One brave fan at San Diego Comic-Con cosplayed as everyone’s favorite "Star Wars" director to make fun of: George Lucas.

His spot-on parody inspired many passersby to stop and ask for photos, prompting him to respond, "Is it digital? Eh, we can fix it in post."

When we first spotted cosplayer Josh Robert Thompson outside the showroom floor, he wore a grey, slicked back wig, round glasses, and a prosthetic neck piece. He held a large sign that read "Gredo Shot First!" in one hand, and a Jar Jar Binks toy in the other.

For reference, here's what Lucas looks like in real life.

And here's a glimpse at the intense transformation Thompson, a professional comedian and voice actor, underwent in the make-up chair.

Rotating through a Rolodex of Lucas-inspired catchphrases, Thompson walked around the convention yelling to no one in particular, "Those are my movies, dammit."

And, "Where the hell is J.J.? I just want to ask him a question."

Thompson cosplayed as Lucas at Disney's "Star Wars" Celebration last spring and left as a celebrity of the community. A video capturing his parody went viral on YouTube.

He said the fan response has been more tame at Comic-Con.

Still, dozens are tweeting about their encounters with the divisive director.

Wow #cosplay at its best by @joshrthompson#SDCC2015#GeorgeLucas Hey @Comic_Con& @Nerdist take some action guys. pic.twitter.com/Kg6zyWQeLa

— fUji™ (@fUjiMaNiA) July 11, 2015

Shout out to the George Lucas cosplayer at ComicCon. Brave. pic.twitter.com/FiT8uNgVKi

— Ben Hammersley (@benhammersley) July 11, 2015

Guy near @HallHLine dressed as George Lucas, holding a 'JarJar 4 Ever' and 'Greedo Shot First!' sign. Excellent trolling! #SDCC2015

— DeniseFielder (@yycsan) July 11, 2015

I'm not even at #SDCC and I'm cracking up to the point of tears at the reports of @joshrthompson as #GeorgeLucaspic.twitter.com/GFEZJuo1B3

— BJ Colangelo (@bjcolangelo) July 11, 2015

Friday, the day of the "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" panel, he attempted to find a fan with an admission wristband — a hot ticket item — who would be willing to hand it over.

"I couldn't get into my own panel!" he laughed.

This guy didn't get a lot of love from the Star Wars Hall H line... but he did get a lot of laughs! #SDCC#starwarspic.twitter.com/d7FtMijmJ3

— Tony B Kim (@Crazy4ComicCon) July 11, 2015

Follow along with Thompsons' escapades on Twitter and at jrtvoices.com.

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Do you think Stan Lee has a photo with all of Disney's Marvel Cinematic Universe characters?

He definitely has one with 20th Century Fox's Marvel crew.

Near the end of Fox's movie panel Saturday evening at Comic-Con, the casts of the X-Men, "Fantastic Four," "Deadpool," and "Wolverine," gathered around to take a photo on the Hall H stage.

When Marvel legend Stan Lee asked who was available to take the photo, panel host Chris Hardwick suggested Channing Tatum, at which point the "Magic Mike" surprised the crowd coming out with a selfie stick and camera.

Everyone gathered around for Hardwick to take a photo.

"Now THAT's the way to end a panel." - @RealStanLee#HallH#SDCCpic.twitter.com/KGXwm3Soas

— 20th Century Fox (@20thcenturyfox) July 12, 2015

 

 Hardwick also took a selfie with the X-Men crew.

Here it is from his view:

Tatum is set to star in 2016's adaptation of "X-Men" character "Gambit." The actor not only came out on stage sporting a Gambit T-shirt, but he also showed off a Gambit-inspired haircut.

Watch the moment below via ScreenCrush:

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Stan Lee will have a cameo in "X-Men: Apocalypse" that is "different than every other one I've done," the comic book legend revealed at Comic-Con on Saturday.

During an "Ask Me Anything"-inspired panel, a fan asked Lee what his favorite cameo was. 

The Marvel legend has appeared in more than 20 cinematic adaptations of his comic books — between the 1989 made-for-TV movie "The Trial of the Incredible Hulk" and this year's "Avengers: Age of Ultron."

"I really love them all," Lee said, before admitting that his next cameo is possibly his favorite.

"I did a cameo for the next 'X-Men' movie," said Lee before stopping short. The moderator whispered in his ear, assumedly, that the topic was off-limits. He claimed Marvel employees in the audience were giving him dagger eyes.

"When you say I'm not allowed — will I be arrested?" Lee quipped.

Fans cheered, egging him on.

"When you go see the next 'X-Men' movie when it comes out, and see my fantastic cameo, you will say, 'I remember he told me about it here," Lee said. "It's a different cameo in that it has one additional thing in it."

Despite the ambiguity of Lee's statement, the crowd went nuts.

"And if that doesn't make you go see 'X-Men,' I'm wasting my time," he added.

Fans will have a while to wait a little while.

"X-Men: Apocalypse" hits theaters May 2016.

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Twentieth Century Fox debuted the trailer for Ryan Reynolds' "Deadpool" movie to massive cheers in Hall H on Saturday evening, so it's little surprise the footage has found its way online.

The film has been a pet project of Reynolds' since he took on the role of the "Merc with a Mouth" in 2009's "X-Men: Origins."

The Marvel character is the only comic-book character who's aware that he's a comic-book character. Often, he'll break the fourth wall, speaking to readers and referencing pop-culture items within the confines of his comics, confusing other characters.

"Deadpool" is expected in theaters in February 12, 2016.

Check it out below for now until it’s pulled:

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The summer time is when we rush into dark theaters blasting ice cold air so we can watch the biggest and baddest actors on the planet duke it out —often against computer-generated foes — for a delightful two hours.

It’s a formula that has worked out well, particularly this summer where it seems no box office record is safe.

