The third weekend in theaters for "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" was another strong one. The film earned an estimated $88.30 million, according to BoxOffice.com (a record for New Year's weekend), putting it atop the weekend box office for a third consecutive week.

But many are eyeing what the film's number will be by Monday. 

If estimates hold, "Force Awakens" (now at an estimated $740.27 million) will pass the lifetime domestic total of "Avatar" ($760.5 million), making the seventh "Star Wars" the all-time US box-office record-holder. And doing it in only 18 days!

The Will Ferrell/Mark Wahlberg comedy "Daddy's Home" finished in the silver for a second straight week with an estimated $29 million, but it has quietly done great business at the box office.

Though many thought it would be the duo of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler in their comedy "Sisters" that would be the counter-programming to "Star Wars," their movie hasn't grabbed audiences as has "Daddy's Home." Ferrell and Wahlberg's latest comedy has earned around $20 million more, though "Sisters" has been in theaters a week longer. ("Sisters" took in an estimated $12.58 million this weekend.)

While Quentin Tarantino's "The Hateful Eight," came in third with an estimated $16.24 million. Marking the first weekend the gory western was in wide release, it seems the film's strong roadshow 70mm limited release starting over Christmas increased the attraction beyond Tarantino's fan base. The movie has now made over $29 million, to date. (It's budgeted around $44 million, though the 70mm release was a hefty price tag as well.) 

Expect for "The Force Awakens" to dominate the second weekend of 2016. The only big competition it will have is Leonardo DiCaprio's "The Revenant" going into wide release. The film has had a strong limited run so far, but it would be quite a surprise if it topped "Star Wars" next weekend. 

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The excitement for "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" seems to have no end. The seventh episode in the franchise has cleared the $1 billion mark in worldwide grosses as it sits in the No. 10 spot on the all-time list, and is eyeing the domestic box-office crown currently held by "Avatar" ($760.5 million) as soon as New Year's Day.

What really makes "The Force Awakens" work so well, at the end of the day, are the characters — some we've grown up watching and others we're meeting for the first time but who've already left an indelible mark.

Here we analyze all the characters in the movie and rank them, moving up to the best.

It should be noted that we're judging how good the characters are only within the context of "Force Awakens."

Warning: spoilers for the movie follow.

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24. General Hux (Domhnall Gleeson)

There always has to be a sniveling evil henchman, and General Hux is that in "The Force Awakens." But outside of trying to one-up Kylo Ren and giving bombastic speeches to the troops at Starkiller Base, there isn't much to Hux. Guess there's always the next movie ...

23. Admiral Statura (Ken Leung)

Admiral Statura is among the heads of the Resistance who figure out how to take on Starkiller Base. Jury is still out if this was just a role for an actor director J.J. Abrams likes to use — he was in "Lost" — or if there's more to the character beyond "Awakens."

22. Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill)

Yes, the whole story revolves around trying to find Luke, but it was kind of a bummer when we finally saw him. All we got was a stare. He will have more of a presence in the future movies, but there wasn't much payoff for all the buildup — and media hype around his role here.

In a few short years, Jessica Alba has turned The Honest Co., her startup that sells eco-friendly household products like premium diapers and toothpaste, into a $1.7 billion company.

And while Alba’s celebrity status has been a pillar of the brand, she says her career as an actor has helped her in another crucial way: dealing with rejection from investors.

In a new interview, Alba told Vanity Fair about trying to get Brian Lee, a cofounder of LegalZoom.com, to invest early on in Honest Co.

Lee, who was a friend of Alba's husband, agreed to a meeting, but passed on investing. He wasn’t convinced by the idea behind the company. After Lee passed, Alba says two other investment deals fell through. Things were not looking good.

But, though Alba’s celebrity afforded her with many other financial opportunities, she didn’t give up on Honest Co.

