Season 1 of "Westworld" may have just ended, but fans are already speculating about season 2. The show answered a number of questions in the finale, but there are plenty of other mysteries out there to discuss until its return in 2018. Here are some things we know so far about next season's plot based on interviews with the cast and crew as well as some hints from the Westworld website.
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As the year comes to a close, Hollywood looks back with mixed feelings.
Though there were some surprise box-office giants like Disney’s “Zootopia” and Fox’s “Deadpool,” which just added to the predicted success of movies like “Captain America: Civil War” and “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” (not to mention the huge coin “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” will get soon), the industry also had numerous failures in its sequels (“Independence Day: Resurgence,” “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows”) and reboots (“Ben-Hur,” “Ghostbusters”).
And though there have been record-setting box-office openings this year, ticket sales are down as many are staying home to watch what’s on TV or their streaming services.
Let’s break down what the movie business did right and what it did wrong as we highlight the five winners and losers at the box office in 2016.
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The biggest winner of the year by far is the house Walt built. In early December, Disney surpassed the industry record for biggest domestic box office in a year, earning $2.49 billion (Universal previously held the record for the $2.45 billion it made domestically last year). And the studio could earn close to $7 billion worldwide by the end of the year (if all goes as planned with “Rogue One”), which would break another industry record.
Basically almost everything Disney released this year did as expected or better. “Zootopia” ($1.02 billion worldwide) and “The Jungle Book” ($966.5 million worldwide) earned beyond what anyone imagined. And “Captain America: Civil War” and “Finding Dory” were the biggest domestic earners of 2016.
If you went to the movies this year, it was likely for a Disney movie.
The studio had a lot of stumbles this year. Movies with marquee names — like “Money Monster,” starring George Clooney, and “Inferno,” with Tom Hanks — didn’t ignite the box office and its supposed awards contender “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk” used a shooting format that only two theaters in the US could show the way it was intended.
But the biggest disappointment was the release of the all-female reboot of “Ghostbusters,” only earning $229 million worldwide on a budget of $144 million. Regardless what the studio did, the people who used the internet to voice their displeasure about the “Ghostbusters” reboot affected its performance.
Fox rolled the dice by making a movie about an obscure Marvel character whose mouth was sealed shut the last time he was seen onscreen. But its gamble payed off big time.
“Deadpool” is the shocking success of the year as it took in over $782 million worldwide on a $58 million budget. And it was an R movie! This has opened up Fox to make its next Wolverine movie, “Logan,” much more violent (and it likely will receive an R rating, too). And it’s also put the pressure on “Deadpool” star Ryan Reynolds to repeat the box-office success for the sequel, which is stumbling to get off the ground.
But regardless of what may occur, 2016 was the year of Deadpool.
It's hard to pick favorites when it comes to video games. As with movies and books, one's preference for video games is deeply personal.
But that didn't stop us from rounding up the top 50 video games of all time.
We did have some parameters, however, when choosing the games: This list includes console video games, spanning from the 1980s to today, and includes only games from more-modern consoles (sorry, Atari fans!). In most instances, we chose an entire franchise or series of games, rather than just one, as our favorite.
We also took into consideration Metacritic scores, user reviews, as well as our own personal experience to choose the games on this list. The good news is that many of these games were either re-released or are still around in some form, whether on eBay, Amazon, or through virtual consoles like that of the Wii U.
Original release date: October 18, 1987
Platform: Nintendo Entertainment System
When you think of boxing video games, the first one that comes to mind has to be "Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!" Players took on the role of Little Mac, who fought his way up the ranks to beat the big guy, Mike Tyson, at the end.
The game was re-released in 1990 and billed as just "Punch-Out!!," after Nintendo's license to use Tyson expired. The last battle was replaced by a fictional character, named Mr. Dream. The game was also released for the Wii in 2009.
The game was notoriously hard, however. Not even Tyson can beat himself in the game.
Original release date: September 9, 1999
Platform: PlayStation, Dreamcast, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Xbox, Wii, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
The weapon-based fighting game is a standout in the genre. There are six games in the series, which are all set in a fantasy version of the 16th century. There are a ton of characters in the game, all with unique backstories, fighting abilities, and weapons. The franchise has also included characters from other games, like "God of War" and "Assassin's Creed." In "Soul Calibur IV," you could even play as Darth Vader or Yoda from "Star Wars."
Original release date: January 31, 1999
Platform: PlayStation, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox, Xbox 360, Wii, PlayStation Vita
Unlike so many horror games that try to make you jump out of your seat, Konami's survival horror series has long relied on psychological terrors to keep gamers coming back. Each game of the franchise is set in the foggy, fictitious American town of "Silent Hill," where players are often forced to face monsters that are actually real-world manifestations of the unconscious mind.
Owning a Death Star comes with some serious risk, especially when it was constructed with a serious design flaw. But astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has a more practical reason why the 'Star Wars' Death Star didn't quite make sense.
