, and film making — will eventually replace video games as Unity's main customer base and source of revenue. 

That's a bold prediction coming from a veteran of the game industry —Riccitiello served as President of gaming giant EA in the late 1990s and served as CEO from 2007 to 2014, a span of time in which EA's annual revenue swelled into the billions of dollars.

"There's a massive amount of interest from a bunch of different industries," Riccitiello said in an interview last week with Business Insider.

Unity offers a development environment that's designed for creating virtual three-dimensional spaces. It started off in the mobile world, and more smartphone games are made with its technology than with any other gaming engine, according to the company and analysts.

But it turns out that the same tools that can be used to create 3D mobile games can also be used for other applications. Unity started to take an early lead among developers of virtual and augmented reality apps, for example. And because its tools can be used to create virtual objects, structures, and worlds, they can be used to do everything from offer virtual tours to allowing consumers to customize products such as bicycles or cars.

This use of Unity's software outside of gaming is just getting started, Riccitiello acknowledges. And it's unclear how long it will take before the company see significant revenue from outside the gaming industry. But he insists it will happen eventually.

Riccitiello thinks Unity's software could be the next Photoshop

He compared Unity's development tools to Adobe's Photoshop. After it launched in 1990, Photoshop first got traction in the fashion industry, Riccitiello said. People criticized and made fun of the industry for using it to digitally alter pictures of models to hide their flaws or to make them skinnier.

Now, nearly 30 years later, Photoshop is the core piece of Adobe's business and is used by companies in basically every industry, Riccitiello said. Companies need to be on the web, which means they need a tool to edit the pictures they post on their sites, which leads them to get Photoshop, he said.

"It's everywhere," Riccitiello said.

The same will eventually be true for tools like Unity's that allow companies to create applications with 3D images and to build environments that can be rendered in real-time, he said.

"Real-time 3D is going have an arc that's not unlike Photoshop," he said. "You're going to need it for just about everything."

In the near term, Unity is biggest opportunity outside of gaming is likely in areas such as architecture, construction, and engineering, Riccitiello said. Workers in those industries have long been working with computerized 3D models and related tools, he said.

Riccitiello declined to make any concrete predictions about when Unity's software would reach the same kind of broad adoption as Photoshop, saying only that he didn't think it will take as long.

"If you ask in me in 20 years, I know that other industries will be bigger" for Unity than the gaming industry, he said. "If you ask me in five years, I'm not sure."

But some industry analysts aren't convinced that the opportunity for Unity outside gaming will be as big as Riccitiello expects.

Unity faces lots of competition outside of the games business

Much of the expected use of Unity's tools outside of gaming will be to create augmented- and virtual-reality apps and experiences. Augmented reality involves the layering of virtual information and objects over real-world views. Experts on the technology think it could be used to offer tourists information about the cities they visit as they walk around them and to allow customer service specialists to remotely help consumers fix plumbing or equipment problems.

In some cases, augmented-reality applications will need to be able to display three-dimensional virtual objects, said Lewis Ward, a research director at IDC, a tech industry consulting firm. Unity's tools will come in handy on those. But many AR apps will only need to be able to display text or two-dimensional images, he said.

"If you're only overlaying data on a screen, you don't really need a game engine," Ward said. "You can use a much simpler piece of software."

Unity might find find more opportunity with companies looking to build experiences that are closer to virtual-reality, in which users are completely ensconced in an artificial environment, Ward said. Virtual-reality experiences are very similar to video games and rely on similar tools, he said. And Unity, whose software supports many of the VR headsets on the market, has an early lead in the business of virtual-reality development tools, Ward said.

Creating virtual worlds is "what a game engine does really well," he said.

However, even if they are interested in making apps with three-dimensional objects and virtual worlds, non-gaming companies could be reluctant to rely on Unity's tools, said Marty Resnick, a research director at Gartner, another industry consulting firm. Enterprise companies tend to be conservative about adopting new technologies and frequently stick with their established partners.

And those partners are doing what they can to convinces their clients to stay with them, even as they begin to experiment with augmented reality. Oracle, Kony, Mendix, and other firms that specialize in helping enterprises develop apps are building tools into them to allow customers to add AR features, noted Resnick.

