After a Twitter war erupted between Wiz Khalifa and Kanye West partly over the title of West's upcoming album, the elder rapper has announced he's not even sure "Waves" is in fact the final name of that album.

In an interview with L.A.'s Real 92.3, West said that the album originally called "So Help Me God" and later changed to "SWISH" and then changed again to "Waves" ... still doesn't have a title.

West's wife, Kim Kardashian, held a Twitter poll to see what title fans liked best. More than 439,000 people voted and 46 percent preferred "So Help Me God." 

"I wanted to get people's opinions on how they felt," he said. "What I've really come to realize about being a celebrity or a musician or someone that's on the other side of the Internet or TV is everybody is our family ... We love any opportunity we have to involve all of our family in the creative process."

West described the album as "a gospel album with a whole lot of cursing on it." 

He also took time to address the Twitter debacle with Khalifa, explaing that the two spoke on the phone and reconciled. He also talked about the comment he made referring to the child Khalifa and Amber Rose [West's ex] have together.

"I didn't mean it in a harmful way," he said. "I just saw my wife's initials and reacted because that's my family." 

Khalifa had tweeted about "kk," a type of marijuana, which sparked West's rant when he thought it referenced Kardashian. 

West also explained that the photo posted online of Kim Kardashian and Amber Rose was taken at Kris Jenner's house.

West's album will be released February 11 with a performance at Madison Square Garden that will be broadcast live in select theaters worldwide. 

Listen to the full interview below: 

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The case of Adnan Syed isn't over, and so "Serial" isn't done with it.

The hit podcast, which in its inaugural season explored the murder conviction of Syed and questions of possible innocence, is going back to that story amid season two as Syed faces a new hearing.

"Serial" just posted a season-one "update" alongside the latest episode from season two. Host Sarah Koenig "duck back" into Syed's case, visiting Baltimore for a hearing that will consider Syed's petition for postconviction relief.

Syed's lawyers argue that his original lawyer in the 2000 trial, Cristina Gutierrez, did not prevent significant evidence that would've helped her client. In particular, Gutierrez never explored testimony involving a potential alibi for Syed from a classmate, Asia McClain.

"Serial" plans to post more updates from Syed's new proceeding "day by day."

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Business Insider is looking for a travel reporter for INSIDER, a new publication that delivers stories to readers across digital platforms.

The ideal candidate is a multimedia journalist who loves seeing the world, exploring new cultures, and living vicariously through others' adventures.  

The travel reporter writes stories, creates photo features, and writes video scripts for INSIDER's website and social media channels. Coverage areas include destinations, trends, travel news, and tips. You will also have the opportunity to write about your own experiences.  

 The ideal candidate is a fastidious reporter and writer with a passion for telling great stories, and thrives in a fast-paced work environment.

Candidates should have 1 to 3 years of experience working in a digital newsroom and writing about travel. 

At INSIDER, our motto is "Life is an adventure." We tell stories for, about, and by people who seize life. That means they love to travel, try new foods, listen new music, and love people who do the same. INSIDER is distributed across social media, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, and YouTube, as well as on the web.

This is a full-time position that's based in our New York City office and does not necessarily include travel. Business Insider offers competitive compensation packages complete with benefits. 

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Business Insider is looking for a food reporter for INSIDER, a new publication that delivers stories to readers across digital platforms.

The ideal candidate is a multimedia journalist who is obsessed with food in all forms.

He or she is a home chef who loves making new dishes — and posting pictures of them on Instagram. He or she is also a foodie who knows about the latest restaurant openings, hottest food trends, and hybrid snacks that are blowing up on the internet.

The food reporter writes stories, creates photo features, and writes video scripts for INSIDER's website and social media channels. He or she is a fastidious reporter and writer with a passion for telling great stories, and thrives in a fast-paced work environment.

Candidates should have 1 to 3 years of experience working in a digital newsroom and writing about food. 

