On May 13, 1986, "Top Gun" catapulted Tom Cruise and US Navy aviation to national prominence. The movie's popularity helped make Cruise the mega star he is today, and increased Navy recruiting by 500% in one summer.

To prepare for the role, Cruise trained with the Blue Angels, the Navy's elite acrobatic flight-demo team, in an A-4F Skyhawk II. Now, 30 years later, the Blue Angels have invited Cruise on Instagram for a ride-along in their current jet, the F/A-18 Hornet.

The Blue Angels' Instagram post reads:

Well, Maverick, it's been 30 years since your last visit, so how do you feel about taking an F/A-18 Hornet for a spin?! Have your people call ours and maybe we can set something up...hey, even if Air Boss says no, we'll work something out, maybe just a quick flyby.

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Ashton Kutcher wears many hats.

If you know him primarily from films and television, including "Dude, Where's My Car?" and "That '70s Show," it may surprise you to hear that the 38-year-old actor has also become an entrepreneur, philanthropist, and successful venture capitalist in the tech space. He has even appeared on ABC's "Shark Tank."

Read on to see what else the successful former star of the MTV prank show "Punk'd" is up to — and what he's doing with his millions.

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Born in downtown Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in 1978 — minutes ahead of his fraternal twin, Michael — Kutcher comes from humble beginnings. His parents, Larry and Diane, were both factory workers and raised their three kids on a farm.

Source: Biography.com

Kutcher started earning and saving from a young age. His odd jobs included mowing lawns and roofing as well as skinning deer at a meat locker and baling hay. "When I was 13, I saved $1,400 for a snowmobile," he tells Grow. "I worked after school and on weekends for one and a half years, and put every cent into a savings account."

Source: Grow

Kutcher continued working a variety of jobs to pay his tuition at the University of Iowa, where he enrolled in 1997 and planned to major in biochemical engineering. He dropped out and ended up going the modeling and acting route, but his interest in science and technology would resurface years later when he started investing in tech companies.

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Warning: This posts contains spoilers for the "Game of Thrones" episode "Book of the Stranger."

On the most recent episode of "Game of Thrones," entitled "Book of the Stranger," Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) literally burned down the house.

To escape captivity in Vaes Dothrak, Daenerys used her resistance to fire to both kill her captors and win over the remaining Dothraki people, who kneeled down to her as she emerged from the flames unscathed.

The scene, in which Daenerys walks out of a burning building completely naked, was complicated to film. According to Entertainment Weekly, it was shot in two different countries.

"It's one of those weird scenes, because it was half shot in Spain, half in Belfast [Northern Ireland]," co-creator David Benioff told EW.

The reason for this unconventional setup was to accommodate Clarke. The part of the scene involving nudity was shot on a "closed set," which productions use for particularly sensitive or private scenes like this one. With some special effects, the two halves of the scene — the other one being the part featuring crowds of the Dothraki — were brought together.

"Taking off my clothes is not the easiest thing, but with the magic of the effects, I don't have to do a season 1 and go on a cliff and do it," Clarke said. "I'm in control of it."

She was referring to scenes early on in the show in which she actually had to get naked in front of everyone. One such scene, in which her dragons hatch, mirrors the most recent episode. 

"Game of Thrones" continues to be one of the most ambitious television shows out there. In order to bring its sprawling fantasy world to life, the show shoots on location all across the planet, from Iceland to Morocco.

The luxury afforded in shooting this scene is one of the benefits of having a budget of $10 million per episode.

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One of the world's biggest electronic dance festivals returned to New York this weekend. A wildly popular experience that started in Los Angeles and then moved to Las Vegas, Electric Daisy Carnival brought in over 79,000 visitors to New York's Citi Field Saturday and Sunday.

EDC is known for its whimsical themes: attendees dressed in bold costumes, rode a brightly-lit Ferris wheel and other carnival rides, and danced underneath a giant, stylized owl face that decorated the main stage. Each of the four stages, in fact, was a veritable light show — and, there were fireworks.

For legendary trance DJ Ferry Corsten, who's been in the business for over two decades and plays over 100 shows a year, EDC is still one of the biggest festivals around. This weekend, he brought his trance project Gouryella to the stage.

