On September 28th, South African comedian Trevor Noah will replace Jon Stewart as the host of Comedy Central's "The Daily Show."

Noah's succession hasn't exactly been smooth, but the 31-year-old is confident he'll work out the kinks once he's in the hosting chair.

"I have a very vague picture of the show right now," Noah tells GQ in a new interview. "It'll be like a face-lift. Because, don't get it twisted, I'm a big fan of 'The Daily Show,' and that's what it's still gonna be. It's still gonna be 'The Daily Show.' It's the same way, when Fallon took over from Leno, it's still 'The Tonight Show.'"

When GQ writer Zach Baron pointed out that Fallon has actually completely transformed "The Tonight Show," especially when it comes to viral videos and social media, Noah agreed but explains that it felt like a natural shift, and he hopes to have a similar transition. "Just the mere fact that I'm gonna be there in the chair changes a whole bunch of the show, you know?"

And Noah is aware that he may face backlash after replacing the beloved Jon Stewart. In March, the comedian got a taste of controversy after some arguably offensive old Tweets of his were unearthed and caused a backlash against the host-to-be.

But Noah is ready for the criticism that comes with change.

"A guy doesn't leave and another guy comes in and there's no backlash. That never, ever happens," he explains to GQ. "When Michael B. Jordan got cast as the new Human Torch in 'Fantastic Four,' there was backlash, because they were like, ‘How can this fictional character be a black man?' The new storm trooper from 'Star Wars,' when he took his helmet off in the trailer, people lost their minds. ‘This is ridiculous. How can there be black people in space?' I didn't know what the backlash was gonna be, but I knew there was going to be backlash. The same thing when Larry Wilmore took over from Colbert: ‘Oh, this is never gonna work. This is horrible.'"

Despite any past controversy, Comedy Central stands behind their pick for Stewart's replacement. With Noah being just 31-years-old, the network believes he can draw in his peers and add a new demo for the show.

"It is going to be really reflective of a millennial audience and a millennial point of view," Comedy Central president Michele Ganeless assures GQ. "He is a student of our culture. But he looks at it from a very different perspective."

Also, Ganeless adds, he is "super, super funny." Noah "really understands our audience, because he is one of them." Still, she says, "I will not lie. Yes: I have moments of great anxiety."

Read Trevor Noah's full interview with GQ here.

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For over 30 years, the name "Nintendo" has been synonomous with joyful children.

Though many of the kids who once loved Nintendo have since grown up, the Japanese company's aim remains steadily targeted on the younger demographic. 

But with the advent of smartphones, tablets, and multiple home computers, kids have never had more options at their fingertips over the distractions of yore.

Simply put: Nintendo's still popular with kids, but not quite as popular as, say, Snapchat. 

Look no further than this excellent piece in Paste Magazine for evidence of that: 

“Maggie,” I say, “you seemed pretty negative earlier. What do you play instead of Nintendo?”

“Instagram,” she says.

And in that child's (hilarious) response, we can see where kids are going instead of their handheld Nintendo 3DS game console. Instagram is actually the most popular social network among teens – a demographic kids like Maggie are just about to enter.

The Paste piece focuses on the recent passing of Nintendo president Satoru Iwata. Writer Jon Irwin is spending the summer teaching "ten- and eleven-year olds" at an educational camp outside of Atlanta, Georgia, and he asked the kids a variety of questions about that passing. Interestingly, of the kids present, "nearly all" own Nintendo devices. It sounds like gawking at rich kids living lavish lives may just be more appealing than Italian plumbers and pocket monsters.

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Judd Apatow has been extremely vocal against Bill Cosby.

During a stand-up set Monday night on "The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon," Apatow took the opportunity to again speak out against Cosby yet again.

"Cosby is still out on the road. Isn’t that weird that he’s, like, doing stand-up?" Apatow asked the NBC audience. "What do you think his act is like? Do you think he’s still talking about it?"

Apatow then did his best impersonation of Cosby doing stand-up:

"Do you think he says, 'Have you ever been in trouble with the wife?'" asked Apatow while perfectly mimicking Cosby's voice.

"Did you ever get into the doghouse with the wife over something that you did?" Apatow continues, as Cosby. "Like the other day, there was something about me in the paper and I didn't want my wife to read the paper so I got up at five in the morning and snuck out to the driveway to get the paper and I hid the paper. And the next day I got up and I hid the paper."

"And the next day, I forgot to get the paper! And my wife said to me, 'What is this in the paper with the raping and the drugging? And I said, 'Do you like your life? Do you like the house and the jet? Well then have a cappuccino and shut the eff up."

Watch the full clip below:

Apatow recently explained on the "Today Show" that he has been so vigorous in his takedown of Cosby because: "I just kept noticing that no one else was saying that this was a bad thing. I would have loved to not talk about it. It’s incredibly sad. It’s one of the most tragic things that’s happened in our business, and I think we do have to stand up for the women and say that we believe you."