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"Breaking Bad" star Bryan Cranston brought his famous drug-dealing character, Walter White, back to mock President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet picks on NBC's "Saturday Night Live."
On "SNL's" opening sketch this weekend, cast member Beck Bennett plays Jake Tapper of CNN's "The Lead." The topic is Trump's cabinet choices and his former campaign manager and senior adviser Kellyanne Conway (played by Kate McKinnon) is the guest star.
"Tapper" questions "Conway" about a couple of Trump's "unconventional picks" for his cabinet, such as climate change skeptic Oklahoma Attorney General Pruitt to head the Environmental Protection Agency, and fast food businessman Andrew Puzder, who doesn't support minimum wage increases, for secretary of labor.
"It's almost like Mr. Trump appoints these people specifically to undermine the very agencies they head," "Tapper" asked "Conway." "Are these bad picks?"
"No, Jake, they are not bad. They are alt-good," "Conway" responded with a nod to the alt-right movement, the nationalist group Trump's chief strategist Steve Bannon appealed to while running conservative news site, Breitbart News.
"Tapper" then announces there's breaking news that Trump has chosen high school science teacher Walter White to head the Drug Enforcement Agency as Cranston joins the show. Fans of "Breaking Bad" would know that the character was a promising chemist-turned-teacher who began dealing meth.
"Trust me I know the DEA better than anyone, inside and out," he said.
White also agrees with Trump on several key issues.
"I like his style. He acts first then asks questions later," he said. "I also like that wall he wants to build. Nothing comes in from Mexico, meaning a lot less competition for the rest of us."
He then added, "Trump and I agree: It's time to make America cook again. We want to fill this nation with red, white, and a whole lot of blue."
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Harry Potter reigned supreme in 2016.
The series remains among the most popular books, and the latest edition of the canon, "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child," nabbed the top spot, according to Google's ranking of the top books of the year.
The books and graphic novels were ranked based on their popularity in the Google Play store. But they weren't necessarily published this year — in fact, Dale Carnegie's "How To Win Friends and Influence People" still made the list, despite being first published in 1936.
See below are the 100 most popular books of 2016. All the descriptions of the books below are provided by Google.
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Authors: Geoff Johns, Frank Miller, Scott Snyder, Jeph Loeb, Joe Kelly, and Mark Verheiden
Plot: "The Man of Steel against the Dark Knight! Superman and Batman are usually allies, but when they do have to go toe-to-toe, it’s the ultimate battle of brains versus brawn! Can an ordinary man take down an opponent with the power of a god? Can even superpowers prevail against a tactical genius who is never less than ten steps ahead?"
Author: Lisa Gardner
Plot: "Flora Dane is a victim. Seven years ago, carefree college student Flora was kidnapped while on spring break. For 472 days, Flora learned just how much one person can endure.
"Flora Dane is a survivor. Miraculously alive after her ordeal, Flora has spent the past five years reacquainting herself with the rhythms of normal life, working with her FBI victim advocate, Samuel Keynes. She has a mother who’s never stopped loving her, a brother who is scared of the person she’s become, and a bedroom wall covered with photos of other girls who’ve never made it home.
"Flora Dane is reckless...or is she? When Boston detective D. D. Warren is called to the scene of a crime — a dead man and the bound, naked woman who killed him — she learns that Flora has tangled with three other suspects since her return to society. Is Flora a victim or a vigilante? And with her firsthand knowledge of criminal behavior, could she hold the key to rescuing a missing college student whose abduction has rocked Boston? When Flora herself disappears, D.D. realizes a far more sinister predator is out there. One who’s determined that this time, Flora Dane will never escape. And now it is all up to D.D. Warren to find her."
Author: Stephen King
Plot: "Since 'Nightshift,' published 35 years ago, Stephen King has dazzled an entire generation of readers with his genius as a prominent writer of short fiction. Now in his latest collection, he once again assembles a generous array of unforgettable, tantalizing tales — including those that, until recently, have never been published in a book (such as the story 'Cookie Jar,' which is exclusive to this edition). There are thrilling connections between these works — themes of mortality, the afterlife, guilt, and what we would do differently if we could see into the future or correct the mistakes of the past. Magnificent, eerie, and utterly compelling, 'The Bazaar of Bad Dreams' is one of Stephen King’s finest gifts to readers everywhere — a master storyteller at his very best."
The latest Disney animated movie, "Moana," continues to dominate the domestic box office as it took in an estimated $18.8 million to top sales for a third consecutive weekend, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
That was enough to beat out new release, Paramount's comedy "Office Christmas Party," which came in second with $17.5 million.
"Moana," which stars Dwayne Johnson and features the music of "Hamilton" creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, has now earned $238.8 million globally.
It was another easy win for "Moana" as the movie hasn't had much competition since it opened over the Thanksgiving weekend. Because of the lack of big titles over this weekend many audiences flocked to the art houses to see the limited release of Oscar contender "La La Land," which took in $855,000 on five screens. It had $171,00 per-screen, the second-highest all-time, beating out Wes Anderson's "Grand Budapest Hotel" (which took in $811,000 in 2014).
Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone give Oscar-worthy performances in "La La Land," a modern day love story told through a musical. The movie expands December 16 and plays nationwide Christmas Day.
"Moana" is the latest example of Disney's dominance this year, but the studio has saved likely its best performer for its final release of the year.
Next weekend "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story," the first ever "Star Wars" standalone movie, will open and projections of the movie have it earning between $280 million-$350 million in its first five days in theaters.
Domestically, it would mark the fourth consecutive weekend a Disney title was number one at the box office, and it's likely Disney would own the box office the last two weekends of 2016 as "Rogue One" looks to dominate the rest of the year.
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Netflix famously keeps its viewing numbers under lock and key, but there is one company that believes it has broken through the combination.
SymphonyAM has an app that listens to sounds from users' televisions and takes that data to extrapolate viewership. As of March, the company boasts about 20,000 users.
The chart below shows how the most popular Netflix originals shows' ratings stack up against each other. The data looks at viewership for their respective premiere dates plus the three following days with adults under 50 years 0ld — the demographic most popular with advertisers. Though it should be noted Netflix relies on a subscription model, not advertising, and this is purely for the sake of comparison.
It's also important to point out that Netflix has called thedata "remarkably inaccurate," though it hasn't furnished its own set of numbers yet.
SymphonyAMc recently took into account the premieres of Netflix's latest shows, the "Gilmore Girls" revival and the reportedly very expensive "The Crown."
From "Gilmore Girls" and "The Crown" to "Stranger Things," here's how many people are watching your favorite Netflix shows according to SymphonyAM:
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The fall television season is wrapping up, which makes for a good time to look back on the shows people were talking about around the water cooler.
Ratings don't always reflect the entire picture of how fans engage with a show, but it becomes a pretty important factor when networks are making renewal decisions.
For example, a few of the highest-rated new shows on TV right now are HBO's "Westworld," NBC's "This Is Us," CBS's "Kevin Can Wait," and Fox's "Lethal Weapon," yet only two of those programs are on this list of 10 shows people are most buzzing about. Conversely, several shows that aren't ruling in the ratings are getting people talking.
To find out which new TV shows are creating the most buzz, technology and marketing platform Amobee analyzed real-time content consumption across the internet, video, social, and mobile between September 1 and December 4 to determine which shows were generating the most engagement.
Here are the 10 most-talked about new TV shows of the season:
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"Notorious" follows Jake (Daniel Sunjata), a charismatic defense attorney, and Julia (Piper Perabo), a powerhouse television producer, who work together when high-profile incidents are breaking.
Despite the buzz, its ratings weren't high. ABC decided not to order a full season of the drama.
In this TV adaptation of the film franchise, Geena Davis plays a mom whose daughter has returned from college exhibiting very dark behavior, so she searches out her local priest to help.
While "The Exorcist" is Fox's lowest-rated new series, there's still hope for a second season.
Haley Atwell isn't having much luck with TV dramas. She jumped from canceled "Agent Carter" to playing an attorney for the falsely accused on ABC's "Conviction."
But the judgment came down in March and it wasn't in Atwell's favor: ABC canceled the show.
It shouldn't be a surprise that the producer behind VH1's strange new hit show, "Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party," is the same person behind another similar breakout hit for sister network MTV.
SallyAnn Salsano of 495 Productions was the mastermind behind "Jersey Shore," the show that broke an MTV ratings record when it was viewed by nearly 9 million viewers in 2011.
It's a different time for TV, but "Martha & Snoop" is doing well for VH1. It debuted to 3 million total viewers, according to Nielsen's live-plus-three-day measurements, in addition to generating a whole lot of conversation for the channel.
"It’s kind of what you live for. To be honest, it is, and you’re just grateful for the opportunities," Salsano recently told Business Insider of being behind another hit for Viacom, which owns both MTV and VH1.
"I feel like a lot of times it’s about taking a risk," she continued. "We don’t know what the next hit is. None of us do. But I just feel like we need to try. And I always say you need a swing to get ahead, and I am so grateful for every single swing that I get. And I always say, it may not work, but I’m going to die trying. And that’s kind of my thing."
"Martha & Snoop" was born in the first meeting between Salsano and Chris McCarthy. McCarthy has been a rising star in the Viacom family starting with ratings successes at LGBT channel Logo and then moving to VH1. In November, McCarthy added oversight of MTV to his plate.
McCarthy asked Salsano for "something crazy, something outlandish, something that you want to do but you think may not be for VH1."
Salsano responded, "I’m dying to do a celebrity cooking show."
"It’s not random," she told us. "They actually have a history and they’re friends."
Apparently, the duo have known each other for at least eight or nine years. In 2008, Snoop was a guest on Stewart's syndicated talk show, "Martha," and they cooked mashed potatoes together. From there, the rapper made more appearances on her show.
