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Hollywood's recycling bin is filling up -- especially for movies being adapted to TV.

In the upcoming season alone, there's numerous TV shows based on movies, including ABC's "Uncle Buck," CBS's "Limitless" and "Rush Hour," Netflix's "Wet Hot American Summer," MTV's "Scream," and Fox's "Minority Report."

In the crowded TV landscape, networks are looking for anything that can break through. Projects which existed in another medium (book, movie, stage play), and better still if they were hits, mean viewers already have knowledge of the show and possibly a connection.

Here are 19 movies currently being developed for TV.

"The Mortal Instruments"

Titled "Shadowhunters," the series is based on Cassandra Clare's "Mortal Instruments" book series. Set at ABC Family, the series has cast "Vampire Academy" actor Dominic Sherwood in the lead role of Jace.

"The Omen"

A&E's follow-up to 1976's "The Omen" finds Damien Thorne all grown up. With very little knowledge of the ungodly forces around him, he'll have to face the truth that he is the antichrist.

"American Gigolo"

Jerry Bruckheimer ("CSI" franchise) is developing the TV adaptation with Paramount TV. In the 1980 film, Richard Gere plays a male escort who's accused of murder.

If you've been looking for a way to watch Showtime shows and you have Hulu you're in luck — the premium channel is coming to the site in July.

Tuesday, Hulu announced via a press release it's partnering with Showtime to launch a streaming service for Hulu subscribers. 

Sounds exciting right? 

Premium content via a platform subscribers are already paying $7.99 per month to watch all other content currently available on Hulu.

Not so fast. 

According to the release, new and existing subscribers will need to pay an $8.99 on top of their $7.99 Hulu subscription to enjoy Showtime access.

Earlier this year, HBO started its own standalone service subscription Still, the Showtime charge is significantly less than the price of HBO's new standalone product, HBO Now, which launched in April.

Hulu is quickly amping up its content library.

In February, it announced an adaptation of Stephen King's 11/23/63— a story about a teacher who travels back in time to prevent JFK's assassination — which will star James Franco.

The streaming service will start streaming all seasons of "Seinfeld" this week, and recently saved Fox's "The Mindy Project" from cancellation.

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Marvel and Sony announced Tuesday that 19-year-old actor Tom Holland has been chosen to play Peter Parker / Spider-Man.

Back in 2012, Holland had a powerful role playing a member of a tourist family in Thailand fighting to survive the 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean. Take a look at what this kid can do.

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Fans of NBC's recently canceled "Hannibal," or fannibals as they refer to themselves, aren't taking the news sitting down.

Soon after news of the cancelation broke on Monday, fannibals mobilized to find some sort of Hail Mary for the "Silence of the Lambs" prequel. Their tweets filled social media on Monday afternoon with the hashtags #SaveHannibal and #Fannibals.

Is there a possibility NBC could change its mind?

Fannibals started a petition on change.org on Monday afternoon asking NBC to reconsider its decision. At the time this article was published, more than 31,000 people signed the petition.

"Hannibal" executive producer Bryan Fuller had only good things to say about working with NBC in his statement on the cancelation. He even gestured to their next project together.

"'Hannibal' is finishing his last course at NBC’s table this summer, but a hungry cannibal can always dine again. And personally, I look forward to my next meal with NBC,” he said. 

Could he really have been hoping for a reprieve from NBC? The network declined to comment for this article.

That's not the only petition popping up online:

Could "Hannibal" find a new home?

Fans are hoping that the series could jump to a new network like HBO, AMC or a streaming site like Amazon or Netflix. If so, it would join the ranks of shows that have previously been given a second chance like "Damages," "The Killing," "Arrested Development," "Community," and "The Mindy Project."

Reports have suggested that Amazon would probably make the most logical new home for the series since it already owns streaming rights to the drama. The media company didn't immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment.

"Hannibal's" producers are trying to save the show too:

DeLaurentis Co. wrote the following on the show's Tumblr page:

"As a result of our being on the cancellation bubble throughout the show’s history, other networks/platforms have expressed interest in partnering with us in the past. We are currently exploring those options, and we hope to bring you future seasons."

And, production company Gaumont International Television told EW that "all options" are being explored.

Although "Hannibal" is a critical darling, the show has been plagued with low ratings since its first season. The series returned for Season 3 on June 4 and over its three subsequent episodes had only averaged 1.98 million viewers and a very low .57 rating in the advertiser-coveted 18-49-year-old demographic, according to Nielsen.

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Clarkson, Hammond, and May are back.