Comedy Central’s late-night host Larry Wilmore also slammed Cosby on Monday in a segment he called "Cosby says the darndest things":

More than 40 women have now accused Cosby of sexual assault, but he has yet to be charged with a crime.

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From a parking garage to a gymnasium, singer Joachim Müllner proves the value and importance of acoustics in a performance space. Here, Müllner sings the same song in 15 different locations. Experience the difference.

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In the US, "Jurassic World" has been the big box-office story of the summer.

But on the other side of the globe, Chinese moviegoers are turning out in droves to see a new movie called "Monster Hunt."

In fact, "Monster Hunt" broke China's record for first-day gross this past weekend, netting roughly $27.7 million in one day, according to Variety.

The film — directed by Raman Hui, a co-director on "Shrek the Third" and several other short films from DreamWorks Animation — is a blend of live action and 3D.

It's set in a fantasy world where monsters and humans fight for supremacy, but the trailer also shows off some pretty strange, quirky humor.

The movie features monsters disguised as humans ...

... and some interesting dialogue.

This man is... pregnant? With a baby monster?

There are a lot of strange-looking monsters here, too. They look pretty cartoonish for the most part.

According to one moviegoer who saw the film and reviewed it on IMDB, the name "Monster Hunt" is a bit misleading. Here's how that reviewer described the plot with spoilers:

The obviously pregnant queen in the monster kingdom finds herself on the losing side of a power struggle and escapes into the forbidden human kingdom, hotly pursued by her enemies from back home. We never see the monster kingdom again as the story takes on a culinary flavor. A monster baby of royal lineage, you see is considered by humans to be multi-star Michelin fare.

The story is essentially about a guy and a girl who kind of adopt the newborn royal monster Bupa. ... Eventually, they end up saving him from the fate of being the ultimate highlight of a lavish 'monster feast.' The little twist is that Bupa is physically born by the innocent nerdish guy, having been implanted into him by the dying pregnant monster mother. The girl eventually gets emotionally attached to the guy and the monster baby, in that order.

According to reviews, the movie is somewhat of a romantic comedy, with a lot of action sequences, excellent animation, and special effects, and tons of celebrity cameos.

All in all, "Monster Hunt" looks like a pretty crazy family-friendly movie.

If you want a better idea of what kinds of movies make waves in China these days, check out the "Monster Hunt" trailer in all its goofy glory below. 

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Nostalgia is as important a part of playing video games as the thrill of defeating your foes or the frustration of a level you just can't overcome. Anyone who's ever owned a game console has at least one series they look back on with warm fuzzies, regardless of how rough it looks compared to modern games.

Even if you haven't played your favorite classic in years, a new sequel might tempt you to shell out cash just to briefly recapture that joy of first discovery. And many game players do more than wait around for those sequels.

They write letters, create memes, and build cult followings around games that never got the follow-ups that fans feel they deserve. (It's a cliché to even bring up the ever-imminent, but never-any-closer, "Half-Life 3," although that doesn't stop anyone from talking about it like its around the corner.) Sometimes they even go so far as to build new games themselves – the fan-made "Black Mesa" patch for the original "Half Life" transforms gameplay to produce an all-new experience. "Fallout" fans also released software to transform the "New Vegas" title into a prequel: "Project Brazil." 

Recently, game developers have gone out of their way to reward that loyalty. Long dead franchises from the '90s and '00s are springing to life all over the place.

In the video game industry, like in the games themselves, death is but a prelude to re-birth.

Series revival can be a beautiful thing. I grin ear-to-ear whenever I see video from the upcoming reboot of my old favorite franchise, "Star Wars Battlefront":

The "Battlefront" series was as important a part of my childhood as "Harry Potter," or being desperately untalented at any sport that involved depth perception. My friends and I would gather in the basement for hours, crowing whenever we successfully sniped each other's helmeted stormtrooper heads from across the battlefield. Now, a decade after the last installment, the series is on its way back (courtesy of EA Games).

Look at this beautiful gameplay footage!

I'll shell out for that on day one.

But rebooting "Battlefront" makes good business sense for EA. Fans have called for a third game for years. More importantly, the game will arrive at retail in November – just ahead of the next "Star Wars" film in December.

In other words, a new "Battlefront" means the potential for boatloads of cash to one of the biggest companies in gaming. Of course its coming out soon.

Sometimes less lucrative franchises make their way back from oblivion along more creative routes. "Shenmue III" broke Kickstarter when die-hard fans jumped to fund a series that saw its last release over 10 years ago (in 2001). It raised over $6.3 million when all was said and done.

Games like "Elite: Dangerous" and "Wasteland 2" accomplished similar feats of reincarnation.  The original "Mega Man" creator is even bringing back his series under the new name "Mighty No. 9," despite owning none of the rights to the original work.

Here's "Mega Man":

And here's "Mighty No. 9":

"Mighty No. 9" is, officially, an entirely separate title from "Mega Man," but the visuals and gameplay are a direct evolution of the Blue Bomber's classic franchise – its "spiritual predecessor." In other words, committed developers can – in the right circumstances – cast aside industry apathy to bring back beloved games.