Salsano had seen Snoop's appearances and thought their shared love of cooking, entertainment, and humor was obvious.
"It just made sense," the producer said. "It’s like they are a unit. They exist. It’s not fake. It’s not put on. It’s just what it is. That’s why I think it feels so good because you have two people that genuinely love each other and respect each other, for real."
Getting them to do the show together was one thing, but finding time to tape it when they were both available was another. In the end, they shot 10 episodes in 5 days. There was no pilot shot, nor were there any rehearsals.
"You do what works for them," Salsano said. "They just block out a time together. I mean, they worked it out amongst themselves. Snoop was on tour, he’s still on tour, and he had a break in his tour and basically we shot it during his break. I mean, they both have so much going on that it’s nice that they worked together to get it done."
The half-hour cooking show typically has the hosts preparing their own dishes that converge on a theme. They're also joined by celebrity guests, including Seth Rogen, Ice Cube, Wiz Khalifa, Rick Ross, 2 Chainz, Naya Rivera, Jason Derulo, 50 Cent, Fat Joe, Mike Epps, Kathy Griffin, Robin Thicke, and Bella Thorne.
It began airing in early November. After just two episodes, it was renewed for a second season. The announcement was a clear show of confidence by the network.
"Martha and Snoop are the modern-day 'Odd Couple' and the reigning King and Queen of pop culture," McCarthy said in a statement. "Wait until you see what happens in season two."
Salsano believes the timing of the announcement was justified.
"It’s early, but I think Martha and Snoop deserve it," she said. "I feel like it’s the right thing to do. The show’s working. Why not get rocking?"
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Why would a late-night host on a major network potentially cannibalize his own ratings to conquer YouTube?
For James Corden, it was all about getting his name out to a new audience.
CBS's "Late Late Show" made this clear with its most popular segment, "Carpool Karaoke."
In it, Corden drives music's biggest stars around in a car while singing together on the artist's biggest hits (and sometimes others'). In February, the show's Adele segment became the most-watched video on YouTube.
"We wanted to make good content for television, but the thing we have least control over is ratings. The thing we have slightly more control over is relevance. The digital world is where you can make your relevance felt," "Late Late Show" executive producer Rob Crabbe told Adweek.
This is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to traditional TV companies taking a page out of the digital playbook. The stakes couldn't be higher. Big shifts in viewership habits have been occurring right under their noses and now threaten their future viability.
The crisis for television companies is very real. The current "big four" are experiencing incremental decline in viewership year-over-year. Even more problematic is that their TV audiences are getting older and younger viewers are increasingly turning to alternative digital sources for entertainment.
A Nielsen study in October showed that in the last five years, there has been a 40% drop in traditional TV viewing by 18-to-24-year-olds. The time they previously dedicated to watching TV has moved to other activities and on multiple devices.
With that kind of wake-up call, it's no wonder entertainment dinosaurs are either teaming up with digital partners or trying to create their own new digital universe.
Here's a look a some of the biggest challenges traditional TV is facing and how they're finding the solutions in the digital and online world — with a few notable exceptions:
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While once the threat to traditional TV was cord-cutters, viewers who are canceling their cable TV and turning to digital, now there's cord-nevers. These younger adults have never been cable customers and will probably never become ones. They're watching TV online, through streaming services, and on multiple devices.
It's become imperative that traditional TV find a way to get its content in front of this group. CBS is doing this through creating its own streaming TV service, CBS All Access. For between $5.99 and $9.99 (its non-commercial subscription), subscribers get every episode of current CBS series, many classic CBS shows, and at least 90% of the country can watch its live CBS feed.
CBS has a record of being the most-watched network on TV, but its audience skews older than the other three major networks. CBS All Access, though, is proving successful in being able to get its programming in front of younger audiences. Among the service's one million subscribers, 30% are millennials (roughly 12-to-34-year-olds), according to a person with knowledge of the service who spoke with Business Insider.
Other TV networks offering their programming through a standalone subscription streaming service include HBO, Showtime, Starz, and Lifetime Movie Channel.
The whole concept of live viewing is dying. With the huge amount of television offerings today and a limited amount of time to watch them, viewers want their shows available according to their personal schedule.
Cable initially confronted that with DVR and On-Demand, but for viewers, limits remain on the availability of episodes and the ability to watch on different devices.
Streaming offerings like Netflix and CBS All Access are providing fans with more episodes of their favorite shows and availability across multiple devices.
Amazon Prime Video and Netflix then took that a step further by making content available for download to watch offline.
Plus, there's a growing battle among DirecTV Now, Sling TV, PlayStation Vue, and soon YouTube to offer all the diversity of a cable subscription with a streaming product.
Netflix is able to cull data from its subscribers regarding which programs viewers watch, and how. That gives Netflix a huge advantage over traditional TV when it comes to deciding what shows to produce, renew, or revive.
