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'El Chapo' Guzmán was caught because he was trying to make a movie about himself

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Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the infamous Sinaloa cartel boss, was captured on Friday after an almost seven-month manhunt — partly because he had dreams of becoming a movie star.

Over the course of his time on the lam, the drug kingpin contacted producers and prospective actors to star in a biopic about himself, according to AFP.

"An important aspect that allowed us to locate him was that we discovered Guzman's intention to make a biographical film, for which he established contact with actresses and producers," Mexico's attorney general, Arely Gomez, told the AFP.

After a morning shootout with Mexican marines in Los Mochis, a city in his native Sinaloa state, Guzmán was arrested along with six others, the Associated Press reports.

The successful mission comes on the heels of a botched operation in October, where Mexican forces decided not to fire on an escaping Guzman, fearing they would injure a young girl who was accompanying him, according to the AFP.

Guzman will be held at Altiplano, the very same prison he escaped from in Julyaccording to the Associated Press.

He will likely be extradited to the US, Alejandro Hope, a former Mexican intelligence official, told the Associated Press.

The US attorney general, Loretta Lynch, released a statement calling Guzman's capture a "blow to the international drug-trafficking syndicate he is alleged to have led." Lynch said he will now "have to answer for his alleged crimes, which have resulted in significant violence, suffering and corruption on multiple continents."

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BEFORE THEY WERE FAMOUS: The humble starts of 16 major Hollywood stars

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From Pepsi and Bubble Yum commercials to failed sitcoms and small guest roles, A-list celebrities were once struggling trying to make it in the business, just like everyone else in Hollywood, before they started getting award-winning roles.

Samuel L. Jackson didn't jump right into Tarantino movies. He was trained and started on stage. Johnny Depp was pursuing a music career before he got into acting, and Kerry Washington was popping up in educational videos before dominating in "Scandal."

We took a look back at 16 A-list celebrities before they were the recognizable names we know today. 

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Jennifer Lawrence

Before Jennifer Lawrence became an Academy Award-winning actress and franchise star, she started out modeling and acting in small commercials. She earned her Screen Actors Guild card when she was 14 thanks to a promotional video for MTV's "My Super Sweet 16." 

That same year, she also appeared in a Burger King video as a potential girlfriend to the Whopper Jr. 



Bradley Cooper

The four-time Oscar nominee made his TV debut with a guest spot on season two of "Sex and the City." He picks Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) up at a bar and the two briefly make out in a car, but Carrie leaves after he returns with her New York magazine cover story. 

Watch the episode at HBO or catch the clip on YouTube



Kerry Washington

Washington earned her SAG card after starring in "Magical Make-Over," an "ABC Afterschool Special." She told E! that she was a cheerleader in the episode, though she was only 80% sure. 

Her next role was in the PBS educational series, "Standard Deviants." You can spot her in the following clip at 5:45.



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20-year-old supermodel Gigi Hadid has sold her New York City condo for a cool $2.5 million

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Model Gigi Hadid rocketed to superstardom in 2015, but it looks like she's on to even better things in 2016.

According to Curbed NY, the 20-year-old supermodel has kicked off the year with the sale of her 935-square-foot lower Manhattan apartment for $2.3 million. She listed it for $2.45 million just six months ago.

The two-bedroom apartment, which the California-born-and-bred Hadid bought via the Yolanda Hadid Family Trust for $1.94 million in 2014, is in a prime location in Nolita.

She was recently spotted shopping for real estate with her rumored new beau, ex-One Direction crooner Zayn Malik. Malik is no stranger to real estate, either, as he currently owns homes in Los Angeles and the British countryside. The pair reportedly checked out a property in the NoHo neighborhood going for $6.49 million, according to the New York Post. 

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The condo is part of 250 Bowery, a contemporary complex built in 2012 with only 24 units. It's just across the street from the New Museum, and blocks from Nolita's most fashionable bars and restaurants.



The five-room condo unit has two bedrooms and two bathrooms, going for $2,620 per square foot. To compare, Manhattan housing's median cost per square foot is $1,538.



The two bedrooms boast huge windows and plenty of bright light — not a bad deal for downtown bedrooms, which in Manhattan are notoriously small and dark. The master suite includes a walk-in closet, too.



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The songs that Donald Trump rallies blast to pump up supporters

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One of the signature features of Donald Trump's campaign for president has been his unscripted moments at campaign rallies.

But one thing about his events always follows a similar pattern: the warm-up music.

Trump — who has shunned traditional small, town-hall-style events in favor of mega-rallies at stadiums and event spaces built for thousands — always sticks to a set list of musical warm-up selections.

The events themselves can occasionally feel like rock concerts. Hecklers and brawls have broken out at multiple rallies, while audiences at some events watched Trump speak while enjoying beer.

