Netflix has announced the launch date for its next big series, "Narcos," a ten-episode drama chronicling the conflict between drug kingpins and law enforcement in the 1980s — most notably notorious cocaine king Pablo Escobar.

The series will launch at 12:01 a.m. Friday, August 28, and will star "Game of Thrones" alum Pedro Pascal alongside Boyd Holbrook as real-life DEA agents Javier Peña and Steve Murphy, opposite Brazillian actor William Moura's Pablo Escobar. 

The company released a 15-second teaser to accompany the premiere announcement.

It has no actual footage, but a lot of cocaine. 

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Nintendo's latest home video game console, the Wii U, is a retail failure.

The Wii U simply isn't competitive with the likes of Microsoft's Xbox One and Sony's PlayStation 4. Despite the Wii U launching a full year ahead of competition from Microsoft and Sony, Wii U sales lag far behind those of its competitors: the Wii U has sold around 7.5 million units worldwide, while the PlayStation 4 topped 20 million this past February, and the Xbox One is somewhere north of 10 million units as of last holiday.

Nintendo's chocked up the failure of the Wii U to a handful of factors across the past few years, but has largely settled on one reason: a poor job explaining what the Wii U is and why you should buy it.

The name, for one, makes the Wii U sound like an extension of the original Wii – the wildly popular Nintendo console that pre-dates the Wii U. The fact that the Wii U's gamepad looks like a weird iPad didn't help with the perception that the Wii U was simply an extension of the original Wii. 

The man who created Super Mario and Donkey Kong, Shigeru Miyamoto – who now oversees the entire games department at Nintendo – offered a more thorough explanation for the Wii U's failure in a recent interview with NPR. His first reason comes down to price:

Unfortunately with our latest system, the Wii U, the price point was one that ended up getting a little higher than we wanted.

But the Wii U launched at a relatively affordable price: $300 for the base model, and $350 for the "deluxe" version (which came with more space to store digital games). That's at least $50 lower than the price of the PlayStation 4, which launched one year later. Not only did Nintendo have a jump on the competition in terms of launch timing, but also the cost of the system to consumers.

Thankfully, Miyamoto wasn't done explaining why he thinks the Wii U failed. The bigger issue, he says, is that the defining tech is a tablet-like gamepad, and actual tablets were far, far more powerful.

What ended up happening was that tablets themselves appeared in the marketplace and evolved very, very rapidly, and unfortunately the Wii [U] system launched at a time where the uniqueness of those features were perhaps not as strong as they were when we had first begun developing them.

In short: the Wii U's "unique" characteristic was trumped by the companies that invented the category. Companies like Apple and Samsung were releasing newer, shinier, more powerful tablets every year while Nintendo was simply reacting to the popularity of the tablet phenomena. That remains the case today.

Miyamoto didn't say anything about Nintendo's next steps in the hardware world. The company's repeatedly discussed its successor to the Wii U – currently codenamed "NX" – as well as some form of "Quality of Life" initiative.

He did, however, express his hope for a more positive reception from consumers next time around: "After Wii U, we're hoping that next time it will be a very big hit." 

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Courtney Love is in France this week and unexpectedly got caught up in the violent Uber protests currently taking over the streetsprotesting against Uber's ride-hailing app UberPOP, which allows users to be picked up by uncertified drivers.

Love posted her scary experience to Twitter and Instagram.

"Scariest day of my life," she captioned the below Instagram photo. "Ambushed at the airport in Paris by taxi drivers on strike against @uber got taken hostage and our car was destroyed."

But she wasn't scared enough to name drop Kanye West, who is currently in France for the Cannes Lions Festival.

But then it sounds like things started to get even more violent.

Love posted the below video to Instagram documenting her experience.

"How on earth are these people allowed to do this? the first car was destroyed, all tires slashed and beat with bats, these guys trying to open the doors and the cops are doing nothing?? French Taliban? civil reform needed in France?? I want to go home."

Eventually, Love revealed that she snuck out of the car and was escorted out of the protests on a stranger's motorcycle.

"We got out after being held hostage for an hour thanks to these two guys. I'm scared out of my wits. Mr. François Hollande president or libertine? I can't believe this really just happened. love French people but your government blows #happytobealive #parisuberstrike wtf??"

Taxi drivers hit the streets of France to protest on Thursday, bringing some of the country's main transport arteries to a total standstill.

They are officially protesting against Uber's ride-hailing app UberPOP, which allows users to be picked up by uncertified drivers.

But the protest also seems to be about Uber in general. In some places there has been outright violence, with burning tyres, flares, flipped cars, and riot police.

