Disney has signed a deal with U.K. biggest pay-TV company, BSkyB, to launch a channel just for Disney films, according to a report from Bloomberg News. 

The new BSkyB channel called Sky Movies Disney will showcase both new and old Disney flicks beginning March 28.  

It will also have the first rights to run the Mouse House's newest films including "Wreck-It Ralph" and "Brave." 

Bloomberg reports the deal will also give BSkyB first-run rights to Disney-affiliated films including those in its Lucasfilm and Marvel collections such as "Iron Man 3." 

The news comes on the heels of the pay-TV channel making a deal with AT&T to offer 16,000 Wi-Fi spots to those traveling in the UK.

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During last night's Brit Awards, Taylor Swift came out on stage in a very bulky white wedding dress while ex-boyfriend Harry Styles was in the audience. She tossed it aside mid-number for a racier lacy number and knee-high boots.

Sony finally announced its PlayStation 4 in NYC yesterday, but didn't show any hardware. Bummer. It's expected to hit stores this holiday season.

We haven't heard anything on the "Fifty Shades of Grey" film front in a while. However, Universal Pictures chairman Adam Fogelson says the movie could hit theaters as early as next summer.

Rihanna and Chris Brown are still together. The "We Found Love" singer shared a photo of the two sharing Rihanna's 25th birthday together on Instagram.

Spice Girls' Mel B will replace Sharon Osbourne as a judge on "America's Got Talent."

BBC has already ordered an Oscar Pistorius documentary.

Bill O'Reilly will followup his best-selling books on the killing of presidents Kennedy and Lincoln with "Killing Jesus: A History." The book will be released September 24.

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A Julia Louis-Dreyfus TV ad has been pulled in Israel after offending some women after inadvertently taking a jab at overweight women.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the commercial produced for local satellite television provider Yes, was pulled after a letter of complaint from the country's YEDID Association for Community Empowerment called the spot an insult to a majority of people.

The commercial shows Louis-Dreyfus mistakenly congratulating a woman on being pregnant by rubbing her stomach.

The actress than makes the awkward scenario into a larger ordeal by purposefully making even clumsier mistakes from referring to a colleague by the incorrect name to insulting the original woman again at the end of the spot.

The letter from YEDID stated: 

“There are a lot of weight-challenged individuals in Israel who are treated in an irreverent and hurtful manner. There is no justification to illustrate a stigma which suggests a larger woman is either pregnant or simply too fat for anyone to consider going out with.”

Yes apologized for the commercial in a statement claiming the spot was meant to inform non-subscribers they can fix their "mistake" and switch to the provider.

“The playful commercial was based on Julia Louis-Dreyfus' past characters, and the message is how one may handle making a mistake. If anyone is being ridiculed throughout the spot it is Julia herself who is the one making these mistakes.”

The ad has since been pulled from YouTube. If we find the clip we'll add it below.

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While more than 30 women walk the Victoria's Secret runway each year, the brand highlights a few "Angels" whom it grooms to be superstar ambassadors.  

These models, like Tyra Banks, Gisele Bundchen, and Adriana Lima, have become synonymous with the brand. 

During its annual Fashion Show, Victoria's Secret made it very clear whom it's grooming to be the next superstar: 24-year-old Candice Swanepoel.

Swanepoel is a South African farm girl who has emerged as one of the most successful models in the world. 

"Candice has become a superstar," a creative director said during the airing of the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, where Candice was the only model to have her very own segment. 

Candice was born in the small farming village of Mooi River, South Africa in 1988.

She says that as a child she was a "tomboy" who did chores on her family's dairy farm, not far from a Zulu village.

A modeling scout discovered Candice when she was 15 and shopping at a local flea market.

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Rihanna celebrated her 25th birthday yesterday by having a blowout bash with her friends and family in Hawaii.

After jet skiing with Chris Brown during the day, the singer partied with friends and family that night.

From photos of the cake to PDA-heavy shots of Rihanna and Brown, take a peek inside Rihanna's 25th birthday celebrations -- all posted by the singer to her Instagram account.