Like many Republican front-runners before him, Trump's musical choices don't always go over well with the artists themselves. Neil Young, R.E.M, and Aerosmith have all criticized Trump for using their songs at rallies without seeking permission.

But though Trump's music choices can occasionally inspire members of the audience to sing along, audiences at other candidates' campaign events don't always have the same desire for loud pump-up music. 

At a recent rally for former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R), several audience members asked a Business Insider reporter to tell Bush's campaign staff to turn the music down, a request that event organizers said that they got occasionally. 

Here's a look at the songs that Donald Trump plays to pump up audiences at his rallies.

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"Rocket Man" — Elton John

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Trump is a big Elton John fan — the singer-songwriter and Trump have known each other for years, and Trump told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt earlier this year that the last concert he went to see was an Elton John show at New York's Madison Square Garden. Trump frequently plays "Rocket Man" at rallies, though he's also thrown "Tiny Dancer" into the set-list

Though John hasn't weighed in on Trump's political philosophy, Trump said the British pop musician told him that Trump gets "the biggest crowds in the world for a guy without a guitar."



"Hey Jude" — The Beatles

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"Skyfall" and "Rolling in the Deep" - Adele

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Trump likes Adele a lot. Perhaps because he hasn't had much time to attend concerts, he reportedly cut the line to attend a recent Adele show at New York's Radio City Music Hall, where audiences reportedly both booed and cheered his arrival

Recently, he's opted to put "Skyfall" in rotation at events, though he's also included "Rolling in the Deep."



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The 16 most powerful people in finance

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Business Insider recently released its list of the most powerful people in the world, and 10 of the top 50 included hedge fund managers, bank CEOs, and other magnates in the finance industry.

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 finance industry, adding six finance heavyweights who narrowly missed our top 50. You can read the full methodology here.

Read on to see the 16 most powerful people in finance in the world. 

Editing by Alex Morrell with additional research by Andy Kiersz.

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16. George Soros

Title: Chairman, Soros Fund Management and Open Society Foundations

Country: US

Age: 85

Born in Budapest, George Soros lived through the Nazi occupation of Hungary during WWII before fleeing to England and later settling in the US. He remains actively interested in politics today and recently made news for supporting the refugees flooding into Europe, a move Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban saw as an attempt to undermine the authority of European nations. Soros is also seen as a friend to liberals and an enemy of conservatives in the US, and he donated $2 million to super PACs supporting Hillary Clinton earlier this year.

Touted as "the man who broke the bank of England," Soros is best known in the finance world for the Quantum Fund, a hedge fund he launched in 1973 under his Soros Fund Management company. In 1992 he shorted the British pound, a risky move that ended up earning the fund $1 billion in a single day and solidifying Soros’ place in finance. Quantum Fund also generated annual returns over 30% under Soros' leadership, making it one of the most successful hedge funds of all time.

Today, Soros, who has a personal net worth upwards of at least $23.3 billion, remains chairman of Soros Fund Management, which manages more than $25 billion in assets. He’s also the chairman of Open Society, an organization he founded in 1979 that operates as a network of foundations and partners across the globe who promote the values of open society and human rights.



15. Ding Xuedong

Title: Chairman and CEO, China Investment Corporation

Country: China

Age: 55

As the chairman and CEO of China Investment Corporation, the world’s fourth-largest sovereign wealth fund, Ding Xuedong manages over $700 billion in assets. A longtime employee of China’s finance ministry, Ding was appointed as chairman in 2013, following the exit of Lou Jiwei months prior.

The fund, founded in 2007, oversees China’s foreign exchange holdings. CIC has branched out into countries all over the globe, from Canada to Russia to Australia, and in November it expressed interest in purchasing a development site near Sydney Olympic Park, a deal worth about $660 million.

In addition to managing CIC, Ding also oversees China International Capital Corp, a huge investment bank that went public in November— the first Chinese company to do so in months. China curbed IPOs during a market plunge, but CICC’s IPO built confidence that the market had stabilized. 



14. Lloyd Blankfein

Title: CEO, Goldman Sachs

Country: US

Age: 61

As the CEO of Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Blankfein oversees the company’s $880 billion in total assets. Goldman is one of the strongest banks on Wall Street, ranking in the top two (alongside rival JPMorgan) in global investment-bank revenue across fixed income, equities, and banks for the first nine months of the year.  

With a personal net worth topping $1.1 billion, Blankfein officially became a billionaire this summer as well. Most of his wealth is tied up in Goldman stock, but the CEO also owns a significant amount of real estate, including a duplex on Central Park West.