Traditional TV is beginning to bridge that gap via its own subscription services. For example, CBS All Access could see the viewing numbers for past seasons of "Star Trek." That gave it the confidence to move forward and produce "Star Trek: Discovery," the first TV show in the franchise in 11 years.
But there are other ways to get that data without turning to a subscription service. For example, Universal Cable Productions (UCP), NBC Universal's production studio for cable shows, recently announced a partnership with Wattpad, the 10-year-old online home of original stories with a community of 45 million active writers and readers.
In April, the story site created Wattpad Studios with the goal of leveraging its talent and its user data to produce projects with entertainment companies.
"If I can be a bit brazen, we're even one-upping Netflix in some cases," Aron Levitz, who heads Wattpad Studios, told Business Insider of the richness of the company's data.
"I mean, if you’re looking at existing streaming services, whatever they are, even existing TV, you’re looking at data on content that already exists," he added. "We want to take that a level deeper, and that’s what we’re able to bring to our partners like UCP. We're not only able to look at what’s trending and big, but to take trends we see off Wattpad and say, ‘What are stories that meet that trend?’ So, you’re actually able to combine data. Where the data of the streaming service may end, we can just continue it, find even more data, and be more successful for them."
One of Wattpad's first partnerships was with the major Filipino channel TV5, starting in 2014. The Philippines is Wattpad's second-biggest market, the US being its first. Each week TV5 airs "Wattpad Presents," in which a story directed at the teen demographic is produced into that week's program.
"Almost solely on data, we look at the top stories in the country, take one up, and adapt it for TV," Levitz explained.
"Wattpad Presents" helped TV5 raise its youth viewership in the time slot by 31%. Its two major competitors, ABS-CBN and GMA, saw just a 3% increase and a 2% decrease in teen viewership for the same time slot, respectively.
Warning: Spoilers ahead for "The Walking Dead" mid-season finale.
"The Walking Dead" may be over, but we already have our first look at what's to come when the show returns in February.
AMC released the first teaser for the second half of the show's seventh season, and Rick and his gang are finally rallying together to take down Negan and the Saviors. There were a lot of quick flashes and moments in the teaser. We went through and broke down every moment.
Keep reading to see what's in store when the show returns February 12, 2017.
Do Rick and the group even have more to offer?
Either this is Richard out on a supply run or he's probably going to welcome Rick and his crew into the Kingdom.
Nominations for the 2017 Golden Globes were announced Monday morning at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles.
Anna Kendrick, Laura Dern, and Don Cheadle announced the nominations in a live stream.
The musical "La La Land," starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone, led the heap with seven total nominations, while "Moonlight" had the most of any dramatic film (six). "American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson" led the pack of TV nominees, while hits like "Westworld" and "Stranger Things" also found multiple nominations.
Below is the complete list of nominees.
The 74th Golden Globes ceremony airs on January 8 at 8 p.m. EST on NBC, hosted by Jimmy Fallon.
Best motion picture, drama
“Hacksaw Ridge”
“Hell or High Water”
“Lion”
“Manchester by the Sea”
“Moonlight”
Best motion picture, comedy or musical
“20th Century Women”
“Deadpool”
“La La Land”
“Florence Foster Jenkins”
“Sing Street”
Best director
Damien Chazelle, “La La Land”
Tom Ford, “Nocturnal Animals”
Mel Gibson, “Hacksaw Ridge”
Barry Jenkins, “Moonlight”
Kenneth Lonergan, “Manchester by the Sea”
Best actor in a motion picture, drama
Casey Affleck, “Manchester by the Sea”
Joel Edgerton, “Loving”
Andrew Garfield, “Hacksaw Ridge”
Viggo Mortensen, “Captain Fantastic”
Denzel Washington, “Fences”
Best actor in a motion picture, comedy or musical
Ryan Gosling, "La La Land"
Ryan Reynolds, "Deadpool"
Colin Farrell, "The Lobster"
Hugh Grant, "Florence Foster Jenkins"
Jonah Hill, "War Dogs"
Best actress in a motion picture, drama
Amy Adams, “Arrival”
Jessica Chastain, “Miss Sloane”
Isabelle Huppert, “Elle”
Ruth Negga, “Loving”
Natalie Portman, “Jackie”
Best actress in a motion picture, comedy or musical
Annette Bening, “20th Century Women”
Lily Collins, “Rules Don’t Apply”
Hailee Steinfeld, “Edge of Seventeen”