Jeremy Clarkson has confirmed to the Sunday Times that he will return to TV with a new car show

Joining the bombastic Brit on the new show will be his former "Top Gear" co-hosts Richard Hammond and James May.

Although the publication reports that an announcement is expected in a matter of weeks, the exact network on which the show will air has yet to be confirmed, 

However, sources told the Daily Mirror's Nigel Pauley that the ex-"Top Gear" trio— along with former showrunner Andy Wilman — are "very close" to a deal with Netflix.

In recent weeks, the foursome has held meetings with a number of potential suitors including British broadcasters ITV. But it seems that Netflix has come out on top. 

This development comes on the heels of the BBC's introduction of radio DJ Chris Evans as "Top Gear's" new front man. As a result, the 23rd season of the "Top Gear" will likely feature a lineup of all-new hosts and be the first to not feature Jeremy Clarkson since 2000. 

The American online media streaming service is home to such award winning original programming as "House of Cards" and "Orange is the New Black."

According to the Sunday Times, the new Clarkson-fronted car show will likely debut sometime after next March.

Top Gear's 22nd-season ended abruptly in March after only seven of the nine planned episodes had aired, due to the suspension and subsequent dismissal of Clarkson. 

Hammond and May followed Clarkson out the door by voluntarily declining to renew their respective BBC contracts, which expired in April. Wilman — longtime executive producer and close friend of Clarkson — also left the BBC in the wake of the hosts' dismissal. 

The network's decision to part ways with the polarizing TV personality came after an internal BBC inquiry found Clarkson had punched a "Top Gear" producer when he failed to obtain a hot steak dinner after a long day of filming.

In addition, the fracas with the producer came on the heels of a controversy-filled 2014 for Clarkson — which saw the TV host mired in scandal stemming from accusations of racist, sexist, and culturally insensitive comments. 

Prior to his dismissal, Clarkson had spent nearly three decades with the BBC as a host on "Top Gear" and is credited with being the driving force behind the show's explosive international success.

With more than 350 million weekly viewers, "Top Gear" set the Guinness World record as the most watched factual TV program in the world. In addition to the UK show, the Top Gear brand includes numerous international spinoffs, a live stadium tour, merchandising, a successful magazine, and a website. 

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Following the two sequels to the 1993 smash hit “Jurassic Park,” actor BD Wong realized he had to take things into his own hands.

As Dr. Henry Wu in “Jurassic Park,” the chief engineer responsible for the recreation of the dinosaurs in the park, there was never any resolution to what happened to the character.

Did he get eaten by his creations once the park lost power and roamed free? Did he make it on one of the last boats off the island?

The character's absence in any followup sequels led to years of people asking Wong what happened to Dr. Wu. Finally, the actor was ready to finally give the fans what they wanted.

“I was at the point where I wanted to make some videos to put online showing what happened to him,” Wong told Business Insider. “Silly things for the fans, like he somehow ended up with the shaving cream can.” Referring to the infamous Barbasol can filled with dinosaur embryos that dropped out of Dennis Nedry’s coat when he was attacked by a Dilophosaurus in “Jurassic Park.”

But before he could follow through on his zany idea the phone rang, and it was “Jurassic Word” director Colin Trevorrow.

A year before “Jurassic World” went into production, Trevorrow reached out to the actor and asking if he would like to reprise the role of Dr. Wu.

“I was like, ‘Sure, of course, that sounds great,’” Wong recalled. “I didn’t really take it that seriously because things change all the time.”

Wong knows that from first-hand experience.

The 54 year old is a veteran character actor having worked on “Law & Order: SVU” for 11 years playing Dr. George Huang and starring in countless movies since the 1980s. But when he got the call to play Dr. Wu the first time around in “Jurassic Park” he thought it would bring him to the next level.

Mainly, because of the size of the Dr. Wu character in the book. In which he stays on the island with the others to regain power to the park.

“I was actually hired from auditions I did that were scenes taken from the book,” said Wong, referring to the Michael Crichton novel the movie is based on.

“So imagine my surprise when I got a call that I was working on the movie for one day,” he said.

Though his character was stripped bare, Wong got over it quickly because being on a movie of that magnitude definitely helped him get more work.

But when Trevorrow came calling 20-plus years later, Wong was a bit skeptical.

“I think he might have sensed that I was sensitive to their not being much to [the character],” he said. “He was courting me in a way.”

As Wong predicted, it was months following that first call with Trevorrow when he finally got word that Dr. Wu was going to be in the film.

But how they had fleshed out the Dr. Wu character was beyond Wong’s expectations.

