Netflix just released the funny first full trailer for its much-anticipated series "Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events."

Based on the best-selling novels by Daniel Handler, the show stars Neil Patrick Harris as Count Olaf, who mistakenly becomes the guardian to three young children after their parents die in a fire. He hatches a plan to steal their inheritances and must don a seemingly endless array of disguises to do so.

Handler and Harris serve as executive producers alongside Barry Sonnenfeld, who produced the movies "Men in Black" and "The Addams Family."

"Lemony Snicket's" also stars Patrick Warburton, Joan Cusack, Alfre Woodard, Catherine O'Hara, Aasif Maandvi, and Don Johnson, among many others.

It's set to debut on January 13, 2017 on Netflix.

Watch the trailer below:

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Pixar is one of the most successful and recognizable movie production studios. Lawrence Levy, CFO of Pixar from 1994-2000 and author of "To Pixar and Beyond," tells us why he thinks the company has been able to produce a constant stream of hits.

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“Manchester by the Sea” marks the third directing effort by Kenneth Lonergan over a 16-year span. In that time, he’s made two other acclaimed movies, “You Can Count on Me” (2000) and “Margaret” (2011), but with his latest he’s finally made a potential mainstream crossover.

Thanks to Amazon Studios' $10 million purchase of the film at the Sundance Film Festival, a strong marketing and award-season push is underway that far exceeds what Lonergan's previous work had.

What’s all the fuss about? Simply put, the movie is really, really good.

Set in the Massachusetts town of Manchester-by-the-Sea, the intimate story of an uncle (Casey Affleck) who becomes the guardian of his teenage nephew (Lucas Hedges) after his father (Kyle Chandler) dies isn’t told with any camera tricks or dazzling effects. Instead it’s the acting that really shines front and center. Particularly Affleck.

Ben's lesser-known brother, Casey has quietly built up a strong filmography to a point now where he’s showcasing a talent that far surpasses Ben.

A surefire Oscar nominee (and perhaps winner), Affleck’s portrayal of Lee Chandler is extremely intimate, dark, but thanks to Lonergan’s writing, it also has necessary levity at times.

And the best thing about the movie is that Lonergan isn’t in a rush to tell us anything. He lets the audience sink into the Lee character and his surroundings to find a man who has given up on life (and there’s an understandable reason for that, but we won’t give it away) and though the logical breakthrough would be his new connection with his nephew, Patrick, Lonergan doesn’t go down that well-traveled path.

Lee’s wounds are too deep to suddenly become happy about his life.

With the help of flashbacks to when Patrick was younger and Lee’s brother, Joe, was still around, we get an understanding of who Lee once was. And then there’s his relationship with his ex-wife Randi (Michelle Williams).

In a heartbreaking scene in which the two talk for the first time in years, we once more see the pain Lee carries and why he can’t let go of the past. It's all possible thanks to the incredible talents of both Affleck and Williams.

Lonergan (who should also get an Oscar nomination for directing and writing) takes a lot of time between making movies, which has as much to do with finances as creating stories. But when everything lines up and he delivers a movie, it’s done with an intent and purpose that few can match.

"Manchester by the Sea" opens in theaters on Friday.

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal appeals court has ruled that a Wisconsin inmate featured in the Netflix series "Making a Murderer" must remain behind bars even though his conviction has been overturned.

Brendan Dassey was convicted in 2007 of raping and killing Teresa Halbach and sentenced to life in prison. A federal judge in August overturned his conviction, saying investigators coerced him into confessing. State attorneys have appealed that ruling.

The judge on Wednesday ordered Dassey released from prison by 8 p.m. Friday. The state Justice Department asked the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in an emergency motion to block the release.

A three-judge panel of the appeal's court on Thursday agreed to block Dassey's release, pending the resolution of the appeal.

Dassey's attorneys posted a statement online saying they were "disappointed more than words can say" with the appellate decision.

A second season of Netflix's hit true-crime docuseries "Making a Murderer" is currently in production. The series centers on both Dassey and his uncle Steven Avery, who was also convicted for the murder of Halbach.

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Sony's got a new, $400 version of the already very popular PlayStation 4 game console. It's called the PlayStation 4 "Pro."

And the PlayStation 4 Pro is without precedent.

This is how things usually work:

1. A game console-maker like Sony, Microsoft, or Nintendo announces a console, a release date, and a price.
2. The console launches at a relatively high price, and that price comes down across the next 5-10 years. 
3. As console sales decline, the cycle repeats.

