"The 40-Year-Old Virgin" almost didn't happen, but it was a good thing it did, because it helped launch the careers of Hollywood A-listers like Paul Rudd, Seth Rogen, and Steve Carell.

In a recent interview with Conan O'Brien, Carell revealed that the film he helped cowrite with Judd Apatow was almost sacked because Universal felt that Carell looked like a "serial killer" in early footage.

"We hadn't shot any dialogue," he said. "It was me riding my bike with a weird helmet, and it was me walking down the street and seeing suggestive posters and going eghh. And just that week compiled, they went, 'No, no, no, this is not a comedy.'"

But the shooting continued and Apatow's feature directorial debut became a comedic success, leading to "Knocked Up" and more.

Here's what the cast and filmmakers have been up to in the last decade, since "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" came out in 2005:

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Steve Carell had appeared in a few comedies ("Bruce Almighty" and "Anchorman") before landing the lead role of the 40-year-old virgin, Andy, in Judd Apatow's directorial debut.

The film helped launch Carell to an award-winning career in comedic and dramatic roles. He played Michael Scott on "The Office" for seven seasons, a role that earned him six Golden Globe nominations (one win) and nine Emmy noms. He also earned an Oscar and a Golden Globe nom for his portrayal of convicted murderer John du Pont in "Foxcatcher" (2014). He can most recently be seen in "The Big Short," for which he earned another Golden Globe nom.

Before Paul Rudd played coworker and friend to Andy, he was best known as Cher's ex-stepbrother in "Clueless."

George Clooney thinks the Academy, which votes for Oscar nominees and winners, is "moving in the wrong direction."

Clooney told Variety his thoughts on the Academy's failure to nominate a single actor of color for the second year in a row and said the Academy was doing a better job 10 years ago. 

"Think about how many more African Americans were nominated," he said. "I would also make the argument, I don’t think it’s a problem of who you’re picking as much as it is: How many options are available to minorities in film, particularly in quality films?"

He later added: "We should have been paying attention long before this. I think that African Americans have a real fair point that the industry isn’t representing them well enough. I think that’s absolutely true."

He cited "Creed," "Concussion," "Beasts of No Nation," and "Straight Outta Compton" as four films this year that were snubbed for major nominations. He also mentioned Ava DuVernay's director snub for "Selma" at last year's ceremony.  

Both "Creed" and "Straight Outta Compton" only received one nomination each. Sylvestor Stallone received an acting nom for "Creed" and the "Compton" screenplay was nominated.

"There should be 20 or 30 or 40 films of the quality that people would consider for the Oscars," he said. "By the way, we’re talking about African Americans. For Hispanics, it’s even worse. We need to get better at this. We used to be better at it."

Clooney also pointed out that it's harder for women over 40 to find lead roles in Hollywood, adding that most leads in the 1930s were for women.

He joins celebrities such as Spike Lee, David Oyelowo, and Jada Pinkett Smith, as well as Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs, who are speaking out about the lack of inclusion at this year's Oscar ceremony.

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Danielle Caesar, 22, has always had a crush on actor Jake T. Austin, and has been adamantly tweeting him since 2009. Now, the two are officially a couple.

Fangirls everywhere took to social media to express both their outrage and excitement. "That's what I mean!" one Instagram user wrote. "All of this time we spend being psychos will pay off!"

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When the podcast "Serial" went viral, fans on Reddit and elsewhere set about looking for clues.

The same is now happening for the Steven Avery case at the center of Netflix's "Making a Murderer" docuseries, and viewers have discovered a fascinating new piece of evidence.

Jerry Buting, one of the original lawyers defending Avery in the trial for the murder of Teresa Halbach, recently spoke with Rolling Stone and said that internet sleuths had found something he and his partner had missed.

"We were only two minds," Buting said. "What I'm discovering is that a million minds are better than two. Some of these people online have found things with a screen shot of a picture that we missed."

One of the crucial pieces of evidence dug up by those sleuths is a detail found in a common photo of Halbach before she went missing and died. It shows the victim with a key chain that has a number of keys on it.

During the investigation of Halbach's murder, the police found a contested key to Halbach's car in Avery's home. But they only found the one key — not the rest of the keys seen on her key chain, which were never recovered.