In September, Blankfein announced that he is battling cancer — a “highly curable” form of lymphoma, as he described it — but the banker isn’t slowing down. Blankfein continues to run the company as usual, coming into the office every day and keeping GS on top of Wall Street.



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Marco Rubio says that Sean Penn's El Chapo interview is 'grotesque'

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Sen Marco Rubio (R-Florida) said that he found Sean Penn's interview with Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín Guzmán Loera, better known as 'El Chapo," "grotesque." 

Speaking on Sunday with ABC, the Republican presidential candidate acknowledged that the interview between the Oscar award-winning actor and the drug lord, conducted in a jungle hideout while Guzmán was on the run from law enforcement after breaking out of a Mexican prison last year, was legal but unsavory. 

"If one of these American actors who have benefited from the greatness of this country who have made money from our free enterprise system, want to go fawn over a criminal and drug trafficker in their interviews, they have a Constitutional right to do it," Rubio told host George Stephanopoulos. 

"I find it grotesque," he added.

Guzmán was recaptured late last week reportedly after law enforcement authorities traced his communications with Hollywood representatives over the details of a potential biopic about his life.

Rubio said on Sunday that he "doesn't spend a lot of time thinking about Sean Penn," but that it was "fantastic" that authorities used the interview between Penn and Guzman to help track Guzman down.

Rubio was hardly the only critic of the interview.

Many observers found Penn's account too favorable to the drug lord, who for years oversaw a vast and brutal drug enterprise that's left thousands of victims dead over the last several decades.

 

Rolling Stone disclosed that although he did not make any changes, Guzmán was allowed to view the piece before it was published and provide feedback. The decision to allow the drug kingpin editorial input — an unusual and ethically questionable arrangement — riled many journalists and media ethicists online on Saturday.

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'The Force Awakens' edges out Leonardo DiCaprio's new movie to win the weekend box office

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Leonardo DiCaprio's new movie "The Revenant" put up a strong fight this weekend, finally challenging "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" for the top spot at the domestic box office. 

By Sunday's estimates, however, "Awakens" won out, taking in $41 million this weekend versus $38 million for "The Revenant," according to box office tracking firm, Exhibitor Relations.

This makes four consecutive weeks at number one for "Awakens."

"The Revenant" performed better its first weekend in wide release than its projections of $20 million and beat out "Awakens" in Friday's gross, taking in $14.4 million over $10.7 million for the new "Star Wars." But being in 759 more theaters than "The Revenant" was the edge for "Star Wars" by Sunday. 

the revenant DF 02339R_rgb finalThe audience interest in DiCaprio's portrayal of a mountain man who seeks vengeance (and takes on a bear) is a good sign for the actor on his award seasons chances. We might even see him take home a Golden Globe tonight.

While overseas, "The Force Awakens" opened in China, the second-largest film market in the world and one of the last territories in the world that wasn't showing the new "Star Wars" yet. Though China has been late to the "Star Wars" craze, the original trilogy didn't start playing there until last June, they have certainly caught the fever as estimates had the film taking in $33 million on Saturday, the largest opening day for Disney ever in that market, according to Deadline. Then set another record with a $53 million weekend debut, the largest ever in China.

"The Force Awakens" now is #3 in the all-time box office record with $1.669 billion. In North America the film is at $812 million, the fastest film ever to cross the $800 million mark.

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The 20 most exciting TV shows of 2016

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This year is already shaping up to be a great year for television, and it's only been a week.

It started strong with the return of ABC's "American Crime," a surprisingly good TV entry by Jennifer Lopez on NBC's "Shades of Blue," and the fantasy series "Shannara Chronicles" from, of all places, MTV.

But there is much more to look forward to in the new year. Cult favorites like "The X-Files" and "Gilmore Girls" are getting revived. Meanwhile, big names are bringing on very exciting new takes on popular genres, as in HBO's "Westworld," TBS's "Angie Tribeca," and Netflix's "Love."

That's just the tip of the iceberg. 

Here are 20 new and returning shows we're most looking forward to:

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"Billions" (Showtime), Premieres January 17

Power and politics shake hands, clash, and compete in this New York-set series starring "Homeland" and "Wolf Hall" star Damian Lewis and Oscar-nominated Paul Giamatti ("Cinderella Man," "Sideways").



"Angie Tribeca" (TBS), Premieres January 17

So many questions about "Angie Tribeca."

First, "Parks and Recreation" star Rashida Jones' next gig is a police procedural. Then, TBS announced it would air all 10 episodes of the show's first season on January 17 and that it has already renewed it for 10 more "seasons" — each just one episode and airing a new "season" every week. Then, we found out it was a parody of cop shows from "The Office" star Steve Carell and his wife, Nancy.

Everyone needs to tune in for this just to figure out what the fuss is about.



