Pied Piper is a full-on legitimate company on the third season of HBO comedy "Silicon Valley," which returns on April 24.

But the guys behind the company are about to find that legitimacy presents its own set of problems.

In a new trailer for the upcoming season, Pied Piper's board votes to replace Richard (Thomas Middleditch) with a more experienced — and older — CEO, "Action Jack" Barker (Stephen Tobolowsky). 

And while Richard isn't pleased with being removed as the head of his own company, incubator partner Erlich (T.J. Miller) feels extremely snubbed. "Seriously? They picked that gray-haired fossil over me?" He asked.

After meeting him, Erlich rattles off a list of things the new boss must be a fan of: "Metamucil? Polio? The phonograph? A nice piece of fish? Senior discounts at Perkins Family restaurants?"

There's more. Apparently, Pied Piper is in danger of shutting down. Yes, you read that right. And yes, that occurs in every season of the show.

Meanwhile, Hooli founder Gavin Belson (Matt Ross) is planning how to keep Pied Piper down in order to create a better platform.

Watch the new trailer below:

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Cindy Kimberly is a teenager who had her world turned upside down because of a single Justin Bieber Instagram post.

In December, Bieber posted a photo of Kimberly with the caption, "OMG who is this!!" Four months later, Kimberly has a full-blown career as a model.

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Now that music comes out on the weekend, and not always on every streaming service, it can be hard to know where to find the next great song. So Business Insider is helping you with this rundown of the best of what's new in the music world that you can listen to right now.

Rihanna - "Work" (Remixes)

Rihanna released seven new remixes to her No. 1 single "Work" on Tidal. A gaggle of talented producers put their own spins on the song, many of which even sound more tropical than the original. Each song has a nice kick to it and accomplishes a different task.

Listen to all the great remixes on Tidal here.

Iggy Azalea - "Team"

Whatever you think of Iggy Azalea, you can't deny she has a knack for picking catchy material. Her "comeback song" gives it back to her haters with an addictive vocal hook and corny lines. Our favorite: "You gotta set the score right/Call it Hans Zimmer."

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M83 - "Solitude"

In preparation for the release of their first album in nearly five years, M83 have released another single. "Solitude" is a calming, sweeping tune reminiscent of a film score, but the band's signature synth is still there.

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Cameron Balloons pilot Simon Askey has been making waves over the internet this week thanks to his whimsical hot air balloon that looks exactly like the one from the Oscar-winning Pixar movie “Up”.

While Askey has flown the balloon over destinations like the Tower Bridge in London, its playful design has been getting attention thanks to its appearance at the Canberra Balloon Spectacular in Australia this week. 

Its design includes 600 tiny colorful balloons sewn to its fabric. Officially known as the Cameron TR-84, the balloon is one of 40 hot air balloons displayed at the festival, which runs from March 12-20. 

It has been spotted flying over the stunning landscapes of Canberra throughout the week, with spectators taking to social media to document the incredible sight. 

Askey plans to continue using the balloon to travel, with destinations like Japan on his radar. 

“It was created to support the Disney/Pixar movie, "Up". And we’re hoping to send the balloon to Japan later this year,” Askey said in an interview with Buzzfeed. 

 You can spot it at the Canberra Balloon Spectacular until this Monday, when it will once again take to the skies.

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Netflix will pay more than $90 million for a new Will Smith film that it snagged after a two-week bidding war, according to Deadline.

The movie is a cop thriller called "Bright" that contains "fantastical elements" (including orcs). Netflix will spend about $45 million to shoot the film, the same for talent, plus $3 million for the script by Max Landis, Deadline reports.

This is Netflix's biggest push yet into blockbuster films. This purchase significantly outstrips the $60 million Netflix paid for Brad Pitt's "War Machine," which has not yet been released.

Netflix reportedly fought off multiple other bidders, including Warner Brothers and MGM, both of whom would have given the movie a wide theatrical release.

Netflix's commitment to “day-and-date releases,” meaning that movies are available to stream on Netflix the same day they arrive in theaters, will likely limit how many big screens show "Bright." Theater giants like Regal have publicly denounced this release policy, and Netflix's previous films have seen very limited theatrical releases.

“It's going to be very, very difficult for Netflix to get the major theater chains to carry its movies,” FBR Capital Markets analyst Barton Crockett recently told The Los Angeles Times.

But Netflix derives its value from subscriptions, and securing a possible franchise blockbuster like "Bright," along with a big name like Smith, could lure people onto the platform.

The film will shoot in the fall, with David Ayer attached as the director.

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Playing blackjack helps in business, according to Allego CEO Yuchun Lee. 

He would know because he was part of the infamous MIT blackjack team that inspired the 2008 Kevin Spacey movie "21."

"Blackjack has really strengthened me over the years, to go through the ups and downs of business," Lee told Business Insider.

