Fox News host Bill O'Reilly devoted a seven-minute segment of his Thursday night show to lecturing the wide range of presidential candidates, especially Republican real-estate mogul Donald Trump.

"It is clear that Donald Trump is setting the pace and his mistakes have not yet hurt him," O'Reilly said of the Republican front-runner.

O'Reilly said Trump is making two major errors on the campaign trail. He cited a recent Rolling Stone profile in which Trump was quoting mocking rival Carly Fiorina's face.

"First, he gets waaaay too personal in defending himself against criticism," O'Reilly said. "Trump says that he was just kidding, but a president can't do that. And Donald Trump should be thinking of himself as a president. That's how you win. He's not a reality star anymore."

O'Reilly said Trump's second mistake is going out of his way to launch "petty" attacks against his opponents.

"Instead of lobbing verbal grenades, he should begin putting forward some incisive, problem-solving statements," he said.

"It would serve him well to knock off the petty stuff and make some better editorial decisions. Rolling Stone magazine? Was The Moscow Times not available? Why would you allow them access? They hate you, Donald!" O'Reilly exclaimed.

The Fox host went on to give some advice and critical commentary for many of the other candidates. He started with the Republican field: 

• Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson: "He needs to sharpen his message as well into soundbites that really bite. Getting into a faith controversy with Trump doesn't do the doctor any good. Comparing Obamacare to slavery is provocative but you need to hammer home your point."
• Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R): "I don't know the governor very well but my advice is: You've got to be more controversial about the things you believe are wrong. Show some passion."
• Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R): "The Trump factor is obliterating their messages and standard ideological campaign rhetoric." 
• Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina: "Most voters still don't know who she is, and her business record is dubious — two enormous hurdles."
• New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) and Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R): "[They're] trying to break through but are having a hard time getting media attention because Trump's getting most of it. Both have to break out in next week's debate to establish some momentum, which they do not — do not — have now."
• Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky): "Rand Paul is done. His isolationist platform [is] not appealing in the age of ISIS and Iran. It's that simple." 

O'Reilly was clearly no fan of the Democratic campaigns, either:

• Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: "Hillary Clinton's campaign is a mess. She should fire [campaign chairman] John Podesta and the political assassins she has embraced — and put her husband in charge of her campaign. ... Bill Clinton needs to take over that operation, and fast."
• Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont): "Bernie would drive this country into a depression if he ever got elected. But he's not going to get elected. However, I give Bernie Sanders a lot of credit: He's a true believer who wants to do good. He just doesn't understand." 
• Vice President Joe Biden (who is weighing a run): "I expect to see him in the race shortly, most likely after the pope departs at the end of the month. ... The vice president is a savvy player who has one huge stone around his neck: He's exactly the same as President Obama. There's no difference." 

"In a debate with Trump, for example, Biden would get hammered beyond belief," O'Reilly concluded. "But just lay off his looks, OK Donald?"

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Real-estate developer Donald Trump was a rumored presidential candidate long before he burst onto the scene this year.

Indeed, talk-show host Oprah Winfrey asked Trump about a potential White House bid back in 1988. At the time, Trump said he probably wouldn't run — but didn't rule out the possibility.

"I do get tired of seeing the country ripped off," he said. "If it got so bad I would never want to rule it out totally."

Trump did predict he would win the race if he ran, however.

"I think I'd win. I tell you what: I wouldn't go in to lose. I've never gone in to lose in my life. And if I did decide to do it, I would say I'd have a hell of a chance of winning," he said then. "I think people are tired of seeing the United States ripped off."

What was striking is how similar he sounded in that interview compared to today.

Trump frequently complains about other countries "ripping" the US off, for example, and his populist tone bashing free-trade agreements has stayed the same.

"I have tremendous respect for the Japanese people. I mean, you can respect somebody that's beating the hell out of you," he said in 1988.

Trump, now the Republican 2016 front-runner, often says near-identical things about Mexico, whose government he frequently accuses of sending criminals across the US border.

"I have great respect for the Mexican people," he said in July of this year. "We're talking about a government that's much smarter than our government."  