“Actresses are used to rejection,” she explained to Vanity Fair. This is certainly true. An up-and-coming actor can face rejection dozens of times for every gig he or she books. Going out on auditions is a brutal process, and in some ways it provides a fertile training ground to develop the thick skin any startup founder trying to raise capital needs.

18 months after Lee rejected Alba’s pitch, he had a baby of his own. And when Lee's wife started “manically” researching household cleaners, he finally got it. “In the time between the first and second meeting, my wife had changed our whole life. Jessica’s goal to make safer products for the family resonated with me,” he told Vanity Fair.

Lee wasn’t the only one, based on the company’s growth so far. Though it wasn't always certain, Alba’s success in business should not, perhaps, be completely surprising if you look at the way she approached her acting career.

Vanity Fair writes that Alba sought out “tentpole franchises” like "Sin City," "Fantastic Four," and the "Meet the Parents" series. She wasn’t just an artist looking to express herself, but an businesswoman trying to put herself into successful franchises.

In Alba's acting career, this didn’t always pan out. She was in plenty of flops. But it seems that Alba’s attitude in approaching business has finally led her to an even bigger blockbuster hit than she could have hoped for in Hollywood.

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Stephen Carbone is known by hardcore fans of "The Bachelor" franchise as "Reality Steve."

Reality Steve has become the go-to blogger of the dating shows, and public enemy No. 1 in the eyes of the shows' producers and network ABC, who have sued him twice.

Why? Reality Steve has been spoiling "The Bachelor" and its spin-offs for the past four years with amazing accuracy. He's become so infamous, The New York Times' Jon Caramanica just wrote a long profile about how he's turned his intel into a full-time, revenue generating business without having any other real employees.

Not only does Carbone often name who has been chosen by ABC's bachelor or bachelorette months in advance, he has mapped out entire seasons of the show.

“I can’t believe I get this much information, every season. I still think it’s weird that I get it,” Carbone, 40, told the New York Times in an article published today all about his life as Reality Steve.

Carbone told the newspaper that he makes a "comfortable" six-figure income from his site, RealitySteve.com, presumably from ad sales. The site actually covers the entire reality TV genre, not just "The Bachelor" franchise.

Here are some insights into how Stephen "Reality Steve" Carbone does it:

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Aside from hiring a webmaster to maintain the website, the majority of the work falls to him. The New York Times detailed Carbone's career, which started from a newsletter and then turned into the website in 2003.

He didn't make any money until after receiving his first "Bachelor" tip that season 13 bachelor Jason Mesnick had broken up with Melissa Rycroft and reunited with his second-choice gal, Molly Malaney. After that, Carbone became a "Bachelor" expert.

His spoilers are a combination of his own online research of "Bachelor" sightings and information along with tips from his many sources. "Bachelor" producers have sued Carbone twice. In 2011, he was sued for contacting eliminated cast members and offering to pay for information. The second time, soon after the first in 2012, he was sued after spoiling the next season. Both lawsuits were settled, with Carbone promising not to contact cast members or people who work on the show.

Spoiling isn't an exact science for him.

Carbone's information is usually pretty accurate, but he rushes to make things right when he's wrong. On the last season of "The Bachelorette," for example, Kaitlyn Bristowe posted a video of herself with the winner, Shawn Booth, to Snapchat before the finale aired. He had been told she ended up alone, so he was forced to quickly update the site.

Spoiling isn't actually Reality Steve's bread and butter.

Though it may have put him on the map, Carbone doesn't get most of his audience now from divulging scoops ahead of time. Web traffic to RealitySteve.com is 80-90 percent lower while he's tracking the "The Bachelor's" production, before it airs," Carbone tells The New York Times. His big numbers arrive while the season is actually on TV. Even still, the amount of Bachelor fans who actually want to read spoilers seems small with only a few hundred thousand people typically reading big scoops, despite 8 million people tuning into the show.

The next season arrives on Monday, January 4, to ABC.

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For Alex Gibney it all started with the death of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs on October 5, 2011.

