Every June, the video game industry gathers in Los Angeles to take over the LA Convention Center with massive banners and signs in an explosion of marketing. It's bombastic. It's loud. And it's a way for the game industry to demonstrate to the non-video game world what's worth paying attention to in the coming holiday season.

The event, known as "E3" (the "Electronic Entertainment Expo"), is a monument to expenditure in the service of marketing. And thankfully for us, that means dozens of gorgeous trailers. Right here, we've gathered last week's best of the best for your approval.

Sony's PlayStation 4:

• "The Last Guardian" easily stole the show, finally being "re-announced" after years of carefully worded statements from Sony's PlayStation team on its whereabouts. The game follows a small boy and his pet...cat-bird-thing. They're dependent on each other to solve puzzles and continue on their journey through what looks to be a crumbling castle of sorts. What's got people really excited is its creator, Fumito Ueda, whose previous two games ("Ico" and "Shadow of the Colossus") are widely-acclaimed as two of the best games ever made.

• "Final Fantasy VII" is finally – finally! – getting remade after nearly 20 years of fans demanding it. This is the seminal Japanese role-playing game that gave many game fans their first taste of emotional storytelling in video games.

• "Uncharted 4: A Thief's End," the most impressive trailer of the show in terms of visuals, is the followup to the most successful franchise on the PlayStation 3. In it, you control an Indiana Jones-esque explorer named Nathan Drake (from a third-person perspective) as he explores lost cities and knocks out the jerks guarding them.

• "Horizon Zero Dawn" is a gorgeous, third-person action game starring a ferocious warrior who's taking on an army of dinosaur-like robots. It's from the studio that spent the past decade making "Killzone" games, Guerrilla Games, in Amsterdam.

• "Dreams" is the next game from the studio that created the "LittleBigPlanet" franchise, and it's somewhat indescribable. It appears to be a creation engine of sorts, enabling players to create worlds (and games) based on their dreams.

 Microsoft's Xbox One:

• "ReCore" is being created by two famed developers: Keiji Inafune, who created the iconic "Mega Man" franchise, and Armature Studio, which is led by the game director of the acclaimed "Metroid Prime" game series.

• "Halo 5: Guardians" is the next major entry in the "Halo" game series, and the first major "Halo" to land on Microsoft's latest console, the Xbox One. Microsoft started its big Xbox press conference last week with this trailer, which shows off a new, eSports-inspired multiplayer game type.

• "Cuphead" is, unbelievably, being made by two people. They're brothers, actually – Chad and Jaren Moldenhauer – and they came up with the idea for "Cuphead" many years ago. The brothers have finally made their dream a reality in "Cuphead," which takes 1930s-style animation (think: "Steamboat Willy" era Disney) and combines it with a 2D shooting game. It's dripping with style, and largely beloved based largely on its looks.

• "Sea of Thieves" is a brand new franchise from veteran UK game studio Rare, which is now owned by Microsoft. In "Sea of Thieves," players take on the role of a seafaring lad or lady – basically a pirate, though more "Pirates of the Caribbean" than "Captain Philips" – whose mission is to loot and plunder. At least that's what we know about it so far.

• "Gears of War 4" is the long-awaited next entry in the "Gears of War" franchise – a game where you play as humans the size of couches, who speak like truckers, and use a gun with a saw attachment to literally cut through enemy aliens. It's got quite a loyal following.

Nintendo's Wii U and 3DS: 

• "Super Mario Maker" is, as it sounds, a creation tool for making new games starring Super Mario. Every Mario game, from the original NES "Super Mario Bros." through the Wii U's "New Super Mario Bros. U" is supported, which is to say, "You can create Mario games from any point in the franchise's last 30 years." Notably, that doesn't include any 3D Mario games ("Super Mario Galaxy," for instance).

• "Star Fox Zero" is Nintendo's first foray into the "Star Fox" franchise in nearly a decade. It's a partial re-make of the original "Star Fox" – which first appeared on the Super Nintendo in 1993 – and partial new game. 

• "Yoshi's Wooly World" is a beautifully stylized yarn world that Mario's favorite dinosaur buddy must carefully navigate. Nintendo's apparently doubling down on the concept it first tested in "Kirby's Epic Yarn," another Nintendo game starring an important but secondary character, also created of yarn. Notably, Nintendo's releasing a plushie Yoshi amiibo (the figurines that have helped reinvigorate Nintendo's financial numbers as of late) alongside the game. It's, unsurprisingly, adorable.

• "Metroid Prime: Federation Force" is a handheld entry in the long-running "Metroid" franchise. It promises "four-player co-op experiences in the 'Metroid Prime' universe," which is to say, "It's a handheld 'Metroid' first-person shooter game, set in areas from previous games, now built around four-player co-op play."

• "Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash" is literally the only upcoming tennis game on any console, from any game maker. Gone are the days of "Top Spin" and "Virtua Tennis" – Super Mario's tennis game is quite literally the only game in town. The next game in the franchise is headed to Wii U and, if you're looking to trounce Bowser in a round of tennis, this is your game.

 What else?

