It sounds like no one really knows if Daniel Craig is coming back to play James Bond.

In a chat with the BBC on Friday, Callum McDougall, who has been an executive producer on the last four Bond movies, says that he "wish he knew" if Craig was coming back but that he is definitely the franchises "first choice."

“We love Daniel," said McDougall, according to Variety. "We would love Daniel to return as Bond. Without any question he is absolutely [franchise producers] Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli’s first choice. I know they’re hoping for him to come back."

Business Insider reached out to MGM for comment but did not receive an immediate response.

Speculation on whether Craig will return for a fifth time as 007 has been floating around the internet since the last Bond movie, "Spectre," opened in 2015. It took in over $880 million worldwide at the box office. 

Craig has not commented about his plans going forward as Bond, however, when doing press for "Spectre" he said he'd rather "slit my wrists" than play the character again. 

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"Selma" director Ava DuVernay screened her Netflix documentary "13th" on Friday at the New York Film Festival ahead of its debut on the streaming giant October 7th.

The movie delves into the prison-industrial complex, in which the number of incarcerated people in America has drastically risen over the decades at an alarming rate (with most being minorities). But "13th" — which refers to the 13th Amendment to the Constitution — also examines a host of current situations facing minorities, particularly African-Americans, whether it be the Black Lives Matter movement or Donald Trump.

In one section of the movie, DuVernay juxtaposes archival footage of a black man during the civil rights movements being harassed by white people with footage of black people being harassed at Trump rallies this year.

While taking questions from the audience, DuVernay was asked if Trump being in the movie will still be significant for people who see "13th" years from now.

"I think it’s vital to have him in there, because he’s taken this country to a place that is going to be long-studied and considered for a long time," she said. "It’s going to have repercussions past the moment, whether he’s the president or not — gosh, I can’t believe I’m saying those words! So we need to remember this moment. It gives us context to this moment that we’re in, looking through a lens of race and culture."

"It was a question that we had, 'Take him out? Leave him in?'" DuVernay continued. "'No, does he deserve a place in this thing?' But you have to show him because it is too important and it can't be forgotten."  

Here's the trailer for "13th":

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Take a look at this weekend’s lineup for The Meadows, the inaugural fall festival from Founders Entertainment — the organizers behind New York's annual summer festival, Governors Ball — and you may spot a name that stands out from among the list of en-vogue indie, electro-pop, hip-hop, folk, and R&B acts: Kamasi Washington.

For the casual music listener, Washington has gained notoriety in recent years for being one of the musical virtuosos that shaped the sound on Kendrick Lamar’s thunderous, unforgettable 2015 hip hop record, "To Pimp A Butterfly" and its 2016 successor "Untitled Unmastered."

But don’t be mistaken, Washington may be associated with hip hop, but he's a jazz artist through and through.

Festivals don’t usually feature jazz. For millennial audiences raised on indie rock and hip-hop, jazz reeks of the museum. And yet, this year, Washington and his ten-piece band The Next Step have made their way onto most of the big festival bills, including Bumbershoot, Pitchfork, Glastonbury, Bonnaroo, Outside Lands, and Coachella. This Saturday, Washington and company will be in Queens sandwiched between indietronica band Miami Horror and reggae artist Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley.

At a festival featuring Kanye West, Chance the Rapper, and The Weeknd — three of the hottest names in music right now — this may sound blasphemous: If there’s one performance you hear the entire weekend, and I would venture to say this year, make it Washington’s.

Here’s why.

"Genres don’t mean much to me. There are no hardline distinctions between two styles." - Washington, The Guardian, 2015

Washington and his LA jazz compatriots and fellow Lamar performers Terrace Martin and Stephen “Thundercat” Bruner have latelybeen creditedwith resurrecting or "saving" jazz. That may be an overstatement — jazz never went anywhere— but Washington is certainly the most exciting player to enter the fold in some time.

His music is at once grand, thrilling, challenging, and fun. Perhaps it comes from spending his twenties touring and recording with the likes of Snoop Dogg, Lauryn Hill, and Mos Def, but his music can’t be categorized. Like John Coltrane and Miles Davis filtered through an orchestra with dashes of funk, classical, gospel, and the best excesses of fusion and progressive rock, his music is a cascade of sound that overwhelms.

Go listen to Washington’s 2015 solo debut, The Epic, a 175-minute 17-song literal epic, cut during a legendary 1-month recording session that Washington has said cost him his “whole life savings.” There’s nothing like it around today.

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“I’ve had experiences where people say, ‘I hated jazz before I heard you guys! … I’m like, ‘You didn’t hate jazz before you heard us, you hated the idea of jazz,’” Washington, Pitchfork, 2015.

Don’t bother with the excuse that you don’t like jazz.

It’s my belief that a lot of people, young and old, don’t listen to jazz because the history of it is intimidating. People feel as though they’ve entered a museum where someone is going to pop out and quiz you on the exhibits right after you walk in.

Forget about that — Washington’s music is steeped in history, but it doesn’t require you to know it. In fact, he could care less. When Pitchfork asked him about people understanding "The Epic", he dismissed the notion.

“The fact of the matter is that nobody understands what John Coltrane is doing except John Coltrane. And maybe not even him. So we’re all experiencing it on this subconscious level,” Washington said.

That’s the beauty of jazz — and also why I think so many people gravitate to the many variations of electronic dance music — it doesn’t require you to analyze, think, or explain. It asks you simply to experience it.

Where electronic dance music does so in ways that are mostly pre-scripted, forcing the audience member to focus on his or her own personal experience through dance, Washington asks you to make a visceral connection with him and his band.

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"I treat each show just like a moment in time. Let's capture this particular moment." - Washington, Rolling Stone, 2016

Kanye West is a compelling and dynamic performer, but what Washington and his ilk offer is the opportunity for something utterly unique.