Lee has the track record to back it up. He took his first startup, a marketing software maker Unica, public in 2005, before selling it to IBM for about $500 million in 2010.

After spending a few years as an IBM executive, Lee has launched another startup called Allego in 2013, which made its corporate training video service publicly available just 6 months ago. 

"You may not win all the time, but you increase your odds a lot if you find something you love to do," Lee said. "And over the long run, you’re going to win."

Blackjack prodigy

Lee wasn't part of the blackjack team while he was a student at MIT in the 90s. It was only after he graduated and started running Unica that he joined it. 

Regardless, Lee has fond memories of the team, in which he spent nearly 6 years flying to Vegas almost every weekend. He says the team doubled its money every year, racking up "millions of millions" in cash. It was a well-organized group that paid taxes every year, too.

But he points out it was important to keep the blackjack separate from his business. "Even though there were 5 employees at Unica that were on the team, and we did practice after office hours together — we never mixed the two bank accounts," he said.

"Emotional fortitude"

Despite the firewall between his blackjack life and CEO life, Lee says he did apply a lot of the basic principles he's learned from playing the game to business.

One of them is building the "stomach" to survive the swings in a business cycle. Lee says he went through 4 recessions and 3 wars during his 18 years running Unica, and part of the success has to do with having that "emotional fortitude."

"If you ever want to experience volatility, many ups and downs emotionally, there’s nothing better than joining a professional blackjack team where you can win or lose so much money just by the sheer randomness of the game," Lee said. "It's taught me to have conviction in what you do."

Another takeaway is to enjoy the "David versus Goliath sort of feeling" as a startup. Just as his small blackjack team went up against the house at the casino, you have to learn how to succeed when the odds are against you as a startup, he says.

It's one reason why he bootstrapped both of his startups, and didn't take any VC money early on. He believes you become "less discriminatory" when it comes to spending money and allocating resources if you have too much money in the early stages.

"Not having money is a strong incentive to help you make the best decision possible," he said.

Fixing a broken system

Lee hopes to apply the same principles in his latest startup, Allego.

Launched in 2013, Allego is a software service for corporate training videos. It offers videos that help train sales people, and makes it easy for managers to give quizzes, and feedback, while collecting real-time data on each sales rep. Lee describes it as a "corporate YouTube," only with more interaction and business content.

"The old form of training the sales team is pretty broken," Lee said, pointing out how most sales rep training is done by going on three-day trip to some resort and cramming in tons of content in a short period of time. "The market in general could use a system to help professionals do better jobs by making sure they’re seeing the right content."

Lee's background in video caching and compression, in which he holds 6 patents, also helps. His cofounder, Mark Magnacca, has background in financial sales, part of the reason why Allego's already been able to sign up big companies like John Hancock and Medtronics.

In fact, although Allego launched only 6 months ago, it has over 20,000 users across 50 different organizations, Lee said. It's breaking even in terms of cash flow, while managing to grow its users by 50% every quarter, he said.

Video training in general is a pretty competitive space. Companies like Lynda.com and Pluralsight may have more resources, and they're all going after this growing segment.

But Lee believes Allego has a good chance, as long as he keeps sticking to the principles he's learned so far.

"You don’t have to be smart or have as much resources as your competition, but whenever you see that you're doing something wrong, if you can correct it quicker, you can still beat the competition," Lee said. "That’s in my experience one of the things that we treasure the most as a business."

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The concept of a TV network will likely become obsolete as the entertainment landscape fundamentally shifts, according to analysts at Barclays.

In a recent report on the future of media, Barclays analysts argued that as “aggregation” platforms become the primary driver of eyeballs — think Netflix, or even a “Netflix of Netflixs” — the idea of a channel doesn’t make much sense anymore.

Think about how you discover content on Netflix. You don’t type in “AMC” to find the next show like "Breaking Bad." Instead, Netflix serves you up similar titles from whichever network it wants. Netflix's recommendation engine uses the “show” as its basic unit of content, not the channel. Netflix even strips the branding from many of the shows it licenses from networks.

This is how the analysts believe most TV will work in the future. They argue that “aggregation” will win the day, and that a Netflix of Netflixs will become the starting point for every session of TV watching. And in this world, TV companies will have to figure out a new way for the idea of a “channel” to add value to their shows.

New Networks

That doesn’t mean that “networks” will cease to exist in all forms, just that they will undergo major changes, according to the analysts. They see channels shifting away from trying to hit a basic demographic (think “Nickelodeon for children”), toward a much more concentrated theme, like PewDiePie on YouTube. In short, channels will work much more like they do on the internet than on TV.

And in this future, the line between channel and show will sometimes be blurred. “Is Katy Perry’s channel on YouTube a network or episodes of a program?” the analysts ask. The answer might be that it doesn’t particularly matter, as long as it’s something you can subscribe to, which can appear on your “queue” or “feed.”

