During a recent campaign rally for Donald Trump, a dance trio called "USA Freedom Kids" performed a theme song paying tribute to the presidential candidate.
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The discussion surrounding Netflix's "Making a Murderer" has finally hit a fever pitch.
The true-crime series about Steven Avery, a man exonerated for a crime after spending 18 years in prison only to find himself charged of a heinous new crime, has struck a nerve with viewers.
Whether you believe Avery is innocent of the murder or not, it's impossible to walk away from the documentary without having some doubt in the American justice system and its process.
Everyone from the White House to the victim of the 1985 crime that wrongfully imprisoned Avery has commented on the show and the case in the weeks since the series was released near the end of December. And there is little one can do to avoid all the coverage.
But what if you haven't been able to watch or finish — or what if you watched a few weeks ago and need a refresher? Business Insider has you covered.
Here's a quick recap of all 10 episodes of "Making a Murderer" and the most important developments:
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Home at last: Steven Avery returned to his family in 2003 after being exonerated for the 1985 rape and assault of a woman, Penny Beerntsen, in his hometown Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. He had already served 18 years in prison for the crime. New DNA evidence proved him innocent.
He's welcomed back with open arms and given the full attention of media and state politicians.
But this isn't the kind of treatment Avery is used to — and his luck is about to change.
Steven Avery had a spotty past: The Avery family weren't ones to mix with the community in Manitowoc. They stuck to themselves and lived close to each other or on their family property, where they also ran an auto-salvage yard. They've been known to get in trouble with the law.
Avery's record before the rape arrest wasn't what you'd call clean. It included a few burglaries and cruelty to an animal — he doused a cat with gasoline and placed it in a fire. Avery, who's revealed to have an IQ of 70, chalks it up to hanging with the wrong people.
But his family insists he would always admit to his wrongdoings if he actually did them.
And Avery seemed to be getting his life together. He got married and had kids.
Steven Avery crosses the police: Avery was accused by a local woman, and an Avery relative, of running her off the road and pulling a gun on her.
He admitted to doing so, though he claimed the gun wasn't loaded. His reason for doing so, he said, was that she had previously reported that he harassed her and made lewd gestures toward her.
She was married to a county deputy, which may have made matters worse for him, according to one theory of the case. Before he knew it, Avery was facing the charges of sexual assault and attempted murder. Beerntsen, who was brutally attacked while jogging, would later identify him as her attacker.
Even though Avery had an alibi and another police department identified a different possible suspect, Avery was convicted of the crimes and given 32 years without a chance for parole.
As we know, he would later be freed because of DNA evidence. In fact, the assailant was the police's other suspect, Gregory Allen, who attacked two other women while Avery was in prison.
Ever since Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán was recaptured by Mexican authorities, new details have been released about what led up to the drug trafficker's arrest.
First, when Rolling Stone released an article titled "El Chapo Speaks" the day after the most notorious drug lord was back in the custody of Mexican authorities, it was revealed that actor Sean Penn had met with El Chapo to interview him for the article. Now, new texts intercepted by the authorities show that he appeared to be more interested in meeting the woman who set up the interview with Sean Penn than the actor-turned-journalist.
Kate del Castillo is a Mexican-American actress that had connections with El Chapo and orchestrated the meeting between Chapo and Penn while the former was in hiding. The messages reveal a doting relationship between her and Chapo.
According to the texts, the drug lord did not know who Sean Penn was, and even said he loved del Castillo.
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We all know Adele can sing, but her recent appearance on The Late Late Show with James Corden proves that she can rap too.
The singer filmed a 14-minute "Carpool Karaoke" segment that aired Wednesday. The whole thing is worth watching, but the best part comes about 10 minutes in, when Adele breaks into Nicki Minaj's verse on Kanye West's "Monster."
Not only did she do the rap justice, she got immediate praise from Minaj, who posted the clip with an ecstatic caption on Instagram.
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Alan Rickman died Thursday after a battle with cancer. The actor was 69.
Rickman was 39 when he landed his big break as the lead male role in the 1985 Royal Shakespeare Company's production of "Les Liaisons Dangereuses". He reprised the role in the 1987 Broadway revival and earned his first Tony nomination.
A year later, he made his film debut as the notorious villian Hans Gruber in "Die Hard". And thus began Rickman's ascension to one of the most recognizable actors, helped in part by his perfect voice. In 2001, he wove his way into the hearts of "Harry Potter" fans as the beloved Severus Snape and continued the role through 2011.
