This week, Apple will announce a new Apple TV feature that allows people to discover new TV shows from a single app, USA Today reports.

This feature, reportedly known internally as “the Watch List,” will "recommend shows based on the content viewers access through their Apple TVs."

Basically, the app will tie together whatever services you have, from Netflix to FX to Hulu, and provide you with a centralized place to find new shows to watch. 

This seems to fit into Apple's new plan for TV, which revolves around building an advanced TV guide rather than creating its own TV package, industry sources told Recode's Peter Kafka in August.

Apps and TV

Last year, Apple CEO Tim Cook declared that the "future of television is apps," a refrain that has been repeated by Apple execs over and over since then.

But navigating separate apps is a horrible way to watch TV, and it seems that Apple has finally seen the light.

This new “Watch List” is right in line with recent Apple TV updates, which emphasize things like Siri's ability to circumvent the app system, and seem to move further and further away from the app system.

Beyond deeper Siri integration, Apple also unveiled an Apple TV feature in June called "single sign-on." While Apple didn't go into the details of exactly how it would work, the idea is that a content service like Netflix or HBO would connect to Apple's system in a way that lets you use a single log-in for all services on your Apple TV.

The right choice

It's easy to see why Apple is going this way.

Most people don't want to navigate 100 different app menus and designs, each ostensibly tailored to the type of TV content that lives within them. It's annoying to deal with an ESPN app, and a Netflix app, and a Showtime app, and a Sling TV app.

So most people, in their hearts, don't really want an Apple TV as it was initially conceived.

What's much better is a universal search and suggestion mechanism that fetches you the right content — as fast as possible. That is what Apple seems to be building toward, and this new feature feels like a first step.

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Microsoft today announced a new game streaming service called Beam, coming to the Xbox One console and Windows 10 in an update coming next year.

Beam, based on technology that Microsoft got in an acquisition of a startup of the same name, brings Microsoft directly into competition with Twitch — the current leader in the mega-hot video game streaming space, which Amazon bought for a whopping $970 million in 2014.

At first blush, it seems like a weird move for Microsoft. Twitch is a well-established juggernaut, with only YouTube having any claim to knocking it off the throne. Microsoft, with no video sharing service to speak of, is a real underdog in the space.

And yet, it makes perfect sense for Microsoft to get into the streaming business, now of all times.

The accidental genius of Twitch was that it builds whole entire communities around certain games. A video game's fortunes can be made or lost depending on whether it's embraced by influential Twitch streamers. A popular game on Twitch sells more copies, players spend more on microtransactions, and keep playing the game longer. 

Microsoft desperately needs that kind of boosted engagement. The world continues to leave Microsoft Windows behind, as new-generation apps come to iPhone and Android before they come to the good old PC. 

But the one thing that Windows is better at than iPhone, Android, Macs, or any other computing platform on the planet...is video games. That's been true since the earliest days of Windows, and it's true now. 

Anything that gets players playing more games on Windows 10 and the Windows-powered Xbox One console is good for Microsoft. If Beam takes off, it gives developers one big reason to make sure that their games come to Windows and Xbox. Microsoft itself has brought former Xbox exclusives like "Gears of War 4" to Windows 10.

That's good for making sure Windows stays stocked up with games, and thus giving people a major reason to use Windows. From there, theoretically, Windows users will stick around and spend more cash on premium services like Office 365 or OneDrive. Not to mention that Beam itself will require Microsot's $60/year Xbox Live subscription.

Plus, as a nice bonus, it deprives Microsoft's cloud rival Amazon of a certain amount of revenue. 

Of course, this hinges on Microsoft making a good enough sales pitch to the notoriously finicky gamer community to switch from the very well established Twitch. But the payoff, if this works, is a real reason for people to stick with Windows, as challenges to the platform mount.

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Your epitaph — the text written on a headstone — is the last thing you can say to the world.

Sometimes it's a matter of getting your own account of your life out there. Richard Nixon, disgraced by Watergate, wanted to be remembered as a peacemaker.

Others, like F. Scott Fitzgerald or Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., highlight a favorite line from their major works.

Or you might just want your bones to be left alone, like William Shakespeare, who was buried with a curse.

Keep scrolling for the best in headstones.

Drake Baer contributed to an earlier version of this story.

Since it was started by Tim and Karrie League in 1997 in Austin, Texas, Alamo Drafthouse Cinema has become an oasis for movie lovers while also revolutionizing the theater experience with the inclusion of food and drink service.

With 25 locations across the country, it's now widely regarded as the best theater in the world, and if you live in the New York City area, you can finally experience it in all its glory. 

Alamo Drafthouse Brooklyn will officially open its doors on Friday, and Business Insider got a glimpse inside what we can call without argument the most unique theatergoing experience in the city. 

