"Game of Thrones" is one of the most expensive TV shows ever produced — the new season is said to have cost $10 million per episode. When you look at how last season's epic battle from the episode "Hardhome" was made, you can see that all of that money is being put to good use.

The sixth season of "Game of Thrones" premieres on April 24th on HBO. Watch the full behind-the-scenes video here.

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Would a Han Solo who's not Harrison Ford be the same sarcastic hero every "Star Wars" fan cherishes?

What would "Lord of the Rings" look like with Nicolas Cage in one of the main roles?

Characters become iconic thanks in large part to the actors who bring them to life, and it's often hard to imagine anyone else in the role after the fact.

But some actors are fired from a role, some leave due to other commitments, and some just don't accept the offer. 

When a offer is first presented, it can be hard to see how successful a film might become. Some actors regret turning down a project, but others, like Jack Nicholson, know that it can be the right choice, no matter how popular or critically adored the film might become. 

Here are 30 iconic characters that were almost played by different actors:  

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Leonardo DiCaprio — Dirk Diggler in "Boogie Nights"

Played by: Mark Wahlberg

After watching him in "The Basketball Diaries," Paul Thomas Anderson wanted DiCaprio to star in "Boogie Nights." DiCaprio turned it down to appear in "Titanic," but recommended his friend and "Basketball Diaries" costar Mark Wahlberg.

DiCaprio told GQ in 2008 that he regretted turning down the role. "'Boogie Nights' is a movie I loved and I wish I would've done." When asked if he would reverse his decision if he could, DiCaprio said, "I'm not saying I would have. But it would have been a different direction, career-wise. I think they're both great and wish I could have done them both."

DiCaprio was also offered $20 million by Lionsgate to portray crazed serial killer Patrick Bateman in "American Psycho," even though director Mary Harron wanted Christian Bale in the role. She was replaced by director Oliver Stone, but DiCaprio and Stone couldn't agree on a creative direction, so DiCaprio left to film "The Beach." Harron returned to the project and Bale was cast. 

Al Pacino — Han Solo in "Star Wars"

Played by: Harrison Ford

During the An Evening with Pacino event in 2013, Pacino revealed that he could have played the iconic role of Han Solo in the "Star Wars" franchise.

"It was mine for the taking but I didn’t understand the script," he said.

He also revealed that he turned down roles in "Apocalypse Now" and "Pretty Woman," eventually played by Marlon Brando and Richard Gere, respectively.  

Marilyn Monroe — Holly Golightly in "Breakfast at Tiffany's"

Played by: Audrey Hepburn 

Truman Capote, the author of "Breakfast at Tiffany's," wanted Marilyn Monroe to play Holly, but Monroe turned it down because she was warned that portraying Holly might be bad for her image. 

Broadway’s smash-hit "Hamilton," produced by Jeffrey Seller, the producer of Broadway hits "RENT" and "Avenue Q," is netting a profit of $2 million each month. Here's what he has to say about the show's financial success.

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The chair that JK Rowling sat in while writing her first two "Harry Potter" novels is up for auction. It is expected to fetch at least £45,000.

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FX's "American Crime Story," which just finished its first season, has breathed new life into the O.J. Simpson murder case, and an explosive upcoming ESPN documentary will do the same.

More than 20 years ago, many Americans were shocked when a jury acquitted Simpson of the murder of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ron Goldman.

Despite two decades having passed, people still obsess over the case and whether Simpson, a former NFL player, was guilty of stabbing his ex and her friend to death.

The drama of the televised trial unfolded in Americans' living rooms — including the scene where Simpson tried on a glove that supposedly belonged to the killer. Of course, it didn't fit.

Many of the star players in the Simpson trial are still trotted out to weigh in on current court cases, including the trial of Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius, who was convicted of "culpable homicide" for killing his girlfriend. (An appeals court later scaled the conviction up to murder.)

Other lawyers involved in the Simpson case have taken strikingly different routes, devoting their lives to helping to exonerate innocent people.