Washington is likely to play many cuts off "The Epic," but you truly don’t know what he or any of his bandmates are going to play. Washington has said the “excitement of music” for him is the unknown, pushing him to tweak arrangements until his songs become “almost unrecognizable.”

Further than that, every member of The Next Step, which consists of two drummers, two upright bass players, a keyboardist, three horn players, a pianist, and a vocalist, is an expert player in his or her own right and most have extensive solo repertoires. As with most collectives in a music as ego-driven as jazz, there will be plenty of material and solos from everyone.

In an interview with Rolling Stone, Washington described his approach to touring as creating concerts “custom-made” to the location. In the hours before a performance, he walks the city, thinking about the history or the culture, and feeling out the vibe.

Here’s how he described playing in the historic city of Nîmes in southern France:

There was like an impressionist French vibe. We played "Clair de Lune" and we end up playing the song in a very romantic kind of way, which is not how we normally do it. Going way out and going way avant-garde and abstract is kind of like home base for us. Kind of going romantic and soft and, like, really subtle was a bit different for us, you know?

In a city with a culture and history as rich and deep as New York City — and Queens specifically — what will Washington come up with?

"Shark Tank" investor Barbara Corcoran knows Donald Trump better than most people. They both built their real estate fortunes around the same time in New York City.

"I grew up with him," Corcoran told Business Insider during a "Shark Tank" event at New York's Paley Center for Media this week.

In the early 1970s, both Corcoran and Trump were starting their real estate careers.

Corcoran co-founded a real estate business called The Corcoran Group with a $1,000 loan from her then-boyfriend and co-founder. She then later started The Corcoran Report, which followed NYC's real estate trends. At around the same time, Trump took control of his father's real estate and construction business, which he later named The Trump Organization.

When it comes to business, Corcoran clearly respects the Republican presidential candidate.

"From the day I met Donald, I remember my first thought on him was that I've never met a better salesman in my life," she recalled. "I was in more business meetings where a customer, client, and even a walk-by had no interest in what he was wanting to sell. And by the time five minutes of Donald talking was over, the guy was begging him for the deal."

"I probably learned so much about chutzpah and salesmanship watching him, which I tried to incorporate but never really pulled it out," she continued. "I'm a medium salesman. He's an amazing salesman. And what we see in the presidential election today is a phenomenal salesman selling the American people."

Trump has been criticized by many, including Corcoran's "Shark Tank" colleague Chris Sacca, for building his business with help from his rich father, but she doesn't believe that's fair.

"As a businessman, [Trump is] clever as a fox and built his empire with a little help from his dad," she told us. "But most of the credit is due him."

And yet with more than three decades of knowing Trump, Corcoran can't support his bid for president. She finds him too divisive a person for the job.

"As a leader, I couldn't imagine anyone who would be a less effective leader," she said. "I think leadership has everything to do with integrity. I think it has to do with teaching people to aspire. I think at the core of leadership, you have to get everyone on the same team to move the ball ahead. And you can't have discord, you're a peacemaker as a leader if you want to have a community of spirits and hearts. And I think in all those categories, he has to come back as a different person. Next life, maybe."

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Former governor of Minnesota Jesse Ventura dropped by Business Insider to talk about his new book, "Jesse Ventura's Marijuana Manifesto."

The former Navy SEAL is embroiled in a lawsuit he brought against the estate of deceased "American Sniper" author Chris Kyle. In his bestselling book, Kyle alleged that he physically assaulted a person he refers to in the book as "Scruff Face" after making offensive comments about the elite special forces unit. Kyle later said that "Scruff Face" was indeed Ventura.

Ventura said the incident never occurred, and he sued Kyle for defamation. A Minnesota court ruled in Ventura's favor and awarded him $1.8 million in damages, but an appeals court threw out the verdict. Ventura now plans to seek a new trial with the US Supreme Court. 

We asked Ventura if he thinks Kyle should be remembered as a hero.

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Every actor who succeeds in the tough world of entertainment had to start somewhere.

Business Insider spoke to several television stars to find out what their first paying showbiz gig was. 

While a few of them were lucky enough to land a huge job in the early days of their career, the majority of the stars we spoke to had pretty humble beginnings ranging from local plays to long-forgotten commercials and tiny roles.

Find out how your favorite TV stars earned their first Hollywood paycheck below:

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Donald Glover, "Atlanta" (FX)

"I was an extra in some movie about a black basketball team that was shot in Atlanta, not 'Remember the Titans.' That was my first paycheck."

Ming Na Wen, "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." (ABC)

"I did 'South Pacific.' I was Liat and it was with a major regional theater in Pittsburgh. I got my equity card from it."

Ben Feldman, "Superstore" (NBC)

"I did a Broadway show. They made ‘The Graduate’ into a play on Broadway, and it was like right after I graduated college. And I did that. It wasn’t about the check — it was having a consistent pay. I was in the show for like a year, and that was insane to me. And to all of my friends, who were like waiting tables, or bartending, or whatever."

This weekend is the inaugural The Meadows music festival at Citi Field in New York City.

Throughout the two-day festival, over 30 musicians will perform, with headliners like Kanye West, The Weeknd, Chance The Rapper, and J. Cole.

As with any festival these days, there are artists from all different genres including indie, rock, pop, R&B, hip-hop, and dance. Sometimes, the choices can be overwhelming. 

We decided to help make it a bit easier by curating your day for you.

Check it out below.

Saturday - October 1

10:30 AM - I know, I know, it's early, but you are about to spend a lot of time on your feet and you need sustenance. Flushing, New York's lesser known, but more authentic Chinatown, is the perfect place to provide it.

Start your festival weekend right by heading to Asian Jewels Seafood Restaurant for the best dim sum you've ever had. May I recommend the shrimp crepes, the BBQ spare ribs, and the chicken feet (seriously)? Just remember, this place is crazy busy so get there early.