"Marvel's Agent Carter" Season 2 (ABC), Premieres January 19

Next to "Daredevil," "Agent Carter" is Marvel's most fully realized series in its television rollout. Smart, funny, and stylish, the series relocates Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell) in its second season to Los Angeles to hunt down the sinister threats behind the Hollywood facade. This will be good.



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Ashton Kutcher says the best investment he's ever made is something anyone can afford

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If the name Ashton Kutcher still brings to mind "Dude, Where's My Car," you're behind the times.

In the past few years, the actor turned entrepreneur and investor has cofounded a viral media site and a human-rights organization, appeared on "Shark Tank," and invested in buzzy tech companies such as Spotify, Airbnb, Uber, and Meerkat.

In Grow, the new digital magazine from investing app Acorns (another of his investments), Kutcher talks about everything from why he got started investing to the best investment he's ever made — and it isn't a tech company.

When asked what he considers to be his best investment, Kutcher tells Grow:

My relationships — taking the time to get to know [people], what motivates them, what their challenges are. These things are often overlooked. Investors get so wrapped up in returns and numbers that they forget that the true privilege of their position is to share a journey with exceptional people.

Kutcher's reflection has a practical takeaway for just about anyone: The best investments don't have to cost a fortune. Investing in relationships can cost as little as a few cups of coffee and a handful of emails.

His advice to people wondering what they should invest in can be similarly affordable:

First: Yourself! Double down on your own expertise, your passion, the thing you do when you have free time.

[Then] pay attention. If you work in a grocery store, pay attention to the items that you can't keep in stock, and the new things that are hitting the shelf. If you are a contractor, investigate the new materials showing up on jobs. Who makes them? Why are they better? You may have a more educated opinion than you are giving yourself credit for. Too often, people speculate on investments based on what's making someone else rich and forget to do a deep index on their own behaviors.

Invest in that which you would like to see become a reality. Worst-case scenario, you lose money — but at least you will get the life you want.

If you're ready to invest, take a look at the online courses that can help you get rich and read up on why you should stop networking if you want to be successful.

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The 50 most successful movies of 2015

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Hundreds of movies come out every year, but only a fraction become hits. Business Insider decided to rank the most successful movies of 2015 based on global box-office performance, critic reviews, and fan ratings.

We started with a group of the 150 highest-grossing films of the past year through the weekend ending Dec. 20 — culled from Box Office Mojo — and then subtracted their production budget to arrive at a box-office profit figure. We also compiled critic ratings from review aggregator Metacritic (scale: 0 to 100) and fan ratings from IMDb (scale: 0 to 10). We combined these three metrics by taking their geometric mean and ranking the movies based on that composite score. We included some films on our list that technically opened in 2014, as their wide-release box office run took place primarily in 2015.

Our top 50 grossed a combined $19 billion worldwide at the box office. Many were reboots or extensions of a franchise, including Vin Diesel's action blockbuster "Furious 7," which claimed the top spot thanks to strong reviews from fans and critics as well as an expectations-shattering $1.3 billion box-office profit worldwide.

With only one weekend under its belt, "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" vaulted to No. 9 after a record-breaking $529 million opening weekend; it will likely ascend higher in the final days of 2015.

Read on to see the 50 most successful films of 2015:

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50. "Woman in Gold"

Global box office sales: $61.6M

Production budget: $11M

Box office profit: $50.6M

Critic rating: 51

Fan rating:7.3

In "Woman in Gold," Helen Mirren plays a World War II survivor trying to reclaim her family's possessions that were stolen by the Nazis — including a valuable painting — with Ryan Reynolds serving as her lawyer. Critics were lukewarm about the treatment of this true-to-life tale, but audiences were more forgiving.



49. "Black Mass"

Global box office sales: $94.6M

Production budget: $53M

Box office profit: $41.6M

Critic rating:68

Fan rating:7.2

Detailing the rise of notorious Boston mobster Whitey Bulger, "Black Mass" earned approval as one of the best gangster movies in years. And after a string of curious, underwhelming film decisions, Johnny Depp is once again in prime form in the lead role as the kingpin.



48. "Still Alice"

Global box office sales: $43.9M

Production budget: $5M

Box office profit: $38.9M

Critic rating: 72

Fan rating:7.5

Still among the best actors in the business, Julianne Moore proves it once again in "Still Alice," in which she plays a Columbia University linguistics professor stricken by early-onset Alzheimer's. Released in time for the 2015 award season, Moore won an Academy Award — she had been nominated three times previously — and a Golden Globe for best actress, likely helping the film secure a nice profit at the box office during its wide release this year.



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These witty science jokes will make you smarter

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The biggest sci-fi hit of 2015 all began with Andy Weir and his best-selling book "The Martian," which is a thrilling survival story based on the planet Mars.