With the PlayStation 4 Pro, that cycle is being broken — this is a more powerful version of the original PlayStation 4 that launched in 2013. It's capable of producing games in a higher resolution (4K), running older games more smoothly, and adding more visual effects than ever.

In short, it makes already existing PlayStation 4 games even prettier than they already are.

It's also slightly larger than the current PlayStation 4:

The bottom line: The PlayStation 4 Pro is nearly identical to the 40 million-plus PlayStation 4 consoles already out there in the wild.

It's got the same operating system, it runs the same games, it has the same apps. I've been using the PlayStation 4 Pro for the past two weeks to play major holiday games like "Dishonored 2" and "Watch Dogs 2." I can confirm it's exactly the same experience on non-Pro PlayStation 4 consoles.

So, who is this for?

The PlayStation 4 Pro is for three very specific groups of people:

• People who don't own the PlayStation 4 already, who are interested in buying one, who want to get the most powerful version of the PS4.
• People who don't own the PS4, who are interested in buying one, who own a 4K television.
• People who do own the PS4 already, who own a 4K television and are willing to pay $400 to utilize it with PS4 games.

Do you fit into one of those categories? The PlayStation 4 Pro may actually be for you!

But the rest of us? Stick with the standard PS4.

Let's be clear: The PS4 Pro is a perfectly good PlayStation 4 console. Despite being slightly larger and more powerful, it's not louder or worse in any way than the standard PS4.

There's one simple argument for why you'd get the non-Pro PlayStation 4: price. You're looking at a $100 difference between the two consoles, and that's meaningful — especially if you don't own a 4K television (which most people don't).

Are you planning on buying a 4K TV, and you still don't own a PS4? The PlayStation 4 Pro makes some sense. Who doesn't want to play games at their peak prettiness? But even that selling point comes with a massive caveat: Not every game will look better on the PS4 Pro.

If the developer behind, say, "Call of Duty" decides to do the work that will make the latest "Call of Duty" look better on PS4 Pro, then that game will look better on PS4 Pro. If not? Then you're playing exactly the same game, graphics and all, on a more expensive version of the PlayStation 4 console.

Again, the PlayStation 4 Pro is a fantastic console — but that's largely because the standard PlayStation 4 is already such a fantastic console. The benefits that come from the Pro (4K output, higher horsepower) only matter to a small subset of the overall PlayStation audience right now. As 4K televisions become more standard, the Pro will make more sense.

But right now, in November 2016, the PlayStation 4 Pro feels like a solution to a problem that most people don't have. Buying a PlayStation 4 this holiday? Save yourself $100 and buy the standard PS4.

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Jon Stewart did not have many jokes to make on Thursday about President-elect Donald Trump's election victory, but he instead offered empathy for some Trump supporters.

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Warning: Spoilers for the "Atlanta" season-one finale below.

"Atlanta" pulled off a jaw-dropping shooting scene in its season finale that was unforgettable, mostly because it was so hard to figure out how to react.

"It was very interesting to watch," Brian Tyree Henry, who plays Alfred aka Paper Boi, recently told Business Insider. "Some people laughed and some people thought it was wrong. Others said, ‘We just saw that the other day.’ That’s the great thing about ‘Atlanta’ is that it keeps the conversation going."

In it, Earn (Donald Glover) is on the search for his lost jacket, which has led him, Alfred, and sidekick Darius (Lakeith Stanfield) to the house of the Uber driver from the night before. But just as Alfred gets the feeling that something isn't right, police storm their car and end up shooting down the fleeing Uber driver.

Viewers showed a range of reactions on Twitter:

"I love how the audience wasn’t really sure what to do, because that’s kind of how we are as a people," said Henry, 34, whose character Paper Boi is a rising rap star in Atlanta.

"We’re never really sure how to react to that. And yet still in the episode, we had to go about our day, go about our lives, and figure out what to do. I don’t think that 'Atlanta' was trying to push an agenda, or trying to make that important. It was just a part of our lives. It was just a part of our day. Sometimes, that’s enough to make you wonder why this is normalcy."

That said, Henry admitted that there was some anxiety when they were filming the scene.