Come take a tour with us inside the newest Alama Drafthouse Cinema in Brooklyn:

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Walking in, Stanley Kubrick fans will feel instantly at home as the familiar carpet design from "The Shining" will lead you into the fun.

You can do your best King Kong impression atop the Empire State Building with this photo setup.

This Drafthouse also has a gender-neutral bathroom, a move Tim League made in many of his theaters in the wake of the bathroom controversy in North Carolina.

Michael Moore has argued since the summer that he thinks Donald Trump will win the 2016 presidential election, and his stance hasn't changed.

The Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker has a new movie out, "Michael Moore in TrumpLand," in which he essentially makes an argument for why people, especially those on the fence, should vote for Hillary Clinton instead of the Republican nominee.

Despite that case and polling that suggests Trump has lost ground to Clinton in the race, Moore told an audience at a recent "TrumpLand" event that he believes Trump will win largely because of how the middle and working classes in America feel at the moment.

"I know a lot of people in Michigan that are planning to vote for Trump, and they don't necessarily agree with him," Moore said, according to Salon.

Whether voters agree with Trump, or if he would deliver on promises to them, Moore says he believes they'll choose the real-estate mogul on Election Day to send a signal to elites in the country about the state of government.

"Trump's election is going to be the biggest 'f--- you' ever recorded in human history — and it will feel good," Moore said.

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Sony is developing an artificially intelligent system that can create music from data in existing songs, Reuters reports.

The system, which is called Flow Machines, could expedite the music creation process, and have applications in areas ranging from audio and video production to advertising.

The system works by having users select any number of titles from a database of over 13,000 songs. It then uses machine learning to analyze the properties — rhythm, pitch, and harmony — of selected titles, and generates a new song with similar characteristics.

Flow Machines' creators say their system helps music creation, particularly by making it easier to experiment with new sounds without the need for complicated or time-consuming techniques. There are a couple of ways that a system like Flow Machines can be applied by media companies and advertisers to:

• Improve online video. A handful of digital media companies use software that helps automate video production in order to supply their websites with video content on a daily basis. By supplementing algorithmically assembled videos with algorithmically created audio scores, a tool like Flow Machines could raise the quality of online videos.
• Make videos more unique. Many of these online videos feature generic music, or the companies publishing the video pay a licensing fee to be able to use someone else’s music. Flow Machines could solve both of these problems by creating unique, nongeneric music for each video that doesn’t require a licensing fee. Media companies would still have to pay Sony a fee to use the software, but this would likely be less cumbersome than negotiating with individual music rights owners.
• Send ads with custom songs. Flow Machines can create music that caters to a person’s taste. This creates an opportunity to programmatically incorporate songs into ads that play into a consumer’s music listening preferences. This opportunity can be fully realized by integrating Flow Machines with databases from music streaming services, like Spotify and SoundCloud. 

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"Black Mirror" is one of the most talked-about shows around, even if it's not the most-watched. But those starting the mind-bending British sci-fi series, which is now a Netfix original and just kicked off its third season, often wonder where to start.

There's one clear answer, and it's not the first episode.

Each episode of "Black Mirror" is its own self-contained story, in the tradition of "Twilight Zone" (the influential sci-fi series that clearly inspired it), so there's no reason to start from the beginning.

Also, for all of the hype around "Black Mirror" for its high-concept setups that send up our relationships to technology and politics, it can sometimes feel overwrought and, at its worst, didactic. Sometimes it feels like the show is just shouting at you about how technology will doom us, though with admittedly slick aesthetics and a final-act turn.

The first episode of season one falls into that trap. Centering on a stand-in for ex-British Prime Minister David Cameron, "The National Anthem" (written by series creator Charlie Brooker) takes a pretty obvious point about our obsession with media and our ability to be duped, and adds onto it a nasty sex gimmick that shocks for the sake of shocking.

Where you should really start "Black Mirror"

The best episode of "Black Mirror" to my mind is the third and last episode of that first season, "The Entire History of You," a delicate, heartbreaking story about a relationship that ingeniously folds in its sci-fi conceit. It proves that when the show is working, it's really working.

In the indeterminate future/alternative world of "The Entire History of You" (a setting that otherwise looks like a yuppie part of England), everyone has a chip implanted in their head that records everything they see and do. People replay their happiest moments, but also their deepest mistakes and conflicts.

That's how a night out at a party for a couple turns into devastation when one of them suspects infidelity. You think you know where the episode is going, and you're partly right, but its twists are devious. It says a lot not just about our reliance on technology, but also about how we can (and always have) wielded technology against each other and ourselves.

And it's just a really good, dark love story.

You can watch the "Black Mirror" episode "The Entire History of You" on Netflix here.

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Warning: Spoilers ahead for "Black Mirror" season 3, episode one.

There's a reason the first episode of the new season of the hit new Netflix series "Black Mirror" is called "Nosedive."