The Hawaii trip started yesterday with this photo of Rihanna sitting on Chris Brown's lap. It has a whopping 536K likes on Instagram.

The singer then posted this photo of the on-again couple. It has 200K likes and counting.

After jet skiing during the day, Rihanna celebrated her 25th birthday with a party at night.

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Prince Harry has a new girlfriend — the blue-eyed, blonde, and beautiful British socialite Cressida Bonas.

The two were just spotted by The Daily Mail cozying up while vacationing at an exclusive ski resort in Verbier, Switzerland.

They reportedly "kissed like lovestruck teenagers in the back of a cinema" while at dinner with Prince Harry's family, and later publicly hugged on the slopes, The Daily Mail reported.

Reports say the pair started dating last May after being introduced by Harry's cousin Princess Eugenie, but cooled when the prince's naked pictures from Vegas surfaced.

Seems like they are very much back together. Since the latest photos surfaced, Bonas has jumped to the top of The Tatler List, an ever-changing "who's who" of people who are being buzzed about in the UK.

So who is Cressida Bonas?

The 24-year-old model and would-be-actress is the daughter of Lady Mary Gaye Curzon, a British "It" girl from the 1960s who is four times divorced, according to The Daily Mail.

Her father is Jeffrey Bonas, who studied at Harrow and Oxford before becoming an entrepreneur and businessman, according to E! Online.

Bonas is not the first person in her family with ties to royalty. Her older half-sister is Isabella Gough-Calthorpe, a British movie star, former flame of Prince William, and fiancé of Richard Branson's son Sam, according to The Daily Mail.

Like Prince Harry's ex Chelsy Davy, Bonas studied at Leeds University after attending the elite Stowe School, where boarding students pay $46,000 a year, according to The Daily Mail.

She's also dabbled in acting, having played Desdemona in Othello while at Leeds, according to The Mirror.

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Despite a snub from the Academy last month in the Best Directing category, Ben Affleck's CIA-operative film "Argo" has topped awards season. 

It's won Best Picture at both the BAFTA and Golden Globes and Affleck has taken the top awards at both the Critics Choice Awards and the SAGs.

With all of that buzz, "Argo" is appearing the clear favorite to win Best Picture come Sunday night at the 85th Academy Awards.

But, not so fast. 

The film still has one obstacle to overcome before taking home the most coveted award and it's not the Academy.

The only thing stopping "Argo" from taking home best picture Sunday night is history.

In the 85 years of the Academy Awards every film to win best picture — save three— has also seen its director nominated. 

The three films in Oscar history to win best picture without a nomination for Best Director is 1989's "Driving Miss Daisy" starring Morgan Freeman and Jessica Tandy, "Grand Hotel" in 1932, and "Wings" at the first Academy Awards.

In the end, Affleck's snub may be the film's undoing, leaving the road open for Steven Spielberg to receive his third Oscar for "Lincoln."

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Next week's episode of "Law & Order: SVU" is bringing Rihanna's 2009 domestic assault case with Chris Brown to life. 

Brown assaulted the "We Found Love" singer back in 2009 before the Grammys.

The timing of the episode coincides with the pair recently getting back together.

Here's how the "SVU" promo previews the episode:

"Next Wednesday, a familiar story of two celebrities, intertwined by abuse. But, get ready for the 'Law & Order' twist."

Watch the promo below:

The "twist" the show is marketing appears to show the female celebrity wind up dead, conveying a larger message to girls about the dangers of domestic violence.

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While rumors of the next generation Xbox continue to surface, and Sony fanboys and girls are eagerly anticipating the newly-announced PlayStation 4, we shouldn't get too excited.

Sure, we can rejoice now about the impending IllumiRoom and the PS4's Dualshock controllers with touchpads; however, this may be the last time we get to celebrate.

It won't be long before we see the death of the game console.

While we discussed Sony's future with IGNPlayStation Executive Editor Greg Miller last week, he said that it's most likely part of the final generation of consoles we'll see.

"There's a good chance that this next type of console is the final run for consoles in general," Miller tells Business Insider. "And, when this ends, there will be a uniformed platform."