"The motivation to make the film was why so many people who didn't know Steve Jobs were weeping when he left," Gibney told an audience last week who had recently seen his film "Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine."

Gibney opens the film with footage of people all over the world crying at makeshift memorials for Jobs, lifting their iPads and iPhones picturing a single burning candle in remembrance. Gibney also included people giving emotional video testimonials online reacting to Jobs' death, including a young boy who shouts in amazement, "He made the iPhone!"

Gibney acknowledges that, like many of us, he loves his Mac and his iPhone. But it was more than that to him.

"I grew up on IBM and PCs, and when I switched over to Mac it felt like I'd been liberated," Gibney told Business Insider. "I really did buy into that — I had entered a new zone and these were my people."

That "sticking it to the man" quality Apple had, as Gibney perceived it, came to a crashing halt for the filmmaker when he started making the Steve Jobs documentary 2 1/2 years ago (financed by CNN Films).

"I do react differently now," Gibney told Business Insider about using his iPhone since making the film. "I get a lot more pissed off."

In the film he shows Jobs as a marketing genius who revolutionized the personal computer and then made us addicted to mobile devices. But behind the scenes Gibney paints him as a maniacal taskmaster who ruled by intimidation and mind games. In one instance, while giving the exit interview to a top employee who was leaving Apple, Jobs gave him a "Godfather"-like speech promising him he'd be hunted down if he took any other Apple employees (or in Jobs' words, "his family") with him.

And Jobs wasn't any better in his personal life. The film highlights that in Apple's early days Jobs repeatedly denied being the father of his daughter Lisa. Then, when a DNA test proved he was the father, he paid only $500 a month in child support.

"I didn't want to do the official bio pic of Steve Jobs," Gibney said. "In fact, just the opposite. I never really made a film like this before where you sort of go in and wonder."

That wonder led him to many closed doors when he started out.

The Oscar winner is known for making unapologetic films that have exposed everything from Enron and Jack Abramoff to legends James Brown and Frank Sinatra to most recently the controversial Church of Scientology.

So needless to say when he reached out to Apple for assistance in getting people within the company to talk to him for the film he was given a swift "no." Gibney also tried to speak to Jobs' widow, Laurene, but was turned down.

"I had to go down different pathways to find interesting information, and that's why you can't call it a complete biography," Gibney said. "It's not that. It's about an idea, like, 'Why is he so important to us?' That means you have to reckon with him, but we also have to reckon with ourselves."

To do that, Gibney retraces the rise of Jobs from 26-year-old Apple CEO to an icon behind one of the top companies in the world.

But he also exposes some things that could make you think less about the company.

The film suggests that workers in China who were on the assembly line making the iPhone 4s, along with earning considerably low wages, suffered nerve damage while putting the phones together. Its top supplier, Foxconn, over a two-year span, had 18 workers kill themselves. The suicides allegedly got so serious that Foxconn installed nets around the building the workers lived in to dissuade jumpers.

Gibney also spotlights the company's alleged elaborate tax avoidance. By enacting a loophole called a "Double Irish," Apple uses holding companies in Ireland (a lower-tax country) to pocket around $137 billion in profits, according to the film.

These revelations have made Gibney rethink what his iPhone means to him, and he hopes those who see the film will do the same. But he knows it will be hard, as Apple products, particularly the iPhone, are now constantly attached to our hands. And with that comes a blind faith.

Gibney recalls the backlash by Apple workers and fans of its products after the premiere of the film at the South by Southwest Film Festival earlier this year.

Here's how Eddy Cue, Apple's senior vice president of internet software and services, reacted to it:

Gibney believes what Jobs was incredible at was making Apple products a reflection of you. His goal with the film was to show that a company that makes so many people happy is still just a corporation at the end of the day — a corporation Gibney believes was trained by Jobs to be ruthless and unforgiving to succeed and make the most money possible.