It envisions a world in which we're completely dependent upon social media. Each of us chases after a desirable "rating" — an average score (out of 5 stars) that's affected by everything from that sideways glance you gave the woman walking past you on your morning commute to the lack of enthusiasm you displayed for the birthday gift your co-worker gave you.

It's not too far-fetched from the world we live in now. Just imagine if you combined your Uber rating with the amount of likes you got on Facebook and the number of replies you received on Twitter in the last month. Now imagine that that singular rating determined everything about your life, from where you worked to the home you were eligible to live in.

Voila! Welcome to "Nosedive."

This is precisely the reason "Black Mirror" is so compelling. It's not your typical science fiction, which envisions the world 100 or 1,000 years from now. It imagines next year. Next month.

A psychological principle called the "hedonic treadmill" is the real fuel that would, in theory, drive us toward this pathetic and debilitating future. In essence, because we're always on the hunt for that next thing that'll make us feel good, it's almost impossible for us to just be— and just being, research suggests, is one of the key ways to feel truly happy.

'A lifestyle community'

In one particularly evocative scene, the main character, Lacie Pound (played by Bryce Dallas Howard) discovers the only way she can afford the apartment she wants — in the prestigious Pelican Cove Lifestyle Community — is by raising her rating and becoming a "preferred" member. A higher score of a 4.5, the leasing agent tells her, would qualify her for a 20% discount. But she's several percentage points away at a meager 4.2. The remainder of the plot focuses on Lacie's initially promising — but ultimately devastating — attempt to raise her score by speaking at the wedding of a childhood friend with an envious 4.8 rating.

In the end, after brandishing a knife in the middle of a very public nervous breakdown, Lacie is arrested and jailed. The episode ends in the middle of a vicious but comical insult-throwing match between Lacie and the man in the cell across from her.

The hedonic treadmill

All of Lacie's pursuits fall into line perfectly with the hedonic treadmill principle, which some psychologists have used to explain why so many of us feel unsatisfied with our lives. If we get a job promotion, for example, we'll celebrate and feel good for a moment, but those joyful emotions are fleeting. Soon enough, we'll be back to where we started — on the hunt for the next feel-good thing and, therefore, unhappy. In the early 1990s, British psychologist Michael Eysenck likened this constant starvation for more and more to a treadmill— hence the name.

"You're running but you're on that treadmill and you're not getting anywhere in terms of happiness," science journalist Wendy Zukerman explained on a 2015 episode of her podcast series "Science Vs" about happiness.

Eventually that temporary boost in happiness you get from a job promotion or marriage proposal will abate, and you'll be back to the same baseline level of happiness you were before the exciting change.

And that's precisely what Lacie Pound experiences. Every time she gets a four or five-star rating, her bright blue eyes light up. She smiles and giggles with a high-pitched glee. But at the end of the day, Lacie is lonely and unsatisfied. She lives with her brother. We don't meet any of her close friends. She feels alienated by her co-workers. The wedding she's attending is for a friend who she has not been close with for ages and clearly doesn't trust.

In the part of the episode where Lacie views the apartment of her dreams, she's shown a virtual reality scene of herself making dinner in the kitchen with a lover — and it's this romantic vision that seems to goad her into pursuing the 4.5 rating. She wants companionship. She wants relationships. And she'll do anything — even if it goes against her instincts, even if it's all, ultimately, a big lie — to get there.

Social media doesn't make us happy

Unfortunately, Lacie continues to pursue what she thinks will make her happy, like a high social media rating, while completely disregarding the things that might actually make her happy, like friendships with her co-workers or a real relationship with her brother. In the real world, many of us make Lacie's mistake over and over again.

Study after study has found that when we engage with social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, we may feel a temporary boost from likes or favorites, but there's absolutely no link between social media use and long-term happiness. Some research suggests the opposite, in fact: that social media use is linked with an increase in negative feelings. A January study of 1,787 young US adults sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health, for example, found a “strong and significant association between social media use and depression." Participants' depression levels, the researchers found, increased alongside the total amount of time spent using social media and the number of weekly visits to social media platforms.

Nevertheless, driven by the hedonic treadmill, we keep using it. We "check" Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram as if there's something real there for us to find there. But all we ever get is a "like" or a "fave." And a swipe or a scroll is all it takes to wipe them away.

A limit to our dependence upon ratings

Fortunately, some research suggests there's a limit to how far this hedonic principle will ultimately drive us. That research helps explain why we don't merely spend all of our time doing pleasurable activities, and why we still somehow manage to do things like work and chores. Sure, we do sometimes gravitate towards things that make us feel good in the short-term. But we also manage to do things that aren't inherently pleasant — like the laundry or the dishes — because we know those activities will help us feel satisfied in the long-run.