Watch his 1988 Oprah interview below:

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Netflix’s first foray into movie-making will be tested this Sunday when “Beasts of No Nation,” its first narrative film, screens at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Netflix paid a hefty $12 million to acquire the film, which stars Idris Elba as a blood-soaked African warlord.

This screening, and the small 29-theater release that will follow it, are noteworthy because they allow “Beasts of No Nation” to qualify for the Academy Awards — something that would not be possible with just an online release.

What’s less clear is whether Netflix actually has a long-term commitment to the idea of a movie theater, or whether it's simply playing by the Academy's rules to snag a few Oscar nominations.

Netflix, for its part, has never said it wants to destroy the theater system.

“I feel like it’s incumbent on us to make and distribute movies that are so good that theater owners will want to book them,” Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos told Variety. There’s deference in that statement, a push to portray Netflix as slighted by theater giants like Regal, who have so far refused to carry“Beasts of No Nation.”

But of course, these theater companies see Netflix as an existential threat to their business model. That's because, by all indications, Netflix simply doesn’t care all that much about them. “There’s no theatrical revenue expectation in our business model on any movie,” Sarandos went on to explain to Variety.

So if Netflix doesn't care about revenue from theatrical releases, what's the importance of movie theaters?

One answer might simply be the Oscars. “Pulp Fiction” producer Michael Shamberg told Bloomberg that a theatrical release makes him take “Beasts of No Nation” more seriously. “Knowing that the movie is playing in Toronto, knowing it’ll be in a theater, makes me view it differently.” Shamberg will be one of those voting at Oscar time.

Even Cary Fukunaga, the director of “Beasts of No Nation” as well as HBO’s “True Detective,” is skittish when it comes to Netflix-only offerings. “I was nervous it would just be an online film,” Fukunaga told Variety. “I just hope they watch it all the way through. When you watch at home, you’re tempted to watch in pieces, and the emotional experience is interrupted.” Netflix added a theatrical component to “Beasts of No Nation” partially to appease Fukunaga, Variety reports.

But Sarandos himself seems to dismiss these types of critiques. “We need to stop distinguishing the experience by access in a world where people come to expect anything they want, whenever they want,” he said in a speech last November. In other words: who cares if it's in theaters or not?

Netflix wants to continue to grow its enormous 65 million subscriber base. That much is certain. And high-quality films, the type that take home Oscars, are part of that vision. But it remains to see whether traditional theaters eventually have a place in Netflix’s master plan.

Watch the trailer for "Beasts of No Nation" below:

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This year over 70,000 people traveled to Black Rock City, Nevada, to celebrate the annual Burning Man Festival. 

Among this year's Burners? My 22-year-old friend and her 60-year-old father. 

In case you're not familiar with the event, Burning Man is a week long festival of art, education, and social enterprise, celebrated in the desert, or "the Playa."

It's also known for insane raves, mind-altering drugs, and no shortage of body-positive nudity. 

Not exactly an event most 22-year-olds would think to attend with their fathers.

"It was a really joyous thing to do together as a family," my friend told TI about the festival. "I felt such a replenishing of my soul and it was just great to be able to feel that with my dad there."

Keep reading to learn more about what it's like to attend Burning Man with your dad. 

Everyone at Burning Man goes by a Playa name, a nickname or alternate persona to be used throughout the festival. In the desert, my friend was known as "Artichoke," a vegetable she identifies with for its "loving, nerdy, literary, erotic, and architectural," qualities.

Her father, a tax-attorney by trade, went with something a little more serious. He chose "Disregarded Entity," an IRS term, as his Playa name.

"Disregarded Entity is actually abbreviated as 'DRE,' so of course we shortened dad's name to "Dr. Dre" for the trip," Artichoke told Tech Insider.

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Real-estate mogul Donald Trump has apparently settled his beef with NBC.

The front-running Republican presidential candidate wrote on Twitter Friday that he and the network had reached an agreement.

"Just purchased NBC’s half of The Miss Universe Organization and settled all lawsuits against them," he wrote. "Now own 100% -- stay tuned!"

Reached for comment by Business Insider, NBC simply confirmed that Trump purchased NBC's half of Miss Universe and that they settled their legal disputes.