"What I like about EDC is that they always put a lot of effort into production," Corsten told Business Insider. "It's quite visual-driven."

Business Insider checked out the sprawling festival, where four stages hosted big-name DJs like Zedd, Kaskade, and Afrojack alongside up-and-comers like Alison Wonderland and Marshmello. As guests of Jägermeister, we got to have the full EDC experience. Tickets started at $119 for one day of access. 

Take a look at the weekend's adventure below.

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During the day, the festival was a riot of activity and spectacle.

Face and body painting were popular, and attractions like a ball pit and carnival rides kept partygoers entertained.

As electronic dance music (EDM) and the accompanying festivals have blown up over the past few years, the music has had a tendency to be "very much bro music for the dudes out there," Corsten said.

In February of 1996, Prince launched his first website, thedawn.com, and buried on it a hidden document not linked anywhere on the site. Fans discovered a letter written by the artist titled “Message from The Artist,” in which he explained why he changed his name to a symbol and his feelings about the record industry.

The secret letter was taken down a few days after the site’s launch.

Tech blogger Anil Dash tracked down the letter and posted it on Medium on Sunday. 

The letter is a rare glimpse inside the artist's thinking about his own career.

“My message stems from a lifetime of development as an artist and as a businessman,” Prince wrote. “And my increasing awareness of a greedy structure within the music industry that unjustly rewards large, slow corporate management teams, while overlooking and not protecting its bread and butter —  the artists.”

In an interview with Larry King in 1999, Prince was not that specific when asked why he changed his name, saying it “divorced me from the past.” (In 2000, he started going by the name Prince again.) But in the letter he went into greater detail as to the motivation, his dispute with his label Warner Bros.:

“The first step I have taken towards the ultimate goal of emancipation from the chains that bind me to Warner Bros. was to change my name from Prince to O(+>. Prince is the name that my Mother gave me at birth. Warner Bros. took the name, trademarked it, and used it as the main marketing tool to promote all of the music that I wrote. The company owns the name Prince and all related music marketed under Prince. I became merely a pawn used to produce more money for Warner Bros.”

This rare glimpse into the mind of one of music’s greatest artists shows the struggle Prince, who died on April 21, had with the music industry and the lengths he would go to protect his individuality.

You can read Prince’s complete “Message from The Artist” below:

On December 22, Paisley Park issued a press release that read as follows:

“O(+>has officially given notice to Warner Bros. Records (WBR) of his desire to terminate his recording agreement with the company. Over the course of their nearly two decade long relationship, The Artist and WBR have developed irreconcilable differences. Most recently, the unstable and ever changing management structure within WBR has made it impossible for the company to effectively market and promote its flagship artists, including O(+>.

The Artist is prepared to deliver the three (3) remaining albums under his former name Prince which will fulfill his contractual to WBR. Currently, the albums are titled: Prince: The Vault — Volumes I, II and III.

O(+> will release a new recording entitled Emancipation once he is free from all ties with Time Warner.”

The press release wasn’t very detailed, but it outlined my feelings as the Holiday week approached. While it was a message to everyone, it was more for the ears of the entertainment industry, and specifically it was geared towards the music industry and its musicians — both young and old, green and seasoned, struggling and successful. These words from Paisley Park are from me. My ultimate message is a cry for solidarity amongst artists and a reprieve from the greed of entertainment executives.

My message stems from a lifetime of development as an artist and as a businessman, and my increasing awareness of a greedy structure within the music industry that unjustly rewards large, slow corporate management teams, while overlooking and not protecting its bread and butter — the artists.

As difficult as it is to admit now, when I began my career with Warner in 1978, I had a lot to learn. The transition into the artist I am now hasn’t been a smooth one. I don’t want other young artists to be mislead in the same way. I’m expressing my feelings so that others will learn from my mistakes. I also want all established artists to understand the issues and know that there should be a better way and to join with me to create that new path.

A little history.

At 37 years old, I have been a recording artist for Warner Music for what will be seventeen years this April. I was only 19 years old when I recorded my first album as Prince. Recording for a large label was new and exciting. I had an opportunity to reach millions of people around the world, not just my faithful following here in Minneapolis around the club scene. As time passed, the realities of the music industry and its current hierarchical pecking system sunk in. Artists are last on the totem pole in terms of recoupment.

