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Well it turns out Pixar wasn’t only upending its story for "The Good Dinosaur"—the studio has revamped almost its entire voice cast.
The film was originally conceived by director Bob Peterson (who co-directed "Up"), but he was conspicuously absent from the movie’s D23 panel in 2013, and shortly thereafter it was announced that he’d been removed from the film.
The voice cast of Lucas Neff, Bill Hader, Neil Patrick Harris, Judy Greer, John Lithgow, and Frances McDormand remained, though (Steve even interviewed Neff and Greer at D23), and co-director Peter Sohnwas subsequently upgraded to director while the story was revamped.
The original conceit—a world in which the dinosaurs never went extinct, with a story following a dinosaur and his pet human boy—remained, but Lithgow told us that the movie was “dismantled and completely reimagined,” adding that he already completed his voice work but was due to record all-new dialogue.
He and McDormand were set to play Momma and Poppa dinosaur, but today Pixar announced the film’s voice cast and Lithgow is nowhere to be found, along with everyone else but McDormand.
The new voice cast for "The Good Dinosaur" is as follows:
While Pixar has previously replaced voice actors (Reese Witherspoon was originally be Merida in "Brave"), this is the first time the studio has cast an entire film, recorded dialogue, and then replaced 99% of the cast.
It couldn’t have been a cheap move, but it perhaps speaks to the extent of the changes that Sohn and the Pixar Brain Trust made to the story once Peterson left—and also their desire to make sure they get this one right.
"Inside Out" is getting rave reviews, but will "The Good Dinosaur" return us to lackluster Pixar?
There’s now an equal number of production-troubled films that turned out great ("Ratatoullie," "Toy Story 2") and disappointing ("Cars 2," "Brave"), so it looks like we’ve got a 50/50 chance. Here’s hoping all of these changes only improved the film.
"The Good Dinosaur" opens in theaters on November 25th. Click here to watch the teaser trailer.
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"Game of War" is one of the highest-grossing apps in the App Store.
It's a war-strategy game focused on building a city and gathering resources. And not much else.
As I've written before there's not really any fighting in "Game of War: Fire Age." You just sort of gather resources and get desperately begged to spend your real hard-earned cash.
Supermodel Kate Upton has been the extremely high-profile face of the game in its many ads on TV and online. But according to TMZ, that mantle is being passed on to the one and only Mariah Carey.
TMZ cites sources saying it's a seven-figure deal and will lead to a 30-second commercial that will shoot for two days. It also reports that the director of "Terminator Genisys," Alan Taylor, is helming the project.
Carey, now 45 years old, is in a residency at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.
We've reached out to the company that runs the game, Machine Zone, for comment but have not yet heard back.
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Warning: Spoilers Ahead
If you were a fan of "True Detective" last season, get ready to be addicted to the upcoming season two.
But if you’re late to the game and never watched season one, don’t worry, it’s a whole new cast and whole new story. Though show creator Nic Pizzolatto has kept a few things the same.
We got a chance to see the first few episode of the second season of the hit HBO drama and put together a few reasons you should be excited for June 21st.
1. The new cast is looking good
Many were skeptical that the cast for season two could top the performances by Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson in the first season. But it’s certainly looking from the first few episodes that Pizzolatto has found the right group to play this season’s twisted souls.
Ray Velcoro (Colin Farrell), Ani Bezzerides (Rachel McAdams), and Paul Woodrugh (Taylor Kitsch) are cops from different departments who are forced to work together to solve a murder. But like the first season, all these officers have dark personal lives and ulterior motives that will be fun to see play out through the talents of Farrell, McAdams, and Kitsch.
And then there’s Vince Vaughn playing shady businessman Frank Semyon, who might be trying to go legit thanks to a new venture he’s getting off the ground. But with his business partner recently coming up dead, it’s looking like Semyon's dark side will soon show itself. Trust us, Vaughn playing evil is going to be good.
2. Who killed Casper?
Like the murder of Dora Lange in season one, the murder of city manager Ben Casper, who was also Semyon’s business partner, is the incident that has brought all our main characters together. Casper is a no show for Semyon’s unveiling party for his proposed high-speed train line through the middle of the state. Later that evening, Woodrugh finds Casper up the coast dead with his eyes burn out with acid. The whodunit is now in place for season two as not just the police want to know who did this to Casper, but Semyon too.
3. From Bayou to industrial
As season one was filled with the woods and swamps of Louisiana, we’ve now been drastically moved to concrete and smog in California. The main area of Los Angeles County we find ourselves in is Vinci, an industrial city that’s known best for its crooked politicians and having the worst air pollution in the state. As our main characters try to figure out who killed Capser, Vinci’s decrepit landscape looks to be our main setting.