When Trump launched his now-front-running presidential campaign in June, he touched off a national firestorm by accusing the Mexican government of sending its "rapists," drug runners, and other criminals across the border.

A string of companies — including NBC, Macy's, and Univision — moved to cut business ties with him as a result.

In NBC's case, the network announced it would no longer air Trump's "Apprentice" show or the then-upcoming Miss USA beauty pageant, hosted by Trump's Miss Universe Organization. Trump owned 49% of the Miss Universe Organization at the time, according to The New York Times.

Trump responded by insisting he ended his participation in "The Apprentice" — not the other way around — and by threatening legal action in a fiery statement. 

"If NBC is so weak and so foolish to not understand the serious illegal immigration problem in the United States, coupled with the horrendous and unfair trade deals we are making with Mexico, then their contract violating closure of Miss Universe/Miss USA will be determined in court," he said at the time. "Furthermore, they will stand behind lying Brian Williams, but won’t stand behind people that tell it like it is, as unpleasant as that may be."

Updated (2:04 p.m.): With NBC's response.

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US consumers are now spending more time on their phones using apps than watching TV, according to recent data from Flurry.

• The average US consumer spends nearly 198 minutes using mobile apps compared to 168 minutes watching TV each day. This excludes time spent inside mobile web browsers.
• The inclusion of web browsing on mobile devices bumps the daily average up to 220 minutes.
• That isn’t to say that TV viewing is decreasing, either. Over the last three years, TV viewing has stagnated. On the other hand time spent in apps has increased from 126 minutes per day on average in Q2 2013 to 198 minutes in Q2 2015. 

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The data shows that users are spending more time on mobile devices, and that apps are now the top channel for viewing media in the United States. What this suggests is that consumers are more likely to expect video content to be presented in an app format, highlighting why pay-TV companies are increasingly offering their own mobile services to subscribers.

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A new Wall Street movie just premiered, and instead of the usual hookers and blow you might expect, this one's about feelings and soul-searching.

"Demolition" premiered Thursday at the Toronto International Film Festival and the reviews are mixed. As The New York Times put it, "Jake Gyllenhaal Gets Weird."

Gyllenhaal's character is a young financier who sets out to find himself after his wife unexpectedly dies.

In the trailer, Gyllenhaal's character, Davis Mitchell, appears to experience a complete transformation from a rigid Wall Streeter who wakes up at 5:30 a.m. — and whose firm manages $6 billion — to a whimsical family man.

Eventually, he even quits his finance job and joins a wrecking crew, according to a Variety review.

Maybe it will inspire others to abandon the high-strung lifestyle.

Here's the trailer:

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Tennis Pro Serena Williams lost the most heartbreaking match of her career Friday.

Williams is the No. 1 player in the world, had won the last four Grand Slam tournaments, and was an enormous favorite against her opponent, Italian Roberta Vinci, ranked No. 43.

After crushing Vinci in the first set 6-2, Williams went on to lose the next two sets 6-4, 6-4. With a win, Williams would've moved on to the US Open final, where she would've had the opportunity to complete a Grand Slam — winning all four majors in a calendar year.

But the world isn't blaming Williams or Vinci for the loss. It's blaming Williams' love interest, hip-hop mogul Drake — basically insinuating that the rapper/singer is Williams' bad-luck charm.

Drake was on hand for the match and at many times was shown on camera supporting Williams:

Following the loss, people on Twitter were ruthless:

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Donald Trump says he and Kanye West are becoming fast friends. 

On Friday's "Tonight Show," Trump made his first late-night appearance since declaring his presidential run. He showed he can have a sense of humor about himself by taking part in a sketch in which he interviews himself. Host Jimmy Fallon played his mirror image. In the sketch, West's name was brought up as Trump's possible running mate.

During the actual interview, Fallon challenged Trump to a speed round of questions. During which, Fallon asked Trump about West's MTV VMA announcement that he would be running for president in 2020.

"Kanye has been so nice to me," Trump answered. "He always says great things about me, so I love Kanye. You know I like people who are nice to me, right? I love Kanye... Kanye is actually, I know him a little bit, he's actually a much better person than some people would think."