Instead of being a destination you go to (turning on AMC), successful channels will have a more concrete (and narrow) identity that allows them to thrive in an “aggregation” world, according to the analysts.

The analysts point to a few legacy companies who are experimenting with this now: “Verizon’s attempt at Go90" and "Comcast’s attempt with SeeSo and Watchable.” It's worth noting, however, that none of these has so far appeared to generate much enthusiasm from the public.

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Would you shell out $200 for a daily smoothie you had to blend at home?

Probably not. What about a $10 equivalent that comes in a bottle?

If the answer is "yes," or even "mayyyybe," please read on.

Oscar-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow recently shared the recipe for her daily breakfast smoothie on her blog Goop.com. And Daily News writer Micaela Hood called out its hefty price tag: about $200 a glass.

At first, the recipe sounds fairly typical as far as smoothies go — almond milk, almond butter, a pinch of optional vanilla powder — but then you get to the mushroom powder and the hard-to-pronounce ingredients such as ashwagandha and cordyceps.

Before we get to those odd additions to her morning beverage, let's nip a blossoming but nasty health rumor in the bud.

First things first: Swapping out a regular meal for a liquid blend does not necessarily make it healthier.

Here's what you might be thinking: OK, so Gwyneth's smoothie is bogus and overpriced. No surprise there. But smoothies and juices overall are super-healthy, right?

After all, they pack the vitamins and nutrients in whole fruits and veggies without the added inconvenience of (loudly) chewing your way through them.

While the gist of this is true — liquid fruits and veggies still contain the whole versions' vitamins and nutrients — juicing them doesn't necessarily mean you're getting more of the good stuff and eliminating the bad stuff.

On the contrary, juicing up a fleshy orange or starchy carrot merely removes most of its fiber, the key ingredient that helps keep us feeling full and also aids in digestion. And it leaves us with the full sugar content of the original food; this is why a glass of orange juice can pack nearly the same sugar content as a glass of Coke.

But what about all those mysterious, fancy-sounding ingredients in Gwyneth's breakfast blend?

It turns out they have zero proven health benefits. In fact, most of the research on them has been done in mice. And mice, as we know, are not people.

"There aren’t really any clinical trials to even say what they do," Andy Bellatti, a registered dietician and the co-founder of the group Dietitians for Professional Integrity, told Business Insider. "Could they potentially have benefits? Could they potentially help lower your cholesterol? Maybe. But we just don’t have that information."

The ones Paltrow says she adds are mostly powders called Moon Dust— yes, Moon Dust — or tonics, and they're made by a company called Moon Juice. The blends are available in over a dozen varieties and claim to help improve everything from sex to sleep.

AsDomingo J. Pinero, the director of undergraduate studies at New York University's School of Nutrition and Food Studies and a clinical assistant professor of nutrition, put it to Business Insider:

"From the perspective of nutrition, there's nothing special there," he said. "Almond butter is what it is. Vanilla mushroom powder ... the ingredients are 'activated brown rice protein' with a mix of mushroom, so even the name is misleading. And coconut oil. Those are the only things with nutritional value. The rest are dietary supplements that you can buy in Chinatown for a fraction of the cost (and probably with adequate instructions for use). I'm not impressed."

With that in mind, we took a look at some of the most popular ingredients Paltrow includes in her daily smoothie. Here's the lowdown on each:

• Ashwagandha (Withania somnifera): Allegedly helpful for soothing anxiety, improving sleep, and boosting virility. According to the research though, there's just not yet enough evidence— aside from some promising studies in animals— to say it does any of that.
• Ho Shou Wu (Fo-Ti root): Allegedly helps boost "youthfulness," reproductive function, and sex drive. But experts say there's not enough evidence to verify any of these claims.
• Cordyceps (a special type of mushroom that attaches itself to a caterpillar and uses its carcass as food): Allegedly boosts strength and energy. Evidence of this, though, is limited. A study from Brigham Young University researchers of endurance-trained cyclists found that cordyceps did not increase aerobic capacity or physical performance, while other studies have suggested potential benefits in mice but not people.
• Vanilla mushroom (brown rice protein plus some of the other ingredients above): Allegedly boosts the immune system, builds muscle, supports the liver, nourishes the heart and spirit, relieves stress, and imparts "feelings of centeredness." The brown rice protein should help build muscle — protein is key for muscle maintenance and growth — but the other ingredients are probably unnecessary.

So there you have it. You don't need a $200 smoothie to get healthier. Or a $10 one, for that matter. Instead, check out these tips:

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One of the big highlights of Netflix’s “Pee-wee’s Big Holiday” is the appearance of Joe Manganiello.