France is not the only place where taxi drivers have protested over Uber's apps, but the demonstrations have been much more violent than in other European cities.

Check out more photos of the scary scene in France here. 

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Dwayne Johnson is one of the world's biggest movie stars. Here are 11 amazing facts about the wrestler turned Hollywood superstar. 

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With “Family Guy” creator Seth MacFarlane’s latest movie “Ted 2” hitting theaters this weekend, an already fruitful June box office may become historic.

On the heels of the incredible openings for “Jurassic World” and “Inside Out,” The Wrap is reporting that with “Ted 2” in the mix, June 2015 might become the highest-grossing month in box office history.

June has earned $920 million to date, according to Rentrak from The Wrap story, and if projections for this weekend are correct, it could surpass the $1.39 billion record held by July of 2011.

Back then the big hitters were “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows: Part 2” and "Captain America: The First Avenger."

“Ted 2,” the raunchy comedy reteaming Mark Wahlberg with a foul-mouthed CGI teddy bear (voiced by MacFarlane), is tracking to make between $50 and $55 million this weekend. “Jurassic World” and “Inside Out” should also land around that range, according to The Wrap.

So along with the potential of making the month the biggest grosser ever, it will be fascinating to see which of the three will take the number one spot this weekend.

“I think whoever gets to $55 million will take it,” Exhibitor Relations senior analyst Jeff Bock told The Wrap, “but we might not know until Monday.”

“Jurassic Word” earned the highest-grossing opening weekend of all time when it came out June 12. It’s since continued to break records, including now being the fastest movie to hit $1 billion in sales worldwide. 

"Inside Out" is the first Pixar film to not open number one its opening weekend. But that doesn’t seem to matter now. It’s opened at $91 million last weekend, blowing past its $60 million projection. It now holds the record for biggest original box office debut. 

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One of the best and most beautiful iPhone games of the year, Alto's Adventure, is currently on sale at half price for a limited time, and you can pick it up today for only $0.99.

The game, which lets you play as the mountain man Alto as he snowboards his way down an endless mountain in pursuit of his escaped llamas, features gorgeous artwork and survival-based gameplay that makes it both addictive and delightful to look at.

You're introduced to Alto as his beloved llamas escape down the mountain. It's your job to catch them, and snowboarding past a llama captures it and gives you some points.

It's a little bit absurd to make a point system based on the number of llamas you collect but that's part of what makes Alto's Adventure so much fun. You can also collect coins to purchase new riders and upgrades in the village shops. Alto's Adventure doesn't have any in-app purchases, so you won't be tempted to drop real money.

As you make your way down each mountain, there's also obstacles to jump over, ramps to launch off to perform back flips, and ribboned rails to grind on. It's all physics-based gameplay, which helps you get into the game's rhythm while giving you cues like showing how fast you're going by how long Alto's scarf drags in the wind.

The game's controls keep things simple: Just tap the screen to jump, tap and hold to back flip, and if you can get your snowboarder onto a rail he'll grind it automatically. If you string together a series of jumps, flips, and grinds, you gain more points, which gives the game a bit of a competitive feel like the classic Tony Hawk's Pro Skater or SSX Tricky games of old.

Each level has a different set of objectives that ask you to capture a certain number of llamas, nab a particular number of coins, or successfully jump over a certain number of obstacles.

But the most striking aspect of Alto's Adventure is the game's art style, which combines dynamic lighting and weather effects to create beautiful environments that stand out. The more you play, the more tiny details you notice, and the game's piano-based score makes headphones a must.

At the end of the day, Alto's Adventure feels a bit like a mixture of Tiny Wings, Monument Valley, and SSX Tricky, and the result is gorgeous game that's fun to play too.

Alto's Adventure is currently available as universal app for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch, you can download it for $0.99 over at the App Store. Snowman, the app studio behind Alto's Adventure, is also having a sale on all of its other apps, which you can also check out over at the App Store.

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Actress Rose McGowan took to Twitter yesterday to reveal that she was fired by her "wussy" agent for speaking out about sexism in the movie industry.

The controversy started last week, when McGowan tweeted a picture of a shamelessly sexist audition script note from an untitled Adam Sandler movie, which listed open cleavage and tight-fitting clothing as pre-requisites for an acceptable female audition. 

The 41-year-old actress opened up about the tweet and her experiences with sexism in Hollywood in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, where she explained that she was "not trying to vilify Adam Sandler" but instead attempting to combat the "institutional stupidity and the institutional infantilization of actresses" in today's film industry.