"We were really uncertain when we were doing that shooting scene, in the South, in that neighborhood," he told us. "We were like, ‘Okay, we’re really going to do this.’ It was something that was necessary and something that really pushed the envelope. But at the same time, it was like, ‘We see this every day, don’t we?’ Isn’t it just insane that we’ve gotten so used to seeing people get shot?"

"Atlanta" will return for its second season in 2017.

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They've lived through plenty of upheaval, including some of their own, during the band's 50-plus-year history, but the Rolling Stones are still shocked by the election victory of Donald Trump.

"Everyone outside the US is mystified, I'd say. That's the polite word," frontman Mick Jagger said in a recent Associated Press video interview, before laughing.

"I could say a lot, but this isn't really the place because I can't get into a really good discussion about it," he continued. "I don't want to say superficial and flip things."

Guitarist Ronnie Wood seemed only slightly more prepared for the triumph of the US president-elect.

"We were all shocked and stunned with the Brexit thing, and so I thought, nothing's going to shock me now — for all I know Trump's going to get in," Wood said. "Sure enough, he did. Okay, there will be some changes made." 

Keith Richards' response was decidedly more Keith Richards-y.

"I ain't going there," he said.

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The music industry is in transition.

Between piracy and digital distribution, there has been huge destruction of value among legacy players and a lot of handwringing over the fate of music. But that doesn't mean there's no hope.

One major player at the world's second-biggest search engine (behind parent company Google, of course) is downright optimistic about the future of music.

Neal Mohan, the chief product officer at YouTube, has insight into how the rise of digital media might rescue the music industry.

Mohan will talk about these ideas at Business Insider's flagship conference, IGNITION: Future of Digital.

He'll have a lot to say, given YouTube's recently announced plans to revamp its site. The idea is to create a greater "community feel," where creators can share everything from videos and posts to polls and even live broadcasts with their followers. The focus will remain on videos, but YouTube is looking to break out of its single-task-platform mold.

So what does that mean for the music industry? Mohan thinks digital ads are the key to unlocking more revenue. Today, YouTube alone generates $3 billion in ad revenue. It's a figure that will only increase as digital consumption continues to grow — as young people switch off the radio and tune in online to hear the latest songs.

Learn more about what the future holds for YouTube and the world of music at IGNITION. The conference is December 5-7 at the Time Warner Center in New York City.

This year's IGNITION speakers include SpringHill Entertainment's Maverick Carter, Vimeo's interim CEO Joey Levin, EA's Peter Moore, and Vevo's Erik Huggers.

Sign up today before tickets sell out!

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Adult Swim is in the middle of a civil war that has pitted its creative talent and staffers against the comedy channel over the show "Million Dollar Extreme Presents: World Peace," which has ties to the alt-right conservative movement.

BuzzFeed reports that several Adult Swim staffers, as well as show actors, writers, and producers are lobbying the channel's president Mike Lazzo to cancel the show, which some fans are convinced "expresses an anti-progressive, pro-white ideology."

"They’re gathering a long list of complaints from people," an anonymous source connected to the network told the site. “All of these complaints will hopefully be able to keep a second season from happening.”

Currently awaiting a second season renewal, the sketch show takes place in a post-apocalyptic world that presents stories some have found extremely offensive. Most notably, it has become a favorite among members of the alt-right community, a fringe conservative movement that has associations with racism, bigotry, and white nationalism.

You have likely heard about the group in the media lately as Donald Trump's recently appointed chief strategist, Steve Bannon, has been accused of promoting bigoted parts of the movement.

In fact, one of the show's creators and star, Sam Hyde, has espoused many alt-right views on Twitter. The Atlantic described the show and Hyde's tweets as "peering inside the mind of a far-right Twitter troll." Hyde also maintains a subreddit that's popular with members of the movement.

The outrage surrounding "Million Dollar Extreme" dates back to Adult Swim's announcement of the show, but has begun to boil over in the last week since Trump's election win.

Brett Gelman — the former star of Adult Swim shows including "Brett Gelman's Dinner in America" — announced on Twitter that he was severing ties with the channel for airing the show and for its lack of female representation. Its president, Mike Lazzo, has come under fire for airing "Million Dollar Extreme" amid internal and public outcry against the show.

 "The show is an instrument of hate,” Gelman told BuzzFeed.

In addition, "Children's Hospital" actor Zanty Hartig called "Million Dollar" "an embarrassment" on Twitter, but has since deleted the tweet, according to BuzzFeed.