“The character was coming full circle but also they were giving him his due in some way,” Wong said. “They were making him into a three-dimensional person and I liked that.”

In “Jurassic World,” Dr. Wu is now the head of the division that clones dinosaurs and has pushed the boundaries of cloning. He's in charge of developing bigger, and more dangerous creatures to keep fans of the theme park returning for more.

Dr. Wu’s major scene comes after his newest creation, the Indominus Rex, has escaped and the park’s owner Simon Masrani (Irrfan Khan) comes to Dr. Wu for answers. Like in “Jurassic Park,” Dr. Wu gives the audience a better understanding of what our heroes are up against. But this time Trevorrow wanted the character to have an added layer.

“We’re about to shoot my big scene with Simon Masrani, Colin comes over to me and says, ‘You know, I think Wu he should say, ‘All of this is because of me,’” Wong recalls.

The line was not in the script, and Wong was instantly taken-aback that Trevorrow would let a lower-tier character say a line of such magnitude.

“I was like, ‘Are you kidding me?’ But I said the line in every take from that point on,” Wong said. “But I thought they were never going to use that. Or Universal would not let them use it. That’s just too much of a commitment.”

But it was left in. And that chilling line presented the audience with a side of Dr. Wu they didn’t see coming. A person so full of himself that he now has a God complex. The importance of Dr. Wu to the story is confirmed in his last scene when we see him fly off Jurassic World with a suitcase full of dino embryos.

So, will we see Dr. Wu if there are sequels to “Jurassic World”?

Wong is as curious as we are.

“I'm not even being coy, I don't have any idea,” he said. “I read the movie and had the same reaction that most all people are having in regards to that. So if you're the kind of person who's inclined to root for that thing to happen then there's a certain amount of encouragement there.”

Is Wong one of those people rooting for that?

“I think I am,” he said, “because now you can tell that the potential [for the character] is really great.”

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The next Spider-Man has been cast, and his name is Tom Holland.

The British 19-year-old actor is the youngest to ever take on the role, and like Andrew Garfield and Toby Maguire before him, he is far from a household name at the time of his casting. However, as a younger star, he has even fewer credits to his name — so there's precious little for fans to go on if they're curious as to how good of a fit he'd be.

Fortunately, what little there is happens to be very, very good.

Holland's calling card is the 2012 film "The Impossible," where he plays Lucas, a real-life survivor of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. It's powerful stuff, and Holland is at the center of it all. But what's also interesting about Holland's performance in the movie is the way he talks about it. 

Take a look at this interview with Celebs.com — Holland remains thoughtful and humble throughout, not only talking up his craft but also the contributions of the entire cast and crew. He's an extremely articulate guy, and this was in 2013.

That same year, Holland appeared as Isaac in the Saorise Ronan-led "How I Live Now ," based on the 2004 novel of the same name by Meg Rosoff. It's a smaller role for Holland than "The Impossible," but still weighty in its fictional World War III setting.

That's more or less it as far as Tom Holland's major roles go. He appears as Gregory Cromwell in BBC Two's recent miniseries adaptation of Hilary Mantel's "Wolf Hall," but as you can tell by the trailer, the story is more about his father, Thomas Cromwell. 

Outside of that, Holland maintains a modest social media presence on Twitter and Instagram, where he seems fond of flipping, which makes sense for the future Spider-Man.

He's also quite fond of his dog Tessa.

The strangest bit about Holland's casting is that he's the first actual teenager to take on the role — both Toby Maguire and Andrew Garfield were in their mid-to-late-twenties when cast. While he won't be a teenager for much longer, it's great to see that Marvel and Sony have agreed on casting someone closer in age and appearance to real-life high-school teens. Spider-Man, really, is the first great teen superhero — that's what makes him special. In that sense, it's always been curious to see the films so eager to age Peter Parker up and get him out of high school. 

Now, the Marvel Cinematic Universe finally has a teen superhero — which is something it desperately needs. 

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Viola Davis wasn't going to try and be "the Vogue woman" on ABC's "How to Get Away With Murder," in which she plays no-nonsense top defense attorney and stoic college professor Annalise Keating.

That goal was certainly put to the test when the show asked her to shed her makeup and wig for an unforgettable scene just four episodes in to its freshman season.

"I felt like this was my chance to woman up," she said in a cover story for TheWrap's Emmy magazine. "Because I think that how we are as women, just in real life, is very interesting. And I think that in the hands of a woman–and I’d like to think that, in my professional life anyway, I have a certain braveness and boldness–I want to present women as they really are."

In the scene, Annalise strips her makeup and wig just ahead of a confrontation with her husband. And Davis was going to make sure that she would represent herself truthfully.