• Microsoft's demo of its "mixed reality" headset, HoloLens, was incredible. It showed how users can take their "Minecraft" worlds and bring them into the real world, using HoloLens. This video of "Minecraft" brand director Lydia Winters showcasing how the headset works with the game is unbelievable.

• "Star Wars Battlefront" is all the "Star Wars" battles you played out in the living room as a child, but in an unbelievably handsome multiplayer game. As AT-ATs stroll through Hoth, you're either a Rebel or an Imperial trying to take down the enemy before you're taken down. "Battlefront" isn't a direct lead into the much-anticipated, upcoming "Star Wars" film, but it does feature an important battle that sets the stage for the new movie. And if nothing else, it's incredibly pretty.

• "Kingdom Hearts 3" is the third entry in a series that asks "What happens when you combine Disney characters with 'Final Fantasy' sensibility, all in a third-person action setting?" If that sounds to you like the perfect combination of two rabidly devoted fan bases, you'd be right – fans freaked out when the game was finally shown last week for the first time. 

• "Mirror's Edge: Catalyst" was a long-time in the making. The first game in the series, "Mirror's Edge," launched in 2008. Though critically-acclaimed, it didn't sell as well as its publisher Electronic Arts would've liked. Due to overwhelming demand from fans, EA is creating a sequel (an origin story, so maybe more "prequel") named "Mirror's Edge: Catalyst." Why do fans love it? It's unique! "Mirror's Edge" is a game about first-person parkour, and flips the generally accepted concepts of a first-person game on its head.

• "Ghost Recon: Wildlands" is an open-world third-person shooter, which relies heavily on co-op play with friends to succeed in a variety of different missions. In the trailer, you'll see that missions can be accomplished in a variety of different ways: sneaky and benevolent or loud and savage, among others. 

• "Dark Souls 3" is the third entry in the "Souls" series, but really the fifth entry in this style of game – unique to its developer, From Software. The simplest way to describe these games is as third-person action games, but that'd be selling them very short. What keeps fans coming back to the "Souls" series is its challenge: these are not games that will hold your hand, and if anything are more demanding than most other games available today. 

• "Mass Effect: Andromeda" is the next entry in the ongoing space opera that is the "Mass Effect" series. Rather than follow the (hotly contested) events that concluded "Mass Effect 3," "Andromeda" has players venturing into a previously unexplored part of the galaxy. It looks to be a bit of a space western, if anything, which we're fully ready to embrace based solely on the trailer below.

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As the cast of “Mad Men” begin to do more press appearances following the series finale, we are getting some interesting behind-the-scenes knowledge on how some of our favorite scenes came together.

One of the most memorable is the final shot in the show’s finale episode in which Don Draper meditates on a cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean and then cuts to a famous Coca-Cola commercial, “I’d Like to Buy the World a Coke.” 

While on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” Tuesday, Jon Hamm, who played Draper, gave some insight on that ending.

“Matt Weiner, who writes the show, had seized on this idea around season four,” Hamm told Kimmel.

The show ran for seven seasons.

But getting the commercial in the episode was far from easy.

“There was a couple of years process of clearing that with Coca-Cola,” he revealed.

Following the finale, Coca-Cola told People that “no money exchanged hands” between the show and Coke for the use of the commercial in the finale. 

Watch Hamm's full interview with Jimmy Kimmel below.

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Playboy's 2014 "Playmate of the Year," Kennedy Summers, recently found a passion for day trading.

"I love trading. I can wake up and make sure I can make money and still pay my rent," the 28-year model and actress said during a telephone call on Wednesday morning while getting her makeup done for a TV show shoot in Los Angeles.

Back in April, Summers was approached to be a speaker at the Equities.com Small Cap Stars Spring Conference, which took place in Times Square in early June.

Ahead of the event, Long Island-based Cyber Trading University trained her in day trading for free. (They do not pay or sponsor her, she said.)

"I got hooked on it," she said.

She added that she finds trading fun and exciting. She also admitted that it was "terrifying" at first.

"I don't know what any of these words mean?" she said, recalling her first day in front of the trading screens. "I learned pretty quickly."

Summers' grandfather was a banker. Her grandparents tried to teach her about stocks as a kid, but she "never really explored it."

That's all changed now.

Every trader has a routine

One of the appeals of day trading is the hours. 

Since Summers lives in LA, she wakes up around 5 a.m. PT and trades "usually at home in my pajamas." Cyber Trading University lets Summers use its chat-room services for free. (The service costs $297 per month. Summers said she promotes them on Twitter to her more than 15,000 followers).

In the chat room, she talks to her teacher, Fausto Pugliese, about stocks that he's looking at each morning. Summers said she likes to trade the most active stocks, the big gainers and losers, because of volume and volatility. 

When she's finished, it's still early on the West Coast. That means she has the rest of her day to dedicate to modeling and acting.

Day trading has also been a way for Summers to supplement her income. Modeling doesn't always mean a consistent paycheck. To be fair, neither does trading. 

"It's a good supplement to earn some extra money."  