But with the release of “Ant-Man”on July 17, we are in store for something different.

Don’t worry, if you like large things blowing up and insane action sequences, there’s plenty of that. But this is unlike most Marvel movies in the way that there’s a playfulness about it that lowers the stakes of world destruction or preventing bad guys from obtaining Infinity Stones. 

A lot of that has to do with the actor playing Ant-Man — Paul Rudd.

We know Rudd for his comedy, ranging from the early days of his career with “Wet Hot American Summer” to being one of Judd Apatow’s go-to guys in movies like “The 40-Year-Old Virgin” and “Knocked Up.”

Rudd has always had an edge to him, but not in an intimidating or offensive way. Even at his most dickish (“Role Models” or “Dinner for Schmucks”), there’s always a redeeming quality that makes us still like him by the end credits.

This summer we've seen hunky guys like Chris Pratt dominate the box office in "Jurassic Park," Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson take on "San Andreas," and Arnold Schwarzenegger return in "Terminator Genisys"— all engulfing the screen with incredible feats of strength and tenacity. Could Rudd's persona work in the tough guy mold we expect our summer movie heroes to be?

It does because thanks to rewrites by Rudd and “Anchorman” writer-director Adam McKay, “Ant-Man” still has action and thrills but plays to Rudd’s strengths of witty one-liners and self-deprecating humor.

Some of Rudd’s most memorable moments in his career are when the directors let him and fellow actors rift off one another. With Rudd involved in the writing process, he’s able to throw in a few lines of his own, giving the Ant-Man character something that his fans are familiar with.

This was crucial because if you aren’t familiar with the "Ant-Man" comics before seeing the movie you might not know what the heck you’ve gotten yourself into.

Ant-Man is a superhero who wears a suit that allows him to shrink to nearly microscopic size while still keeping strength of normal size. He can communicate with ants, which he uses as an army to complete missions.

Rudd is perfect in the role because he gives his character Scott Lang — a burglar who tries to get on the straight-and-narrow for the sake of his daughter until he meets Dr. Hank Pam (Michael Douglas) who wants him to become the Ant-Man — the mix of sarcasm and charm the audience needs to ease into the story.

Once you’re in, the Marvel machine takes it from there with incredible references of the universe and a fun comedic tone (looking at you Michael Peña) that hasn’t been found in any of the films from the studio so far (yes, even “Guardians of the Galaxy”).

But all of that is because of what Rudd gives us.

In a season where the giants rule, it’s this regular guy who may be the most interesting.

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Ryan Reynolds has been trying to get a "Deadpool" movie made for 11 years.

When he took the stage for the 'Deadpool" movie late Saturday afternoon, he opened up the panel by letting fans know the film of the Comic-Con favorite character was getting made because of them.

“One year ago to almost today, some a—hole in here leaked that footage, and that’s why we’re standing here,” said Reynolds."

Reynolds is referring to test footage he shot for a "Deadpool" movie which later went viral on YouTube. The footage has since been pulled from the internet.

"Tim Miller [the director] and I just sat back there [pointing to backstage] and just shook our heads, in kind of awe, just thinking, 'How did we get here?'" continued Reynolds. "You guys, the internet, fans, you guys made the studio do this. You bent their arms behind their backs, twisted their frigging necks, and here we are."

When asked why he thinks people love this character, Reynolds responded, “I think this character inhabits a space in the comic book universe that no other person can or will ever inhabit. It's got everything you'd ever want. For one, I just think it's an absolute miracle that a studio let us make 'Deadpool,' let alone an R-rated 'Deadpool.'"  

"It was R, it was PG, it was R again," chimed in director Tim Miller. 

The “Deadpool” movie will be released February 12.

Flicks and the City released footage of the panel online.

You can check it out below.

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The struggle for successful network TV comedies is real.

TV has been a black hole for successful comedies for at least two seasons now. In the fall 2014-2015 season, "Black-Ish" was the only freshman comedy to survive. Earlier this year, NBC canceled all of its comedies but one (keeping "Undateable" if it shot only live shows). And this fall, the Peacock Network will air only one hour of comedies — something it hasn't done since 1978.

CBS and Fox have had similarly hard times with cancellations for low-rated freshman comedies, such as "Mulaney" and "The McCarthys," as well as three-season vet "The Mindy Project."

"There's a lot of buzz about the [hardships for scripted comedies], and I think it's pretty undeniably an accurate assessment," The Paley Center for Media's television curator, David Bushman, told Business Insider.

So, what's going on? The experts we spoke with say there are several reasons network comedies are suffering. Here are six of them:

1. It just isn't their time.
"Certainly one argument is that there's a cyclical nature to television and that this is not the first time that sitcoms have been in this position," Bushman said. "Everybody talks about how 'The Cosby Show' rescued sitcoms back in the ‘80s ... 'The Cosby Show''s first year at No. 1 was '85, and if you look at the top 10 in '84, there's one sitcom in the top 10, which was 'Family Ties.' Everything else is a drama. So the year before that, the same thing."

2. Networks aren't giving comedies enough time to find their creative sea legs.
"Some of the most successful sitcoms in history, shows like 'Seinfeld' and 'Cheers' and many others, took a while to evolve both creatively and commercially to the point where they became successes," Bushman said. "And, I think certainly we are in a much less patient age now than we were then, and I think there is something to the argument that comedy may take a longer time to find its flow."

3. Targeting broad audiences is getting harder and harder for today's viewers.
"I think it's generational in a lot of ways," Bushman said. "I think when you look at cable you see a lot of comedies that are generally edgier and successful enough to be renewed year after year. Now again, they're not 'Modern Family' and they're not 'Big Bang,' but they must be doing well enough for their networks because they're going on like their fifth, sixth seasons.