In honor of his remarkable career, here's a look back at 16 of his most memorable roles:
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David Bowie is setting new records from the afterlife.
The icon, who died Sunday at the age of 69 after a battle with cancer, broke Vevo's record for most video views in a day with 51 million views on Monday.
His videos saw an increase in activity of 5,198 percent, and his new video for "Lazarus" was the most-viewed video on his page, racking up 11.1 million in a day.
The previous record was held by Adele, whose page amassed 36 million views on October 23, 2015, the day her "Hello" video premiered.
The "Lazarus" video was released January 7, a day before Bowie's 69th birthday and the release of his newest album, "Blackstar."
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Oscar nominations are out, and a lot of the talk is focused on the movies and performances that were snubbed.
But there's a blessing in there, too: “Mad Max: Fury Road” nabbed 10 Oscar nominations, including best picture and director — a feat that's extremely rare for a summer action movie (the last two times were "Lord of the Rings: Return of the King" in 2004 and "District 9" in 2010).
George Miller’s return to the “Mad Max” franchise, with Tom Hardy taking over the title role that Mel Gibson made his own in the 1980s, was a hit for critics as well as general audiences. It took in over $375 million worldwide in its theatrical run, and it topped a lot of year-end lists.
Thanks to its strong-willed female protagonist (played by Charlize Theron) paired with Max, an insane extended vehicle chase over a wasteland, and incredible sound design and visual effects, the movie grew a following that became dedicated to keeping it in the conversation when awards season came along many months later.
There were certainly detractors. One Oscar voter told Business Insider late last year that he would not vote for “Mad Max” because he thought“it was really stupid.” And he said that other voters he spoke to weren’t going to vote for it either.
But those naysayers were obviously in the minority.
On Thursday, when the Oscars nominations were announced, the film didn’t just receive nods for sound mixing, sound editing, visual effects, costume design, and production design — the more expected technical categories — but it also landed the most prestigious two categories, best directing and best picture.
In a year when fellow summer blockbusters “Jurassic World,” “Furious 7,” and “Avengers: Age of Ultron” made more money, “Fury Road” is that rare summer release that grabbed the attention of both fans and the fickle Academy voters.
Maybe all isn't lost for Max after all.
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On Thursday morning, this year's Oscar nominations were announced. As with every year, there were a lot of snubs and surprises. One big snub, but no surprise, was that actor Oscar Isaac didn't make the cut.
No, the snub wasn't for his performance in "Star Wars," but rather for a much smaller sci-fi movie called "Ex Machina."
In "Ex Machina," Isaac plays Nathan, a mad scientist unlike any mad scientist you've ever seen. Nathan is the secluded CEO of a big tech company who builds a life-like female robot named Ava (Alicia Vikander). In the movie, Isaac's acting is so good that it feels effortless.
Nathan is a creepy and menacing character, a man who is completely secluded from all other humans, yet thinks he can make a robot that resembles a real person. However, Isaac's charisma makes Nathan incredibly likable. The most memorable scene in the film involves Nathan doing a disco dance with one of his artificially intelligent creations. It is a perfect moment of comic relief in an otherwise dark story.
Oscars are all about big, flashy performances, and Isaac's work in "Ex Machina" is rather subtle. He might not have gotten his due for "Ex Machina," but Oscar will one day have his Oscar.
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USA Network's latest show, "Colony," has two very clear connections to "Lost": Carlton Cuse is a cocreator and Josh Holloway is a star of the sci-fi series. Both served the same purposes on "Lost."
But that's not where the similarities end.
"I think that your experience all through life helps to grow, and the more you write, the better you get," Cuse told Business Insider.
"You learn from everything you write," he continued. "I feel like 'Lost' was an incredible experience. This show is not at all meant to duplicate 'Lost.' There are obviously, because Josh is in it, comparisons, but I think they are very different shows."
"Colony" centers on a family, led by Holloway and "The Walking Dead" alum Sarah Wayne Callies, as they struggle to survive in Los Angeles in a futuristic world occupied by aliens. While some choose to collaborate with and benefit from the new order, others rebel and suffer the consequences.
"'Lost' was this overarching mystery about these people who were stuck on this deserted island," Cuse explained. "Why were they stuck there? The show was really about people who were lost on a deserted island, but more importantly people who were lost in their lives and searching for redemptions and answers. I think this show is a little bit more direct. There isn’t some great single mystery that is looming to be answered."
What it does have in common with "Lost" is the storytelling technique. Cuse referred to it as "playing the world closed."