"You know, as soon as you walk through the door, what do you do?" she explained to the website. "You take off your bra, you let your ti----es sag, you let your hair come off–I mean my hair. I mean, I don’t have any eyebrows. I let my eyebrows be exactly what they are. And it’s me. And I wanted that scene to be somewhere in the narrative of Annalise. That who she is in her public life and who she was in her private life were absolutely, completely diametrically opposed to one another. Because that’s who we are as people. We wear the mask that grins and lies."

And by the way, she did the scene in one take. Again, for very real reasons.

"I didn’t feel like putting that makeup on again," the 49-year-old laughed. "So yes, absolutely it was one-take."

Watch Davis describe the scene below:

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WARNING: Mild spoilers below

On Sunday night, the much anticipated new season of "True Detective" finally dropped on everyone's TV sets and the reaction was ... not so good.

As colleague Ian Phillips notes in his round-up of reaction, a lot of the hate from fans revolves around a storyline that's too difficult to follow and the slow-moving nature of the show.

Everyone is getting it wrong.

In reality, the new "True Detective" is reverse-engineering your normal, run-of-the-mill character development. As a result, we're being introduced to this whole new world in a very different way, which I think is going to lead to big payoffs very quickly.

This season of the show takes place in Los Angeles and stars Rachel McAdams, Colin Farrell, Taylor Kitsch, and Vince Vaughn. The first three are all law enforcement of some type and Vince Vaughn plays a crime boss.

Episode 1 is incredibly fractured. It's told in a series of bite-size slices of life that give us individual insight into the characters. And it's true, many of these scenes are not specifically plot driven. Many of the things we see or that happen are likely not going to be part of any larger plot that this season of the show offers.

But they are crucial to character development and information, and that is what's so genius about episode 1.

Television shows of this type often follow somewhat of a formula. One that "True Detective" rejects. Let's take the example of the TV show "Lost," for example.

In "Lost," the inciting incident happens right at the beginning (plane crash on deserted island). The action starts right from the start. As the show progresses, it pushes forward with the plot but also has to spend a lot of time in flashbacks. The idea being, the more we know about these characters, the more we care about them. And of course, the events of their past can inform plot twists and turns of the present.

This takes a lot of time, and it takes us away from the forward motion of the plot. This is the same formula many shows follow to help tie everything together for the viewer. But sometimes, as someone watching the show, it can be distracting.

"True Detective" is flipping the script this season.

Every character gets a few scenes of them living their lives outside of whatever the big plot of the show is (or will be). That lets us get to know them right off the bat. Sure, we're going to find out more, other things will be revealed, and our interpretations of these characters will change as we learn more.

But in this episode, the plot doesn't really start until minute 60. At the very end, all the characters we've been following the whole time (except Vince Vaughn) converge around one plot point — one incident. From there, you know they will start embarking on some detective journey and we'll start getting into the real meat of the show.

But by the time we get there, to that moment of convergence, we already know so much about these characters.

We know Ani Bezzerides (McAdams) likes weird sex, has an estranged father and sister, is high strung, and likes to blow off steam drinking and gambling late at night.

We know Ray Velcoro (Farrell) is trying to get custody of his alleged son (the paternity is a bit fuzzy), and has a drinking problem.

We know Paul Woodrugh (Kitsch) has scars all over his body from earlier in life, has trouble with intimacy, and possesses a self-destructive tendency.

And we know Frank Semyon (Vaughn) is a crime boss with a good family life and what seems like a good heart. He is as ambitious as he seems compassionate, and he has a storied relationship with Ray.

We find out a whole lot more as well about these characters. But most importantly, as we head into the big case which will drive the story forward, we get who these people are. And we already know a lot about them beyond a mere first impression.

That's going to infuse the story with a ton more life as we move forward, and make each twist and turn all the more juicy.

Slow? No story? No way, we're just getting started and this is going to be fun ... and probably a little disturbing.

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We have a while to go before the new season of "The Walking Dead," but that doesn't mean we can't get excited for for a glimpse of Rick and the rest of the gang.

AMC debuted the first artwork for season six and it hints at a potential rift between Rick and his old buddy Morgan (Lennie James).

Warning: Some spoilers ahead!

Remember, Morgan just joined the group at Alexandria at the very end of the season 5 finale.

He walked in at essentially the worst moment ever, moments after Rick was told to kill a member of the Alexandria clan.

Since we recently learned Morgan has taken up a rather spiritual existence — he doesn't really believe in the whole killing thing — it will be exciting to see how he and Rick interact at the top of season six.

