Just a few weeks ago, James Wright made an epic review of Patti LaBelle's sweet potato pies that resulted in over 13 million views across social media. Yesterday, Wright got invited to LaBelle's home for Thanksgiving.

LaBelle's pies had sold out in many Walmart locations across the country. According to Scott Markley, Walmart's senior manager of media relations, the store was pushing to restock their empty shelves.

"We sold one pie per second for 72 hours straight [between November 13 - November 15]," Markley wrote in an email to INSIDER.

Though LaBelle told TMZ that the pies were selling out before Wright's viral video, the Grammy winning artist changed her tune and invited Wright for Thanksgiving dinner. 

The pair belted out an amazing duet of LaBelle's song: "You Are My Friend."

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Business Insider recently released its list of the most powerful people in the world, and 12 of our top 50 were innovators, CEOs, and influencers from the tech world.  

To determine the ranking, we considered more than 100 of the most influential players in business, politics, and entertainment, and evaluated their influence using metrics in four major areas: economic power, command, newsworthiness, and impact— a subjective measure that captures how important they are in their respective spheres.

We then narrowed down the list to just those in the tech industry, adding eight tech stars that narrowly missed our top 50. (You can read the full methodology here.)

Read on to see the 20 most powerful people in tech.

Editing by Alex Morrell with additional research by Andy Kiersz.

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20. Reed Hastings

Title: Cofounder and CEO, Netflix

Country: US

Age: 55

As the founder and CEO of Netflix— the streaming media service that’s made over 100 million hours of movies and TV available to users and has produced a slew of award-winning original television series— Hastings has redefined what it means to watch and create TV in 2015.

Although Netflix's stock has been a roller coaster since going public in 2002, its shares hit a record high of $126.45 in August — a more than eight-fold increase from its IPO — and the company today is worth more than $50 billion. 

Hastings, who has a net worth of more than $1.25 billion, isn’t only changing the experience for viewers, he’s also enhancing the lives of his employees. This summer, the company, which already offers unlimited vacation, instituted up to a year of paid maternity and paternity leave for its employees, paving the way for other forward-thinking companies to follow suit.

19. Reid Hoffman

Title: Cofounder and chairman, LinkedIn

Country: US

Age: 48

Reid Hoffman has been involved with several of the world's most prominent tech firms. Hoffman started his career in 1994 as a product manager at Apple and later served on the board and as executive vice president for PayPal. In 2003 he cofounded LinkedIn, the professional networking service that has more than 400 million members in over 200 countries and is worth $32 billion.  

Today, Hoffman's a partner at storied VC firm Greylock Partners, where he has advised and worked with tech stalwarts like Facebook and Airbnb. He's become one of the most well-connected and experienced investors in tech, and young entrepreneurs and executives hang on his every word, whether he's offering management advice or sharing lessons he's learned from early career failures.

Last year, the self-made billionaire — whose net worth is at least $5 billion, according to Wealth-X — coauthored the best-selling book “The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age,” and this fall, between his work at Greylock and LinkedIn, he’s teaching a class on startup success at Stanford with Silicon Valley fixtures John Lilly, Allen Blue, and Chris Yeh.

18. Peter Thiel

Title: Cofounder and chairman, Palantir

Country: US

Age: 48

PayPal cofounder, early Facebook investor, and bestselling author of “Zero to One” Peter Thiel has a fortune of over $2.3 billion and is one of the tech industry's most revered investors. Though he sold most of his Facebook stock following the social media company’s IPO in 2012, the billionaire still has his hand in several projects across Silicon Valley. Most notably, his secretive big-data company Palantir, which was valued at $20.2 billion after raising a $100 million round of funding in October.

Thanks to Thiel and investments from his venture capital firm Founders Fund, several other startups have come to fruition since 2005 as well, including home rental site Airbnb, ride hailing service Lyft, and music streaming app Spotify.

Thiel also runs the Thiel Foundation, which awards a annual crop of 20 young entrepreneurs $100,000 each to chase their business ideas. Ever unconventional — he notoriously hates suits and doesn’t hire MBAs— one of Thiel's requirements for his fellows is that they forego or drop out of college for two years to pursue the program.

Your 20s are a time for figuring out who you are and what you want from life.

While the only way to learn is to survive the inevitable cycle of successes and failures, it is always useful to have some guidance along the way.

To help you out, we've selected some of our favorite books that likely never made your high-school or college reading lists.

It's an eclectic selection that focuses on topics like understanding your identity, shaping your worldview, and laying the foundation for a fulfilling career.