Weir is a software engineer by profession and American novelist by hobby. So, he's got a mind for science.

But he's also a wise-creaking jokester, just like his novel's hero, Mark Watney.

In celebration of the film's release to Digital HD and 3D Blu-ray on Dec. 22, Weir recently spoke with Business Insider, and we couldn't help but appeal to his comedic side.

So, we asked him to tell us a couple of his favorite science jokes, and he didn't disappoint!

While Weir could have a crowd of mathematicians and physicists chuckling with his collection of ready-upon-request jokes, the rest of us might need a quick science refresher to appreciate the punch lines.

Here are two of Weir's favorite science jokes with a brief science refresher:

Andy Weir Joke #1

The joke starts out:

"An ion walks into a bar and says 'I think I left an electron here last night.' And the bartender say 'Are you sure?'"

BartenderWhat does the ion say?

Here's a basic review of atoms and ions. See if you can guess what the ion says as you refresh your brain with some chemistry.

At a basic level, atoms are made of electrons that orbit around a nucleus. But sometimes atoms gain or lose electrons.

When that happens, we call that atom an ion. When an ion gains an electron it is negatively charged and when it loses an electron, it's positively charged.

Here's the full joke:

"An ion walks into a bar and says 'I think I left an electron here last night.' And the bartender says 'Are you sure?' And the ion says 'I'm positive.'"

Andy Weir Joke #2

The joke begins like this:

"What do you get when you cross a mountain climber with a mosquito?"

Santas on a mountainSee if you can guess after this brief review of mathematics.

This joke involves what mathematicians call scalars and vectors.

Basically, scalars and vectors are quantities that mathematicians and physicists use to express the world around us.

What you need to know is that you can multiply vectors together using a "cross product", but vectors can't be combined with scalars in this way. It's just a mathematical no no.

Here's the full joke:

"What do you get when you cross a mountain climber with a mosquito? Nothing! You can't cross a scalar with a vector."

We know that Weir's science jokes are a bit on the nerdy side, but that's why we enjoy them!

We wouldn't expect anything less from a guy who wrote the book that spawned one of the most scientifically accurate sci-fi films of all time.

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How that infamous bear-attack scene in 'The Revenant' was made, and other secrets of the movie revealed

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Director Alejandro González Iñárritu may have insisted on making his new movie "The Revenant" as authentic as possible — including having actors go through a week-long boot camp to correctly portray mountain men in the 1800s — but there was still some movie magic needed to pull off this gory revenge tale.

That's where legendary production designer Jack Fisk comes in. He's best known for the beautifully designed period settings in movies like "The Thin Red Line," " The New World," and "There Will Be Blood" over his three-decade career.

Here, Fisk reveals some of the secrets behind the making of "The Revenant," including how that now-legendary bear scene came to be.

Warning: spoilers ahead.

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There was no real bear used in the filming of the grizzly attack scene.

One of the most memorable scenes in the movie is the incredible bear attack on Leonardo DiCaprio's character Hugh Glass. The scene is intense, violent, and, according to Fisk, completely done though stunt men and CGI. And, no, of course there is no rape.

So there wasn't even a trained bear for some of it?

"None. We had no real bears on set," Fisk said. "We looked at bears, but they were all so fat. These trained bears in captivity that you see on TV shows, they don't look like a wild grizzly bear from the 1800s."

According to Fisk, the scene was rehearsed with the stunt department for months before they even got on set in Squamish, British Columbia. Then on the day, he dressed the area where the attack took place with 25-foot rubber trees so when DiCaprio smashed into them, he wouldn't get injured. The actor was then strapped to harnesses attached to cables the stunt team used to yank him around. The grizzly was then added digitally in postproduction.



Fake horses were created for the scene in which DiCaprio cuts one open to stay warm.

The bear scene was certainly not the only jaw-dropping sequence in "The Revenant." Later in the movie, as Glass sets out to enact his revenge on the people who left him after the grizzly attack, he must run from a group of angry Native Americans. To escape them, he and his horse jump a cliff and land on a giant pine tree. As it begins to snow, Glass cuts open the horse, takes out its guts, and crawls inside until the storm passes.

"The horse was built and the guts inside were created out of latex and hair," Fisk said. The props department built one horse for DiCaprio to crawl inside and another horse for the chase scene in which they go off the cliff.

"We brought in 15 big pine trees, some of them 50 feet tall. And we snowed in the area," Fisk said. "Like the bear scene, the snow around the horse was always being trampled on, so between takes we were constantly using the snow machine."



The location where DiCaprio finds the bison herd was discovered by accident.