But some games are really truly never ever coming back, no matter how much love their fans show. Un-burying a series from a mound of legal and financial obstacles takes a generous cult fandom and dedicated developers.

Many beloved series just don't have that. These are their stories.

'Midnight Club'

"Midnight Club" was Rockstar's answer to the wildly successful "Need for Speed" racing series from Electronic Arts. Rockstar – an edgier publisher than Electronic Arts, with releases like "Grand Theft Auto" and "Bully" – stuffed the game with police chases, customizable cars, and globe-trotting night races. It also featured an endless supply of electronic pedestrians who seemed to throw themselves under your wheels without the minor consequences of the "Grand Theft Auto" universe.

At 14, I loved that game. And many players on Steam and elsewhere still do. Like "Battlefront" and "Shenmue" players, they make their wishes for a new title known. But the series is almost certainly never coming back.

Where "Battlefront" had big money (and a major brand in "Star Wars") behind it, and "Shenmue" had a persistent developer, "Midnight Club" has only online circles of fandom. Rockstar employees claimed the company mistreated and dismantled the "Midnight Club" team, firing longtime developers after the final installment was finished in 2009. Things got so bad a group of developer spouses wrote an open letter threatening legal action against the company.

With that much bad blood between the copyright holders and the developers, and "Need for Speed" sitting like a leviathan on top of the genre, there is little-to-no chance of a series comeback. We asked Rockstar, but never received a response.

'Mercenaries'

The open-world series "Mercenaries" took players to the war-torn Korean peninsula in 2005, and Venezuela in 2008, putting the open-world gaming style pioneered by "Grand Theft Auto" in a military context.

The concept – blending the popularity of war games and fans' love of virtual mayhem – was strong, and the games were tremendously fun. Fans looks back fondly on brutal battles between factions like the Russian Mafia and the North Korean army. "Mercenaries" deserves to still be a hit series.

Sadly, the rights to the game lie deep in the bowels of EA, which shut down the studio charged with its second sequel back in 2013. Even if a rogue developer wanted to make like "Mighty No. 9" and produce an off-brand sequel, its similarity to the far-more-popular "GTA" franchise would the potential for profit. A developer taking up the "Mercenaries" banner under a new name would invite bankruptcy.

We asked EA for a statement about the future of "Mercenaries" and were told only, "'Mercenaries' remains part of EA’s IP portfolio, but it’s not a franchise that is in active development."

The series is another work of art lost to the realities of the market.

'Black and White'

The oddball real-time strategy series from British game development house Lionhead Studios and developer Peter Molyneux upended genre conventions when it landed in 2001. Players were gods in the game world, and chose titanic creatures to do their bidding. Unlike the morally neutral competition of most strategy games, "Black and White" gave players a choice: do the good thing and prosper your way to victory, or do evil and battle your enemies. Each choice shaped your creature, your town, and your progress through the game.

Some people loved the new take on the genre, despite buggy coding and redundant gameplay. But the game just does not hold up by modern standards. Raising the creature feels a bit like "Tamagotchi." Even worse, the central choice of the game – to be good or evil – has mostly superficial impact on the story.  The 2005 sequel failed to substantively improve matters.

Critics came to see "Black and White" as one of the most overrated series of all time.

Molyneux took his god-game building talents to Kickstarter in 2012. The result was "Godus," released to even more miserable reviews. With that kind of critical reception and a limited fanbase, the game's original developer and the publisher who owns the rights to the game have shown no desire to drag this particular skeleton out of their closet.

If they're smart, they never will. We asked both Microsoft (which owns Lionhead Studios) and EA (which published "Black and White") for comment; neither company responded as of publishing.

'System Shock'

What's your favorite first-person shooter (FPS)? Nearly every major title of the genre – from "Deus Ex" to the latest "Tomb Raider" – owes its life to the common ancestor of all shoot-'em-up adventure games.

Before "System Shock" role-playing games (RPGs) and and FPS were distinct genres. Story-driven adventuring meant diving into top-down worlds like "Legend of Zelda," or the "Pokemon" series. FPSes like "Wolfenstein" rolled through gun battles with scant to no plot and minimal strategy. 

The first game in the series came out in 1994, bringing the two concepts together for action-packed real-time storytelling. It chronicled a hacker's battle with an evil artificial intelligence on a space station ("Shodan"), as it transformed humans into mutants and set about destroying Earth. In 1999, "System Shock 2" took that immersion to the far, horrific reaches of space and set players against the parasitic alien race known as the Many. As players stumbled through drifting interstellar spacecraft, they encountered the worst of humanity and space-manity alike – setting a dark tone familiar to players of the "BioShock" series.