Summers claimed that on a good day she can make around $600. There have been some days where she'd lose around $1,300, she said. On days when she loses, she said it makes her want to work harder. 

"I just try to balance it. I can't win everyday," she said.

She's still a beginner.

A strange path to trading

Summers was born in Berlin, Germany. Her father was in the US Army. He passed away when she was a kid. She grew up in Hampton, Virginia. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in anthropology from Mary Baldwin College, an all-female liberal-arts college in Staunton, Virginia. 

After college, she moved to Milan to pursue a career and modeling. She also spent time modeling in Asia. Afterward, she enrolled in medical school in Curacao. She was planning on pursuing a career as a plastic surgeon. 

After she completed two-and-a-half years of med school, she was "getting a little restless." She decided to submit some snapshots to Playboy's website. They ended up flying her out for a test shoot. She was booked as a Playmate and appeared in the magazine as Miss December 2013.

She later became the "Playmate of the Year." That title came with a one-year lease on a MINI Cooper and a check for $100,000, of which, she noted, a big portion goes to taxes. 

As for her future aspirations, she wants to stick with trading. 

"I want to continue day trading. I want to trade my own funds. This year, I want to live in London. I can work the market from two to three [in the afternoon]. I love the freedom and the flexibility." 

She also wants to write a book to get "younger girls to learn about managing finances."

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In early 2007, the first iPhone had just been revealed by Apple president Steve Jobs on a stage in California. 

Somewhere in Japan, a small team of acclaimed video game developers was reconvening after a two year hiatus. The goal was simple: to create a third game, as emotionally impactful and precedent-setting as the first two. They had colossal expectations to fill. A simple goal, perhaps, but a deeply challenging one.

The team – "Team Ico" – created two beloved games for the PlayStation 2: "Ico" and "Shadow of the Colossus." Both are action games with a third-person view, and both follow a single individual through a fantastical world. In "Ico," you're a young boy working with a ghost-like entity to escape a massive castle. In "Shadow of the Colossus," you're a slightly older boy climbing on top of building-sized creatures in order to take them down. 

The games aren't especially fun to play. What makes people love them is the characters Team Ico created, and the worlds that these characters inhabit.

In "Ico," the massive castle you're escaping is actually a tomb where children who look like the main character are sent to die. In "Shadow of the Colossus," the creatures you're toppling are seemingly benevolent. Since games tell you to kill ugly, angry creatures, aren't you supposed to do that here too? 

In Team Ico's third project, "The Last Guardian," players will once again control a young boy from a third-person perspective. This time, instead of taking down massive creatures, your character is dependent on a kind of cat-bird creature. It looks like this:

Beyond trusting the team that had already built two excellent games, fans were immediately drawn to the world of "The Last Guardian" and its adorably creepy main character when it was originally revealed in 2009 by then PlayStation leader Jack Tretton. Here's the original teaser trailer, which was apparently sped up to look like the game was in better shape than it actually was:

And here's the elated fan reaction to the original reveal, back in 2009:

The game then disappeared for years.

It missed its 2011 launch window. Rumors swirled that the project's director, Fumito Ueda, was no longer working on "The Last Guardian." Year after year, interview after interview, Sony executives would shrug off questions about "The Last Guardian," saying little beyond confirming its continued existence.

Then, in 2013, two years after "The Last Guardian" was supposed to launch on the PlayStation 3, Sony announced the PlayStation 4. Many assumed it was the end for "The Last Guardian." And this year, going into the game industry's annual trade show (E3), the most ardent of supporters took to internet forums to voice their hope that "The Last Guardian" would once again surface, perhaps on Sony's newer console.

Unbelievably, eight years after the game began production, Sony's new head of PlayStation, Shawn Layden, started this year's PlayStation press conference with just that. People freaked out.

Fans were elated to hear that "The Last Guardian," miraculously, survived eight years of game development and came out the other side. It now has a 2016 release window. Notoriously, most games take three or fewer years to develop – anything beyond that and things start getting far too expensive to recoup expenses (let alone return a profit).

The story of "The Last Guardian" surviving those eight years was told to Business Insider by Sony Computer Entertainment's Shuhei Yoshida, the head of SCE's "Worldwide Studios," in the video above. In short, he's the man who makes sure that PlayStation game consoles are full of great games you want to play. As it turns out, he really wants people to play "The Last Guardian."

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In between writing the "Toy Story 4" script, starring in the first season of TBS show "Angie Tribeca," and producing a documentary for Netflix, "Hot Girls Wanted," Rashida Jones still finds time to tweet to her 943,000 followers and post on her Instagram account.

But it's the easy access to social media and the internet that Jones says has become her biggest distraction from focusing on her many work projects.

In a new cover interview with Wired magazine, the 39-year-old former "Parks and Recreation" star explains:

I’m done pretending that technology is helping me streamline things. Sure, there are apps and calendars and shortcuts, and I’m connected to everyone and everything I could possibly need to make my life easier, to make myself happier. But ultimately I use my devices to waste time—and I get kind of addicted to wasting time. My computer and my phone sometimes feel like beautifully designed, entertaining handcuffs.

But, Jones admits, "I’m partly to blame. I get distracted." 