My path has been a long and arduous one. In the beginning, both youth and excitement towards the opportunity to have an album produced made me, as Prince, naïve. Saavy lawyers claiming to have my interest at heart, long in bed with the record companies they pimp, offered me what seemed to be a lucrative contract, without fully explaining the ramifications of its terms. I wrote an album a year for many years until I realized a trap had been laid. I would never be able to leave the legacy of my music to my family, my future children or anyone, because “Prince” did not own the Masters—I did not, and still do not, own my Art.

For most of all of my adult life, I have labored under one construct. I compose music, write lyrics, and produce songs for myself and others. My creativity is my life; it is what guides my everyday, my sleepless nights. My songs are my children. I feel them. I watch them grow and I nurture them to maturity. I deliver them to my record company, and suddenly, they are no longer mine. The process is painful. I have been long ready for a new program. The time is now.

As an artist, I want to share my music with others. I crave the experience of writing and sharing with others. It is what I do as an artist; as a human being. I take pleasure in the fact that others are able to share in my joy once the process is complete. My fans are my children’s friends; I respect them and want to communicate with them.

As a businessman and the owner of NPG Records—the label that released The Most Beautiful Girl In The World—the 1994 Number One release by an independent, I realize that record companies are a natural part of the food chain. It is the record label that allows a musical artist to reach out to his or her audience, but that does not mean that whichever organization markets and distributes the music should own the final product, i.e. the Masters.

What I have learned as both an artist and a businessman is that a middle ground must be developed. All artists, whether new or established, must have a substantial ownership interest in the music they create. Conversely, all record labels need an incentive to market music and push it thorough their distribution systems; still, that incentive should not be ultimate control. Record labels have no right to enslave the creators.

The first step I have taken towards the ultimate goal of emancipation from the chains that bind me to Warner Bros. was to change my name from Prince to O(+>. Prince is the name that my Mother gave me at birth. Warner Bros. took the name, trademarked it, and used it as the main marketing tool to promote all of the music that I wrote. The company owns the name Prince and all related music marketed under Prince. I became merely a pawn used to produce more money for Warner Bros.

By my 35th birthday, June 7, 1993, I was beyond frustrated with my lack of control over my career and music. It seemed reminiscent of much that had been experienced by other African-Americans over last couple of hundred years. They had turned me into a slave and I wanted no more of it. The dilemma had only one clear solution. I was born Prince and did not want to adopt another conventional name. The only acceptable replacement for my name, and my identity, was O(+>, a symbol with no pronunciation, that is a representation of me and what my music is about. This symbol is present in my work over the years; it is a concept that has evolved from my frustration; it is who I am. It is my name.

I look forward to the release of Emancipation in the near future. It will be The Dawn of the next phase of my life as a musician. It will represent my freedom from the past and it will be a continuum of what I have started here today.

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UPDATE: Reuters reports that Sinead O'Connor was "safely located" Monday after being reported missing in the Chicago suburb Wilmette.

TMZ reports that Sinead O'Connor has gone missing in the Chicago suburbs.

The "Nothing Compares 2 U" singer went on a bicycle ride in the Wilmette neighborhood on Sunday and hasn't been seen since, according to the site, and police were alerted.

Police said in a statement to Reuters that they are "seeking to check the well-being" of the Irish singer, but would not confirm that they are searching for her.

A distressing message was posted to O'Connor's Facebook page last year, which appeared to come from the musician and said, "I have taken an overdose."

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Though “Suicide Squad” isn’t out until August, Warner Bros. is hard at work expanding its DC Comics movie universe.

The studio is green-lighting a standalone Harley Quinn movie with the actress who will play the character in “Squad,” Margot Robbie, reprising the role, according to The Hollywood Reporter. 

Though details on the project are under wraps, THR is reporting that the project won’t just be Quinn on her own. Numerous female heroes and villains will be featured, including Batgirl, Poison Ivy, and Birds of Prey.

Robbie is also making moves behind the scenes, as she brought in a screenwriter to develop the project.