At INSIDER, our motto is "Life is an adventure." We tell stories for, about, and by people who seize life. That means they love to travel, try new foods, listen new music, and love people who do the same. INSIDER is distributed across social media, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, and YouTube, as well as on the web.

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Brands that buy TV ad slots at the Super Bowl are taking a huge gamble.

Splashing out $5 million on one 30-second slot cuts a significant chunk out of most marketing budgets. And that's before a marketer pays for creating the ad, the potential swathe of celebrity actors, and the rest of the promotion surrounding the campaign. According to CNBC, the total cost of a Super Bowl TV ad campaign, including production, can be more than $30 million.

Each brand is shouting, trying to be heard over the cacophony of the herd: whether that's by dressing a pack of daschunds up as hot dogs, offering to pay fouling players' fines, releasing mystery food items, or simply employing five A-listers to star in one 30-second slot.

But there are plenty of other ways brands can advertise around the Super Bowl, without splashing out the $4.6 million to $5 million on a 30-second spot during the game. Brands can still align with the Super Bowl by advertising before the game, opting for regional TV ad buys, and running promotional campaigns that eschew TV altogether.

Adobe's advert below (not being shown at the Super Bowl) pokes fun at the risk advertisers take during the big game:

And these campaigns do go disastrously wrong in real life. Remember the backlash on Nationwide suffered after last year's "Make Safe Happen" campaign? The ad featured a cute child telling us all of the experiences he will never have. Because he died.

Watch it below, but first grab a box of tissues:

The spot was slated on Twitter and it became the most-talked about ad of the 2015 Super Bowl, for the wrong reasons as people denounced the brand for the buzz-kill. The company issued a statement this year explaining that it will not be running a spot this year.

But TV slots are not the only way for brands to capitalize on the buzz surrounding the big game. Many brands, including Pizza Hut, Progressive Insurance, Visa and GoDaddy, are all taking part by launching separate Super Bowl-related campaigns, airing outside of the big game.

Progressive Insurance is one big company which describes Super Bowl TV ads as not worth it. "It would definitely not be worth it for us. We have an icon that is already well known in the world. We like to zag, while other people zig. It's who I am, it's who Progressive is. And just because we could buy a $6 million ad doesn't mean we should," chief of marketing at Progressive, Jeff Charney, told Business Insider.

He added: "Last year's Super Bowl was called the Somber Bowl, it wasn't as much fun ... There are so many cliches and predictive things you can see in the Super Bowl. We started watching 10 years of ads and we looked at those ads and we saw there's always gonna to be a supermodel; there's always gonna be a former athlete; there's always gonna be a puppy; there's always gonna be a mini horse or horse; there's always gonna be a celebrity. The predictability of this was really intriguing to us."

So, instead of a TV ad, Progressive created a bingo app of Super Bowl ad clichés. Winners will get their rent and car payments paid for a year. Charney believes that this idea will be more effective than a TV advert for the Progressive brand, at a much lower cost. "We can do this for a fraction, fraction, fraction, small, small, small, I cannot even tell you how infinitesimally small it is," he said.

But whether this strategy will be effective is unclear. If no one downloads the game, Progressive gets barely any exposure. There's no guarantee, unlike with a TV ad.

Pizza Hut is also skipping the game day ad circus because it reckons the days leading up to the Bowl are more important. "All the pizza we'll sell on game day, those decisions will be made ahead of game day," Jared Drinkwater, vice president of marketing at Pizza Hut told CNBC.

But to remain a part of the conversation the pizza delivery service have created the 24-carat "Golden Garlic Knots Pizza," which will be sent to 50 homes on game day.

Another big name skipping the TV Super Bowl ads this year is GoDaddy, despite being a part of the show every year since 2005. A GoDaddy rep told AdAge it was abandoning "high-level domestic brand awareness to a more personalized, data-driven marketing approach."

GoDaddy pulled a spot last year, after animal lovers complained. Here it is:

Guerrilla marketing is one way brands can exploit the excitement of the Super Bowl.