We're not saying game consoles will cease to exist. Instead, we'll most likely see everything on a singular device. We're heading toward convergence.

Think about it.

1. Video games aren't played solely on game consoles anymore.

Games are easier to access today on tablets, smartphones, computers, and in online social games played on Facebook.

As a result, Miller says the ubiquity of games in general is making a console game user more niche, something no gaming company wants to admit.

"We're getting to this point where games are everywhere now. They sort of take us all away from 'gamer' as a term," says Miller. "Everybody has something on their phone now that they play."

"It makes video games more talkative than ever, but makes console games more niche. We're becoming a smaller and smaller piece of the pie."

2.More people are downloading cheaper and freevideo games to play on their handheld devices (tablets / phones), than purchasing expensive console games.

The highest-selling game of 2012 was "Call of Duty: Black Ops II," selling 13.7 million units. The sequel broke records earning more than $1 billion in 16 days.

Even though it's now the best-selling video game of all time in the U.S., Forbes reported retail sales in the gaming industry were down 22 percent in 2012 (or more than $3 billion) compared to the year before.

Compared to tablet games, the number of video game sales pales in comparison.

Popular app Angry Birds receives more than 1 million downloads per day and has amassed more than 1 billion downloads overall.

Of course, some of those downloads aren't free, but the price of a game app is significantly more affordable than a $50-$60 console game, averaging anywhere from $0.99-$2.99. So with one billion downloads, if even half of those are paid, that's a cool $500 million toward Rovio, the maker of the popular mobile franchise. And, that's not even counting its spinoffs.

WIRED magazine made note of this in November when it predicted the death of the console:

"The pressure to evolve even further has become immense now that the quality gap between cheap-or-free games and full-price ones is narrowing ... Your smartphone is quickly getting to the point where its hardware could display good-looking games in 1080p on your television, and it won’t be long before your phone and TV can sync up without cables."

One of the main problems with consoles sticking around is that they're not appealing to general audiences. BI's Steve Kovach noted at Sony's launch announcement for the PS4, how the company isn't reaching out beyond its core audience of hardcore gamers to those who play mobile games like Angry Birds.

Another, bigger problem for gaming systems is that soon the number of tablets on the market will surpass consoles.

3. More people are purchasing tablets

Last year, BI Intelligence estimated 122 million tablets were shipped. This year, we expect that number to hit close to 200 million. A recent report from BI Intelligence puts tablet sales at 450 million by 2016.

Since the Xbox 360's debut in 2005, Microsoft reported selling more than 76 million consoles worldwide. The company has also sold 24 million of its Kinect sensors.

Meanwhile, Sony has sold 70 million Playstation 3 platforms as of last November.

What would come after the game console?

The consoles won't go anywhere. As Miller noted, there most likely just won't be any new ones.

What he and others suggest we'll see is a convergence with everything possibly coming together on an Internet TV.

Gaming consoles have already begun making the change.

There's a reason Xbox has transformed from solely a gaming unit into what Miller has referred to as an entertainment hub— a one-stop shop where you can retrieve your games, movies, and television. You can access your social network from your video game consoles and connect to the Web.

And, we've already gotten a sneak peek at the future of television.

As seen at CES 2013, gesture-control televisions with capabilities similar to the Xbox Kinect will soon be available for purchase. It will only be a matter of time before Smart TV technology is intertwined with game models available on mobile.

There's already a device that will make beaming games from a mobile device to a television possible. Who would need a gaming console when your tablet or phone can act as a substitute?

Sure, people will still use the consoles, and video games will still be produced. However, the way games are being delivered has changed. And, in a very big way, small mobile devices have already made any future gaming consoles we'll see this year archaic.

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Many critics find Oscar acceptance speeches disturbing on account of their insincerity.

As a fan of the form, I say: nonsense.

Anyone who thinks you can get up on stage at the Dolby Theater in front of 40 million people, take an atomic blast of approval from a select audience of your peers, and then fake your response, is very much mistaken. It peels you like an onion.