"When I did my first film, I was told by my agent that I would need to have long hair so men in this town would want to f--- me and hire me," McGowan told Entertainment Weekly. "That was said to a 17 year old." 

Despite being dropped from representation by Sheila Wenzel and Steve Muller at Innovative Artists, McGowan remains optimistic about her future. Today, the actress tweeted an inspiring response about her dismissal from the agency. 

In 2014, McGowan addressed the challenges of female identity in her short film, "Dawn," which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. This year, she will make her feature directorial debut with the upcoming psychological thriller, "The Pines."

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NBC has released the first trailer for its "Heroes" reboot, "Heroes: Reborn."

Other than flashes of a few favorite characters — the man with the horn-rimmed glasses (Jack Coleman) and Hiro (Masi Oka) with an added soul patch — the show will consist of new characters with new abilities. Original series creator Tim Kring will also return.

"Heroes: Reborn" be a 13-episode event series, premiering Thursday, September 24. 

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Bungie, the creator of "Halo" and "Destiny," couldn't wait until its weekly Thursday blog post to address the highly controversial pricing structure for "The Taken King," the next major "Destiny" expansion coming this fall.

On Wednesday night, Bungie's community manager David "DeeJ" Dague announced a new pricing structure for the Collector's Editions of "The Taken King," which many longtime players took issue with since they offered bonus content only hardcore fans wanted, but they also required the purchase (or repurchase) of the original game and first two expansions, for a grand total of $80.

Here's a quick breakdown of the news from Wednesday night:

• "The Taken King" as a standalone purchase still costs $40.
• The digital content from the Collector's Editions will be sold as a "$20 upgrade bundle." This includes extras like three armor shaders, three class items that give your character experience bonuses when worn, and three class-specific "emotes," which are either new gestures or dance moves for characters.
• The $60 "Legendary Edition," which includes the original game and first two expansions, plus "The Taken King," won't include the digital content from the Collector's Editions. "You can elect to pick this [$20 upgrade bundle] up if you want to upgrade into a Collector's Edition," Dague writes.

The single positive takeaway from this news was that current "Destiny" players won't need to spend $80 to obtain the bonus content from the Collector's Editions. But Bungie still needs to address two major issues before fans are satisfied:

• The digital content from the Collector's Editions — just 9 pieces of total content — costs $20, which is the same price as each of the last two "Destiny" expansions, "The Dark Below" and "The House of Wolves." Both of those expansions offered a ton of content: new missions, quests, end-game activities, and of course, weapons and gear.
• "The Taken King" costs $40 in the US, but £40 in the UK — or roughly $63. If UK players want the digital content from the Collector's Editions, they'll need to drop an extra $31 (£20). The grand total would come out to be a whopping $95 (£60). A lot of "Destiny" players take issue with this, even though it's common for US companies to charge the same UK pound amount. For example, the iPad costs $499 in the US and £499 in the UK.

"Destiny" has never been a perfect game, but fans keep coming back because Bungie has proved time and again that it's willing to tweak or revamp entire aspects of "Destiny" for the sake of players, who are constantly suggesting improvements on forums and message boards like Reddit and NeoGAF.

But since last week's announcement of "The Taken King," fans have been upset about pricing for over a week. And if these issues aren't resolved, they could have major implications for the future of the series.

The initial pricing of "The Taken King" paired with the disastrous interview with Luke Smith, Bungie's creative director on "The Taken King," made matters worse, but Smith has since apologized, and Bungie has slightly adjusted the pricing to offer a standalone bundle. And yet, players are still upset.

It's up to Bungie and its publisher Activision to make this right for players, particularly on the two issues listed above: The pricing disparity in the UK, and the valuation of the new $20 upgrade bundle, need to be either altered or justified. One way Bungie and Activision can justify the pricing disparity between the US and UK is to say it's common practice to price things differently, but so far, Bungie has remained mum on the topic. 

"You’ve voiced your objections. We agree wholeheartedly. Now, our attention is focused on creating solutions," Dague said in Bungie's blog post Wednesday night. "These things take time, so pardon our silence these past few days. In moments like these, actions speak louder than words."

Bungie is scheduled release a second blog post on Thursday night, but it's unclear if the company will address the pricing controversy again. We've reached out to Bungie and Activision for comment, and we'll update this story when we learn more.

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Now that the new Spider-Man/Peter Parker has been cast and we know a little more about him, the next question on the mind of fans is a natural one: When will we see him in action?