And Tim Heidecker, star of Adult Swim show "Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!" showed his support for Gelman in a Facebook post:

In response to Business Insider's request for comment, an Adult Swim spokesperson referred us back to the network's statement to BuzzFeed:

"Adult Swim’s reputation and success with its audience has always been based on strong and unique comedic voices. Million Dollar Extreme’s comedy is known for being provocative with commentary on societal tropes, and though not a show for everyone, the company serves a multitude of audiences and supports the mission that is specific to Adult Swim and its fans."

BuzzFeed’s sources connected to Adult Swim accuse Hyde and his followers of harassment campaigns. For his part, Hyde asked his followers on Wednesday not to harass Adult Swim employees.

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It might be tough to believe, but "Pokémon" has now been an omnipresent media force for more than 20 years. "Pokémon Red and Blue" graced the Game Boy handheld console in February 1996, kick-starting a pocket-monsters zeitgeist that never really ended.

Throughout its run, the core series of turn-based role-playing games about collecting the eccentric critters has never left Nintendo's line of handheld consoles. There have been spin-off games (such as the excellent "Pokémon Snap") on the home consoles, but the real thing has always been a strictly on-the-go experience.

Until now.

"Pokémon Sun and Moon," the newest game in the series, released this week, will reportedly come to Nintendo's new Switch console in 2017. This comes from Eurogamer, the same publication that blew the lid off the Switch this past summer.

The project is reportedly codenamed "Pokémon Stars," which would put it in line with the rest of the series. Traditionally, a third game with some enhancements is released after the two games that kick off each "Pokémon" generation. "Pokémon Yellow" came after "Pokémon Red and Blue," for example.

"Pokémon Stars" would follow in those footsteps by providing a high-definition, spruced-up version of "Sun and Moon." Whether it has meaningful additions to the game beyond looking better remains to be seen, but it's safe to assume it will add something.

Calling it the first "Pokémon" game to come to a Nintendo home console is a bit of a technicality, as Switch can be played as a home or handheld console. The platform, which launches in March 2017, will play the same games regardless of whether it's connected to a television.

Of course, none of this has been confirmed by Nintendo, but Eurogamer has a good track record. Nintendo is holding an event to announce more about the Switch on January 12.

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Kanye West halted his concert in San Jose, California, on Thursday night to reveal that he would have voted for Donald Trump in last week's election, if he had voted at all.

"I told you all I didn't vote," the hip-hop artist and designer told the crowd as one of his songs ended. "But I didn't tell you — I guess I told you — but if I would have voted, I would have voted for Trump."

Here's West saying it, followed by boos and a few claps from the audience.

West didn't end there. He then went on a five-minute tangent about his political views.

"There's methods, nonpolitical methods to speaking, that I like, that I feel were very futuristic," West said of Trump's campaign. "That style and method of communication has proven that it can be a politically correct way of communication. And I f--- with that."

West was interrupted by one person who threw something at him onstage. He did not kick that person out of the arena.

"Express your opinion, bro," he told the person.

He also elaborated on his previous suggested that he would like to run for president in 2020:

"I don't say 2020 out of disrespect to our president at all. I'm not saying that, 'Aw, man, that just means anybody can win.' That's not what I'm saying when I say 2020. I'm just saying I've got some ideas about the way we should connect our ideas. We should use opposite parties — that the Republicans, that the Democrats, that everyone who ran that had an idea that people agreed with should be the collective ideas that are used to run the country. That should mean more. So it's things that Benjamin Carson believes in that I believe in. I think that Benjamin Carson should still be a consultant. I think that Hillary Clinton should still be a consultant. I think Bill Clinton should still be a consultant. I think Obama should still be a consultant. Instead of, 'Oh, I don't f--- with your principles so now I'm not going to give you no information that could help you help all of us.'"

During his comments, you can hear people in the audience telling him to "shut up," and one person is heard saying, "I want that old Kanye, not that new Kanye."

West also signed one of his coveted Yeezy shoes for a person who threw it up to him on the stage.

"You know what, also?" West added. "I'm not saying this to diss celebrity at all, but particularly on the Democratic side, that's cool, but I hate the fact that because I'm a celebrity, everybody told me not to say that I loved the debates."

"I loved his approach," he said, referring to Trump.