Emma Stone, “La La Land”
Meryl Streep, “Florence Foster Jenkins”
Best supporting actor in a motion picture
Mahershala Ali, “Moonlight”
Jeff Bridges, “Hell or High Water”
Simon Helberg, “Florence Foster Jenkins”
Dev Patel, “Lion”
Aaron Taylor Johnson, “Nocturnal Animals”
Best supporting actress in a motion picture
Viola Davis, “Fences”
Naomie Harris, “Moonlight”
Nicole Kidman, “Lion”
Octavia Spencer, “Hidden Figures”
Michelle Williams, “Manchester by the Sea”
Best original score
“Moonlight”
“La La Land”
“Arrival”
“Lion”
“Hidden Figures”
Best TV series, comedy
"Atlanta"
"Blackish"
"Mozart In The Jungle"
"Transparent"
"Veep"
Best TV series, drama
“The Crown”
“Game of Thrones”
“Stranger Things”
“This Is Us”
“Westworld”
Best actor in a TV series, drama
Rami Malek, “Mr. Robot”
Bob Odenkirk, “Better Call Saul”
Matthew Rhys, “The Americans”
Liev Schreiber, “Ray Donovan”
Billy Bob Thornton, “Goliath”
Best actress in a TV series, comedy
Rachel Bloom, "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend"
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, "Veep"
Sarah Jessica Parker, "Divorce"
Issa Rae, "Insecure"
Gina Rodriguez, "Jane the Virgin"
Tracy Ellis Ross, "Black-ish"
Best actor in a TV miniseries or movie
Riz Ahmed, "The Night Of"
Bryan Cranston, "All the Way"
John Turturro, "The Night Of"
Tom Hiddleston, "The Night Manager"
Courtney B. Vance, "People v. O.J. Simpson"
Best TV movie or mini-series
“American Crime”
“The Dresser”
“The Night Manager”
“The Night Of”
“The People v. O.J. Simpson”
Best screenplay, motion picture
Damien Chazelle, “La La Land”
Tom Ford, “Nocturnal Animals”
Barry Jenkins, “Moonlight”
Kenneth Lonergan, “Manchester by the Sea”
Taylor Sheridan, “Hell or High Water”
Best animated film
“Kubo and the Two Strings”
“Moana”
“My Life as a Zucchini”
“Sing”
“Zootopia”
Best foreign language film
“Divines”
“Elle”
“Neruda”
“The Salesman”
“Toni Erdmann”
Best original song
“Moonlight,” Nicholas Brittell
“La La Land,” Justin Hurwitz
“Arrival,” Jóhann Jóhannsson
“Lion,” Dustin O’Halloran and Hauschka
“Hidden Figures,” Benjamin Wallfisch, Pharrell Williams and Hans Zimmer
Best supporting actress in TV miniseries or movie
Olivia Colman, "The Night Manager"
Lena Headey, "Game of Thrones"
Chrissy Metz, "This Is Us"
Mandy Moore, "This Is Us"
Thandie Newton, "Westworld"
Best actress in a TV miniseries or movie
Felicity Huffman, "American Crime"
Riley Keough, "The Girlfriend Experience"
Sarah Paulson, "People v. O.J. Simpson"
Charlotte Rampling, "London Spy"
Kerry Washington, "Confirmation"
Best actor in a TV series, comedy
Donald Glover, "Atlanta"
Jeffrey Tambor, "Transparent"
Anthony Anderson, "Black-ish"
Gael Garcia Bernal, "Mozart in the Jungle"
Nick Nolte, "Graves"
Best supporting actor in TV miniseries or TV movie
Sterling K. Brown, "The People v. O.J. Simpson"
Hugh Laurie, "The Night Manager"
John Travolta, "The People v. O.J. Simpson"
Christian Slater, "Mr. Robot"
John Lithgow, "The Crown"
Best actress in a TV series, drama
Winona Ryder, "Stranger Things"
Claire Foy, "The Crown"
Evan Rachel Wood, "Westworld"
Catriona Balfe, "Outlander"
Keri Russell, "The Americans"
Cecil B. DeMille Award for Lifetime Achievement in Motion Pictures
Meryl Streep
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Dec 12 (Reuters) - Shari Redstone, vice chair of Viacom Inc and the daughter of controlling shareholder Sumner Redstone, has withdrawn her support for a merger between CBS Corp and Viacom, CNBC reported on Monday.
Shari Redstone wants the company to remain independent and will back Viacom's chief executive, CNBC said.
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Part of the fun of finding out the Golden Globe nominations, which were announced on Monday, is seeing what kind of surprises the Hollywood Foreign Press Association throws at us. And we're quite happy with one of them: The movie "Sing Street," directed by John Carney, was nominated for best comedy or musical movie.
Unless you're really steeped in the world of independent film, you likely missed this one when it was in theaters in April. But the word of mouth around it will certainly kick up, thanks to the nomination.
This isn't Carney's first time delivering a cult hit. He directed the 2007 movie "Once," which won an Oscar for best song and became a hit Broadway show.
If you've seen that and you liked it, then you have to check out "Sing Street." Like "Once," it's powered by original songs, which are used to delve into the characters' feelings.
"Once" looks at the loneliness of two people who find each other in Dublin and begin to write love songs together. "Sing Street" is much more playful. It's set in 1980s Dublin and follows a boy who starts a rock band to impress a girl.