4. Flat circles to wavy lines
The super fans of season one couldn’t get enough of searching for secrets buried in the shots and production design of every episode. Especially its theme of circles. With Los Angeles’ endless freeways and roads along the pacific coast (and the proposed train line), it looks like this season’s theme will be lines that go as far as the horizon. An appropriate feel as the director of numerous episodes this season is “Fast and Furious” franchise alum Justin Lin.
5. There will be blood
It’s become apparent that Nic Pizzolatto loves two things, dialogue and violence. And season two has a lot of each. So far Farrell and Vaughn’s characters have delivered the most powerful dialogue-driven performances, but we’ll certainly see all the leads get their moment in the spotlight. And when it comes to brutality, be sure not to miss the first episode as Farrell’s Velcoro character has a laps in judgment that’s as twisted as anything from the first season.
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Nearly 30 years ago, in 1987, the first "Street Fighter" video game was released in Japan.
It looked like this:
It was groundbreaking at the time, both visually and in terms of what you could do. 30 years later, and the concept is still wildly popular. It's also much, much prettier.
You probably know "Street Fighter," even if you've never played one of the games. It's the classic franchise where characters don't just punch and kick each other, but also throw fireballs and other such madness: the classic "hadoken" move, for instance (pictured below).
This is "Street Fighter 2." It's the game that turned "Street Fighter" into a worldwide phenomenon, and helped boost the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis into ubiquity: 
In 2016, the Japanese company that originally created the "Street Fighter" franchise will launch a new entry: "Street Fighter V." It looks like this:
Whoa.
To say that it looks prettier is a serious understatement, as you can see yourself. This is the difference that 30 years makes in video game creation.
Iconic characters Ken and Ryu are still staples of the franchise, even after all these years. Here's Ryu back in the first game, throwing his (in)famous hadoken:
And here's Ryu now, in 2015, looking...bigger. Much, much bigger.
There's a full new trailer showcasing the game, which we've dropped below. "Street Fighter V" is heading to Sony's PlayStation 4 and PCs everywhere at some point in 2016.
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Trying to replicate the wonder and magnitude of an entire universe in a video game is a tall order.
But Hello Games, the team behind the upcoming PS4 and PC title "No Man's Sky," which is scheduled for release this year, is doing the best it can — and so far, it looks spectacular.
A huge secret behind the realism is a fascinating biological algorithm that's been described as a scientific "Superformula." Relying on this and other math to generate galaxies and worlds, they've created an immersive cosmos full of unique planets and animals unlike anything we've ever seen.
It looks like a space adventure straight out of our imaginations, capturing the sense of wonder that you might have felt as a kid after first seeing "Star Wars," then staring up at the night sky, wondering what it'd be like to explore billions and billions of worlds.
There are a ton of details that we still don't know, but we do know players will start on a random planet at the edge of the universe, and then explore their way— planet by planet — towards the center.
In May, the New Yorker's Raffi Khatchadourian took readers on a tour of the universe Hello Games has created so far, with a focus on how they're building it.
So how do you make a universe?
There are more than eighteen quintillion planets in the game, each with its own ecosystem and perhaps, wildlife.
That's 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 worlds. It's a huge number, but let's focus on what's actually important: the way they are generating unique worlds and populating them with fantastic creatures, because that's the thing that's really amazing.
The imagery in the original trailer was incredible enough — if you somehow haven't seen it yet (and as my colleague Dave Smith has pointed out, even if you have), take a look:
Pretty cool, right? Khatchadourian writes that "The arc of [Hello Games co-founder Sean] Murray's journey — the unbroken sweep from ocean to land to heavens — implied an unprecedented range of possible discovery."
The writer captured even more on his trip to the company's studio, about an hour outside of London.
Here's how he describes one of his experiences with the game:
Murray is known for nervously hovering during demos. “I’ll walk around a little, then I’ll let you have the controller for a bit,” he said. I watched as he traversed a field of orange grass, passing cyan ferns and indigo shrubs, down to a lagoon inhabited by dinosaurs and antelope. After three planets and five minutes, he handed me the controller, leaving me in a brilliantly colored dreamscape, with crystal formations, viridescent and sapphire, scattered in clusters on arid earth. Single-leaf flora the height of redwoods swayed like seaweed. I wandered over hills and came to a sea the color of lava and waded in. The sea was devoid of life. With the press of a button, I activated a jet pack and popped into the air. Fog hung across the sea, and Murray pointed to the hazy outline of distant cliffs. “There are some sort of caves over there,” he said, and I headed for them. The No Man’s Sky cosmos was shaped by an ideal form of wildness—mathematical noise—and the caves were as uncharted as any material caves. I climbed into one of them. “Let’s see how big it is,” Murray said.