Playing himself in the new movie, the “Magic Mike” star shows up to the town Pee-wee lives in and, after the two hit it off, Manganiello invites the childlike character to his birthday party in New York City. This leads to Pee-wee’s first-ever holiday, which is filled with interesting characters and hilarious dreams of Manganiello.

A die-hard Pee-wee fan, Manganiello told Business Insider that he instantly said yes to playing the role when Paul Reubens (who plays Pee-wee) personally called him a year before shooting started, asking him to be in the movie.

“For me, nothing can prepare you for putting on a Pee-wee suit, getting on a life-size piñata, and jousting while speaking Spanish with giant pinwheels of fire around you,” he said, referring to one particular dream sequence he and Ruebens did for the movie.

But what he was completely prepared for was showing his wife, Sofía Vergara, the "Modern Family" star, the finished product.

Admitting he wasn’t scared at all to show her his wacky side, he told us the two actually had a small screening party at their house with Reubens to watch the movie.

“The two of us were just laughing the whole time,” he said from the South by Southwest festival, where “Pee-wee’s Big Holiday” had its only theatrical screening (it’s currently streaming on Netflix).

But Manganiello said there’s another fun part about showing your wife a comedic role you did.

“When you know somebody the way we know each other, the other person knows when you’re doing ‘that thing’ you do,” he said. “It’s like there’s these little Easter eggs that we drop in our performances that make the other laugh.”

Sadly, Manganiello is keeping those Easter eggs to himself.

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Whether you're a fan of his work or not, chances are you have some opinion about the body of work of Ben Affleck.

He has been inescapable. The actor has close to 50 credits to his name over a career that has quite a few highs and as many lows.

And in a career not lacking for sharp criticism (whether over his questionable ascent to leading-man roles or his work opposite onetime fiancée Jennifer Lopez), he has opened the gates for what could be epic blowback from fans by taking on the role of Batman in the much anticipated "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice," out March 25.

Before we start nitpicking about his version of the Dark Knight, though, let's rank his best and worst performances so far.

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WORST: 5. "Reindeer Games" (2000)

In what can be explained only as a favor to the Weinsteins for making "Good Will Hunting" (this was released by the company's genre arm, Dimension), Affleck stars in this campy thriller/love story in which he plays an ex-con who is forced into robbing a casino.  

WORST: 4. "Surviving Christmas" (2004)

When a movie with "Christmas" in the title comes out in October, you know something is wrong. In fact, this comedy starring Affleck as a millionaire who spends Christmas in the house he grew up in (along with the family that currently lives there) was supposed to come out around Christmas 2003, but it got pushed back.

We're guessing test screenings weren't favorable, because there's a reason you don't see Affleck in comedies like these anymore: He's just not good at them.

WORST: 3. "Runner Runner" (2013)

It's understandable why Affleck was drawn to the role of a crooked entrepreneur who runs an offshore betting site: He's a big fan of poker. But why Justin Timberlake or anyone else followed along is anyone's guess. Perhaps because the movie was written by the same guys who did "Rounders," but the end result this time is a messy story with laughable dramatic moments.

Growing up in a big Italian family, Jimmy Kimmel says he has always struggled with portion control, but the late night host decided to take control by going on an extreme diet called 5:2.

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A Florida jury decided on Friday evening that Gawker Media must pay Hulk Hogan, aka Terry Bollea, $115 million in damages after running a portion of sex tape of the famous wrestler on its site. 

The case centers on a 2012 post by former Gawker editor A.J. Daulerio, in which he posted an edited section of a sex tape filmed without Bollea's consent.

Bollea was allegedly filmed having sex with Heather Clem, the ex-wife of his friend and radio host, Bubba the Love Sponge Clem, in Clem's home with a hidden camera.

Gawker plans to appeal the decision, but legal experts who spoke with Business Insider weren't surprised by the initial ruling.

"The dice were loaded in Hogan's favor," Marc J. Randazza, a First Amendment expert told Business Insider by phone. 

According to Randazza, that's because the case took place in a Tampa, Florida, courtroom, where Hogan lives. 

"Tampa juries are an unpredictable lot," says Randazza. 

"The fact that the jury [sided] against Gawker is not a big surprise," Leslie Carolyn Kendrick, a First Amendment expert at the University of Virginia, told Business Insider in an email. "The jury doesn't speak until it speaks, but Gawker should have been prepared for this possibility from the moment it was clear they were going to trial."

Gawker's attorneys are likely to appeal the verdict in the coming weeks.

Gawker's founder, Nick Denton, said this in a prepared statement: 

Given key evidence and the most important witness were both improperly withheld from this jury, we all knew the appeals court will need to resolve the case. I want to thank our lawyers for their outstanding work and am confident that we would have prevailed at trial if we had been allowed to present the full case to the jury. That’s why we feel very positive about the appeal that we have already begun preparing, as we expect to win this case ultimately.