"I'm talking about shows like 'Louie' or 'Veep'; 'Broad City' now has become very popular. These shows are successful for their networks, for their platforms. 'Kimmy Schmidt' was just renewed for a second season at Netflix, and NBC wouldn't even put it on the air because they saw that they had nothing to surround it with."

4. Hollywood's need to copy successful shows makes for bad copies.
"There was this whole time where the whole urban sitcom that NBC was pioneering back in the day when they had 'Mad About You' and 'Seinfeld' and 'Friends' ... so every network was trying to do it. But the problem is it wasn't working, and it wasn't working because a lot of it is not about formula. It doesn't matter whether the show is about a family or a workplace or whatever. If it's not well written and well cast, then it's not going to succeed no matter what formula you're tapping into."

5. Stars don't automatically make a hit sitcom.
"It helps to have somebody who has a following, because that's a built-in audience that at least is going to give it a try, but it's not enough," Bushman said. "If the show is not funny, if the characters are not endearing, if you're not compelled to come back because of the content of a show, then it's not going to work, and we've seen that.

"I'm not making judgment on the shows, but the viewers did," he continued, pointing at failed shows with big stars such as Robin Williams and Sarah Michelle Geller's "The Crazy Ones" and Sean Hayes' "The Millers" for CBS, NBC's "The Michael J. Fox Show," and "Mulaney" at Fox.

This fall, we'll find sitcoms with well-known leads including Rob Lowe, John Stamos, Jane Lynch, and Ken Jeong.

6. The definition of comedy has become blurred.
Once again, the networks are just catching up with what cable already knew: Comedy can be found in a lot of different forms. For example, USA calls its family show, "Chrisley Knows Best," a comedy. Others have found comedy in game shows and in one-hour dramedies such as Lifetime's "Devious Maids." NBC may be on to something with its coming Neil Patrick Harris variety show, "Best Time Ever."

"You're seeing kids who have grown up on YouTube content and pranks and laughing at things that are maybe in a different form for them," Tony DiSanto, former MTV programming president and founder of the production studio DiGa, told Business Insider.

"I guess when you think about it, things like 'Jackass' is a comedy. You think about 'Impractical Jokers.' These are probably the things that a lot of people are defining as the comedy that they're watching, and I think that stuff is actually growing and growing an audience and working for people, so I think for me when I look at comedy across all the networks I don't necessarily think comedy is down."

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With all these factors working against them, Bushman said, innovation may be the genre's saving grace.

"There's not a lot that's new in terms of sitcoms on," he said. "The really interesting one to me is that NBC is going live with 'Undateable.' You must readjust or adapt to a changing landscape, one thing that you need to do is be innovative, and try new things, and somehow stand out from the crowd, and I think that no matter what happens to 'Undateable' that NBC deserves a tremendous amount of credit for trying."

"Like anything, it's cyclical," DiSanto said. "Somebody will break through with something that's going to be loud and cut through and sort of reinvent the model."

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Most of us know Archie Andrews. The freckle-faced, red-headed teen from Riverdale has been a staple of grocery store checkout lines for generations, where people of all ages would enjoy (mostly) wholesome tales about Archie’s adventures with his pal Jughead and the love triangle with Betty Cooper and Veronica Lodge.

Recently, though, Archie Comics has gone through a phase of radical reinvention.

First there was Kevin Keller, the first openly gay character in the Archie-verse. Then came “Afterlife with Archie,” an ongoing series that features the entire Archie cast facing a legitimately scary zombie apocalypse. Then, in the pages of “Life with Archie,” an alternate-universe story featuring a grown-up, married Archie — who died at the series’ end. And then there’s that 60s-era horror comic starring Sabrina, the Teenage Witch.

All of these recent moves aren’t notable because they’re crazy and outrageous, but because they’re crazy and outrageous and also really shockingly good comics.

And today, Archie’s hot streak continues with the much-ballyhooed reboot of the publisher’s flagship title, “Archie” #1, by Mark Waid and Fiona Staples.

If you’re not immersed in the comics world, it’s hard to stress how huge those names are, but  just look at the comic:

Archie. So hot right now.

The gorgeous art is by Fiona Staples, who works almost exclusively on “Saga” with writer Brian K. Vaughn, one of the best and most popular non-superhero comics you can read. Her updated takes on the entire Archie cast are wonderfully expressive and smartly fashionable.

Everyone is also really, really, ridiculously good looking.Writer Mark Waid is pretty much a storytelling genius who has spent much of the last thirty years writing classic stories about almost every superhero you can think of — most recently on the can’t-miss “Daredevil” with artist Chris Samnee. In short, this is a dream team, and they deliver.

“Archie” #1 is a fantastic read and a great introduction to Archie Andrews and his world (quite literally — much of the issue features Archie breaking the fourth wall to introduce readers to everyone). It’s also further proof of how enduring the character is — really, Archie has always been a teen story where much of the comedy comes from giving its teenagers exactly what they want and gently making fun of them as they discover how things are always more complicated than they realize. It’s why the Betty/Veronica love triangle is such a cornerstone of the comics.

Speaking of Betty and Veronica, “Archie” is extremely clever in how it sets up that particular status quo. You’ll want to come back next month.

The first issue of the new “Archie” feels like the sort of teen sitcom that doesn’t get made anymore, a modern “Boy Meets World” but smarter, simpler, and hipper all at once. It’s effortlessly cool and charming, like a John Hughes movie without all the morose angst. It takes the classic Archie comics and makes them feel modern and relevant.

In short, it’s a perfect reboot that’s not just a great first Archie story, but a great first comic.

Have you ever been to Riverdale? It’s a nice place. I think I’ll stay a while.

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Prince William and Kate Middleton may be 33-years-old and have two children, but they're still on the royal payroll, along with 30-year-old Prince Harry and Prince Charles' 67-year-old wife, Camilla Parker Bowles.