The cave’s interior was rendered in blues, greens, purples, and browns, and the light filled it with warmth. Luminescent bits of matter, like inanimate fireflies, filled the air.
There are about a dozen people working on No Man's Sky, according to Khatchadourian. That's tiny compared to the hundreds who might work on a title for a big studio. But even with hundreds, you couldn't hand-code an entire universe.
Instead, Hello Games relies on something known as procedural generation, where mathematical algorithms provide the rules that give the universe its structure — the universal laws for how everything works.
Procedurally generated worlds aren't a new concept; they existed in older games like Elite, seen below:
But there's a problem with many of these worlds. It's really hard to find equations that will create a natural feel. They're either overly monotonous — "imagine a row of more or less identical trees, stretching to infinity," writes Khatchadourian— or too chaotic to make any sense.
Losing a sense of realistic infinity and complexity of a universe might yank players out of the game. So Murray came up with a basic mathematical architecture to make it convincing.
Instead of hard-coding the layout of his universe, Murray left that work to what's probably best approximated as a random number generator, i.e. software to automatically build the structure of the galaxy, stars, planets, the chance a planet might have an atmosphere or life.
"The system combines entropy and structure," writes Khatchadourian.
Even then, the equations the team came up with were either too wild and random— or too repetitive and boring. So they turned to biology for help.
In 2003, a plant geneticist from Belgium named John Gielis discovered an equation that can describe an incredibly large number of natural shapes, including "the contours of diatoms, starfish, spiderwebs, shells, snowflakes, crystals," and more, according to Khatchadourian.
Gielis called it the "Superformula." According to Nature, it's "a modified version of the equation for a circle."
"When I found the formula, all these beautiful shapes came rolling out of my computer," Gielis told Nature. "It seemed too good to be true — I spent two years thinking 'What did I do wrong?' and 'How come no one else has discovered it?'"
When Murray and the rest of the team plugged the Superformula into the game, it worked. Things that didn't have natural variety all of a sudden took on varied but still possible shapes. It was what they needed, or at least a major part of it.
That's not the only place they took inspiration. After seeing "Interstellar," Murray was impressed by the "very perfect 'mathlike' terrain" of a planet in the film, so they incorporated that math into the design, too.
The team had to make some unnatural changes, though. Some things, like flying a spaceship out of an atmosphere, felt more fun when tweaked to be less realistic, and so concessions to realism were made in the name of enjoyment.
No Man's Sky isn't finished yet, and we don't know exactly what it will be like. But that exploration process, with a random start and journey towards the center of the universe — with incredible creatures and diverse worlds explored along the way — sounds something like many of us have always wanted to do.
There's also this: Hello Games' new cosmos is so vast — basically, as big as players have time to explore — that the company doesn't even know what's out there in the their own universe. Many planets will be lifeless, but a few will have complex life, of some form or another. They currently have an artificial intelligence-powered "drone" traveling from world to world in the game, examining and photographing their creations.
And as for what's at the center, who knows? But this digital universe looks beautiful and intriguing enough that we want to find out.
Here's a video put together by the New Yorker on what we know about the game so far.
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The theme for "Game of Thrones" is one of the most recognizable on TV right now, and not just because it has been around for five years.
Composed by Ramin Djawadi, the theme is simple yet rich, immediately evocative of the clockwork map it accompanies during the show's title credits each week.
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I'm a 28-year-old guy who lives in New York — not your typical Taylor Swift fan.
But I decided to attend the megastar's "1989" World Tour when it came through Pittsburgh in early June after hearing she put on a good show.
I came away from the experience with a new understanding of why so many people are obsessed with Swift.
She has emerged as a mega-celebrity, built an entire brand around her image, and amassed some $200 million in wealth.
But at the same time, Swift manages to appear down-to-earth and approachable, a reputation she's cultivated by interacting with her fans relentlessly on social media and also in real life.
It was also clear how meticulously she had prepared for the show — she was a master of controlling the crowd and their emotions.
For me, the experience started as I approached the venue. Unlike other concerts I've attended, the crew's equipment trucks were parked on the walk leading up to Heinz Field.
The brightly colored trucks made the perfect background for concertgoers who wanted to pose for photos before the show — and everyone did. It also got fans psyched about the concert well before Swift appeared onstage.
Anyone within a half-mile of the stadium knew what was going there on that evening.
It was also the only show I've been to where there were huge lines to get into the 55,000-seat stadium a full two hours before the opening acts were scheduled to go on.
Those Swifties were dedicated.
Once inside, I was handed a bracelet without much explanation (more on that later), and headed to my seat. I quickly realized how carefully constructed the Taylor Swift concert experience was.