"If people are racist and they feel more inspired to say how they feel, then they're exposing themselves, bro," he said. "This is what I'm saying. It's already the beginning of change. Sometimes things that you might think are bad might have to happen in order for change to f---ing happen."

Watch West talk about his political views at the concert below:

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Stephen Colbert called out Oxford Dictionaries for stealing its word of the year from him.

This week, Oxford named "post-truth" its word of 2016 because of the word's popularity during the US presidential election and other recent events.

Oxford sums up post-truth this way: "an adjective defined as 'relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.'"

But Colbert says Oxford is stealing a word he actually coined while hosting "The Colbert Report" on Comedy Central.

"I am pre-enraged," the host said during his opening monologue on Thursday's episode of "The Late Show."

Colbert went on to explain, "'Post-truth' is clearly just a rip-off of my 2006 word of the year: truthiness."

He then contended that not only did Oxford rip him off — it didn't use the correct definition either.

"You want to know what truthiness means?" Colbert asked. "You know who to call: Stephen Colbert."

Colbert's definition is: "Truthiness (noun) — the belief in what you feel to be true rather than what the facts will support."

"Oh, I personally believe I'm being ripped off," he said after comparing the dueling word definitions. "But the experts have decided it's the word of the year, so post-truth, I'm going to be gracious about it."

He then feigned being gracious before dropping the facade. 

Watch him defend his claim to the word of the year below (at five minutes in):

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While advancements in technology may have people constantly looking at their phones, pop-up books seem to withstand the test of time. Matthew Reinhart is a skilled pop-up book designer who has worked with a number of different brands that fans love, including "Game of Thrones," "Star Wars," and Lego. We spoke with Matthew about his work and all of the steps involved in creating one of his masterpieces. There's a lot more involved than you might think. You can follow Matthew on Twitter and Facebook.

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True confession: I thought about quitting Google Play Music.

After declaring it better than Spotify last spring, I found myself disappointed with some features. Play Music's Concierge, which suggested music through a flow-chart of prompts it thought were relevant, wasn't adapting as much as I'd hoped, and its suggestions were getting old. Meanwhile, the app's personalized recommendations weren't as varied as I wanted. I knew I wasn’t alone when a friend, who'd taken my suggestion to use Play, said she was thinking about switching back to Pandora.

Play Music erased my complaints this week with a major update.

Google has torn down the wall between contextual recommendations and personalized recommendations, introducing one simple interface that takes into account everything the service knows about you.

It is not only simpler than the old Play Music but also apparently a lot smarter.

I’ve had the opportunity to compare and contrast versions because my Sonos app still uses the old Play Music interface. The difference is so stark that I tend to look up suggestions on the new Play Music and then search for them on Sonos.

One night this week OLD PLAY offered a set of underwhelming activity-based suggestions. Some were boring: "focusing" and "working to a beat" tend to lead to the same suggested stations I’ve heard dozens of times. Some weren’t relevant: I rarely spend my evening "watching the sunset" and I never listen to the comedy stations associated with "laughing out loud." As for the non-contextual recommendations, there was some good stuff but little variety and, annoyingly, "Simply Christmas" from Leslie Odom Jr. kept appearing on top despite my having no interest in Christmas music in November.

Meanwhile, NEW PLAY offered six great suggestions in one place. There was "Falsettoland," a musical I’ve been listening to all month, which the old app never thought to recommend. "Focusing" with "Lisztomania" was a good activity-based suggestion and an option I don’t remember landing on in the old app. "Similar to head-nodding beats" got my attention, and the suggested station, featuring Tribe, Roots, Mos Def, and Pete Rock sounded good and was a station I never saw on the old app. Count Bass D radio was a great option, which might show up on the old app but wasn't then. "More like the Bamboos" referred to a band I hadn't heard of but which I must have thumbed up on a another station. Finally, a recommended new release in "Slum Village, Vol. 0."

If none of those suggestions worked, of course, the app has other ways to browse or search for music.

The new Play Music is not only simple and smart but deep. While the app has nowhere near as many playlists as Spotify, Play Music’s team puts a lot of work into building curated stations (stations that are now easier to find than ever). With those curated stations, top-level custom radio, and a huge library that is very similar to the competition, aside from a few weeks of Kanye exclusivity here and there, packaged in an unmatched interface, Play Music is a great choice.

Free users can listen to radio with occasional ads. $9.99/month subscribers get on-demand, ad-free listening as well as a subscription to YouTube Red, letting them watch YouTube videos without ads and some exclusive content.