"We are to believe that what you have in your hand is all good," Gibney said. "I love my iPhone, but I have to look myself in the eye and say, 'Is it turning me into someone that I like?'"

Watch the trailer:

Apple did not respond to Business Insider's request for comment on this story.

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It's only the fourth day of the new year, but if you've already broken your New Year's resolutions, John Oliver has some sage advice. And if you haven't failed yet, "Statistically, you are about to," Oliver said. 

According to Oliver, New Year's resolutions are "the exact middle ground between lying to yourself and lying to other people." He took to YouTube for another web exclusive for "Last Week Tonight" to talk about revising resolutions once you've failed to keep them. 

"The main problem with resolutions is that we set our expectations way too high," Oliver said.

For instance, many people say they want to exercise more in the new year. So if someone is struggling with hitting the gym, Oliver's advice is to lower the standards about what constitutes exercise to something that just increases the heart rate. 

"Instead of jogging, simply try waking up late for work or taking a pregnancy test," he said. "That way, you haven't failed to keep your New Year's resolution, you've just succeeded in a different way."

If all else fails, Oliver's advice is to set unachievable goals, so you can't feel bad once you inevitably fail. 

"Deep down, we all know that the key to a successful resolution is not hard work and dedication," he said. "It's managing disappointment, and that's it."

"Last Week Tonight" will return February 14. 

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You probably have a sense of who likes your Instagram photos most often; those people you can count on to affirm your skills as a mobile photographer no matter how mediocre the shot is.

But now there's a way you can tell exactly who your top "likers" are and what percentage of your photos they like. Best Buddies is a fun web app that connects to your Instagram and furnishes you with a list of your most Instagram-supportive friends.

Here is what a list looks like:

The list shows your top 10 friends in descending order of what percentage of your photos they liked.

You can make a list for yourself at Best Buddies' website or visit its page on Product Hunt.

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Chris Brown has publicly responded to charges that he assaulted a woman in Las Vegas over the weekend.

Liziane Gutierrez claims the R&B singer punched her when she tried to take a picture with him during a party at the Palms Casino Resort on Saturday, Billboard reports. She also says that he then took her phone away.

Police reportedly arrived to the resort to investigate suspicions of misdemeanor battery and misdemeanor theft, but were denied access to Brown.

On Sunday, Brown responded to the allegations in a video on Instagram, which he has since deleted.

"Obviously, somebody is looking to get a check or start some s--t," Brown said on the video, which TMZ was able to capture before Brown deleted it.

In it, Brown says he doesn't know Gutierrez, and he calls her "old" and "ugly." "She probably came to my room and was too ugly to get in," he said.

He then posted a message on Instagram in which he suggests that he'll sue "these crazy individuals who keep lying on my name." Here's his full statement:

"Keeping my circle small in 2016! I'm done taking the care of grown a-- men. And I'm going to be hella rich after all the lawsuits I file from these crazy individuals who keep lying on my name. Happy NEW YEAR! Time for some of us to grow the f--k up!"

Keeping my circle small in 2016! I'm done taking the care of grown ass men. And I'm going to be hella rich after all the lawsuits I file from these crazy individuals who keep lying on my name. Happy NEW YEAR! Time for some of us to grow the fuck up!

A photo posted by @chrisbrownofficial on Jan 2, 2016 at 9:02pm PST

TMZ then posted a video response from Gutierrez. In it, she asks the singer to compare her history to his and urged him to be "real." She also said that she's getting threats of violence against her and her son, and asked Brown to tell fans not to bring her family into the situation.

 Brown's manager Mike G also got in on the action on Sunday. He posted a lengthy statement on Instagram, in which he berated the media for covering Gutierrez's "false accusation."

Brown's public relations representative also gave a statement to Billboard. It said the assault allegations against Brown are "unequivocally untrue" and that her motive for making them could've been a result of her being kicked out of the party for being "disruptive and out of control."

