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In photo finish, 'Rogue One' wins weekend box office but 'Hidden Figures' shows staying power

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"Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" had to battle a wicked winter storm on the east coast and a strong performance by Oscar contender "Hidden Figures" to win the weekend box office for a fourth consecutive weekend, according to estimates.

"Rogue One" has been dominating the box office since it opened the weekend before Christmas. It took in $21.9 million over the weekend, according to boxofficepro.com, upping its total to $477.2 million domestically and surpassing $900 million worldwide.

But "Hidden Figures," the 20th Century Fox release starring Taraji P. Henson and Octavia Spencer about a group of African-American women who were essential to NASA's victory in getting a man to the moon in the 1960s space race, has been building attention the last few weeks in limited release thanks to a 93% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and award season hype. The movie took in and estimated $21.8 million in its first weekend in wide release (a strong $8,822 per-screen average).

With just an estimated $100,000 difference between "Rogue One" and "Hidden Figures," it's possible that "Hidden Figures" could win out the weekend when final weekend box office figures are reported on Monday.

Coming in third is "Sing," the latest animated hit from the makers of "Despicable Me" and "The Secret Life of Pets," which continues to be a strong performer up against "Rogue One," as it took in $19.5 million. It's total domestic tally is now a healthy $213.3 million over three weeks.

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Here are all the winners of the 2017 Golden Globes

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The 74th Golden Globes ceremony is the biggest night in entertainment as it honors the top talent and projects in both film and television.

Jimmy Fallon hosts the big celebration from the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles, California on Sunday.

Going into Sunday's awards, 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).

FX's "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 winners in bold (updated live): 

Best TV series, comedy
"Atlanta" *Winner*
"Blackish"
"Mozart In The Jungle"
"Transparent"
"Veep"

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" *Winner*

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” *Winner*

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” *Winner*

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 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, drama

“The Crown”
“Game of Thrones”
“Stranger Things”
“This Is Us”
“Westworld”

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”

american crime story The People v. OJ SimpsonBest 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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The 'Stranger Things' stars had an awesome rap cameo at the Golden Globes

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With one of the most talked about movies of the year being a musical, it's fitting that a late-night host who loves to bust out in song is hosting this year's Golden Globes.

Jimmy Fallon paid homage to "La La Land" and other Globes nominees, including "Stranger Things" and "Westworld," by opening this year's Golden Globes with the opening song from the Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone musical. Stuck in gridlock to get to the Globes, Fallon jumps out of his car and begins singing with other stars...

...including some actors as the characters they play. Like Barb from "Stranger Things." Her costar Millie Bobby Brown even got to deliver her own rap.

Watch the entire musical opening below:

 

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Jimmy Fallon took on Donald Trump in a biting Golden Globes opening monologue

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Jimmy Fallon made Donald Trump the butt of some biting jokes during his Golden Globes opening monologue on Sunday.

After surviving the failure of his telepromptor at the top of his speech, he welcomed the audience to the Golden Globes, "one of the few places left where America still honors the popular vote."

As he rattled off nominees, he landed on "Game of Thrones" and compared Trump to one of the HBO show's most hated characters.

"['Game of Thrones'] has so many plot twists and shocking twists, a lot of people have wondered what it would’ve been like if King Joffrey had lived. Well, in 12 days we’re going to find out," the host said of Trump's upcoming presidential inauguration on January 20.

Fallon's chiding of Trump didn't stop there. He also took a shot at the president-elect's difficulty with hammering down performers for the the inaugural ball.

"The film 'Florence Foster Jenkins' is nominated," Fallon said. "The character has been dubbed the world’s worst opera singer and even she turned down performing at Donald Trump’s inauguration. It’s tough to book."

The politics didn't end there. He also gestured toward the ongoing controversy surrounding Russia's apparent hacking of the presidential campaign in favor of Trump.

When introducing the accounting company that tabulates the Golden Globes votes, Fallon inserted Russia's president into the group, referring to it as "the firm of Ernst & Young & Putin."