Gone is the phalanx of publicists, the glazed interview demeanor, the self-protective instincts born of a thousand paparazzo intrusions; and in its place the quick stumble of inarticulacy, the pink flush of pure need, as the star gulps down all the love and acceptance they stand revealed to have craved all along.

It's understandably disturbing: we are used to wanting and desiring them, not them needing us.

Think of the Oscar acceptance speech as a little like the rings in a tree-trunk: a journey into the innermost recesses of the psyche, past the rough bark of success, through the kinks and knots of one's formative years, into the soft sap where childhood humiliation and Harvey Weinstein lurk.

Thanks to the Academy's new online database, on which are compiled the speeches of every winner since 1971, we can now see the exact number and makeup of those rings.

After an afternoon tooling around on it, I can exclusively reveal that "wow" is the leading exclamation (73), followed by "my God" (26), "gosh" (12), "oh, God" (6), "this is unbelievable" (5), "good God" (4), "I can't believe it!" (4), "I don't know what to say" (4), "this is incredible" (4), "oh, man" (4), "oh no", (3), "whoa" (3), "what the hell?" (2), and "whoo!" (2), although they curiously exclude James Cameron's famous opinion, upon winning for Titanic in 1998, that he was "king of the world – whoohoooo!"

Maybe there was too much internal debate on how to best transliterate it. Sad to say, for linguistic antiquarians, we have only one "golly" (Melissa Leo, 2010), one "holy mackerel" (Meryl Streep, 1979) and one "Lord, have mercy" (Billy Bob Thornton, 1996), as well as one "I need a drink" (Tim Chappel, 1994).

So you're up there on stage, sweat prickling your brow, Jack Nicholson peering at you from the front row. Most winners start by thanking "the Academy" (48), "my cast and crew" (65) and their "fellow nominees" (51) – although Sandra Bullock worked her way through each nominee in turn.

Natalie Portman, pictured, thanked her makeup artist, the camera operator, and even first AD. Cher thanked her hairdresser. By the time Titanic's producer Jon Landau had got through a list of 45 names in 1998, telecast producer Gil Cates wanted "to blow my brains out."

A brief statement of intent can be helpful. "I'm not going to thank everybody I've ever met in my entire life," declared Shirley McClaine in 1983, although three winners (Maureen Stapleton, Kim Basinger, and Julia Roberts) have indeed thanked "everybody I've ever met in my entire life."

Proving that Hollywood is in hock to the forces of Satanic darkness, "God" has been name-checked by only four nominees, including Denzel Washington ("God is great") and Jennifer Hudson ("Look what God can do!").

The Almighty is equalled by Oprah (4), bested by Jack Nicholson (9), Martin Scorsese (11), Meryl Streep (19), and Steven Spielberg (38), but all bow before the man sat at the top of the pyramid: Harvey Weinstein (40) who ranks alongside America (40) itself for mentions.

Finally, the metric Weinstein has been looking for. As Meryl Streep put it last year: "I want to thank God – Harvey Weinstein. The punisher. Old Testament, I guess."

Only 3 actors have skipped their directors in their speech – Mo'Nique, Alan Arkin and George Clooney. Halle Berry named her director "a genius". Tilda Swinton said hers "walks on water", though not before thanking her agent, that most loyal keeper of the flame, beating out even husbands (37) and children (24).

Women have longer memories than men, frequently going back to those who gave them their big break. Penélope Cruz thanked no less than three of her previous directors. Kate Winslet thanked Peter Jackson at the 2009 Oscars for discovering her with Heavenly Creatures, 15 years before.

We are now deep into the trunk of the tree. The years are falling away. Your first break has come and gone. You are back at school, where schoolyard slights, taunts, and after-school wedgies first got their claws into your virgin psyche and set you on the course to stardom.

Time to thank your country of origin (England 16, France 13), your high school teacher (15), your high school (4), your lawyer (3), your publicist (3) or your drama teacher (2), though be careful not to out him or her, as Tom Hanks did, thus inspiring the plot of the Kevin Kline comedy In & Out.