"That's what Unity's competition is going to be" as it tries to make headway out of the game industry, he said. He continued: "There's a comfort level with existing enterprise software providers."

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• Kristen Stewart and Chloë Sevigny star in this thriller that looks back on the infamous Borden family murders.
• Both actresses give chilling performances.

Every weekend we pick an indie movie currently playing in theaters we think is definitely worth your time and money, and this week's is "Lizzie."

If you are looking for a creepy psychological thriller, this weekend has a good one. 

"Lizzie" is the latest dive into the infamous murders of Fall River, Massachusetts' wealthiest family, the Bordens, in 1892. Chloë Sevigny stars as Lizzie Borden, the main suspect of the axe murders of her father and step-mother. She was later tried and acquitted of the murders.

Centuries since there have been songs, shows, books, and movies focused on the murders. This latest delves into the theory that Lizzie didn't work alone.

Alongside Sevigny in the movie is Kristen Stewart, who plays Bridget Sullivan, the maid who was the only other person at home of the time of the murders. 

Director Craig William Macneill delivers a creepy tale in which the the social outcast Lizzie finds comfort in the arms of Bridget and the two begin a heated secret love affair. But under the roof of her controlling father, Lizzie will never be truly happy. This leads to the axe murders, which are extremely graphic and with no score to accompany them feel very realistic. 

Stewart and Sevigny give strong performances and if period pieces are your thing, this one has fantastic production design of the era. 

See where "Lizzie" is playing near you.

Our indie movie picks from previous weekends:

• "Eighth Grade"
• "Blindspotting"
• "The Miseducation of Cameron Post"
• "BlacKkKlansman"
• "Support the Girls"
• "Sorry to Bother You"
• "Operation Finale"

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• The second season of "American Vandal" became available on Netflix Friday. 
• This time, the fictional documentary centers on a vandal called The Turd Burglar.
• The season leans into its poop jokes and cultural commentary, and is even better than the first season.

Halfway through watching season two of Netflix’s “American Vandal," I paused the show and screamed in delight at the well-executed poop humor — to no one except my dog.

All eight episodes of the second season of the critically acclaimed Netflix satire are available Friday. Season two currently has a 94% on Rotten Tomatoes.

“American Vandal” season one was my favorite television show of 2017. It touched on the worst parts of our culture’s obsession with true crime, and made bold, obvious jabs at Netflix’s own original documentary show, “Making a Murderer.” 

The fittingly poop-themed season two, which follows The Turd Burglar, a vandal who has successfully played out four poop crimes including poisoning students with laxatives in the cafeteria — is even better than the first.

Without an obligation to directly satirize a specific show like the first season did, “American Vandal” gets the chance to expand what this show is capable of exploring. By changing its setting from a public high school in Southern California to a private Catholic school in the Pacific Northwest, “American Vandal” has the chance to ambitiously tackle corrupt school systems, false confessions, and catfishing. Since season one already covered it, there’s less analysis and comedy related to the way teens use social media.

It’s still a riot, and is a strong case for why poop jokes are funny, and always will be. The poop humor in season two of “American Vandal” is the best poop humor since Maya Rudolph in 2011’s “Bridesmaids." You know the scene.

Like season one, there’s once again a student who might have been falsely accused because of his reputation. You’ll fall in love with the brilliant Travis Tope, who plays Kevin McClain, a lonely, quirky student obsessed with tea who gives a false confession after hours of interrogation.

I won’t go into much more detail about the season’s plot, because spoiling it would be rude. But the characters are once again, so specific. Everyone will know someone, from the teens to the teachers to the parents. This is especially true for those who, like me, went to a Catholic school that cares about its basketball program more than education (which is something I wish season two spent a little more time diving deeper into).

It's fitting that Netflix's great satire series returned for season two only weeks after its misfire, "Insatiable," which tried to do what "American Vandal" does for true crime but for body image. While watching season two of "American Vandal," I kept thinking about why this satire works and "Insatiable" didn't. And it's because "American Vandal" doesn't look for the laughs: It prioritizes its message and story, and the comedic elements come naturally. 