On Monday, the jury will also decide on punitive damages. Randazza predicts that the punitive damages could be up to "three times" as much as the emotional damages.

"If I had to give Vegas odds," Randazza clarified, "I'd put the over/under at $175 million."

What is most surprising, according to both experts, is how large the verdict was.

"It's even larger than the large amount Hulk Hogan asked for," says Kendrick. "Emotional damages are notoriously hard to calculate, and economic damages in a case like this are too ... The jury came back with $60 million in emotional damages and $55 million in economic."

Randazza called the verdict, "excessive," and expects that it will, "likely be significantly rolled back on appeal."

"The verdict has an element of the jury wanting to punish Gawker," added Randazza. 

"All in all this verdict could hit Gawker hard," says Kendrick. But, she cautioned, "We won't know how important this case is until the appeal is resolved."

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Can you imagine the three-woman American R&B group TLC singing Britney Spears' "...Baby One More Time?"

Neither can we, but it almost happened.

Spears' debut single was originally written for TLC, but the trio passed on what would turn out to be an enormous cultural phenomenon.

Here are 13 hits that almost went to other artists:

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Rihanna's "Umbrella" ... by Britney Spears

Rihanna's "Umbrella" was originally written with pop star Britney Spears in mind, according to author John Seabrook of "The Song Machine." But Spears' label rejected the song because she already had a full load of material to record.

Released in late March 2007, Rihanna's "Umbrella" topped the Billboard charts, staying there for seven straight weeks and changing her career and innocent island-girl image.

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Pharrell's "Happy" ... by CeeLo Green

Singer, rapper, and producer Pharrell Williams told Howard Stern that the infectiously popular "Happy" was intended for CeeLo Green.

Pharrell turned "Happy" into a worldwide hit and sold more than 5 million digital singles. To date, "Happy" remains his most successful song, with 47 weeks on Billboard's Hot 100.

During a 2014 interview with Oprah, Pharrell began crying after watching a supercut of people around the world dancing to his song "Happy."

"It's overwhelming because I love what I do," he told Oprah.

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Rihanna's "S.O.S." ... by Christina Milian

One of Rihanna's first hits, "S.O.S." spent three weeks at the top of Billboard's Hot 100 in 2006.

But the catchy tune was originally written for singer-actress Christina Milian, who rejected the song.

Meanwhile, Milian hasn't had a hit since "Dip It Low," which was released in 2004.

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The world's oldest message in a bottle was actually one of more than 1,000 identical bottles that helped shape our understanding of ocean currents.

Last August, retired post office worker Marianne Winkley discovered a mysterious bottle with a message inside on the shores of Amrum — an island in the German North Sea.

Rumors began circulating that Winkley had found the world's oldest message in a bottle, and on March 14 of this year, the official judge — the Guinness World Records — confirmed everyone's suspicions:

"After a careful review of the historic evidence, Guinness World Records has just confirmed that a mysterious postcard found on the shores of Amrum Island, Germany is the Oldest message in a bottle ever," Guinness World Records stated on their website.

The bottle is actually part of a science experiment conducted by British marine biologist George Parker Bidder III.

At the turn of the 20th century, before the age of satellites, GPS, and water-proof electronic trackers, Bidder released 1,020 bottles off the eastern shores of England to see which direction the bottles would travel.

Inside each bottle were clear instructions to break the bottle along with a postcard requesting that whoever discovered it describe where they found it and to return the postcard to the Marine Biological Association (MBA).

More than half of the bottles were collected after the first few months, most of them by sailors, and Bidder was able to prove, for the first time, that the North Sea current flowed from east to west.

When Winkley discovered one of these bottles 108 years later, 310 miles away from the UK, she did exactly what the sailors had done: She completed the postcard and mailed it to the MBA.

While she's a little late to contribute to Bidder's scientific investigations, she can now officially say that she holds the Guinness World Record for discovering the world's oldest message in a bottle.

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While "Deadpool" is still owning the box office, "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" is about to become the biggest new movie of the season when it hits theaters next week.

Yet the blockbuster is still shrouded in secrecy.

The latest multi-superhero epic has yet to screen for critics, even while stars Ben Affleck (Batman), Henry Cavill (Superman), and Gal Gadot (Wonder Woman) have done rounds of press.

But Warner Bros. has just released a huge batch of new photos that give a closer look at key moments from the film, including behind-the-scenes shots of the actors at work with director Zack Snyder ("Man of Steel," "300").

A lot is riding on the latest from Snyder, who's already signed on to helm two "Justice League" movies next. We'll see if it cashes in at the box office, but at least based on this glimpse, the visuals look stunning.

Check out the photos from "Batman v Superman" and what you need to know about it below.

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The movie centers on a heated battle between Batman and Superman, though they ultimately join forces against a larger evil.