Here's what we think you should read before you turn 30.

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'Meditations' by Marcus Aurelius

As you become an adult, you realize that there will never be a time in your life where everything is just as you hoped it would be.

"Meditations" is a collection of personal writings on maintaining mental toughness from the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, who ruled from 161 to 180 and became remembered as one of the great "philosopher kings."

As Gregory Hays notes in the introduction to his translation, Aurelius wrote his musings on resilience and leadership in a "dark and stressful period" in the last decade of his life.

The emperor's version of Stoic philosophy has remained relevant for 1,800 years because it offers timeless advice for gaining control of one's emotions and progressing past all obstacles in one's path.

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'The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays' by Albert Camus

We all have a reason to get out of bed in the morning, and we start to question that reason after entering the real world.

As "The Stranger" author Albert Camus sees it, all people find themselves in an irrational world struggling to find meaning for their lives where there is none.

His main message, however, is that just as the legend of Sisyphus tells of a god who was eternally punished by having to push a rock up a hill, only to have it fall down each time he reached the peak, we should embrace the drive for meaning and lead happy, fulfilling lives with a clear-eyed view of the world.

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'Crime and Punishment' by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Regardless of your personal philosophy, there will be times when the world pushes against you and you wonder why it's worth trying to better yourself and help others.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel is not only a gripping story, but it's an argument against the nihilism that was popular among Russian intellectual circles in his time.

"Crime and Punishment" is the tale of a 23-year-old man named Raskolnikov who, acting on a nagging urge, murders two old women and then struggles with processing the act.

Dostoyevsky argues that rationalism taken to its extreme ignores the powerful bonds that connect humanity and give us responsibility over each other.

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Samsung has just released its Gear VR, the first real consumer headset for virtual reality, and the reviews are stellar. But if you don't have one of the few smartphones that it supports (Galaxy S6, Note 5, etc.), or the money to spend, the Gear VR hype can just be frustrating. 

But luckily there is a way to get set up with a basic virtual reality experience for only $20: Google Cardboard.

Google Cardboard headsets are basic virtual reality goggles made out of cardboard — and they actually work. All you have to do is velcro your smartphone in place, and you're ready to go (it works with both iPhone and Android). You can then look and move around while inside spherical 3D videos or games.

And if you've never experienced that, it can be jaw-dropping.

While the quality on Google Cardboard will not be as good as on something like the Gear VR — which features highly accurate head-tracking sensors powered by the team behind the Oculus Rift — the platform will certainly give you a novel experience, and has some prominent supporters. In fact, The New York Times recently sent all its Sunday print edition subscribers a pair. The Times wants people to be able to watch all its new virtual reality content.

But if you're not a Times subscriber, you can snag a Google Cardboard for only around $20 from several manufacturers. I Am Cardboard is a reliable one ($19.99), but there are many most listed here.

Once you have the Cardboard, it's time to find virtual reality videos and games. 

We've selected the best ones for you. Here are 10 free Google Cardboard apps that will give you an eye-opening introduction to virtual reality. 

Polar Sea 360 is 10-part series that drops you into the breathtaking Arctic to see the lives of sailors, scientists, and the others that brave the wilderness.

Download for iOS or Android.

War of Words VR puts you in the middle of the war that inspired Siegfried Sassoon's poem, "The Kiss," while reading it to you.

Download for iOS or Android.

VRSE gives you polished virtual reality videos from the likes of Vice, NBC, The New York Times, and prominent filmmakers.

Download for iOS or Android.

Just in 2015, Swedish actress Alicia Vikander has played a famous painter, a secret agent, and an artificial intelligence that wants to be human.

It's been quite a year for the 27-year-old, and it might all end with her receiving an Oscar nomination.

Playing artist Gerda Wegener in "The Danish Girl" (opening in theaters this weekend), Vikander gives a scene-stealing performance as the wife of fellow artist Lili Elbe (played by Eddie Redmayne), one of the first identifiable recipients of sex-reassignment surgery.

But it's just the latest in a stellar series of performances Vikander has done, which also includes the hit indie film "Ex Machina."

Let's learn more about this star on the rise.

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Vikander's first taste of success came in 2007 with the Swedish soap opera "Andra Avenyn" ("Second Avenue"), which looked at the lives of a group of people living in the second-largest city in Sweden.

In 2009, she starred in her first feature film, "Pure," in which she plays a troubled 20-year-old who, in leaving her family life, ends up in the arms of a married man.

Vikander then found notice in the US playing Kitty in the 2012 adaptation of the Tolstoy classic "Anna Karenina," starring Keira Knightley in the lead role.