Like many people, Jones says, "I’m in the middle of an email—a work email—and suddenly I’m online looking at a Pinterest board of remodeled farmhouses or an article on ­Hillary 2016 or a video on Funny or Die, none of which is getting me any closer to replying to hundreds of unanswered emails or finishing a draft for a deadline that has come and gone."

"The tricky part is that everything is located in the same little place," Jones explains to Wired in a first-person essay on "Finding Happiness at Work." "Work, pleasure, distraction, misbehaving, responding, wasting time, buying, selling, dreaming, focusing … all options live together, and I can float from one to another with no effort. It is truly amazing. I’m in awe. But it doesn’t help me be productive."

In order to maintain focus during the work day, Jones says she and her writing partner, Will McCormack, implement a "no-phones-for-an-hour rule."

"It seems utterly ridiculous that two grown-ups wouldn’t be able to stay away from their phones for just an hour, but there are many days when my phone owns me. And the rule helps."

To read Rashida Jones' full piece on Wired, click here. 

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For the first time in four years, Marvel won't be heading to San Diego Comic-Con. 

Marvel's panel in the coveted Hall H is usually one of the biggest, most-anticipated ones at the annual fan event, which will be held July 9-12 at the San Diego Convention Center.

The news may have come as a shock to fans heading to the convention.

Now, we have some more insight into why Marvel won't be going all out this July in San Diego.

Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter, Marvel studio president Kevin Feige opened up on why Marvel will be sitting this one out.

It was just timing. We had done that [media] event in October, when we announced so much. Everyone knows what we’re doing over the next few years. I really have a belief: If you can’t go to Comic-Con and overdeliver, then don’t go. 

That makes sense. 

The "event" Feige is referencing was a huge press and fan event held October 28, 2014 where the studio president announced nine films that will be part of Marvel's future film schedule through 2019, including two more "Avengers" films.

Normally, this is news that would be announced at Comic-Con, and since it was all revealed last fall, Marvel probably doesn't have too much more to announce other than casting or directors for some of these upcoming titles. 

The next "Captain America" film, "Captain America: Civil War," only just recently started production, so it probably would have been difficult to get the stars out to San Diego for the event. That will hit theaters in April 2016.

Marvel's other 2016 film, "Doctor Strange," a new addition to the MCU starring fan favorite Benedict Cumberbatch, is starting filming soon.

Director Scott Derrickson told fans Tuesday he was on his way to London to begin filming.

Marvel is well aware that DC / Warner Bros. will be bringing out the big guns. No doubt to show off its lineup of hugely-anticipated movies for next year. Not only do they have "Batman v Superman" out in March, but there's also the adaptation of the "Suicide Squad," a comic series which revolves around DC anti-heroes and villains working on covert missions for the government. It's a risky film since most of the characters involved (Captain Boomerang/El Diablo/Plastique) are obscure to someone who's not a fan of the comic or familiar with DC characters.

It's kind of difficult to compete with that when Marvel's next movie "Ant-Man" is out July 17 — the week after Comic-Con. There's not much else to say about the film that hasn't been out in the media already.

As Feige said — you need to go big or go home.

And right now doesn't make any sense.

How do you take on DC's Caped Crusader?

With Star Wars.

Instead of making way for Marvel, Hall H will be utilized for another Disney-owned property with a huge fandom.

Friday, July 10, Hall H will be home to a massive panel for "Star Wars: The Force Awakens," which will be released December 2015. Not only will the panel include Lucasfilm president and "The Force Awakens" producer Kathleen Kennedy, but director J.J. Abrams will also be on hand.

"Special guests" will also make appearances.

And we're sure attendees will get a first-look at some new footage for the film — at the very least, a new trailer.

So yeah, no one's worried about Marvel sitting this one out.

Maybe Marvel's saving some big announcements and footage for October when New York Comic Con will occur. 

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One of the biggest, most-hyped features in the new video game "Batman: Arkham Knight," is the Batmobile.

After three previous "Arkham" games that merely teased the Dark Knight's fleet of vehicles, the series is finally letting players take Batman's most iconic ride for a spin. It's a huge part of the game that allows for all sorts of new puzzles, firefights, and cool maneuvers. 

It is also kind of really hard to drive. 

At first, it's no big deal — there's a button to accelerate (the right trigger) and a button to brake/reverse (square on Playstation 4, X on Xbox One).

But that's just driving around. The Batmobile has a bunch of gadgets and weapons of its own, and to use them, you have to transform it into battle mode.

That's where things get a bit confusing. 

See, in most modern games involving vehicles, the brake/reverse controls are assigned to the left trigger — this mimics how cars set up the gas/brake pedals. It's intuitive, and when you pick up a game controller, it feels natural. But since the Batmobile assigns the transform control to that button instead (and because transforming changes the entire control scheme) it becomes very easy to forget what button does what. 

Here's how the controls in the game look for the PS4 and Xbox One. Note that there are separate controls for Battle Mode (orange) vs. Pursuit Mode (grey).