To help cover the costs of official royal activities, Prince Charles doles out around $4.667 million (£2.965 million) to his offspring and wife each year, according to a recent Annual Review released by Clarence House.

"The future king, 66, pays for his official life by drawing an income from the Duchy of Cornwall, a massive estate given to the heir to the throne to fund his official and private livelihoods," reports People magazine. "That income in the year to March 31 was $31.1 million, a rise of 1.7 percent."

While specific expenditures are not detailed, the annual funds are used to cover things like travel and wardrobe. But according to People, William and Kate independently pay for their country home and personal staff, including a nanny.

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It's the 1960s and a specia mission is forcing a CIA agent (Henry Cavill) and a KGB operative (Armie Hammer) into the same mission. Check out this trailer that was first seen at Comic-Con in San Diego.

"The Man from U.N.C.L.E." comes out August 15, 2015.

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 "Walking Dead" creator Robert Kirkman has a new show and this first trailer looks so very scary. As IMDB tells us, the series revolves around "a young man searches for answers as to why he's been suffering from supernatural possessions his entire life."

"Outcast" is coming in 2016.

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Earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival, audiences were taken by zany comedy “Tangerine,” the latest film from “Greg the Bunny” co-creator Sean Baker.

Baker enjoys telling stories set in real settings, casting actors with little to no experience, and exploring stories you’ve likely never seen before on the big screen. That can range from a New York garment district wholesaler dealing with fatherhood (“Price of Broadway”) to a porn actress befriending an elderly woman (“Starlet”).

“Tangerine” continues that motif as Baker tells the story of a transgender prostitute named Sin-Dee (Kitana Kiki Rodriguez) who learns that her pimp is cheating on her and navigates through Los Angeles on Christmas Eve to confront him.

But what has grabbed people’s attention beyond Baker’s unconventional tale is his decision to shoot the film only using the iPhone 5S.

“I didn’t see any other way the film could be done,” Baker told Business Insider in the Manhattan office of the film’s distribution company, Magnolia Pictures, last week.

With a micro budget of only around $120,000 to make the film, Baker knew he had used up all his favors doing his previous films, and that if he wanted to make “Tangerine” he had to be creative.

“The film that turned me onto [shooting on an iPhone] was Spike Lee’s ‘Red Hook Summer,’” Baker said, referring to Lee’s low budget 2012 drama. “Remember the kid shooting on his iPad? There’s something about every time it cuts to his iPad footage I got more interested. I thought, Why isn’t anyone doing a whole film like this yet?”

Around the same time Baker realized that the iPhone 5S was coming out, and included an upgraded camera lens from its predecessors.

Baker realized he could pull off shooting the movie with the phone (he used three total, but never at the same time).

Through camera tests with his co-cinematographer Radium Cheung, Baker liked the high quality of the picture the 5S provided. But he was completely sold on shooting with the phone after coming across a new anamorphic lens adapter for smartphones created by Moondog Labs and the app, FiLMiC Pro. 

With the lens adapter and the app, which made it possible for the phone to shoot at the level a pricey DSLR camera provides, Baker felt the phone would be “elevated to a cinematic level.” (The FiLMiC Pro app costs $7.99 and the Moondog lens adapters range from $160-$175.)

And his financiers, who included Mark and Jay Duplass (creators of HBO’s “Togetherness”), agreed after Baker showed them his test footage.

What Baker didn’t realize until principal photographer on “Tangerine” began in the February of 2013 was the level of sophisticated shots they could pull off with the phone. Baker used his talents as a former bike messenger in Manhattan to weave closely around his characters as they said their lines. Biking with one hand on the handle bar and another holding a smart-phone designed Steadicam called a “Smoothee” ($149), the movie has these slick, eye-catching passing shots of Sin-Dee as she walks furiously throughout L.A.

But perhaps the most dazzling of the cinematography in the film are the “crane” shots.

Throughout the film a handful of scenes begin high above buildings and then smoothly travel down to the faces of the characters. On traditional movie sets giant crane rigs that cost in the thousands of dollars are used to pull this off. Baker was able to do the same shots cheaper and in a more practical way.

“We purchased a large painter’s pole and we would rig the phone to the end of it and do these up and down movements,” Baker explains has he stands and imitates the movements, almost like he’s painting the walls off the Magnolia meeting room with a long paint roller. “We would do like 10 shots, one after the other, and then look at all of them on the phone and decide if we had to do it again. It was basically like being back in your parent’s yard, 12 years old, doing stuff with the VHS camera.”

Baker admits if the film was done a few years later they probably would have used drones for some of those shots.

Though shooting with the phone was a success, Baker was weary about promoting how “Tangerine” was shot. When the film got into this year’s Sundance Film Festival back in January, he did not allow any of the publicity material to state that it was shot with an iPhone.

“We didn’t want people to have any preconceived notions about how it would look,” he said. “I have to say, if I had a choice to see a movie between a film shot on 35mm and a film shot on an iPhone, I would pick the film shot on 35mm.”

But following the premiere screening, Baker knew he had to reveal how they shot it. Overnight, he became the poster child of the future of low budget filmmaking.

“It’s starting to get crazy,” Baker admits. “I’m getting way too many Facebook messages and Twitter DMs from people asking how I made the movie. I just don’t have the time to answer all of them. It’s so easy — you get the phone, you get the app, you get the rig and you just do it.”

Apple has even warmed to the film.

Baker said when they originally sent Apple the film treatment they got the typical response that the company didn’t want to be involved. But after the Sundance premiere he began hearing from multiple departments in the company. Some praising what he did. Others, not so much.

“A few times they had been really nice to me, but a few times they rubbed me the wrong way,” he said. “One time a department was like, “We’re coming to your apartment and we’re going to shoot the way you edit and shoot and we’re going to spend two days with you.’ I was like no, you're not.”