You might not have heard some of these names in a while. Here's what the stars of the O.J. Simpson trial are up to today.

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Los Angeles District Attorney Gil Garcetti has found a new calling — photography.

As the district attorney in Los Angeles in 1994, Gil Garcetti captured national attention when his office decided not to pursue the death penalty while prosecuting O.J. Simpson.

When Simpson was acquitted in 1995, people began writing Garcetti's "political obituaries," The New York Times noted. But he redeemed himself the next year when his office secured a conviction of Lyle and Erik Menendez, who killed their parents. 

These days, Garcetti has pursued a different career: photography. In 2014, CNN reported that he had completed eight books of photographic essays and become an opponent of the death penalty.

"My focus is on photography and other things not related to the criminal-justice system or even to the law. I made that career decision when I left, after the voters told me to leave," he told CNN.

Garcetti does keep some crime drama in his life, though. He has served as a consultant for the TV show "The Closer" and, more recently, "Major Crimes."

Canadian actor Bruce Greenwood plays him in the FX series. 

Former LAPD detective Mark Fuhrman went on to write true-crime books and serve as a forensic and crime-scene expert for Fox News.

One of the first investigators on the crime scene, Mark Fuhrman, later testified that he found the notorious bloody glove, The New York Times reported back in 1995.

Fuhrman made national headlines when he was accused of being a racist and even of using the "n" word. He pleaded "no contest" to a perjury charge that he lied in court about using the slur.

These days, Fuhrman serves as a forensic and crime-scene expert for Fox News Channel.

He's written a number of books, including "Murder in Greenwich," which chronicles an unsolved murder that has gotten national attention.

Steve Pasquale plays Fuhrman in the FX show. 

Former prosecutor Marcia Clark now writes legal thrillers.

Lead prosecutor Marcia Clark became a household name during the 1994-1995 trial, which was broadcast into the living rooms of everyday Americans.

By October 1994, a "roving band of reporters" surrounded Clark as she left the courthouse one day, The New York Times reported at the time. 

The Times noted that Clark made efforts to change her appearance in an apparent effort to seem more sympathetic to the jury. During the trial, she started sporting "shorter, better-kempt hair that framed her face, warmer and lighter-colored dresses with softer fabrics, more jewelry," according to The Times.

Clark scored a $4.2 million book deal by the end of the trial. These days, Clark describes herself on her Facebook page as the author of the Rachel Knight series about a district attorney in Los Angeles.

"Writing novels and being in the courtroom — it's a storytelling job, no matter how you look at it," Clark told Oprah Winfrey in 2013. "It's the same thing."

Clark — who's played by Sarah Paulson in the FX show — recently spoke to the New York Post about the dramatization of the O.J. trial.

"I could sit back and appreciate the brilliance of the performers, but I kept coming back to the idea that two people are dead. Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson. It was pretty hard sitting through the first two episodes," Clark told the Post. "Whatever you think of [OJ] Simpson, the murderer walked away. No one was brought to justice."

Verizon has made another big move to grab teen eyeballs by agreeing to buy a 24.5% share in AwesomenessTV, in a deal which values the video powerhouse at $650 million.

AwesomenessTV was acquired by Dreamworks in 2013, who will remain the majority stakeholder, owning about 51%. Hearst owns 24.5% of the company as well.

Besides the equity, Re/code's Peter Kafka reports that Verizon will pay "at least $73 million for video programming." In 2015, AwesomenessTV signed a multi-year deal with Verizon to produce 200 hours of content.

What is AwesomenessTV? The video content company first got its start on YouTube, where its main channel has 3.6 million subscribers, but its content now appears in various forms across platforms like YouTube Red, Netflix, and Verizon's Go90 service.

If you haven't heard of it, that might be because the content feels decidedly teen-focused.

"AwesomenessTV has demonstrated an ability to zero in on programming that Gen Z and millennials want to watch,” Marni Walden, an EVP at Verizon told The Wall Street Journal. 