12:00 PM - If you can get out of dim sum in time, head to the Linden Blvd Stage for an early set from chillwave/indie-pop purveyors Mr. Twin Sister, whose music has been described as the perfect chill night out. 

12:45 PM - Head over to The Meadows Stage for your first of a double dose of electropop from Brooklyn-based LOLAWOLF, featuring Zoë Kravitz, Lenny Kravitz's daughter. 

1: 15 PM - Kick it up a notch at the Shea Stage with high-energy Australian indie-tronica band Miami Horror, who are sure to get you dancing to the beat with their "blissed out party anthems."

2:00 PM - The glow of dim sum is probably starting to wear off. Luckily, The Meadows organizers took their Queens-locale to heart and brought in food options from a number of local spots, including Jackson Heights' Arepa Lady, Elmurst's Pata Paplean Bar (Thai), and Corona's Tortas Neza (Tacos). 

2:45 PM - Once you've stuffed your face, head over to the Shea Stage for a mind-blowing performance from jazz maestro Kamasi Washington and his ten-piece The Next Step band. Think I'm exaggerating with "mindblowing"? Read why not here.

3:30 PM - Time to start dancing again. Thankfully, electro-funk veterans Chromeo at The Meadows Stage know how to get the crowd moving, frequently putting on the most electric sets at any festival they play. If you haven't heard their inescapable 2014 hit "Jealous," you might have been living under a rock.

4:30 PM - Take a break from the sweaty crowd for a bathroom break and to snag as much free swag and activities as you can. Festivals today tend to be filled with "market activations" from big name brands looking to reach advertising-averse millennials. What's that mean for you? Free Kettle Chips and 1893 Cola, Pepsi's attempt at the artisan cola market, among other things.

5:30 PM - Find your spot at The Meadows Stage early to catch a glimpse of enigmatic singer The Weeknd, whose druggy R&B sound has taken over pop music over the last year or two. Just be glad he made time in his busy schedule to show up.

6:10 PM - Over at the Queens Blvd Stage, you'll find another Australian electro group, Empire of The Sun, whose brand of outdoor festival-ready brand of dance music has made them one of the most sought-after acts on the festival circuit. 

7:45 PM - Tropical house music is one of the most popular sounds in pop right now. It's all over Justin Bieber's ubiquitous 2015 album Purpose. Go right to the source with Chinese-American producer Zhu at the Linden Blvd Stage.

8:45 PM - J. Cole may be the night's headliner on the main stage, but Queens Blvd Stage's Pretty Lights is the real star. Ever since releasing 2013's A Color Map of the Sun, the producer, already one of the most dynamic names in electronic music, has taken his live game up a notch by incorporating a full band.

Sunday - October 2

12:30 PM - Last night was a long one. But if there's any reason to get to the festival on-time, it's electro-pop duo Coast Modern, whose "trippy beach vibes" will keep your endless summer going on the Queens Blvd Stage. 

1:15 PM - Get a better wake up than coffee from uncategorizable indie darlings Chairlift at the Linden Blvd Stage. I won't bother trying to characterize their "cross-genre alchemy." Just give it a listen. 

2:00 PM - With so much great music, there's no time for a break. Head to The Meadows Stage for uplifting Australian rock from The Temper Trap.

2:45 PM - Pusha T, the President of Kanye West's G.O.O.D. Music label, has taken time out of his busy schedule to play at Shea Stage. Give the New York City-native the hearty welcome home he deserves. His 2015 album, "King Push - Darkest Before Dawn: The Prelude," is one of the best hip-hop records of the last couple years. 

3:45 PM - Time to rest and recharge. Go taste Brooklyn's famousRoberta's Pizza or, if you can't stand the line, eat the Chipotle of Korean BBQ, Korilla. 

Hollywood can be a deceiving place.

From the outside, you'd think that someone with major exposure would also be raking in the dough.

But it's not until you look at their checkbook that you really get an idea of what they're actually earning.

The Hollywood Reporter has released the top salaries of 2016, and from movie star (yes, it's The Rock), to show runner, to craft services, they have revealed who is actually making top dollar in their field.

Check out who are the biggest earners below: 

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Movie Star: Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson

Salary: $19 million

2016 project: "Jumanji"

Director: Christopher Nolan

Salary: $20 million

2016 project: "Dunkirk"

Nolan will also earn 20% box-office gross of "Dunkirk."

Producer: Scott Rudin

Salary: $2.5 million upfront, plus a percentage of box office.

In Alfred Hitchcock's "Rear Window," its wheelchair-bound protagonist is confined to his apartment as he spies on his neighbor who he suspects is up to no good. The sensation of being physically stuck in one place ends up being one of the movie's main sources of anxiety, but it turns out that being able to move around in a situation like that might be even worse.

That's because in "Hello Neighbor," a new game in development from Tiny Build and Dynamic Pixels, you'll actually be breaking into your neighbor's house to uncover his dirty secrets — and hopefully not getting caught and/or murdered in the process.

Seems charming, right?

The kicker is that the Neighbor is governed by artificial intelligence programming that will observe your tactics, learning over time how to anticipate your future behavior based on what you've done in the past. Maybe he figures out that you keep hiding in that wardrobe in the hallway, for example? It might be bolted shut the next time you try to use it.

In short, "Hello Neighbor" sounds like it will be absolutely horrifying, but I can't wait to try it out.

"Hello Neighbor" won't be out until late 2017, but you can watch the trailer below:

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Making video games is hard, folks. The amount of time, money and energy it takes to make even simple games is so astounding that it's a miracle any of them come out at all.