Take a look at this video I captured when I first gained the ability to transform the Batmobile. Here I'm trying to launch a new mission by parking precisely on top of a green icon.

The controls, while very responsive, take a little bit of time to master, and it makes it very difficult to maneuver into a small space between a light pole and gated area on a street corner.

Naturally, I'm a total mess.

If the real Batman were caught on camera driving like that, he'd go viral for all the wrong reasons. 

Of course the game teaches you later that battle mode is specifically for precise maneuvering like that. In fact, once you've had some time with the Batmobile, you start to feel really cool, especially once you get to eject from the cockpit straight into the night sky like an expensive ninja bullet that also knows kung fu.

Of course, simply driving the Batmobile is very fun too, especially when you have to make dramatic white-knuckle exits. 

I'm a lot better at this now.

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Get ready: SpaceX will try another historic rocket landing on Sunday, June 28.

The landing attempt will happen minutes after SpaceX launches one of their Falcon 9 rockets out of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at exactly 10:21 am ET.

NASA will begin streaming the event live at 9 am ET and will offer real-time coverage of the launch. The live feed is provided at the end of this post.

For news and video of whether the landing was a success, stay tuned for updates following the launch.

The rocket will be carrying a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft loaded with over 4,000 pounds of supplies, including food, water, and science experiments, for the astronauts aboard the International Space Station. One of the science experiments includes instruments that will allow astronauts to observe meteors penetrating Earth's atmosphere. It will be the first time anyone in space has ever studied meteors like this before.

After the Falcon 9 has transported Dragon to space, it will detach from the spacecraft and navigate its way back — using GPS tracking — to a football-field-sized platform, shown below, floating miles offshore in the Atlantic.

The Dragon spacecraft will continue on to dock with the ISS.

All eyes will be on this rocket

If SpaceX is successful on Sunday they will have marked a revolutionary breaking point in history: If the rocket safely lands on the platform, it should be in good condition to be reused for a second launch — the first time any rocket will have been fully recovered for reuse.

(NASA used to reuse some of the rocket parts that launched their space shuttles in the '70s, '80s, and '90s. However, these parts were retrieved after parachuting into the ocean and were water logged and needed time for repairs. With SpaceX's version, the rocket would remain completely dry and should, in theory, be reusable within 24 hours after it's retrieved.)

This idea of fully-reusable rockets could usher in a new age of future, affordable, commercial spaceflight. The key to this development centers on rockets that can be launched and re-launched — eventually even within the same day — similar to how planes are operated today.

Sunday's attempt will be the third time that SpaceX has tried to retrieve one of their Falcon 9 rockets after a supply mission to the ISS. So, on June 28, we'll see if the third time really is a charm.

SpaceX's first two landing attempts took place in January and April of this year. Although both ended with a fiery explosion, April's attempted landing was a significant improvement on the first: The rocket actually hovered over the platform before touching down.

The only problem was the rocket fell on its side after landing and exploded upon impact. January's landing attempt basically ended with the rocket crashing into the platform without any hovering or soft touchdown. These explosions take a toll on the platform, but after some scrubbing and sweeping, the platform is ready for another go.

Right now, SpaceX is one of two companies in the world who has launched a rocket designed for reuse. The other company is Blue Origin — established by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Neither SpaceX or Blue Origin have yet to succeed in their endeavor, but if SpaceX manages it this Sunday, it'll truly be a game-changer.

NASA will start livestreaming the launch at 9 am ET, Sunday, June 28. Here's the live feed:

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Note: Spoilers ahead if you haven't watched through Episode 5 of Fox's "Wayward Pines."

Across his body of film work, director M. Night Shyamalan has built a reputation for unexpected plot twists.

Arguably, it was best executed in 1999's "The Sixth Sense," with varying degrees of success in subsequent films like "The Village" and "The Happening."

While some may see the director's plot twists as gimmicky, Shyamalan said that he doesn't see them as "thin and meaningless."

"It is all a continuation of character’s awareness for me," the director explained on a recent press call. "If I put myself in the shoes of a main character and that person is learning more about their world, more about their situation, that feels very organic to me. Things aren’t right, I’m feeling clouded, obscured. I’m feeling like suffocated, why, why, why, and getting those answers feels very organic.  It’s an increasing of our main character’s knowledge." 

In his first television venture, Fox's "Wayward Pines," Shyamalan used the same technique to spin the series 180-degrees on its fifth episode.

Shyamalan explained, "My job as the storyteller is to make you in sync with the main character so that your misunderstanding is the same as theirs and every piece of information that they have you have, and you’ve misunderstood it the exact same way. Then when it comes, it should’ve been inevitable in retrospect."

He promises that Thursday's sixth episode will continue to provide answers after revealing that the citizens of "Wayward Pines" are the last living humans of their kind. Outside the town's borders, hundreds of years had passed while they were kept in a cryogenic sleep by a visionary scientist. Meanwhile, humans de-evolved into powerful and fast animals referred to as "abbies," short for "aberrations."

"For me, Episode 5 and 6 are the answers episodes," Shyamalan told reporters. "Then for me, post-that, is the 'Oh my God, how are we going to deal with what we know now?'" 