TMZ's source close to Brown said he will be filing a defamation suit against Gutierrez on Monday.

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Anne Hathaway wants to show her body on her own terms.

The Oscar-winning actress posted a photo of herself pregnant in a bikini on Instagram after spotting paparazzi taking photos of her while on vacation. Hathaway and her husband, Adam Shulman, are expecting a child this year. Her pregnancy was revealed last November.

Happy 2016 to my beautiful Instafriends! So, posting a bikini pic is a little out of character for me, but just now while I was at the beach I noticed I was being photographed. I figure if this kind of photo is going to be out in the world it should at least be an image that makes me happy (and be one that was taken with my consent. And with a filter :) Wishing you love, light and blessings for the year ahead! ⚡️🦄Annie🦄⚡️

A photo posted by Anne Hathaway (@annehathaway) on Jan 3, 2016 at 9:31pm PST

In her caption she explains that posting the photo was "a little out of character" for her, but, given the presence of photographers, she wanted to post her own photo that made her "happy."

Taylor Swift responded to paparazzi in a very similar way while on vacation last year in Hawaii with the band Haim.

Greetings from Maui! @haimtheband

A photo posted by Taylor Swift (@taylorswift) on Jan 23, 2015 at 5:20pm PST

After posting the photo, Swift told Nick Grimshaw during his show on BBC Radio 1 that she had not planned to take it, but she didn't want paparazzi to make a lot of money taking pictures of her during the trip, especially with Swift showing off her rarely seen belly button (which has become a meme).

So Swift decided to preempt the photographers using her massively popular Instagram:

"Basically, on the last day [of vacation] we see a fishing boat a half a mile away. We were like, 'That's a little weird. We're in the middle of the ocean scuba diving.' My security gets out binoculars and sees that they have a huge long-lens camera. At which point, we go back to the beach and we realize, 'Okay, so they got pictures of us in our bikinis, like, I don't want them to make like $100,000 for stalking us.' So we're like, 'Get up on the bow of the boat. We're taking better bikini shots, so they don't make as much money on theirs.'"

It looks as if Swift's move may have inspired Hathaway's pregnant photo. After all, celebrities wield a lot more power over their image on Instagram. Now they're really showing it.

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Jaden Smith, the 17-year-old actor and son of Will and Jada Pinkett Smith, is the new face of Louis Vuitton.

Smith sports an androgynous look in new images shot by photographer Bruce Weber for the high-end brand's spring/summer womenswear collection.

Nicolas Ghesquière, Louis Vuitton womenswear collections creative director, posted images of the new ad campaign on Instagram on Sunday night. We first spotted them on Marketing Magazine.

Here's Smith on the right alongside models Sarah Brannon, Rianne van Rompaey, and Jean Campbell.

It's not the first time Smith has been spotted wearing a skirt. Last year he wore a long skirt/dress when he attended the high school prom of "The Hunger Games" actress Amandla Stenberg. And, as Out magazine reports, he has long been an advocate of genderless clothing.

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About 190,000 signatures have been collected between two petitions aimed at freeing "Making a Murderer" subject Steven Avery.

Avery is serving a life sentence for the murder of a female photographer last believed to be taking photos of a car on the Avery family property in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. The Netflix documentary series covers the trial and conviction of Avery and his teen nephew, Brendan Dassey, in the killing. Many believe that the series shows that Avery wasn't given a fair trial and that the investigation of him was severely flawed.

The first petition was created December 20 at the White House website. It asks President Barack Obama to pardon Avery and Dassey, who is also serving a life sentence.

"Based on the evidence in the Netflix documentary series 'Making a Murderer,' the justice system embarrassingly failed both men, completely ruining their entire lives," the creator of the petition wrote.

It has more than 19,000 signatures. It needs to reach 100,000 signatures in 30 days to receive a response from the White House, giving it until January 19.

The other petition can be found at Change.org. It also asks the president to pardon Avery.