It's not uncommon for venues to play recorded music ahead of the opening acts, but every five minutes, we would be shown a short video feature featuring Swift. There were several categories: quizzes ("what are the names of Taylor's cats?"), behind-the-scenes video shoots, and scenes from her "1989" "secret sessions" — private events where she invited fans in several cities to come to her house, eat freshly baked cookies, and listen to her new album before it came out.
All of these clips made me feel like I knew Swift personally, like I was right there with her as she completed her album and started her tour. The woman sitting next to me had had a chance to meet her backstage, and she said that in person, the pop star seemed very approachable and "smells really good." She told me she thought Swift made a good role model for her daughter, which turns out to be a pretty common sentiment among moms.
The opening acts, Shawn Mendes and Vance Joy, were solo male guitarists who made a stark contrast for the spectacle to come. Both acts took numerous opportunities to thank Swift and say how lovely she was. It was fascinating to see how much the star had permeated the stadium.
Finally, at 9 p.m. on the dot, Swift came on stage. The roar from the crowd was deafening.
Once the show started, I finally figured out why I'd been handed a bracelet. The wristband started to light up in tune with the music, increasing in frequency and vibrancy as the show went on. I've never seen something like it before, and thought it was a stroke of genius. The bracelets made the entire stadium pulse to the beat of the music, and heightened the experience for everyone.
Even when I didn't know a particular song, I could watch the LED fireworks lighting up the whole stadium, so I was never bored. The fans were truly a part of the show, and even as the small children in attendance fell asleep, their little wrists still flashed along as they slept on their parents' shoulders.
It looked incredible when 55,000 of them went off at once:
There wasn't a single flaw in the entire production; the lights, sound, and everything else went off without a glitch. Many concerts have some kind of error that humanizes the experience, but not this one.
Swift's music was as catchy as ever, and I don't think I had realized that she is an extremely talented musician. She plays the piano, guitar, banjo, and ukulele, and on top of that, she's an excellent singer.
Her programmed set built up energy over time, and during her wardrobe changes, the jumbotron lit up with Taylor's famous friends telling stories about their friendship and growing together.
Lena Dunham said it best when she told a story about how she was walking up to Swift, and Swift's security stopped her.
"It's OK, I actually know her," Dunham said. "That's what they all say," a security officer replied.
Swift's unique charm is that she can make everyone feel like they know her, even though they don't and most likely never will. I guess it isn't so surprising that someone who grew up on a Christmas tree farm (another quiz question!) could make 55,000 people feel special at one time, because her family business does it every year.
I definitely fell for Swift's relatable persona, even though I knew that we would never (ever, ever, ever) meet in person. It was the most captivating thing about the musician, and her tour was a physical representation of it. I was so immersed in the experience for two solid hours — and then the music stopped.
As I walked home, still wearing my bracelet — which, after the concert, became a party favor that lit up on demand — I heard countless cars drive by playing songs from "1989." I get why they'll keep coming back for more.
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An all-star cast headlines this film about a music manager hitting a rough patch. "Rock The Kaspah" stars Bill Murray, Zooey Deschanel, and Bruce Willis. It's set to be released on October 23rd.
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Co-produced by DEFY Media and AwesomenessTV, “The SMOSH movie" will star comedy duo Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla.
Playing themselves, the two will head to YouTube to try and get an embarrassing video of Anthony removed from the web before his crush sees it.
From the looks of it, the film will be an extension of the duo’s offbeat brand of comedy geared toward 13-17 year olds. The film will also feature dozens of other YouTube celebrities ranging from Jenna Marbles to Grace Helbig.
“SMOSH the Movie” will be released July 24.
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When we wrote earlier this year that it is time to shave (the beard trend is definitively over), we weren't talking to women. But it's apparently quite popular!
Here is the New York Times Style section with a trend story on women's facial hair:
Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor shaved their faces, according to Ms. Somerville, who said that an aesthetician who worked with them told her. She declined to reveal which of her celebrity clients shave their faces, but said that she recommends it widely and that many comply.
Michelle Money, who appeared on “The Bachelor,” made a YouTube video about shaving her face. “I don’t care who you are, ladies, you have hair on your face,” she says in the video, which has had more than 251,000 views. “Men don’t like it. Get rid of it.”
Women obviously should base most of their style decisions on the preferences of (theoretical) men. Nope, that's a joke.
But! Say I want to do this. Do I just get a razor and go to town?
No! The Times has a very expensive Manhattan-based expert to recommend:
Dr. Stafford R. Broumand, a plastic surgeon whose Manhattan practice includes spa services, said that facials including dermaplaning, which cost $185, increased threefold in 2014 over the previous year. He said that the procedure is advocated for its efficacy in exfoliation (scraping away dead skin cells, pollution and small imperfections) rather than for hair removal.