"It just felt like what we didn’t want to do was just have this giant expositional dump in the first episode or the first couple of episodes of the show," he said. "It would be far more compelling to have the characters only know a limited amount and have the audience know only what the characters know, and the mysteries of this world, like what is going on here, would unfold over time."
There's at least one mystery "Lost" tried to uncover during its run that isn't in the cards right now for "Colony," but that could change.
"In the case of 'Lost,' we made 121 episodes of that show," Cuse said. "So talk to me again in season nine and God will probably be very much on the agenda."
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YouTube personality Miranda Sings is taking her Internet fame to Netflix with her own scripted comedy show.
"Haters Back Off" will be an eight-episode series starring 29-year-old Colleen Ballinger-Evans, the actress and comedian behind the YouTube character Miranda Sings, known for her heavy lipstick use, awful advice, and tone-deaf music covers.
The comedy, Netflix's first led by a YouTube star, is set to portray Miranda's family life. She's described as "anincredibly confident, totally untalented star on the rise who continues to fail upward by the power of her belief that she was born famous — it's just no one knows it yet."
Ballinger-Evans has been posting Miranda Sings videos since 2008 and has acquired more than five million subscribers and more than 800 million views on her YouTube channel. Under her Miranda Sings persona, Ballinger-Evans has performed live comedy shows, released an EP, published a New York Times bestseller, and appeared on shows such as "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee" with Jerry Seinfeld and "The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon."
Her music covers have evolved from singing straight into the camera to full-on music videos.
Her Twitter is also comedy gold.
I'm in Phoenix today! Everything is bigger in Texas.
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Fox's upcoming "X-Files" revival is taking on some heady issues, including government surveillance and national security, plus a conspiracy theory about 9/11.
“We live in a ‘Citizenfour’ world,” “The X-Files” creator Chris Carter said, referring to the Edward Snowden documentary, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The six-episode new season brings back a Fox Mulder (David Duchovny), who's a bit paranoid about cameras. He's taped over the lens on his laptop and keeps an eye out for eavesdropping drones.
As Edward Snowden told the world, Americans are being surveilled to at a whole new level since 9/11 and the passing of the Patriot Act in 2002.
“A lot of the rights and liberties that were signed away [with the Patriot Act] are being abused now,” Carter said. “And no one seems to care.”
"The X-Files," already steeped in suspicions of government conspiracies, will absorb all of these new realities.
"We see the admitted spying by the government," Carter told Entertainment Weekly. "These are not things we’re making up and it informs everything Mulder and Scully and doing are doing.”
The duo has some help this season in stoking their fears of being watched from a new character, conservative web-series host Tad O'Malley, played by "Community" star Joel McHale.
"O’Malley eventually sways Mulder and Scully to adopt a new conspiracy that lays a framework for the six-episode revival," EW reported.
"The theory involves global warming, war in the Middle East, NSA spying, chem-trails (here called 'aerial contaminants'), police militarization, supposed FEMA prison camps, and the eventual military 'takeover of America' by a UN-like group of 'multinational elites.'"
All that will tie back to the series' long-standing government alien conspiracy. At one point, O'Malley calls 9/11 a covert operation meant to pin the attacks on terrorists, echoing very real truther theories about the World Trade Center plane crashes — then connects it to extraterrestrial life.
“It’s all part of a conspiracy dating back to the UFO crash at Roswell,” O'Malley says.
"The X-Files" returns to Fox on Sunday, January 24.
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Donald Trump's campaign typically kicks off his rallies with a playlist of bombastic pop hits.
Wednesday's rally was in large part no different. Only this time, the music was accompanied by a trio of children singing and dancing to an original song dedicated to the Republican presidential front-runner himself.
"Cowardice, are you serious? Apologies for freedom — I can't handle this! When freedom rings, answer the call!" they blared. "On your feet, stand up tall! Freedom's on our shoulders, USA! Enemies of freedom face the music. Come on boys, take them down!"
The group, which calls itself the USA Freedom Kids, was formed by Jeff Popick, a Trump supporter whose 8-year-old daughter, Alexis, is one of its members.
"Donald Trump far and away is the No. 1 guy to protect our freedoms. And we need that because we're coming off the heels of a guy who doesn't even get the concept," Popick told Business Insider in a phone interview on Thursday.
Popick himself wrote the lyrics for the Trump tribute song. He said it was originally written about US Army Gen. George Patton, whom he revered since he first saw the 1970 biopic, "Patton."
After watching Trump's campaign-announcement speech in June, the self-described band-manager and lyricist said he was inspired to make a more contemporary alteration to the song on the fly.