Uh-oh! The orchestra has started up! The autocue is asking you to wrap up! Five winners have read it right back: "Please wrap up." Most have taken it as a sign to dive a little deeper into their gene pool: not just wives (181) and husbands (37), but mothers and moms (125), or fathers and dads (81), grandmothers (11), grandfathers (6), sisters (32) and brothers (34), although none quite matched the Sophoclean weirdness of Angelina Jolie's "I'm so in love with my brother right now." Jamie Foxx told a touching story about his grandmother whipping him as a boy. Twenty-four winners mentioned their children. Catherine Zeta Jones dedicated her Oscar to her unborn child.

This is where the tears come. Oscar winners are most likely to become choked up over their nearest and dearest (or, just as likely, moved by all the neglect they've silently absorbed over the years), with 187 managing to squeeze out a quivery-voiced "I love you." The consequences of falling at this final hurdle cannot be overstated.

In 2006, Hillary Swank, winning best actress for Million Dollar Baby, attempted to apologize to her husband Chad Lowe for forgetting to thank him the first time she won, in 1999: "I'm going to start by thanking my husband, because I'd like to think I learn from past mistakes." They were divorced two years later. Sean Penn also forgot to thank Robin Wright when he won for Milk in 2008. They divorced a year later.

So, you see, far from being insincere, Oscar speeches may be one of the few times when actors tell the truth.

Oscars speeches in numbers

"I'd like to thank" – 225

"I love you" – 187

"My wife" – 181

"My mother" – 76

"Wow" – 73

"Cast and crew" – 65

"Nominees" – 51

"My father" – 50

"My mom" – 49

"I'd like to thank the academy" – 48

"Harvey Weinstein" – 40

"Agent" – 40

"America" – 40

"Steven Spielberg" – 38

"My husband" – 37

"Thank everybody" – 34

"Thank everyone" – 28

"My dad" – 24

"My children" – 24

"Meryl" – 19

"Oh my God" – 19

"Thank God" – 17

"England" – 16

"My producer" – 14

"France" – 13

"Gosh" – 12

"My director" – 11

"Grandmother" – 11

"Martin Scorsese" – 11

"Grandmother" – 9

"Jack Nicholson" – 9

"Oh God" – 6

"Grandfather" – 6

"I would not be here" – 6

"This is unbelievable" – 5

"Oprah" – 4

"I cant believe it" – 4

"This is incredible" – 4

"I don't know what to say" – 4

"Oh man" – 4

"Thank you, God" – 4

"High school" – 4

"Publicist" – 3

"Go to bed" – 3

"Oh no" – 3

"Good God" – 3

"Whoa" – 3

"Jesus" – 3

"Too many people to thank" – 2

"My Grandfather" – 2

"What the hell" – 2

"Whoo!" – 2

"I had a speech" – 2

"Drama teacher" – 2

"You love me" – 1 (Kevin Spacey, 1999)

"Is this really happening?" – 1 (Trent Reznor, 2010)

"Golly" – 1 (Melissa Leo, 2010)

"Holy mackerel" – 1 (Meryl Streep, 1979)

"I don't believe it" – 1 (Park, 93)

"Lord, have mercy" – 1 (Billy Bob Thornton, 1996)

"I need a drink" – (Tim Chappel, 94)

"Fucking wonderful" – 1 (TJ Martin, 2011)

"Crap" – 1 (Jack Palance, 91)

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Yesterday, the story broke that Prince Harry is dating British socialite/actress/model Cressida Bonas.

That's an impressive résumé for a 24-year-old college grad.

The only problem is, it doesn't appear to be true.

The Daily Mail, The Christian Post, The Telegraph, and The Mirror UK have all reported that Bonas was a Burberry model and fledgling actress.

 But when we reached out to the luxury brand, a representative for the company told us that "Cressida has never been associated Burberry."

The confusion most likely stems from July 2012 when The Daily Mail reported that Prince Harry was seen leaving London nightclub Salon with actual Burberry model Cara Delevingne.

But The Mail got it wrong: The woman leaving the club (and the picture accompanying the article) was none other than Cressida Bonas.