“American Vandal” season two is even better than the first, and establishes this show as one of the best comedies on television right now. And despite its absurd poop humor, it is a sharp commentary on today’s culture, gives young people a voice, and shows they’re more than just Instagram-obsessed people who think Facebook is lame.

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• Nicolas Cage gives one of his most insane performances in "Mandy."
• But it's the director of the movie, Panos Cosmatos, and coping with the passing of his parents, that led to Cage's wild role.

There aren’t many who can top Nicolas Cage in the crazy department, but the actor met his match with director Panos Cosmatos.

The filmmaker has built a fan base thanks to his beautifully demented storytelling, and that’s only with one feature film under his belt.

2010’s “Beyond the Black Rainbow,” Cosmatos’ feature debut, gave audiences a twisted and visually stunning sci-fi movie about one young woman’s journey to escape a weird institute run by an even weirder doctor. With the beautiful sets and costumes matched with the trippy music and cinematography, it was evident that Cosmatos was a new original voice to genre filmmaking.

Eight years later, Cosmatos has finally returned with a new movie, “Mandy” (opening in theaters on Friday). And though this one continues his love of strange characters, gorgeous visuals, and thrilling soundtrack (this time using rock and roll versus the electronica sound of “Black Rainbow”), it will get a bigger profile with the casting of Cage as the star of the movie.

Here Cage plays Red Miller, a quiet man who lives in California’s Shadow Mountains where he cuts down trees with a chainsaw all day, and every night he comes home to Mandy (Andrea Riseborough), his true love. However, when a religious cult kills Mandy, Red goes into a psychotic rage, killing everyone (human and supernatural) that was involved in her death. That includes battling bad guys with an axe he built himself and having a chainsaw duel.

But behind the insanity in both “Beyond the Black Rainbow” and “Mandy” is a lot of pain. Cosmatos channeled the depression of losing both of his parents in the last decade into writing the scripts for the movies.

The loss of his father was particularly tough, seeing his connection to movies. George P. Cosmatos died in 2005 and was the director of such classic Hollywood titles as “Rambo: First Blood Part II,” “Cobra,” “Leviathan,” and “Tombstone.”

“My love of movies comes from him,” Cosmatos said of his father to Business Insider. “He loved movies more than anything. He was obsessed with them. We watched them together up until the end.”

He said blackout drinking binges with friends was how he dealt with the loss of his mother, but after his father died he turned to storytelling, writing “Black Rainbow” and “Mandy” simultaneously.

“I wasn’t aware of the therapeutic aspect of it at the time, but it helped me get through in a big way,” Cosmatos said of the scriptwriting.

“Black Rainbow” got off the ground quicker financially, so it was made first. When Cosmatos went back to the “Mandy” script, he realized he couldn’t finish it.

“Me writing ‘Black Rainbow’ was me alone in a windowless room going insane,” he said. For "Mandy" he needed to be collaborative.

He brought on his friend, filmmaker Aaron Stewart-Ahn, to finish the script with him. And Cosmatos also felt that once he cast the Red Miller part there would also be a collaboration there.

Though it would take years, the money to make “Mandy” finally came when Cage signed on. Cosmatos said at first the two had an impasse as Cage wanted to play Red, though he wanted Cage to play the cult leader Jeremiah. But Cosmatos said it was a dream one night where he saw Cage as Red that sold him that he needed him to play the role.

The two got together and fleshed out the rest of the Red character. And though some of the most bizarre parts of the movie seem like classic Cage, in fact, they came from Cosmatos.

The scene when Red goes into the bathroom to take a bottle of vodka he’s hid away and beings to chug it, pour it all over his wounds, and scream throughout was all Cosmatos’ idea.

“I always wanted to have a scene that felt like that lost decade of mine and evokes me drinking with my friends in a desperate attempt to black out my consciousness,” he said.

And there’s the first line Cage delivers in the movie. He walks into the house, sees Mandy, and does a knock-knock joke:

Red: Knock-knock.

Mandy: Who’s there?

Red: Erik Estrada.

Mandy: Erik Estrada who?

Red: Erik Estrada from “CHiPs.”

That was not improvised but from the script.