Turns out the answer is "about nine months," as Marvel just confirmed a long-standing rumor — Spider-Man will be appearing in next year's "Captain America: Civil War." 

The news was tucked away in a lengthy Hollywood Reporter interview with Marvel Studios top dog Kevin Feige and "Ant-Man" star Paul Rudd. According to THR, newly-cast Spidey star Tom Holland will "immediately" fly out to the "Civil War" set for Spider-Man's Marvel Cinematic Universe debut. (In an interesting tidbit — Holland has already screen tested opposite Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Evans as a part of the lengthy vetting process).

There's no word on how substantial Spidey's role will be in the film, and it's kind of hard to guess based on the source material.

In the "Civil War" comic book, Spider-Man is essentially the moral center of the story, the character caught in the ideological tug-of-war between Captain America and Iron Man. The rift between the two emerges over the issue of superhero registration — Iron Man sides with the government and believes that superheroes declare their secret identities, undergo training and enlist in government service, while Captain America holds that registration is a violation of civil liberties and gives too much power to the government. 

This is kind of hard to imagine working as well in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, where secret identities aren't really a thing and almost every hero has worked for a government organization in some capacity or another.  What's more, Marvel movies have never been close adaptations of the comics, but remixes of their greatest hits — even when a movie is named after a particular story (like "Captain America: The Winter Soldier") it usually plays fast and loose with the source material.

Also, let's not forget that the "Civil War" movie is already absolutely stuffed with characters, with almost every Avenger except Hulk and Thor appearing. Logistically, it's hard to imagine anyone getting significant screen time. 

Either way, it's great to know we're getting an MCU Spider-Man so soon — and, according to Kevin Feige, Marvel's deal with Sony works both ways — MCU characters can appear in Sony's new Holland-starring Spider-Man movie, currently scheduled for July 2017. 

Be sure to check out the whole interview for more on Marvel's plans, and a surprisingly frank discussion about the studio's rocky "Ant-Man" development. 

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Just hours after Hulu opened a replica of the "Seinfeld" apartment on Wednesday, a fan immediately broke it while trying to recreate Kramer's famous entrance.

Tim McGeever shared a video of himself entering the apartment with a dramatic spin, as his backpack hits the door frame and instantly pops it off. His face is priceless as he out-Kramers Kramer.

McGeever sent the video to Curbed and then proudly posted a link to the article on his Facebook page. "Hello world, it's me," he wrote. "The Sein-failed guy. My inner Kramer is beaming."

The Hollywood Reporter talked to McGeever, 27, about breaking the door and he revealed it happened about two hours after Jerry's apartment was open to the public.

"As they are kind of funneling you into the apartment, you have the option to go right in or if you want to make a Kramer entrance you just have to wait a couple more minutes," says McGeever. "I figured, this was my big opportunity."

Fans wishing to make a Kramer entrance can pass their cell phones to a Hulu employee who films them as they barge in. 

"Knowing this was my only shot to get it right, the pressure was insurmountable," says McGeever. "I had this idea in my head for some sort of twist-slide move. But the next thing I knew I blacked out and the security guard was using expletives and everyone's faces were just jaw-dropped."

McGeever says he was "mortified." He says the security guard in the room yelled "Are you f--king kidding me," and the man filming McGeever chuckled.

"For a moment I guess I froze because I didn't know if I was going to be in trouble," says McGeever. "Then it really sunk in that they built this set, they encouraged me to go through this door in this manner and a multi-million dollar company built this. They started shuttling people out and I just tiptoed my way out of there."

McGeever, a New Yorker who grew up in Queens, says Kramer was always his favorite character. He says friends of his are not surprised this happened to him, since he's broken other household items in the past by "not being able to control my body."

"My friends have compared me to Kramer in the past and this is just the icing on the cake," he says with a laugh.

A Hulu representative says the only real damage was a side panel on the door. "The 'repair' took less than a minute, required no outside costs and there was no permanent damage to the space or injuries," a spokesperson tells THR.

"We encouraged fans to reenact the infamous Kramer entrance as part of the experience and are still continuing to do so."

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Paying for products with bottle caps, even in the world of video games, is far from normal. Having a game company accept those bottle caps – all 2,240 of them – in exchange for its upcoming game is even stranger.

Yet that's exactly what one intrepid fan did for a copy of this November's biggest release, "Fallout 4."

That's right, somebody sent a ton of bottlecaps to Bethesda Softworks just to get free copy of the game, and it worked.