So, what can fans of "Wayward Pines" expect now that the big plot twist is out?

Shyamalan says there are moral questions that need to be answered.

"There’s a thing that we take for granted, because there’s so many of us right now that freedom and lack of rules or flexibility of social environment is a given—that’s a right," Shyamalan said. "But, if there was only X number of us, does one of us get to jeopardize the group? Well, no that couldn’t be allowed, right?  Those kinds of freedoms couldn’t be allowed because there’s so few of us, so we’re going to have to make really stringent rules."

Later, Shyamalan added, "You can assume it’s not going to be warm and fuzzy."

Watch a preview of Episode 6 below:

"Wayward Pines" airs Thursdays at 9 p.m. on Fox.

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This is the second time Hollywood has tried to turn a very popular video game series, "Hitman," into a movie. If this trailer is any indication how it's going to turn out, it looks like it's not going to work this time either. We think it looks a lot like a generic action movie, but you can decide for yourself with the trailer above.

"Hitman: Agent 47" comes out August 21, 2015.

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Crocs are having a resurgence.

It's in part thanks to Prince George, who is just shy of his second birthday.

Sales have surged because of what people are calling the 'Prince George effect,' reports WWD.

"Prince George proves there's no age limit on being a fashion icon," Daniel Silverfield, Amazon UK's head of vendor management, told WWD. "We've seen a 16-fold increase in sales of kids' Crocband shoes at Amazon.co.uk since the photo of him wearing a pair [at the Beaufort Polo Club in June] was released." He cited specifics, telling the website sales have spiked "1,500 percent."

The footwear company is known for its notorious signature shoes, which are very polarizing. People either love them or they valiantly despise them. (However, Bloomberg reported in 2013 that the brand was trying to lure customers away from the clunky shoe with other styles of shoes.) The brand tried to be more fashionable with these other styles, such as ballet flats and pumps.

Only a year ago, the brand was failing to make a revival.

In December, Crocs hired a new CEO, Gregg Ribatt, to help the footwear company's earning increase.

Prince George aside, ugly shoes are all the rage right now. Birkenstocks and Tevas are popular, even amongs key players in fashion media, like former Lucky Editor-in-Chief Eva Chen.

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Playing the role of a crime investigator in video games tends to skew towards shoot first, ask questions later. In "Her Story," there's far more nuance – you're tasked with watching interrogation tapes starring actress Viva Seifert. The cops interviewed her seven times, and you've got access to all their files. But will you get to the truth?

Here's hoping you do! The game's available today on the iTunes App Store and on the PC/Mac game service Steam; it costs $5.

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Presidential candidate, real estate mogul, and reality television personality Donald Trump is taking his beef with Neil Young to the next level. 

Trump used one of Young's songs, "Rockin' In The Free World," as entrance music at his presidential campaign announcement on June 16. Afterwards, Young's manager released a careful statement saying he did not authorize Trump to make his song a part of the campaign.

"Neil Young, a Canadian citizen, is a supporter of Bernie Sanders for president of the United States of America," Young's manager said.

On Wednesday, Trump fired off a number of tweets criticizing Young for being a "total hypocrite." He claimed Young attempted to do a business deal with him and even recently invited him to a concert. Trump included a photo of Young in his office and partial images of documents as proof of his claim the singer recently asked him for money for "an audio deal:"

 Trump added that he didn't even think Young's music was one of the best songs at his campaign launch:

Along with "Rocking In The Free World," Trump's announcement featured Aerosmith's "Dream On," the Rolling Stones' "You Can't Always Get What You Want," "The Music of The Night" from the Broadway musical "Phantom of the Opera," and "Memory" from "Cats." 

Representatives for Trump and Young did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.  

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Detroit police want street artist Shepard Fairey. 

On Wednesday, police issued a felony arrest warrant, accusing him of property crimes that could land him a penalty of five years in jail and $10,000 fine. 

"When he returns to the area, he will be arrested if he doesn't turn himself in first," Detroit Police sergeant and head of the city’s graffiti task force Rebeca McKay told the Detroit Free Press. 

Fairey had been in Detroit last month after he was commissioned to construct his largest mural to date by Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert’s Real Estate Services. The completed mural is 184-feet-by-60-feet and covers the face of One Campus Martius.

Fairey was in Detroit for a nine-day residency in collaboration with the Library Street Collective, during which he completed multiple projects and installations across the city. Among them: a black and white skull mural called “Pattern of Destruction” in an alley in the Z Parking Garage called “the Beltway,"  several small panels also along the beltway, and a 14-foot water tower. 

Shortly after completing his residency, police began investigating a series of black-and-white Andre the Giant panels attributed to Fairey that had appeared on nine locations, including two city buildings, in downtown Detroit.  

The total damage, according to police: $9,105.54 

At the time, Fairey’s collaboration with Bedrock and other corporations in Detroit was seen as odd, a criticism which he addressed prior to his residency. 