Here, Carney takes the usual beats of a teen comedy and combines that form with songs influenced by the bands the main character, Conor, admires, like Duran Duran and The Cure. We follow Conor as he recruits his band and uses some DIY tricks to pull off a music video, which features the girl he's trying to impress.
You can watch the whole movie on Netflix now— we highly recommend it. But in the meantime, check out one of the songs featured in the movie:
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Streaming heavyweights Netflix and Amazon are spending gargantuan amounts of money on TV shows, and it's getting results.
On Monday, this year's Golden Globe nominations came out, and the two streaming services combined to snag 40% of the best TV show nominations.
Netflix saw two of its shows nominated for best drama series, "The Crown" and "Stranger Things," while Amazon got two comedy nods, for "Transparent" and "Mozart in the Jungle" (which won the category last year).
Last year, Netflix and Amazon combined for the same percentage of nominations in these categories, though the nominated Netflix series were different: "Orange Is the New Black" and "Narcos."
The only network that beat the streaming giants in top TV show nominations this year was HBO, which got three nominations. Netflix and Amazon individually got as many nominations as all the broadcast networks combined, and more than the cable ones (minus HBO).
If you add HBO into the streaming mix, since you can now buy it a la carte without a cable subscription, streaming services received a whopping 70% of the top show nominations.
Here are the lists for the top TV show categories:
Best TV series, comedy
"Atlanta" — FX
"Black-ish" — ABC
"Mozart In The Jungle" — Amazon
"Transparent" — Amazon
"Veep" — HBO
Best TV series, drama
“The Crown” — Netflix
“Game of Thrones” — HBO
“Stranger Things” — Netflix
“This Is Us” — NBC
“Westworld” — HBO
Netflix and Amazon didn't fare quite as well with the TV acting nominations, though they both got three. And it's worth noting that Netflix only got five total TV nominations, less than its tally last year. But Netflix has a chance to actually win a Golden Globe for one of the outstanding series categories, something it has never done. That's likely one reason Netflix shelled out a reported $130 million for "The Crown."
Here's a rundown of the acting nods:
Netflix acting nominations
Amazon acting nominations
Netflix and Amazon have both been making major investments in original TV. Netflix plans to spend $6 billion on content in 2017, and eventually wants to have about a 50/50 mix between licensed and original content, according to CFO David Wells.
Amazon is doubling its spend on video content in the second half of 2016, compared with last year, according to the company's CFO, Brian Olsavsky. Amazon most recently disclosed its investment amount on video content back in 2014, when it spent $1.3 billion.
Both streaming giants have recently released massive projects. Netflix's opulent drama about Queen Elizabeth II, "The Crown," cost a reported $130 million. And Netflix's head of content, Ted Sarandos, has said that Amazon's new blockbuster Jeremy Clarkson show, "The Grand Tour," cost $250 million.
That investment continues to produce results, at least with critics, and demonstrates that these streaming services are helping to guide the buzz in the TV industry.
If you want to see a more detailed breakdown of how each network fared, there's a good summary post over at Variety.
Previous reporting by Eugene Kim.
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With more TV shows and platforms than ever before, every awards show is bound to make some very difficult choices.
Naturally, each year there are a ton of deserving actors, writers, producers, and shows that end up without a nomination.
But the snubs for our favorites don't get any easier to digest each year, as evidenced by the 2017 Golden Globes nominations announced on Monday. The Globes are seen in many Hollywood circles as the precursor to the Emmys, so a nomination here can be very important.
This year, the comedy series category was tougher than ever. Awards favorites, including HBO's "Silicon Valley," went forgotten.
And while an awards show can't hit every TV actor or show that stood out in the year's pop culture, "SNL's" Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump impersonators, "The Walking Dead's" new murderous villain, and the show that makes you look at your mobile phone in a whole different way were upsetting absences.
Here's a look at the biggest TV snubs of the 2017 Golden Globes nominations:
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While some may be disappointed that Taraji P. Henson didn't get a nom for the movie "Hidden Figures," TV fans may be scratching their heads as to why last year's drama actress winner didn't get recognized at all for "Empire" this year. In fact, "Empire" got no love at the Globes this year at all.
As the new big bad villain on "The Walking Dead," Jeffrey Dean Morgan has flipped that show on its head. The energy he's brought the show should've been recognized.
"Silicon Valley" is one of the funniest and most scathing looks at the center of the tech world. It has also been nominated for two years running. But now, just zeros for the HBO comedy.
Nintendo and Apple are working closely together, for the first time in memory, to launch a new game called "Super Mario Run" that's coming out for the iPhone later this week.
So Mario inventor and Nintendo senior executive Shigeru Miyamoto has been doing a lot of publicity for Mario's first mobile game lately.
In one recent interview with Glixel, he gives an outsider's perspective on Apple, and underscores what fan boys have known for years: the quirky game maker from Japan and the secretive computer maker from California actually have a lot in common.