In the post-apocalyptic world of "Fallout 4," the main form of currency isn't the cash we're all so used to using. And given that you're in the post-apocalypse, there's no plastic to swipe or Apple Pay to tap. The only remaining currency with a hard limit and the convenience of traditional money is good ol' bottle caps (supplied in the game by Coca-Cola stand-in "Nuka Cola").

Let's be clear: 2,240 bottle caps is a tremendous amount of metal. Even if each came from a bottle that cost $0.50, that's still over $1,000 to aquire the bottle caps. Even if you bought them from a bottle cap maker that sells in bulk, it'd still cost upwards of $100.

Considering that "Fallout 4" will cost $60 when it launches later this year, this is more "hilarious stunt" than "smart financial decision."

That said, it's always possible that the game's publisher, Bethesda Softworks, will send over a fancy collector's edition (valued at $150), which comes with this insane collectible:

And that'd be especially valuable, as the collector's edition is running out of stock everywhere.

Either way, Bethesda's setting an awfully dangerous precedent here: send in value-less junk, and receive actual video game in exchange. We're betting a lot of offices are going to "smell like beer" before November arrives.

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"Terminator 2: Judgment Day" is arguably one of the greatest sequels of all time.

Rather than imitating the original, it pushed this world forward and turned Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger) from terrifying villain to heroic savior. 

But making something this good isn't always a smooth ride. "Terminator 2" had to go through multiple changes before ruling the box office in 1991. The ending was originally much happier. And then, they needed to cut the film's running time down even more.

During a Q&A Schwarzenegger gave after a "Terminator Genisys" fan screening in New York on Wednesday, the actor was asked if there were any scenes cut from the film that he disagreed with the director about.

While Schwarzenegger couldn't recall anything from "Genisys," he remembered an argument he and director James Cameron had over which scene should be cut in order to shorten the film's running time.

"There was a disagreement I remember on the second 'Terminator' because we screened the movie and it was two hours and twenty minutes," said Schwarzenegger. "And so I said to James Cameron, 'The movie's too long.' And he says to me, 'Why do you say that?' It just felt like to me at a certain point, okay, let's get it done."

After some struggle, Cameron decided to cut a scene in which Sarah (Linda Hamilton) and John Connor (Edward Furlong) have to remove Terminator's brain.  

"It was shot in a very remarkable way with the mirror effect and all this stuff. And it was a three minute and thirty second scene." Schwarzenegger remembered. 

There was just one problem. 

Schwarzenegger loved that scene.

"He says I'm gonna take that scene out to shorten the movie ... just to pay me back," said Arnold. "And, I said to him, 'No, no! That's one of my favorite scenes! You can't take that out!'" 

'He says 'No, I have to, because that's the way we shorten the movie. Then I have to work on some other scenes,'" recalled Schwarzenegger.

"And so he took that scene out and we had a little fight about that." Schwarzenegger said.

Though he was upset to let the scene go, he understands that this is what had to be done. After all, cutting the movie down was his idea in the first place.

"But then I had to let it go because we wanted to cut down the length of the movie." Schwarzenegger said.

Schwarzenegger will be back as T-800 in "Terminator Genisys," which will be out in theaters on July 1.

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NBC's "Hannibal" has always been a poster child for the critically adored but little-watched television series.

The average person is far more likely to read about "Hannibal" than they are to actually see it, as it has inspired countless essays about why you should drop everything and watch it now, or how its current, third season is one of the best things on television right now. The show, however, was fortunate enough to inspire a passionate fanbase — who have dubbed themselves "Fannibals" — that, in response to the show's cancellation, mounted a feverish effort to save the series.

The good news is they're on to something. This is, after all, the age of TV miracles, where shows are saved from the brink of cancellation ("Community"), are brought back after being gone too soon ("Arrested Development"), or are straight-up resurrected whether people remember them fondly ("The X-Files") or not ("Heroes"). 

"Hannibal," however, has a better chance than most.

Immediately following news of the show's cancellation, creator Bryan Fuller was featured in a flurry of interviews that seem fairly bullish on the show's future — and cleared up why petitioning Netflix to keep the show alive is a futile effort. 

"There’s certain avenues that I know we wouldn’t be able to do, for instance Netflix because our deal with Amazon precludes a Netflix component," Fuller told The Hollywood Reporter. "The contract limits what they could do with it."

Amazon, then, quickly becomes the front-runner for Hannibal's new home, because it's already the series' digital home — the company has exclusive streaming rights to the first two seasons in the US. It's also not the only game in town. "We’re at a dance and we want to be asked out on the floor," Fuller told THR.  "All suitors are welcome."