In fact, plenty of them don't come out. Unforeseen changes, including everything from game developers running out of cash to new management teams killing projects, have spelled the end for many a promising title. I want to pay tribute to the coolest looking games that nobody will ever get to play, so here are some of the biggest video games that ultimately never saw the light of day:

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"Star Wars 1313"

"Star Wars 1313" would've put players in the shoes of a young Boba Fett as he navigated the previously unseen seedy underworld of Coruscant. 

The third-person action game resembled the "Uncharted" games in its cover-based combat and spectacle. It also had amazing visuals for the time.

Sadly, the project was shut down when developer LucasArts closed its doors in April 2013. It's theoretically possible for Disney to resurrect the project, but that becomes less likely with each passing day.

"Prey 2"

"Prey 2" was unveiled with an incredible looking demo back in 2011, as it abandoned the Native American mysticism of the original game in favor of a space bounty hunter adventure in a "Blade Runner"-esque city.

Five years and not a peep about that game since means we can assume it's dead. Actually, we know definitively that it's dead, since a reboot of the series simply titled "Prey" was announced earlier this year.

This new game is a psychological sci-fi adventure that looks cool, but it will never heal the pain of "Prey 2" never coming out.

"B.C."

"B.C." was an incredibly ambitious third-person action game for the original Xbox helmed by Peter Molyneux, the creator of "Black & White," "Fable" and many other well-known games.

Players would control a tribe of cavemen who would have to defend themselves against other tribes and even dinosaurs in the quest for evolutionary glory. The project was scrapped in 2004.

Molyneux has a bit of a reputation of overpromising and underdelivering with his games. "B.C." is the best example of this because it sounded lofty and promising, but never even came out.

Nightmares Fear Factory, in Niagara Falls, Canada, is in the perfect location for a haunted house: a former coffin factory.

It's known not only for supposedly being one of the world's scariest haunted house experiences, but also for the reactions they capture on three cameras hidden inside. 

It's completely dark inside the haunted house, but the flash of the camera illuminates some pretty hilarious faces. 

Nightmares has kindly shared those images with Business Insider.

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According to Nightmares, the legend behind the haunted house is a classic ghost story.

Abraham Mortimer owned the Cataract Coffin Factory and was routinely tormented by local kids who said he was "eccentric."

It was all in good fun until one fateful night, when during a struggle between Mortimer and more "hooligans," Mortimer was supposedly crushed to death by empty coffins.

Amy Schumer's year of being Hollywood's "it girl" can now include the honor of "most dangerous" celebrity to search for on the internet.

Intel Security just released its annual Most Dangerous Celebrities study. Aside from including some interesting tidbits about the current culture of internet security and those who aim to thwart it, it also lists the celebrity names that are most likely to expose computers to viruses and malware if a person searches for them on the internet. Malware publishers often set up websites with celebrity pictures and information on them to entice unsuspecting fans, and those sites can then be used to steal passwords and personal information. 

According to the study, the most dangerous types of internet searches of entertainers are those for comedians, musicians, late-night television hosts, and the strangely specific category of "The Voice" coaches.

This year, Schumer bumped Armin van Buuren, an electronic dance music DJ, from the top spot on the list. In fact, he didn't even make it on this year's list.

Who else made the list of dangerous online searches for celebrities? Here's a look at the top 10:

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10. Kesha

9. Selena Gomez

8. Daniel Tosh

With his performance on the HBO series “The Leftover” and the public's scrutiny of his marriage to Jennifer Aniston, Justin Theroux’s star continues to rise with general audiences. And with his performance in “The Girl on the Train” (opening in theaters October 7), that star will continue to climb.

The best-selling book by British author Paula Hawkins, which has now been adapted into a Hollywood movie, stars Emily Blunt as Rachel Watson, an alcoholic who is reeling from a divorce and finds herself entangled in a missing persons investigation. Theroux plays Rachel’s former husband, Tom.

Though the story is centered on Rachel and two other women, Megan (Haley Bennett, “The Magnificent Seven”) and Anna (Rebecca Ferguson, “Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation”), Theroux’s Tom character is an integral part of its very dark moments (if you’ve read the book you know what I’m talking about).

Business Insider spoke with Theroux about this character you won’t forget anytime soon, what’s in store for the final season of “The Leftovers,” his thoughts on “Zoolander 2” (which he was a co-writer on) being a box office disappointment, and his reaction to Aniston being thrust into the coverage of the Angelina Jolie-Brad Pitt divorce.

Warning: Spoilers ahead regarding the Tom character in “The Girl on the Train”

Jason Guerrasio: Are you prepared to go down in history as one of the most despicable husband characters?

Justin Theroux: [Laughs] Yes. 

Guerrasio: I was thinking about this on the train coming home from the movie. 

Theroux: How appropriate. 

Guerrasio: You got performances like Harrison Ford in "What Lies Beneath," Michael Douglas in "A Perfect Murder," that dude who played Julia Roberts' husband in "Sleeping with the Enemy,” Patrick Bergin —

Theroux: Yes!

Guerrasio: Your performance is up there with those portrayals of awful husbands.

Theroux: I’m glad. As long as it's not the last thing I do then I'll be happy. [Laughs]

Guerrasio: Did you go back and watch really bad guy husband roles, or just go with the source material?

Theroux: I kind of just went on the source material. Weirdly, I think the thing you can run afoul with is if you make the character too mustache-twisty or telegraph it. Especially for those who have not read the book, you don't want to ruin it. And this may sound a little douchey-actor-speak, but in reading the book and doing some research, Tom isn't a psychopath or sociopath, he's not Robert De Niro in "Cape Fear" —

Guerrasio: He's not concocting murders.

Theroux: Yes, exactly. It's not premeditated. It's what's presented to him. So I was thinking about how this guy could bring himself to do that as opposed to the rational thing of talking things through with your spouse. And what I figured was he's a narcissist and does a lot of blaming to the women that he's been wronging. That, to me, was the key hole I found to get into the character. Just play him straight.