"I was watching when Donald Trump announced his candidacy, and he talked about the need for a strong military. And I remember him saying that, 'We're going to find the next Gen. George Patton," Popick said. "When Donald Trump said that, I was inspired to make it even more contemporary than it already was, and make it more about Donald Trump."
Popick has major ambitions for the group, whose three main members are under the age of 12. Those kids have been working together for about six months after Popick and a former "Kidz Bop" employee assembled the group together during casting calls in South Florida.
The group is currently in the studio recording covers of classics like "America The Beautiful" and "Grand Old Flag," and has shot a music video inspired by the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. But Popick said the group is focusing most on recording re-interpretations of older patriotic songs set to what he described as a combination of "electronic dance music, hip-hop, and dub-step," an EDM subgenre.
Popick said he first reached out to the Trump campaign, concerned that he could be sued over the song. Instead, they began a dialogue with the campaign that eventually led the USA Freedom Kids to open for Trump at his Wednesday-night rally.
Asked about whether the children's families were concerned about the political nature of the lyrics, Popick said the parents of the other children in the band were "very supportive" of the his decision to dedicate the song to Trump, and were Trump supporters themselves.
"It wasn't a requisite or prerequisite for them, but yeah, we are all on board," Popick said.
Popick said he's hoping that the Trump track isn't a one-hit wonder, but is instead a launching pad for the group's patriotic and political tracks. USA Freedom Girls already released a song called "National Anthem Pt. II," a song about "riding the wave of freedom."
And "there may be one other song that is, if you want to say, political," Popick said.
"For me, it is all about freedom," he said.
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The surprise hit and critical favorite of 2015, "Mr. Robot" has fans chomping at the bit for more information about what's to come.
Don't worry, we finally have it.
On the heels of the USA Network show's Globes wins earlier this week, creator Sam Esmail and his stars appeared at the Television Critics Association press tour on Thursday in Los Angeles.
While writing is ongoing for a return to shooting in March, creator Sam Esmail is keeping a lot of details about the show's second season close to the vest. But he did give us some details on what's to come when the show returns in the summer.
(Needless to say, there are spoilers for season one ahead.)
Here are seven things we know about season two:
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Sam Esmail is taking the quick route through the TV business. It's especially rare for a first-time creator to run their show, too, which he did. But on season two, he'll add another hat: full-time director. He doesn't mind the extra work and said he's not the greatest collaborator.
"The show’s look is so singular," he said. "It’s actually going to be easier for me."
Now that Elliot (Rami Malek) is aware of his breakdowns, season two will begin the task of clarifying events and the order in which they happened.
"I will say there will be a lot more backstory," Esmail revealed. "The timeline is going to get a little clearer, not a lot clearer, but clearer... This series is filling in the blanks of this character, the past, the present, and the future. That’s how I’m approaching every season."
When we last left Elliot, his whole life was falling apart. What's real and what's not? And how far gone is his mental health? Those are the questions season two will be built around.
"The whole show is about Elliott’s emotional journey and less about the plot," Esmail said.
“That’s a tough pill to swallow, and we’re really going into the mind of a person who’s just become aware of that,” he continued. “Will twists organically derive out of that? If I were a betting man, I’d say yes.”
While on WNYC’s "Studio 360" show, “The Revenant” director Alejandro González Iñárritu, who's of Mexican descent, gave his thoughts about Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump and the comments he’s made about Mexicans coming into the United States.
The director said he "pities" Trump more than anything.
“To be so rich and so bitter... It’s a poor man whose only possession is money, and that’s the lesson we all have to learn,” Iñárritu said.
While announcing his presidential campaign in June, Trump notoriously said that Mexicans coming into the States were “bringing in crime” and were “rapists.”
Many Latinos in Hollywood have spoken out against Trump’s remarks, including America Ferrera and Eva Longoria. Iñárritu touched on Mexican immigration in his 2006 film “Babel,” and makes a point to thank the Mexican people for their support when he’s accepting awards for his filmmaking.
Iñárritu believes blaming undocumented immigrants for crime is planting “seeds of hate.”
”When you generalize like that, you are taking out the humanity, the integrity of human lives,” he told "Studio 360." “That has been historically the way horrible things have happened to humanity."
Iñárritu’s “The Revenant” was nominated for 12 Oscars on Thursday, including best picture and director.
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Spotify's office in San Francisco is flying its flag at half mast this week in memory of David Bowie.