It looks like many took to the multiplexes after enjoying Turkey Day. 

Winner of the competitive five-day total was "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2," which took in an estimated $75 million, according to The Wrap.

But the big winner of the weekend was the film that took the third place spot, "Creed."

The "Rocky"-inspired film — which looks at the son of Rocky Balboa's rival, Apollo Creed, and stars Sylvester Stallone once more as the iconic Balboa and Michael B. Jordan as the young Creed — took in an estimated $42.60 million over the five days. The $30.12 million it made over the weekend alone makes it the second-biggest domestic opening of any of the previous six movies in the "Rocky" franchise (factoring in inflation, "Rocky IV" is still tops). "Creed" was made for $37 million, according to reports.

Also doing well this holiday weekend was the latest Pixar movie, "The Good Dinosaur," which earned $55 million over the five days to come in second place.

In fact, the top 20 titles of the year had a 112% spike in ticket sales on Black Friday over Thanksgiving day's box office, according to Deadline (also helpful was an unseasonably warm holiday weekend on the east coast).

The final chapter of the successful "Hunger Games" franchise starring Jennifer Lawrence took in $10.4 million on the holiday and then earned another $21.5 million on Black Friday. That's lower than what "Mockingjay - Part 1" did last year, but it's still an impressive tally.

However, the weekend's feel-good story line is that it's pretty certain the "Rocky" franchise is having a comeback.

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Steve "The Crocodile Hunter" Irwin's daughter, Bindi Irwin, said she will indeed get paid her estimated $360,000 in wages from both competing and winning ABC's "Dancing With the Stars."

"We're all good. It's all sorted now," she told TMZ when asked about the status of the minor contract. "Yeah, we're all happy."

In California, a judge must approve contracts made on behalf of a minor. Part of that process can include the parents waiving any rights to the child's salary. In this case, 17-year-old Bindi's mother signed over her rights. But the court said that they failed to have the father sign off his rights, as well. Clearly, that's impossible as Steve died after being stung in the chest by a stingray in 2006.

Nevertheless, Bindi continued to compete on the ABC dancing competition alongside partner Derek Hough. Her base salary was $150,000 with additional pay as she advanced in the competition. The reported total for making it through all 11 weeks is $360,000, according to People.

TMZ reported that the judge has yet to clear Bindi's contract at this time, though proving her father is dead shouldn't be hard for Bindi's attorneys.

The young activist said that when she does get paid, she won't be keeping it.

"Everything that I make goes back to wildlife conservation," she told TMZ. "It's wonderful. It's who we are."

Bindi's parents established the nonprofit organization Wildlife Warriors in 2002. "We have conservation projects all over the world," the dancing champ said.

Watch the interview below:

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Anna Faris turns 39 on Sunday, November 29.

One of the most talented actresses in entertainment today, Faris got her big break as the lead on the "Scary Movie" franchise, starring as Cindy Campbell on all four films.

She then went on to do dozens of movies before becoming part of the latest trend of film actors who made the leap to television.

On CBS's "Mom," she plays Christy, a newly sober single mother who's picking up the pieces of her life with the help of her own mom, Bonnie (Allison Janney).

In real life, Faris is married to "Parks and Recreation" actor and "Guardian of the Galaxy" star Chris Pratt and they have a three-year-old son, Jack.

Learn more about the accomplished actress. Here's the fabulous life and career of Anna Faris:

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Anna Faris was born in Baltimore, Maryland on November 29, 1976. Her parents, sociologist Jack Faris and special education teacher Karen Faris, moved Anna and her brother to Edmonds, Washington circa 1982. Anna's parents enrolled her in a drama program and encouraged her to act.

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After doing loads of community theater, Anna starred in her first TV commercial. It was for yogurt. She said that she also played the perfect hostess on a Red Robin training video that is apparently still used.

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After appearing in a few unsuccessful independent movies, Anna got her big break on horror film parody "Scary Movie" in 2000. She played lead character Cindy Campbell in the franchise's four installments through 2006. Her movie career took off with roles in 2002's "The Hot Chick" and 2003's "Lost in Translation."

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Adele's "25" has destroyed music records, and it's only been out for a week.

In its first four days, the album sold more than 2.4 million copies, becoming the highest-selling album in its debut week in the US. The previous record was held by *NSYNC's "No Strings Attached," which sold 2.4 million records during its opening week in 2000. 

Now that the full week's sales have been tallied, we know Adele's "25" sold 3.38 million copies, according to Nielsen.