Spotify, Apple Music, and others are striving for the same thing: a smart interface that quickly surfaces what you want at any given moment. So for that matter are Netflix, Amazon, Apple, and almost any online service company. When it comes to music streaming, though, I think Google does it best.

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It's well-established by now that the opinions of professional film critics don't necessarily reflect what the people actually want.

Many movies that critics have deemed inferior turn out to be fan favorites in spite of — or perhaps because of — the fact that they aren't artfully made. Goofy comedies like "The Replacements," "Without a Paddle," and "Soul Plane," as well as many B-level horror and action films are as adored by fans as they are abhorred by critics.

Metacritic exclusively provided Business Insider with data about which movies since the year 2000 have most divided critics and regular viewers, looking at titles with high user scores but very low critic averages.

"Metacritic averages the review scores from the top critics to generate our Metascores, and we're also very interested in what our users have to say about the movies they see," Metacritic cofounder Marc Doyle told Business Insider. "At times, the professional critics and the regular moviegoers will disagree — and we're in a great position to highlight those differences."

Check out Metacritic's 50 movies that people love but critics hate, ranked from least divergent critic and user scores to most divergent:

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50. "Soul Plane" (2004)

Critic score:33/100

User score: 8.6/10

Plot summary:After a humiliating and horrific experience on a commercial flight, Nashawn Wade (Kevin Hart) sues and is awarded a $100 million settlement. Determined to make good with his newfound wealth he decides to create the airline of his dreams.

What critics said: "An hour and a half of real airplane turbulence is better than sitting through the bad, offensive material that makes up 'Soul Plane.'" — The Washington Post

49. "Self/less" (2015)

Critic score: 34/100

User score: 8.8/10

Plot summary: An extremely wealthy man (Ben Kingsley) dying from cancer undergoes a radical medical procedure that transfers his consciousness into the body of a healthy young man (Ryan Reynolds). But all is not as it seems when he starts to uncover the mystery of the body’s origin and the organization that will kill to protect its cause.

What critics said: "'Self/less' is a celluloid smoothie blended from dozens of familiar elements, but it’s neither tasty nor nutritious." — New York Post

48. "American Outlaws" (2001)

Critic score: 25/100

User score: 7.9/10

Plot summary:When a Midwest town learns that a corrupt railroad baron has captured the deeds to their homesteads without their knowledge, a group of young ranchers join forces to take back what is rightfully theirs.

What critics said: "There's no escaping the hackneyed plot or Mayfield's conventional hand. So don't go." — The Washington Post

AT&T has set a November 28 launch event date for its DirecTV Now streaming TV service, which will give you 100+ channels for just $35 per month.

AT&T had previously said DirecTV Now would launch in November, but there had been speculation that it could be delayed due to either network deals, or issues with the FCC (which has expressed "serious concerns" about it).

Now we know that the launch event, at least, will sneak in under the wire, with the wide release likely to shortly follow.

AT&T is betting big on DirecTV Now, which the company reportedly believes will be its primary TV platform by 2020. DirecTV Now is a streaming TV service, meaning it will be delivered over the internet wherever you are — via your smart TV, mobile phone, tablet, and on.

To help push people toward streaming, AT&T plans to give away free Apple TVs to people who sign up for the service for three months, and Amazon Fire TV Sticks for one-month committments, according to Variety.

AT&T has also said the service will be "zero-rated" on AT&T's network, meaning you can watch it on your mobile phone without it eating up your data,according to leaked documents viewed by Variety.

But at $35, it's the price point that has shocked the industry. Some analysts have said the margins are likely to be tiny on the product, and even AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson has admitted that they will be "thinner" than traditional pay-TV bundles.

But AT&T says one way it will improve the margins on DirecTV Now is by ditching legacy equipment like satellite dishes, and drastically decreasing its customer acquisition costs.

“This is a very, very low-cost customer acquisition product,” Stephenson said recently.

The channels

We still don't know exactly which channels will be on DirecTV Now.

AT&T has already signed deals with HBO, Discovery, NBCUniversal, Turner, Viacom, Disney, AMC, Scripps, Starz, and more. So it seems as if all the big guns will be signed up for launch. But exactly which channels they are providing is still up in the air. (An ad for the service viewed by Business Insider showed that ESPN would be on it).