But all is well, as Baker said Apple invited the film to take part in one of their Apple Store filmmaker chats recently, and they were all given new iPhones.

Baker is not planning to make another film on an iPhone, hoping that he will have a much larger budget to work with on his next one. But he believes audiences will be seeing more movies made on phones in the years to come.

“I went to Sundance thinking we would be one of many films shot on a phone,” he said. “But a lot of people are starting to use it for features and shots. And a lot have been used for commercials already. It’s about time.”

“Tangerine” opens in theaters on Friday.

Watch the “Tangerine” trailer below, and see the amazing picture quality yourself.

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Donald Trump's other beautiful blonde daughter, Tiffany, is all over Manhattan's social scene, but no one seems to be noticing. 

Despite partying with the "Rich Kids of Instagram," interning at Vogue, dropping a pop single, and just being a Trump heir, the 21-year-old doesn't even have a Wikipedia page yet. 

The reason she's been able to fly so low under the radar is because, up until recently, much of the media had forgotten she even existed. 

Tiffany grew up in California with mother Marla Maples, Donald Trump's second wife, and went to Calabasas' $31,205-a-year Viewpoint School. Maples has said that Donald helped with school and other financials, but that she raised Tiffany as a single parent.

Recently, Tiffany swapped coasts and moved closer to her dad to attend his alma mater, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where she's currently a senior. Although she put out a synthy pop song in 2011, she told interviewers from Oprah Winfrey's network that she really loves fashion design. 

In the spring of 2013, the Daily Mail reported that Ivanka Trump helped her half-sister score an internship at Vogue, and that Tiffany was going to work as early as 5:30 a.m. and "even got to have lunch with Anna Wintour." The New York Post's Page Six got wind of the youngest Trump daughter shortly after that, when she stepped out for a Halloween party at Manhattan's Boom Boom Room.

In the few press clips you can find on Tiffany, she's often spotted with a group of wealthy young socialites called the "Rich Kids of Instagram." Some of her friends are Andrew Warren (son of a New York real-estate investor) Harry Brant and Peter Brant, Jr. (sons of media mogul Peter Brant), Gaia Matisse (great-great-granddaughter of Henri Matisse), and EJ Johnson (son of Magic Johnson), most of whom attended Tiffany's 21st birthday bash at Trump Soho and a dance club called Up & Down in New York's Meatpacking District. 

This summer she's been hanging out in the Hamptons with Warren, attending his fashion-line debut at an upscale East Hampton boutique and following him to Du Jour magazine CEO Jason Binn's annual Memorial Day soirée.  

It doesn't appear that her society friends and active social life have gotten in the way of her studies, though. According to her Instagram, she's juggling a new internship with Aeffe — the Italian fashion group that owns Alberta Ferretti, Philosophy di Alberta Ferretti, Moschino, and Pollini — and spending a lot of time in the library. The below photo was taken at Aeffa USA's Manhattan office and was tagged #internlife. 

Given that Wharton School grad Ivanka had a brief career as a runway model before getting down to business at The Trump Organization with her dad, Tiffany could very well follow the same trajectory, possibly even working for Ivanka's rapidly growing fashion and lifestyle brand.

Or perhaps she'll keep working on her music and make a bid for pop stardom. Either way, it'll be interesting to watch. 

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John Lennon has been dead for 35 years, but that hasn't stopped his former Beatles bandmate Paul McCartney from talking about the dead singer and rehashing some of the same issues that tore the band apart back in 1970.

In a new interview with Esquire, McCartney opened up about Lennon's assassination and revealed that he initially resented how popular culture wanted to present Lennon as the main voice of The Beatles following his death.

"When John got shot, aside from the pure horror of it, the lingering thing was, 'OK, well, now John's a martyr. A JFK,'" McCartney said. "I started to get frustrated because people started to say, 'Well, he was the Beatles.' And me, George and Ringo would go, 'Er, hang on. It's only a year ago we were all equal-ish.'"

He continued: "Now the fact that he’s now martyred has elevated [Lennon] to a James Dean, and beyond. So whilst I didn’t mind that – I agreed with it – I understood that now there was going to be revisionism. It was going to be: John was the one."

The 73-year-old singer discussed how Yoko Ono, Lennon's widow, exacerbated the revisionism of Beatles history by saying "strange things" about Paul's place in the band.

"Yoko would appear in the press," McCartney said, "and I’d read it, and it said [comedy Yoko accent], 'Paul did nothing! All he did was book the studio...' Like, 'F--- you, darling! Hang on! All I did was book the f---ing studio?”

In the interview, McCartney also brought up the disputes he had with Lennon over whose name would be first in their songwriting credits, though they eventually settled on the famous "Lennon/McCartney" moniker.

"[Lennon] said, ‘OK, what we’ll do is we’ll alternate it: Lennon and McCartney, McCartney and Lennon.’ Well, that didn’t happen. And I didn’t mind," McCartney said.

But in the case of songs like "Yesterday," which Paul wrote himself and "which John actually had nothing to do with," McCartney wished the credit had gone to "McCartney/Lennon."

"The original artwork had 'Yesterday' by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and a photo of John above it," McCartney said. "And I went, 'Argh, Come on, lads.'"

And in the digital age, McCartney feels even more slighted by the "Lennon/McCartney" handle than he did before.

"You know how on your iPad there's never enough room? So it's kind of important who comes first," McCartney said. "Late at night I was in a hotel room looking online and I happened to see this music book, which has got all the songs in it, and it was 'Hey Jude' by 'John Lennon and...' and the space ran out."

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The lovable yellow beings from “Despicable Me” showed they can carry a film as their first standalone, “Minions," took in $115.2 million in North America over the weekend.

That’s the second-largest animated opening in history, according to Variety.