That familiarity has a lot to do with why this classic series will never come back. Ken Levine (who worked on "System Shock 2") took the gameplay and horror that made the series great to a new project: 2007's widely-acclaimed "BioShock." Following in the "System Shock" tradition and with an homage in its title, "BioShock" reigns supreme over the genre. With the "System Shock" tradition alive and well in a new series, and key developers still involved, there's no reason for anyone to mount the effort of a comeback.

The lesson here

If you love something enough, and that thing happens to be a video game series, you just might be able to bring it back from the dead. But that's the exception, not the rule.

It takes money and will from the industry – money and will that won't exist if there's already a competitor or spiritual successor like "BioShock" dominating the market. Move on, "Mercenaries" fans. There's a whole wide "GTA" world out there just waiting to be explored.

And hey, if nothing else, there's always "Saint's Row."

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After a heated bidding war, Sony Pictures Animation has been given the thumbs up emoji to produce a movie about everyone's favorite pictographs. 

Two other studios, Warner Brothers and Paramount, reportedly bid on the project, but it was Sony who sealed the deal for a near seven-figure deal, Deadline reported earlier on Tuesday. 

The emoji movie will be co-written by Eric Siegel and Anthony Leondis. Leondis is also reported to be directing the film, Deadline noted.

If emoji popularity in real life is any indication, the movie should be a smashing success. Everyone from professional athletes, to brands, to President Obama has become obsessed with the tiny graphics.

Sony's latest film, "Pixels," opens in theaters on Friday. The movie features another beloved animated character, Pac-Man. 

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The foundation of Jerry Seinfeld's comedy, whether in his stand-up or his '90s sitcom, is finding the absurdities of everyday life, the significance of the insignificant.

And as he told comedic filmmaker Judd Apatow last year in an interview for Apatow's new book "Sick in the Head," he finds the perceived insignificance of his own life to be a calming, creative force in his career.

It's why he would hang photographs of space taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in the "Seinfeld" writers' room.

Here's one of stars "hatching" from interstellar gas globules:

"That would calm me when I would start to think that this was important," he told Apatow.

Apatow replied by saying it would instead make him depressed.

"Most people would say that," Seinfeld said. "I've often said this and people say, 'It makes me feel insignificant.' And I don't find being insignificant depressing. I find it uplifting."

To Seinfeld, stress and anxiety caused by both his own and the public's expectations of him are based on artificial meaning attached to things. When he imagines himself as a speck on Earth, which is itself a speck in the universe, he feels empowered to take risks and create shows and routines that make him happy.

He brought up his worldview with fellow comedian Bill Maher in a recent episode of his web series "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee." Maher is more attuned to Apatow's idea of man's place in the world.

"You're an interesting guy, Jerry," Maher told him, smiling.

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The trailer for the late summer release of "American Ultra" just dropped today.

The comedy about a stoner (Jesse Eisenberg) who gets tangled up in a government conspiracy also stars Kristen Stewart, Topher Grace, and Connie Britton. It looks to be in vain of such comedy classics as "The Big Lebowski" and "Pineapple Express."

"American Ultra" will be out in theaters on August 21.

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After filing for bankruptcy last week, 50 Cent, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, appeared in a Manhattan Supreme Court on Tuesday morning to testify that he is not as wealthy as his flashy lifestyle makes him appear to be.

While Forbes estimated the rapper's fortune to be about $155 million in May, Jackson's lawyer said in court Tuesday that his client's worth is $4.4 million, which presents a problem after he was hit last week with a $5 million verdict for publishing a sex tape starring rival Rick Ross' ex-girlfriend.

Jackson explained in court that while his social-media accounts may be filled with flashy photos, "I take the jewelry and the cars back to the stores," according to the New York Daily News.

When the judge asked the rapper about his 38 million record sales, Jackson said, "I make 10 cents a record."

Jackson also said he made $100,000 for the two movies he's currently in, "Spy" and "Southpaw." For his current role on Starz's hit series "Power," which he also executive-produces, Jackson said he's pocketed only $150,000 from each of its first two seasons.

Despite the filing, Jackson did admit that he recently threw cash around at a Florida strip club and bought a Rolls Royce on July 4, but added "I took two others back" to buy it, according to NYDN.

During his testimony, Jackson said he was worried that his "brand" had been tarnished since the bankruptcy filing last week, saying, "Now that I filed for bankruptcy, I’m not as cool as I was last week."

Jackson did manage to say a minor apology to Lastonia Leviston, who was awarded $5 million after he allegedly published a sex tape in which she is featured without her consent: "I'm sorry if you feel like I hurt you."

Since the bankruptcy filing last week, 50 Cent has been vocal about trying to get out of paying Leviston.

"I need protection," 50 Cent explained while appearing on TBS' "Conan." "You get a bull's-eye painted on your back when you’re successful, and it’s public. You become the ideal person for lawsuits."

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Turning a sacred film from the Coen Brothers into a TV series seemed like a risky idea at first. However, the first season of "Fargo" proved all the doubters wrong by both staying true to the source material and expanding the world in unprecedented ways.