This could be good news for those of us concerned with turning into Lacie Pound. So long as we're aware that social media doesn't turn into long-term happiness, we'll always withdraw from it — at least temporarily — to do things that will give us those long-term rewards.

A study published in August in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences which looked at the type of activities people engage in when they're either feeling happy or feeling sad, for example, found that we tend to gravitate towards boring activities like chores when we're in a good mood. On the other hand, we do things like going on a hike or getting drinks with friends when we're feeling low. This suggests that our happiness is something of a reserve, the study authors told Business Insider.

"Our positive emotion, perhaps, can be seen as a resource," Dr. Jordi Quoidbach, one of the study's lead authors and a psychology professor at Barcelona's University Pompeu Fabra, told us in August. "When we don't have enough, we need to replenish it, but as soon as we have enough, we can potentially use that to get things done."

Of all the logged activities the researchers studied, spending time with other people had the strongest link to positive emotions, while using social media had either a neutral or slightly negative link.

In other words, since social media doesn't do anything for our longterm happiness, it's tough to imagine a functioning society that's 100% dependent upon it. If we ever tried to create one, most of us would probably end up like Lacie Pound does at the end of the episode — screaming at a stranger from inside a prison cell.

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On Tuesday, top business-strategist Michael Wolf gave a massive presentation on the future of tech and media in 2017 at The Wall Street Journal's digital conference.

He predicted that subscription revenue will drive internet and media, accounting for over half of growth. “Pay to download” models, on the other hand, are disappearing.

Wolf also crowned eSports, or competitive video gaming, as the next tech phenomenon. By 2020, he said eSports will be a $1.5 billion business in the US alone.

As to the buzz around streaming TV, Wolf said the old winners will likely be the new winners in this market. They will use their scale to undercut smaller players on cost (we’ve already seen this start with DirecTV Now’s upcoming $35 package of 100+ channels).

And Wolf knows the industry. He served on the board at Yahoo and cofounded the technology and media consulting-firm Activate, where he is managing director. His career has spanned from being a managing partner at consulting powerhouse McKinsey to being the chief operating officer of MTV networks.

You can see the entire presentation from the Wall Street Journal Digital Live Conference below, which we've republished in full:

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We're less than two months away from the premiere of "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story," and it's building up to excitement levels we haven't seen since, well, "The Force Awakens" last year.

The film underwent reshoots after Disney offered a first glimpse of the standalone film with a teaser trailer back in April. From the first official trailer that premiered in August and the final trailer that Disney released this month, we now have a pretty good idea of what's in store for the film. 

Taking place before the events of the 1977 original film, "Rogue One" follows Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones) and a group of Rebel fighters on a mission to steal plans for the Empire's new weapon, the Death Star. The movie hits theaters December 16.

Here is everything we know about "Rogue One" so far (warning: mild spoilers):

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The film is the first in the "Star Wars Anthology," a series of standalone films, which will include movies dedicated to Han Solo and bounty hunter Boba Fett.

Gareth Edwards, known for the 2014 "Godzilla" reboot, directed the film.

The script was written by Chris Weitz ("About a Boy"), based on an idea from visual-effects supervisor John Knoll. Gary Whitta ("After Earth") was originally hired to write the screenplay, but he left the project after writing the first draft.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter

Warning: This post contains slight spoilers for the first episode of "Black Mirror" season 3.

In the third season of popular British television series "Black Mirror," the first episode features an eye-embedded app that lets people rate their interactions with one another and share status updates. It's like Facebook, Instagram, and Yelp combined — with serious stakes.

Characters who act nice and don't appear smarmy can get five stars. But if they act negatively, they'll face one-star reviews. If someone drops too low, they become a kind of second-class citizen — they're socially shunned, shuttered out of workplaces, forced to pay a premium on leases, and penalized in myriad other ways.

Like many "Black Mirror" episodes, this one takes a present tech-related paranoia to its extreme. But in China, a similar system could soon become a reality.

The Chinese government is planning on implementing a system that connects citizens' financial, social, political, and legal credit ratings into one big social trustability score. The idea would be that if someone breaks trust in one area, they'd be adversely affected everywhere.

Proponents of the plan, like Chinese blogger Wenquan Xin, say the system is needed because many of China's 1.3 billion citizens don't own a credit card, and the country lacks an equivalent system to the US' FICO credit score. That means bankers and loan providers don't have much to go on.

According to the Washington Post, eight private companies have created pilot "credit databases" that compile information about individuals.

Sesame Credit, a subsidiary of e-commerce giant Alibaba, is already running a social credit system. According to the BBC, the company determines people's scores by incorporating a number of factors into its algorithms, including whether someone has gotten traffic tickets, if they've paid their taxes, and what they buy online. If you're constantly buying video games, for instance, you'll be seen as idle. If you're buying diapers, you could be considered a responsible parent.