Fisk says the biggest challenge he had on the film was finding the remote locations for shooting. That's largely because, as the movie was shot with only natural light, Fisk had to find locations with a south or southwest vista.

In one striking scene, Glass comes across a herd of bison, leading to a part with a Native American offering Glass the liver of one of the bison he's eating. Fisk said that that location was found by accident.

"We were checking out a river one day, stopped the boats at a point, and, walking up this hill, we found this large vista," Fisk said. "The sun was setting, it was the perfect time of day to see it. Everyone thought, 'My God, this is what we've been looking for.'"

Fisk and his team lined the top of the hill with bushes. Computer graphics were used to create the herd of buffalo. Fisk said only one prop bison was created for the liver scene.

"The AD said, 'Where's the second one?' and I told him a man can eat maybe 10 pounds of meat. Between the two of them they wouldn't even put a dent in it."

Fisk recalls seeing DiCaprio eat the real bison liver: "I thought Leo was vegetarian, but he went for it."



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Stars like Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are flocking to this resort in the middle of the Utah desert

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The Amangiri Resort is located near a canyon in the middle of the Utah desert. It's pretty isolated, which is why it's a Hollywood hot spot. Stars like Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, and Gordon Ramsay have all vacationed there.

The resort plans to add houses to the complex as well. According to The Hollywood Reporter, you can buy one for $7.5 million — and it'll come with a BMW and 100 hours of private jet time.

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Story by Ian Phillips and editing by Chelsea Pineda

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Here's what all the stars wore on the Golden Globes 2016 red carpet

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The Golden Globes are unique. They're not just the "party" awards show, but they're the only major one that combines film and TV. And in this age of prestige TV, that means you get to see the full gamut of Hollywood celebrity, from Jeffrey Tambor of Amazon's "Transparent" to, well, Leonardo DiCaprio.

Check out all the looks from the red carpet this year here.

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LIVE: All the winners at the 2016 Golden Globes

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The 73rd annual Golden Globes are taking place tonight. 

Hosted by comedian Ricky Gervais for a fourth time, the awards ceremony honors both film and TV from 2015.

"Carol" leads the film categories with five nominations, and six shows, including Amazon's "Transparent" and FX's "Fargo," landed three nominations each.

As the winners are announced this evening, we'll be updating this list live.

Check out tonight's big winners below in BOLD

Best motion picture, drama
"Carol"
"Mad Max: Fury Road"
"The Revenant"
"Room"
"Spotlight"

Best motion picture, comedy or musical 
"The Big Short"
"Joy"
"The Martian"
"Spy"
"Trainwreck"

Best director
Todd Haynes, "Carol"
Alejandro Inarritu, "The Revenant"
Tom McCarthy, "Spotlight"
George Miller, "Mad Max: Fury Road"
Ridley Scott, "The Martian"

Best TV series, drama 
"Empire"
"Game of Thrones" 
"Mr. Robot"
"Narcos"
"Outlander"

Best TV series, comedy
"Casual"
"Mozart in the Jungle" — Winner
"Transparent"
"Orange is the New Black"
"Veep"

Best actor in a motion picture, drama
Bryan Cranston, "Trumbo"

Leonardo DiCaprio, "The Revenant"

Michael Fassbender, "Steve Jobs"
Eddie Redmayne, "The Danish Girl"
Will Smith, "Concussion"

Best actress in a motion picture, drama
Cate Blanchett, "Carol"
Brie Larson, "Room"
Rooney Mara, "Carol"
Saoirse Ronan, "Brooklyn"
Alicia Vikander, "The Danish Girl"

Best actor in a motion picture, comedy or musical
Christian Bale, "The Big Short"
Steve Carell, "The Big Short"
Matt Damon, "The Martian"
Al Pacino, "Danny Collins"
Mark Ruffalo, "Infinitely Polar Bear"

Best actress in a motion picture, comedy or musical
Jennifer Lawrence, "Joy"
Melissa McCarthy, "Spy"

Amy Schumer, "Trainwreck"

Maggie Smith, "Lady in the Van"

Lily Tomlin, "Grandma"

Best supporting actor in TV miniseries or TV movie
Alan Cumming, "The Good Wife"
Damian Lewis, "Wolf Hall" 
Tobias Menzies, "Outlander" 
Ben Mendelsohn, "Bloodline" 
Christian Slater, "Mr. Robot"

Best supporting actor in a motion picture
Paul Dano, "Love & Mercy"
Idris Elba, "Beasts of No Nation"
Mark Rylance, "Bridge of Spies"
Michael Shannon, "99 Homes"
Sylvester Stallone, "Creed"

Best supporting actress in a motion picture
Jane Fonda, "Youth"
Jennifer Jason Leigh, "The Hateful Eight"
Helen Mirren, "Trumbo"
Alicia Vikander, "Ex Machina"
Kate Winslet, "Steve Jobs" — Winner