It's an honest mistake. The British socialite and French model look eerily similar, and it's unsurprising they were confused for one another. Both women are gorgeous 20-somethings with pale skin, dark eyebrows, and long blonde hair.

But just to be clear: Cara Delevingne is a Burberry model. Cressida Bonas is not.

Cressida isn't much of a serious actress either — the only acting experience we could find was when she performed the role of Desdemona in Othello while attending Leeds University.

Her half sister Isabella Gough-Calthorpe, however, is a fairly well-known British actress.

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Model and 'style icon' Alexa Chung has been announced as the face of L'Oréal Professionnel's in-salon hair colour brand INOA.

The London Fashion Week ambassador and TV presenter has been chosen by L'Oréal Professionnel to the face of its in-care salon range, INOA. The 29-year-old and her head of tousled hair will front the mocha shades of the line.

SEE: Famous L'Oréal models through the years

Chung, a front row regular at the shows, said she was "delighted to be working with such an iconic brand", adding: "L'Oréal Professionnel is behind some of the amazing looks on the catwalks in London and Paris so I'm really excited to join the team.”

New York-based Alexa currently stars in the advertising campaign for Maje and is working on her first book.

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Chung will star in a print campaign from June, but sadly she won't be joining Cheryl Cole and Eva Longoria in muttering the much-loved company slogan "Because I'm worth it" as adverts for the range won't be broadcast.

Don't worry Alexa: L'Oréal obviously think you're worth it anyway.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Put on your suit and tie: Justin Timberlake and Jay-Z are hitting the road together.

The performers announced Friday that they'll embark on a 12-city stadium tour that will kick off July 17 in Toronto. "Legends of the Summer" will wrap up Aug. 16 in Miami.

Stops on the tour also include New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia and Boston.

Jay-Z is featured on Timberlake's comeback single, "Suit & Tie." Timberlake's new album, "The 20/20 Experience," will be released March 19.

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The FBI has released disciplinary files from its Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) showing misconduct by agents over the last two quarters.

 "We're hoping (that) getting the message out in the quarterlies is going to teach people, as well as their supervisors... you can't do this stuff," FBI assistant director Candice Will told CNN.

The offenses range from bizarre to heinous, so we've put together the most ridiculous ones.

"During argument with spouse, Employee broke spouses e-reader in half and pointed unloaded gun at dog's head while dog was sitting in spouse's lap." Result: 45-day suspension

"Employee hid a recording device in supervisor's office ... made copies of supervisor's negative comments about Employee that Employee Iocated by conducting an unauthorized search of the supervisor's office and briefcase. Employee provided the notes to lawyer in support of lawsuit against supervisor." Result: dismissal

"Employee used a stranger's lost or stolen debit card to purchase gasoline and attempted, on repeated occasions, to withdraw money from the person's bank account at two ATM machines ... Employee lied to the local police ... and investigators." Result: dismissal

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In case the Oscar nominees don't win one of the coveted awards Sunday, they always have a swag bag to take home.

For the past 11 years, Distinctive Assets has put together a consolation bag full of "goodies" for the Oscar losers called the "Everyone Wins at the Oscars Nominee Gift Bag."

This year's bag is estimated to be valued between $45-$48,000, a five-year low according to Bloomberg. 

And, it's full of some odd items ranging from condoms to Windex.

Mind you, some of the inclusions are quite pricey — stars receive a three night $3,000 stay at the St. Regis Punta Mita and a $12,000 trip to an Australia location of their choosing.

A six-pack box of Naked brand condoms valued at $20.

$120 worth of maple syrup from Rouge Maple Gourmet Products, which is supposedly the "best you've ever tasted."

A $30 photo-essay book following the day Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his historic "I Have A Dream" speech.

The book is "This is the Day: The March on Washington"

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Producer Michael Bay has announced that Megan Fox will star in the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film, despite the actress comparing him to Hitler.

The feud between filmmaker Michael Bay and actress Megan Fox may have come to an end, as Bay has announced Fox is being brought "back into the family" in a blog post about the upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film.