Fallon may have been making up for his controversial "Tonight Show" interview in September 2016 with Trump. Many believed the late-night host was too easy on the then-presidential candidate.

Watch Fallon's monologue below:

 

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Steve Carell and Kristen Wiig gave us an incredible Golden Globes moment

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What we learned above all else at the Golden Globes Sunday night is that pairing Kristen Wiig and Steve Carell to present at an award show is comic gold.

The two presented best animated motion picture and a harmless question by Wiig to Carell about what his first animated movie he ever saw was led to one of the most memorable moments of the night.

Carell answered by saying it was "Fantasia" when he was 6 years old. Having seen it with his dad, Carell went on to say that when they came out of the movie his mom was in the lobby waiting for them and that's the moment when she told his dad that she wanted a divorce. 

Wiig, never to be outdone, said that her first time seeing an animated movie was "Bambi," but that it was the same day that she and her family had to put her three dogs down. It was also the last day she saw her grandpa.

The bit is hilarious thanks to their dead-serious deliveries. We could have watched them riff on stage the whole night.

Watch the entire bit below:

 

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Meryl Streep bashes Donald Trump in her Golden Globes speech: It 'broke my heart'

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Meryl Streep's incredible career was honored at the Golden Globes on Sunday night when she was given the Cecil B. DeMille Award. But Streep also took the opportunity to speak her thoughts about President-elect Donald Trump.

In the middle of her speech, she noted the "performance" that grabbed her the most in 2016, for better or worse: Trump at a rally mocking New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski, a disabled reporter.

"It kind of broke my heart when I saw it," she said, "and I still can't get it out my head because it wasn’t in a movie, it was in real life. That instinct to humiliate when it’s modeled by someone in a public platform, it filters down into everyone’s life because it gives permission for others to do the same."

She continued by saying,"Disrespect invites disrespect, violence incites violence. When the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose."

Since Streep's speech social media has been flooded with reactions.

Those who are behind Streep's message:

While Trump supporters stand up for their candidate:

Watch Streep's speech criticizing Trump below:

 

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'One of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood': Trump goes after Meryl Streep following blistering Golden Globes speech

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President-elect Donald Trump sent out a screed of tweets against legendary  actress Meryl Streep Monday morning.

"Meryl Streep, one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood, doesn't know me but attacked last night at the Golden Globes," Trump wrote.

Streep was being honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Award Sunday night, when she used her speech to go after Trump for mocking New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski, who is disabled.

"It kind of broke my heart when I saw it, and I still can't get it out of my head, because it wasn't in a movie," Streep said. "It was real life. And this instinct to humiliate, when it's modeled by someone in the public platform, by someone powerful, it filters down into everybody's life, because it kind of gives permission for other people to do the same thing. Disrespect invites disrespect, violence incites violence. And when the powerful use their position to bully others we all lose."

Trump spoke with The New York Times early Monday morning, before viewing Streep speech, but told the paper "he was 'not surprised' that he had come under attack from 'liberal movie people.'"

In his tweets, Trump said Streep was 'a Hillary flunky who lost big" and maintained he never "'mocked' a disabled reporter."

Streep is among the most decorated actors of all time, winning three Academy Awards and eight Golden Globes. She was also a prominent Hillary Clinton supporter, speaking at the 2016 Democratic National Convention.

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Prince didn't own any stocks when he died — but he did own over $800,000 in gold bars

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Prince certainly didn't make a conventional investor.

In an evaluation of the music legend's assets first reported on by the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Bremer Trust found that the "Purple Rain" singer had no stocks, bonds, or other financial assets but did have a substantial number of gold bars.

Prince, who died of a drug overdose in April, owned 67 10-ounce gold bars worth a combined $836,166.70, according to the statement filed in Minnesota court.

It's unclear when Prince bought the gold, but the price of the asset rose from less than $300 an ounce in 2000 to more than $1,800 an ounce in 2011 before pulling back to its current price of $1,180 an ounce on Monday.