Sam Ewen, partner at Guild, which is working on unconventional campaigns with Nike and Doritos for this year's match (both brands also have TV slots) said: "For the $5 million it costs to take out a TV ad, you could budget $50,000 for distribution of your sample product in 100 US city markets, host your own Puppy Bowl at the top 500 dog parks across the US, or purchase, brand, and distribute 125,000 NFL Pro replica Gameday footballs."

Other brands take out local advertisements during the big game — like this 2015 ad from the Church of Scientology.

Good alternatives for companies who want to jump on the Super Bowl bandwagon without paying $5 million for 30-seconds certainly exist. However, for huge companies, TV slots remain irresistible. The big game is the only guaranteed way to reach an audience of around 120 million people at once. That the 120 million actually want to watch adverts makes it even harder to ignore.

Second-time Super Bowl advertiser Avocados from Mexico's president Alvaro Luque told Business Insider: "It's the biggest stage out there, and one thing we know for sure is it's the only time of year where consumers are looking for the ads. Usually consumers are zapping through, but this is the only time the consumer gets excited about the ads."

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Super Bowl 50 is fast-approaching and some brands have already released teasers about the ads they will be airing during the big game on February 7.

The average cost of a 30-second slot during the Super Bowl has soared to $5 million this year — up 11% on the highest price last year's broadcaster NBC banked for its Super Bowl commercials. This year's broadcaster, CBS, has hinted that the last available ad space could even fetch as much as $6 million.

Here's everything we know so far about which brands are advertising during the Super Bowl and what they've got planned.

We've organized the brands in alphabetical order for ease of navigation. We'll keep updating this post right up until February 7, when you can follow our live coverage.

Acura

The automaker's ad will air during the first quarter and will serve to launch the new $156,000 NSX supercar — the most expensive car ever advertised in a Super bowl ad, according to I4U News. 

The ad is set to Van Halen's hit "Runnin' With the Devil." Here's the spot:

Acura last featured in the Super Bowl in 2012, with a 60-second spot starring Jerry Seinfeld. Here's that ad:

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Amazon

Amazon is making its Super Bowl ad debut this year, with a spot starring actor Alec Baldwin and former Miami Dolphins quarterback Dan Marino.

A teaser video released on January 27 — created by Leo Burnett, the agency behind the campaign — showed the pair using the Amazon Echo voice-activated wireless speaker to help them organize a Super Bowl party. 

The final teaser before the big game is here:

Apartments.com

Jeff Goldblum is continuing his job as brand ambassador for Apartments.com, reprising his role from its previous ads as eccentric Silicon Valley exec "Brad Bellflower," The WSJ reported. Lil Wayne also stars.

The 60-second spot, entitled "MovinOnUp," has been created by ad agency RPA. It will air in the second commercial break of the game.

Here's the ad:

No More, the campaign addressing domestic violence and sexual-assault awareness, will air its second Super Bowl ad during Sunday's big game — and it looks set to stop many viewers in their tracks amid the slew of humorous spots from big-brand advertisers.

The ad depicts a text-message conversation between two friends, set to the background noise of a typical Super Bowl party.

One of the friends sends photos from the party, while the other — Jess — explains that it's probably not a good idea to be there herself because "Jake is in one of his moods."

When her friend asks about Jess' safety, Jess begins to type a reply.

The three-dots symbol for typing keeps popping up on the screen, but Jess never returns the message.

Text appears on the screen: "There are many signs of domestic violence and sexual assault. Learn how to help. Text 'No more' to 94543." People who text the number will receive messages educating them on the common signs of abuse and the steps they can take to help victims.

The 30-second commercial will air during the third quarter of the game. The airtime was donated by the NFL, which has taken steps to address domestic violence since it received heavy criticism for the way it handled running back Ray Rice's punching his then-fiancée in 2014.

No More director Virginia Witt said in a press release: "This PSA [public service announcement] captures how most young people — and many others — use texting to communicate and how sometimes saying a little says a lot. Learning more can empower people to have potentially lifesaving conversations and reach out for help. We hope this will be one more step toward the culture change we are seeking around domestic violence and sexual assault."