Bowie died after an 18-month battle with cancer at age 69, on Sunday night, January 10th. Distraught fans have spent the days since memorializing the pioneering rocker in their own ways.
That includes Spotify, as confirmed by a company spokesperson:
It's stayed this way until at least today, through a rare San Francisco rainstorm:
there's a green flag flying at half mast visible from my office window that appears to be bearing the spotify logo pic.twitter.com/GqjhRj8CJb
— social justice mage (@haley) January 15, 2016Bowie, as a big proponent of the Internet as a platform for music, would likely have enjoyed this particular tribute from the music streaming app.
David Bowie's most recent and final album "Blackstar," has been tearing up the Spotify charts, alongside classic singles like "Let's Dance," "Heroes," and duet with Queen singer Freddie Mercury, "Under Pressure."
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Director Adam McKay— who is best known for helming many memorable Will Ferrell comedies like the “Anchorman” movies, “Talladega Nights,” and “Step Brothers” — is proving he also has skills to make an engaging drama.
Based on the best-selling nonfiction book by Michael Lewis that looks inside the housing-bubble collapse, the unconventional, documentary-like movie grabbed the attention of A-list talent including Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Christian Bale, and Brad Pitt, who play the few people in the finance world who saw the crash coming.
But one of the film’s biggest coups was featuring Led Zeppelin’s classic track “When the Levee Breaks” in the debut trailer and in the movie’s end credits.
Zeppelin has been known for decades as one of the hardest bands to get to approve its music for use in movies (“Almost Famous,” “School of Rock,” and “The Fighter” are some notable projects that pulled it off). McKay confirmed to Business Insider that it was a challenge signing the group on to "The Big Short."
In fact, the filmmakers almost had to postpone the premiere of the trailer because, up to the 11th hour, they didn’t know if they could legally include the song.
“We cut the trailer and put in the Zeppelin song, and it’s not only one of the greatest songs of all time, but it drives you through the trailer,” McKay said. “But then we were told we might not be able to get the rights.”
McKay explained that the producers and music supervisor on the film had covered the globe trying to get approvals. Reaching out to everyone from the publishing company that owns Zeppelin’s music, to surviving band members Robert Plant and John Paul Jones. Even getting the blessing of the family of the band’s deceased drummer, John Bonham. Everyone said yes, but no one could find lead guitarist Jimmy Page.
“I’m like, ‘What do you mean you can’t find Jimmy Page?’ And I was told he has a new girlfriend and I guess they were off having a good time,” McKay said.
“We finally heard that he was in some pub out in the English countryside,” McKay said. “So an assistant drove two hours to get to the pub, breaking every speed limit, goes into the pub and puts a computer in front of Jimmy Page so he can look at the trailer and say either yes we can use the song or no. Then at like 1:55 a.m. or something I got the email that he said yes.”
But the story doesn’t end there. McKay also wanted to use the song in the film’s end credits, and when Page was told that, he had one condition.
“He said we can’t edit the song,” McKay said. “He told us he didn’t like how they cut up his songs in movies.”
So McKay was now stuck trying to figure out how to make the uncut song — which has a 1:24 instrumental before Plant begins to sing — work in the credits.
What McKay and his editor, Hank Corwin, came up with was to begin the song very faintly among sounds of New York City traffic during the text cards at the end of the movie, which inform the audience what has happened to the characters. Then when the credits follow, Plant begins to sing.
“That was the crazy thing,” McKay said. “That was a pure accident. It just happened to lay out perfectly when the credits begin.”
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Every since the release of 2008's found-footage monster horror movie "Cloverfield," directed by Matt Reeves ("Dawn of the Planet of the Apes") and produced by J.J. Abrams, there's always been talk of a sequel, and now it's finally happened.
Paramount has released the trailer for "10 Cloverfield Lane," which looks more like a movie set within the same world of "Cloverfield" than a sequel.
The clip doesn't give away much, other than that it stars John Goodman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead ("Scott Pilgrim vs. The World"), and John Gallagher Jr. ("The Newsroom"), who are living underground for some reason. And when Winstead's character tries to get to the surface, Goodman's character chases after her, telling her if she goes outside, "you're going to get all of us killed."
We're certainly intrigued.
Collider got this quote from Abrams about the movie:
“The idea came up a long time ago during production. We wanted to make it a blood relative of 'Cloverfield.' The idea was developed over time. We wanted to hold back the title for as long as possible.”
It will be interesting to see how closely it touches on the original movie (both Reeves and "Cloverfield" screenwriter Drew Goddard are not listed on the film's IMDb page).