"The Walking Dead" crew will be heading to San Diego Comic-Con where we can expect to see the first preview of the new season. 

Their panel will kick off Friday, July 10 at 3 p.m. EST. Expect to see some footage online not too long afterward.

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Brian Williams has a long way to go before the general public is behind him once again, social media data shows.

Business Insider partnered with Prime Visibility, a digital marketing agency with the tools to measure social media mentions, in order to get an idea of whether people are supporting Williams currently or not.

Prime Visibility found that 98,613 tweets have been posted about Williams since last Wednesday when NBC News announced its decision to replace the veteran anchor with Lester Holt on "NBC Nightly News" while Williams continues to work in breaking news for NBC/MSNBC.

On Thursday morning, Williams' interview with "Today's" Matt Lauer added fuel to fire. The former anchor took responsibility for fudging stories he had told on-air and in public.

“I’m sorry,” Williams said.“I said things that weren’t true. I let down my NBC colleagues and our viewers, and I’m determined to earn back their trust. I will greatly miss working with the team on Nightly News, but I know the broadcast will be in excellent hands with Lester Holt as anchor."

Unfortunately for Williams, people on social media weren't in a forgiving mood. Prime Visibility found that 68.3% reacted negatively towards either his interview with "Today" or the fact that he’s remaining with NBC.

Here's a sample of the tweets:

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"Inside Out," Pixar's latest film about a young girl and her motley crew of emotions, debuted at $91.1 million this past weekend — a box office record for domestic openings.

The movie has so far earned rapt reviews, particularly for its imaginative portrayal of five emotions — Fear, Disgust, Anger, Sadness, and Joy — as they jockey for the limelight inside the head of Riley, the main character.

Even as a children's movie, the film employs pretty sophisticated psychological concepts (even if they don't entirely exist).

Here's what "Inside Out" gets right, mostly right —  and what the film just made up.

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Sleep consolidates long-term memories 

Each night, when Riley goes to sleep, the "headquarters" where her emotions live shuts down. The memories that came rolling down a track earlier in the day, in the form of colored, emotion-specific balls, all get sucked up through a vacuum tube to be sent to the vast realm of long-term memories.

Our memories aren't colored balls, of course, but the principle is completely sound, says American University psychologist Nathaniel Herr.

"The current research supports the idea that sleep is important for memory consolidation," Herr tells Business Insider. 

During the day, we use our working memories to keep track of small tasks and facts. It's only once we enter slow-wave sleep— or deep sleep — that our brains really cement some of the most important memories for much longer.

Reframing memories

Several times throughout the movie, Riley, an avid hockey player, recalls missing the winning goal during a championship game back in Minnesota. 

At first she's crushed. She sits alone on a tree branch, licking her wounds. When she remembers this moment, back at headquarters the memory ball is colored blue.

A few moments later, her teammates cheer her up by hoisting her onto their shoulders. Now the memory shines yellow.

Herr says this flip-flopping happens all the time in the real world. We remember certain events through the lens of our current emotions. When we're sad, the memory of a family road trip might just remind us of a stuffy car. When we're happy, we remember the adventures.

"Being able to recognize that our memories aren't just simply good or bad, but have different sides to them, is a way people cope with their complicated lives," Herr says. 

This process is known as "reframing," he adds, and it can help boost people's psychological health and well-being throughout their lives.

Emotional complexity (Warning: minor spoilers below)

When we first meet Sadness, she's kind of a bummer. When Riley's family moves from Minnesota to San Francisco, she only seems to make things harder for Riley. And her self-loathing doesn't help.

Back at HQ, Joy is nowhere to be found. When Riley's mom tells her daughter to cheer up, that only makes things worse.

"She can't push away the sadness," Herr says. Either she has to escape the feeling or embrace it.

Initially she chooses escape. But as she finds herself clad in all black on a grimy city bus, running away to Minnesota, she remembers when her mom and dad came to comfort her on the tree branch. It was her sadness that made them want to help.

"That interplay between our emotions and the way the movie says, 'Hey, it's OK to have different emotions be in charge and not necessarily hate our sadness' is a good message," Herr says.

That includes anger.

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Core memories 

The driving force behind "Inside Out" is the journey Joy and Sadness go on to salvage Riley's sense of self in the face of a big life change.

Along that journey, Joy is tasked with keeping safe a backpack full of Riley's "core memories." They are five golden balls that contain treasured moments from her past. Repeatedly, Joy tells Sadness not to touch these memories. Once they're turned blue, they can't be changed back. 