“When he came on the movie I went through the script and rewrote some of the dialogue,” Cosmatos said, pointing out that the knock-knock joke was something his friend said that he never forgot. “Some of the things I just wanted to hear Nicolas Cage deliver."

Cosmatos doesn’t know what movie he will do next. In many ways his first two movies have gotten him over the dark times in his life. But one thing he knows for sure is he won’t be doing anything for a Hollywood studio. That’s one of his biggest memories from watching his father work when he was a kid.

“What I learned about the industry was listening to him argue with people on the phone,” he said. “Battling with producers and executives for creative freedom. That’s very important to me.”

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Marvel's "Spider-Man" video game released last Friday in the US exclusively on PlayStation 4, and it's already massively successful. 

The game has an 87 on review-aggregator site Metacritic. Game Informer called the game "a triumph of superheroes and storytelling" and GamesRadar said it's "about as good as superhero gaming gets." The game's first-week sales in the UK were better than any other game released this year; its launch numbers in the US are expected soon, and to be stellar.

It would be shocking if Marvel wasn't looking at the results and considering the video-game possibilities for other superheroes. After the success of the "Spider-Man" game, and with Marvel's characters more popular than ever thanks to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it seems inevitable.

Fortunately, Marvel retains the video-game rights to all of its characters, which avoids the kinds of difficulties that the films have faced — until the recent Disney-Fox merger, Fox owned the film rights to the X-Men and Fantastic Four, and Sony, which owned the Spider-Man film rights, made a deal with Marvel so the character could debut in the MCU.

Below are nine characters that Marvel should seriously consider for video games:

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Black Panther

The "Black Panther" movie made over $1 billion worldwide and has become a cultural phenomenon with Oscar buzz. An open-world game based on the character, where the player can explore Wakanda as King T'Challa (and maybe even play as Shuri in the science lab for a bit), would be a hit.

Black Widow

Black Widow hasn't gotten her solo movie yet (it's in development), but she'd be a blast to play as in a video game, maybe one that bounces back and forth between her present life as a S.H.I.E.L.D agent and her previous life as a Russian spy. Stealth would obviously be a huge factor in the gameplay (think "Tomb Raider").

Captain America

A World War II-set video game like "Call of Duty" (with less killing, obviously) but you play as Captain America? It seems like a no brainer.

There's too much to stream across all platforms, and Netflix is overwhelming on its own. Thankfully, we're here to make sure you spend more time watching movies than choosing them.

Every week, we look through what's available on the streaming service and recommend seven movies you can watch over the weekend.

Some of our selections recently came to Netflix and some have been available for awhile — you might have just missed them because Netflix's algorithm thought you wouldn't like them.

From the Rian Johnson's directorial debut "Brick" to to awful but somehow rewatchable "Spider-Man 3," these are some awesome movies on Netflix you can watch this weekend.

Here are seven movies on Netflix you should check out (along with their scores from Rotten Tomatoes).

Note: Not all of these films are available in countries outside the United States. Apologies!

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"Brick" (2006)

Netflix description: Teenage loner Brendan Fry navigates his high school's intense social network to discover a killer's identity after his secret crush is murdered.

Critic score: 79%

Audience score: 86%

"Brick" is many things. But most importantly it's a film noir set in a high school, Rian Johnson's impressive directorial debut, and it's really good, especially for a such an ambitious director's first feature film.

"The Breakfast Club" (1985)

Netflix description: The athlete, the brain, the criminal, the princess and the basket case break through the social barriers of high school during Saturday detention.

Critic score: 88%

Audience score: 92%

You know this movie. It's so rewatchable, relatable, and a perfect representation of the 80s. If you haven't watched it in a while, give it a shot. And if you've never seen it, watch it now please. 

"Spider-Man 3" (2007)

Netflix description: The seemingly invincible Spider-Man goes up against an all-new crop of villains in the third installment of the blockbuster adventure series.

Critic score: 63%

Audience score: 51%

"Spider-Man 3" is a horrible movie with too many villains. But it is so deliciously fun to hate-watch. Even if you saw the movie and hated it at the time, you won't believe it when you watch again. The picture featured above is not a mistake. It is from a scene where Peter Parker dances around Manhattan, being really creepy to women right before he goes through an emo phase that lasts for a few scenes. 