Trump did offer a caveat to his remarks on the rapper: "Now, if he runs for office and I happen to be running against him, I'm going to take that all back.

Watch the speed round below (second question) for his thoughts on West:

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The name Roger Deakins might not ring a bell but the movies he's shot are certainly household names.

As a 12-time Oscar nominee for his cinematography, he's behind the visuals of such classics as "The Shawshank Redemption," "Fargo," "A Beautiful Mind," and "Skyfall," to name a few.

His latest project, "Sicario" (in theaters October 2), continues his top-flight work as he takes us across the boarder into Mexico to give us a gritty look at the drug war.

But we couldn't help but reflect with him about his other classics. While talking to BI at the Toronto International Film Festival he revealed the three titles that stick out for him the most.

1. "Kundun" (1997)

Deakins teams with Martin Scorsese for this biopic on Tibet's fourteenth Dalai Lama that was a striking jolt for Scorsese fans who know him for his look at the underworld. With a paltry lifetime box office of less than $6 million in the US, the film has been utterly forgotten. But for Deakins the experience of shooting the film for Scorsese, which has been the only time the two legends have teamed up, was a memorable one.

"I love the film," Deakins told BI. "There's something very special about it as it's not strictly literal, there are shots that are so evocative and hit you."

2. "The Man Who Wasn't There" (2001)

Deakins has shot almost all of the films made by Joel and Ethan Coen, but one that stands out for him is the black-and-white noir "The Man Who Wasn't There" starring Billy Bob Thornton as a chain-smoking barber who gets caught up in a murder.

"I think of all the films I've worked on that film, to me, everything fits like a little complex jigsaw puzzle," he said. "The way the [Coens] did it and how it's structured with a variety of mood, it was the hardest film to do that, and they really succeeded."

3. "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" (2007)

A film that is quickly becoming a modern-day classic thanks to Deakins' poetic shots giving a look we've never seen before from a western, Brad Pitt plays the aging outlaw Jesse James in the final years of his life leading up to him being killed by a member of his gang, Robert Ford (Casey Affleck).

"I love that movie so much because it really captured the lyricism of the book," Deakins said, referring to the Ron Hansen novel the movie is based on. "It has similarities to 'Kundun' in not being literal. I think films these days have become too literal and too dialogue, plot-driven. 'Jesse James' has shots in it that have nothing to do with the plot but you can get away with it and that's what I love about film. It's not always about narrative. There's just things you couldn't express any other way but through film."

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Actor and former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's son, Patrick, Schwarzenegger, is about to make his television debut. He has been cast on Fox's new series, "Scream Queens."

The show's co-creator Ryan Murphy broke the news on Twitter.

No further details on the role have been released. Patrick will join an ensemble cast that includes Nick Jonas, Lea Michele, Diego Boneta, Emma Roberts, Keke Palmer, and Jamie Lee Curtis.

Patrick's mother, journalist Maria Shriver, posted a proud tweet about her son's casting.

"Scream Queens" revolves around a college sorority which is being haunted by its many bloody secrets and a serial killer who wants revenge.

According to IMDB, Patrick, 21, had a small role in 2013’s "Grown Ups 2" and Greg Kinnear's "Stuck in Love." His upcoming projects include the films "Scout’s Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse" and "Dear Eleanor."

"Scream Queens" premieres Tuesday, September 27 at 8 p.m.

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Real-estate developer Donald Trump wrote a letter to CNN boss Jeff Zucker on Wednesday that called for him to donate the profits from next week's presidential debate to charity.

The Republican front-runner noted that CNN reportedly hiked its advertising rates 40 times its normal rates for the September 16 debate, which the network is hosting.

"While I refuse to brag, and you know very well, this tremendous increase in viewer interest is due 100% to 'Donald J. Trump,'" Trump wrote to Zucker.

Trump's campaign forwarded the letter to reporters and shared it on social media.

Fox News hosted the first official prime-time debate and saw viewership soar to a reported record of 24 million viewers. Trump suggested that was because of his star power.

The former "Apprentice" star has surged to the top of almost all recent polls testing the Republican primary.