If "Hannibal" does see a fourth season, there could be a longer than normal wait for it — Fuller is currently committed to running the Starz adaptation of Neil Gaiman's "American Gods" with creative partner Michael Green, and he'd have to find a way to fit both into his schedule. That said, teaming up with a digital partner could have benefits, allowing Fuller and co. to be as experimental with the delivery of the show as they are with the presentation. 

"I do think that there is great benefit for 'Hannibal' to be on a streaming service in terms of the enthusiasm of the fanbase and the accessibility that streaming services offer," Fuller said in an interview with Deadline. "I love the idea of serving out to an audience course by course. So even if it ends up on a streaming service it might be interesting to break it down in a way that redefines streaming services ... like courses. So you get one or two episodes and then a break. Then two or three more episodes and a break and then another two or three more episodes and another break."

Such a strategy would certainly fall within the "Hannibal" team's penchant for completely reinventing the show every year. What's more, Fuller already has tantalizing ideas for a possible fourth season. 

"Season four would be a reexamination and reinterpretation of the Will Graham–Hannibal Lecter relationship in a fashion that is unlike anything else we’ve done in the show," Fuller told Vulture's Matt Zoller Seitz. "The idea that I have for season four is so terrifying creatively, and also inspiring ... to do something that is once again completely different from what we’ve done in the previous three seasons."

Fuller won't say anymore than that — there still are ten whole episodes of season three yet to air, and saying anything about a fourth season would ruin what he promises would be a satisfying conclusion to the current season. Given how much of a mic drop the first two finales were, odds are the "Hannibal" team will deliver.

If only they could find the home for a fourth.   

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"No Man's Sky" isn't a hero's journey. It isn't about solving puzzles, and it isn't about creating a civilization.

Like "Minecraft" before it, "No Man's Sky" is a game about exploration. Also like "Minecraft," "No Man's Sky" is infinite. It's a game played from the first-person perspective, where you're given a universe to explore with little more than a basic spaceship and a limited jetpack. Over time, through exploration and discovery, you'll accrue enough resources to allow you to travel further, explore more, and make a bigger mark on the vastness of "No Man's Sky."

In the video above, game director Sean Murray of Hello Games describes what you'll do in the infinite reaches of "No Man's Sky," and how no two people will experience the same game.

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"The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart was very amused by Lousiana Gov. Bobby Jindal's (R) unorthodox 2016 presidential campaign announcement.

Jindal kicked off his uphill White House campaign on Wednesday by releasing a hidden camera video of him telling his kids about his White House plans. 

That video struck many reporters and other political observers as strange— especially because the children had a relatively muted reaction to the big reveal. Stewart agreed with this assessment and jokingly suggested that it was an ominous sign for Jindal's campaign.

"I am not a political scientist. I am obviously not a campaign manager. [However,] I believe a sign that your campaign may be in trouble when you cannot carry a majority of your immediate family," Stewart quipped.

Stewart noted that the children appeared to get far more excited about a nearby turtle.

"It turns out Jindal's kids found his presidential announcement less interesting than literally everything else in the backyard," he said.

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I like HBO programming for many reasons. The production value is unparalleled, the acting is Emmy-worthy, and the stories are fascinating. But for all the variation in HBO's programming, there is one subtle consistency that only longtime viewers of the network are starting to pick up on: the actors and actresses. 

When I settled in to watch HBO's new Sunday-night lineup last weekend, I couldn't help notice that the guy who plays Teague Dixon in "True Detective" season two is the same person who played Dan Dority in "Deadwood." Or that the actor who plays Zeke Tilson in "The Brink" is also Nick Sabotka from "The Wire."

In fact, HBO has a stable of actors it uses to fill tertiary roles in many of its programs.

Zack Grossbart recently put together an epic infographic showing exactly which actors have appeared in which HBO shows. It's called the HBO recycling program, and it illustrates the relationship between actors and actresses and the HBO shows on which they have appeared.

Let's take a closer look at the "HBO Recycling Program" below:

Aiden Gillen

You may know him as the baby-faced, sharp-tongued Littlefinger from "Game of Thrones."

But Littlefinger was honing his skills as a politician well before he ever set foot in Westeros as the morally conflicted mayor of Baltimore in "The Wire."

Edie Falco

You might know her as Carmela Soprano, the complicit wife of New Jersey-mafia kingpin Tony Soprano.

But before Carmela surrounded herself with criminals, she was protecting society from them as Officer Diane Whittlesey in "Oz."

Michael K. Williams

You might know him as Omar, the endearing gangster who robs drug dealers for a living in "The Wire."