As for the evil, that comes from villain Lex Luthor (Jesse Eisenberg). Eisenberg didn't have to bulk up for the role like his costars. He joked that he was Affleck and Cavill's "spotter" in the on-set gym.

Vengo Labs founding CEO Brian Shimmerlik not only had the confidence to demand that "Shark Tank" investors Kevin O'Leary and Lori Greiner adjust their joint offer before he would accept their $2 million, he had the tact to pull it off.

Shimmerlik and his cofounder Steven Bofill left the Tank with $2 million in venture debt, to be paid over three years at 7% interest, in return for just 3% equity of their digital vending machine company.

Before arriving on set last summer for a Season 7 taping, Bofill told Business Insider he "never thought they'd get to a deal like that.

Shimmerlik and Bofill entered the pitch room seeking $2 million in exchange for 12.5% equity. They explained how they started Vengo Labs in 2011 as a way to revolutionize the vending machine space.

Each Vengo machine is a compact, wall-mounted device that carries six products it advertises with video demonstrations and text.

The intention is to create something akin to an online shopping experience but with an immediate reward, located in places where target consumers spend time already — like college dormitories.

The two entrepreneurs were able to garner interest in their idea from high-profile investors in their hometown of New York City, including Gary Vaynerchuk, David Tisch, and the NYU Venture Innovation Fund.

Before their "Shark Tank" appearance, they raised $3.4 million over a seed and Series-A round.

Vengo operates by selling a unit to a vending machine company for $2,500, breaking even, and then charges the purchaser of the unit a $20 monthly fee for access to the machine's cloud-based software and maintenance insurance.

The owner of each unit can then arrange with Vengo to place their own products in the machine, as well as make use of the company's network of partners, including brands like Hershey's and skin-care company Kiehl's.

Each brand is charged a monthly fee of $200 per unique product per machine per month — not a cheap price, but one that Shimmerlik said comes with an attractive margin for each partner.

Shimmerlik and Bofill told the Sharks that their business model would lead to $1 million in revenue in 2015, at a loss of $300,000, but that their growth would cause them to break even the next year.

Mark Cuban, Daymond John, and Robert Herjavec didn't want to get involved, but O'Leary kicked off negotiations among himself, Greiner, and Shimmerlik. Here's a summary of how it played out:

• Kevin O'Leary: Would you like to make a debt deal?
• Brian Shimmerlik: We don't have any, but I'm open to it.
• O'Leary: I'll give you $2 million in venture debt as a 3-year loan at 7% interest, and I'll get 6% equity in return for the risk. The three years will be sufficient to test proof of concept.
• Shimmerlik: How did you reach that 6%?
• O'Leary: I just asked for it. It seems fair.
• Lori Greiner: I like the concept but I think the design needs work to be more appealing and useful.
• Shimmerlik: Kevin and Lori, would you be interested in splitting a deal?
• O'Leary/Greiner: Sure.
• Shimmerlik: We like the debt terms, but the 6% is much too high. We'll give 1%.
• O'Leary/Greiner: We'd be working too closely with you for just half a percent each. No way.
• Shimmerlik: That's my final counter.
• O'Leary: We can do 3% equity.
• Greiner: No, we should each get 2%. Let's have 4%.
• Shimmerlik: We've already worked with investors and we know that's below market value.
• O'Leary: Sharks can't be held to those same standards. We are much more involved than a typical investor and can get you tremendously valuable exposure. And you'll be getting not one Shark, but two.
• Shimmerlik: That's a good point. I'll make just one more counter: 2.5% equity.
• O'Leary/Greiner: We'll do 3.5%.
• Shimmerlik: That's still too much for us. My final offer is 2.5%. We'd love to work with you.
• O'Leary/Greiner: Our last offer is 3%.
• Shimmerlik: Deal.

Shimmerlik told us that the negotiation process went well for him because there was mutual respect between himself and the investors rather than condescension, and that it was fun working out a deal. "I could tell O'Leary loved it," Shimmerlik said.

Following their "Shark Tank" appearance, the Vengo Labs team secured an additional $2 million from Armory Square Ventures in October. Vengo is planning to use its war chest to expand its reach to 1,000 units in four cities across four continents, and expect to make $2 million in revenue this year.

Shimmerlik explained that what makes the partnership with O'Leary and Greiner so appealing is not only their star power, but their investments in a wide variety of Vengo-friendly products, like O'Leary's Bottle Breacher bottle opener.

"It's wild," Shimmerlik said of the "Shark Tank" experience. "Totally."

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The good ol' boy attitude. The laugh. The mustache. For a solid decade, Burt Reynolds was one of the biggest stars in the world. From "Smokey and the Bandit" to "Cannonball Run," Reynolds epitomized the tough guy before the late '80s brought in the hulking action stars like Schwarzenegger and Stallone.