Best actor in a TV series, drama
Jon Hamm, "Mad Men"
Rami Malek, "Mr. Robot"
Wagner Moura, "Narcos"
Bob Odenkirk, "Better Call Saul"
Liev Schreiber, "Ray Donovan"

Best actor in a TV series, comedy
Aziz Ansari, "Master of None"
Gael Garcia Bernal, "Mozart in the Jungle"
Rob Lowe, "The Grinder"
Patrick Stewart, "Blunt Talk"
Jeffrey Tambor, "Transparent"

Best supporting actress in TV miniseries or movie
Uzo Aduba, "Orange is the New Black"
Joanne Froggatt, "Downton Abbey"
Regina King, "American Crime"
Judith Light, "Transparent"
Maura Tierney, "The Affair" — Winner

Best actress in a TV series, drama
Caitriona Balfe, "Outlander"
Viola Davis, "How to Get Away With Murder" 
Eva Green, "Penny Dreadful"
Taraji P. Henson, "Empire"
Robin Wright, "House of Cards"

Best actress in a TV series, comedy
Rachel Bloom, "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" — Winner
Jamie Lee Curtis, "Scream Queens" 
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, "Veep" 
Gina Rodriguez, "Jane the Virgin" 
Lily Tomlin, "Grace and Frankie"

Best TV movie or mini-series
"American Crime"
"American Horror Story"
"Fargo"
"Flesh and Bone"
"Wolf Hall" — Winner

Best animated film
"Anomalisa"
"The Good Dinosaur"
"Inside Out"
"The Peanuts Movie"
"Shaun the Sheep Movie"

Best screenplay, motion picture
Emma Donoghue, "Room" 
Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer, "Spotlight" 
Charles Randolph and Adam McKay, "The Big Short" 
Aaron Sorkin, "Steve Jobs" 
Quentin Tarantino, "The Hateful Eight"

Best actor in a TV miniseries or movie
Idris Elba, "Luther"
Oscar Isaac, "Show Me A Hero" — Winner
David Oyelowo, "Nightingale"
Mark Rylance, "Wolf Hall"
Patrick Wilson, "Fargo"

Best actress in a TV miniseries or movie
Kirsten Dunst, "Fargo" 
Lady Gaga, "American Horror Story: Hotel" 
Sarah Hay, "Flesh and Bone" 
Felicity Huffman, "American Crime" 
Queen Latifah, "Bessie"

Best original song 
"Love Me Like You Do," Fifty Shades of Grey
"One Kind of Love," Love & Mercy
"See You Again," Furious 7
"Simple Song #3," Youth
"Writing's On the Wall," Spectre

Best original score
Carter Burwell, "Carol"
Alexandre Desplat, "The Danish Girl"
Ennio Morricone, "The Hateful Eight"
Daniel Pemberton, "Steve Jobs"
Ryuichi Sakamoto & Alva Noto, "The Revenant"

Best foreign language film
"The Brand New Testament"
"The Club"
"The Fencer"
"Mustang"
"Son of Saul"

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Here are the uncomfortable jokes Ricky Gervais made in his Golden Globes opening monologue

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It looks like Ricky Gervais doesn't have any hosting rust on him. The comic returned to the Golden Globes Sunday night as master of ceremonies for the first time since 2012, but he was as biting and uncomfortable as ever.

He came right out of the box by telling the audience to "shut up." That was followed by calling everyone "disgusting, pill-popping, sexual-deviant scum."

Gervais then declared that he was going to do his opening and then go hide somewhere where "not even Sean Penn will find me." Then he added: "Snitch."

He told everyone to "relax," and that "I'm going to try to be nice." But that didn't last long. (Earlier in the evening on the red carpet, he had only promised he "won't break any laws.")

"I've changed," said Gervais. "Not as much as Bruce Jenner." He then praised Caitlyn Jenner for her inspiring year, though he added, "She didn't do a lot for women drivers," referring to her car accident that resulted in a death in 2015.

Many of the jokes got a mix of laughs and awkward silence, like saying that to support the equal wage issue that Jennifer Lawrence made famous in 2015 he's getting paid as much as last year's hosts, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, "It's not my fault they split it," he said.

The biggest laugh Gervais got was when he touched on news reports stating that following the announcement that he would host, some nominees might not attend. Gervais said he found that impossible because who would pass up a Golden Globe, "particularly if that film company has already paid for it." The camera then went to Harvey Weinstein, who has been notorious for his methods to get his films awards. 