He talks about what Apple and Nintendo have in common:
Probably the that easiest thing to point to is the fact that Apple, like Nintendo, is a company that thinks about how people will use their products. We design things to be usable by a very broad range of people. They put a lot of effort into the interface and making the product simple to use, and that's very consistent with Nintendo. I think Apple also likes to do things differently and take a different approach.
How the Macintosh and the Super NES are similar:
In the early days when computers were very complicated things, computer companies were purposely presenting them in ways that made them seem very complicated. Then you had Apple who came along with their very simple and colorful logo and it all had more of a fun feel to it.
Actually, this reminds me that with the Super NES controller we put the multicolored buttons on the face of the controller, and then the US office decided not to keep that. I told that story to Apple, and how I liked the use of color in their old logo. That was like a bridge that had been built between us.
Although Super Mario Run will be on Android eventually, Miyamoto talks about why it partnered with Apple first:
Part of the reason we took it to Apple was that in order for us to have the performance we wanted we needed some development support to ensure that the game would run the way we expected. Because Nintendo is always trying to do something unique we also wanted to try and do something different on the business side too. We really didn't want to do something in the free to play space, but in order to make sure we had the opportunity to do what we wanted [offer a taste of the game for free, and charge $9.99 to unlock the whole thing], we had to talk to the people who are actually running the shop. Naturally the people on the App Store initially told us that the free-to-play approach is a good one, but I've always had this image that Apple and Nintendo have very similar philosophies. As we started working together, I found that to be true and they became very welcoming of trying something new.
At one point, Miyamoto seems to be channeling Apple design head Jony Ive:
I'm a designer. I don't think of myself as creating works, I really think of myself as creating products for people to enjoy. That's why I've always called my games products rather than works of art. It's not about coming up with an idea and trying to make that idea, the work of a planner is to work within the constraints of what you're given and make the best possible thing you can.
The entire interview with Miyamoto at Glixel is definitely worth a read — he talks about how involved he is with new Nintendo products, the rumors that he's essentially retired, and his game design workflow.
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Uber employees have access to customer trip information, and they're using it to spy on ex-girlfriends and celebrities like Beyoncé, a former employee claims.
A new piece out from Reveal's Will Evans details Uber's history with security and privacy. The story cites the experience of Ward Spangenberg, Uber's former forensic investigator who was fired from the company last February. Spangenberg is suing Uber, alleging wrongful termination, defamation, and age discrimination.
In a stunning October court declaration, Spangenberg alleges that Uber employees freely accessed trip information about celebrities and politicians and helped one another spy on ex-boyfriends and ex-girlfriends by tracking where and when they traveled. Spangenberg, who worked at Uber for 11 months, said the company's lack of security violated consumer-privacy and data-protection regulations.
Reveal spoke with five former Uber employees who also said employees could easily track customers — they estimated the number of employees with such access was in the thousands.
Earlier this year, Uber signed an "assurance of discontinuance" vowing to keep its users' personal information private after the New York attorney general began investigating the company's use of a tool called "God View." The tool provided Uber an aerial view of all of the cars in a city and contained the personal information of the riders in them.
As part of the settlement, Uber said it had "removed all personally identifiable information of riders from its system that provides an aerial view of cars active in a city, has limited employee access to personally identifiable information of riders, and has begun auditing employee access to personally identifiable information in general."
Reveal reports that Uber also changed the name of that tool to "Heaven View."
But the former employees Reveal spoke with suggested not much had changed since January and the new policies were never enforced. While employees who are caught tracking customer data without permission are fired, Spangenberg told Reveal that "if you knew what you were doing, you could get away with it forever."
Uber disputes the claims and maintains that it has strict policies in place to protect customer information.
"Uber continues to increase our security investments and many of these efforts, like our multi-factor authentication checks and bug bounty program, have been widely reported," an Uber representative wrote in a statement emailed to Business Insider. "We have hundreds of security and privacy experts working around the clock to protect our data. This includes enforcing strict policies and technical controls to limit access to user data to authorized employees solely for purposes of their job responsibilities, and all potential violations are quickly and thoroughly investigated."
Uber says employees don't receive across-the-board access to customer data and there are several controls in place to ensure that employees only access that data for work purposes. That data access is logged and frequently audited, the company says.
Reveal delves further into the case and Uber's privacy and security issues over the past few years, so head over to Reveal's site for more.
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The Critics' Choice Awards named their annual winners, deciding what the body of critics thinks were the past year's best television shows.
Although HBO led the pack with 22 nominations, it was FX that came away with the most wins: six, including four awards for "The People v. O.J. Simpson."
That was followed by HBO's "Westworld," NBC's "Saturday Night Live," and CNN's "Anthony Bourdain: Parts Uknown," each of which won two awards.
Here are the critics' top 17 TV shows and the awards they won:
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Best comedy series
Best unstructured reality series
Best reality show host — Anthony Bourdain
Best actor in a drama series — Bob Odenkirk