In the new documentary "The Bandit," director Jesse Moss ("The Overnighters") looks back at the height of Reynolds' career through the making of "Smokey and the Bandit," the surprise hit of the late 1970s directed by legendary stuntman and Reynolds' best friend Hal Needham, which follows a bootlegger (Reynolds) as he illegally travels a truckload of Coors beer across county lines while a sheriff (Jackie Gleason) is in hot pursuit.  

Reynolds talked to Business Insider about the documentary (airing on CMT later this year), the bra-throwing welcome he got when screening it at the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival, how he reacted when he met "Saturday Night Live" Reynolds imitator Norm Macdonald, and the one stunt he wishes he didn't do.

Business Insider: Did it take some convincing for you to be in "The Bandit"?

Burt Reynolds: No. I was really flattered that they wanted to do it and that picture ["Smokey"] was some kind of strange little miracle in a way, for the fact that it made so much damn money and it was so much fun to do. As soon as we got [Jackie] Gleason and Sally [Field], I knew we were off.

BI: What was your relationship with Hal up to his death? Were you guys close until the end?

Reynolds: Oh yes. Very close. He was my roommate when we did our first picture together and I was always taken by how prepared he was when he was doing second unit. I knew he would do a good job [directing].

BI: So have you ever had to buy a Coors ever in your life after that movie?

Reynolds: [Laughs] No, I haven't. I have all I want.

BI: You talk a little in the movie about the 1972 nude Cosmopolitan spread. How much do you feel it hurt your career?

Reynolds: I wish I hadn't done it because I wasn't taken as a serious actor. I think "Deliverance" suffered because of it and a lot of other things and I wasn't pleased that I did it, but at the time I wanted everyone to understand the humor of it. But who knows what lurks in the minds of filmmakers.

BI: I'm sure you've been trying to figure that out for decades now.

Reynolds: I have. I have. [Laughs] And I haven't figured it out, either.

BI: What was going to SXSW like? I mean, a woman at one screening threw her bra up to you onstage. Where you taken aback by the reception you got?

Reynolds: I was taken aback by it. And with the bra incident, I didn't know who to give it to, and it didn't fit me. I looked at it and if it was a double D, I might have tried to find out who she was.

BI: But having lingerie thrown at you is something that's not new for you, let's be real.

Reynolds: Well, it happened a couple of times in the old days. But now, I mean, I just had an 80th birthday.

BI: Are you aware how popular you are in the current era? Norm Macdonald playing you on "Saturday Night Live," for instance, is still legendary. Your persona is widely known, regardless of the generation. Do you realize that?

Reynolds: Yeah, I do. And I'm very flattered by that. Now with Norm, when he met me, he got scared that I was going to punch him out, and I told him I thought he was wonderful. I don't want to be thought of as a total idiot, but I do like the idea that somebody is playing you and having fun with it and I always had fun. I always felt I was playing a part — I mean I still do. I'm having fun with the business. I've been very lucky.

BI: You were known to do many of your own stunts. Do you think actors tend to migrate to the stunt guys? You hear about it with Tom Cruise.

Reynolds: There's a lot of truth in that. And with Tom, he's very brave with the stuff that he does. And he wants to be thought of as that because for such a long time he was a pretty boy and smaller than he wanted to be, I think. The stunts that he's done, it's obvious it's him, and I'm very impressed with that. I've told him that. 

BI: Is there a stunt you did that, looking back, you wish you had a stuntman do?

Reynolds: [Laughs] Yeah, there's a couple. When it's cold and I'm limping around I think, "Why didn't I let Hal make some money and I just sit down?" But you can't go back. It was a dumb macho thing.

BI: Entertain me with one example.

Reynolds: I went over the falls in "Deliverance" and I hit a rock and cracked my tailbone. I tell everyone I was a 31-year-old guy in great shape before I went over the falls. And once I got in they couldn't find me. I remembered one of the stunt guys said to me before the stunt, "If you get caught in the hydrofoil and you can't get out, go to the bottom and it will shoot you right out," but he didn't tell me it was like being shot out of a torpedo. I came out of the river about a mile away it seemed like, and I came out with no clothes. I had no shoes, socks — the falls tore them off. It was a pretty hairy stunt.

BI: And did you just play it off and go on with the day, or did you tell the guys you were hurt?

Reynolds: Oh no, I went on with the day and told them I was fine. If I told them I was hurt, they would have gotten all over me for insisting on doing it. So I just went on with the day.

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Following the spectacular multi-week box office performance by Fox's "Deadpool" in February, Disney's "Zootopia" is showing the same dominance in March as the animated hit that mixes social commentary with a lovable bunny's quest to be a cop is number one at the weekend box office for a third-straight week with an estimated $38 million, according to Exhibitor Relations.

The film took in $10 million on Friday and then $17 million on Saturday.