"As you are aware, for the first debate, FOX unexpectedly (but not to those who know), had one of the largest audiences in the history of cable television, 24 million people plus, and word is that your audience will be even larger," he wrote.

Trump then informed CNN that the network should view its debate as "a public service and not accept the massive profits that this airing will generate."

"I believe that all profits from this broadcast should go to various VETERANS groups, a list of which I will send to you in the near future," he wrote. "The veterans of our country, our finest people, have been treated horribly by our government and its 'all talk and no action' politicians."

"In fact, some would say they are treated like third class citizens — even worse, in many cases, than illegal immigrants. It is about time that someone comes to their aid. Let's start now!" he added. "This large contribution of many millions of dollars would be a truly wonderful thing for CNN to do."

The billionaire Republican concluded the letter by noting his own past generosity to veterans' causes.

Business Insider has asked CNN for a comment.

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With the Toronto International Film Festival kicking off Thursday, award season is officially off and running.

Many of the movies heading north of the border hope to leave with the momentum that will lead to nominations at the top award shows at the end of the year. Though all of them won't get the buzz to make it to the finish, some of the much-anticipated titles going to TIFF will live up to the hype.

Here are nine that you're likely to hear about when the Oscars roll around.

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1. "Beasts of No Nation"

This drama is based on the civil war in Africa, and it could be a game changer for Netflix — which will release the film simultaneously on its streaming service and in theaters in October — and for its director, Cary Fukunaga.

With Oscar buzz for Idris Elba, Netflix's first feature-length award contender will give the company the same clout it has in the TV world. For Fukunaga, who could have a nomination in his future, he'll finally have something on his résumé to top his incredible work directing all the episodes of the first season of "True Detective."

2. "Black Mass"

Having already screened at the London and Telluride film festivals to rave reviews, Johnny Depp's portrayal of infamous Boston mobster Whitey Bulger could put him back into the category of top actors in the business. A Best Actor Oscar nomination is a good bet.

3. "The Danish Girl"

Winning the Best Actor Oscar last year for playing Stephen Hawking in "The Theory of Everything," Eddie Redmayne is looking for more Oscar glory in another biopic.

In "The Danish Girl," he stars as Lili Elbe, the 1920s Danish artist who was one of the first recipients of sexual reassignment surgery.

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Streaming is the future.

Cable companies are watching their subscriptions crumble as more and more people switch to life without them.

So it's no coincidence that internet heavyweights like Netflix and Amazon are investing heavily in original content. 

These days the quality of the shows that are being produced entirely for the internet is astounding.

Netflix is still the king of original content, but offerings from Amazon, Hulu, and even Crackle rival those on the best cable networks. 

The following 24 series prove you'll still be able to binge watch to you heart's content if you cancel your cable plan.

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"High Maintenance"

"High Maintenance" is perhaps the most popular web series of all time and has actually been picked up by HBO (though it hasn't aired yet). The show, created by a husband-and-wife team, follows a marijuana delivery guy, called "The Guy," as he rolls around New York City delivering his product.

Run: 2012-present

"Alpha House"

"Alpha House" is a satirical send up of Washington politics, masterminded by Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau. The show portrays the hijinks of four Republican senators who share a row house in Washington, D.C., and features incredible performances from the likes of John Goodman.

Run: 2013-present

"Orange Is the New Black"

"Orange Is the New Black" is a comedy-drama that follows a blonde 30-something as she tries to navigate a stint in women's prison. The smash hit based on Piper Kerman's memoir "Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison" is Netflix's most watched series and was created by "Weeds" mastermind Jenji Kohan.

Run: 2013-present

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On Friday, Pete Davidson honored his firefighter father who died in service on 9/11 for the tragedy's 14-year-anniversary.

Davidson, "SNL's" youngest cast member, was seven years old when his father died, according to the New York Post.

The touching posts also had some great images of Davidson and his father, Scott Davidson.

Warning: One tweet has some NSFW language.

 A total of 411 emergency workers lost their lives during the terrorist attacks on 9/11, 343 of them were firefighters.

Coincidentally, Friday also represented Davidson's one-year anniversary with the NBC sketch show.