This builds the anticipation even more for “Suicide Squad,” and the antics of Harley Quinn in it, when it opens August 5.

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Captain America's weapon of choice is his iconic, star-spangled shield. The Marvel hero can hurl it at a baddie and then summon it back to his arm. Now, YouTuber the Hacksmith can too.

He constructed a version of the shield that uses powerful electromagnets to stick to his arm. When they're turned on, the electromagnets are capable of lifting over 3,000 pounds, but the range isn't that big. The bracer can only be powered up for three minutes at a time, otherwise they'll overheat and leave Captain America helpless.

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It's Cannes time again.

That is, when Hollywood's elite travel to the French Riviera for the industry's most glamorous event of the year, the Cannes Film Festival.

This year, things kicked off with the latest movie from Woody Allen, "Cafe Society," which stars Kristen Stewart, Jesse Eisenberg, and Blake Lively, among others. The premiere also put the sex-abuse allegations against Allen back in the spotlight.

The latest Jodie Foster-directed movie, "Money Monster," starring George Clooney and Julia Roberts, is also in the festival. As is the animated family movie "Trolls," with Justin Timberlake and Anna Kendrick lending their voices.

Below, see the stars as they walk the historic Cannes red carpet, and how they enjoy their time basking in the French Riviera.

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Ryan Gosling hit the carpet on Sunday night for the premiere of his new movie "The Nice Guys."

Gosling shared the carpet with his costar Matt Bomer.

And Gosling's other costar Russell Crowe captured the moment.

One of the world's top models doesn't think her career skyrocketed because of her appearance.

"My career was never based on pretty," Gisele Bundchen recently told The New York Times.

"Even before I got into the business, I was used to being bullied because I was always tall and skinny and stuck out," she said. "I got really red all the time from playing volleyball, red like a pepper. So I thought bullying was just the way life is."

Bundchen also recently told People that she was rejected 42 times before she got her big break, and that she was told her nose would prohibit her from being on the cover of magazines — something that might seem jarring to people today.

She reiterated that same legend to the Times:

"In the beginning, you know, everyone told me, ‘Your eyes are too small, the nose is too big, you can never be on a magazine cover,'" she said to The Times. "But, you know what? The big nose is coming with a big personality."

Others confirm that amid her nose, her personality is what made her a star.

"Some people on the sitting were saying, “Oh, she’s not too pretty, she has a big nose" photographer Patrick Demarchelier said to The Times about Bundchen when she was young. "But I said, 'No, no, I like her.' She was smart and outgoing, always happy, and clearly already knew what she was doing."

Forbes has estimated that between June 2014 and 2015, Bundchen earned about $44 million, making her the world's highest-paid model. She's strutted the runway for many major companies — both consumer-facing and high-fashion — before her retirement from the runway last year. She became particularly famous for her gig as a Victoria's Secret Angel. She's currently helping Under Armour's women's business soar.

For the full New York Times article, click here.

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In the presidential race, the evangelical right is by and large backing Donald Trump. It's a strange move considering the candidate's two divorces, qualified support of Planned Parenthood, and arguably weak grasp of the Bible. But Samantha Bee explained why it makes sense.

"Seriously, what is going on? Are evangelicals that eager to get the apocalypse going?" the host said on Monday's "Full Frontal."

"To understand how we got here, we have to go back to the origins of the new religious right," the host continued. "For a generation, they've been like a wasp in an airplane. They're small and outnumbered, but everyone still has to avoid pissing them off. But it wasn't always that way."

Bee's history lesson goes back to evangelicals taking a break from politics after Prohibition and the Scopes Monkey Trial in the 1920s, which split the country. They would make a return to politics in the 1970s when the IRS decided it would pull tax exemptions from segregated private schools. The controversy swirled around Bob Jones University, whose founder believed that if you were against segregation, you were against God.

"I'm happy to say that guy is now in heaven, sharing a cloud with Prince," Bee joked. "Sorry, pal, heaven integrated in 1990, 10 years before your college dropped its interracial dating ban."

It was this issue that sparked conservative Christian groups' return to politics, and their influence in other issues, like the movement to make abortion illegal, protecting prayer in schools, and banning sex education.