• DC Comics has released its new streaming service, DC Universe.
• The subscription service costs $7.99 per month or $74.99 annually, and will feature original live action and animated series from the world of DC Comics, along with digital comics and classic TV series and films.

DC Entertainment and Warner Bros. new streaming service, DC Universe, is now live to the public. 

The subscription service costs $7.99 per month or $74.99 annually, and will feature original live action and animated series from the world of DC Comics. 

The service's first live-action original series, "Titans," will premiere October 12, with each of its 12 episodes released weekly.

Currently, the service features access to classic TV series and films, a curated selection of digital comic books, a DC-centric encyclopedia, and exclusive merchandise, per a release from Warner Bros. 

"DC Universe is not an attempt to be everything to everyone," Jim Lee, CCO of DC Entertainment and a veteran comic book artist, told Business Insider's Travis Clark last month. "It's an attempt to be the most immersive experience for fans of the DC characters and stories."

"We've always been very cognizant that fans want to find our material in a way that's most convenient and find it in the most easily accessible way," Lee continued. "It's always sort of a mandate to look at technology and trends and figure out the best way to deliver content."

Warner Bros. digital networks president Craig Hunegs said in a release on Friday that the service "stands out as a fan-first service in what is quickly becoming a crowded marketplace of consumer choices."

Following "Titans," the service said it will release a number of original series including "Young Justice: Outsiders," "Doom Patrol," "Swamp Thing," "Harley Quinn" and "Stargirl."

Check out the service on its website. 

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The Emmys are pretty much the Oscars for television. Winning an Emmy is the biggest award an actor can win for their work on the small screen. 

And when there's a show or a performance Emmy voters love, it often gets multiple nominations and wins.

We collected a list of the actors with the most Emmys, from Mary Tyler Moore to Bryan Cranston to Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

Louis-Dreyfus is in a tie with Cloris Leachman for eight Emmy wins as a performer, and she already has the record for most overall when including her awards as a producer. "Veep" didn't air its final season this TV season, so she's not up for another Emmy on Monday night. But she will likely win and break another record next year.  

The total Emmy wins listed aren't exclusively for performances: some on this list have won for writing, directing, or producing — Bryan Cranston was a producer on "Breaking Bad," Julia Louis-Dreyfus is an executive producer for "Veep" — but the majority of the Emmys are for acting. 

Here are the actors who have the most Emmy awards: 

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17. Honorable mention: Angela Lansbury — 0 wins and 17 nominations

Lansbury has been nominated for seventeen Emmys without a win, including twelve consecutive nominations for every season of "Murder, She Wrote." One day!

16. Don Knotts — 5 wins and 5 nominations (perfect record)

Winning performances: "The Andy Griffith Show"

15. John Larroquette — 5 wins and 7 nominations

Winning performances: "The Practice," "Night Court"

While some Emmy darlings are expected and obvious, you might be surprised that some of your favorite shows of all time don't have as many Emmys as you think think — or any at all.

"Friends" only won six Emmys during its run and "Seinfeld" only won ten. How about HBO's critically-acclaimed series "The Wire?" Zero wins, two nominations. 

But some audience and critic favorites do make the list for the most Emmy wins ever. "Game of Thrones" is incredibly close to breaking "SNL's" record. "Breaking Bad," "Mad Men," and "Frasier" were also consistent favorites during awards season, and it shows in their double-digit wins and for some, three-digit nominations. 

The 70th annual Emmy Awards begin at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on Monday night, and will air live coast-to-coast on NBC. 

Here are the 19 shows with the most Emmy wins:

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"Breaking Bad" — 16 wins and 58 nominations

"Breaking Bad" won outstanding drama series twice for the fifth and final season, since it was split in two. Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul won three Emmys for their roles. 

"30 Rock" — 16 wins and 103 nominations

"30 Rock" was once an Emmys darling. Its first season got ten Emmy nominations, and it got 17 in its second season. The show won outstanding comedy series three years in a row. 