Had this evidence been introduced in Avery's trial, it would've bolstered the argument that the sole car key, found weeks after an initial search of the Avery property, was planted. And if Avery does ever get another trial, it could help him still.

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Forget "Captain America: Civil War" and "Batman v Superman" for a minute.

The "superhero" movie I'm looking most forward to this year (other than "Deadpool") is "Suicide Squad."

Why?

Because the film won't be about heroes, something audiences have grown really accustomed to seeing on the big screen since Marvel's cinematic universe started to dominate theaters about twice a year.

Instead, "Suicide Squad" is an adaptation of some of DC's most messed up villains who are forced to work together to bring down even bigger villains.

Warner Bros. just unveiled a new full trailer for its offbeat anti-hero film Tuesday night on The CW featuring the likes of the Joker (Jared Leto) and his main squeeze Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie). 

It will also star Will Smith, Cara Delevingne, Jai Courtney, and Viola Davis.

Even Batman (Ben Affleck) will have a cameo. 

Yeah, this is about as big as "Batman v Superman."

"Suicide Squad" is in theaters August 5. Take a look at the new trailer below:

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GarageBand, Apple's free music creation app, is getting a major update this week.

The app now includes a new feature called Live Loops that lets you create electronic music loops. It's sort of like a virtual DJ board, record-scratch effects included. Live Loops lets you take looping music samples from various instruments and tie them together in real time to make your own beats.

It's kind of fun to play around with, even if you're a non-musician like me. But keep in mind GarageBand is designed for musicians, not your Average Joe. (A lot of you probably have GarageBand on your Mac, iPhone, or iPad now and never use it.)

But Apple told me T-Pain tried Live Loops and really liked it. So I guess that's a solid endorsement.

Apple is also releasing a new app for iPhone this week called Music Memos. Think of it as a souped-up version of the regular Voice Memos app that already comes on your iPhone.

Music Memos lets musicians quickly record off-the-cuff song ideas and can automatically detect and label the time signature and chords they use. After that, you can import the audio file to GarageBand and tweak it more.

Apple said it made Music Memos because it learned that musicians would often use the standard Voice Memos app to record song ideas, and wanted to give them an app that's optimized just for music. (Voice Memos was never really intended to do anything other than record people talking.)

The new GarageBand update is free for all iOS users. It already comes preinstalled on iPhones and iPads that have at least 32 GB of storage. Music Memos will be free too. You'll see both apps in the App Store on Wednesday.

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Welcome to Gibsihana, the private hibachi restaurant that actor/model/singer Tyrese Gibson built in his backyard.

Aziz Ansari went after the Critics' Choice Awards, and gave the world a rare glimpse into the restaurant on his Instagram account. It's everything you'd expect a celebrity's backyard Benihana-style restaurant to be.

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The Oscars are notorious for not getting it right.

That's the reputation you earn when you don't reward "Citizen Kane" Best Picture, or when "Crash" topples "Brokeback Mountain," or "Dances with Wolves" nabs the big prize.

But there are also plenty of times that the Academy got it right.

In truth, there's no way of knowing whether a film will have staying power through the years. But sometimes, voters make truly great and interesting choices.

Here are the 12 greatest Best Picture winners of all time:

12. "Amadeus" (1984)

The stereotype of an Oscar movie is an overlong, stale, historical biopic. "Amadeus" could have been just that but, instead, it turns the whole formula on its head. It brings 1700s Austria to life by making it feel just as alive as the present day.

Portraying a rivalry that might not ever have existed and turning one of history's greatest composers into a spoiled, giggling buffoon, who might have been a genius by accident, the film says so much more about the past than any buttoned-up, historically accurate film could.

No movie can get the past completely right — that's both the power and the danger of the medium. The great thing about "Amadeus" is that it acknowledges that almost immediately by letting Salieri tell somebody else's story. And the fact that it works so well is a true stroke of genius.

11. "Schindler's List" (1993)

After years of snubs, Spielberg rightfully won his first Oscar ever for "Schindler's List," the true story of a German businessman who saved countless Jewish lives during the Holocaust. This is such difficult subject matter and it is truly incredible to see the way Spielberg handles it. He spares none of the awful details and yet finds a ray of light in a horrible world during a horrible period of time. This is quite simply essential viewing.