DirecTV Now will have a "72-hour catch-up window," according to Variety, which will let you watch shows on-demand for three days after they air. But there may be limitations on this feature — ESPN isn't on that catch-up list, for instance. DirecTV Now will also have an on-demand library of "up to 14,000 titles," according to Variety.

For those who don't want to start paying before testing it out, DirecTV Now will let you have a seven-day free trial, according to an ad viewed by Business Insider that has since been taken down.

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No caveats, no equivocations: Now is the time. This is the holiday where you finally buy that PlayStation 4 or Xbox One you've been thinking about!

"But aren't these consoles nearly three years old now?" Yes, friend, they are. And that's precisely why now is the right time to buy one.

This is how the video game console market usually works:

• A game console-maker like Sony, Microsoft, or Nintendo announces a console, a release date, and a price.
• The console launches at a relatively high price, and that price comes down across the next 5-10 years. 
• As console sales decline, the cycle repeats.

We are at the perfect point in that cycle where console prices have come down dramatically, the hardware has been minorly revised to work optimally, and game developers are putting out their best work.

More directly: We're at the perfect point in the game console cycle where you can buy a system knowing you'll get years of use out of it. Here's why.

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The price is right: $300.

When the PlayStation 4 launched in 2013, it cost $400. When the Xbox One launched in 2013, it cost $500. In 2016, both consoles cost the far more reasonable price of $300.

Better yet, that's the price of each console with a major game packed in. In the case of the PlayStation 4, you can snag a free copy of "Uncharted 4: A Thief's End"; in the case of the Xbox One, you can snag a free copy of "Gears of War 4."

These are brand new games — both launched in 2016 — and they're both fantastic. Moreover, they're both exclusive to their respective platforms; there's literally nowhere to play "Uncharted 4" other than the PS4. 

The systems are smaller and more efficient than ever before.

Both the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 got a redesign and re-release in 2016.

The Xbox One above, for instance, is actually called the "Xbox One S" console. It's smaller, prettier, and slightly more capable than its predecessor — the Xbox One S has support for HDR gaming (should you have a TV capable of HDR visuals), and can stream 4K video (not games).

The PlayStation 4 got its own redesign and re-release in 2016. The original PS4 was a parallelogram with sharp corners; the new PS4 is slightly slimmer, and has rounded edges. It's otherwise functionally identical to the original.

This isn't a new concept in the world of game hardware; every PlayStation since the original has gotten redesigned in the middle of the cycle. Microsoft's second console, the Xbox 360, was redesigned twice. This enables console makers to re-boot sales of their system while simultaneously bringing down the manufacturing cost of their hardware. It's a win-win: Consumers get a new, less expensive console to buy, and console makers enjoy renewed sales numbers.

There are dozens of incredible games on both consoles.

After three years, the Xbox One and PlayStation are now jam-packed with great games. From "Forza Horizon 3" on Xbox One to "Uncharted 4: A Thief's End" on PlayStation 4, each console has its fair share of big "exclusive" games. 

Even better: Most of the best games are on both the Xbox One and PlayStation 4, so you're not missing out if you only have one.

Incredible games like "Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain" and "Fallout 4" are identical on both platforms, as are new classics like "Titanfall 2" and "DOOM." Better still: Many of these games are massively discounted at this point (and especially so during the holiday shopping season). There literally aren't enough hours to play all of the amazing games available on both of these consoles; you're far more limited by your own lifespan than by cost at this point. 

The "Harry Potter" spin-off "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" had impressive Thursday preview screenings, taking in $8.7 million. 

That puts the film on pace to make $70 to $80 million domestically this weekend, which is what the film's distributor Warner Bros. is projecting.

The first of five movies that take place before the events in the "Harry Potter" stories, "Fantastic Beasts" follows Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) as the beasts he's collected for his book escape his suitcase and run wild in New York City. 

"Fantastic Beasts" has already opened internationally in numerous regions and has taken in $23.5 million globally so far. The film should have a worldwide gross of over $200 million globally by the end of the weekend. 

Though these are big numbers, they don't come close to what the "Harry Potter" movies made. 

"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2" took in $43.5 million in its Thursday preview alone. Numerous others raked in around $20 million in previews. 

But if "Fantastic Beasts" performs strong and makes over $77 million in the US over opening weekend, it can beat the debuts of "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" ($77.1 million) and "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" ($77.8 million). 

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