In addition to the gold, Prince had significant holdings of real estate with 12 separate tracts of land valued at a total just shy of $25.5 million and over $28,000 spread over four different bank accounts.

Prince also held over $55,000 in "miscellaneous cash" not tied to any bank account.

Bremer Trust has yet to determine the value of some of Prince's other assets, including unreleased music, fine art, and musical instruments.

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These are the top songs people listen to while working out, according to Spotify

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If the rhythmic clapping throughout Eminem's "Till I Collapse" really inspires you to do those extra reps at the gym, you are far, far from alone, according to research by music-streaming giant Spotify.

Spotify wanted to find out which songs people listen to most while working out, so it looked through data on its millions of users, and identified which artists and songs appeared most frequently in playlists labeled "workout."

Many of those that make up the top artists and songs list are simply what's popular at the moment — hello, Chainsmokers — but there are others that definitely seem to resonate with people working out. The top two, the aforementioned "Till I Collapse" and Kanye West's "POWER," both feature clapping and a certain pump-up vibe. Speaking from personal experience, "Till I Collapse" was a prominent part of my high school basketball warm up, and it definitely did the job.

Here are the lists Spotify came up with for both top artists and songs:

Top Workout Artists

  1. Drake
  2. Eminem
  3. Kanye West
  4. Rihanna
  5. Calvin Harris
  6. The Weeknd
  7. The Chainsmokers
  8. Beyoncé
  9. Sia
  10. David Guetta

Top Workout Songs

  1. Eminem - “‘Till I Collapse”
  2. Kanye West - “POWER”
  3. Drake - “Jumpman”
  4. The Chainsmokers - “Closer”
  5. Calvin Harris -  “This is What You Came For”
  6. Rihanna - “Work”
  7. Sia - “Cheap Thrills”
  8. The Weeknd - “Starboy”
  9. Beyoncé - “7/11”
  10. David Guetta - “Hey Mama”

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'One of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood': Trump attacks Meryl Streep over blistering Golden Globes speech

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Actress Meryl Streep was honored at the Golden Globes on January 8, and used her speech as an opportunity to call out President-elect Donald Trump for allegedly mocking a reporter during his campaign run. Trump responded in a series of tweets the following morning.

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'He's making a disgusting gesture': CNN anchor spars with top Trump adviser over Meryl Streep and disabled reporter

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CNN host Chris Cuomo on Monday engaged in a heated debate with Kellyanne Conway, President-elect Donald Trump's top counselor, over Trump's mockery of a New York Times reporter with a disability.

At the Golden Globes on Sunday, Meryl Streep slammed the president-elect's mocking of New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski in 2015.

Conway appeared on CNN to criticize the actress' speech, asking why Streep didn't instead speak about a recent headline-grabbing assault on a man with a mental disability in Chicago.

"Why didn't she use the platform to talk about the mentally challenged boy last week who was tortured on a Facebook live stream by four young African-American adults in Chicago screaming racial expletives?" Conway said.

Cuomo dismissed the Chicago attackers as "haters" and said that Streep likely decided to speak out about Trump because "one of [the acts] was done by a bunch of miscreants and the other was done by the president-elect of the United States."

The CNN anchor then asked Conway why Trump never apologized for mocking Kovaleski, one of the most notable moments in the 2016 presidential campaign that was played numerous times in anti-Trump attack ads.

"All Donald Trump then and President-elect Trump now needed to do was say, 'Hey, look, making that gesture about Serge was wrong, and I apologize,' and it would've been over," Cuomo said. "Instead, there are these tortured attempts to say, 'Oh, no, no, I had nothing to do with Serge.'"

Conway continued to deny that Trump mocked the reporter because of his disability — a claim that Trump himself repeated on Monday — then argued that politics should be left out of the Golden Globes altogether.