The pair fell out while working on the Transformers film franchise. Fox appeared in the first two Transformers films, released in 2007 and 2009, but was replaced by British actress and model Rosie Huntingdon-Whiteley in the third.

Bay, who directed the films, said he was ordered to fire Fox by Transformers' producer, Steven Spielberg, after she compared Bay to Hitler in a magazine interview. Fox told Wonderland magazine: "Michael wants to be like Hitler on his sets, and so he is. He's a nightmare to work for."

Bay said he wasn't offended by the comments, but implied a lack of professionalism on Fox's part in a later interview with GQ magazine, saying: "I'm sorry, Megan. I'm sorry I made you work twelve hours. I'm sorry that I'm making you show up on time. Movies are not always warm and fuzzy."

Since leaving the Transformers set, Fox has appeared in a several films, including This Is 40, a sitcom starring British actor Rafe Spall. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Bay and Fox have been reconciling their differences over a series of meetings and the actress decided to take a role in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles after seeing the film's storyboards.

The film is currently in the casting stages, and although Fox's role hasn't been revealed, it's expected that she will play the reporter April O'Neil.

The film will be the first time the four Turtle – Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello and Raphel – have appeared in motion-capture. The film is expected to be released in 2014, with a new twist: the turtles will have an extraterrestrial origin. Bay has come under attack for the plot development from fans and cast-members of the original Nineties films.

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Every year, Hollywood studios and movie distributors spend hundreds of millions of dollars  pushing films come Oscar season.

Overall, editor of awards-tracking site GoldDerby.com, Tom O'Neil, estimates that Hollywood spends $150 million per year to try to win Oscars.

There's one distributor that for the past few years has gotten the Oscar formula down to a science by putting the spotlight on small films.

That's The Weinstein Company – run by the famous Harvey Weinstein.

Last year, Weinstein managed to convince Academy voters to select a small, black and white silent film as "Best Picture."

The guy is good.

This year,  "Silver Linings Playbook" is a perfect example of how Weinstein runs its Oscar-winning machine.

The movie, about the recovery of a mental home outpatient (Bradley Cooper) living with bipolar disorder, was produced on a small budget and has become the first movie in 31 years since "Reds" to receive Oscar nominations in all four acting categories. 

And that's not Weinstein's only success story this year. The Weinstein Company has three Oscar-nominated films, "Django Unchained," "The Master," and, of course, "Silver Linings Playbook" in contention. 

So, how does The Weinstein Company do it?

Simple…just follow these steps.

1. Keep the actual movie-making budget small.

For the past five years, average Best Picture winners have been produced on a $17 million budget, according to IBIS. That's a tiny sum relative to the amounts spent on many blockbusters.

"The Artist" and "The King's Speech" each cost an estimated $15 million to make.  

This year's Best Picture nominee "Silver Linings Playbook" (SLP) cost an estimated $21 million to produce, more than half the cost of most of this year's Best Picture nods:

What's even better for The Weinstein Company is that they've been able to capitalize by making these cheap films into huge box-office success. "SLP" has crossed the $100 million mark, while "The King's Speech" has earned more than $414.2 million worldwide. 

2. Shop the festivals.

The Weinstein Company seeks hard to buy and then sell smaller and foreign films. 

David Glasser, COO of the Weinstein Company, told The New York Times that Harvey Weinstein spends his time at Sundance seeing movies and reading scripts before deciding which ones to purchase.

Weinstein picked up last year's Best Picture winner, "The Artist," at the Cannes Festival and purchased "Blue Valentine" at Sundance. The latter led to Michelle Williams' Best Actress nod in 2011.

One of the company's most recent acquisitions, Wong Kai Wai's martial arts film "The Grandmaster," was picked up at the 2013 Berlin International Film Festival. 

For "Silver Linings Playbook," Weinstein acquired the rights to the book before it was even published.

3. Create word of mouth through strategic theater placement.

"Silver Linings Playbook" sold itself at the box office.  