Through 17 days the movie, which includes the voices of Ginnifer Goodwin and Jason Bateman, is outpacing previous non-Pixar Disney animated hit "Frozen" by 51%. And is 6% ahead of Pixar hit "Finding Nemo," according to Deadline. 

Coming in a disappointing second place this weekend is "The Divergent Series: Allegiant" with an estimated $29.05 million. That's the lowest opening for the franchise. The latest film from the adaptation of the popular young adult book series written by Veronica Roth was down $23 million for the last film "Insurgent."

The two previous films in the franchise opened in the low $50 million-range. Lionsgate may be regretting splitting the final chapter of the franchise into two films. Yes, there's one more "Divergent" movie coming next year.

In third place is "10 Cloverfield Lane," which banked an estimated $12 million over the weekend, while the faith-based "Heaven is for Real," starring Jennifer Garner, took in an impressive $16 million over its five-day open, according to Variety.

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Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards is looking to offload his Manhattan penthouse, listing the four-bedroom lower Fifth Avenue aerie for $12.2 million. 

The duplex, in an iconic co-op, looks out over historic Greenwich Village and boasts intriguing design details like a leather-wrapped bronze handrail on the staircase and a sliding glass exterior wall for breezy indoor-outdoor living. Richards and his wife Pattie Hansen bought the spot in 2014 for $10.5 million, but it looks like they aren't getting much satisfaction from the purchase after all.

It's now listed with Sotheby's. Take a look at Richards' pad. 

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The complex — which was built in 1929 as an Art Deco hotel — is just off Washington Square Park in downtown Manhattan.

The apartment was fully remodeled in 2011, turning it into a light-filled, modern space.

White walls and dark wood floors make a strong contrast.

Inmates in jail celebrate birthdays the same way anyone else does: by eating cake.

But without access to an oven, cooking supplies, or even common ingredients like eggs, butter and milk, inmates need to get creative.

At Clark County Jail in Jeffersonville, Indiana, inmates concoct a treat they call "jail cake," according to one of the participants on the A&E documentary series "60 Days In."

Barbra, who] spent two months as an undercover inmate for the show, said jail cake was only eaten on special occasions.

"This was a cake that was only made if it was someone's birthday or if someone was getting called for 'bed and baggage,' meaning they were going home," she told Business Insider.

Equipped with only a microwave and select ingredients from the jail's commissary — an in-house store where inmates can buy food, toiletries, and other items — inmates learned to whip up a surprisingly tasty treat.

"I actually liked jail cake so much that I made it for my husband's birthday cake when I got home from jail. I wanted him to feel like he was part of the process in some way," Barbra said.

Here's Barbra's recipe for jail cake. All items were purchased from the jail commissary:

• 1 whole package of peanut butter cookies
• 1 whole pack of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
• 1 whole Hershey bar
• 1 scoop of peanut butter
• 2 scoops of cappuccino mix

1. Separate the peanut butter cookies and scoop out all of the peanut butter filling into a separate bowl.

2. Crush the peanut butter cookies down into a fine powder in a bowl. If you want to make it the jail way, Barbra and other inmates would take a plastic cup and push the bottom of it down into the cookies until they were all crushed up.

3. Add a little bit of water to the crushed cookies and stir until it forms a ball of dough. Using the leftover cookie tray package from the peanut butter cookies, press the dough into the bottom of the cookie tray until it forms an even layer.

4. Break up the Reese's cups into the bowl of peanut butter cookie filling. Add in the 2 scoops of cappuccino mix. Add in a little bit of water. Stir the mixture together and microwave for increments of 15 seconds, until it's completely melted and about the consistency of melted caramel.

5. Microwave a cup full of water until it's very hot. Leave the Hershey bar in the wrapper and place it in the hot cup of water. This will melt down the chocolate inside the wrapper.

6. Start layering the cake into the cookie tray. It goes like this: a layer of dough, a layer of peanut butter filling, a layer of dough, a layer of peanut butter filling.

7. When the cake is completely layered, take the melted Hershey bar out of the cup of water and tear a small corner form the wrapper. Squeeze the melted chocolate out and drizzle it all over the cake.

8. Put 1 scoop of peanut butter in a bowl and melt it until it is runny. Drizzle it all over the cake.

9. Refrigerate the cake for about 2 hours. Or if you want to do it jail-style, place it on a bowl full of ice for two hours.

Plenty of alternative recipes for jail-friendly cake are available on YouTube. One user suggests a different set of processed snacks, namely Snickers bars, M&Ms, and honey buns. Another user recommends using a small amount of mayonnaise as a binding agent for the smashed cookie crumbs:

While jail cake might sound delicious, jails don't exactly serve gourmet food.

With a budget of $1 for each inmate's meal, some of what Barbra and the other participants ate barely resembled food. They also endured other harrowing experiences, like having to navigate a strict social hierarchy just to use the bathroom. 

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