"I don't think it's hypocritical for me, because I've always espoused what I call the inside-outside strategy," Fairey told the Detroit Free Press. "I still do stuff on the street without permission. I'll be doing stuff on the street when I'm in Detroit. But the idea of being able to infiltrate the system on its own terms and make things better from within is something I've always believed in." 

As one could guess from Fairey’s history and his not-so-cryptic statement, he was planning on doing unsanctioned (some might call “illegal") work in addition to his commissioned pieces. 

It appears that Detroit officials have no leniency for Fairey. Police chief James Craig told media during a news conference during the initial investigation that police “treat everyone the same.”

Mayor Mike Duggan expressed similar sentiments. 

"As I've said to the chief, I expect this to be investigated vigorously. I think Prosecutor (Kym) Worthy has brought seven different felony charges in the last six months against graffiti artists. … Graffiti is being dramatically reduced,” Duggan said during a press conference in early June. 

Fairey may have picked the wrong city to tag. Duggan declared a war on graffiti last fall and has been quoted in the past as saying, "I hate graffiti," according to Daily Detroit.

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Paramount Pictures hosted an early fan screening of its next "Terminator" film, "Terminator: Genisys" Wednesday evening in New York City.

Arnold Schwarzenegger announced the screening on Reddit several days ago. 

Wednesday evening, Schwarzenegger, the Terminator himself, showed up at the beginning of the screening to introduce the film and to tell fans how happy he was with the film.

"I'm really proud of this movie," Schwarzenegger told the crowd. "Proud that I was part of it. Proud that I was asked to come back after 30 years of having done the first 'Terminator' movie. I had a lot of fun doing it even though it was hard work."

"While you're watching the movie, I will be doing three interviews that I still have to do, and then I will come back and then you have the Q&A that you can ask any questions that you want," he continued. 

The last part was the kicker which really amped up the crowd: "And then we gonna do some selfies!" 

We caught his greeting on camera. Apologies ahead of time for the lighting. All of the lighting except a spotlight were off in the theater.

Check it out below.

After the film ended, Schwarzenegger returned for a nearly half hour Q&A with the crowd.

Afterward, as promised, the Governator posed for selfies with each and every person who came to the screening. 

Not a bad evening.

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There’s a common practice in Hollywood — the bigger the film, the more mystery surrounding the making of it.

But it seems “Jurassic World” went next level to keep all of its goodies unknown until its release.

Actor BD Wong, who plays Dr. Henry Wu in both “Jurassic Park” and “Jurassic World,” told Business Insider that the level of secrecy used for him to read the script for both films was unlike anything he’s ever experienced in his 30-plus year career.

“You read it in a really weird way,” he tells BI.

Wong said soon after he was told he’d star in “Jurassic World,” he was given instructions on how to get a hold of the script.

“You could only read the script in the office during a certain hour of the day,” he said. “I had to go drive to the production office, you’re in this room, you read the whole script, and then give it back to them. I had to do the same thing for ‘Jurassic Park.’”

And to bring another layer of camouflage to the project, the script Wong read was given a dummy title, “Ebb Tide.”

“You’d be driving around and you’d be looking for signs to the ‘Ebb Tide’ production office,” Wong recalls.

Looking at the grand scheme of things, Wong admits this process does seem “ridiculous.” “Given the state of the world and things that are really important — life or death — this seemed hilarious,” said Wong.

But it did get the job done.

“No one leaked anything,” he said.

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Ever since going off the air in 1998, "Seinfeld" has remained immensely popular. Though the show had been available daily on syndication, the fact that every episode of the show is now available to stream on Hulu is still a huge deal.

To celebrate the occasion, a pop-up gallery in New York City, running from Wednesday through Sunday, gathers the best of "Seinfeld."

Besides displaying many artifacts from the show, such as the Frogger machine that George unsuccessfully tries to save and the diner table that the gang always sat at, the exhibition also includes a complete re-creation of Jerry's apartment (modeled after season eight). 

While Jerry's Upper West Side apartment may look a little generic, it is also unmistakable. If you show somebody a photo of the kitchen, the person will immediately know whose kitchen it is. 

Walking around the re-created apartment, you will get an even closer look inside the world of fictitious Jerry Seinfeld, who, based on many of his possessions, shares a lot in common with the real Jerry Seinfeld.

Check out how accurate the "Seinfeld" apartment re-creation is.

Welcome to apartment 5A, home of comedian Jerry Seinfeld.

Unlike a lot of apartments in New York, the place is pretty spacious.

Both real-life and fictional Seinfeld share a love of baseball ...

Taylor Swift is officially putting her wildly popular "1989" album on Apple Music, the singer announced via tweet Thursday. 

"After the events of this week, I've decided to put 1989 on Apple Music... and happily so," she posted.

Swift has been heralded with convincing Apple to change its policy around the new streaming service.

Originally, Apple wasn't going to pay musicians any royalties during its three-month free trial period.

But after the singer wrote a furious Tumblr post calling Apple's decision "shocking, disappointing, and completely unlike this historically progressive and generous company," Apple changed its mind. 

"Apple Music will pay artists for streaming even during customers' free trial period," company SVP Eddy Cue tweeted Sunday night. "We hear you @taylorswift13 and indie artists. Love, Apple."