Here's a sample scene from "Dance Camp," a movie the company created for YouTube's new premium service:

Two people are dancing. Then someone says something like "trust me." Then they kiss. "That was ... awesome." They giggle. Shawn Mendes' "Stitches" plays.

But that seems to be exactly what Verizon wants. It has jumped headfirst into its new video app, Go90, which is aimed at capturing a younger market, and is releasing dozens of original shows.

Business Insider’s Jason Guerrasio interviewed the man behind Go90, Brian Angiolet, who explains Verizon’s strategy like this: “The company aims to create a one-stop destination for sports, news, and original entertainment series, all as fast-paced as the attention spans of a busy millennial.”

As part of this new deal, Verizon and AwesomenessTV plan to create more content for the free, ad-supported Go90 app, as well as launch some form of premium video service. 

This premium tier is slated to launch near the end of 2016 or in early 2017, AwesomenessTV CEO Brian Robbins told Re/code's Peter Kafka. It will be aimed at 18 to 34-year-olds and be included under the broader Go90 umbrella, according to The New York Times.

“The next evolution in short-form video is super-premium video, on par with cable networks like HBO,” Robbins told Re/code.

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Now that FX's "The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story" has concluded its trip back to one of America's most infamous trials, the real prosecutor Marcia Clark has come away from the series feeling both amazement and validation.

On Tuesday's conclusion to the 10-episode season, both sides believed they had lost as the jury was deliberating. After four hours (though Clark told Vulture it was actually just two hours), the jury found Simpson not guilty of murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend, Ron Goldman.

Clark found the show incredibly timely, though its events occurred about 21 years ago. 

“Everybody revisiting it now has a better view, a better perspective on it all, and that has changed their attitude toward all of us,” the 62-year-old said in a new interview with Vulture.

“But, most importantly," she continued, "it has changed attitudes about big issues, like the reasons why minorities view law enforcement differently, the reasons why women get treated differently, why they have a unique struggle when it comes to navigating the world whether it's at home or at work. The young men who have interviewed me have been really shocked and disgusted. Let me tell ya, I didn't see that coming. Isn't it amazing?”

At the same time, the former Simpson prosecutor said that the series only helped to further validate her earlier realization that she and her team were up against a Goliath with the case.

In fact, most surprisingly, Clark says she sees no possibility of winning when she looks back now.

"There was really no chance," she said. "I mean, here's the thing: Because he was who he was, so famous and black, even if they had not used race as an issue, even if they had just gone after evidence the way that the defense usually does — 'oh, this could've gone wrong and that could've gone wrong'— I think that would've still done it. So if anything it makes me aware of just how impossible the odds really were, even more than I realized then. And I knew then! But it's just that much more obvious to me now."

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"Star Wars: The Force Awakens" has crushed box-office records since its December 18 release, taking only 12 days to gross $1 billion and only 20 to surpass "Avatar" as the highest-grossing domestic film ($934.96 million to "Avatar's" $760.51 million, unadjusted for inflation).

But even with its numerous and impressive records, after 16 weekends, "The Force Awakens" won't pass "Avatar" as the highest-grossing film worldwide.

In fact, it sits third behind James Cameron's "Avatar" and Cameron's "Titanic" in global grosses.  

"The Force Awakens" has earned $2.07 billion worldwide compared to "Avatar's" $2.79 billion and "Titanic's" $2.19 billion.

While "The Force Awakens" dominated the US box office, it didn't rake in nearly as much money in foreign markets. Where "The Force Awakens" made $1.13 billion outside of the US, "Avatar" earned a staggering $2.03 billion.

Different factors, including theater runs and cultural significance, contributed to how the box-office records played out for the films. In China, the largest movie market behind the US, "The Force Awakens" has pulled in $125.4 million, but that is significantly less than the $204.1 million "Avatar" earned during its run. 

Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst at ComScore, told Vulture that "Star Wars" resonates more with American audiences.

"'Star Wars' is such a definitively American piece of culture, and so it resonated particularly well in North America, setting a record that should stand for a long period of time,” Dergarabedian said. “But China did not provide the boost or muscle to put it over the top worldwide.”

The impact of "The Force Awakens" can't be denied, but it's going to have to settle for not quite winning at everything.

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If you've ever wondered how your favorite star can look forever resistant to age, well, turns out there's some technique behind it.

That actor may be getting digitally retouched.

Special effects aren't just for huge explosions or creating herds of dinosaurs trampling everything in their path. They also can and do take pimples off of teen stars, erase years off actors' faces, and elongate bodies to create slimmer physiques.

And some actors require the use of digital retouching in their contracts.

“For a top actress, it’s usually non-contractual with us, so that that document never gets out,” a top entertainment attorney said anonymously in Vulture's recent feature on digital retouching. “It’s in everyone’s best interest that she not look haggard and that her jowls don’t look too old or whatever.”

The article points to the "suspiciously plasticky" 2010 film "The Tourist," which stars Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie. 

Here's what Vulture's story exposes about the secret use of digital retouching in movies and TV:

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Digital retouching isn't just for the ladies.

Michael Shannon, who played Zod in "Batman v Superman," said digital retouching can be a leading man's best friend, too.

“In postproduction, if they want your nose to be a little smaller or a little bigger, that’s up to them, man,” Shannon said. “Some attractive person gets out of a swimming pool dripping wet? Nobody wants to see how they really look: It’s fantasy.”

And at age 63, Paul Reubens was emphatic about casting a younger actor to play his iconic character Pee-wee Herman in Netflix's "Pee-wee's Big Holiday." But digital retouching made it possible for him to play the timeless character again.

‘‘Pee-wee doesn’t work, to me, with age mixed into it," Reubens told The New York Times. "So I knew I wanted digital retouching, and that was my biggest concern from the get-go, with [producer Judd Apatow], when it came to budgeting, because it costs a fortune. I could have had a face-lift and we would have saved two million dollars.’’

The technique is also used to make the young and beautiful even younger and more beautiful.

Hollywood veterans don't hold the monopoly on digital retouching. Producers are using the tech on young actors, as well. Pimples, for example, don't have to be an embarrassing situation. On "Glee," for example, a director revealed, "There was a pimple pass on most episodes."

And even the most perfect people on the planet, models, get a helping hand from the tech. 

Visual-effects supervisor Jim Rider, whose credits include "Vinyl" and "Foxcatcher," said, “I’ve done beauty retouching on women who are practically supermodels."

CGI may make you reconsider an actor's "body" of work.

Today, Christian Bale wouldn't need to drop a deadly 63 pounds for "The Machinist." Digital retouching can take the physical element out of preparing for a role. For example, Jack O'Connell was saved from having to lose all the weight necessary to play a Nazi concentration camp prisoner in the Angelina Jolie-directed film "Unbroken."

And "Homeland" simply hid star Claire Danes' pregnancy by digitally replacing her baby bump with a model's flat torso.

Beauty and physicality are really just the tip of the iceberg for computer-generated imagery, or CGI, in Hollywood. It's being used in all kinds of unexpected performance-enhancing ways, according to Vulture.

Aaron Carter's songs topped the charts in the early 2000s, but in 2011, the pop star checked into rehab. Aaron says that his brother Nick was the one who took him there, and helped him get his life back.

Aaron just released his new single, Fool's Gold.

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If you tuned into Justin Kan's Snapchat story in the last few weeks, you would have watched him zooming around on a hoverboard while reading applications for startup accelerator Y Combinator, working out on an exercise bike next to a taxidermied alligator he killed himself, shouting from the back of an all-terrain vehicle while cruising around his new ranch in Sonoma, and partying with his former cofounder who just sold his startup to GM.