Like "True Detective" and "American Horror Story," "Fargo" is an anthology series. The first full length trailer for season two gives us the best glimpse so far, and besides the snow, it barely resembles its source material anymore.

The new season will take place in the late 1970s (the trailer has a lot of Nixon references and '70s music cues) in the fabled, frozen landscape of North Dakota and Minnesota. 

The star-studded cast of season two includes Kirsten Dunst, Ted Danson, Patrick Wilson, and Nick Offerman. You might not recognize Offerman at first in his first post-"Parks and Recreation" television role.

Season two of "Fargo" premieres on FX in October.

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Chris Harrison, host of ABC's hit show "The Bachelorette," opens every season with the same phrase:

"This is the most controversial season ever."

Every year the show is full of drama, tears, and sometimes love. But this year Harrison was right about the controversy.

ABC's 29-year-old bachelorette, a fiery Canadian named Kaitlyn Bristowe, is under fire. Millions of fans have gotten heated over Bristow's decision to sleep with one of the contestants, Nick Viall, while she still had eight other suitors.

In other words, she had (semi) casual sex with someone she was dating, and America is up in arms. Some fans are so angry, Bristowe says she's received death threats and it's affecting her family.

One tweet read outloud by Harrison on air called Bristowe a "selfish whore" who should "crawl in a hole and die." Bristowe added that that tweet was written by a mother, which made it particularly painful to receive.

The tweets and direct messages Harrison read are beyond brutal. Here's the first with names redacted (NSFW):

Here's another one that's similarly disturbing:Here's a string of angry DMs that Bristowe says a mother sent her.Fans were shocked and disgusted as Harrison read the messages aloud.So were Bristowe's former suitors. And as Harrison read them, Bristowe fought back tears."I’m so fine with people disagreeing with me or having their opinions — that’s OK,” Bristowe told Harrison during Monday night's "Men Tell All" episode. “The hardest part is it affects my family. I like to think that it doesn’t matter what people think about me … but when it’s thousands and thousands [of comments] just pouring in of people hating … I get death threats. That hurts."

Bristowe isn't the first "Bachelor" or "Bachelorette" star to sleep with a contestant before the final rose. But she was the first to do so publicly, and the backlash suggests there's still a serious double standard when it comes to what's acceptable for men versus women in the dating world. Specifically, there seems to be a harsh double standard when it comes to sex.

There's one final episode left before Bristowe chooses the man she wants to marry; one of the remaining men is the person she slept with, Viall.

Viall has been vocal about supporting Bristowe on Twitter. He notes that the double standard needs to stop. 

"Kaitlyn showed a lot of courage by admitting 2 having sex on national TV knowing that she will be unfairly judged by some," Viall tweeted on June 22 shortly after the controversial, intimate episode between him and Bristowe aired.

"Both men and women have an equal right to sex without judgment."

 Here's the clip from "Men Tell All."

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I really wanted to like "Trainwreck."

It's directed by one of my favorite filmmakers (Judd Apatow), it stars one of the best comedians in the business right now (Amy Schumer), and it features an incredible cast of comics like Bill Hader and Colin Quinn, actors like Tilda Swinton and Brie Larson, and even sports stars like Lebron James and John Cena.

And yet, "Trainwreck" is a major disappointment. If you're looking for some great jokes, you could honestly save yourself from buying a $15 movie ticket just by watching the film's red-band trailer, which was released back in February. It's embedded below here.

The moments from the above trailer were easily the funniest scenes in the entire movie:

• Amy and her sister, as little girls, reciting back to their father, "Monogamy isn't realistic."
• Comedian Dave Attell as the homeless guy who hangs outside Amy's place, remarking on Amy's scandalous attire: "What's the matter, did church let out early?"
• Amy to her sister Kim (played by Brie Larson), criticizing how she dresses her husband: "You dress him like that so no one wants to have sex with him?"
• Amy's date Steven (played by John Cena), getting angry at a guy who calls him "Mark Wahlberg" in a movie theatre: "Mark Wahlberg? Mark Wahlberg's like 150 pounds. I look like Mark Wahlberg ate Mark Wahlberg!"
• NBA superstar Lebron James interrupting Amy's first meeting with Aaron (played by Bill Hader): "We watching 'Downton Abbey later? Listen I'm watching it tonight because I'm not going to go to practice and all the guys are talking about it and I'm left out."
• Aaron asks Amy, who hates sports, what her favorite sports team is: "The Orlando... Blooms?"
• Aaron tells Lebron at brunch that he slept with Amy. Lebron's response: "My boy got intimate! Sexual intercourse! Ohhhhh!"

Between these lines from a trailer, and a few memorable others — Kim's husband Tom (played by Mike Birbiglia) talking about having a baby soon, "Not all sex ends with a flush and a cry!" — that's the extent of the comedy in "Trainwreck."

Unfortunately for Apatow, Schumer and co., the real trainwreck here is the script. It is literally all over the place. This movie hopes to be something for everyone: a romantic comedy for couples, a movie for single women, a non-stop cameo-a-thon for sports lovers, and finally, a touching drama about families, sisterhood, and taking control of one's life. But in trying to be something for everyone, "Trainwreck" ends up falling short in every single category.