There is simply no comparison to be made between Adele and other contemporary music, said David Bakula, senior vice president of industry insights at Nielsen Entertainment. 

"You run out of superlatives to describe something like this. There is no precedent for something this big," Bakula told Business Insider. "It’s not just that she's breaking the record, but we're now in a day and age where music consumption has changed so dramatically. You can’t overstate how important and incredible a feat it is that this record is getting to the level that it is."

Bakula pointed out that when *NSYNC beat the record, there were no streaming services available, so more people were buying albums. In 2000, 88 albums sold more than a million copies. This year? There are four, with a potential fifth: Taylor Swift's "1989," Drake's "If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late," Ed Sheeran's "X," Adele's "25," and possibly Sam Smith's "In the Lonely Hour." 

To put Adele's sales in perspective, we've compared them to Swift's "1989," which, up until the release of "25," was the highest-selling album of the year (though it came out last year).

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"1989" sold 1.287 million copies in its debut week in 2014, becoming the first album that wasn't a Swift album to reach a million in a week since Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" in 2011. Swift's "Red" and "Speak Now" albums sold more than a million records in their debut weeks, making her the only musician to have three albums do so.

It became the 19th album to sell a million copies in a week since Nielsen's SoundScan started tracking sales in 1991.

"You looked at those numbers and thought you’d never see those numbers again. And ['25'] is going to do twice that,” Bakula said (it actually ended up doing more). 

"25" has sold 3.38 million copies in its debut week, becoming the highest-selling album in its first week ever in the US according to available chart numbers.

After one week, "1989" was the second-highest-selling album of the year behind "Frozen" in 2014. It became the best-selling record with 3.66 million copies sold by the end of the year.

Britney Spears is a big fan of Adele's new single, "Hello."

The pop singer proved it by posting a video on Instagram in which she performed multiple spins while the song played. In a dramatic black and white treatment and in slow motion, round and round Spears went.

She also proclaimed in the video post's caption, "I could dance to this song a MILLION times...love you @adele!"

The video tribute arrived after Adele referred to Spears as "the queen" to NPR. 

The British singer was explaining her shock at those who are nervous to meet her – something she felt was more appropriate when one is meeting someone like Spears.

"I find that most people feel quite relaxed around me," Adele said. "I've met a couple that, have been a bit hysterical — like, uncontrollable shaking and stuff like that. But I'm like, 'C'mon. Stop it. It's just me. I'm not Britney. What're you doing?' "

Then NPR told her that she had sold more records than Spears. That's when she responded, "Britney is the queen."

At any rate, Spears is in good company as official numbers released on Sunday show that Adele's album "25" sold 3.38 units in its first week, the highest amount of album sales in one week ever recorded by Nielsen.

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Warning: There are spoilers ahead if you haven't watched the mid-season finale of "The Walking Dead."

Right now, Rick and his gang have a horde of zombies to worry about in Alexandria, but pretty soon they'll have an even bigger threat to combat. 

If you tuned away from AMC too soon after "The Walking Dead," you may have missed the tease of the next big villain.

During the first commercial break for AMC's "Into the Badlands," the series following "The Walking Dead," a two-minute preview for next year's first new episode of "The Walking Dead" debuted showing Daryl, Sasha, and Abraham stopped by a motorcycle gang. 

The gang asked the trio to get out of their vehicle and told them that everything they think belongs to them now belongs to Negan.

Ladies and gentleman, say hello to your new favorite big bad villain of the series. 

We didn't see Negan yet, but just the mention of his name on screen confirms two things. 1. He's definitely coming soon. 2. How to pronounce the villain's name once and for all. (It's Knee-gan.)

AMC recently cast Jeffrey Dean Morgan in the fan-favorite role. 

So who is Negan and who are these tough-looking scoundrels patrolling around?

If you're familiar with the comics, you'll recognize the motorcycle gang as "The Saviors," a ragtag group of violent survivors. The head of their pack, as suggested, is Negan, a vengeful man who reigns over the few remaining communities and survivors of the zombie apocalypse. He sets his men out to find more survivors and then takes a good share of their belongings as a tax to protect them from any zombie threats. He has a ridiculously foul mouth (every other word out of him is the f-bomb), and he has an equally wicked sense of humor to match.

The rumor is we'll see Negan by the season six finale. 

The only problem is how AMC will get around Negan's favorite word. 

A look at AMC's story sync, an online companion to "The Walking Dead" episodes, we may have a hint. 