10. "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991)

"The Silence of the Lambs" is notable for two big reasons.

First off, it's the only horror film to win Best Picture. The character of Hannibal Lecter himself is bigger than just one film, but "The Silence of the Lambs" delivers the goods. This is the perfect horror movie for the Academy, as it is one that relies less on gore (though it is there) and more so on mounting dread. If a horror movie was going to win the big prize, it was going to be the one with the most likable cannibal of all time.

Secondly, it was released on February 14, 1991, basically a full year before the actual Oscar ceremony. So it proved that awards aren't just for that stretch of movies released during the last two weeks of every year.

You might be jealous of Calvin Harris because he's the world's best-paid DJ — the Scotsman raked in $66 million in 2015, according to Forbes estimates— or because he's superstar Taylor Swift's boyfriend.

Well, here's one more reason to be envious: He's got some pretty sweet real estate — like this four-bedroom, 10,620-square-foot Hollywood Hills bachelor pad, which he just put up for sale for $9.995 million, according to Variety.

He bought it in 2013 for $7 million, public records say. It's listed with the Altman Brothers and Douglas Elliman.

Does this confirm rumors that he's moving in with Swift? Not necessarily: Looks like Harris is just saying goodbye to his smaller spot, as he also owns a $15 million 10-bedroom mansion in Beverly Hills.

See how a DJ at the top of his game decorates his home below:

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Set in Hollywood Hills West, just above the world-famous Sunset Strip, the 10,620-square-foot home boasts four bedrooms and seven bathrooms.

The contemporary two-level home is considered architecturally "zen," with lots of wide glass windows to take advantage of the views.

It also includes an infinity-edge pool.

Ray Romano didn't have an easy time shooting his first nude scene for HBO's "Vinyl."

"It was a week of stress, because I not only had to be naked, I had to be drunk in that episode, which, as an actor, is equally stressful, because you have to play drunk just the right way," Romano told Vulture about the moment from the upcoming series, which he had also discussed on Jimmy Fallon's "Tonight Show."

Romano plays Zak Yankovich, who handles promotions for a fictional 1970s music label portrayed on "Vinyl." On episode seven (spoiler alert), Zak and his boss, Richie Finestra (lead Bobby Cannavale) travel to Las Vegas to sign Elvis Presley, who just left his label. During the course of events, Zak finds himself in a threesome.

On playing nude and drunk, Romano explained, "Too much is horrible, too little — you got to find the level. And being naked is horrible. But drunk is more stressful."

Looking back on it now, however, Romano can find the humor of the situation.

"My joke is the director's not gonna yell, 'Too big!' during the naked scene."

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It would take a decade, personal sacrifice, and dedication to their vision before the filmmakers behind "Making a Murderer" found a home for the series at Netflix.

It started with an article.

When then-Colombia University students Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos arrived in Wisconsin for Steven Avery's trial, they didn't even know if it would be a story.

In late 2005, they had read a New York Times article about a man who had been exonerated of a crime after serving 18 years in prison only to then be arrested again for murder. Within two weeks, the women were shooting in Wisconsin.

"There was really no time to develop or have pre-production for the project," Ricciardi recently told Business Insider, "because we were documenting a case as it was unfolding and whenever there was downtime relative to that case, we were going back and working on the historical context for the case, so we were constantly in production for the first two years."

About a year into the project, they were given fiscal sponsorship by the New York Foundation for the Arts, which allowed them greater access to private donations and grants. They stayed in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, for about a year and a half straight, documenting Avery and his teen nephew Brendan Dassey's trials and sentencing hearings.

"We then moved back to New York and desperately went back to work," Demos told BI. "Then we would go back and forth for isolated one month, two weeks, five days, depending on what was happening. So for the eight years following that, we were doing isolated shoots, but not the same kind of intense shooting."

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The story became a lot bigger early in shooting.

While the creators first set out to make a feature film-length documentary, things changed when 16-year-old Dassey was arrested for helping his uncle.