Those with high rankings can rent bikes or cars without leaving a deposit, and skip lines at hospitals by paying after they leave, according to the Post. 15% of users on Chinese dating site Baihe choose to display their Sesame Credit score, and that some weed out potential dates based on that measure of trustability.

This preferential treatment for higher-rated people is very similar to the scenario depicted on "Black Mirror."

The Chinese plan for a more widespread scoring system has been in the works since 2015. But in September, the government released bullet points of proposed penalties for those who "breaks social trust" (which could be done by defaulting on a loan, for example, or voicing a dissenting opinion against the government online).

According to the policy documents, here's what could happen if you're a low scorer:

• You won't be considered for public office
• You'll lose access to social security and welfare
• You'll be frisked more thoroughly when passing through Chinese customs
• You'll be shut out of senior level positions in the food and drug sector
• You won't get a bed in overnight trains
• You'll be shut out higher-starred hotels and restaurants and will be rejected by travel agents
• Your children won't be allowed into more expensive private schools

In the "Black Mirror" episode, titled "Nosedive," the purpose of a universal ratings system is ostensibly to incentivize untrustworthy individuals in a society to shape up to what other members consider good.

But the irony in the episode is that the system ends up creating a culture of disingenuity — a "numbers game" where people kiss up to popular folks to raise their social standing, rather than simply striving to be a better person.

Even though the technology in "Nosedive" isn't here yet, China's social credit scores could one day contribute to the sort of culture we saw in "Black Mirror." And if the episode's finale is any good predictor of the outcome, the system might not end happily for those who step out of line with popular opinion.

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From Amazon carrying "Suicide Squad" to Hulu having "Rocky" movies 1-5, there's a lot to streaming in November. 

Here we've broken down everything new coming on iTunes, Amazon Prime, Hulu, and HBO Go/Now. 

And if you need more, "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" will be available on HBO by the end of November.

Below are all the titles that will be available and we've highlighted some in bold we think you should definitely check out.

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iTunes

Available November 1

“Sausage Party”
“Imperium”

Available November 8

“Kubo and the Two Strings”
“Mechanic: Resurrection”
“Hell or High Water”
“Don’t Breathe”

Available November 15

“Jason Bourne”
“War Dogs”
“Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie”
“Hands of Stone”
“Weiner-Dog”
“Dog Eat Dog”

Available November 22

“The Secret Life of Pets”

Amazon Prime

Available November 1

“A View to a Kill”
“Addams Family Values”
“Barbershop”
“Be Cool”
“Courage Mountain”
“Death at a Funeral”
“Deterrence”
“Diamonds are Forever”
“Die Another Day”
“Dr. No”
“Enter The Ninja”
“Erin Brockovich”
“Fatal Attraction”
“Fletch”
“For Your Eyes Only”
“From Russia with Love”
“Get Shorty”
“Goldeneye”
“Goldfinger”
“Good Advice”
“Happily N'Ever After”
“Happily N'Ever After 2: Snow White”
“Legally Blonde”
“Licence to Kill”
“Live and Let Die”
“Major League”
“Man with the Golden Gun”
“Matilda”
“Meet Joe Black”
“Mermaids”
“Moonraker”
“Never Say Never Again”
“Northpole”
“Octopussy”
“On Her Majesty's Secret Service”
“Rocky”
“Rocky II”
“Rocky III”
“Rocky IV”
“Rocky V”
“Rollerball”
“Rollerball” (2002)
“Rounders”
“Shadows and Fog”
“Star Trek Beyond”
“Terms of Endearment”
“The Addams Family”
“The Conversation”
“The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane”
“The Living Daylights”
“The Spy Who Loved Me”
“The Switch”
“The World Is Not Enough”
“Thunderball”
“Tickled”
“Tomorrow Never Dies”
“Top Secret!”
“Up in the Air”
“Urban Cowboy”
“You Only Live Twice”

Available November 3

“Salem” (Season 3)

Available November 5

“The Night Manager” (Season 1)

Available November 7

“A Monster with a Thousand Heads”
“Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans”
“The Haunting in Connecticut”

Available November 9

“Flesh and Bone” (Season 1)

Available November 11

“Red Oaks” (Season 2, AMAZON ORIGINAL)

Available November 12

“Green Room”

Available November 14

“Almost Holy”
“Splash and Bubbles” (Season 1)
“Wild Kratts: Creatures of the Deep Sea” (Season 1)
“The Syndicate: All or Nothing” (Season 1)
“Wentworth” (Season 1)

Available November 15

“Mars” (Season 1)
“Soundbreaking” (Season 1)
“Suicide Squad”
“Mia Madre”
“The Royals” (Season 2)

Available November 16

“Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise” (Season 1)

Available November 17

“Miss You Already”
“Patton Oswalt: Comedy Plus Tragedy Equals Time”