Some of my own problems with the movie (minor spoilers ahead):

• Lebron James feels underutilized, and could have owned more screen time, particularly towards the end. He has some of the funniest lines in the movie, and he steals every scene. It's not often you get the world's best basketball player to take a lead role in your movie. I wanted to see more scenes with he and Amy, as they played off each other extremely well. (There's a memorable stare-down between the two.)

• The romance between Amy and Aaron is fun but far too predictable, even when it temporarily breaks apart. Even their separation feels forced by the script, and Amy barely returns to her "trainwreck" behavior even after it happens.
• By the way, Amy is not much of a "trainwreck" in this movie, quite honestly. She's at her best early on in the movie where her debauchery leads to some funny dialogue with some awful one-night stands, but later in the movie, she feels complacent in her relationship, which was frankly boring to watch.

• Lebron James stages an intervention for Aaron, a scene that feels completely out of place and made worse by terribly unfunny dialogue. This is Apatow and Schumer trying to return to the moment in "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" where the three main friends of the protagonist, played by Steve Carell, come to his aid and encourage him to go get his girlfriend back. In "Trainwreck," it doesn't work.
• The cameo by NBA announcer Marv Albert felt totally out of place: We don't meet him until the intervention scene, which he narrates as an announcer, and later says in his famous tenor, "Marv Albert is sorry." Why does he suddenly talk in the third-person? (It felt like a "Family Guy" moment, and not in a good way.) Who is this person in the first place (assuming you don't watch televised NBA games)? The movie doesn't help you answer these questions. After this scene, however, Marv Albert introduces an NBA game on TV; it baffles me why these scenes weren't switched so we could meet Marv before (what would have been) his funny lines.

• The movie is excessively long at 2+ hours. Apatow could have trimmed off 30 minutes and it would've been a better film. There were too many scenes with bad dialogue, or a moment meant to be "touching," but wasn't. Many scenes could have been removed altogether to help the film be more succinct and punchier: The film starts out with lots of laughs, but roughly two-thirds of the way in, the laughs start becoming few and far between.
• The end of the movie felt very "Hollywood" — everyone has a happy ending, yay! — but it also felt untrue to the rest of the script and very cliché. As much as I want to complain about the ridiculous, unoriginal ending, I shouldn't ruin the conclusion of this movie like I did to my poor editor.

"Trainwreck" was billed as being Amy Schumer's coming out party: As this film is meant to very closely mirror her own life, I'd hoped she and Apatow put together a killer script that would finally match "The 40-Year-Old Virgin," which is still Apatow's best work, in my opinion. Unfortunately the final product came up short across the board. "Trainwreck" is over-long, not very funny, and not very good at being romantic or emotionally gripping, either. It's extremely difficult to care about any of these characters, despite how much I love the actors who play them.

Judd Apatow and Amy Schumer are two of the best minds in comedy today. So it's a shame that they couldn't produce a film that was funnier than its two-minute trailer.

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After taking a lot of heat from photographers and news organizations last month, music mogul Taylor Swift has agreed to revise a rather strict photography contract for her '1989 World Tour.'

The saga began in June when UK-based photographer, Jason Sheldon called out Swift for how she treated photographers who cover her shows.

Sheldon posted an unverified photo of the contract on his blog and claimed that photographers might not get paid for their work at Swift's concerts because of the strictness of the policy.

His criticism came on the heels of Swift's open letter to Apple, in which she slammed the company for not paying artists royalties for the three-month free trial of Apple Music.

The National Press Photographer’s Association's General Counsel, Mickey Osterreicher, who spent the last few weeks sounding off about Swift's contract, has apparently come to an agreement with the singer's representatives.

The change directly follows moves by two papers — The Irish Times and the Montreal Gazette — both of which pledged not to host coverage of the singer's tour stops near their locations because of the contract.

“After taking the time to hear our concerns regarding her world tour photography guidelines agreement, the news and professional associations and Taylor’s team are very pleased to have been able to work together for a revised agreement that is fair to everyone involved,” Osterreicher said in a statement.

The official contract is not currently available, but according to Poynter, Swift's party loosened its grip in certain areas that garnered criticism from many journalists. For instance:

• Swift's representatives are no longer allowed to forcibly remove photos from a photojournalist's camera.
• A rule restricting them to one-time use of certain images from Swift's concerts has been eased. 

Jason Sheldon's criticism had gotten some heavy media attention. A representative of Swift told Business Insider via email that the policy had been misinterpreted. 

"It clearly states that any photographer shooting The 1989 World Tour has the opportunity for further use of said photographs with management’s approval," Swift's Spokesperson said.

"Another distinct misrepresentation is the claim that the copyright of the photographs will be with anyone other than the photographer — this agreement does not transfer copyright away from the photographer. Every artist has the right to and should protect the use of their name and likeness."