But he also played an endearing gangster in another HBO crime drama, "Boardwalk Empire," although in finer threads.

Paul Ben-Victor

HBO must love Paul Ben-Victor, because the actor has been featured in four different programs. He has played Alan Gray, the head of Warner Brothers studio, who gave Vinnie Chase his big break with "Aquaman" on "Entourage."

But he also plays Vondas in "The Wire."

Palaka from "John from Cincinnati."

And he even showed up for an episode of "Curb Your Enthusiasm." 

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Maybe in the next "Terminator" movie they can go back in time and make some script revisions.

"Terminator Genisys," the latest sequel to the time-traveling sci-fi franchise, adds yet another timeline to puzzle over. “Genisys” begins in a familiar place as a companion of sorts to the first film, and then criss-crosses across dimensions. 

"Genisys" kicks off in the future, where Kyle Reese (Jai Courtney) fights with mankind's last hope John Connor (Jason Clarke) in the resistance. John finds out that Skynet, the evil robotic corporation that turned against mankind, plans to kill his mother, Sarah Connor (Emilia Clarke), to prevent him from ever being born. He sends Reese over to protect her and just like that, we are back to “The Terminator” in 1984. 

Suddenly, T-1000 (Byung-hun Lee) has made its way into the 1980s as well as some other major changes to this timeline. Once again, fate has been messed with in a major way.

It doesn’t take very long for "Genisys" to jump the shark.

Early on, some scenes from the original "Terminator" are re-created, and they're both kind of cool and a little uncanny to watch.

It is as if they're saying, "Here is how we would have made that classic scene if we had this technology back then," despite the fact that the aged effects actually add some charm to the early films. This might have come off as nostalgic pandering, but the filmmakers literally had no choice, given that they didn't have the rights to footage from the original film owned by Orion and Hemdale. 

Naturally, the T-800 (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is back, and he wants to remind you why he became a movie star in the first place. As James Cameron realized with the first two films, Schwarzenegger is at his best in silence. This brings out both his funniest and most menacing qualities.

In "Genisys," the way he tries to smile like a normal human is worth it for all the clunky time travel exposition he has to deliver throughout.

It is also a shame that Emilia Clarke, who is so great as Mother of Dragons Daenerys Targaryen on “Game of Thrones,” doesn’t get as much of a chance as she deserves as Sarah Connor. In "Thrones," Clarke brings a lot of compassion to a tough character, the same way Linda Hamilton did with Sarah Connor. However, Clarke has to wade through so much weak dialogue that she barely gets to showcase her talent. 

"John sent me here to save you," Reese says at one point.

"From the Terminator that was sent back to kill me, I know. But don't worry, we already took care of him," Connor replies.

Lines like this feel less like something a human would say in an emergency and more like a moment tailored for a movie trailer.

As the franchise has carried on, Schwarzenegger has gone from terrifying killer to father figure.

Sarah even refers to him as "pops." This relationship borders on sappy (The Terminator collected her childhood drawings), but at moments it really clicks. In an early scene, Terminator hits Reese over the head and lets Sarah know that he did not kill him (this is something of a callback to "Terminator 2"). Their chemistry in this scene and others can be endearing.

Other times, it's a bit weird. Cyborgs aren't supposed to feel, as we're reminded numerous times, so it's strange when you see him holding on to items of sentimental value, like childhood drawings of himself and Sarah pinned to a wall. Somewhere buried deep in here, is a fun spin-off about the misadventures of Sarah Connor and her T-800. 

The biggest problem with "Genisys" is that the script is a complete mess, and the idea of re-launching the franchise is bogged down in franchise nostalgia.

That's not to say nostalgia can't be done right.

Take one or two of the scenes in “Jurassic World.” That stuff had been dormant for a long time, yet always present in popular culture. Given that Arnold most recently turned “I’ll be back” into a punchline in "The Expendables 2," this line no longer feels special anymore.

The “Terminator” franchise was once groundbreaking in many ways.

By sticking with a PG-13 rating, “Genisys” lacks the edge of the first two “Terminator” movies. After all, the first one feels less like a summer blockbuster and more like “No Country for Old Men” but with a cyborg. 1991's “Judgment Day” truly made you believe that its villain could not be destroyed. In “Genisys,” the central villain is an Apple-like operating system, clearly as a way to mine off of modern tech fears. From the Cold War threat of nuclear annihilation to the modern fear that Siri could murder us, you've got to hand it to the "Terminator" franchise: it has closely followed both the evolution and the downside of technology for the past 31 years.

Still, modern AI was tackled in a much bolder way in this year’s “Ex Machina.” 