When Bee talks about the "religious right," she doesn't mean all people of faith, but rather "a political movement to harness the voting power of evangelicals to the conservative Republican cause."

Voting and registering to vote became part of being an evangelical Christian. The religious right met its height of power with President Ronald Reagan in 1980.

"From 1980 onwards, the [Republican] platform came to read like a Baptist dream journal," Bee said.

The Christian right continued to thrive through President Clinton and under George W. Bush, but the Barack Obama years have seen a decline in its power and a rise in nationwide acceptance of more liberal social issues, such as LGBT rights, which used to be central to the religious right.

So, back to the original question: Why is the religious right backing Trump now? Bee explained that they just don't have a choice.

"Old-fashioned value voters no longer have the clout to get their vat monster [Ted Cruz] the nomination, much less the Oval Office," Bee said. "New evangelicals are happy to ditch the Bible for good ol' white nativism and government anger. Hey, just like [Bob Jones] taught them."

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On the surface, “Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising” looks like a typical Seth Rogen stoner comedy, in which youthful freedom reigns.

But in fact, it’s the rare sequel that works as a standalone. The frat humor from the original is cleverly flipped, so the material speaks directly to college-age women.

That’s right, Seth Rogen made a movie that empowers women.

And the face of the movie isn’t so much Rogen as it’s costar Chloë Grace Moretz, the 19-year-old who has quickly become one of Hollywood’s youngest advocates for progressive work for females.

In “Neighbors 2,” she plays Shelby, who after being told that sororities are not allowed to have parties (the group that governs the country's marjor sororities bans booze in their houses) decides to start her own with a group of friends. They end up finding a house next to Kelly (Rose Byrne) and Mac Radner (Rogen), who already dealt with a frat next to them in the first movie and are trying to sell their house. With the help of former frat boy Teddy Sanders (Zac Efron), the girls learn how to make a thriving sorority, while Kelly and Mac try to keep the potential buyers of their house from realizing that Greek life is back on the block.

Amazingly enough, Moretz playing a college freshman who doesn’t want to obey the rules of a school-supported sorority is exactly what Hollywood needs right now.

Business Insider talked to Moretz to find out how she helped make the “Neighbors 2” script sound more millennial, the roles she will absolutely say no to, and the A-listers in Hollywood she turns to for guidance.

Business Insider: I talked to Seth and Evan and they were very honest that they didn't have a clue how to write for college girls. So how did you and your castmates help out?

Chloë Grace Moretz: They would write an outline of what they wanted us to do and then we would fill it in with how we like to say things and the stupid stuff that my generation comes up with.

BI: So a scene like the beginning of the movie, where your character and her friends decide to start a sorority, how was that set up?

Moretz: We came up with this funny idea of the girls talking about if they did or didn't lose their virginity. So the way we put it was, "Oh yeah, I've done everything but..." And the boys had no idea that's how girls our age would approach that subject. So they kind of just let us go with it and where they wanted it to go. So it was really highly improv-driven.

BI: Going into the movie, did it make you nervous that you would have to do a lot of improvisation?

Moretz: The first day was an adjustment. I really hadn't ever done improv that much before and I very quickly realized that every take is an improv, every take is a new idea. So I would come prepared with ideas and where they wanted the improv to go. It was being ready on the day to make it up. So it took me a day to understand and then the rest of the movie I was ready to go.

BI: The movie is being praised for its progressive comedy. Could you feel that you were making a comedy that's different from most in its portrayal of women, gender, sexual preference?

Moretz: Yeah, definitely. We wanted to make the movie progressive, we wanted to make it more interesting for young women to watch because even with the "Bridesmaids"-type movies, we still haven't had movies for young women to watch who are my age that are as progressive as this. This is super realistic to girls my generation. These are the things we're talking about and going through, and that was a big idea for all of us. That was what the boys wanted us to incorporate in the movie. It might not be the cutest stuff to come out of a girl's mouth, but it's realistic and that's what people need to come to terms with.

BI: And that it's still funny and entertaining.

Moretz: It can still be a highly raucous comedy, and honestly, it is almost more funny coming from girls because it's not been seen before so it's a lot fresher in our eyes.

BI: But is this still a rare case of a script that comes across your desk that isn’t a stereotypical female role?