"When you tune into the Golden Globes award show, is it always appropriate to talk politics?" Conway said. "They can say what they want, but then they have to be held to account. Look, that is a very myopic place. That place, this network, frankly, all believed the election would turn out a different way."

After Cuomo urged Conway to look at the video, the Trump counselor attempted to tie Cuomo's line of questioning to the 2016 election outcome.

"Why can't you give him the benefit of the doubt the way the benefit of the doubt was given to CNN's polling, all of its analysts, all of the people in the world saying he couldn't even win?" Conway said.

"Because he's making a disgusting gesture on video talking about Serge," Cuomo replied. "He's doing a gesture that goes right to the guy's vulnerability."

"You should give him the deference and respect — if he said he was not mocking, he was mocking the groveling," Conway said. "You're saying you don't believe him. You're calling him a liar, and you shouldn't."

"You're trying to scare me off the point, and we both know that's a waste of time," Cuomo fired back. "He's making a gesture that is so keenly tuned to what Serge's vulnerability is."

The two continued to debate before Conway buttoned the conversation.

"You can't give him the benefit of the doubt on this?" Conway said. "And he's telling you what was in his heart. You always want to go by what's come out of his mouth rather than look at what's in his heart."

Watch part of the exchange, via CNN:

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Meghan McCain says Meryl Streep's Golden Globes speech is 'why Trump won,' and faces backlash

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Meryl Streep used her acceptance speech for the Cecil B. DeMille Award at Sunday night's Golden Globes to criticize President-elect Donald Trump for mocking a disabled New York Times reporter during his campaign.

"It kind of broke my heart when I saw it, and I still can't get it out of my head, because it wasn't in a movie," Streep said. "It was real life. And this instinct to humiliate, when it's modeled by someone in the public platform, by someone powerful, it filters down into everybody's life, because it kind of gives permission for other people to do the same thing. Disrespect invites disrespect, violence incites violence. And when the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose."

Streep's remarks have been applauded by many in and out of Hollywood. But Meghan McCain, a Fox News contributor who is a daughter of Republican Sen. John McCain, used Twitter on Sunday night to knock Streep's speech:

This followed with many people who supported Streep's speech going after McCain:

But the most heated was comedian Billy Eichner, who tweeted this reaction to McCain's tweet:

McCain fired back:

That led the "Billy on the Street" host to react in a series of tweets:

Watch Streep's remarks from the Golden Globes on Trump below:

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A gaming company known for wild hardware concepts says two new prototypes were stolen in Las Vegas last week

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Razer isn't a household name, but it's wildly popular with gamers. The company is notorious for making very nice, very expensive hardware: Mice, keyboards, and laptops are its primary products. 

But Razer is also notorious for bizarre prototypes, like "Project Valerie" right here:

Project Valerie

And this year at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Razer says two prototypes were stolen from its booth.

"I've just been informed that two of our prototypes were stolen from our booth at CES today," Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan wrote on Facebook over the weekend.

It's unclear which prototypes he's speaking about, but Razer showed off two new prototypes at the show this year: Project Valerie (seen above) and Project Ariana, a projection/camera system for making video games impact the real world around your screen.

Project Ariana

Razer says it has "filed the necessary reports" and is "working with the show management as well as law enforcement to address this issue"; Tan doesn't rule out "industrial espionage," though it's not clear if there's any reason to believe that is the case here. Razer asks anyone with information to contact its legal team.

Razer has a long history of showcasing prototypes. It's an annual tradition at this point: Every year at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Razer debuts a bizarre prototype that may or may not become an actual product.

For instance: In 2012, Razer showcased a hybrid tablet/laptop that could be used as a (massive) handheld game console — it was called Project Fiona. Fans responded so positively to Project Fiona that it became a product by 2013, dubbed the "Razer Edge":

Project Fiona/Razer Edge

Subsequent prototypes haven't been quite as successful. A modular computer named "Project Christine" disappeared into the ether, despite being well-received.