Here's the trailer (and below that, the poster). "10 Cloverfield Lane" opens March 11.
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A musical on Broadway will feature none other than late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and Microsoft founder Bill Gates.
The show is called "Nerds," and it promises to showcase the "most progressive technology seen on Broadway." It will feature holograms and have an app that allows the audience interact with the performers. The audience will also be able to use the app to choose the show's ending each night.
"Before Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were the undisputed titans of technology, they were NERDS," reads the musical's press release. "Join America’s favorite garage inventors on a hilarious musical journey from the floppy disc era to the iPhone phenomenon, and the epic competition in between, that would revolutionize modern culture as we know it."
The musical was last performed by the Philadelphia Theatre Company in 2013. At the time, BroadwayWorld called the play "funny, smart, and irreverent." The cast for the Broadway production has yet to be announced.
"Nerds" premieres April 21 at the Longacre Theatre in New York City's theater district.
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Since their debut film “Rounders” (1998) shed light on the underground poker world in New York, screenwriters Brian Koppelman and David Levien have been the go-to guys in Hollywood for movies about money, greed, and power.
They’ve written movies from the George Clooney caper “Ocean’s Thirteen” to the Ben Affleck-Justin Timberlake thriller "Runner Runner" about the dark side of offshore gambling, while creating the short-lived ESPN drama “Tilt.”
For their latest venture into television, the duo have moved to the world of hedge funds and the people in government who try to regulate them in the new Showtime series “Billions” (premiering on Sunday).
Starring Paul Giamatti as U.S. Attorney Chuck Rhodes and Damian Lewis (“Homeland”) as hedge-fund bigwig Bobby “Axe” Axelrod, the show follows the mental chess game between the two and their factions as Axe continues to dominate, perhaps in not the most legal of ways, while Chuck waits to catch him, and uses questionable methods to get what he wants.
As with seemingly all great TV shows, there’s after-hours domestic turmoil, including subplots involving 9/11 and S&M.
“We have long been fascinated with the state of commerce in the American story — it’s something that has interested us since we were much younger and watched movies like ‘Wall Street’ and ‘Glengarry Glen Ross,’” Levien told Business Insider.
The two began talking about the project and researching around 2007. Then the idea evolved after the events of 9/11 and the financial collapse in 2008. Finally, by 2013, the two got an idea from their agent to connect with another client: New York Times financial columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin.
Koppelman and Levien admit they took the meeting with trepidation, as one of their big rules is to never let an outsider come into the work they're developing, but they softened to the idea once they heard Sorkin’s interest.
“We saw the show in a similar way,” Koppelman said. “And it was clear to us that Andrew would have a point of view on this material and a kind of access to the world that would be very hard to come by otherwise, so it became very simple to break our rule.”
Now part of a trio, Koppelman and Levien, through Sorkin’s contacts, began to shadow people in hedge funds as well as federal prosecutors.
A big takeaway for them: People on Wall Street talk about going through 9/11 a lot.
“We would sit with people and almost everybody had some take on how their life, their company, their perspective was changed by 9/11,” Koppelman said.
Levien added: “If you’re going to do a story about people who have gone through our recent history here on Wall Street, there are going to be certain events that they would have to contend with. One was the crash, but such a huge thing was what happened on 9/11.”
In the first episode, we find that Axe has created an education fund in memory of those in his firm who died in the terrorist attacks. In fact, he’s the only one who was away from the office that morning, saving his life but also showing the audience how untouchable Axe is.
On the other side, while U.S. Attorney Chuck Rhoades struggles with pressure from the media to be tough on white-collar crime, he also has pressure at home, like the fact that his wife works as a shrink at Axe’s company. Rhoades also has an S&M fetish, which leads to a revealing twist by the end of the pilot.
“We thought it was a great opening for the character and for the series to start in that way,” Levien said of a scene featuring Rhoades tied up and gagged.
This mix of authentic financial backdrop and titillating subplots defines the allure of "Billions." Naturally, it caught Showtime’s attention, which snatched up the show quickly. The cable network is offering the pilot episode for free, and it's quickly picking up steam on social media as one of the must-see new shows of 2016.
But Koppelman and Levien admit there is a little luck involved in all the anticipation, noting that with Oscar nominee “The Big Short” doing well in theaters, audiences are primed to be fascinated in a story like “Billions.”
“It just raises people’s consciousness that there are interesting stories out there in the business world,” Levien said. “Finance touches everyone’s life in a certain way and when you get behind it, you can see what makes these people in the industry tick."
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