The Change.org petition's creator, Michael Seyedian, said that after viewing the Netflix series he was "outraged with the injustices which have been allowed to compound and left unchecked in the case of Steven Avery of Manitowoc County in Wisconsin, U.S.A."

Seyedian continued:

Avery's unconstitutional mistreatment at the hands of corrupt local law enforcement is completely unacceptable and is an abomination of due process.

Steven Avery should be exonerated at once by presidential pardon, and the Manitowoc County officials complicit in his two false imprisonments should be held accountable to the highest extent of the U.S. criminal and civil justice systems.

As of the posting of this article, the petition had reached more than 170,000 signatures of the 200,000-signature goal.

The petitions are just a couple of ways viewers have expressed their anger over the events portrayed in "Making a Murderer." Others have targeted former Calumet County prosecutor Ken Kratz for successfully winning Avery and Dassey's convictions. And close viewers have gone online to investigate and discuss the evidence they believe should have freed the men.

Both Avery and Dassey have appealed their convictions.

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J.J. Abrams has established himself as the king of the nerds and creator of blockbuster hits. 

The 49-year-old director, writer, and producer has been at the helm of two reboots of iconic franchises set in space — "Star Wars" and "Star Trek" — and jumped into the action world by joining the "Mission: Impossible" franchise.

He's taken on the sci-fi world with his own film, "Super 8," which he produced with his idol Steven Spielberg. The film provides an obvious glimpse at the inspiration Spielberg's earlier films provided.

And even before the two had a chance to officially collaborate, Abrams, as a teen, helped refurbish old films for Spielberg. 

Before he was a blockbuster director, Abrams was at the head of hit TV shows, creating or cocreating "Felicity," "Alias," and "Lost," which became a cultural hit. 

With "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" breaking box-office records and Abrams primed to produce more hits, here's a look at his established career: 

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Jeffrey Jacob Abrams was born June 27, 1966 on Long Island but grew up in Los Angeles with his parents, producers Gerald W. and Carol Ann Abrams. His sister, Tracy, is a screenwriter.

Source: The New York Times Magazine

Abrams adored films by directors such as Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, and when he was 13, his grandfather gave him a Super 8mm camera, prompting Abrams to begin filming home movies.

Source: The New York Times Magazine

He met Matt Reeves at a young filmmakers festival in Los Angeles and soon began collaborating with him. The two were asked by Kathleen Kennedy, then working for Spielberg, to repair and refurbish some Super 8mm films he had made as a teen.

Source: Vanity Fair 

As we ring in the new year, it's time to look forward to a new crop of superhero movies, sequels, and, well, movies that just look really good. 

New entries in beloved franchises make up the most anticipated films of 2016, according to a survey conducted by online ticket-buying company Fandango. The results were released on Monday.

Here are the top 10 movies that fans are most excited to see, which range from the first "Star Wars" spin-off to the sequel of a modern Disney classic.

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10. "The Jungle Book" (April 15)

9. “Zoolander No. 2” (February 12)

8. “X-Men: Apocalypse” (May 27)

Manitowoc County Sheriff Robert Hermann says now that he's watched Netflix's "Making a Murderer," he's still not happy about the crime documentary series, an opinion he previously expressed.

“Because of all the media stuff we’ve been getting, I actually did watch with it my inspector and I still stand by that statement,” Hermann, who oversees the county where "Making a Murderer" subject Steven Avery was arrested, said to the Wrap.

In December, Hermann told HTRNews.com that he wasn't pleased with "Making a Murderer," and that it is not a documentary. He called it a movie, because "things are skewed," even though he hadn't actually watched the series himself at that point.

After a viewing, the sheriff says he doesn't like how his department was portrayed and that the series doesn't tell the full story.

“In several areas throughout the film, you can see where they cut the tape and manipulated things," he said. "One place real evident is one of the interviews with Steven Avery in episode 5 — if you watch one video, it jumps from 3:20 to 3:21, then to 3:17, then to 3:22 and then to 3:18.”