Moretz: Oh, 100 percent. This is so a rare case of the type of script you'll be offered in this day and age, for sure. Especially in comedy. You don't really come across these stories being made by a group of adult men who made stoner bro comedies. It's just very unexpected. It's cool.

BI: Was there a standout moment when you began to pay attention to feminist views and wanted to be a voice on that topic?

Moretz: I think it was kind of after “Carrie” when I really realized, Oh, there's a lot of stuff going on here for women that I need to clue in on and understand it and fight for what I believe in. Because that was my first movie as a lead, and as a female lead, you're talking to a lot of adult men about a lot of subjects that they have no idea about, especially a movie which is about a young woman getting her period for the first time and a young woman dealing with mother/daughter issues. Two things adult men shouldn't have any say in, yet you're dealing with studio heads and producers and stuff like that and I was faced with a lot of things there that I'd never seen before. I kind of learned to raise my voice and learn that it's okay to fight for something that you believe in. Don't just be argumentative, don't be loud for no reason, but don't apologize for fighting for something that you believe in.

BI: Who are your mentors in the industry?

Moretz: I would say the biggest mentor in my life in terms of actors and people in the industry is Julianne Moore [who also starred in "Carrie"]. She's someone I've always looked up to and who has really helped me out and given me some of the strongest advice I've had in my career. She's just a really powerful, outspoken, smart, sweet woman. And then there's Jessica Chastain, Emily Blunt I think is a very well-spoken woman, I think Scarlett Johansson has said some interesting things on femininity.

BI: Have you had conversations with any of them?

Moretz: Julie and Jess are two people I’ve had very, very forward conversations about all of this with.

BI: What's the biggest takeaway?

Moretz: We are all being highly misconstrued by media in that sense and that even when we do speak up, it's not a bridge, it's like it's not okay to have an opinion anymore and you have to change that, unless you are saying everything on queue with what CNN or TMZ or any of these quote-unquote news outlets are reporting, then you're not allowed to have an opinion.

BI: So Jennifer Lawrence coming out saying that her male costars have been paid more than her, was that a big deal in your eyes?

Moretz: It was a big deal in my eyes. It was wild to see from contract to contract that two stars that are equal in fame and equel in supposed star power, that there's massive inequality in terms of pay. But even then, it's hard to speak on behalf of our wage gap because it is a very overinflated wage gap. There's a lot more basic issues with much much lower-paying jobs that I think need to be overcome before we really look at our industry as a whole.

BI: But did that news make you more aware of the deals that your reps are making on your behalf?

Moretz: Personally, it made me want to make sure my lawyers and I get paid exactly equal to the other male counterparts in your movie if they are along the same lines as you.

BI: What are the kinds of characters that are instant “no”s for you if offered?

Moretz: They just need to be progressive for the time period that the movie is placed in. So if it's a modern movie, it needs to be realistic to our modern-day standards on how we want women to be viewed. But if it's a movie based in a time period in which women were oppressed, you need to be understanding of the time period and still try to influence some sort of message. I wouldn't make a movie highlighting the excitement and happiness of progression if it's a movie about a certain kind of era where women were repressed, it needs to mean something to the story. Less movies are being made that are cool and interesting for women, in that sense. So it's more of a fight to find the cool scripts or finding someone who is willing to write the cool scripts or find female directors that studios will approve. Those are still few and far between.

“Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising” opens in theaters May 20.

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Andy Samberg had a fun gift for Jimmy Fallon when he appeared on Monday's "Tonight Show." He and the other guys behind the movie "Popstar" mentioned the late-night host in every press tour interview they did for the movie.

Press tour interviews can start feeling very repetitive and can become exhausting, so Samberg and his partners — Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone — who make up comedy trio Lonely Island gave themselves something to keep the tour interesting.

"We're like we need something to keep our sparks flying a little, something exciting to do during the interviews," Samberg explained. "So we turned it into a game where we would try and mention [Jimmy Fallon] as much as possible without anyone sort of knowing that's what we were doing, because I knew I was coming here at the end of everything and then I could show it to you."