Shaving at home with a razor, “as with most things done at home, is not as effective as going to the expert’s office,” Dr. Broumand said.
Still, many women are delighted with at-home results. Jen Ruhman, who lives in San Diego, began shaving in the 12th grade. After applying extra-virgin olive oil to her skin, she shaves with a traditional men’s safety razor. When strangers compliment her complexion, they are not expecting her response.
I don't know. I just don't know. As a young woman, I certainly partake in quite a few voluntary and relatively expensive beauty treatments. I get expensive haircuts, I shave my legs, I paint my nails, I wear makeup most days. But this just seems like so much work for basically no visible reward. I have never, ever noticed another woman's facial hair, unless she pointed it out herself.
At the same time, I think whatever a woman can do to increase her self-confidence a bit is probably a good thing. So for the women who are really happy with their shaving techniques, that's cool, I guess. You do you.
Meanwhile, my style icon is still Frida.
Do you have thoughts on this trend? Let me know! sferro@businessinsider.com.
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Jack Horner — the paleontologist who's served as technical advisor on all of the Jurassic Park films — thinks that he can make a real dinosaur in the next five to 10 years. Horner's idea for a dinosaur, however, is a slightly altered chicken he calls a "dino-chicken."
We here at Business Insider were hoping for something more frightening to get in the spirit of the latest film "Jurassic World". So, to conjure an idea of what it would feel like, size-wise, to live in a real Jurassic world, we've created this graphic, which includes some of the dinosaurs that appear in the film.
*Note that all of the numbers in this graphic, which are taken from a series of dinosaur sizes provided in this Wikipedia page, are measurements based on scientific excavation and analysis and don't necessarily resemble some of the scientifically-inaccurate dinosaurs that appear in the film, such as the Velociraptor.
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By now most fans know that HBO’s hit show “Game of Thrones” is based on an original book series by George R.R. Martin. What they might not realize is that fans of the books have amassed dozens and dozens of predictions and theories that cover a wide range of characters.
Martin began writing the saga, titled "A Song of Ice and Fire," nearly two decades ago; this means that diehard fans of the novels have had more than enough time to come up with a range of theories about current characters and plots and where they all might be headed.
Some of these guesses seem close to the mark, like the widely accepted assumption about Jon Snow’s true parentage. Martin has also implied a fan has correctly guessed his planned ending for the entire series.
Other theories have more of a conspiracy feel to them — loosely connecting threads and unabashedly stretching the imagination. For example, the suggestion that Daario, the handsome sellsword Daenerys is currently having an affair with, is actually Benjen Stark— Ned Stark’s brother who went missing from the Night’s Watch.
But there is one theory that rises above all others in the realm of insanity (bordering on genius). We’re talking about the “Cleganebowl."
It goes a little something like this:
Sandor “The Hound” Clegane is going to return to King’s Landing in order to fight his brother, Gregor “The Mountain” Clegane, to the death in a trial by combat for Cersei Lannister.
This may sound a bit bizarre to those who have been following the show.
Wasn't The Hound left for dead in season four? And isn’t The Mountain lying under a sheet in some creepy guy’s laboratory? Even if they're both alive, why should I care if they fight?
All this, and more, to come.
First let’s look at why this theory is relevant right now based on events taking place in season five.
In episode seven, we saw the High Sparrow (the leader of the Faith) arrest Cersei and throw her into a cell to await trial. We learned afterward she was imprisoned for her role in King Robert’s death as well as her incestuous sexual habits with her brother, Jaime.
Now, on the show so far, we have never seen a trial concluded in a purely judicial manner. Tyrion has twice stood accused of crimes, and both times he demanded a trial by combat. A trial by combat allows the defendant to select a “champion” to represent him in a fight to the death against the selected champion of the prosecution. The guilt of the defendant is determined by whether their champion wins or loses.
*Minor spoilers ahead now for show-only fans*
From the books, we know that Cersei will demand a trial by combat. And her champion? Well this is where it gets a bit complicated.
Back in season four, we watched in horror as Oberyn Martell battled against Gregor Clegane (commonly known as The Mountain). Oberyn managed to stab The Mountain with a poisoned spear, but it wasn’t enough to win the fight. The Mountain crushed Oberyn’s head in with his bare hands and won the trial by combat.
Since then, we have only had glimpses of The Mountain in what appeared to be various stages of experiments.
Here Qyburn examines the poisoned wound and reassures Cersei that he has a plan to keep The Mountain alive.
When he was explaining to Cersei the gist of his plan, he warned her: "You should know. The process may change him, somewhat.”