The series depicts the arrests and trials of Steven Avery and his teen nephew, Brendan Dassey, in the murder of an Auto Trader magazine photographer last believed to have been taking photos of a car on the Avery property. Both men are currently serving life sentences for the murder.

The series does show Avery, his family, and supporters accusing the Manitowoc County police department of framing him for the murder, or at least screwing up its investigation. That theory would later become part of his defense during the trial.

“We’re not pleased with the way the film has portrayed us,” Hermann also told the Wrap. “We’ve noticed that the family of Avery and the attorneys are embedded with the film producers, and the attorneys from the get-go have portrayed us in a negative light, but there’s not much we can do to change it.”

"Making a Murderer" executive producer Moira Demos has said, "The key pieces of the state's evidence are included in the series."

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Ricky Gervais started the year with an apology for what he's going to do as host of the 73rd Golden Globes.

Gervais, known for his ruthless jabs and controversial jokes, sent a tweet ahead of hosting the ceremony on Sunday, saying he'll be drunk and is sorry for what he's going to say during the show. This is his fourth time hosting the Globes.

Because I can see the future, I'd like to apologise now for the things I said at next week's Golden Globes. I was drunk & didn't give a fuck

— Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) January 1, 2016

Today, he sent another tweet with a picture showing how he is preparing for the gig.

Popping to LA for that little gig on Sunday. Cheers! pic.twitter.com/apkNsMvXnE

— Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) January 4, 2016

The Golden Globes will take place January 10 and will air at 8 p.m. on NBC. We'll no doubt be glued to see what Gervais does.

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On the season premiere of Crackle's "Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee," Jerry Seinfeld did a great interview with President Obama.

In one particularly interesting exchange, Seinfeld hit back at Obama when the president said he misses the anonymity of being able to walk down the street and have a conversation without being recognized. Seinfeld respectfully pointed out that being famous is actually pretty awesome.

The entire episode is great. Check it out here.

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The missing body of Craig Strickland, 29-year-old singer in the band Backroad Anthem, has been discovered in an Oklahoma lake.

The country vocalist had been missing for more than a week after going duck hunting.

The Oklahoma Highway Patrol confirmed to NBC affiliate KFOR that he was found dead in the lake.

His wife tweeted about the death, saying he is "safe with his Father in Heaven."

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Russians are now able to buy a perfume called "Leaders," which its creator said is inspired by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

"The composition that we created was made to be warm and well-rounded, and I would call it 'uniting,'" Vladislav Rekunov, the perfume's creator, told Reuters. "It's not an aggressive scent, rather, it's attractive, matter-of-fact, and natural."

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"Pretty Little Liars" and "Spring Breakers" star Ashley Benson has dealt with Hollywood's unrealistic beauty standards, and she wants people to know the truth.

The 26-year-old actress told Ocean Drive magazine that she cried after just being told — as a size two — that she was "too fat" for a role.

"I cried for 30 minutes, but then you have to let it roll off your shoulders or it could cause a serious eating disorder," she said. "A lot of people in this industry hear they need to lose weight more times than they should. It does make you stronger, though. Because if you let that affect you, you can’t be in this industry — you’d go crazy.”

She also commented on Photoshopped photos she saw of herself that left her disappointed because she says they didn't realistically portray her. 

“I saw photos from a shoot of myself just the other day and thought, 'What the hell? That doesn’t even look like me!' I was so disappointed,” she said. “I hate to think that girls are like, ‘She’s so skinny! Her skin is so perfect!’ I have pimples just like they do.”

A couple of weeks ago, Benson posted an Instagram photo of herself with zit cream on her face "to show people I’m not perfect — no one is.”

It's the new trend. 😜

A photo posted by Ashley Benson (@itsashbenzo) on Oct 28, 2015 at 12:50pm PDT

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