They accomplished this by extolling the wisdom of Fallon, who they worked with at "Saturday Night Live," offering hilarious statements, such as:

• "You know what Jimmy Fallon says, 'Truth is stranger than not truth.'"
• "Well, Jimmy Fallon always says that wavelengths are like Earth, everybody's on the same one."
• "You know it's like Jimmy Fallon always says, 'Un elefante no es un perro.'" (Translation: An elephant isn't a dog.)

"It made perfect sense in context," Samberg joked after the clips played.

"I'm honored," Fallon said.

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Big names in Hollywood are coming out in force to voice their disapproval of Donald Trump’s presidential run.

Johnny Depp told a reporter while walking the red carpet of his latest movie “Alice Through the Looking Glass” that if Trump were elected president, he would be the “last president of the United States” because “it just wouldn’t work after that.”

A few days later, while attending the Cannes Film Festival with his movie “Money Monster,” George Clooney vowed that “there is not going to be a President Donald Trump.” 

Now Angelina Jolie is going after Trump for his anti-Muslim remarks. The candidate has proposed temporarily banning Muslims from entering the US.

While at a BBC event in London on Monday, the Oscar winner and UN humanitarian closed her eyes and shook her head in disapproval when she was asked her thoughts about Trump’s stance on Muslims.

"To me, America is built on people from around the world coming together for freedoms, especially freedom of religion,” Jolie said. “So it's hard to hear this is coming from someone who is pressing to be an American president.”

Jolie was at the event as the special envoy of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, in hopes of uniting the world in response to the refugee crisis in which hundreds of thousands are flooding into Europe from the Middle East and Africa.

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Sometimes the eyes on an especially well-painted portrait will appear to follow you around the room, but Patrick Hughes' mind-boggling 3D art takes the concept to a whole other level. 

Hughes uses a style he created called "reverspective," painting uncanny optical illusions of a rooms with an eerie sense of depth. The trick is that the parts of the paining that look like they should be the farthest away from the viewer are actually painted on the parts that are the closest, jutting out from the wall. This creates a truly trippy effect, and the rooms in Hughes' paintings seem to recede into the wall and follow your movement. 

Hughes first came up with the technique in the 1960s, but really started making "reverspective" paintings in earnest in the 1980s. He's still going strong today. 

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Author J.K. Rowling might not agree with the views of US presidential candidate Donald Trump, but that doesn’t mean she thinks he should not visit the United Kingdom.

While accepting an award for her humanitarian work at the Pen America’s annual gala in New York on Monday, the creator of the Harry Potter books brought up the petition to block Trump from the UK, which received over 500,000 signatures. It was even discussed by British Parliament in January (though there was no vote). 

"Now, I find almost everything that Mr. Trump says objectionable," Rowling said at the gala. "I consider him offensive and bigoted. But he has my full support to come to my country and be offensive and bigoted there."

The way Rowling sees it, Trump shouldn't be stripped of his rights just because of the things he says.

"If you seek the removal of freedoms from an opponent simply on the grounds that they have offended you, you have crossed a line to stand alongside tyrants who imprison, torture, and kill on exactly the same justifications," Rowling said.

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"Access Hollywood" cohost Billy Bush is officially joining NBC's "Today" show.

Noah Oppenheim, NBC News' SVP and executive in charge of "Today," made the announcement in a memo to staff on Tuesday, obtained by The Hollywood Reporter.

Bush will join the morning show in August to cover the Summer Olympics in Rio, then join the 9 a.m. team — currently cohosted by Willie Geist, Tamron Hall, and Al Roker — full-time in September.

Former "Today" news reader Natalie Morales is moving over to anchor "Access Hollywood." She will still contribute to NBC News.

As Business Insider previously reported, speculation over Bush's move has been ongoing for months.

In light of "Live" cohost Michael Strahan's exit to ABC's "Good Morning America," Bush is likely seen as an opportunity for "Today" to shore up its recently recovered lead in the morning ratings.

NBC is currently leading in the news demographic important to advertisers, 25- to 54-year-olds, though "GMA" still attracts the most total viewers. Strahan is viewed as "GMA's" tactic for getting its news demo up.

Bush joined "Access Hollywood," which is a syndicated show under NBCUniversal, in December 2001 as an East Coast correspondent. He's currently a lead cohost for the show.