Oh, and, most important, giving entrepreneurs a continuous stream of advice, ranging from how to tips on how to pitch on stage to his musings about money. 

"Someone told me, 'Watching your Snapchat is like a never-ending episode of 'Silicon Valley,''" Kan tells Business Insider, laughing, in reference the hit HBO show that satirizes the tech world. "I was like, 'I guess that’s true. I don’t think that was a compliment but I’ll take it.' It kind of is. I have a very 'Silicon Valley' life."

Ask any entrepreneur who they love to follow on the disappearing photo and video app and two names consistently come up: Kan and LA-based venture capitalist Mark Suster.

While the two accounts differ in a lot of ways — Suster sticks to advice-driven "SnapStorms" while Kan co-mingles aphorism with scenes from his daily life — at their core they both serve the same goal: giving mentorship to founders and startup junkies in a way that’s much more scalable than individual conversations and more convenient (and fun) than a post.

We talked to both of them to find out how and why they're embracing this platform once known as a haven for teen sexting. 

Kan: a live video veteran

Kan's a serial entrepreneur with several exits — including the sale of streaming-video startup Twitch to Amazon for nearly $1 billion— and current partner at Y Combinator.

And for the last few months, he’s been obsessed with Snapchat.

Every day, Kan will use Snapchat's "Stories" feature to hold Q&As, offer guidance to startups, and give viewers a peek into his life.

The format is familiar to Kan because his old company Twitch started as Justin.tv, a site where he would stream his life to viewers 24/7. He sees Snapchat as sort of a Justin.tv 2.0, with all the benefits of live video — the immediacy, intimacy, and capability for spontaneous interactions — but with less friction and effort and without the pressure of permanence.

Kan also routinely pops other startup founders into his feed, which has helped his account gain notoriety among the Silicon Valley set. (People who make cameos often tell him that they receive a string of texts afterwards — I can attest that this happened to me after Kan teased our interview on his feed)

Fadhli Rahim, a Singapore-based CTO, says he finds Kan's Snaps exciting, and that it feels like he's getting "exclusive insight" on the life of a successful guy and "learning from him personally."

Andrew Torba, a founder, describes Kan's Stories as "a mix of entrepreneurial wisdom, the epic life of a young VC, and pure randomness," and another, Cyril Moukarzel, says he's "addicted." 

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Suster: more immediate than blogging

Suster, who's been hooked on Snapchat for about a month and a half, says that he keeps a list of topics in his phone that he'll address through the app whenever he has free time. Recent themes include "what is corporate governance?" and why startups shouldn't ask VCs to introduce them to other VCs. 

Suster, a prolific blogger and a video vet (he’s been posting interviews on YouTube for years), says that he downloads all his SnapStorms and will eventually upload most of them and cross-link the videos with posts he's written. But creating daily Stories gives him incredible reach and immediacy. 

"It’s a chance for me to communicate a series of messages directly to entrepreneurs," he says. "I could write a blog post, but it’s a simpler form and it’s more personal because you actually get to hear me say it — it’s more intimate.”

John Gattuso, a first-time entrepreneur, says he watches Suster's SnapStorms every night to glean all his best practices for starting a company. 

"Mark does an amazing job condensing it all down into such a small timeframe," he says. 

Right now, Suster says that he's one of the only VCs with a real presence on the platform.

"They’re all there, but they’re sharing photos of their kids or the great food they eat or their vacation spots," he says, adding that although that content is fun, it's often not compelling to a large audience. "Almost all of my target customers — entrepreneurs between the ages of 22 to 25 —  are on Snapchat. So here’s this great platform that suits me for the kind of mentorship that I like to give — which is short, sharp, very authentic pieces of advice — on a platform where no one else is there."

Suster recently penned a blog post entitled Snapchat 101 for VCs and Old folks. But if other venture capitalists don’t drink the KoolAid, well, you won’t find him complaining.

"If no one else can figure out how to use the platform and I have the playground to myself, I’m okay with that," he says. "As long as my customers are here."