If/when the full list of changes are released, Business Insider will update this post.

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"Fables" is a comic book that crept up on me, one that I didn't know I loved until it was too late and I was 60 issues in and the story broke my heart. 

Years ago, someone handed me a copy of the first volume, subtitled "Legends in Exile," and insisted that I read it. It's hard not to read "Fables" once it's in front of you —  the series is about characters from fairy tales of yore secretly living among us, and the volume that introduces them is a murder mystery where the Big Bad Wolf has reformed, taken human shape, and is a detective investigating the violent death of Snow White's sister Rose Red. 

That's a pretty good hook. 

Then you meet the rest of the fairy tale characters, and see how they live once happily ever after is over and done with, and it's fascinating. Prince Charming is an unrepentant womanizer, Cinderella pretends to be an airheaded narcissist but is secretly a deadly superspy, and Goldilocks is straight-up homicidal — the list goes on.

There's also Boy Blue, Flycatcher the Prince who was once a frog, and a little girl named Therese but you need to read their stories yourself. Those are the ones that broke my heart, and would probably do the same to yours, too.

The series was not so much a reinvention of these characters as it was a close read of them, positing the petty rivalries and implied dysfunctions that would be brought to the surface if they all knew each other and were exiled from their magical homelands to our mundane world.  

That's what they call us, by the way. "Mundies." It's short for "mundane," which I suppose is accurate. 

Created by writer Bill Willingham and artist Lan Medina (who left the series after its first story arc — Mark Buckingham would do the art on the next arc and then go on to become synonymous with the series and Willingham's storytelling partner), "Fables" kicked off in the summer of 2002, and told the story of Fabletown, the invisible neighborhood in the center of Manhattan where fairy tale characters lived among us after a villain known as "The Adversary" exiled them from their homelands. 

Part of what made "Fables" interesting was that it pulled its characters from far and wide — the old stalwarts from "Grimm's Fairy Tales" got plenty of play, but the Willingham and co. also looked to nursery rhymes and folk tales  from all over the world — everything from "The Thousand and One Nights" to L. Frank Baum's "Oz" books was fair game. 

"Fables" would go on to win 14 Eisner awards (that's the comic book equivalent of the Oscars) over the next 13 years, garnering praise and acclaim for just about every aspect of the craft. A lot of those awards were for cover artist James Jean, whose stunning portraits were the first thing many readers saw for the first 81 issues of the series. They're simply beautiful pieces of fine art. 

This week, it's all coming to an end. 

On Wednesday, July 22, "Fables" will take a bow with its 150th issue, which is a full-sized, 178-page graphic novel (that doubles as the series 22nd volume). Titled "Farewell", the graphic novel will wrap up the story Willingham and Buckingham have been telling alongside a deep roster of other talented creators like Steve Leialoha and Andrew Pepoy for over a decade.  

Few comic book series last very long. In superhero comics, this is a supply-and-demand thing: The two most prominent superhero publishers, Marvel and DC, have roughly 50-something monthly titles each, and at about four dollars an issue, not everything can be a huge success. Books are canceled all the time, usually within a year, in order to make room for something else. 

For a series  like "Fables" — one controlled wholly by its creators — the book will last as long as the people making it want to keep telling stories.  This can mean anything from three issues to 60 (a few months or five years). Rare is the series that makes it to 100 issues, and rarer still are the ones that surpass it by a large margin. 

I'll miss "Fables", not because I had any particularly strong attachment to the characters it culled from songs older than anyone I'll ever meet and stories first told by people we no longer remember, but because it understood why those characters mattered.

Because we've always been telling stories, and we always will. Because stories are the one real form of magic we have — where we all dream of a Happily Ever After although the only thing we're really promised is a Once Upon a Time.

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Keds is launching a new global brand campaign starring brand ambassador Taylor Swift that it hopes will encourage more women to buy its range of canvas shoes.

The "Ladies First" campaign harnesses the recent trend of female empowerment marketing — think Always' "Like a Girl," Dove's "Real Beauty," or Nike's biggest ever women's push "Better For It."

In a press release, Keds says its new campaign offers a "fresh perspective on what it means like to be a woman today." The brand and its ad agency Senecal + Partners (KBS+) say they took insights from more than 10,000 women from eight countries to define a global mindset on female empowerment.

"Themes of constant evolution, setting your own path, and not being defined by a specific style were key learnings. Headlines like 'all dressed up with everywhere to go,' and 'there will be moving, there will be shaking,' are front and center over street style photos for a one-two punch of fashion and emotion," the release says.

The backdrops in the images — which will appear online, outdoor, and in print —  were created by female artists including illustrator Priscilla White, pattern designer Kendra Dandy, and street artist Paige Smith.

Taylor Swift became the face of Keds in 2013.

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As the newest (and possibly last) major presidential candidate to declare his bid for the presidency, Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) will share his views with the American public on a slew of topics in the coming weeks and months.