Gervais' first hosting duty at the Globes in 2010 was the first time someone took on the role at all at the event since 1995. His edgy comedy was mixed, but he returned as host in 2011 and 2012. After that, Amy Poehler and Tina Fey took the job for the next three years. Gervais is back, and he certainly hasn't lost his edge.

Watch the complete monologue:

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A 23-year-old entrepreneur on 'Shark Tank' convinced Robert Herjavec to invest $100,000 in gross-looking fruits and veggies

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Most entrepreneurs who appear on "Shark Tank" take pains to make sure their products look as appealing as possible.

Evan Lutz, on the other hand, took pride in showing off some of the ugliest inventory he could find.

The 23-year-old from Baltimore, Maryland, is the cofounder and CEO of Hungry Harvest, a business built on selling "ugly" — but perfectly edible — produce that would otherwise get discarded. For every box it sells, the company donates a box to the hungry.

Lutz approached the sharks looking for $50,000 for a 5% stake in his company, and ended up making a deal with Robert Herjavec, who invested $100,000 for 10% equity.

As Lutz explained on "Shark Tank," he's aiming to solve two growing problems at the same time: hunger and food waste in the US. One-sixth of the American population goes hungry, Lutz said.

At the same time, according to the National Resource Defense Council, a whopping 40% of food in the US is never eaten. That's partly because supermarkets don't sell (and customers don't buy) produce that's misshapen or discolored, even though it's generally fine to eat.

Hungry Harvest purchases surplus produce from local farms and wholesalers. Boxes of ugly produce range from $15 to $55 a week (depending on size) and include leafy greens, vegetables, fruits, and sometimes seasoning.

The company is but one example of an increasing number of businesses across the US that aim to reduce food waste by marketing ugly produce that would typically get thrown in the trash.

hungry harvest produceIn their first six months, Hungry Harvest had $37,000 in sales; in the last six months, they've had $104,000. Just over 500 customers currently have subscriptions.

Right now, however, the company isn't profitable, and they've had a net loss of about $20,000 — a fact that caused alarm among some of the sharks.

On "Shark Tank," Barbara Corcoran criticized Lutz for being too "in love with the idea" and not "greedy" enough to be the kind of businessperson she'd want to partner with.

Herjavec jumped in with an offer, which Lutz nearly lost because he was waiting to hear from Kevin O'Leary. After a few seconds of deliberation, and after some cajoling from the other sharks, he moved to accept Herjavec's deal.

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The 10 best-dressed guys at the Golden Globes

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With its more relaxed dress code, the Golden Globe Awards are a chance for the stars to let their hair down a little. This year's ceremony was no exception, and the men of Hollywood gave us a range of beautiful black tie ensembles.

From intricate patterns to color experimentation, we saw more variety on the red carpet than ever before.

Keep scrolling to take a look at our best-dressed men of the night.

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Aziz Ansari reminds you not to be afraid of patterns with his subtle plaid tux.



Eddie Radmayne also decided to try out a patterned tuxedo, this one designed by Gucci.



Michael B. Jordan kicked it old school with a 1920s-style low-cut vest as part of his Dior Homme three-piece.



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What it's like behind the scenes at the Golden Globes awards and after-parties

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Sunday's Golden Globes ceremony was a star-studded event complete with uncomfortable jokes and awkward moments.

And while the internet freaked over Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet's "Titanic" reunion, not everything was caught live on camera.

If you're curious what happened when the show cameras stopped rolling, celebrities provided a peek backstage and showed how they spent the night at after-parties. Check out some of the best moments below:

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"The Big Short" stars Brad Pitt, Ryan Gosling, and Steve Carell hang out during the 73rd annual Golden Globe Awards.



Rob Lowe posted a selfie with "The West Wing" creator Aaron Sorkin. Sorkin won a Golden Globe for his "Steve Jobs" screenplay.

What a great reunion at my table. West Wing Forever! #GoldenGlobes

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Jennifer Lopez hung out with Kate Hudson and Golden Globe winner Lady Gaga.

The girls and the globe!! Congrats Gaga! #goldenglobes #CAA #afterparty #katehudson #ladygaga #jlo

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Leonardo DiCaprio is one step closer to his Oscar

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Leonardo DiCaprio's career is at its peak, and this just might be the year he finally wins an Oscar.

While DiCaprio has had five Oscar nominations, he's never won one.

However, he's likely to get a sixth nomination for "The Revenant," an intense survival movie in which he swam in frozen rivers and slept in a bison carcass. He just won the Golden Globe for Best Actor for it, and his star power made the movie $38 million at the box office this past weekend.

His performance in "The Revenant" also follows acclaimed performances in "Django Unchained" and "Wolf of Wall Street."

Last month, DiCaprio was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild award, the strongest predictor for an Oscar nomination. The nominations will be announced Thursday, and Leo is a lock.

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