The spot follows No More's debut Super Bowl campaign last year. That hard-hitting commercial was based on a real 911 call in which a woman pretended she was ordering a pizza to subtly call for help.

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Its not just the players getting pre-game nerves. Financial services company, SoFi, has made a last-minute edit to its Super Bowl 50 ad, after facing internal and external criticism for the final line in the spot, Adweek reports.

Both the original and the re-edit of SoFi's advert depict strangers on a busy street, giving a verdict on whether they are "great" or "not great."

The original ends: "Find out if you're great at SoFi.com. You're probably not."

The final edit loses the final three words.

A SoFi spokesperson told Adweek the insulting sign-off line "wasn't authentic to our brand."

Watch the original ad, created by ad agency Muh-tay-zik Hof-fer, here:

"We were trying to make the commercial witty with the last line ... but the more we talked to members and discussed internally, we agreed it wasn't authentic to our brand. Identifying the greatness in people is a core SoFi tenet. We're invested in our members' success and want them to succeed," the SoFi spokesperson said in an email to Adweek.

Here's the less negative edit, which will play during the big game:

Business Insider has contacted both SoFi and ad agency Muh-tay-zik Hof-fer for comment. We'll update this article once we hear back.

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The inmates of  "Orange Is the New Black" are returning to Netflix for three additional seasons. 

Creator and executive producer Jenji Kohan will stay on for seasons five, six, and seven of the Lionsgate-produced show.

“Three more years! Not quite a political term, but still plenty of time to do some interesting things," Kohan said in a statement. "In some cultures, ‘May you lead an interesting life,’ is a curse, but I don't live in those cultures. Here's to keeping it interesting. Thanks Netflix! Both thanks and you're welcome Lionsgate! And kudos and gratitude to the stellar cast and crew and writers and producers and editors and musicians and mixers and shleppers... with whom I have the pride and honor of crafting this show. Three more years! Three more years!”

Netflix's vice president of original content, Cindy Holland, said: "Jenji and her team have produced a phenomenal and impactful series that is both funny and dramatic, outrageous and heartfelt. Audiences around the world have come to love the ladies and men of 'Orange is the New Black,' and we are eager to see where three more seasons will take them.” 

"We’re proud to continue our long-standing relationships with Netflix and the incredibly talented Jenji Kohan," Lionsgate TV group chairman Kevin Beggs added. "Jenji’s brilliant creative vision and a truly amazing cast have catapulted 'Orange Is the New Black' to the forefront of the platinum age of television, and we’re pleased that 'Orange' fans around the world will be rewarded with another three seasons."

The fourth season premieres June 17 on Netflix. Watch the teaser trailer below:

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In the past, cord-cutters wanting to watch the biggest live events would have to follow strange quasi-legal workarounds that were complicated, with the only alternative being to ask friends for their cable log-in credentials.

For Super Bowl 50, however, those who have cut the cord have several legal options for watching the big game online.

For those with a set-top box, the CBS Sports official app is available on Roku, the Xbox One, and Amazon's stable of Fire devices. And while watching the big game on a big screen is customary, those without a set-top box can watch on their iOS or Android devices with no problem. If you'd like to watch on a computer, CBS' website has you covered.

Here's the guide to watching Super Bowl 50 free:

• TV— CBS or the CBS Sports app on Roku, Xbox One, or Amazon Fire devices
• iPhone, iPad, Apple TV— CBS Sports iOS app
• Android phones and tablets— CBS Sports app on Google Play
• PC & Mac— CBS' website

These streaming options shouldn't be seen as a sign of altruism from big companies, but rather as their adapting to the growing trend away from cable. The more people who watch the game, the more the game's hosts can charge for advertising. That said, it is somewhat progressive for sports to allow free streaming; the NFL, WWE, and MLB have streaming packages if you'd like to watch an entire season.

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Over the course of 23 years, actor Richard Belzer has played Detective John Munch on 10 different TV shows. You might know him best from "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," but chances are you've seen him in many other places as well.