"Mad Men" — 16 wins and 116 nominations

Jon Hamm had a lot of competition in the lead actor in a drama category, so after seven nominations, he didn't get his first win until his final shot in 2015. In its first four seasons, "Mad Men" won outstanding drama. The show also won several awards for writing, directing, and hairstyling.

Monique Ganderton has been fighting and falling in films and TV for the past 15 years. As a stunt performer, she has been a stunt double for Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Cara Delvigne, Mandy Moore, and Sigourney Weaver. She was most recently named as Marvel's first female stunt coordinator. Ganderton tells us how the action comes to life in movies. Following is a transcript of the video.

Monique Ganderton: I've been working for, you know, 15 years as a stunt performer on a variety of sets all over the world. Majority of the day is you're fighting and falling.

"Atomic Blonde"...I am so proud of that movie. So, we had this stairwell scene, this fight, that in the script was she shoots two guys. But, you know, we were talking to Dave and we were like, "Hey, you know, what if we do this epic fight scene?" We actually went to the stairwell and we shot it how we would shoot it on set. So, we call this a previs, a stunt previs, and then we have Charlize go in and shoot the first section until it was good, sometimes 15 to 20 takes for each section, because it had to be perfect. They put me in when it was the — you know, throwing — getting thrown down the stairs, and getting thrown into the wall, and then back to Charlize's section. I'm so proud of that sequence. I think we really accomplished something incredible.

She's beautiful, but she is tough. She wants to be good. She wants to do everything. And she was there, all the time, in the gym with us, and you know, the Tom Cruises and the Angelina Jolies and Charlize and Keanu, like, they're all very athletic and very talented. The problem is they can't do all their own stunts because of liability, and, you know, you can't — you just can't do that.

I get excited, but I'm not nervous. I don't fear the stunt. And I just go through the stunt in my mind. I make sure everything — all the rigging looks good. And then you just go, "Okay, cool, call action." Like, "I'm ready, let's do this."

So, I probably worked for 10 years without my family really knowing what I was doing. Now my mom works in film, though, so she sees everything. She once brought me my grenade launcher. That was pretty hilarious. Like, "Mom, I need my grenade launcher!"

My story is: I was modeling, and so, all the models were taking acting classes, and they were, you know, being extras on set to make extra money. And I saw this girl roll down some stairs, and shoot some guns, and beat up some dudes, and I was like, "I want to do that."

You know, most of my training was in the park by myself, running and falling over and over and over again until it felt natural. I have probably fallen thousands of times.

Sometimes I am the only woman in the room. There's definitely a lack of female leadership in our stunt industry. So, you know, you're falling, but you're falling in a skirt all the time. You know, I go into the costumes, and I go, "No skirts. We're going to do pants now." But I think it's changing, and I was the first female stunt coordinator that Marvel has hired. As a stunt coordinator, you're taking on the responsibility of designing all the action, the stunt action, making sure it's as safe as possible, and then coming up with some really creative way to tell the story through action.

The riskiest stunt, I think, that I've done is in— we were shooting in Bulgaria, and I was driving a two-horse chariot at a full gallop. I had to jump from the chariot to the horse and it was just me in the chariot. That one got me going, like, "Whew, okay." As soon as they call action, you just, you have to commit.

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Nintendo just announced a mess of new stuff — from a brand new game starring Luigi to a long-awaited new entry in the "Animal Crossing" franchise. And that's barely scratching the surface!

In just over half an hour in a "Nintendo Direct" video presentation on Thursday evening, Nintendo pulled back the curtain on a variety of exciting new games coming to the Nintendo Switch this year and next.

Let's dive in:

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1. A new "Luigi's Mansion" game, this time for the Nintendo Switch.

If you're old like me, you may remember playing an early Nintendo GameCube game named "Luigi's Mansion." It came out way back in 2001!

It wasn't anything like a typical Super Mario game — instead of jumping on Goombas and clearing treacherous gaps, Luigi was sneaking around a haunted mansion with a flashlight and a vacuum. His goal: Stun the villainous ghosts with his flashlight, then vacuum them up. Naturally!