Available November 18

“Grantchester” (Season 2)
“The Grand Tour” (AMAZON ORIGINAL)

Available November 19

“Creed”

HBO Go/Now

Available November 1


“All the President’s Men”

“AVPR: Aliens vs. Predator Requiem”

“Batman”
“Batman & Robin”

“Batman Forever”

“Batman Returns”

“Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1”

“Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2”

“Batman: Under the Red Hood”

“Batman: Year One”

“Being There”

“Blast from the Past”

“Hitman”
“Insidious: Chapter 3”

“King Ralph”

“Matchstick Men”

“Minority Report”

“Miracle on 34th Street”

“Old School”
“Paper Moon”

“The Color of Money”

“The Dead Pool”

“The Divergent Series: Insurgent”

“The Sand Pebbles”

“The Young Messiah”

Available November 2

“Hitman: Agent 47”
“Eddie the Eagle”

Available November 5

“How to be Single”

Available November 7

“Def Comedy Jam” (Seasons 7-8)

Available November 12

“The Divergent Series: Allegiant”
“Real Time with Bill Maher” (Season Finale)

Available November 14

“Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” (Season Finale)

Available November 19

“Race”

Available November 26

“Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice”

This past May, Anthony Bourdain shared a meal with President Barack Obama in Hanoi, Vietnam for an episode of his CNN show "Parts Unknown" that premiered in September.

The scenario would have sounded like a joke to Bourdain 20 years ago, when he was bouncing around New York City's restaurant scene, doing whatever he could to make it one day to the next.

Bourdain, 60, has documented in detail his adjustment to the surrealness of the fame that hit him in his 40s with the huge success of bestselling 2000 memoir "Kitchen Confidential" and the television series that followed, but in an interview with Business Insider earlier this year, he explained that only recently has he attained a level of inner peace.

"I know the guy who wrote 'Kitchen Confidential' very well," Bourdain said. "He's not me anymore. I'm not boiling with rage. I don't live in this tiny, tunnel-vision world. I had such a limited view of what reality was like outside of the kitchen doors — I had no clue! I never lived with normal people. I lived in the restaurant universe for my entire adult life."

A major turning point for Bourdain was the birth of his daughter Ariane in 2007. "I'm no longer the star of the movie," he said. "At all. That's it!"

"It's a huge relief in a lot of ways. And it's such an understatement to say that having a kid changes your life. You're just no longer the first person you think about or care about. You're not the most important person in the room. It's not your film. The music doesn't play for you — it's all about the girl. And that changes everything."

Setting aside his ego has also allowed him to pursue career opportunities that he may have overanalyzed in the past, he explained, such as being the spokesman for the Balvenie whiskey company or appearing as a judge on "Top Chef."

"I work really hard to not ever think about my place in the world," he said. He continued:

"I'm aware of my good fortune. I'm very aware of it, and I'm very aware that, because of it, people offer me things. Opportunities to do extraordinary things. The ones that are interesting to me are collaborations. I get to work with people who 10 years ago I wouldn't have dreamed to have been able to work with. And that's a big change professionally, and it's something that I think about a lot."

Bourdain said he's now driven by the desire to "play in a creative way" and "not repeat" himself. "I like making things," he said.

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For the first time in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, we have been introduced to the sorcery side of the company's comic books, with their release of “Doctor Strange” (in theaters November 4).

It's expected by this point that Marvel knows how to properly tell an origin story about one of its properties, and that holds with "Doctor Strange." Director Scott Derrickson ("Sinister") lays out what transforms egotistical neurosurgeon Dr. Stephen Strange from master of the ER to master of the mystic arts. And Benedict Cumberbatch as Strange is perfect at the conflicted (and sarcastic) state he’s in when he learns that he must find a new path after a horrific car accident robs him of the ability to be a surgeon.

But the visual effects are the real star of "Doctor Strange."

The closest thing to a psychedelic film that family-friendly Disney will allow, it’s filled with dazzling visuals taking us into other dimensions and a kaleidoscope-like view of some of the biggest cities in the world that goes beyond what was done in Christopher Nolan’s “Inception.” Yes, even die-hard Nolan fans will have reason to see this.

In search of a way to heal his hands after the car accident, Strange travels East in search of alternate medicine. He learns of the Ancient One (played by Tilda Swinton, who is amazing as always, despite concerns over whitewashing). After getting a glimpse of what is really beyond the world around us, Strange is hooked and wants to become her disciple.

Fellow disciple Mordo (Chiwetel Ejiofor) helps train Strange, but before you know it Strange has gobbled up all the information about the mystic arts to become a master. In that time he also learns of the evil Kaecilius (Mads Mikkelsen) and his plans for destruction.