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 Viewers seem to be eating it up

Both men say they average several thousand viewers per Story, and are seeing solid growth. 

Kan even hired a full-time, salaried "Snap God" to help him produce content. Tiger Wang quit his advertising job to follow Kan around, come up with new ideas, and help grow the channel. 

Both Suster and Kan say they plan to continue snapping for the foreseeable future, as long as viewers continue to stay interested and their reach keeps growing. 

Unlike a lot of Snapstars, their end-game for growth isn’t scoring big brand partnerships (both are already rich). They're having fun and building their brands, while talking directly to the next great generation of entrepreneurs. 

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The Los Angeles Police Department has launched a felony investigation of Charlie Sheen, a detective in the department confirmed to Business Insider.

The investigation focuses on abuse allegations from the actor's ex-fiancee, Scottine Ross, the detective said.

Radar previously posted a transcript of a purported audio recording of Sheen making threats toward Ross. Radar obtained that transcript from The National Enquirer. 

Investigators served a search warrant on Radar in New York to obtain the recording, according to the New York Daily News.

Ross previously sued Sheen in last December, saying he did not disclose his HIV-positive status until after they had sex several times. She also claimed that he was physically and emotionally abusive toward her.

A representative for Sheen didn't immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.

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Warner Bros. has changed its upcoming film schedule and added dates for three untitled projects through 2020.

The Andy Serkis-directed "Jungle Book," which was slated for October 6, 2017, has been pushed back a year to October 19, 2018. 

Serkis posted a message to Facebook Wednesday and said that he is "absolutely thrilled" that the date has changed because "the ambition for this project is huge." 

Disney's live-action version of "Jungle Book" will be released April 15. 

The studio has also made changes to the DC cinematic universe. The release date for "Wonder Woman," starring "Batman v Superman's" Gal Gadot, has been moved up from June 23, 2017 to June 2, 2017. 

WB had nine DC films planned through 2020, which includes March's "Batman v Superman." It has now added two more untitled superhero films for October 5, 2018 and November 1, 2019. They join "Wonder Woman," "Suicide Squad" (August 5, 2016), "The Justice League Part One (Nov. 17, 2017), "The Flash" (March 16, 2018), "Aquaman" (July 27, 2018), "Shazam!" (April 5, 2019), "Justice League Part Two" (June 14, 2019), and "Cyborg" (April 3, 2020). An untitled event film is also slated for October 6, 2017.

The studio is reportedly shifting its strategy in the face of fan and critical backlash to "Batman v Superman." It's focusing more closely on franchise-based films in hopes that they will generate hits, insiders say.

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For "Game of Thrones" actress Maisie Williams, people who aren't feminists are simply sexist.

The 18-year-old opened up about her views on feminism in an interview with Entertainment Weekly. 

Williams was first asked about her character, Arya, being a feminist during the show's first season, and at the time, she didn't quite know what that meant. 

"And then someone explained it to me, and I remember thinking, 'Isn’t that just like everyone?'" she said. "And then I realized everyone is not a feminist, unfortunately. But I also feel like we should stop calling feminists 'feminists' and just start calling people who aren’t feminist 'sexist,' and then everyone else is just a human. You are either a normal person or a sexist." 

She said it can be difficult to talk about sensitive issues because people can be mean. 

"Once people are angry about something, you start worrying about saying the right thing instead of just saying what you mean," she said. "It’s very easy to have an opinion. Everyone’s got one. But it’s very difficult to speak up about difficult subjects when people are angry with you."

It's easy to be attacked on social media, from both men and women, but Williams said she's trying to use her platform to speak up even though she's scared. 

"I’m trying to do the best I can," she said. "I got a voice. I believe in equality and I know I have more power than the average person to reach people. And I just get petrified in case people are rude. You don’t want to put yourself through that." 

"Game of Thrones" returns for its sixth season April 24. With this season moving ahead of the books, Williams said fans of the show are "going to hate it, but love it, and I can’t wait." 