Guerrasio: Was it fun to play this character differently, basically, every take? The personas you have to display to tell his story shift dramatically from scene to scene. 

Theroux: Yes. Some of it is in [Rachel’s] memory, so I'm shooting scenes in how she thinks Tom is and then there's reality. But what's crazy is, for him, he can justify his actions, that's scary.

Guerrasio: But were there times when you were shooting where you had to ask director Tate Taylor or someone, "Am I playing my hand too much? Should we show him at this level of aggression?"

Theroux: Yes. There were even times in the early scenes when I'm playing happy homemaker where I felt like I was just being boring with the character. And Tate would correctly say, "Well, yeah, you should be boring because we don't want to reveal anything." So I took the tack of when Rachel is stalking him to play him as a victim. 

Guerrasio: So were you between seasons of "The Leftovers" when you shot this? Where was your head at?

Theroux: It was a real breath of fresh air at the end of the second season. [Laughs] It really was. I finished up on season two and had just gotten home, and waiting for me was this script and a note saying "Tate wants to speak to you immediately." So I read it overnight, talked to him, he offered me the part and within a couple of days I was flying to start prepping it. I mean, this was almost like a romantic comedy in comparison to "The Leftovers."

Guerrasio: And you’ve wrapped on the last season of “The Leftovers,” right?

Theroux: Yeah, we just wrapped like three days ago. 

Guerrasio: Is Kevin still in your head? Is it hard to kick him?

Theroux: I love that character so much and more importantly I love that show, so because it's the last season it's bittersweet to say goodbye to that family —

Guerrasio: But there are so many peaks and valleys for this guy —

Theroux: It's true. 

Guerrasio: Do you take that home with you?

Theroux: I’d love to be one of those guys who could be like, "Yeah, it's really exhausting," but the truth is I'm not method. I don't take roles home. And there's something cathartic about playing those kinds of parts. In a weird way you kind of exorcise them. You get rid of them the minute you play them. I can have tough days at work on "The Leftovers" where we are doing big emotional work and then at the end of it I can feel kind of lightened.

Guerrasio: We talked last for "Zoolander 2" and back then you said you didn't know if the last seasons of "The Leftovers" would go out like a whimper or a bang, so what is season three like?

Theroux: It's still very much our show. It's not like we all jumped into the back seat and coasted. It's same show, different location. [Show co-creator] Damon Lindelof didn't let up on any of us as far as what we had to go through and experience. I won't say anything specific, but I will say I'm extremely gratified by the final episode and felt like it put a ribbon on things in a beautiful way. 

Guerrasio: And in regards to "Zoolander 2," it didn't do the business I'm sure you guys had hoped for, any regrets you or Ben Stiller have about making a sequel?

Theroux: No. I'm proud of that movie. Whether it did well commercially or even critically, I thought critically there were some very unfair reviews, but you never know when you make a film how it's going to be received. I'm a big believer that the reception is not the endeavor. And what I enjoy about almost all my work is the endeavor, the doing of something. For “Zoolander 2” I had three years of developing it, working on it with Ben, shooting it, all extremely happy memories. And to me that's my experience of it. As far as the financial or critical success of it, it's a shame, you want to drop your kid off at school and have everyone be nice, but on the other hand you can't control it. That's why we make new movies. 

Guerrasio: With the news of Angelina Jolie filing for divorce from Brad Pitt your wife has been thrust into the coverage of the story. I've always been curious, how do you two ignore all of the tabloids that are so obsessed with her?

Theroux: It's just not in our house. I'll say this, she's been in the public eye a very long time, I've been in the public eye not as long as it relates to this nonsense, but as a child of divorce all I can say is that's terrible news for those children and that's all you can really say. It's boring to comment on anything else. People are having a bad time, that's horrible. 

Guerrasio: You point out that your wife has been dealing with this much longer than you have, has there been a moment that has scared you or disturbed you in how aggressive the paparazzi are to get to her?

Theroux: No, not really. But there's no handbook for anybody for going through it. Scared isn't the right word or alarmed or anything like that, it's more bad weather. Some weeks it rolls in and it rains and then, whatever, you just put on your rain coat and bring an umbrella. Some days it's sunny and it's fine. You kind of have to look at it like that because there's no remedy. There's an endless appetite for trash, apparently, although everyone would say they don't have that appetite, but I think a lot of people do because people buy it. But there are bigger things to b---- about. It's shocking how much bandwidth things can take up when there are far more important things going on in the world.

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We are now officially in the fall, so that means time to curl up under the covers and watch some movies and TV from your favorite streaming service.

New titles coming your way in October from iTunes, Amazon, Hulu and others include movies like “Bad Moms” and “Star Trek Beyond,” to shows like the new season of “The Mindy Project” on Hulu and the series premiere of “Westworld" on HBO.

Here’s everything coming in October, and we also highlighted some titles you shouldn’t miss.

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iTunes

Available on October 4

“Star Trek Beyond”

Available on October 11

“Nerve”
“The Infiltrator”
“Lights Out”
“Captain Fantastic”

Available on October 18

“Bad Moms”
“Alice Through the Looking Glass”
“Cafe Society”