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When Troy Carter first came to Silicon Valley from Los Angeles, he had to become bilingual.

The tech companies and venture capitalists spoke in a different way than people in Hollywood, Carter told Business Insider in an interview.

In the music industry where Carter had spent his time as Lady Gaga's former manager, Silicon Valley was seen as something that destroyed the livelihoods of his friends as piracy became rampant and downloads went online.

Carter, now one of the top celebrity investors, didn't even know what the term venture capitalist even was until five years ago.

"I just felt like there were these built in stereotypes where the guys in LA kinda felt like the Valley was full of pirates that didn’t respect content. And the guys in the Valley felt like it was a bunch of dinosaurs in LA who just wanted to sue their way out of their problems," Carter said of the tensions between the two. "When you start speaking the same language, you get the Beats By Dres." 

Celebrities don't stop at endorsements

The New York Times credited the beginning of celebrity startup tie-ups back to 2004 when rapper 50 Cent joined the board of Vitaminwater as an equity partner. When it sold to Coca-Cola in 2007, 50 Cent reportedly made more than $100 million off the deal, according to the New York Times.

Nearly 10 years later, many celebrities are moving beyond the traditional endorsement and trying their own hand at startups or apps. Kim Kardashian worked with developers to create a choose-your-own adventure style game. It was an instant money-maker and is on track to rake in more than $200 million.

Other celebrities, like Carter, Ashton Kutcher, Nas, and Bono, are hopping into hot investment deals and fighting with traditional venture capitalists over equity and board seats.

After all, Carter, who is still a music manager for Meghan Trainor through The Atom Factory, is an investor in some of the biggest recent hits in tech: Uber, Lyft, Dropbox, Spotify and Warby Parker. He's even gone as far as opening his own accelerator, SMASHD Labs, to continue his work with entrepreneurs.

"When I started investing, I approached it from a position from humility, kinda going into it knowing that I didn’t understand, knowing that I didn’t have a deep level of experience in technology. But, I was very confident in the things that I did have experience in: brand building, narrative, marketing, story telling, how to manage a business, how to scale a business," Carter said. "As I sat down and I talked to founders about what their issues were and where I could be helpful, that was the area where I felt there was a void in venture capital investing and I could provide differentiated capital."

That doesn't mean celebrity investors are only good at branding. During a Q&A on Product Hunt, Ashton Kutcher said that's really only a "small portion" of what Kutcher and his investment firm, Sound Ventures, do.

"In fact if I feel a company is only interested in that I generally choose to not invest. Celeb endorsement isn't gonna make anyone's product better," Kutcher said, adding that he tends to focus heavily on growth. "...I think where the celeb thing comes in handy is in being vocal when companies come up against regulation or simply getting a return phone call from a strategic BD situation."

When Uber was facing a ban from New York City, celebrities from Neil Patrick Harris to Kate Upton started jumping in and tweeting about it as well. Carter doesn't give celebrities the credit for keeping Uber in New York — "Uber should thank Travis who would drive a mac truck through a cul-de-sac to see that company succeed," he added — but it did help to have that network to activate when it was needed, Carter said.

The good, the bad, and the ugly

While it may be great to have Kutcher call up his friends to have them tweet, many investors and entrepreneurs are still wary of the Hollywood touch and rightfully so. Every celebrity investment isn't necessarily good or for the right reason, and founders should evaluate a celebrity investors much like they would a traditional VC or even someone they're hiring.

For one, many apps that celebrities have poured money into have never taken off. The first three investors in Mobli, an Instagram competitor, were Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire and Serena Williams. In later rounds, Lance Armstrong joined in.

Even when celebrities launch their own startup, it's not a guaranteed hit. Jay Z's heavily anticipated Tidal music is floundering, no matter how many celebrities are crowded on the stage.

Some celebrities just want to be associated with the next big hit, and don't mind sending a tweet or two in support. However, these may be less active investors and can also hurt your startup if you're at a critical juncture where you need help from your network to go to the next level. Also, it may cause more confusion if a celebrity like Justin Bieber invests in a cloud infrastructure company— it's incongruous to both brands.