Read the rest of her interview with EW here. 

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Spike Lee, a Bernie Sanders supporter, does not have nice things to say about the frontrunner in the Republican presidential nominating contest, Donald Trump.

The director interviewed Sanders for The Hollywood Reporter, and spoke to the publication about the 2016 elections more generally.

Known for movies including "Do the Right Thing" and "Malcolm X," Lee compared Donald Trump to the Son of Sam (real name: David Berkowitz), the serial killer who terrified New York City in the 1970s.

When asked which character in his own films is most like Trump, Lee said: "I mean, I did a film called 'Summer of Sam'... It was about the infamous summer of 1977, New York City [when so-called Son of Sam David Berkowitz killed six people]. And there was a certain person who had the whole city in terror."

Lee also compared Bernie Sanders to the mayor character played by Ossie Davis in "Do the Right Thing," and Hillary Clinton to Ruby Dee in "Jungle Fever." You can read his responses and watch his interview with Sanders here.

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The upcoming live action reboot of "The Jungle Book" has some of the most impressive CGI we've ever seen. While it looks like they shot the whole film in a jungle, it was actually made mostly on a sound stage in Los Angeles.

"The Jungle Book" will be out in theaters on April 15th.

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"American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson," which just aired its season finale, paid attention to every little detail of the case. Perhaps one of the most difficult parts to recreate was Simpson's infamous White Bronco chase. The show had a unique approach to an event that nearly the entire world watched.

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Sex sells, according to the cliché.

The animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, better known as PETA, has taken this to heart even more than car companies and beer brands.

In fact, it is one of the few organizations that deliberately creates ads that are so outrageous that they will almost inevitably be "banned." It has even put together websites to promote ads that have been banned or rejected.

The technique, known as shockvertising, uses controversial images to burn a message into your brain, by way of taboo subjects, naked people, and bloody corpses. A common PETA advertising theme is to claim that vegetarians have better sex and that eating meat can cause impotence.

Check out some of PETA's most racy ads below.

Be warned — most of these ads are not safe for work.

Kim Bhasin and Tech Insider's Drake Baer contributed to an earlier version of this article.

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PETA submitted "Last Longer" for Super Bowl 50 in 2016. The broadcaster CBS ignored it. It shows a vegetarian couple massively outlasting a meat-eating couple during sex.

Watch the full NSFW video here.

The 2016 ad was probably inspired by "Vegetarians Have Better Sex," which was rejected from the Super Bowl in 2009. It brought a lot of publicity.

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This gruesome anti-bullfighting shock ad "The Naked Truth," with Spanish model Elen Rivas, was banned by some in-flight magazines in 2011.

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Disney and Lucasfilm debuted the first official teaser trailer for its next "Star Wars" movie, "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story," on "Good Morning America" Thursday morning.

Starring Felicity Jones ("The Theory of Everything") Diego Luna, Ben Mendelsohn, and Mads Mikkelsen, the film will take place before the events of 1977's "Star Wars: Episode IV — A New Hope." The film will follow a group of resistance fighters who head on a mission to steal plans for the Death Star.

"Rogue One" will be in theaters December 16.

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Business Insider Films' first documentary, "League of Millions," is available on iTunes and Amazon.

In this scene, Team Liquid members Alex "Xpecial" Chu and Diego "Quas" Ruiz reveal the difficulties of staying in touch with friends and families while balancing a professional eSports career.

In "League of Millions," it's the middle of the 2015 League of Legends season. World famous Team Liquid has one goal: winning the World Championship. Six-figure salaries. Grueling 18-hour days. Thrilling victories and devastating defeats. Five young men from vastly different cultures, united by a single dream: to be the best team in the world. 

League of Legends is a five versus five team game where each team tries to destroy the other team's "nexus" or home base. It's one of the most popular computer games in the world with 27 million people playing every day.

Directed by Sam Rega. Edited by Josh Wolff. 

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