The story is fast and really kicks into gear when Strange takes on Kaecilius, though at times there are pauses in the action to sneak in Strange’s love interest Christine Palmer (Rachel McAdams), a subplot that's funny but mostly feels forced.

I’m not a huge fan of 3D, but there’s honestly no other movie for which I can recommend the format more. The VFX wizardry that bends and shifts the cities of New York, London, and Hong Kong is really top-notch and makes a movie that otherwise doesn't compel much a joy to watch.

Just don’t sit too close to the screen.

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After news recently broke that director Tim Miller has left the sequel to "Deadpool" over "creative differences," we've gotten a little insight into what those differences exactly were. 

According to TheWrap, Miller and the franchise's star Ryan Reynolds feuded over the scope of the sequel, which is currently in development with 20th Century Fox.

Miller wanted to go big with a movie that would be three times the budget of the original's $60 million, while Reynolds, along with screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, wanted to keep the movie small and stick with its raunchy roots.

Previous reports also indicated that Miller wanted to cast "Bloodline" star Kyle Chandler to play the character Cable in the sequel, but Reynolds didn't. 

"Deadpool 2" currently does not have a release date. The original opened in February with the biggest R-rated opening weekend of all time ($132.4 million). The movie went on to make over $780 million worldwide.

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

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Nintendo's new console is just a few months away: The Nintendo Switch launches in March 2017. That much we know.

But there's still a ton of information we don't know have:

• How much does it cost?
• What day does it launch?
• What games will be available at launch?
• What do you get in the box? 

Nintendo isn't saying just yet, but the Japanese game company is saying when we'll find out: January 12, 2017. That's the date of "Presentation 2017," a Nintendo event that aims to provide much more information about the upcoming console.

But don't get too excited just yet: Unless you live in or near Tokyo, Japan, and are invited by Nintendo, this event will be little more than an online live-streamed video. 

That said, Nintendo's outright stating what we'll learn at the event: "The presentation will include the launch date and pricing for Nintendo Switch, as well as a look at the lineup of games currently in development," a Nintendo press release about the event states.

If you're not in Tokyo (like us), Nintendo says there will be public opportunities in the US and Europe to try out Nintendo Switch ahead of its launch in March.

Even before the event, we still know a decent amount about the Nintendo Switch:

• It's a home console/handheld console hybrid. Play it at home and on-the-go.
• Games for Nintendo Switch resemble SD flash memory cards (rather than discs).
• It's played using a standard gamepad rather than a distinct control method (like the Wii's motion controller and the Wii U's touchscreen tablet).
• There's a new "Super Mario" game, a new "Mario Kart" game, a new "Legend of Zelda" game, and a few third-party games — all heading to the Nintendo Switch.
• It's scheduled to launch in March 2017.

And we can do some strong guessing based on Nintendo's history — no Nintendo console has ever launched at over $400. It stands to reason that the Nintendo Switch will fall into the same pricing sweet spot that most Nintendo consoles do: between $250 to $350. Nintendo aims broad with its game systems, and keeping the price reasonably low is a crucial factor in doing that.

As for a release date, your guess is as good as ours. Let's go with March 24! It's a Friday, and 24 is a nice round number. 

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Mysterious startup Magic Leap, valued at $4.5 billion, is starting to manufacture its still unannounced product, potentially for a launch next year.

Magic Leap is one of the most mysterious and hyped startups in technology. It has raised $1.39 billion from investors including Google, Alibaba, KPCB, and Andreeseen Horowitz. Google CEO Sundar Pichai sits on its board.

The company may attend the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January 2017, according to KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who has a reputation for being tapped into the Asian consumer electronics supply chain.

"Although I can't comment on a 2017 launch, I can say we will not be revealing the product at CES in January of next year," Magic Leap spokesman Andy Fouché told Business Insider.

Magic Leap's product is a pair of glasses that uses cutting-edge optics to superimpose computer graphics into the real word. Essentially, a tiny projector or laser beams light into the users' eyes in a way that computer graphics are indistinguishable from real life.

The prototypes currently circulating around Dania Beach, Florida, where the company is headquartered, have a smartphone-sized battery pack with computer components attached to the glasses by a wire, according to sources familiar with Magic Leap's prototypes. 

Kuo calls Magic Leap's technology "dynamic digitized light-field signal."

A good occasion

If Magic Leap attends CES, it would make sense as an occasion to reveal its product publicly for the first time. If Magic Leap does not have a "highly finished prototype to showcase at the next CES," Kuo thinks it won't go into mass production next year, according to a note sent to investors seen by Business Insider. 

"We attend CES every year," Fouché said. "So that won't be anything new. But as you know, presenting vs. attending are two very different things."

Magic Leap has deals with suppliers in the United States and Asia, says Kuo, which are key steps to making the device a reality. He picks up on a Chinese language report in TechNews that says that Magic Leap has placed "million-unit orders" to a supplier. 