Although Swift said she was "elated and relieved" upon Cue's announcement, this is the first confirmation that her own music will be available.  

However, Swift contends that she won't be entering into any exclusive contracts with Apple. The company has made it clear that it plans to use exclusive content as a way to draw people into the service, but has so far only announced a single Pharrell song in its roster.   

Swift may not be signing herself into exclusivity, but it doesn't sound like she'll be putting the album on Spotify. Last year, Swift snubbed the service, declaring that Spotify's free tier "devalued music" and didn't give a big enough cut to artists. 

"This is simply the first time it's felt right in my cut to stream my album," she tweeted.

The service launches June 30 — every potential custoemr receives a three-month free trial before paying $9.99 a month.

Here's her full series of tweets:

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Univision won't be airing the upcoming Miss USA pageant and has said it won't work with its parent company, the Miss Universe Organization, in response to part-owner and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's recent remarks on Mexicans and immigration.

In a statement released on Thursday, the media company called Trump's comments "insulting":

Today, the entertainment division of Univision Communications Inc. announced that it is ending the Company’s business relationship with the Miss Universe Organization, which is part-owned by Donald J. Trump, based on his recent, insulting remarks about Mexican immigrants. At Univision, we see first-hand the work ethic, love for family, strong religious values and the important role Mexican immigrants and Mexican-Americans have had and will continue to have in building the future of our country. We will not be airing the Miss USA pageant on July 12th or working on any other projects tied to the Trump Organization.

Univision News and the local news division will continue to provide comprehensive coverage of all candidates, including Mr. Trump, to ensure our audience continues to have access to all points of view.

Univision is referring to comments Trump made in his mid-June announcement that he would be running for president.

According to Reuters:

In his speech, Trump said Mexico was not a friend of the United States ... describing Mexican migrants to the country as drug-runners and rapists.

The freshly minted Republican candidate pledged to build "a great, great wall on our southern border," adding that he would ensure that Mexico pay for it.

The Trump organization released the following statement on Univision's decision:

The Mexican government and others are putting tremendous pressure on Univision to break their signed and fully effective contract with the Miss Universe Organization because Mr. Trump has been exposing to the public, and the world, the significant damage that is being done at the southern border, and the terrible and costly trade deals that the United States is  incompetently making with Mexico (these deals are great for Mexico and horrible for the United States). This has been sharply and openly brought out during Mr. Trump’s run for President of the United States.

"Mexican leadership has been doing serious damage to the United States by out-negotiating our representatives and political leaders. They are taking our jobs, taking our money and at the same time hurting us at the border with illegals from all over the world freely flowing into our country."  

Mr. Trump cannot be silenced on this very important problem for the United States. I have great respect for Mexico and love the Mexican people, but my loyalty is to the United States and making our country great again!

Additionally, Colombian reggaeton singer J Balvin canceled his performance at the Miss USA pageant, citing Trump's remarks as being offensive to not just Mexicans, but all Latinos.

Later on Thursday afternoon, Trump's attorney told politics blog Politico that the real estate mogul is suing Univision for breach of contract and defamation.

Previously on Wednesday evening, Trump stood by his comments, blaming the media for distorting their meaning.

"I am personally offended by the mainstream media's attempt to distort my comments regarding Mexico and its great people," he said. "I have many successful business relationships with Mexican companies and employ, and am close friends with, many Mexican people. I also have tremendous respect for the leaders of Mexico, who, frankly, are much smarter and tougher than our politicians here in the United States."

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TLC is building an impressive new roster of stars for the upcoming summer season of its popular documentary series, "Who Do You Think You Are?"

Business Insider can exclusively report that "Breaking Bad" star Bryan Cranston, "Once Upon a Time's" Ginnifer Goodwin, "Dancing With the Stars" host Tom Bergeron, and Oscar-nominated actress Alfre Woodard will explore their family history on the new season, which kicks off on Sunday, July 26 at 9 p.m.

Additionally, BI can exclusively report that TLC will air "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling's "Who Do You Think You Are?" episode from the British version of the series this summer, as well.

Here's what to expect from the summer season lineup, according to TLC:

· Tom Bergeron, who is aware of his French Canadian roots on his paternal side, but wants to know what brought his ancestors to North America. He goes as far back as his 10x great grandmother to find the answer.

· Bryan Cranston, who comes to discover an unfortunate pattern amongst the men in his family.

· Ginnifer Goodwin, who sets out to learn about her mysterious paternal great grandparents, whom her father, regretfully, does not know much about either.

· Alfre Woodard, who strives to find out more about the paternal side of her family, and explores how her surname came to be.

· J.K. Rowling, who sets off to uncover her maternal French roots and discovers a surprising twist in an old family war story.

Produced for TLC by Shed Media and Lisa Kudrow and Dan Bucatinsky's Is or Isn’t Entertainment, Emmy-nominated "Who Do You Think You Are?" and sponsor, Ancestry.com, has helped dozens of stars discover their family's roots over its previous six seasons, including Tony Goldwyn, America Ferrera, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Cynthia Nixon.

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