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Back in 2006, the announcement of a book by O.J. Simpson in which he would give an allegedly hypothetical account of the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman made waves.

Originally titled "O. J. Simpson: If I Did It, Here's How It Happened," the book was to be published by ReganBooks, a division of HarperCollins. Shortly after the announcement, the book was canceled following outrage over Simpson profiting from the deaths. 

He was acquitted of the murders in 1995 but was found liable for the wrongful deaths of Brown and Goldman in a 1997 civil suit. 

In 2007, the Goldman family was awarded rights to the book by a Florida bankruptcy court and went through with the publication, changing the title to "If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer." 

The book includes commentary from the Goldman family on why they went through with the publication, as well as a prologue written by the book's ghostwriter, Pablo Fenjeves, in which he describes his meetings and conversations with Simpson. An afterword written by journalist Dominick Dunne and an epilogue by Goldman family attorney Peter Haven are also included.

FX's dramatization of the murder trial, "The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story," premiered Tuesday.

Here's an overview of the book's chapters, in which Simpson accounts his life with Nicole Brown before the murders and that grisly night:  

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Chapter 1: O.J. Simpson focuses on his first failed marriage to Marguerite Whitley and how he met and developed a relationship with Nicole Brown. Simpson describes his "pretty near storybook marriage" to Brown but paints her as physically violent and says she had a "real temper on her." He claims that she was always the instigator of the fights that led to the deterioration of the couple's marriage.

Simpson and Brown dated for a number of years before his divorce with his first wife was finalized. He mentions a fight in 1984 that resulted in Brown calling the cops after he "accidentally" hit one of the rims on her car with a baseball bat. He proceeded to whack the hood of the car, too, but no charges were filed and the two got married in 1985. He also goes into the 1989 altercation between the two that resulted in him pleading no contest to spousal abuse. Simpson was convicted, put on probation, completed community service hours, and paid a fine.   

Chapter 2: With an understanding that his marriage was over, the second chapter goes into the couple's divorce and Brown's alleged obsession with getting back together.

This chapter also introduces Paula Barbieri, his on-and-off-again girlfriend at the time of the murders.

Chapter 3: Simpson and Brown make a plan to try and make their relationship work for a year, but more problems arise.

Simpson talks about how he hates his ex-wife's group of friends, whom he describes as "hookers and drug dealers and unsavory characters." The chapter also includes transcripts for two 911 calls made by Brown about Simpson in 1993.

Donald Trump's ongoing feud with Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly came to a head last week when the real-estate mogul skipped the last debate.

On Thursday night, Kelly appeared on Jimmy Fallon's "The Tonight Show" and tried to make sense of it all.

"He said it was about me, then he said it was about a statement my boss put out, then he said it was about a gum wrapper on the floor," she joked. "There were a lot of reasons that he gave, so I don't know exactly why he didn't show up. But he did not show in the end."

The feud goes all the way back to the first debate of the election season last August, which Fox News hosted and Kelly helped moderate. In the debate, she pointed out that Trump has a history of referring to women in derogatory terms and asked, "Does that sound to you like the temperament of a man we should elect as president?" He later complained that she was unfair in asking him tougher questions than the other candidates.

Kelly told Fallon that Fox gave all the candidates tough questions and considers that part of her job.

“They want George Washington’s job. And I’m a member of the press and we’re supposed to press, and see if they’re worthy,” she said.

After placing second in Iowa, Trump publicly mused that it may have been a mistake to skip the debate right before the caucus. Fox News is set to host another Republican debate in March. It remains to be seen if Trump holds a grudge against Kelly or has learned his lesson.

But Kelly isn't holding her breath: “We never anticipated anybody would react to the questions in that particular way,” she said. “But you of sort of keep your head down, and shoulders back, and try to forge forward.”

The fallout with Trump has changed things for her a "little," though.

"I can no longer go on Twitter," she said. "It's been a surreal six months."