Next, in episode three of season five, we got a glimpse into Qyburn’s laboratory when Cersei asked him to send a letter. While there, Cersei asked, “How’s your work coming along?” (referring to The Mountain's "healing").
Qyburn replied “Better than expected, but still a ways to go.”
Then we see a large shrouded figure in the background, and suddenly it writhes under the sheet.
So we know that The Mountain is still alive in some capacity.
In the written series, Cersei writes to Qyburn from her prison cell and tells him to appoint a new member of the Kingsguard — one that can serve as her champion. Qyburn presents a large knight named Ser Robert Strong.
It is extremely likely that Robert Strong is none other than the zombified version of The Mountain that Qyburn has been experimenting on. So Cersei has her champion.
In order to understand why fans think Sandor “The Hound” Clegane will be named the Faith’s champion, we must explore a tangential theory known as “the Gravedigger.” YouTube user Alt Shift X made a popular visual explanation of the theory — you can watch the full video here.
The basics of this theory center on The Hound, and how in both the books and the show he is never actually seen dead. The last time we saw him on the show was in the season four finale, when Arya left him grievously wounded. This same scenario happens in the books, though the fight that leaves him injured is different.
In the books, Brienne of Tarth is wandering the country, looking for The Hound and (she hopes) Sansa or Arya. She goes to a place called the Quiet Isle, a sort of monastery for brothers of the Faith, and speaks to the Elder Brother.
This Elder Brother knows much about The Hound and admits that he came across him while wounded and did his best to help him. Brienne then notices a very large man at the monastery who is digging graves. His head and face are almost completely covered, but Brienne can tell he is limping from what could be a healing leg wound (the exact type that The Hound sustained). The Hound’s horse is at the Quiet Isle stables — another hint that The Hound is likely nearby. His horse is notorious for being uncontrollable by any other than The Hound himself.
Lastly, the Elder Brother is very vague when discussing The Hound’s supposed death. As Alt Shift X puts it, “The most he'll say about Sandor Clegane is that he's 'at rest.' So what the Elder Brothercould be getting at is that the hateful, violent part of Sandor Clegane,called the Hound, is metaphorically dead, leaving Sandor Clegane ‘at rest,’ and most importantly for us,literally alive.”
So the Gravedigger theory infers that not only is The Hound alive, but he has now been brought into the Faith and serves them as Sandor Clegane.
These two separate incidences — zombie Mountain and gravedigging Hound — have combined to give birth to the Cleganebowl theory.
It started in 2013, when a 4chan thread about “Game of Thrones” prompted a user to submit their theory.
The title for the theory likely was inspired by the 2013 NFL Superbowl when the coaches of the opposing teams also happened to be brothers: Jim and John Harbaugh. Football fans and sports announcers quickly nicknamed the game “The Harbowl.”
Since The Hound and The Mountain are brothers, and the theory assumes they will have an epic fight, Cleganebowl is the best-fitting title. They share the same last name — Sandor and Gregor Clegane — and this trial by combat would basically be the equivalent of a Westerosi Superbowl.
This original 4Chan thread references the "Valonquar" prophecy, which we explained more here. The gist of it is that Cersei went to a fortune-teller when she was younger and was told that she would be killed by "the Valonqar." That is a term that means "younger brother." So the Cleganebowl theory postulates that The Hound is the younger brother in the scenario, and his victory will lead to Cersei's execution.
Believers in the Cleganebowl are a unique brand of fans. The tagline that generally follows any online allusions to the involved characters is a simple: “GET HYPE.” An entire subreddit is dedicated to the converted believers, and this Google search history shows the spikes of interest over the years.
Cleaganebowl subscribers have a flair for the unique. There is a group of YouTube videos that mash up footage from the show with glaring strobe-text and an intense hip-hop/dubstep/electronic music soundtrack. Here are some of the top-viewed ones [Warning: NSFW language and loud music].
Airhorns and Cleganebowl-hype meters aside, there is sufficient evidence for the two main components of the theory. The Mountain could definitely be Ser Robert Strong and will represent Cersei in her trial by combat. It is also likely that The Hound is alive and living on the Quiet Isle.
So far, season five has alluded heavily to The Mountain's return. Whether The Hound resurfaces is another story, but those who believe it will happen will certainly wait with bated breath to see if this insane theory comes true.
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It is well-known at this point that "Jurassic World," the latest installment of the "Jurassic Park" franchise, diverges from the science when it comes to its portrayal of dinosaurs.
In real life, many of the dinosaurs vary in size and are often covered in feathers, but a few of them actually don't look that different.
Let's start with Velociraptor, one of the most feared creatures in the "Jurassic Park" universe:
In reality, the Velociraptor could be more easily compared to either a turkey or a coyote:
The look of Velociraptors in the film was actually based more off of Deinonychus ...