If you were a bit bummed by the lack of deaths and action on Sunday night's mid-season finale of "The Walking Dead," the announcement of Negan's arrival almost makes up for it. 

Fans certainly thought so.

One fan put together a pretty cool poster hinting at Negan's weapon of choice, a bat covered in barbed wire called Lucille. 

"The Walking Dead" will return to AMC February 14, 2016.

If you missed the scene, you can check it out below.

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Warning: There are spoilers ahead for "The Walking Dead."

Many fans were left wanting more after Sunday night's mid-season finale of "The Walking Dead."

None of the core cast members were killed off and we were left with many more questions than answers:

Are Daryl, Sasha, and Abraham going to be kidnapped by the Saviors or forced to bring them to Alexandria?
Are Glenn and Maggie ever going to be reunited?
What is the W man going to do with Denise?
And where has Heath been for the past few episodes?

And just when the episode looked like it was about to make a bold move and recreate a few iconic moments from the comic series, the show just ended. 

For a mid-season finale, there was a lot left to be desired. 

However, the episode did set up a lot of big things to come by recreating a big scene from issue #83 of the comic series.

Near the very end of the episode, Rick, Carl, Michonne, and Jessie's family are trapped as zombies continue to flood into her home.

Rick decides to quickly kill a few walkers, gut them, and then tells everyone to cover bedsheets in zombie guts. Everyone is going to march through the herd by blending in with them. 

If the concept sounds familiar that's because this is exactly what Rick did back in season one to walk through the zombie horde in Atlanta, Georgia with Glenn.

While that trick may have worked for Glenn and Rick back in season one that probably won't be the case this time around.

It isn't in the comics.

The scene leads to some of the biggest surprises of the series, which would have made it a perfect cliffhanger.

In the comics, Jessie's son ends up causing a raucous and drawing the attention of the walkers. Unlike the show, she only has one young son, Ron, and he wets his pants before telling his mom he wants to go back. Ron quickly gets noticed by zombies and suffers a pretty quick death. 

Jessie refuses to leave her son and gets taken down by the herd as well.

The only problem is that she was holding onto Carl's hand and won't let go. She starts dragging him into the horde as well. Rick's faced with the decision to let his son die or take matters into his own hands. That's when he decides to cut Jessie's hand off with his hatchet.

Just when you think they're in the clear, Carl gets shot from a rogue bullet, which somehow spares his life but takes out his right eye.

Yeah, it's a lot.

And while all of that may not happen come February, the show has certainly set it up so that we may see some of these events play out.

Sam already started calling out to his mom at the end of the episode. 

And we already saw that Rick has his hatchet. He used it to hack away at a doorknob in Sunday night's episode. 

As for Carl, that's seeming less like a guarantee now. In the comics he's accidentally shot by Alexandria's leader. We won't see that happen since Deanna just bit the bullet. Although Ron had a big grudge against Carl, that seems to be somewhat smoothed over at the moment. Plus, Carl confiscated Ron's gun in the mid-season finale.

It would be a huge divergence from the comics to forgo Carl's injury, especially since, down the line, it's Carl's injury which helps shape his relationship with future villain Negan.

"The Walking Dead" will return to AMC February 14, 2016.

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Taylor Swift made a young fan's dream come true this weekend. 

Jorja Hope, a 12-year-old from Maitland, Australia, was diagnosed with a condition that causes progressive inner-ear hearing loss, which will result in her going deaf.

According to the Maitland Mercury, when Hope first learned about her prognosis, she said, "I won’t be able to hear Taylor Swift sing."

Jorja's twin sister, Chloe, launched an online social-media campaign,  #HelpJorjaMeetTaylorSwiftSydney, toward the end of October, to help her sister achieve her goal of meeting Swift. It is uncertain when Jorja will completely lose her hearing, but according to a post on the campaign's Facebook page, it could be as early as next year.

Nova 96.9, a Sydney radio station, heard about the campaign and helped set up a meet-and-greet for the Hope sisters.

We did it! #helpjorjameettaylorswiftsydneyhttps://t.co/ZcVcZVMmbN@taylorswift13@taylornation13pic.twitter.com/6S2F75FFNo

— MaitlandMercury (@MaitlandMercury) November 29, 2015

The Maitland natives traveled to Sydney Saturday night for the concert and gave Swift a pair of Mortels Ugg Boots as a gift. 

After meeting Swift, Jorja said, "She was very, very amazing and very pretty. I didn't expect her to be as tall as she was."

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Abraham Attah has gone from a 14-year-old Ghanese street vendor to playing the lead role in Netflix's first original narrative feature, "Beasts of No Nation."