She and viewers also got a fun, impromptu Trump impression from Fallon.

Watch the interview below:

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When social documentary photographer Catherine Opie embarked on the project of documenting the home of actress Elizabeth Taylor in November of 2010, no one could have anticipated just how timely her visit was.

Midway through the project, Taylor died after a long struggle with congestive heart failure. Her passing brought a heavier weight to Opie's work, and it became a race against the clock to finish up before Taylor's possessions were sold. 

Opie's goal was to create a portrait of Taylor through her personal belongings — the decor of her home, the carefully laid out Chanel shoes, and of course, her prized jewelry collection. 

Although the two never met, Opie felt a connection with Taylor from the start.

"Elizabeth was an incredibly talented actor, and an even more impressive businesswoman who was important in starting amfAR and bringing awareness to AIDS as an activist," Opie told Business Insider.

The entire series, comprised of 129 images, can be found in the book "700 Nimes Road".  

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Opie gained access to 700 Nimes Road — Taylor's residential address outside of Beverly Hills — through her accountant, who also happened to be Taylor's.

Having never been inside the house, Opie approached the project with "a complete sense of discovery," she said. For six straight months, Opie would visit two or three times a week to shoot.

Taylor's delicate, feminine belongings, and her eye for pastel colors, created a "quiet and soft" atmosphere, according to Opie.

Sound editors for "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" managed to slide an "Indiana Jones" Easter egg into the film.

In an interview with Nerdist, Matthew Wood, supervising sound editor, and David Acord, supervising sound editor and sound designer, revealed how they created some of what you hear in the film.

"When the Rathtar is rolling down the hallway after Han and Chewie, I put in the sound of Ben Burtt’s boulder-roll sound from 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' when the boulder is chasing Indy," Acord said. 

To refresh your memory, the Rathtar is the vicious-looking beast that goes after Han Solo and Chewbacca when they're also being pursued by two criminal organizations.

Burtt is an Oscar-winning sound editor and designer who also worked on the original "Star Wars" films. 

Another Rathar sound was actually Acord choking himself. 

"When the rathtar has his mouth on the cockpit of the Falcon, when it’s trying to eat the cockpit, that is me literally choking myself," he said. "Finger down my throat in front of the mic to accomplish that and then it’s pitched down."

He also revealed that the sound used to create Kylo Ren's (Adam Driver) Force rumble is "a heavily pitched and slowed version" of his cat purring.  

Both Wood and Acord are nominated for an Oscar this year for sound editing on "Force Awakens." 

Watch the boulder scene from "Raiders of the Lost Ark" below:

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Teens in 2016 have an entirely different idea of what a celebrity is than any other generation of teenagers.

Recently, we did some research and talked to dozens of teenagers who told us which celebrities they like the most. Answers included run-of-the-mill actors and singers, but it was YouTubers and Vine stars that dominated their responses.

We've collected their responses here to show you which stars, while still up-and-coming in mainstream media, are already blowing up on the internet.

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Shawn Mendes

Shawn Mendes is Vine's first and biggest success story. A 17-year-old Canadian singer-songwriter, Mendes got his start performing on Vine. Now he's known for his single "Stitches."

Lele Pons

Lele Pons is a Miami-based teenaged Vine star, best known for pulling pranks on family and friends and for her hyper-edited Vines.

Josh Peck

Of all the most popular Vine stars, Josh Peck may be the only one who could have been referred to as a celebrity before Vine was ever created. An actor best known for his stint on Nickelodeon's "Drake & Josh," Josh has converted his humor into six-second soundbites on Vine.

Amazon's first original movie, Spike Lee's "Chi-Raq," is available to stream on Prime.

While Amazon and Netflix have licensed old movies for ages, both have recently begun aggressive moves into the original film business. The pair went on a buying spree at Sundance, outbidding traditional distributors for indie films.

One source at a theatrical distributor said, "We are shooting bullets, but Netflix and Amazon are using machine guns!"