"We certainly didn’t set out to make a series," Demos said. "But when they said they were going to hold this press conference, and they announced that Brendan Dassey had confessed to the crime and implicated Steven, it became a much bigger story. It became an intergenerational story as far as the family was concerned and much more complex."

They weren't willing to compromise the series format — and HBO and PBS passed on the project.

The multiple-episode format became very important for the filmmakers when it came down to finding a partner to help complete and distribute "Making a Murderer." Over the years, the women pitched the idea and tried to find distributors in a process they likened to speed-dating. But they couldn't find a company that wanted to or had the ability to see their film finished as a series. HBO and PBS both passed on the project. Shaping "MAM" as a series became necessary to them. Companies asked if they could condense the show into two hours or make a four-episode miniseries, but they refused.

"They were responding to the material, they were very excited to meet us, but they really just weren’t in the position to give us what the story needed," Demos said. "We sort of recognized that, and it wasn’t worth the energy to be shoving a square peg into a round hole, so we put our energy into continuing to work on the series."

Netflix wasn't even looking for a crime documentary series.

In the years that followed, the filmmakers returned to their previous jobs for production money: Ricciardi was an attorney, while Demos worked on film sets doing lighting.

"We needed time and some financial support to bring on collaborators to complete the vision," Demos explained.

Prepared to prove they knew where the series would be going, the duo had rough cuts of the first three episodes, sketches of episode four and five, and they had a 20-page outline of the series when they met with Netflix in 2013.

Netflix's chief content officer Ted Sarandos said at the Television Critics Association press tour that the company wasn't in the market for a true-crime series at the time it picked up "Making a Murderer," but he was impressed by the filmmakers.

"This film came to us three years ago, it was already seven years in the making," Sarandos said. "The filmmakers have lived this thing for 10 years. I think that's what played out on-screen. I think that's why people followed."

When Oscar-winning actor Jamie Foxx heard a car crash outside of his Ventura County, California, home he immediately called 9-1-1, then made his way to the scene of the accident where he and another person cut 32-year-old Brett Kyle out of his seatbelt in order to remove him from his burning car.

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There are rumours circulating that Kanye West is planning a tribute album in memory of David Bowie.

Is it true? No one is sure, and Kanye's camp has yet to comment on the claims.

But the uncertainty hasn't stopped a lot of people from getting very, very angry about the idea.

Nearly 14,000 people as of this writing have signed a petition demanding that West "stop ... being allowed to record covers of David Bowie's music" — and that figure is rising fast.

The petition, started by "Peter Piranha," says that "David Bowie was one of the single most important musicians of the 20th and 21st century, it would be a sacrilege to let it be ruined by Kanye West."

Legendary musician David Bowie died earlier this month after a secret battle with cancer, prompting a global outpouring of grief. West was among the mourners.

It's not clear exactly where rumour of West's Bowie project came from, though the Independent suggests it arrives via not-always-reliable British tabloid the Daily Star, which reported (based on an unnamed source) that West is working on the album: "Some are straightforward covers with Kanye actually singing. On others he is rapping with his own lyrics over Bowie’s music."

Peter Piranha created the petition as "a tongue-in-cheek thing I did off the cuff," he told Business Insider by email. He says that its explosive growth "has certainly taken me by surprise," and that he is "even getting hate-mail." (Piranha declined to do a phone interview because he was going to bed.)

14,000 people (and counting) agree with the sentiment: "Kanye West is the Donald Trump of music," commented one person. "David Bowie was a unique and extremely talented artist, nothing to do with Kanye's music or the way he is exposed in the public," said another.

But some have come out in support of the still-theoretical tribute record.

"West is the closest we have to Bowie in the modern mainstream. There is nobody else who can sell as many records as West does (30m-odd album sales and counting) while remaining so resolutely experimental and capable of stirring things up culturally and politically," wrote Joe Muggs in the Guardian.

Christopher Hooton wrote in the Independent: "If anyone’s going to make a David Bowie tribute album (N.B. I still don’t think anyone should) who could be more fitting than Kanye? A man who has taken huge risks, who reevaluates his own work, persona, and artistic goals on a near daily basis and who seems driven by a desire to shake things up?"