The record holder is 2007’s “Shrek the Third,” which earned $121.6 million on its debut weekend.

Though the story of the silly Minions working under super-villains voiced by Jon Hamm and Sandra Bullock had an estimated budget of only $74 million, the publicity and promotion for the film was nearly $600 million, according to Bloomberg Business.

The big opening for "Minions" continues the hot summer for Universal Studios, which released the film. Its previous releases, “Furious 7” and “Jurassic World,” have each surpassed $1 billion at the global box office, with “World” boasting the highest-grossing opening weekend of all time. 

“Minions” was above its late-week projections of $100 million to $115 million, according to Deadline. Things looked good for the film late Friday night when it took in a healthy $46.2 million on its opening day.

The other new releases this weekend didn’t put up much of a fight.

Horror film “The Gallows” took in $10 million domestically, while Ryan Reynolds’ latest, "Self/less," is another clunker for the actor, as it only grossed $5.4 million. But the good news for Reynolds is if Comic-Con is any indication, his upcoming “Deadpool” will fair much better.

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Whether you prefer to watch TV live, on your DVR, or a mix of both, it's time to start planning. The networks have released their fall premiere dates.

That includes top comedies like "The Big Bang Theory" and "Modern Family." And there's addictive dramas like "Empire" and "How to Get Away With Murder." Also, what about the return of comic book series "Gotham," "The Flash," and "Arrow"?

Let's not forget fall's new offerings like "Supergirl," "Scream Queens," and "Blindspot."

Today, TV has more than enough for everyone.

See below for all the upcoming return and premiere dates for all your favorite (and your soon-to-be favorite) shows:

Monday, September 14
8:00 p.m. ABC “Dancing With the Stars (21st season premiere)

Tuesday, September 15
10:00 p.m. NBC “Best Time Ever With Neil Patrick Harris (series premiere)

Sunday, September 20
8:00 p.m. Fox “The 67th primetime Emmy Awards”

Monday, September 21
8:00 p.m. CBS “The Big Bang Theory” (9th season premiere)
8:00 p.m. Fox “Gotham” (2nd season Premiere)
8:00 p.m. NBC “The Voice” (9th season premiere)
8:30 p.m. CBS “Life in Pieces” (series premiere)
9:00 p.m. CBS “Scorpion” (2nd season premiere)
9:00 p.m. Fox “Minority Report” (series premiere)
10:00 p.m. NBC “Blindspot” (series premiere)
10:00 p.m. CBS “NCIS: Los Angeles” (7th season premiere)
10:00 p.m. ABC “Castle” (8th season premiere)

Tuesday, September 22
8:00 p.m. ABC “The Muppets” (series premiere)
8:00 p.m. CBS “NCIS (13th season premiere)
8:00 p.m. Fox “Scream Queens” (series premiere)
8:30 p.m. ABC Fresh Off the Boat” (2nd season premiere)
9:00 p.m. CBS “NCIS: New Orleans (2nd season premiere)
10:00 p.m. CBS “Limitless” (series premiere)

Wednesday, September 23
8:00 p.m. ABC “The Middle” (7th season premiere)
8:00 p.m. CBS “Survivor” (31st season premiere)
8:00 p.m. Fox “Rosewood” (series premiere)
8:00 p.m. NBC “The Mysteries of Laura” (2nd season premiere)
8:30 p.m. ABC “The Goldbergs” (3rd season premiere)
9:00 p.m. FOX “Empire” (2nd season premiere)
9:00 p.m. NBC “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” (17th season premiere)
9:00 p.m. ABC “Modern Family” (7th season premiere)
9:30 p.m. ABC “Black-ish (2nd season premiere)
10:00 p.m. ABC “Nashville” (4th season premiere)

Thursday, September 24
8:00 p.m. ABC “Grey's Anatomy”(12th season premiere)
8:00 p.m. NBC “Heroes Reborn (5th season premiere)
9:00 p.m. NBC “The Blacklist” (3rd season premiere)
9:00 p.m. ABC “Scandal” (5th season premiere)
10:00 p.m. ABC “How to Get Away With Murder” (2nd season premiere)
10:00 p.m. NBC “The Player” (series premiere)

Friday, September 25
8:00 p.m. CBS “The Amazing Race” (27th season premiere)
8:00 p.m. ABC “Last Man Standing (5th season premiere)
9:00 p.m. CBS “Hawaii Five-0 (6th season premiere)
9:00 p.m. ABC “Shark Tank” (7th season premiere)
10:00 p.m. CBS “Blue Bloods” (6th season premiere)

Sunday, September 27
7:30 p.m. Fox “Bob’s Burgers” (6th season premiere)
8:00 p.m. ABC “Once Upon a Time” (5th season premiere)
8:00 p.m. Fox “The Simpsons” (27th season premiere)
8:30 p.m. Fox “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” (3rd season premiere)
9:00 p.m. ABC “Blood & Oil” (series premiere)
9:00 p.m. Fox “Family Guy” (14th season premiere)
9:30 p.m. Fox “The Last Man on Earth" (2nd season premiere)
10:00 p.m. ABC “Quantico” (series premiere)

Tuesday, September 29
8:00 p.m. Fox “Grandfathered” (series premiere)
9:00 p.m. ABC “Marvel's Agents of SHIELD (3rd season premiere)
10:00 p.m. ABC “Beyond the tank (1st season fall premiere)

Wednesday, September 30
9:00 p.m. CBS “Criminal Minds” (11th season premiere)
8:30 p.m. Fox “The Grinder” (season premiere)
10:00 p.m. NBC “Chicago PD” (3rd season premiere)
10:00 p.m. CBS “Code Black” (series premiere)

Thursday, October 1
8:00 p.m. Fox “Bones” (11th season premiere)