Originally the film was supposed to have a giant rollout in 2,000 theaters around the same time as The Weinstein Company's Brad Pitt release "Killing Them Softly." Instead, the company radically cut the number of theaters due to positive reviews and released the film on 16 screens before gradually opening in more theaters. 

"We felt we had the reviews and the long runway after the movie opened to let the word of mouth build," said Glasser. "This is right out of our playbook." 

In it's debut week, "SLP" earned $443,000. The film was earning $27,000 per theater on 16 screens.  

In the same weekend, leading James Bond movie "Skyfall" earned $11,727 per each of its 3,505 screens. Of course, the Bond film went on to earn $41 million that weekend. If "SLP" had rolled out in 2,000 theaters as planned, and earned what "Skyfall" earned per theater, it had the possibility of earning $23.5 million. 

Instead, the film stayed in under 400 theaters for six weeks, gaining notoriety as a must-see film.  

Despite its small theater count, the film managed to keep up with big theatrical releases in terms of weekend gross, so when it was finally released in 2,523 theaters the weekend of January 18, it saw a massive surge at the box office, earning $10.7 million. 

4. Spend millions of dollars making sure everyone on the planet has heard of your movie.

After a film makes it to theaters, there's still the push to gain attention after it receives an Oscar nod--and it can make all the difference. 

In 1998, Harvey Weinstein's campaign for "Shakespeare in Love" is what set the film to upset "Saving Private Ryan" for Best Picture. 

This year, "Silver Linings Playbook" actor Bradley Cooper and Director David O. Russell went to Washington to meet with Vice President Joe Biden earlier this month to discuss mental health care issues in America.

Celebrity accountant Andrew Blackman told E! studios will pay between $3-$25 million for an Oscar campaign. Stars' publicity budgets go up briefly during the Awards' season, too. 

Here's where the funds go: 

$2 million covers the dollar amount spent to get nominated as Best Picture. This goes toward the costs of sending out DVD copies in specialized packaging and studio-hosted parties.

The biggest cost will go into advertising and "For Your Consideration Ads." E! reports one of those costs $30,000 per page in The Hollywood Reporter.

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Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and Menlo Ventures investor Shervin Pishevar, a backer of the on-demand limo company, witnessed the reuniting of two rap icons that have been at odds since the 90s: Snoop Dogg and Suge Knight.

The group was spotted Monday night at AV Club in Los Angeles. "N d club wit Suge miss those death row days!" Snoop posted along with the photo to Instagram.

Seeing Knight and Snoop together is so surprising, the Instagram photo is making the rounds on TMZ and MTV.

None of the gossip sites took note of Kalanick or Pishevar, however—much like the Daily Mail struggled to place Square's Jack Dorsey on that yacht with a model.

Why the rift between Snoop and Knight?

Snoop Dogg was once signed as an artist under Death Row Records, Suge Knight's label. Knight was eventually sentenced to 9 years in prison for assault charges after a fight broke out in a Vegas hotel room. That same night, Tupac Shakur was killed.

Snoop left the label, fearing for his life. He told Long Beach Press Telegram in 1998, "I definitely feel my life is in danger if I stay in Death Row Records...there's nothing over there. Suge Knight is in jail, the president; Dr. Dre left and Tupac (Shakur) is dead. It's telling me that I'm either going to be dead or in jail or I'm going to be nothing."

Knight was released from prison after serving five years of the term. This is the first time anyone has seen the two together in years.

Which still leaves us wondering, what are two well-respected Silicon Valley tech guys doing in this picture—building businesses or tasting fame?

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Nicole Snooki Polizzi, of MTV's "Jersey Shore" fame, is selling her Escalade on eBay.

The SUV looks just like what anyone familiar with Snooki's television personality would expect.

The 2011 EXT Luxury pickup has just 6,295 miles on the odometer. The black exterior has been wrapped in a faux reptile skin and spiced up with a lot of hot pink touches.

Snooki also added leopard print mats, and even signed the hood in pink.

According to the eBay listing, the seller is a family friend of Snooki's. The auction will close Sunday evening, and bidding is already up to $68,100.

Head to eBay for more details, photos, and to place a bid.

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