In the logic of the movie, core memories can be thought of as even stronger long-term memories. But Herr says they aren't so much hard psychological frameworks as nice moments we hold close.

"There do seem to be memories that people feel are kind of central to their identity," he explains. But these can't actually be found anywhere in the brain as the movie purports.

Personality Islands

In the same vein, the ultimate goal of Joy and Sadness is to keep several large, theme-park-like structures from crumbling. These "Personality Islands" mark the different sides of Riley — her love of hockey, her goofiness, her sense of right and wrong, the bond she has with her parents.

As more terrible things happen to her, these structures collapse. The only way to rebuild them is through a change of heart.

Similar to core memories, these islands of personality don't necessarily "exist" anywhere in the brain. But they certainly make up crucial parts of our identity, Herr says.

"With personality, I think of certain traits like aggression or neuroticism or extroversion," Herr explains. These are descriptors for how we respond to stimuli in our environment.

As "Inside Out" shows, personality as a collection of identity factors is important, Herr says. "But that wasn't quite what they were referring to."

They made that up

Imagination Land

Call it a cheap shot to say they "made up" imagination, but hear us out. 

In 2013, scientists put subjects inside an MRI scanner to see which parts of their brains lit up during imagination. Several key structures seemed to be involved, but ultimately the research hit the same dead end that a lot of imagination research hits.

We just don't know how we do it.

Perhaps that is the biggest complaint one can lob at the movie's treatment of imagination. Psychology doesn't know how imagination works well enough to depict it so fantastically. 

There is a silver lining. 

When Joy, Sadness, and their sidekick Bing Bong — Riley's imaginary friend — enter Imagination Land's off-limit zone of Abstract Thought, they lose their complexity in four stages. By the fourth stage, the three characters have been reduced to colored amorphous blobs. 

As we age into our teenage years, we really do gain the ability to think more abstractly than when we were kids. We think about concepts and ideas rather than just objects. 

Herr admits, "I think that was one case where it was probably more artistic than it was brain science."

But then again, it is Pixar. A little artistic license is to be expected.

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Coming off a successful week at E3, Bungie, the creators of "Halo" and "Destiny," is facing a PR disaster after one of the game's creative directors defended the price tag of the new "Destiny" expansion coming this fall, called "The Taken King," which will offer new missions, gear, weapons, and more.

The interview between Luke Smith, Bungie's creative director on "The Taken King," and Eurogamer's Tom Phillips, was an absolute disaster — and "Destiny" fans are incensed.

For background, Bungie is selling "The Taken King" in four different packages when it arrives on September 15.

• The $40 download of "The Taken King."
• The $60 "Legendary Edition" includes the original game and first two expansions, plus "The Taken King"; this is the package you'll want if you're new to the series.
• The $80 "Collector's Edition" includes the original game and first two expansions, plus "The Taken King," a steelbook with personal notes, illustrations, and artifacts, three class items that give your character experience bonuses when worn, three armor shaders, and three class-specific "emotes," which could be either gestures or dance moves.
• The $80 "Digital Collector's Edition" includes the original game and first two expansions, plus "The Taken King," the three class items that offer bonus experience, three armor shaders, and three class-specific "emotes."

Longtime players are taking issue with the $80 Collector's Editions, which offer content only hardcore fans will really care about (emotes, in particular), but also require the purchase (or repurchase) of the original game and first two expansions. Also, the digital and physical Collector's Editions cost the same amount of money, despite the disparity in offerings.

Considering many Day 1 players paid $90 to own "Destiny" and the first two expansions last year, fans are upset at the $80 price point, which, to many, feels exorbitant, especially since it forces you to buy all that original content again. So when Eurogamer sat down with Luke Smith, creative director on "The Taken King," to talk about pricing, fans were hoping Smith would offer some explanations for these moves. 

The interview didn't go so well. The whole thing is really worth a read, but check out this particular exchange:

Eurogamer: I get that ['The Taken King'] is big but it is also the same price as the base game. That had four areas rather than one and more missions than the Taken King. Why is it the same price?

Luke Smith: All I can do is answer that with the same thing I just gave you... We're really comfortable with the value we're giving to players this autumn. I believe that once we begin to share more, players will be even more excited. And for existing players it also comes with the Founder's pack with a new Sparrow, shader and emblem.

Eurogamer: Just not the emotes.

Luke Smith: It doesn't because they come with the Collector's Edition.

Eurogamer: Final question on prices -

Luke Smith: Is it also the final question on the emotes?

Eurogamer: I'm not going to mention them again. I can't get them.

Luke Smith: But you can if you buy the Collector's Edition.