It's not clear if Project Valerie and Project Ariana were the targets in this theft; Tan only said that two prototypes were stolen, not which prototypes were stolen. We reached out to Razer for comment but haven't heard back as of publishing.

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One style lesson every guy can learn from the best-dressed man at the Golden Globes

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Ryan Gosling is now a certified leading man. And lucky for us, he's started dressing like one.

The 36-year-old "La La Land" actor has always had great style, but it's nice to see his style evolution match his professional one.

Take, for instance, his red carpet-stealing black tie at the 2017 Golden Globe Awards January 8.

The problem with wearing black tie in 2017 is that it inherently feels nostalgic and old school. Even the most connected and metropolitan men probably only wear it as many times a year as you can count on one hand.

Leaning in to the nostalgia can be tempting when dressing in black tie, but it's important not to lean too far. Gosling strikes the perfect balance in his throwback ivory dinner jacket.

It's a daring one-button style that is less formal than the traditional two-button. It's paired with a matte bowtie instead of satin, and suede shoes instead of patent leather: two additional touches that take the formal factor down a notch. It all fits perfectly. This is black tie on his own terms.

He finishes it off with an atypical red boutineer.

All of these touches add up to a unique black tie tuxedo that is a nod to the rules and stated dress code, but that mixes it up in a way that is both interesting and appropriate. It shows that Gosling has a mastery of the rules, and knows how and when to break them. 

He's been dressing in black tie for these award shoes long enough to know exactly what rules can be broken to augment his style while staying within bounds. It's worth noting that this isn't exclusive to black-tie dress.

Will following this guideline make you as stylish as Ryan Gosling? Probably not — he's had at least a decade to perfect it. But it can't hurt to start now.

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The actor behind the CGI Tarkin in 'Rogue One' tells us how he created the character

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Before “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” 56-year-old English actor Guy Henry was best known for his work on the BBC and in classical theater (he was also Pius Thicknesse in “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”). But now he's played one of the most famous movie characters of all time in the “Star Wars” saga, even though his face was never in a single frame of the movie.

Henry is the man and voice behind the most talked-about character in “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” Grand Moff Tarkin, who was brought to the screen through the magic of motion-capture computer graphics after being famously played by Peter Cushing in 1977’s “Star Wars: A New Hope” (Cushing died in 1994).

The events in “Rogue One” happen just before what we see in “A New Hope,” and to connect the dots, “Rogue One” director Gareth Edwards wanted to prominently feature Tarkin, since he casts a huge shadow over the main plot point of both movies: the Death Star. But to do that, he and the team at Industrial Light & Magic decided to do something unprecedented: use a living actor to basically be the skeleton of their Tarkin and then replace the actor's face with a digital version of Cushing’s.

On May 5, 2015, “Rogue One” casting director Jina Jay contacted Henry’s agent and asked if the actor could meet up for lunch in London with Edwards.

“They chose a very secret lunch in one of the most public media places in town, the Dean Street Townhouse, which I thought was very clever of them,” Henry recently told Business Insider of getting the role. “So we talked very quietly.”

In fact, Henry remembers that a table beside them recognized him from a show he does on the BBC and the diners came over to say hi. But this was one of the rare moments when visibility wouldn't help an actor land a role, since it was Edwards’ job at the lunch to convince Henry to play the CGI Tarkin.

Moff Tarkin and Darth Vader Star Wars“It was a very strange thing to get your head around,” Henry said about the offer. “Normally as an actor you’re presented to be another character, but there’s another added complication here — it's me pretending to be Peter Cushing pretending to be Grand Moff Tarkin.”

Before Henry agreed to the role, he suggested that Edwards do a screen test of him, just to confirm the director's hunch that he would be right for the role. Henry acted out a Tarkin scene from “A New Hope,” doing his best Cushing voice with his hair slicked back and makeup to make him look older.

Edwards, along with Disney and Lucasfilm, were convinced by what they saw. But Henry, who admits he was always told he sounds more like his idol Peter O’Toole than Peter Cushing, was still very nervous when he agreed to take the job.