The game got a sequel, many years later: "Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon" for the Nintendo 3DS console. But the series has been absent from a Nintendo home console since that original game. Soon, in 2019, a third entry in the series is finally coming: "Luigi's Mansion 3." 

In the brief video shown, the game looks like a much prettier version of the previous games — which makes a lot of sense, as it's planned for launch in 2019 on the Nintendo Switch.

Check out "Luigi's Mansion 3" in action right here:

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2. A brand new "Animal Crossing" game.

A brand new "Animal Crossing"? Yes, a brand new "Animal Crossing"! If there's one game that Nintendo Switch owners have been clamoring for, it's a new "Animal Crossing" game.

The beloved home-making game that's endeared so many fans across nearly 20 years is finally coming to the Nintendo Switch. The tiny bit of tease that Nintendo offered during its Nintendo Direct presentation isn't intended to directly represent gameplay, but I'd be surprised if it didn't look similar when the game arrives at some point in 2019.

• AMC's "The Terror" is an amazing limited series starring some familiar faces from "Game of Thrones" and "Mad Men." 
• It premiered to high critical acclaim in March, but earned zero Emmy nominations.
• Its lack of nominations is a disgrace, and the biggest snub of the year. 
• The historical-fiction series is a sci-fi horror twist on the stories of real people who went on an expedition to the Arctic and never returned.

AMC's historical-fiction series "The Terror" is the best new TV show of the year so far, and critics loved it when it premiered in March. But in an upsetting twist, "The Terror," which should have dominated all of the limited series categories at the 2018 Emmys, isn't even nominated for one. 

Set in the Canadian Arctic, "The Terror" follows a British expedition stuck in ice, haunted by a horrifying creature. The show is terrifying and impeccably made — from the sets to the costumes to the performances. It is truly unlike anything else on television no, or ever before. 

The first season of "The Terror" stars some of your favorite British actors, including a few from "Game of Thrones" like Ciaran Hinds (Mance Rayder), Tobias Menzies (Edmure Tully), and Clive Russell (The Blackfish). Jared Harris, who played Lane Pryce on AMC's "Mad Men," is the star, and deserved a nomination for best actor in a limited series. 

The series, which premiered on March 26, is based on the 2007 Dan Simmons novel of the same name; both are fictionalized accounts of Sir John Franklin's lost expedition. In May, when the finale aired, Business Insider spoke with David Kajganich, the creator of the series, who said that the show had been in the works for a decade.

The story, however, dates back to the late 1800s.

In 1845, Franklin (Hinds on the show) led the HMS Terror and the HMS Erebus on an Arctic expedition to explore the Northwest Passage. After a few men died, both ships got stuck in ice, and not one person out of 129 ever returned. The remains of the ships were found recently: the Terror in 2016 and the Erebus in 2014. There has always been a lot of speculation about what happened to the lost explorers, and "The Terror" imagines they were hunted by a supernatural being.

"The Terror," which manages to look horrifying and gorgeous at the same time, was (amazingly) not shot outside, though most of the series is set in the open Arctic. What you mostly see are stunning visual effects. 

The AMC anthology series was so successful that the network picked it up for another season in June, with new writers and a new cast. Season two will be a completely new story that's set at a Japanese internment camp during World War II. Similarly to season one, it will depict a dark and disturbing real-life event with an out-of-reality horror elements. 

Here are some of the best things critics said about "The Terror" that will hopefully get you to stop everything you are doing and watch it — and then complain about how it didn't get nominated for any Emmys. 

SEE ALSO: Our Emmys 2018 predictions: who should win, who will win, and who got snubbed

"A lavish event series that could be called 'Master and Commander' Meets 'The Thing.' It's not quite as exciting as that pitch makes it sound, but it is a show that builds up steam around the fourth episode."

— Brian Tallerico, RogerEbert.com

"As the title suggests, 'The Terror' is interested in fear itself, how it transforms us, how it turns us cruel and savage ... It conjures a piercing dread, both familiar and inconceivable; a portrait of man and nature at their cruelest and coldest."

— Haleigh Foutch, Collider

"'The Terror' can be scary, but it's real achievement is climatological. The freeze is tangible. When you watch it, wear a sweater."

— Darren Franich, Entertainment Weekly