Kanye West has been targeted by negative petitions before. When he was booked to headline Glastonbury, 136,000 people signed a petition calling for him to be dropped in favor of a "rock band."

The petition failed.

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Netflix had a bang-up earnings report yesterday, sending the stock up almost 9% after hours. It's since given up all those gains and about 7% more in today's broader selloff, but investors can still take some cheer in the company's accelerating growth.

As this chart from Statista shows, Netflix added more than 17 million subscribers last year. The bulk of those (11.4 million) came from outside the U.S., and growth overseas has been accelerating for the last four years. But growth in the U.S. has slowed down, and seems stuck at between 5 million and 6 million new subscribers per year.

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As the Sundance Film Festival prepares to kick off on Thursday, it’s that time when all of Hollywood travels to the sleepy ski town of Park City, Utah, to indulge in the best that the independent film world has to offer.

Sundance is a great place to find original stories as well as the breakout stars who will be making their names in the mainstream in coming years (the directors of “Jurassic World” and “Creed” had their career starts at Sundance, believe it or not).

Here’s what we’re most excited to see at this year’s festival — much of which will be headed to a theater near you at some point later this year.

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"11.22.63"

TV has become more and more prevalent at film festivals, and Sundance is no different. One of the big premieres is this adaptation of a Stephen King novel in which a man time travels back to 1963 to stop the assassination of John F. Kennedy. James Franco plays the time-traveler. The show premieres on Hulu in February.

"The Birth of a Nation"

Actor Nate Parker's long-awaited biopic on Nat Turner, the African-American slave who led the most successful slave rebellion in American history, has the makings for one of the breakout hits of this year's festival (the title's play on the infamously racist silent film will certainly turn heads). Parker ("Beyond The Lights," "Non-Stop") wrote, directed, and stars as Turner, in an ambitious endeavor that could pay off big time.

"Christine"

Director Antonio Campos ('Simon Killer") looks at the life of one of media's most mysterious figures, TV reporter Christine Chubbuck of Sarasota, Florida, who in 1974 committed suicide on live television. In "Christine," Campos shows the pressures of a woman in the 1970s with Rebecca Hall playing Chubbuck as she struggles to find her place in the world.

R. Kelly denies long-standing allegations that he's had sex with underage girls in a wide-ranging new interview.

Though he's left interviews when asked about the allegations he's faced throughout his career, Kelly was candid about the accusations in a new interview with GQ, particularly about the 2002 video that allegedly showed him having sex with a 15-year-old and urinating into her mouth. A jury found him not guilty. 

"When a person is found not guilty, they're found not guilty," he said. "And it doesn't matter if it's a murder case, it doesn't matter what case it is, when they're found not guilty, they're not guilty. And I think that a lot of haters out there wanted to see me go down.”

Though he was legally advised not to go into specifics about the 2002 video, Kelly says he has not slept with underage girls.

“I think, man, abso-effing-lutely I've been treated unfair," he said. "Do I like to sleep with underage girls? Absolutely not. I've said it a million times. But do I have people trying to destroy my career? Absolutely.”

He claims that the multiple accusations he's faced are false and rumors could have been started by an angry ex-girlfriend. 

“Look, if I break up with a girl, and she don't wanna break up, and I'm R. Kelly, she's gonna be pissed. So pissed that she's gonna go out there, she's gonna say this, she's gonna say that, she's gonna say the other," he said. "And if she's really pissed, whoever she said it to is gonna spread the rumor, and if the wrong people get ahold of that rumor, that's gonna come out. If that come out, I gotta get a lawyer, and once I get that lawyer, that lawyer gonna tell me to shut up. Because no matter what you say, you're gonna look bad."

Kelly also regrets listening to lawyers telling him to settle in other cases.

"I want to fight because I know I'm right, I know I'm innocent, have nothing to hide — she wanted me, I wanted her, she was of age, I'm of age," he said. "But she'll say, ‘Well, I didn't meet him here, I met him then.’ That's what they're saying.” 

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Gawker is planning to sell a minority stake to Columbus Nova Technology Partners, The New York Times' Ravi Somaiya reported Wednesday.