“I wasn't comfortable throughout the whole process,” said Henry, who spent a month of prep constantly watching Cushing's Tarkin in "A New Hope." “I was constantly plagued by the thought that I was going to be the tall idiot from London who let the whole thing down. When they look you in the eye and say, ‘This has never been done before in the history of film, but we think we can do it,’ you really don't want to muck it up. For them but also Peter Cushing, who was an actor that I always admired genuinely. I didn't want to go through this slightly weird process and let him down.”

Henry’s Tarkin scenes were shot during principal photography in the summer of 2015. During his three-week schedule, a car picked him up at 4:30 a.m. every day for the hour-long drive to London’s famed Pinewood Studios (“Rogue One” production was under the code name “Los Alamos”). After putting on the gray Imperial officer's uniform, Henry would then go to the makeup room where he would get his hair slicked back and a transparent mask with small holes all over it on his face. Then with a black eyeliner stick, the makeup artist would mark dots through the holes onto Henry's face. A person from ILM would then put the motion-capture dots over the marks on his face. Then right before a scene was about to start, a head cam would be placed on him, which would capture every facial movement Henry made.

Rogue One Henry dots finalBefore every take, Henry would repeat a Tarkin line from "A New Hope": "You would prefer another target? A military target? Then name the system."

"It would just get me into the flow of the Cushing voice," Henry said of repeating the line.

Henry would then perform the Tarkin scenes on the set with the other actors. Henry said he didn't always do the Cushing voice — sometimes Edwards would ask him to do takes "as Guy."   

"I did as much of a Peter Cushing [voice] with the rolling Rs as I could, which was f---ing difficult," Henry said. "I'm pleased that people don't find it a jarring voice and it seems to have worked, but I'm not a mimic. I did every take every day, including reshoots, and all along I just tried to do my best."

Henry said that he actually told Edwards and the "Rogue One" producers numerous times that he would not be offended if they wanted to bring in a voice actor who could do a better Cushing voice. Henry even insisted on doing an ADR session during postproduction so he could have another pass at the dialogue.

"I can't pretend that it wasn't really frightening," he said. "When I offered the option of having someone else do the voice, they said, 'We don't want that, we want your performance, we chose you because of who you are, and we want you to inhabit the performance.' For better or worse, it's my performance."

Henry wrapped on his three weeks, but that turned out to just be the start of his time on "Rogue One." With constant rewrites of the film's plot during production, along with reshoots, Henry said he was called back every other month or so up until November 2016.

"I would always think, 'Back to the dots, back to the fear,'" Henry said.

Rogue One Henry head cam finalThe highlight for Henry was working with Ben Mendelsohn, who played Tarkin's rival in claiming credit for the Death Star, Orson Krennic.

"We played all the scenes together, we rehearsed together, we'd go outside and have a cigarette together and go over lines," Henry said. "It was a one-on-one acting relationship as opposed to me being a stand-in."

One of Henry's favorite moments was when Tarkin had to be his typical authoritative self and get under the skin of Krennic.

"He gets into the mood and has got all guns blazing," Henry said of Mendelsohn's process. "So there was one scene where I play Tarkin particularly imperialist behind the camera to get him worked up, which I succeeded at beyond my wildest dreams. Ben thought I was looking at a monitor behind him, but in fact I was just being dismissive and he suddenly shouted, 'Don't look into the fucking monitor, Guy!' But honestly, we got along famously."

Guy Henry Eamonn M McCormack GettyOutside of a brief look at a rough assembly of a Tarkin scene while the movie was in postproduction (which eased his anxiety about what the filmmakers were trying to achieve), Henry didn't see the finished CGI Tarkin until he went to the film's London premiere a few weeks ago. Having to keep his involvement in the movie a secret to everyone he knew for over a year, he finally saw the fruits of his efforts.