... as well as a Utahraptor which was discovered as the original "Jurassic Park" was being made:
One of the most terrifying new dinosaurs introduced in "Jurassic World" is the Mosasaurus, which makes even a great white shark look tiny.
The real Mosasaurus isn't actually a dinosaur and it didn't have spikes along its back.
The Mosasaurus is really "marine lizard that's more closely related to snakes and lizards," according to Dr. John Hutchinson.
However, that is nowhere near the biggest problem with the film's depiction.
According to Mark Witton, an illustrator who researches and specializes in dinosaurs, that misconception is based off depictions of this animal from the 1890s. The mistake was cleared up in the early 1900s.
"The ["Jurassic World"] press has been showing their mosasaur has a series of scutes along it's back, similar to depictions of these animals by artists working in the 1890s. These Victorian artists were misled by bones which had dislocated from the throat to lie along the top of fossil skeletons, but this mistake was recognised by the early 1900s." Witton told Business Insider. "Indeed, we actually know quite a lot about mosasaur skin, and that they went to some length to be very streamlined and smooth."
After making a brief cameo in "Jurassic Park," the Gallimimus returned for "Jurassic World":
The real Gallimimus was actually fairly similar, but with a lot more feathers.
Here is a Pteranodon, the unlucky victim of the much larger Mosasaurus:
And here's a sketch of what the winged animal (who isn't actually a dinosaur) probably looked like:
The Pteranodon was actually a Pterosaur, which is "a winged reptile which is very, very, very closely related to dinosaurs but not a dinosaur," according to Hutchinson.
Witton, who has consulted on several films about Pterosaurs in general, called the "Jurassic World" interpretation of the Pteranodon "among the worst reconstructions [he's] ever seen."
"No pterosaur had feet like that, and they certainly couldn't pick things up with them as shown in the trailers." Witton told Business Insider.
And finally, there's the almighty T. rex:
The real T. rex was still huge, but it was actually covered in feathers.
Some have jokingly compared the T. rex to a "giant chicken." But still, would you want to mess with it?
"Jurassic World" opens in theaters Friday.
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If you've binged at least halfway through Netflix's newly released third season of "Orange Is the New Black," then you've probably noticed an attractive new inmate with eyes for Piper (Taylor Schilling).
In her first big role, 29-year-old Australia-native Ruby Rose plays mysterious new inmate Stella Carlin.
“Stella is sort of an androgynous, cool, charismatic, and charming girl who I think also is pretty gender-fluid,” Rose told EW.
She also may play a role in creating friction between Piper and her on-and-off girlfriend, Alex (Laura Prepon).
“She definitely causes some waves,” added the model-turned-actress.
Since Rose is a relative newcomer to acting, especially on this side of the world, Business Insider rounded up some information about the up and comer.
Here are six things to know about Ruby Rose:
1. Rush came out as a lesbian at the age of 12, and her first crush was Mariah Carey.
Rose began her modeling career when she came in second in a 2002 model search by Australian teen magazine "Girlfriend." She told Rolling Stone, "I don't think of myself as a model."
3. She used to be a VJ on MTV Australia.
Rose decided to leave her acting studies behind and work for MTV Australia, but “always had acting in the back of my mind,” she said to EW.
But she still preferred being an MTV VJ to modeling. "Being a model there is always something they want to change. Whether they want someone a little bit skinnier, a little bit taller, a little bit prettier, but MTV want you to be yourself ... not censoring anything and not conforming to anything," she told Australia's Herald Sun.
4. She has more than 60 tattoos on her body.
Of her many tattoos, she has "Just Love" written across her knuckles and cartoon characters like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Astro Boy, as well as Tank Girl, reported Vanity Fair.
5. She's in a pretty serious relationship.
Rose is engaged to Phoebe Dahl, a clothing designer and the granddaughter of the children’s-book-author Roald Dahl, according to Vanity Fair. Rose has Phoebe's name tattooed on her back inside a red heart.
6. She wrote, produced, and starred in a short film titled "Break Free." The five-minute short film on gender identity went viral on social media and helped get Rose noticed by casting agents. Watch it here. (Note: Some parts are NSFW.)
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A huge part of Netflix's "Orange Is the New Black" is main character Piper Chapman's romances.
We've seen her bounce from her fiance Larry Bloom (Jason Biggs) to partner in crime Alex Vause (Laura Prepon) and others have tried to get a piece of the action.
But, the woman who Piper Chapman is based on has her own unique pick for the on-screen version of her.
"I am really hoping that Piper and Big Boo get together," Piper Kerman, who wrote the book which "OITNB" is based on, told People Magazine during OrangeCon, the big fan event held in New York City on Thursday.