But his literal life-changing experience goes beyond that.

Along with gaining acclaim for his explosive performance as a young boy who is suddenly part of a group of guerrilla soldiers in the midst of a civil war in an unidentified African country, Attah has begun to receive schooling, and Netflix is paying the bill.

"Ted Sarandos has said that he would pay for [Attah's] private education through senior year of high school," "Beasts of No Nation" director Cary Fukunaga told Business Insider of the generosity provided by Netflix's head of content acquisitions.

Earlier this year at the Tribeca Film Festival, Fukunaga explained at a talk that following filming, they enrolled Attah into a boarding school in Ghana, admitting that when he was chosen to play the lead, he had little education.

Fukunaga gave an update recently to BI on Attah's progression.

"Technically he's in 7th grade, but I think there's a lot to be caught up on including reading comprehension, and that's essential to his script reading if he wants to do more acting in the future," Fukunaga said. "We found a private school that starts in the 7th grade, a lot of the private schools don't start until 8th or 9th grade. And it's a school that can cater to his specific needs and help him get caught up."

Fukunaga said that Attah is currently being home-schooled while doing the press tour for "Beasts." He also mentioned that Attah has already been cast in his next project. (Netflix declined to comment for this story.)

"He got hit with the golden goose," Fukunaga said of Attah's new life.

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Amy Schumer has proven that comedy can be literally painful sometimes.

Schumer took to Instagram to show off some bruises she got during her time hosting "Saturday Night Live" in early October.

"This is what happens when you repeatedly run into a fake airplane door on @nbcsnl with @vanessabayer," Schumer captioned the photo.

This is what happens when you repeatedly run into a fake airplane door on @nbcsnl with @vanessabayer

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The bruises lining Schumer's right back and shoulder are the result of a sketch titled "Delta Flight," in which Schumer and Bayer played two flight attendants who struggle to stay in the plane when the doors open mid-flight during a performance of their in-flight song. 

You can watch the sketch below:

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After earning the second-biggest box-office opening of all the “Rocky” films, “Creed” has certainly made its claim for why there should be more movies focused on the son of Apollo Creed under the tutelage of Rocky Balboa.

And it seems “Creed” star Michael B. Jordan agrees.

“A character so rich as this, and the world he’s in, I want to see what happens to him next and what he does,” Jordan told the Associated Press. “Especially the way it ends off, it’s pretty cool. I think with success and time and circumstances, it would be exciting to come back.”

But the structure of the film has already laid the ground work for at least one “Creed” sequel.

(Spoiler alert: Tread lightly if you haven’t seen “Creed” yet.)

In the movie, before going to Philadelphia to seek out Balboa, Adonis Creed (Jordan) goes to the gym where his father trained to begin his path to becoming a professional boxer. But he’s turned down by the head trainer of the gym (who happens to be the son of the manager of Apollo Creed).

And to make things worse, when Adonis tries to prove he has what it takes — offering to fight all comers at the gym — he’s knocked out by one of the top-ranked fighters who trains there, Danny “Stuntman” Wheeler (played by real boxer Andre Ward).

That’s the same boxer who was unable to fight the champion, “Pretty” Ricky Conlan, because Conlan broke Wheeler’s jaw at the press conference for their fight.

This gave Adonis his shot at Conlan at the end of the movie.

So a logical plotline for the sequel is Creed taking on Wheeler (trained by Creed’s manager’s son).

And, of course, a sequel can further delve into the relationship Adonis has with Bianca (Tessa Thompson) and Rocky (Sylvester Stallone), still recovering from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

This all would have been moot if “Creed” bombed at the box office, but now that it’s a hit (and may have some Oscar nominations in its future), keep looking for a sequel announcement.

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Hackers could be selling lifetime access to your Netflix subscription for just $0.50.

A recent report by McAfee Labs revealed you can buy access to “many online streaming entertainment” services, like Netflix and Spotify, in Dark Web marketplaces. These marketplaces can be accessed only by using a special internet browser called TOR that hides your IP address.

According to McAfee Labs, stolen HBO NOW and HBO GO accounts, as well as other cable streaming services, can be bought for less than $10. Premium pro sports services will run you about $15.

Do the accounts work?

You might assume that if you buy access to someone else’s Netflix account, it will get shut down fairly quickly, but this is not necessarily the case.

Raj Samani, the CTO of Intel Security, told Tech Insider that these marketplaces are highly competitive for sellers, and some provide a “guarantee” you’ll have a lifetime subscription.