A celebrity can also shoot a startup in the foot if they promote a product that isn't ready yet, and the users leave because of it. Or celebrities end up in the headlines themselves and brands have to drop their endorsements.

Still, that's not to knock all celebrity endorsements. The category is too broad, and all celebrities shouldn't be excluded from venture capital circles just because of their fame, Carter said. There is a difference.

"You can’t put Ashton Kutcher who is a real product guy and who has a real deep understanding of tech in the same category as a sitcom star who wants to develop their own app and didn’t invest the time," Carter said.

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Seeing Jake Gyllenhaal in tears on the big screen over the loss of a loved one is nothing new.

Just earlier this year in "Southpaw" he played a boxer who must start his life over after his wife dies.

But with the actor's newest film, "Demolition," which was the opening night movie at the Toronto International Film Festival, Gyllenhaal handles grief in a much different way.

In the film he plays Davis Mitchell, an investment banker who is going through the motions of his work and his marriage. But suddenly he and his wife get into a car accident and his wife dies.

That's when things get strange.

It all starts with a vending machine.

Still in the hospital after getting the news of his wife's death from his father-in-law (played by Chris Cooper), who is also his boss, Davis walks to a vending machine to get peanut M&Ms. The candy gets stuck in the machine making him unable to retrieve it. Inquiring about the machine he learns that he has to send his complaint to the manufacturer, Champion Vending Company.

Most of us would forget about the M&Ms and move on to bigger things, like funeral arrangements.

Not Davis.

In the middle of the wake, he goes in the other room and begins to write a letter to Champion. But this letter goes beyond his grievance and basically gives us the backstory of his life and why he is relieved that his wife his dead.

Believe it or not the movie is a comedy, a dark one, but you can't help but laugh at the things that transpire.

For one thing, Davis begins to get stalked by Karen (Naomi Watts) the customer service rep at Champion who has been reading Davis' letters (yes, he writes more than that one) and they quickly start a relationship.

Then there's Davis' fascination with dismantling things. Realizing he has a tool set he's never opened, he begins using it around the house.

Like, completely taking apart his refrigerator after being annoyed that it leaks (his wife told him constantly, but he never paid attention). That then leads to him dismantling things at work (his computer, a bathroom stall door that squeaks), and eventually turning in his trailed suits for construction clothes and paying a contractor to let him demolish houses.

The film, directed by Jean-Marc Vallée ("Wild," "Dallas Buyers Club") is a fascinated examination of how people deal with grief differently. Though on the outside Davis looks to now be liberated after the death of his wife (and in some ways he is), this "noticing" of the world makes him understand better what he had with his wife and how it's gone forever.

But to get there Vallée uses a dark comedic tone that Gyllenhaal excels at but might be hard for audiences to grab onto.

What really brings the film home is the relationship Davis builds with Karen's son, Chris (by newcomer Judah Lewis). Their bond proves that Davis is not made of stone and can care for someone. Though, he might have to had gone on this journey to fully realize it.

It's hard to question the choices of roles Gyllenhaal has done within the last decade. With such diversity and all-out effort in the parts, there aren't many other actors giving us such range.

Next up, we'll see him attack Mt. Everest in "Everest" Sept. 25.

Sadly, Fox Searchlight won't be releasing "Demolition" in theaters until April 8, 2016. So for now, you will just have to watch the trailer:

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M. Night Shyamalan remembers the first time he watched “Paranormal Activity.”

“I was just like, ‘This is terrifying!’” the writer-director told Business Insider over the phone.

Having received an early version of the film before it was released, Shyamalan also recalled thinking, “This is going to be a phenomenon.”

And it turned out he was right. Released in 2009, the “found-footage” movie about a ghost tormenting a young couple in their house (filmed entirely on a single camera the actors shot on), was made for only around $15,000 and ended up grossing over $193 million worldwide. It then launched an unlikely franchise for Paramount Pictures that is about to come out with its final installment, “Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension.”

The success of “Paranormal” also launched the career of producer Jason Blum, whose Blumhouse Productions has taken the found-footage horror genre (shot in a first-person, mockumentary style) and grown it into a money-maker by releasing similar low budget horror hits like “Insidious” and “Sinister.”