The companies believe there is a market for niche films that is being underserved by Hollywood. “There are movies that people really want to watch that are no longer being made and no longer being put in movie theaters because studios don’t want to make them anymore,” Netflix content chief Ted Sarandos said, according to Vanity Fair.

This sentiment certainly rings true for "Chi-Raq." When asked why he sold the film to Amazon, Spike Lee replied, "They're a great company. And also everyone else said no."

"Chi-Raq" had a theatrical run starting in December and snagged $2.6 million at the domestic box office. But the true test of its worth for Amazon will be how it performs on Prime.

The film is a modern-day rendition of "Lysistrata," by the ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes, and stars Nick Cannon and Wesley Snipes. In "Chi-Raq," a gang leader's girlfriend organizes a sex strike to curb the violence on Chicago's South Side.

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Steven Avery's new attorney, Kathleen Zellner, has said she's looking to science to prove the "Making a Murderer" subject innocent — but she has been pretty quiet about exactly how.

Now we know at least one test that could prove significant.

Zellner is testing Steven's home and property for minute traces of blood using a chemical called luminol, Steven's brother Earl Avery told "Access Hollywood." "They sprayed the whole house," he said.

Luminol glows when it detects the iron found inside red blood cells and remains effective when used at a crime scene years after the crime was committed there.

"The degradation that happens in a blood sample over time doesn't affect the iron. So a luminol test can be used on very old, very dried blood samples and still give a very good positive," criminal justice professor Nathan Lents, who is not involved in the Avery case, told the TV show.

"In fact, it actually gets better over time because some of the agents that would interfere with the signal get degraded, but the iron doesn't," he continued. "Iron doesn't go anywhere."

During Avery's trial, the prosecution alleged that Steven and his then-teen nephew Brendan Dassey tortured and raped photographer Teresa Halbach in Steven's room, and said she was shot in the head in the garage. If all that actually happened, the events probably left traces of blood for luminol to detect — even if the scene was cleaned up.

How does this help Steven? If no blood is detected by the test, then it provides reason to believe that Halbach wasn't killed in his home. If blood is found, then it will need to be tested to try to find out whose it is.

Earl is optimistic about Zellner. "Hopefully she does better than the last two," he said, comparing Zellner to Steven's previous lawyers, Dean Strang and Jerry Buting, who are prominently featured in "Making a Murderer."

"They probably did a good job, but look at where [Steven] is," Earl added. 

Steven and Dassey are both serving life sentences for Halbach's murder.

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The first episode of FX's true-crime anthology "The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story" aired on Tuesday, transporting viewers back to the chaotic, nail-biting trial of the mid-1990s.

The "trial of the century" seeped into the collective conscious of the nation, not just for its intriguing characters but also because it cast doubt on the integrity of law enforcement. 

Perhaps surprisingly, after speaking to a member of Simpson's defense team, I discovered there are parallels between the O.J. Simpson trial and today's binge-watched Netflix documentary, "Making a Murderer" (MaM). Both, at times, seem tailor-made for tabloid fodder and conspiracy theories.

"There were two defendants on trial in the case: O.J. Simpson and the LA police," Alan Dershowitz, Simpson's former lawyer, told Business Insider.

An appellate adviser for Simpson's defense, Dershowitz said the defense team brought testimony into the trial to prove police officers planted evidence. That struck me as surprisingly similar to MaM, a show I had just devoured, and led me to examine the similarities between the two trials further.

First, both O.J. Simpson, and the subject of "Making a Murder," Steven Avery, are captivating individuals.

Simpson's celebrity was undeniable at the time he was accused of killing his ex-wife, Nicole Brown, and her friend, Ron Goldman, in 1994. After an illustrious football career at USC, he was the No. 1 NFL draft pick in 1969.

He played in the league for 11 years, and, after his retirement, used his charisma to parlay his football successes into an acting career.

Steven Avery, too, was a celebrity of sorts, though lacking national recognition. In Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, Avery's high profile made for a public enraptured in following the murder case of Teresa Halbach, a local women he was charged and convicted of killing.