"I don’t want to call it a risk-free transaction but they try to make it as risk-free as they possibly can," Samani told Tech Insider. He says one marketplace actually has its own help desk.

Samani says these accounts are probably based on both stolen credit-card and account information.

When Tech Insider’s Tim Stenovecchecked the prices for himself, he found Netflix accounts going for $0.50 for lifetime access and Spotify for $1.95.

Here is a sample listing for a Netflix account:

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PSY dropped a huge gift on his fans today.

The South Korean rapper, best known for the giant international hit "Gangnam Style" in 2012 (2.46 billion views and counting on YouTube), announced that on Tuesday he'll be releasing his followup album, "Chiljip PSY-Da" (which means, simply, "This Is PSY's Seventh Album" in Korean).

But he also released two songs with music videos on YouTube, and one looks like it might reach "Gangnam Style"-levels of ridiculousness.

"Daddy" features an EDM beat reminiscent of PSY's earlier hit, plus plenty of meme-able dance moves and oddities, like PSY's face superimposed onto children and in old-man makeup. The chorus goes: "Hey where'd you get that body from? I got it from my daddy." (CL of the South Korean group 2NE1 is also featured on the song.)

The music video for the funky "Napal Baji" has PSY as a South Korean movie star with some Elvis-inspired duds.

PSY also teased a song with will.i.am on the live broadcasting app V.

The rapper says he felt pressure to live up to the expectations of "Gangnam Style" with his latest release. "There were many thoughts going around in my head, including thoughts like, 'If I write like this, it would be not as good as Gangnam Style,' and 'If I write like this, the international audience will not understand,' so it took me a very long time to organize all those thoughts into one," he said at his announcement. 

In any case, he seems to be having as much fun as ever in his videos.

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You don't want to get in Jennifer Lawrence's way in the latest trailer for her upcoming movie, "Joy."

Once more teaming with director David O. Russell ("Silver Linings Playbook," "American Hustle"), Bradley Cooper, and Robert De Niro, Lawrence plays single mom Joy Mangano, who is the real-life inventor of the "Miracle Mop," which led her and her family into a business dynasty.

In this trailer, we see the hard road Mangano took to get her product off the ground. It also shows off her resolve to never give up.

Watch it here. "Joy" opens in theaters on Christmas Day.

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Lake Bell has figured out that the best way to build a successful career these days is to be diverse.

Best known for her acting work in movies like "It's Complicated," "Million Dollar Arm," the short-lived HBO series "How to Make It in America," and her recurring role on the comedy show "Childrens Hospital," Bell is also a writer-director, and is now the voice of the Apple iPhone 6s.

Her latest movie, "Man Up," shows off her comedic chops playing a single thirtysomething who unexpectedly takes the place of a stranger's blind date and ends up finding the man of her dreams (played by Simon Pegg). But the role also displays one of her big passions: doing voices.

In her acclaimed 2013 directorial debut "In a World…" Bell plays a voice coach who breaks through the boys' club of voiceover work for movie trailers. In "Man Up" (currently in theaters), she shows off her vocal talents again, this time delivering a spot-on English accent while playing a Brit.

Business Insider recently talked to Bell about what goes into pulling off a perfect accent, and whether the current outcry for more female directing opportunities in Hollywood has helped her in fundraising for her next directing effort.

BI: Bravo on the British accent.

Bell: Oh, thank you. 

BI: More and more you are starting to show your interest in using different voices. Was the opportunity to do this role with an accent always a possibility?

Bell: The producers had seen "In a World…" and that's where they found me out and consequently sought me out for this role. And they pitched it to Simon [Pegg] and he had seen the movie too and thought it was a great idea. So their thinking was my whole MO is accents so why doesn't the Nancy character stay British. Or, we'll just make her American. So when I screen-tested for it with Simon, I did both versions. I did an American and the best British accent I could do on the spot. Because when I do an accent I commit fully and take it very seriously, so I told them it's hard for me to half-ass it on the spot. I mean, I wrote an entire movie about how important I think voices are, so it was funny. But the comedic interaction between Simon and I was there so that started the conversation of, "What the hell, let's make her British!" It has been on my career bucket list my while life to play a fully realized British character without apology, so it was a dream.

BI: When you say "commit fully," did that mean working on the accent ahead of filming? Having a voice coach on set?