But the genre will now get a shot in the arm as Shyamalan has entered the fore.

Known best for his spooky thrillers with twist endings like “The Sixth Sense,” “Unbreakable,” and “Signs,” Shyamalan’s new film “The Visit” (with Blum producing) injects his Hollywood-polished suspense tastes into the low budget horror sub genre (the film's budget was around $5 million) to deliver a spooky thriller that follows a film enthusiast sister and wacky hip-hop loving brother as they go to meed their grandparents for the first time.

Shyamalan believes whether it’s a big budget movie or an indie it all starts with the characters, and for him it was the creation of the sister character Becca (Olivia DeJonge) that set the story in motion.

“When I thought of her as an aspiring filmmaker trying to make a movie for her family to bring them together, I saw the emotional engine of the movie,” Shyamalan told BI.

“The Visit” is unlike most found-footage horrors as it includes a top-flight cinematographer overseeing the visuals (Maryse Alberti) and has a serious dramatic plot, which focuses on Becca’s motivation to make a documentary on her family that focuses on why her mother left home for good as a teen.

Becca tries to get these answers from her grandparents, but ends up instead shooting scary moments like grandma running around the house naked after 9:30 at night and grandpa polishing his shotgun in the barn (while it’s in his mouth).

Needless to say, the scares are often, and Shyamalan admits that was the biggest challenge of the movie: what to take out.

“The struggle of the movie was in the balance of humor and scares and suspense,” he said. “The original [cut] was a good 35 minutes longer and really what ended up happening was understanding how many weird things the grandparents were doing was too much. The questions of structure was what took me a long time to get right.”

The ability to have so much great footage to choose from came from the amount of preparation Shyamalan had for the film.

A couple of months before the filming began, the production team acquired a gutted house and completely redid the interior to match Shyamalan’s script notes and storyboards. “It was really a run down house so we were able to be like ‘Put the oven here,’ and ‘Take away this window and make it a wall’ and made the house the way we wanted it to flow.”

He also had a lot of time with the two kid lead actors and was able to nail down all the blocking for the scenes, in which it looks like they are holding the cameras but in fact all the movements were done by a camera operator.

“It was all very structured and very calculated to ultimately give you the sense that it was spontaneous,” said Shyamalan.

Shyamalan admits this might not be the last time we see him make a movie in the found footage style.

One of the biggest lessons he learned from his previous movie, 2013’s Will Smith box office bomb “After Earth," was that mega budget films don't always play to Shyamalan's strengths.

“The movies I like are much more simple and I feel really comfortable with limitations,” Shyamalan said. “I find that challenge very exciting. I feel I’m going to make more smaller movies.”

Shyamalan is already preparing his next movie, which he’ll shoot in the fall. Blum will reportedly be producing it and Shyamalan may be reunited with his “Signs” star Joaquin Phoenix.

The director would not confirm the reports but said his film will be a “very dark thriller” that’s more “adult oriented” than “The Visit” (and it won't be in a found-footage style).  

But like "The Visit," the next film will be a relatively small production. 

“A bigger movie takes years and years to make, and for me there’s a speed to creativity,” he explained. “I want to write about what I’m feeling right now and I need to tell it now, so the quicker cycle of a smaller movie is really exciting. And then when I’m done I’m ready to go and tell another story.”

“The Visit” opens in theaters on Friday.

 Watch the trailer (try not to get too scared):

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UFC champion Ronda Rousey has signed on to play the Patrick Swayze role in a reboot of the classic 1980s action movie “Road House.”

According to Variety, the fighter reached out to the widow of Swayze’s widow, Lisa Niemi, to ask for her blessing to star in the remake, which Niemi gave.

The 1989 movie starred Swayze as Dalton, a bouncer who is hired by the rowdy Double Deuce bar to help clean up the place from a corrupt businessman.

Rousey tweeted this about the role:

Rousey has had cameo roles in “Furious 7” and “Entourage.” This will be her biggest role to date. She's also pining for the lead female role in "Captain Marvel."

MGM will release the film. They are currently meeting with writers to pen the script, according to Variety.

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