Amazon Prime

Available October 1

“The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2”
“Pride and Prejudice” (20015)
“Happy Gilmore”
“Secretary”
“The Witches”
“Training Day”
“Quigley Down Under”
“The Pink Panther” (1963)
“Revenge of The Pink Panther”
“Curse of The Pink Panther”
“Son of The Pink Panther”
“Trail of The Pink Panther”
“The Pink Panther Strikes Again”
“Before Sunrise”
“Chinatown”
“Bachelorette”
“Deep Impact”
“Bowling for Columbine”
“Before Sunset”
“Slap Shot”
“Final Destination”
“Lethal Weapon”
“Lethal Weapon 2”
“Lethal Weapon 3”
“Lethal Weapon 4”
“The Last Waltz”
“The Gift”
“Tucker & Dale vs Evil”
“The Warriors”
“A Shot in the Dark”
“Dreamcatcher”
“The Devil’s Advocate”
“Mutant Chronicles”
“Congo”
“Stigmata”
“Troll 2”
“Splinter”
“Love and Death”
“I Saw the Devil”
“Lost and Delirious”
“Bananas”
“Monsters”
“Stage Beauty”
“Stuart Saves His Family”
“Peter and the Wolf”
“Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers”
“V/H/S”
“Trollhunter”
“North Dallas Forty”
“The Dog of War”
“Timecrimes”
“Married to the Mob”
“True Colors”
“Alice”
“Class”
“Troll”
“Island in the Sky”
“Nick of Time”
“The Host”
“The Stone Age”
“Cool It”
“Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland”
“Roger Dodger”
“The Falcon and the Snowman”
“Let the Right One In”
“Misery”
“Throw Mamma from the Train”
“Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex”
“A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy”
“Redacted”
“The Patriot”

Available October 3

“Madam Secretary” (Season 3)
“Elementary” (Season 5)
“Stonewall”

Available October 4

“American Horror Story” (Season 5)
“The Last King”
“Sharknado The 4th Awakens”

Available October 5

“The Flash” (Season 3)

Available October 6

“Arrow” (Season 5)

Available October 10

“The Dark Horse”
“First Degree”

Available October 11

“Supergirl” (Season 2)

Available October 12

“The Real O’Neals” (Season 2)

Available October 14

“Goliath” (AMAZON ORIGINAL)

Available October 17

“Louder Than Bombs”
“Power” (Season 3)

Available October 18

“Alice Through the Looking Glass”

Available October 21

“Spectre”

Available October 27

“Complete Unknown” (AMAZON ORIGINAL)

HBO Go/Now

Available October 1

“28 Days Later”
“An American Haunting” (Extended Cut)
“Balls of Fury”
“Bride Wars”
“Cast Away”
“Cop Car”
“Cocktail”
“The Cowboy Way”
“Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles”
“Deadpool”
“Demolition Man”
“Drumline”
“Eastern Promises”
“I Am Legend” (Extended Cut)
“Jeepers Creepers”
“The Jewel of the Nile”
“John Carpenter’s Ghost of Mars”
“A Kid in King Arthur’s Court”
“The Kingdom”
“The Place Beyond the Pines”
“Poltergeist”
“Repo Man”
“Romancing the Stone”
“Spider-Man”
“Spider-Man 2”
“We Were Soldiers”
“The Wedding Singer”

Available October 2

“Westworld”

Available October 8

“Ride Along 2”

Available October 9

“Divorce”

Available October 10

“VICE News Tonight”

Available October 13

“By the Sea”

Available October 15

“Joy”

Available October 18

“Mr. Right”

Available October 22

“Gods of Egypt”

Available October 29

“Poltergeist” (Extended Edition)

When Microsoft bought Mojang, the makers of the insanely popular Minecraft, in a surprise $2.5 billion deal in September 2014, nobody knew what to think. 

The game seemed an odd fit for Microsoft, whose biggest moneymakers are its productivity software and Windows PC operating system.

Minecraft's millions of players fretted that the game was destined to be ruined under its new corporate parent, or that Microsoft would restrict the game to its own Xbox and Windows platforms.

Two years later, Minecraft is more popular and widely available than ever. 

Since the beginning of this year, Mojang says, people have bought 53,000 copies of Minecraft every single day.

More than 100 million copies have been sold across the PC, iPhone, Android, Xbox, Sony PlayStation, and Nintendo Wii U during the game's five-year life.

Now the first outlines of Microsoft's bigger ambition for its unlikely acquisition are starting to come into focus. 

As more than 10,000 loyal Minecraft fans excitedly roamed the annual Minecon gathering in Anaheim last week, Matt Booty, the Microsoft exec who oversees Minecraft, discussed why Microsoft believes the game is such a vital plank to its transformation into a company that stays relevant even as the world moves to smartphones and whatever comes next.

What people tend to miss is that the Mojang acquisition wasn't about bolstering Xbox, or Windows, or any other line of Microsoft's business, Booty told Business Insider.

Rather, in the same way that Mattel (founded 1945) and Lego (founded 1949) have been giving kids and adult enthusiasts alike an outlet for their creativity for the better part of a century, Microsoft is laying the groundwork that can make Minecraft a 100-year brand for the post-iPhone world.

"There's no reason Minecraft couldn't be one of those brands," Booty says. "Decisions that are being made have the potential to affect things five to 10 years down the road."

Stewards of the future

When Booty, formerly CEO of Midway Games and an Xbox exec, took the job as Microsoft's head of all things Minecraft — Booty refers to it as taking "stewardship" — it came with a mandate from Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Xbox boss Phil Spencer: Go in and learn as much from Mojang as possible. 

"We probably have a lot more to learn from Mojang than vice versa," Booty says.

Since Minecraft's first official release in 2011, Mojang has made it a point to have versions for PCs, Macs, iPhone, Android, virtual reality, and other platforms. As Microsoft makes its own moves toward making sure that services like Microsoft Office 365 run as great on iPhone and Android as they do on Windows, Mojang can offer some inspiration.

Looking further into the future, Microsoft is making a big bet that the very notion of computing is moving past the mouse and keyboard, and into an era where you control things with a combination of voice and hand gestures.

Minecraft, with its simple and easy-to-learn controls for building in three dimensions, is uniquely well suited as a bridge to that future. Check out this demo video of Minecraft running on Microsoft's HoloLens holographic goggles from 2015 for proof:

In the not-so-distant future, Minecraft could be the vanguard of the next generation of Microsoft Office and tools like it, helping people get things done in virtual reality, HoloLens-style augmented reality, and beyond. The interface may change, but the way the game works is a steady constant.