However, like some of its predecessors “Genisys” is a tour-de-force of visual effects. The fights are all solid, and one scene in which a bus dangles off the Golden Gate Bridge is especially eye-popping through a pair of 3D glasses.

This makes for good summer fun, but again, it all goes back to the story, and it feels like if this franchise truly wants to reboot itself, then it needs to stay away from time travel because it has more than run that idea into the ground.

"Terminator Genisys" is about the fight to save humanity, so the stakes should feel higher than ever. However, it is hard to have any emotional stakes if you can change everything by simply adjusting the timelines. T-800 has already come back from the dead enough.

With one character too many confronting their younger selves, the time travel science reaches a level of unintentional self-parody. It is less elegant than “X-Men: Days of Future Past” and more like “Austin Powers.” Even with great action, “Genisys” gets bogged down by science that it really doesn’t understand. The thing that once made the "Terminator" movies so great might now be a bigger threat than Skynet.

In the end, this reboot could probably use a reboot.

"Terminator: Genisys" is in theaters July 1.

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A mother and a daughter in an apartment, listening to the women crying on the floors above and below. A homeless girl in the bushes, warning a passerby to take whatever work she can get. 

These are the kinds of quiet-yet-powerful scenes you'll see in Advantageous, a low-budget indie film that's now available for streaming on Netflix.

It is riveting, emotionally gripping, and offers up a vision of the future that is disturbingly easy to picture, even as some of the technologies it imagines seem out of reach.

It's also the best sci-fi movie I've seen in a long time.

The film tells the story of a future world where jobs have been automated even more than they are today, women have been largely forced out of the workplace (the logic: they'll be less violent while living on the streets than men), and opportunities for quality education are cutthroat. 

"It's hinted at that middle management has become artificial intelligence, and there are fewer and fewer people in the middle income bracket. The people you do see are either impoverished and disenfranchised or are hidden in the upper floors, the protected places," says director Jennifer Phang. 

Then there's Gwen Koh, a single mother with a 13-year-old daughter who lives in a generic urban center that resembles New York CIty. Gwen is the face of the Center for Advanced Health and Living, a corporation that offers next-generation health and beauty treatments.

When her job security is threatened — the Center has decided that she looks too old — Gwen is forced to undergo one of those experimental treatments in order to make enough cash to keep her daughter at a prestigious school. 

Technology in Gwen's world is far ahead of where we are now — a new technology is emerging that can supposedly transport a person's consciousness into another body — but women have fallen far behind. There just aren't enough jobs to go around. 

There is a palpable sense of unease throughout the film, with outdoor scenes punctuated by explosions in the sky — an indication that terrorism in the U.S. has become commonplace.

"The world of Advantageous is kind of an augmented now, but it's not a representation of what’s happening now," says Phang. "In the future of Advantageous, there possibly would have been some sort of event that turned the United States into a country that had to be on its toes, that had to have a heightened sense of awareness. I don’t think it’s that big of a stretch."

By the end of the movie, when Gwen has sacrificed herself to retain her job and her daughter's prospects for the future, it also becomes clear that morality has taken a backseat in most people's lives.

Why is it so easy to imagine that future? Phang has a good guess: "I think we’re becoming a society that’s intellectual — a lot is online, text-based, and everything is carefully constructed for internet consumption. I think what the film is looking at is, how does that morality evolve as we move forward?"

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We've seen Jared Leto in full make-up, hair, and fake neck tattoos as the Jokerfrom the upcoming supervillain movie, "Suicide Squad," and we have some idea of what he'll sound like, too.

But Leto isn't just about appearances—he's fully committed to his character.

So committed, in fact, that he mailed his all of co-stars gifts, not as himself, but as the Joker—which is how his on-screen love interest Margot Robbie ended up with a love letter and a live rat. 

Apparently, Leto couldn't be on set for a few days, and wanted to remind his colleagues of his presence. E! has the details on how exactly he did that:

"He sent [Margot Robbie] a nice love letter with a black box with a rat in it—a live rat," Adam Beach, who plays Slipnot in the Warner Bros. film, said. "It was beautiful. Then he sent bullets to Will [Smith] with a letter.

The cast also received a video and—get ready for it!—a "dead hog."

"Basically, what he said was, 'Guys, I can't be there but I want you to know I'm doing my work as hard as you guys,'" Beach said. "The video he showed is in character. It blew our minds away. Then we realized that day, this is real."

Too real. It's unclear if Leto's antics will get worse as shooting continues.

We'll have to wait and see.

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