"I didn't eat all day," Henry said of the premiere. "I went in full of white wine and my heart in my mouth, but after the first Tarkin scene, I enjoyed it. I mean, I didn't get the whole script so I was working in the dark. I was watching a film that I knew little about. I'm proud and relieved that it has been positive."

Well, for the most part the response has been positive. Though some "Star Wars" fans love Tarkin's prominent placement, and some with less "Star Wars" knowledge don't even realize the Tarkin character is CGI, there are others who feel the character is a distraction. Some critics even brought up the question of whether it's ethical that Disney/Lucasfilm used the magic of computer graphics to bring a dead actor back to life.

Rogue One Tarkin finalLucasfilm received permission from the Cushing estate to show his likeness in the movie, and according to Henry he's heard that Cushing's longtime secretary has seen "Rogue One" and enjoyed the Tarkin scenes.

"If it had been done as a joke or a gimmick that would have been stupid," Henry said when asked about the ethics issue. "But in this case it was an honorable attempt to tell a story with one of the most famous characters from the 'Star Wars' saga. I thought it was worth doing. If it doesn't impinge on the real living or dead person's sensibilities, I think it's another tool in the box. But I'm not in a hurry to repeat the process — I'll tell you that."

Despite the anxiety around the role, Henry has no regrets and says the experience is unlike anything else he's done in his career. He looks forward to seeing the movie again — with less white wine in his system.

"I think it was an honorable tribute to Peter Cushing, and I'm very happy for that," he said.   

"Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" is currently playing in theaters.

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Netflix's content boss explained the reason he bet big on 'The Crown,' its Golden Globe winner

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On Sunday, Netflix finally won a Golden Globe for a top show category, when its royal drama "The Crown" picked up a best drama series award.

The win ended a drought for Netflix, which had won some acting Globes, but never actually taken home one of the top show or movie categories. And that triumph, along with Claire Foy's "best actress" win for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II, helps to explain why Netflix shelled out a reported $130 million for the show.

"The Crown" was the tentpole of Netflix's original content strategy in 2016, the prestige drama the company thought had the right mixture of gloss and wide appeal to take home the big awards. And it seems that Netflix was right.

Last month at the UBS media conference in New York, Netflix's content boss Ted Sarandos explained a simple reason why Netflix bet big on "The Crown": Everyone knows the Queen.

"Queen Elizabeth is probably the most famous human being on the planet right now," he said. The world knows the history of her, the monarchy, and her family. Though Sarandos didn't characterize her like this, in some ways she is the biggest reality star on the planet, except most people don't know much about her private life. For Netflix, it was an opportunity to tell that inner story.

"The show really works because it is the story of the family," Sarandos said. It shows her flesh and blood. "Oddly, she is relatable."

Sarandos also mentioned the confidence Netflix had in the show's creator, Peter Morgan, who brought both writing chops and a knowledge of the world he was depicting.

But all the glitz and talent that went into producing "The Crown" rested on that one truth, that people just really like watching, reading, and hearing about Queen Elizabeth.

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Mark Hamill is reading Trump’s tweets in his iconic Joker voice — and it’s hilarious

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President-elect Donald Trump has been tweeting up a storm ever since Election Day, and not everyone is a fan of what he has to say. After reading Trump's New Year's message, writer Matt Oswalt noticed that he sounded a lot like the Joker. Mark Hamill — who has been voicing the Joker since 1992 — agreed, and now he's started reading Trump's tweets in the voice of the popular comic book villain.  

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Another movie finally toppled 'Rogue One' in the top spot at the box office

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When Sunday's box-office estimates were released, "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" was $100,000 ahead of the drama "Hidden Figures" to win the weekend box office for a fourth consecutive week. 

But the final figures have come in and "Hidden Figures" surpassed "Rogue One" on Sunday to finally knock the "Star Wars" standalone movie from its perch.