That's good for Minecraft, and it's good for Microsoft.

And it's crucial in the fast moving world of technology. Gadgets come, and gadgets go, but Minecraft is a product with the potential to transcend platform shifts.

The 100-year game

Microsoft and Minecraft also share a very important goal: Helping people "achieve more."

"I think at its core, Minecraft fits in with that vision," Booty says.

Just as Microsoft PowerPoint is a fundamental tool for creating presentations, Minecraft is a "platform for innovation" that encourages player creativity, Booty says.

Since the first version of the game, players have put Minecraft's famously simple controls to build ever more elaborate constructs and structures, building replicas of real-world landmarks and even incredible projects like a working Nintendo Game Boy.

And the company remains committed to "mods," the modifications that allow players to customize the game with everything from graphical improvements, to race cars, to, um, realistic cow-breeding simulators. 

Mojang provides the base creation tools, the basic gameplay mechanics, and the online play that makes it all hum. But much like Lego, what people do with those tools is up to them. It's that openness that will help Minecraft stand the test of time, says Jonas Mårtensson, the CEO of Mojang who heads up the Minecraft creative development team in Sweden. 

Those things parlay into a longer-term investment for Microsoft: A whole generation is growing up with Minecraft as their standard way of expressing ideas and concepts in three dimensions, the same way that Microsoft Word is the standard for writing term papers and reports. 

"A lot of young people growing up, [Minecraft is] how kids will represent how the world is to them," Booty says.

We're already seeing some of this potential for advanced, nongame usage, too. It turns out Minecraft is an ideal environment in which to run artificial-intelligence experiments.

Crafting the brand

Minecraft is a video game, first and foremost. But like Lego and Mattel before it, Mojang has turned Minecraft into a massive, cross-media brand. In fact, Lego and Mattel themselves are making Minecraft toys; Target and other department stores sell Minecraft apparel; Warner Bros. is releasing a big-ticket Minecraft movie in 2019. 

Maintaining that brand can be tricky, Booty says — despite Minecraft's reputation as a kid's game, he says that Mojang's current research shows the average Minecraft player is actually closer to 29 or 30 years old. Furthermore, Mårtensson says that players tend to be 55% male to 45% female, which is far better than most video games, and something that they're "really proud of."

And so, Microsoft and Mojang have to tread very carefully with how they position Minecraft, in order to keep enthusiasm at a nice, steady level, even as players grow up. It can't be positioned as a "boy's game" or a "girl's game." If they say Minceraft is for kids, they alienate the older players. If they say it's for adults, kids will lose interest.

Still, kids are Minecraft's most vocal and outspoken fans, and Mojang takes special pride in the fact that it's the game that parents play with their kids. In a more practical sense, those Minecraft-loving kids are ideally going to grow up to be Minecraft-loving adults.

But it also raises the stakes. If Mojang drops the ball and does anything to alienate those players, or their parents, it would be betraying their roles as stewards of the game, Booty says.

For starters, that means that Mojang has cracked down on advertising in the game; in a longer-term sense, it's meant that Microsoft has walked away from lucrative merchandising deals that just didn't meet their standards. You can't sell a shoddy product when your whole brand is about building cool stuff.

"[Craft] is right in the name," Booty jokes.

A realm, unified

The next big goal, Mårtensson says, the goal is for "all players on all platforms able to play with each other." 

Right now, players on the iPhone, Android, Samsung Gear VR, and Windows 10 versions of Minecraft can all play with each other on local wireless with no extra configuration required. A paid subscription service, called "Minecraft Realms," takes it a step further by letting those players set up an online world they can cohabitate from miles apart.

A big step toward that goal has been bringing all the major versions of Minecraft, across PC, phones, and consoles, all closer together in terms of features. A new update to the iPhone, Android, and Windows 10 versions coming later in October adds basic support for mods, plus other goodies from the PC version.

So does that mean that one day, there will only be one core, unified version of Minecraft for all devices, with all distinctions knocked away, and everybody able to play with each other?

"Maybe," Mårtensson says after a pause.

And despite what Booty jokingly refers to as some disagreement on "schedules and timetables" post-acquisition, the two studios are in lockstep.

There are no plans to diminish what made Minecraft so great in the first place, and every intention of keeping it great for all players, on all devices, no matter how they like to play. 

"There shouldn't be any more worries," Mårtensson says is his message to Minecraft players.

As Microsoft contemplates the future of its own business, that's also the hope. 

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It's been about four months since the first episode of Chelsea Handler's Netflix talk show was released, but the comedian feels the show has already found its groove.

As the streaming company's first talk show, "Chelsea" had to evolve before viewers' eyes.

"I feel like I was digging into something like unknown territory for me, and trying to kind of do something that was breaking with the format of a traditional talk show," Handler told Business Insider.

Handler didn't want to use the classic late-night talk show format of a monologue, guests, musical guests, etc. It was a definitely a process of experimentation for several weeks.

"I feel like we clicked in about six weeks in. Or I clicked in, personally, on a performance level," she said. "And now it's just — everything keeps falling into place."

Although the show streams just three new episodes a week, it's a full-time job for Handler and the show's staff.

"All I can say is I get up earlier than I ever have, and I work harder than I ever have," Handler told Business Insider. "When I had my talk show at E!, I was there for three hours a day. I get here at like 7:30 a.m."

Business Insider got a rare look at a day with Handler behind the scenes of her talk show at the Sony Pictures Studios lot in Los Angeles.

Here's a look at what a taping day for Netflix's "Chelsea" is like:

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8:36 a.m. PT: Handler and her team meet for the daily production meeting.