Eurogamer: I'm not going to buy the game and the two DLCs all over again.

Luke Smith: Okay, but first I want to poke at you on this a little bit.

Eurogamer: Poke at me?

Luke Smith: You're feeling anxious because you want this exclusive content but you don't know yet how much you want it. The notion of spending this money is making you anxious, I can see it -

Eurogamer: I do want them. I would buy them -

Luke Smith: If I fired up a video right now and showed you the emotes you would throw money at the screen.

Eurogamer: What I'm saying is that fan frustration is not because they don't understand the proposition. It comes regardless of how cool the exclusive content is. The frustration - and mine as a fan - is that the method of acquiring it requires me to re-buy content I bought a year ago.

Luke Smith: [Long pause] It's about value. The player's assessment of the value of the content.

Smith continues on, citing the "temporal valuation of content" as a reason why the first two expansions are significantly cheaper than "The Taken King." But by that point, the damage was done.

Late Monday night, "Destiny" fans took to Bungie's forums and Reddit to express their disappointment and their disgust.

Some fans are also organizing a boycott on July 7 as a means of making a statement to Bungie. Here's what the organizer said:

This doesn't just insult you and I as regular players, but it spits on all of the hard work of everyone who made awesome community tools to fill in the gaps of Bungie's otherwise 6.5/10 game. Things like LFG sites that were made to compensate for the lack of matchmaking; like DestinyPublicEvents or Destiny Item Manager; like Destiny Ghost Hunter or sites that give you a better look at the Grimoire so that you have even the slightest clue as to what story actually exists in this game. The list can go on. We as a community put a lot of time and effort into making this game more than we were given. And don't get me wrong, there are some fantastic people at Bungie working their hardest to constantly improve the game, to listen to us and implement as much feedback as they can, to give use the tools needed to build everything I just mentioned. I get that. I'm hugely grateful for them, too.

However, we can't let an attitude like Luke Smith's dictate the future of this game without being contested. We shouldn't, anyways. We didn't just play this game; we invested in their community. We invested our time and talents to enrich the experience for each other in ways the game itself couldn't. Yet now we're being treated like we're nothing more than a pile of wallets? I get that they're a business, but you don't build a strong base for a game that's supposed to last 10 years by ostracizing and insulting your existing player-base.

Bungie is going into full-on crisis mode at the moment, with the company's community manager David "DeeJ" Dague posting on Reddit and Bungie's official forum, explaining that the company plans to discuss how Day 1 players will be recognized later this year.

Hey, there. First day back from E3, so I'm catching up on a lot of conversation about The Taken King. Please know that we're reading this feedback and taking it as seriously - as we always do. Destiny is a great game because we worked together to make it that way over the course of the past year. That partnership has not changed.

I understand that you want me to go on record right now with something that will address the disappointment that's being expressed here. I'm going to differ to the Bungie Weekly Update, in which we'll talk more about the things we're doing to celebrate the year-one Guardians who helped us build this community. I'll also revisit our goals in offering different versions of The Taken King. Ever heard the old adage about trying to please everyone?

More on this soon.

We've reached out to Bungie and its parent company Activision, and we'll update this story when we learn more.

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It comes out October 23, 2015.

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Channing Tatum didn’t always have a say in what he starred in.

In fact, there’s one film in particular he wishes could be taken off his filmography — 2009’s “G.I. Joe: The Rise of the Cobra.”

At the time, Tatum was just trying to get his foot into Hollywood. He had a small role in “Coach Carter” opposite Samuel L. Jackson, opened eyes with his acting abilities in the indie “A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints,” and long before “Magic Mike” he showed off his moves in the dance movie “Step Up.”

His star was on the rise and soon got a three-picture deal at Paramount.

But as he told Howard Stern this week, he did not want to do the first project the studio offered him, which was “G.I. Joe.”

“Look, I’ll be honest, I f------ hate that movie,” he told Stern. “I was pushed into doing that movie…They give you the contract and they go, ‘Three picture deal, here you go!’ And as a young [actor] you're like, ‘Oh my God, that sounds amazing, I’m doing that!’”

Tatum said his main reason why he didn’t want to do the "G.I. Joe" project was that “the script wasn’t any good.”

When Stern asked if he had an option to pass on the project, Tatum said, “[There’s] no option. ‘You’re doing this or we’re going to sue you.’”

“The Rise of the Cobra” grossed over $300 million worldwide.

Tatum admits he’s “lucky and blessed” to have had that success but what it basically led to was “another ‘G.I. Joe’ script.”