Gawker founder Nick Denton told the Times that the goal of selling a minority stake of the company is to fund two things: Gawker's growth into categories like ecommerce and video, and its ongoing lawsuit with wrestler Hulk Hogan.

Terms of the sale, which is subject to shareholder approval this week, haven't been disclosed. 

The deal is a big move for Gawker, which had famously raised very little outside capital — the company has been largely bootstrapped by Denton since the early 2000s.

Last year, Denton told Business Insider he personally owned 50% of Gawker Media, but if you include a family trust that figure is more like 68% of the company. Overall, insiders own 90% of Gawker Media. 

"Digital media is a serious business," Denton told the Times. "This is not a blog collective any more.”

It's been an interesting few months for Gawker. Over the summer, Denton decided to axe a controversial post, which caused a slew of writers and editors to part ways with the company. The company since pivoted to focus on politics, moving away from its initial editorial focus on reporting on New York and the media.

The Hulk Hogan lawsuit in question stems from a 2012 "highlights reel" Gawker published of a leaked sex tape featuring Hogan. He sued Gawker later in 2012. If Gawker is found guilty, it could be forced to pay as much as $100 million.

Last year, Gawker told the Times that the odds of having to seek outside investment to keep Gawker running because of the lawsuit (or as he calls it, a "disaster") were one in ten.

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Disney has announced that "Star Wars: Episode VIII" will now be released December 15, 2017, shifting from the original release date of May 25, 2017. 

Though the knee-jerk reaction on the internet will be that something's wrong with production on "Episode VIII" — the next sequel in the chronology after "The Force Awakens," which will be directed by Rian Johnson ("Looper") — there's been no news of the film being in trouble, and it's likely that after the enormous success of "The Force Awakens" in its holiday release, Disney wants to repeat the same model. Also, placing the film a week before Christmas means it gets the holiday crowd before "Avatar 2" opens on Christmas day.

And Disney isn't exactly conceding the start of the summer-movie season. The company has also announced that "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales" will open May 26, 2017, with Johnny Depp returning as Captain Jack Sparrow.

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During the first season of "Chappelle's Show," comedian Dave Chappelle released an infamous sketch mocking R. Kelly and the 2002 video that allegedly showed him having sex with a 15-year-old and urinating on her.

When asked about the sketch during a new interview with GQ, Kelly said he wasn't familiar with it or Chappelle in general.

“David Chappelle? [as though trying to place the name] David Chappelle? I don't…” he responded. 

He later added: “First of all, I have no respect for a comedian when it comes to being serious. If you get that. That's a joke.”

Kelly said he used to "feel terrible" in response to the pop-culture references associating him and urinating.

"But now I, honestly, don't think about it or could care one way or the other what people think about me," he said. "I have fans and I have family that love me, and I have my music, and I have my breath going in and out. I'm more than okay with who I am and who I have become today as a man, and I'm just moving on with my life, man, doing this music. I'm good.”

Watch the sketch below: 

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For years, superfans of Quentin Tarantino have put all of his work under a microscope and come to the theory that his films exist within the same world.

And it turns out they're right.

From Uma Thurman's character in "Pulp Fiction," Mia Wallace, explaining the plot of "Fox Force Five" (which is essentially the same as "Kill Bill") to characters in different films being related (like Vic Vega in "Reservoir Dogs" and Vincent Vega in "Pulp Fiction") the connections among Tarantino films are deep.

And now Tarantino confirms that, in fact, they're all connected and even exist in the same universe, or two universes.

While talking to Australia's the Project, the Oscar winner confirmed the theory but also added that there are some movies of his that are movies that characters in other movies of his would watch — essentially, fictions inside a fiction.

"So 'From Dusk Till Dawn,' 'Kill Bill,' they all take place in this special movie universe," the director said. "When all the characters of 'Reservoir Dogs' or 'Pulp Fiction,' when they go to the movies, 'Kill Bill' is what they go to see. 'From Dusk Till Dawn' is what they see."

We are guessing "The Hateful Eight," his latest, falls into the category of movies that his characters go to see — since, as far as we can tell, nothing from that movie relates to his previous work. But let us know in the comments if we're wrong.

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