Before Halbach's death, Avery spent 18 years — from 1985 to 2003 — in prison for sexual assault only to be exonerated when DNA evidence found a match for another man.

Following his release from jail, Avery garnered the sympathy of local residents. The community was appalled that an innocent man sat behind bars for nearly two decades. Avery filed a $36 million federal lawsuit against Manitowoc County, claiming he was jailed due to police incompetence and bias. The state legislature passed the Avery Bill in 2005 to prevent future wrongful convictions.

It was those accusations of ineptitude and corruption that assisted Avery when he was charged in 2005 with Halbach's murder. Community members openly seemed skeptical that the police had the right person in Halbach's murder and questioned whether they framed Avery as retribution for hurting the public perception of their competence.

Rampant distrust in law enforcement accompanied the Simpson trial, as well.

The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) was widely perceived as rife with corruption, police brutality, and racism during the 1990s.

The LAPD had already gotten some bad press by the time Simpson was tried. Just a few years earlier, in 1991, the beating of Rodney King ignited the fury of many LA citizens.

King was a taxi driver who was beaten by four police officers following a high-speed chase. The beating was caught on camera by a local witness and sent to the media. The video footage shocked and horrified people around the world, and further inflamed racial tensions in LA.

Later, during the Simpson trial, Johnnie Cochran, Simpson's lead attorney, called the LAPD lab a "cesspool of contamination." 

Simpson's team accused police in Los Angeles of mishandling evidence and even planting his blood on objects at Simpson's estate.

The defense argued that police had smeared some of Simpson's blood on a sock collected at the crime scene to prove he committed the murders.

"There is absolutely no doubt that the sock was planted by Vannatter, the policeman, who dripped blood from test tubes onto the sock to create an incriminating piece of evidence," Dershowitz, recently told Business Insider.

Dershowitz is referring to Philip Vannatter, an investigator on the 1994 LAPD team who collected evidence from Simpson's estate. Laboratory scientists collected blood samples from Simpson to compare to evidence from the crime scene.

In a damming moment in the trial, the defense told the court that one piece of evidence — a sock that had Simpson's blood on it — had been tampered with. The sock was tested and found to contain EDTA, a chemical used in test tubes, according to Dershowitz.

"The sock had EDTA on it, which is an anticoagulant not found in the human body but is put in test tubes to prevent the blood form coagulating, and so we caught [the police], cold," Dershowitz explained.

The MaM defense team used a nearly identical argument about blood found in Halbach's car that matched Avery. Raising the possibility of corruption in the Manitowoc police department, Avery's defense argued that his blood was planted in the car.

They cited a vial of Avery's blood that appeared to be tampered with to make their point. The vial was in a box that appeared to have been opened. There was a small needle mark in the top of the vial's stopper, suggesting someone had removed some of his blood.

However, in a divergence from the similarities in Simpson's case, an FBI test found there was no EDTA in the blood sample collected in the car. Avery's defense attorneys believed the FBI's work was hasty and unreliable, but a judge ruled the finding was admissible in court.

Here, the cases again diverge. On October 3, 1995 O.J. Simpson was acquitted of both counts of murder. On March 18, 2007, Steven Avery was found guilty of murder.

While court verdicts are the sum of a multitude of parts, both cases hinged, to some degree, on the existence of EDTA in blood samples found at crime scenes.

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Iconic action characters can always be identified by their weapon of choice. 

Who would James Bond be without his silenced pistol, or Han Solo without his worn-out blaster? Helping us remember the familiar, art director Federico Mauro has created renderings of some of the most amazing and recognizable weapons from movies on a clean background. 

Mauro has created impressive visuals that remind us of our favorite films — from indie hits like "Army of Darkness" to blockbusters like "Men In Black."  

The following photos are republished with permission from Federico Mauro.

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Jack Sparrow's pistol from "Pirates of the Caribbean"

Bonnie and Clyde's pistols from "Bonnie and Clyde"

James Bond's silenced pistol from the "007" movies