"Chelsea" showrunner Sue Murphy runs this meeting. They go over the show rundown and allow staffers across different departments — writers, talent, field, social media, PR, and research — to coordinate efforts.

Handler says she has a morning ritual.

"I have like an arugula salad at 8 o'clock in the morning with turkey and hummus in it," she said. "And my whole production is disgusted by me. That's pretty much my ritual."

9:16 a.m.: Handler reviews the show script with one of her talent producers, Dave Hettrick.

During this time, Handler tries to shape a segment so that viewers really learn something new.

"Luckily, now there are so many other shows where you're playing games or you're singing songs or stuff," she said. "It's an opportunity to have a real conversation, and to have fun with it. So we just try and find areas that they haven't really touched upon yet, and then ways to kind of get into a deeper conversation in a shorter amount of time, depending on who I'm talking to."

10:03 a.m.: In her office on the Sony Pictures Studios lot, Handler takes a call with "Today" show producers regarding an upcoming appearance.

Handler stocks her office fridge for survival, and it comes in handy in times like this.

"The refrigerator is stocked with some primary ingredients that I go through all day," the host said. "I've got all my meals, I've got all my drinks and beverages in there. So it's stocked a little bit like 'Sleeping with the Enemy.' There aren't a lot of free minutes in the day."

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Despite changes in time period and location, every "Assassin's Creed" and "Far Cry" game is structured in much the same way — explore a big area, unlock new areas by climbing to the tops of towers, and do lots of little side missions in between the big, narrative ones. But based on comments Ubisoft VP of Editorial Tommy François made in an interview with IGN, that could all be changing.

"I do think we need to break that [open world] formula," he said. "This year we've given 'Far Cry' and 'Assassin's [Creed]' some time to decant, innovate, and polish. The objective behind this is exactly that. You'd be surprised - there are so many prototypes of alternatives."

François implies this re-evaluation of the series' structure might mean both franchises won't get sequels in 2017.

Specifically, he says if chasing "more quality" and "more polish" for future entries "means biting the [bullet] and not having an 'Assassin's' game or a 'Far Cry' [in 2017], f--- it."

Earlier this year, Kotaku reported that there would be no new "Assassin's Creed" game in 2016, and that the next sequel slated for 2017, called "Empire," would take place in ancient Egypt. Based on François' comments, Ubisoft might be pushing "Empire" — or whatever it's being called now — even farther back for what seems like a much larger overhaul of the series' conventions.

Whatever changes Ubisoft ends up making to both series, François wants to make sure they have at least a year to refine and polish the games' Alpha builds — a jargony term describing a playable, but buggy and incomplete build of the game — which means sequels to both franchises will probably take a bit longer than usual to develop.

"I just want people to fall in love when people try the next iteration of one of these two brands," he said.

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Alec Baldwin debuted his much-anticipated turn as Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump this weekend on the "Saturday Night Live" premiere.

For its 42nd season, the NBC sketch show opened with its parody of the first presidential debate.

Baldwin took over the impression played last season by Darrell Hammond and for a short time, the now-fired Taran Killam.

Emmy winner Kate Mckinnon reprised her role as Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, and "Weekend Update" co-anchor Michael Che played moderator Lester Holt.

"SNL's " take on the debate played up Trump's inability to stay "calm" and "presidential" and Clinton's intense preparation for the debate and attempts to come off "relatable."

At one point, McKinnon's Clinton realizes the more make-believe Trump speaks, the better her odds of winning the debate. So she gives him her speaking time and he doesn't disappoint.

"The thing about the blacks is that they're killing each other," Baldwin's Trump says. "All blacks live on one street in Chicago. All on one street! It's called Hell Street. And they live on Hell Street and they're all killing each other."

When asked if she has a response, fake Clinton reenacts the little shimmy of joy Clinton made during the actual debate, then answered, "Not a response, more of a request. Can America vote right now?"

Watch Baldwin's debut as Trump on "SNL" below:

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If you’ve felt like Netflix’s US catalog has shrunk dramatically since the company started making its own shows and movies, you’re absolutely right.

Since 2012, Netflix’s selection of titles has dropped over 50%, from roughly 11,000 titles to about 5,300, according to streaming blog Exstreamist, which cites multiple former Netflix employees.

Extreamist's sources estimate the height of Netflix’s catalog size was in 2012, before the company began making original content in 2013. They peg the size at around 11,000 movies, TV shows, and specials. Using that number, Exstreamist then compared the 2012 catalog size to Netflix’s current roster, using data from Unogs, a site that tracks Netflix data. The September numbers put Netflix’s count at about 5,300 titles in the US.

They found a huge drop of over 50%, and there’s a reason: “exclusivity,” particularly tied to Netflix’s original movies and shows.

The smaller, better future

Originals are a pivotal part of Netflix’s strategy moving forward.

"You should expect us to push toward more 50/50 in terms of original exclusive content and licensed content," Netflix CFO David Wells said recently. And original content isn’t cheap, especially since Netflix pushes for global licenses so it can play the shows and movies for people around the world. Netflix spent a reported $120 million for “The Get Down,” its Baz Luhrmann show about the origins of hip-hop, and a whopping $90 million for a new Will Smith movie.

All told, Netflix has said it will release 600 hours of original content by the time 2016 is done. That would take you 25 days to binge-watch all the way through — 25 days!

Beyond originals, Netflix executives have repeatedly stressed that the company is more focused on "exclusive" titles, in contrast to those also available on other platforms like Amazon Prime or Hulu. That's a recipe for a higher cost per-title.

The focus on originals, and exclusives generally, puts Netflix’s catalog drop into perspective. Netflix has fewer titles, but the company is betting that keeping its catalog full of shows and movies you can’t get anywhere else will get you addicted enough to pay that $9.99 every month, forever.

Netflix declined to comment.

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