Bell: Oh, yeah. You can't live in a dialect without tremendous work. Like any muscle, accents and voices and languages are all formed out of the muscles that we have in our mouths and faces and tongues. So that entailed two months beforehand. I worked with an amazing dialect coach named Jill McCullough. We did Skype sessions while I was shooting "No Escape" in Thailand, actually. So three times a week I would have long, two-hour sessions with her just working on the nuance of the accent, which I had had a huge background in because I went to drama school in England for four years. But this character had a dialect that was of a current London girl. Plus, once I set foot in London, I vowed to never use my American accent, and I didn't. Even going to get the paper in the morning to buying milk down at the shop, getting a cab, wherever. Nobody heard my normal accent until wrap. 

BI: Was that to just stay familiar with the voice or were your scared that you would lose it if you stopped after filming wrapped for the day?

Bell: It's a little bit of both. Because Simon and I aspired to improvise, I didn't want to be caught out. As living is improvising, if I'm talking with the accent and just living, at some point I'm going to say a phrase or terminology or vowel that I don't know how to attack [with the accent]. So in doing that it helps expose the holes that I have. I could catch myself and go back to Jill and we could figure out how to fix it. 

BI: How did you and Simon go about improvising the scenes?

Bell: The way Ben Palmer, the director, wanted to do it — and it's probably the way most directors would do it if they had the luxury of time — was we had extensive rehearsal time. In the rehearsals we would improvise the scenes over and over again to see where we could find new funny pieces. So we did it within rehearsal with the writer present so that we could amend the script to reflect what we had found. And, of course, some things came up during shooting, too, but most was done during rehearsals. 

BI: You were in two very different movies this year ["No Escape" and "Man Up"]. You voice a character in next year's "The Secret Life of Pets." Are you specifically trying to keep the roles you choose as diverse as possible?

Bell: The reason I got into this business was for the privilege to exist in different genres and different worlds and play out different realities. So for me I think it's very much a product of what I put out there, which is, I hope, my career is never predictable. And my interests are diverse in that way. I feel very lucky that when I'm burnt out of acting I take to the pen and I write something I want to direct. And then when I'm tired of taking on too much responsibility as a director I then look for an acting gig. And I've made it very clear that I'm interested in voiceover work. I mean, I'm always looking for voiceover gigs. I love that.

BI: Even as far as, say, doing voice work for a car commercial or something like that?

Bell: Well, I'm the voice of the Apple 6s commercials.

BI: Really? I didn't know.

Bell: Yeah. It's like the most profound accomplishment that I've had in my career, that I can finally be that voice. And to be the first female voice of their products is really great.

BI: For "Secret Life of Pets," will you be doing a different voice or your own?

Bell: It's a version of my voice. I play Chloe, who is a big fat cat, so it's a version of me if I was a big fat cat. So it's something I can relate to. [Laughs]

BI: Yeah, right. What's the latest with directing? Is the dramedy "What's the Point" the next one for you?

Bell: I'm fundraising right now. So do you know any billionaires?

BI: I wish. 

Bell: It's ready to go and I want to shoot it in the beginning of the year. So I'm in full transparency here of "Yeah, I'm trying to find my financing."

BI: You were on the cover of the New York Times Magazine a few weeks ago for its piece on women filmmakers in Hollywood. It's just the latest in stories highlighting the inequality of women working in the industry. Are you going about things differently in regards to negotiating contracts or finding work since all of this has come out in the public?

Bell: I'll tell you after I find a financier. [Laughs] I mean, I gotta find my financing first. But honestly, it will be interesting to see in the next few months, while I'm out there trying to make "What's the Point," if things have changed. Because I'm in it now, and you can be like, "Clap your hands, you're on the cover of the New York Times Magazine," but let's see if anything comes of this lip service. Of all this talk and all this attention — and thank God for that — let's see the action that's going to be taken. 

BI: With that said, is the phone ringing more often the last few weeks than it was previously?

Bell: I'll be totally honest in that I feel tremendously lucky that I am offered incredible jobs all the time to direct, but the problem that I have just personally is that there are only so many years in my life to dedicate to certain projects. So when you're directing something that's generally two years of your life, you have to understand that. If I'm going to pour that kind of love and energy and sweat and heartache, all that juju into something, I'm going to lean into my own projects before someone else's. So what I'm doing right now is not a lack of offers but looking for support of my own endeavors. I think of myself as a content creator and hopefully one day a content enabler and supporter of others, so that's what my immediate and hopefully future journey is. To remain on this path that needs to be fluid, that needs to be able to give and take and alter to meet the needs that are whatever ahead of me creatively. But you have to be steadfast, and right now I'm on a stream train forward to make "What's the Point." Hopefully some lucky bastard is going to give me the money to do it and they are going to be very happy they did — I should be so lucky.    

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