But one topic on which Kasich has already established a firm stance is the 1996 Oscar-winning Coen brothers film "Fargo."

He's not a fan.

In fact, the movie left such an impression on the Republican presidential candidate that he included it in his 2006 book, "Stand for Something: The Battle for America's Soul."

Here's an excerpt, courtesy of Vox (spoiler alert for those who haven't seen Fargo): 

"I was in my local video store looking for a movie to watch with my wife, Karen, during one of our few quiet evenings together at home. The clerk in the store recommended Fargo, a perversely dark crime story that had played to generally enthusiastic reviews. The movie even earned a Best Actress Oscar for Frances McDormand for her role as a pregnant Midwestern sheriff, and the guy behind the counter at Blockbuster assured me it was a great movie and that I should probably rent it."

"So I did. Walked right over to that shelf where they had their general titles, grabbed a copy and took it home, and when Karen and I got to the part where they chop up a guy in a grinder we looked at each other and thought, What the heck are we watching here? It was billed as a comedy, but it wasn’t funny. It was graphic, and brutal, and completely unnecessary, and it rubbed us in so many wrong ways we had to shut the thing off right there in the middle... Next morning, I got on the phone to Blockbuster and demanded that they take the movie off their shelves."

Blockbuster told the eventual Ohio governor that they would do a better job labeling movies with graphic content, but Kasich remained vigilant. Another excerpt of his book, via Vox:

"I couldn’t say firsthand whether the situation had gotten any better, because I had taken my business elsewhere, but from all accounts not much had changed, so I called the store again to remind them of our deal, and it got to where Karen had to tell me to back off because I was driving everyone crazy. I’d made my point, she said, and it was time to move on, so I did, but not before the columnist George Will picked up on the story."

In retrospect, Kasich admitted that he probably got a little carried away in his campaign against Blockbuster:

"Usually, I speak out against the status quo on behalf of the little guy, but sometimes I get a little crazy and go off about something like this Fargo business, with no real expectation but to let off some steam. I can’t imagine it’s all that much fun to be on the receiving end of one of my tirades, but I’m here to tell you it isn’t much fun to be making the delivery either."

Kasich officially entered the presidential race on Tuesday, becoming the fourth sitting GOP governor in the Republican field.

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The first full trailer for the next James Bond movie, "Spectre," was released early Wednesday.

​While we got our first good look at Christoph Waltz's mysterious villain, we also got a better look at the four Bond women who will be featured in the 24th ​installment of the series this fall.

The new film will have Bond end up in Rome, where he'll infiltrate a meeting only to discover a mysterious, evil organization named Spectre.

It looks like 007 will have to use all the women at his disposal to get to the heart of the group.

Naomie Harris will return as Moneypenny to aid Bond in his quest to track down the mysterious Spectre organization.

Monica Bellucci will play Lucia Sciarra, described as a "forbidden" widow of "an infamous" criminal.

It doesn't look like Bond pays that much attention to the rules.

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Last fall, comedian Hannibal Buress made a joke about Bill Cosby at a comedy club in Philadelphia, and the resulting media pandemonium brought Cosby's sexual abuse allegations to center stage.

"Pull your pants up blackpeople, I was on TV in the '80s," Buress said in the bit, mocking Bill Cosby's public persona. "Yeah, but you rape women, Bill Cosby," Buress reasoned, "so turn the crazy down a couple notches."

Shaky video footage of Buress' Cosby joke went viral.

Since the joke, more than 40 women have come forward to accuse Cosby of sexual abuse. Cosby has since been vilified by comedians (Judd Apatow, most prominently) and pundits alike, and the evidence against Cosby continues to pile up — a 2005 deposition uncovered earlier this month by the Associated Press revealed that Cosby acknowledged he obtained quaaludes with the intention of "giving them to young women he wanted to have sex with."

Nonetheless, Buress' public reaction to the media firestorm he helped ignite has been one of relative apprehension.

In a new interview with GQ, Buress opened up about the situation and revealed that the buzz around his Cosby joke actually halted Comedy Central's announcement of his new show, "Why? with Hannibal Buress."

While he doesn't exactly regret doing the Cosby bit, Buress said he was definitely shocked by the uproar.

"You can't predict s--- like that," he said.

The GQ interviewer pressed Buress on the subject, asking whether he realized that his Cosby joke had made him "a feminist hero" for giving Cosby's many accusers the opportunity to speak openly about their abuser.

"People are going to put on you whatever they want to put on you," Buress responded, reluctant to accept the "feminist hero" title. "It is conflicting, because people think I'm like this amazing guy or something," he said, with a laugh. "I'm a decent guy."

Still, the comedian in Buress can't resist pulling a shot at Cosby when he's able to get people to laugh about it. At the Comedy Central Roast of Justin Bieber, for instance, Buress joked that he hates Bieber's music "more than Bill Cosby hates my comedy."

In the context of the GQ interview, though, Buress seemed tired of the subject.

"I don't know what the f--- else you want me to say," he concluded.

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