"I am a huge Lea DeLaria fan," Kerman said. "I think that would be hot!"
Carrie "Big Boo" Black is an inmate on the show. While she can be a tough character, Big Boo can show a sympathetic side now and then.
Currently on the third season of "OITNB," Piper is relapsing with Alex, but a new inmate, Stella Carlin (Ruby Rose) may throw a wrench in that romance.
The third season of "Orange Is the New Black" is available now on Netflix.
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I remember exactly where I was when I first watched Jurassic Park — hiding behind a couch at my dad's friend's house, hands covering my ears to muffle the terrifying sound of dinosaur yelps and roars spewing from his surround-sound speakers.
Had I known what I was actually listening to, I might have been far more terrified — and traumatized.
Those sounds, it turns out, are bonafide recordings of real animals.
But they're engaged in an activity you might not expect for a 1993 PG-13 film: having sex.
The film's sound designer, Gary Rydstrom, spent months recording and fine-tuning these sounds, he told Kyle Buchanan over at Vulture.
"If people knew where the sounds in Jurassic Park came from, it'd be rated R!" Rydstrom says.
In the film, each dinosaur species has a distinct set of sounds. Some are R-rated, others are a bit more mild, but still surprisingly strange.
Here's how they made the most iconic dinosaur sounds:
Barking Velociraptors
The strange, bark-like sounds that the film's raptors use to communicate is actually the sound of tortoises having sex. Really.
"It's somewhat embarrassing," Rydstrom told Vulture.
Stampede of Gallimimus
I still can't forget the feeling of my adrenaline racing as I listened to a stampede of screeching creatures as they chased doctors Grant and Satler (played by Sam Neil and Laura Dern) through the forest.
In reality, though, the high-pitched squawking sounds those little guys make are terrifying for an altogether different reason: They're actually the sound of a female horse squealing at a male horse when he got "a little too close" and she got excited, Rydstrom said,
Magical Brachiosaurus
Remember the magical moment in the movie where doctors Grant and Satler are captivated by the sound of the slow-moving, long-necked Brachiosaurus as it chomps on its leafy lunch in the forest?
Get ready to be disappointed. That enchanting moment comes courtesy of a pretty non-magical creature: the donkey.
"You think of donkeys, and they kind of yodel, you know? There's this pitch shift in donkey vocals, and if you slow them way down, you get almost a hooting, songlike quality," Rydstrom told Vulture. As it turns out, slowing down small-animal noises is how Rydstrom gets a lot of his bigger-sounding animal roars.
Terrifying T-Rex
As I remember it, the Tyrannosaurus rex was the star of the film — it's biggest, scariest character. Yet the majority of its sounds came from none other than Rydstrom's own pet, a petite Jack Russell terrier named Buster. It's characteristic roar, on the other hand, is actually the sound of a baby elephant.
Dying Triceratops
The triceratops sounds were from dozens of cows from George Lucas' film site, Skywalker Ranch, where Rydstrom works. As for the unforgettable sound of the dying triceratops, though, Rydstrom turned to a simple, homemade device: a cardboard tube with a spring in it. "When Sam Neill puts his ear right up to the chest cavity of the triceratops and listens to its breathing, there's a lot of cow in there, but the key element of the breathing is mostly me breathing into a tube," Rydstrom told Vulture.
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When "Jurassic Park" came out in 1993, its use of CGI was years ahead of its time.
In ways, every modern blockbuster can thank "Jurassic Park" for breaking so much new ground.
But making this classic come to life was no easy task.
It involved a lot of creative problem solving, casting sessions, and bidding wars to get everything in the right place at the right time.
Just in time for "Jurassic World," out in theaters on June 12, we've compiled some of the most fascinating facts behind the first "Jurassic Park."
Some of the other directors that were considered included Tim Burton ("Edward Scissorhands"), Joe Dante ("Gremlins") and Richard Donner ("Lethal Weapon").
According to EW, there was an intense bidding war and Spielberg, who was "Jurassic Park" author Michael Crichton's first choice to begin with, won the rights.
Spielberg's relationship with Crichton (they had already been developing a film together based on Crichton's book "Cold Case") definitely helped Universal come out on top.
"Jurassic Park" runs for 127 minutes.
Even fewer minutes were dedicated to CGI dinos.
During the first T. rex attack, the dinosaur breaks through the van's sunroof, terrifying both Tim (Joseph Mazello) and Lex (Ariana Richards).
It turns out the dino wasn't supposed to break the glass.
"I think the T. rex was only supposed to go down so far, and the Plexiglass was the only thing between the dinosaur and us. It came down too far one time, and it chipped the Plexiglas and broke a tooth." Mazzello told EW.