"Our industry survey indicates that MagicLeap’s software and form factor design have significantly improved in the past months, and the company may attend 2017 CES," Kuo writes. "We have recently learned that Himax, Corning, TSMC, Sinbon & CCP Contact Probe are among Magic Leap’s suppliers."

One big unknown about Magic Leap's product is its price. Kuo highlights the high cost of some of Magic Leap's components, such as a micro projector from Himax that costs about $35 to $45 per unit. Magic Leap also requires "high-speed transmission of AR and MR video" that would mean the company would have to pay $10-$20 for a high-frequency connector from CCP Contact Probe, which is over 10 times more expensive than a general connector.

In testimony from August included as part of a recent lawsuit, Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz wrote that "Magic Leap is completing its manufacturing plant for its anticipated products."

Fouché says Magic Leap's manufacturing plant is the company's new offices in Plantation, a former Motorola facility, which were announced in October 2015. 

"We just achieved a number of major product dev milestones; things are full on exciting at Magic Leap," Abovitz tweeted earlier this week. "Heavy work still ahead of us - but the summit is in sight :-)"

Have you demoed Magic Leap or know something about the company? Email the author at kleswing@businessinsider.com. 

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Seth Meyers thinks he knows why Donald Trump and his campaign failed to fully capitalize on the news of upcoming price increases for Obamacare.

On Wednesday's episode of NBC's "Late Night," Meyers took a look at what Trump was doing instead of coming down on Obamacare in a new edition of "A Closer Look."

In the past, Trump has been very critical of the healthcare policy, even saying that Obamacare is "killing" businesses and individuals.

"There are lots of different ideas for improving healthcare in this country that we should have a serious debate about, like letting more people enroll in Medicare or strengthening the individual mandate," the host said. "But unfortunately, one of our two presidential candidates seems much less interested in having that discussion than he is in plugging his own businesses."

Meyers is referring to Trump's decision to promote his Miami resort on Tuesday. He did speak about Obamacare briefly and generated headlines when he said that his "employees are having a tremendous problem with Obamacare."

That's strange because his employees overwhelmingly receive their insurance through Trump's company. "Over 95%" get their insurance through the company, the general manager for Trump's Florida resort said.

With one day squandered by Trump, Meyers wondered, "You might think Trump would change his approach. Surely, he wouldn't spend a second day plugging one of his businesses in a non-swing state less than two weeks away from the election, right?"

But he did. Trump spent Wednesday at the grand opening of his new hotel in Washington state.

"The reason why Republicans haven't presented any real plans to fix or replace Obamacare is because they don't have any," Meyers said. "And the guy they nominated for president doesn't even seem to know what it is. Unfortunately for the Republican Party, it's too late to repeal and replace him."

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It seems J.J. Abrams is hard at work producing another movie in the "Cloverfield" franchise. 

According to TheWrap, the sci-fi thriller "God Particle," which Abrams is producing and will be directed by Julius Onah and starring David Oyelowo, will be the third film in the unique series of connected movies that started with 2008's "Cloverfield" and followed with this year's "10 Cloverfield Lane."

The upcoming film follows astronauts aboard a space station who make a shocking discovery, which means the "Cloverfield" franchise is reaching space (and ditching the actual name "Cloverfield").

Abrams and the studio behind the movie, Paramount Pictures, are planning to release a "Cloverfield"-related movie every year, according to TheWrap.

Though "Cloverfield," a found-footage movie about a monster attack in New York City, got mixed reviews, "10 Cloverfield Lane" was acclaimed for its thrilling story, which follows a woman (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) who lives underground after being told that the outside world is uninhabitable. It also had unique marketing as the film was not announced until a few months before its release.

"God Particle" is set for release on February 24, 2017.

Paramount did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.

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Just like her father, Oracle founder Larry Ellison, Oscar-nominated producer Megan Ellison is turning out to be quite the real estate mogul.

According to property records, she has listed for sale a five-bedroom home in Los Angeles' Mount Olympus neighborhood. She bought the home — which happens to be next-door to a much larger estate she also owns — for $5.25 million in April 2015. She's now hoping to get $5.9 million in what would be quite the profitable sale, assuming she didn't perform extensive renovations on the home. 

This wouldn't be the first time Ellison successfully flipped a home in Los Angeles. In 2013, she netted $14.15 million in a three-home sale in the Bird Streets neighborhood above the Sunset Strip. According to Variety, she also recently found a buyer for a home she had purchased for $13.5 million and listed for $14.995 million just a few months later.

The home that's currently on the market has 5,240 square feet of space and gorgeous city views. Let's take a look inside.

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Huge glass panels open to patios on both of the main floors.

Those patios stretch for most of the length of the house and make the most of the location.

A set of stairs leads down from the patio to the pool deck.