Read Oppenheim's memo to staff below:

Hi Everyone —
 
I’m excited to share official word that Billy Bush is coming to Today.  He’ll join the current 9a anchors as [co-executive producer] Tammy [Filler] and her team continue to build a compelling and competitive hour focused on lifestyle and entertainment.
 
Billy has been a part of the Today extended family for quite some time — he brings boundless energy, a great interviewing style and a deep knowledge of pop culture. During 15 years as host of Access Hollywood, and 6 years as co-host of Access Live, Billy has covered and interviewed literally everyone in Hollywood. Following an early start in radio, Billy broke into TV as a freelancer on WNBC. He credits his very first segment, involving a painful chest-waxing incident (well before Steve Carell) with him getting the full-time gig.

You’ll start to see Billy on the show during the Olympics in August. Please join Tammy and me in welcoming Billy to Today!
 
Noah

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It may still be spring, but for A-List attendees at the star-studded Cannes Film Festival in France, last night was actually a midsummer night's dream.

Paul Allen, Microsoft co-founder and current-day philanthropist, is a regular at the Cannes Film Festival. One of the most hotly anticipated parties each year is the exclusive yacht party he holds on his 414-foot superyacht, "Octopus". Each year has a different elaborate theme: last year, it was Bollywood. This time, it was a riff on Shakespeare's classic comedy of romantic errors.

Lucky guests reportedly included Mick Jagger, Mischa Barton, and Chloe Sevigny, who got to spend the evening sipping champagne aboard Octopus. They were even treated to a live rendition of a Led Zeppelin song that was performed by Allen himself.

Step inside the enchanted garden, below.

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The Port de Cannes — seen here from above — is packed with superyachts this week, but Allen's Octopus is one of the world's largest and most recognizable boats.

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It's a 414-foot monster, with two helicopter pads, a glass-bottomed pool, and two submarines. Reports suggest it cost over $200 million to build.

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Guests got to the party by boat.

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Even the most powerful kings, queens, and khals of HBO's "Game of Thrones" had to start somewhere.

Before the show's cast found themselves caught up in the drama of the War of the Five Kings, or the shocking bloodshed of the Red Wedding, they had other, much less intense roles.

Read on to see what the "Game of Thrones" actors looked like before they were cast on the show:

Natalie Dormer is the clever, glamorous Queen Margaery Tyrell.

She's no stranger to royalty. Dormer got her start as the clever, glamorous wife of King Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, on Showtime's "The Tudors."

Dame Diana Rigg is excellent as the calculating and caustic matriarch Olenna Tyrell.

Have you heard? Nintendo is getting back into the movie-making business!

President of Nintendo Tatsumi Kimishima announced Monday that Nintendo is looking to partner with production companies to create films out of some of its most popular franchises.

The announcement got us thinking: which Nintendo franchises are best suited for an adaptation on the big screen? What would they look like? 

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"The Legend of Zelda"

"The Legend of Zelda" is one of the most famous Nintendo franchises, which makes it the most obvious candidate for a movie adaptation, but it's also probably one of the most difficult to get right.

That's because Link, the main character, never speaks. He's not really a person so much as an idea.

While the new game coming out in 2017 looks great, my personal pick for a movie adaptation would be the GameCube game "The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker." This sea-faring adventure seamlessly blends fantasy, magic, and pirates — and the art direction is absolutely gorgeous.

"Metroid"

A movie adaptation of "Metroid," the long-running sci-fi action series starring heroine Samus Aran, could go a bit darker and more violent in its tone than other Nintendo properties. It's one of the best fits for a more adult-oriented film.

For some ideas about what a "Metroid" movie could look like, think "Alien" mixed with "Edge of Tomorrow."

"Splatoon"

Picture this: a big and beautiful kids' action movie that's one part "Powerpuff Girls," one part "Big Hero 6," and one part "Dope."

What sets "Splatoon" apart from other Nintendo series is that it has a quirky, spunky sensibility to it that would allow for a perfect combination of action and comedy. There's no defined plot to the game, per se, and that leaves it open to creative experimentation without alienating existing fans.

And there's no denying those giant paint splatters would be gorgeous on a big 3D movie screen.