He did star in the sequel, “G.I. Joe: Retaliation,” but the film only grossed around $75 million more worldwide than the first. Even with new additions Bruce Willis and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.

According to Tatum in the Stern interview, the calls he got after the success of the first “G.I. Joe” were for more action movies. But he didn’t want to be an action star.

This is evident as he’s gone on to star in the hit “21 Jump Street" comedy franchise while also taking on dramatic roles like the Oscar-nominated “Foxcatcher.”

“The Coen brothers aren’t watching 'G.I. Joe,'” he told Stern.

Listen to Stern and Tatum talk about the "G.I. Joe" experience below. (Warning: NSFW)

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Ever wonder why you rarely hear the “Happy Birthday” song in movies and TV shows?

There’s a simple reason — it costs a lot of money to use it.

That’s right, the song that Guinness World Records in 1998 called the most recognized in the English language is under copyright. It’s owned by Warner Music Group, and for decades they have charged a license fee for the use of the song and rake in around $2 million a year in fees.

Movies and TV shows that feature a birthday party get around the fee by never completing the song (someone will come in and interrupt the singing), by singing “For He’s A Jolly Good Fellow” (which is in the public domain), or by just not singing at all when it’s cake time.

But some filmmakers do pay the fee because they feel it’s important for the song to be featured. For the classic 1994 documentary "Hoop Dreams," filmmaker Steve James said he paid $5,000 for use of the song in a scene where one of his main characters celebrates his 18th birthday. It was a major feat for the film’s subject, as he and his family lived in a section of Chicago with a high murder rate. The total budget for the film was around $700,000.

The 2003 documentary, “The Corporation,” notes that Warner has charged as high as $10,000 for the song to appear in a film.

The melody for “Happy Birthday” goes back to 1893, when sisters Patty and Mildred J. Hill introduced the song “Good Morning to All” to Patty’s kindergarten class in Kentucky.

But this is when things get interesting.

As the “Good Morning to All” songs began getting passed around from school to school at some point — there’s no definitive date or who was responsible — the lyrics “Happy Birthday to You” appeared. However, the melody stayed the same.

In 1935 a piano arrangement of the melody was copyrighted by a company later known as Birch Tree Group.

In 1988, Warner Music Group acquired the song from Birch Tree for around $25 million. 

However, a filmmaker recently brought a lawsuit in a New York court that may change everything.

Jennifer Nelson has been making a documentary about the “Happy Birthday” song since 2013. To her surprise the song wasn't free, and to use it legally Warner was going to charge her $1,500. 

This led her to file a lawsuit in June 2013 seeking the court to declare that the song is in the public domain.

Meaning free for anyone to use for any purpose.

Nelson’s company, Good Morning to You Productions Corp, claimed: 

"Irrefutable documentary evidence, some dating to 1893, shows that the copyright to ‘Happy Birthday to You,’ if there ever was a valid copyright to any part of the song, expired no later than 1921.”

It went on to state that if Warner has any claim to the song it’s specifically to the piano arrangement it bought from Birch Tree in 1935.

“Significantly, no court has ever adjudicated the validity or scope of the defendant's claimed interest in ‘Happy Birthday to You,’ nor in the song's melody or lyrics, which are themselves independent works,” reads the claim.

Business Insider reached out to Nelson (who is currently shopping around her film for distribution) on Tuesday to get an update on the lawsuit. Through her lawyer, Mark C. Rifkin, she states that a decision to determine whether “the copyright protects just the piano arrangement rather than the song itself” could be made by the judge as early as this summer.

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Actor Jeff Goldlum was recently named to GQ’s list of the 20 Most Stylish Men Alive.

In an interview with the magazine about his personal style, the newly married actor was asked how he responds when a woman asks what you think of her outfit.

Here's his advice for men everywhere:

“The traditional wisdom is of course to be positive. Because, even though I embrace truthfulness—I'd say I am a truth seeker, and truth teller, and person who's devoted his life to authenticity (under imaginary circumstances and in real life, frankly; it's an ideal toward which I aspire, and I'm a humble student of it)—I also feel that in human relations (when not under imaginary circumstances, especially), the way to skin the cat—and the way toward integrity, in fact—is not necessarily always to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth. If they really ask, and you have some kind of opinion that you think can be constructive, maybe then. But err on the side of restraint. Restraaaaaint. And say ‘Mm-mm-mm. Well, you look good in everything! Da-da da-da da-da. Et cetera et cetera.’”

You got that? "err on the side of restraint" and when in doubt, "You look good in everything!"

Read Goldblum's full interview with GQ here.

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Take a look at the beautiful trailer.

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