Friday, October 2
8:30 p.m. ABC “Dr. Ken” (series premiere)

Sunday, October 4
8:00 p.m. CBS “Madam Secretary” (2nd season premiere)
9:00 p.m. CBS “The Good Wife” (7th season premiere)
10:00 p.m. CBS “CSI: Cyber" (2nd season premiere)

Tuesday, October 6
8:00 p.m. The CW “The Flash” (2nd season premiere)
9:00 p.m. The CW “iZombie.” (2nd season premiere)

Wednesday, October 7
8:00 p.m. The CW “Arrow” (4th season premiere)
9:00 p.m. The CW “Supernatural” (11th season premiere)

Thursday, October 8
8:00 p.m. The CW “The Vampire Diaries” (7th season premiere)
9:00 p.m. The CW “The Originals” (3rd season premiere)

Friday, October 9
8:00 p.m. The CW “Reign” (2nd season premiere)
8:00 p.m. NBC “Undateable”(3rd season premiere)

Sunday, October 11
7:00 p.m. ABC “America's Funniest Home Videos” (26th season premiere)

Tuesday, October 13
10:00 p.m. NBC “Chicago Fire” (4th season premiere)

Friday, October 16
8:30 p.m. NBC “People Are Talking” (series premiere)

Monday, October 19
8:00 p.m. The CW “Crazy Ex-girlfriend” (series premiere)
9:00 p.m. The CW “Jane the Virgin” (2nd season premiere)

Monday, October 26
8:30 p.m. CBS “Supergirl” (series premiere)

Tuesday, October 27
10:00 p.m. ABC “Wicked City” (series premiere)

Friday, October 30
9:00 p.m. NBC “Grimm” (5th season premiere)

Thursday, November 5
9:00 p.m. CBS “Mom” (3rd season premiere)
9:30 p.m. CBS “Angel From Hell” (series premiere)
10:00 p.m. CBS “Elementary” (4th season premiere)

Friday, November 6
8:00 p.m. “MasterChef Junior” (4th season premiere)
9:00 p.m. “World’s Funniest” (2nd season premiere)

Tuesday, November 10
10:00 p.m. NBC “Chicago Med (series premiere)

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Fans in cosplay, or role-playing costumes, invaded San Diego Comic-Con.

At this year's annual celebration of comics, TV, movies, anime, and gaming, we've seen screen-accurate Stormtroopers, superheroes, and "Frozen's" Anna and Elsa dressed for battle on the Fury Road.

We went ahead and rounded up photos of the best cosplays. And we will continue to update this post as the Con unfolds.

See any great cosplay? Email us at mrobinson@businessinsider.com and kacuna@businessinsider.com.

Additional photo contribution by Kirsten Acuna.

Jared Leto's Joker in the upcoming "Suicide Squad" has nothing on this glam Clown Prince of Crime.

Batman better watch out for this Joker-Penguin hybrid.

What would Joker be without his main squeeze, Harley Quinn (who we'll see in the new "Suicide Squad" movie)? She's joined by a flirtatious Poison Ivy.

Shooting an independently financed film is challenging enough. Now imagine stripping away the entire crew and narrowing it down to just your phone's camera.

This is the challenge that "Tangerine" decided to take on and not only does it succeed, but it also breaks some new ground in doing so. 

"Tangerine" was shot exclusively using three iPhone 5S phones (this was likely the latest phone model when the film was in production). You will notice it at first (it is hard not to), then you get used to it, then you will barely be able to tell the difference.

Taking place entirely on one night, Christmas Eve to be exact, "Tangerine" is all the more interesting because it tells a very specific story. It is set in Los Angeles primarily at the intersection of Santa Monica Boulevard and Highland Avenue. This is an area notorious for drugs and prostitution.

This is far away from the glamour of show business and a reminder that yes, this is a diverse, multi-dimensional city.

If you have never been to Los Angeles, you will get a completely new perspective of America's second largest city. If you know it well, then you will enjoy the hyper-specific references (for instance, when they say they're "walking to Vermont," they mean the street, not the state).

The film centers around Sin-Dee (Kitana Kiki Rodriguez) and Alexandra (Mya Taylor), two transgender prostitutes who get into a lot of misadventures, some hilarious, and some deeply sad. Sin-Dee finds out her pimp boyfriend (James Ransone) cheated on her while she was in prison. So she takes Alexandra on a mission on Christmas Eve to find and confront him.

This high stakes mission is treated in a very laid back way, and it allows director Sean Baker to navigate through the strangest places and people in the City of Angels.

One person who pops in and out is Armenian cab driver Razmik (Karren Karagulian). This might be the first time I've ever heard Armenian be spoken in an American film. Something that makes "Tangerine" unique is that almost every film set in LA will show you the Hollywood Sign and Venice Beach, but few of them ever acknowledge the fact that LA and its suburbs has one of the largest Armenian populations in the world (a portion of Hollywood is referred to as Little Armenia). 

"Tangerine" doesn't make a huge show of the fact that it is shot on an iPhone (the production notes packet, given out at press screenings, dedicates one small paragraph to it). However, I feel like it is as important to the story as Sin-Dee and Alexandra are. It makes the viewer feel like they are there. 

In a way, it feels like the phone captures more than an expensive, nicer looking camera might have captured. 

Baker says that part of the reason he shot the movie this way was that it allowed him to get more natural performances out of his inexperienced leads, as this would be less intimidating than a real camera. It also helped with extras, as most of them were just people the crew found on the street. To give the film that grainy, cinematic look, they attached an anamorphic lens and shot through that. It is kind of like "Bowfinger," in which Steve Martin played a director shooting the lowest budget sci-fi film imaginable. 

This bare bones approach is what makes the film seem so raw and at times more like a documentary than fiction. This fits well, given that "Tangerine" is primarily about people living double lives in a city fueled by lies, even outside of show business.

At times, you feel like you are getting access to places that you are forbidden from. Or simply, just the bus and the subway. And yes, there is an entire subway system in LA. 

Watching "Tangerine" made me think immediately of "Clerks" and "Slacker."

This must be how people felt when they saw those independent classics in the early 1990s which proved you could make an engaging film that exists more on loosely connected scenes and conversations than the traditional three act structure. When people saw that Kevin Smith made "Clerks" so good with so little money, they thought that anybody with a few bucks can make a movie. Now that most people have some form of smartphone, everybody really can make a movie. 

Well, anybody can make a movie. However, not everybody should make a movie. But Sean Baker can.

"Tangerine" isn't just a vehicle for the capabilities of the iPhone.

After walking out of the movie, I found myself focusing less on the iPhone and more on the story and characters. I thought about Alexandra's uproarious fight with a customer in front of some indifferent cops. I thought about that tense moment when you realize that Razmik's secret would be revealed, and his entire world would unravel in an instant. I thought about how this is one of the bleakest Christmas movies I have ever seen, and it takes place in an area covered in palm trees.

"Tangerine" is a Christmas movie for people who don't feel the Christmas spirit. 

I loved its dark, cynical spirit and how, in that, it ends up being a story about friendship. And you don't need an IMAX camera to capture that. 

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The president of Nintendo, Satoru Iwata, has died at the age of 55, according to a press release from the company.

"Nintendo Co., Ltd. deeply regrets to announce that President Satoru Iwata passed away on July 11, 2015 due to a bile duct growth," reads the statement.

Iwata underwent surgery last year to remove the growth and had resumed his duties after a brief period of recovery. 

Iwata began his career as a freelance programmer for HAL Laboratory, a subsidiary of Nintendo, before joining HAL full-time after college. During his time at HAL, Iwata worked on games such as Balloon Fight and the Kirby and Earthbound franchises. He eventually became the president of HAL in 1993.

In 2000, Iwata joined Nintendo proper as the head of its corporate planning division. When Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi retired in 2002 (Yamauchi had been president since 1949), Iwata was picked to succeed as the fourth president of the company. 

Iwata oversaw the development of the GameCube, the Wii, the DS, and the Wii U. 

Iwata had been suffering from a 'bile duct growth' for at least over a year. Iwata was forced to skip last year's E3 conference due to the same health problem.

 A statement by Iwata released then read:

Thank you very much for your continued extraordinary support of us. I am Satoru Iwata, President of the company.

Today, there is one thing that I would like to share with you.

Recently, as the result of one of my routine physical examinations, an issue was detected. Following a more detailed examination, a growth was found in my bile duct.

In general, it is said that a bile duct growth can be difficult-to-treat, partly because of the difficulty of detecting it early. In my case, luckily, it was detected very early and I had no symptoms.

I was counseled that removal at an early stage would be the desirable medical option. Therefore I had surgery last week, and I came through it well, as predicted.

I have already resumed my business by email and by other means, but it is anticipated that a little more time is needed for me to return to my regular work schedule.

As a result, I have no choice but to miss the company's very important activity, the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders, to be held this month. As the president of the company, I regret that I cannot attend the meeting. However, I understand that I have to prioritize my medical treatment and to recover as soon as possible so that I will again be able to do my best to help the company to grow. I hope that you understand.

Best Regards,

Satoru Iwata

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Miss Oklahoma Olivia Jordan was crowned Miss USA 2015 in Baton Rouge, Lousiana on Sunday evening.

The Miss USA pageant is co-owned by Donald Trump. He missed the event because he was in Phoenix campaigning as a GOP presidential hopeful. 

Jordan is a 5'11" 26-year-old model from Tulsa, Oklahoma. She has appeared in Cosmo, Shape and Vogue Japan. She also appeared in the film, "Hot Tub Time Machine 2."

She graduated from Boston University with a degree in health science, according to her bio.

Jordan, who graced the stage in an electrifying pink Sherri Hill gown, beat 50 other beautiful women from across the country at the L'Auberge Baton Rouge Casino & Hotel.

The Miss USA competition lasts for two weeks. During that time the contestants participate in appearances, volunteer work and preliminary completions, which includes a panel interview, evening gown, and swimsuit. On Sunday, the women were narrowed down to 15 finalists, then 11, and ultimately five. 

The five finalists have to answer an onstage question.

Judge Brook Lee, a former Miss USA/Miss Universe, asked Jordan what she thought the next hot-button issue was in the US that we need to tackle on a national level.

"I think we still need to talk about race relations in this country," Jordan said. "We have not solved this issue. We are still having problems. We keep hearing about new issues coming up. We really need to work on being an accepting society and being a society where every single person, no matter your race, no matter your gender, is given the same rights and privileges and opportunities." 

This year's Miss USA pageant had a shadow cast over it following comments made by Trump about Mexican immigrants during his campaign launch last month. He called people coming into the US from the Mexico border rapists and said they're bringing drugs and crime.

Both NBC and Univision dropped the pageant after Trump's statements. A bunch of the celebrity hosts/judges/performers also dropped out. (This year's judging panel consisted of former titleholders.)

Miss USA is widely considered the "Super Bowl of pageants." Last year, more than 5.5 million people watched the competition on NBC. 

After NBC ended its business relationship with Trump, little-known cable network ReelzChannel picked up the broadcasting rights. The pageant was also live-streamed on YouTube. The livestream showed just over 30,000 viewers streaming the show.

Following Trump's statements, Miss Universe Organization has pointed out that it's an independently-run company. Trump isn't the one running the show. He doesn't spend a lot of time with the titleholders either. 

On Saturday evening, Trump Tweeted that he was campaigning in Phoenix and wished all of the contestants well.

Here's a shot of Jordan's crowning moment: 

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