"Hidden Figures," released by 20th Century Fox, stars Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, and Janelle Monáe as the unsung African-American women who were essential to NASA's victory in getting a man to the moon in the 1960s space race. It took in $22.8 million over the weekend, according to Deadline. "Rogue One" brought in $21.9 million over the weekend. 

The movie was in its first weekend in wide release and has been fueled by critical praise (the movie has a 93% rating on Rotten Tomatoes) and awards talk. It's made $24.7 million at the box office to date.

Though "Rogue One" has finally been knocked off the top spot, it has accomplished what Disney wanted it to do. The movie has passed the $900 million mark globally and with over $477 million domestically, it should surpass "Finding Dory" to be highest-grossing film of 2016 by this weekend.

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Someone hacked Nintendo's $60 game console and more than doubled the number of games

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Nintendo's new, miniature video game console was a hit during the holiday season — so much so that it was sold out most places

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That makes a lot of sense: It's a $60 game console packed with 30 of Nintendo's most iconic titles. The entire original "Super Mario Bros." trilogy, as well as the first two "Legend of Zelda" games are among those 30 games — and have you seen how adorable that thing is?

It's a near-perfect re-creation of the original Nintendo Entertainment System from the 1980s, controllers and all:

NES Classic Edition

Since launching in holiday 2016, fans who were able to find one have only had two major complaints with the NES Classic Edition:

  1. The controller is wired, and the wire is too short (at just around three feet). 
  2. There are hundreds of NES games, and only 30 are in this package. More games, please!

The first problem is easily remedied using inexpensive third-party solutions, like Nyko's Miniboss wireless gamepad.

The second problem, however, is a bit more difficult to fix. The NES Classic Edition console doesn't have an internet connection, and the cartridge slot is just a visual affect — in short, there's no official way to add more games to the console.

But hackers have found a way, as they are wont to do. 

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By plugging the console into a computer using a USB cable, putting it into what is essentially a developer or production mode, and uploading ROMs to the console, it can reasonably run more games than the initial 30 it comes with. 

How many more games? One YouTube user managed to load just over 50 games onto his console, including box art. The result is an NES Classic Edition with 84 games in total, nicely organized and still workable as a normal console. Even features like save states still function.

Of note: The process violates warranty, and you have to use software that isn't what we'd call trustworthy. This is very much an "at your own risk" situation. 

Check out the full video of this hacked NES Classic Edition in action:

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'The Good Wife' producers say Trump 'gives shape' to the new spin-off

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PASADENA, California – Producers for "The Good Fight," CBS All Access's spin-off "The Good Wife," say the election of Donald Trump will be good for the new show.

“I think this election gave us a spine,” "The Good Fight" executive producer Michael King said at the Television Critics Association winter press tour on Monday. “What was good, the world changed on us. 'The Good Wife' was a little bit about the Obama years. This gives shape to a new show. This is all going to change, and some say for better, some for worse."

When asked about whether the producers believed Meryl Streep's powerful speech about Trump at the Golden Globes on Sunday emboldened them to make some kind of statement with the show, the producers said the show had always been about politics. They said the show will deal less with Trump's presidency and more with how liberals are behaving in response to it.

Executive producer Michelle King said, "'The Good Wife' was, if you looked for it, a satire of a liberal mindset. So it’s not just anti-Trump, but it’s also a look at how liberals are reacting. It’s more interesting to me to see how the culture changes.”

"The Good Fight" picks up one year after the events of “The Good Wife” finale. After an enormous financial scam has destroyed the reputation of a young lawyer, Maia (Rose Leslie), and wipes out her mentor Diane Lockhart’s (Baranski) savings, they're forced out of Lockhart & Lee and then join Lucca Quinn (Cush Jumbo) at a new Chicago law firm.

Star Christine Baranski pointed out that there will be one scene in the pilot involving her character Diane Lockhart's photo of Hillary Clinton. At the time she shot the scene, Baranski believed Clinton would win the election.

"When Diane has to leave her office forever because she’s out of a job, and she takes that photo of Hillary Clinton, that scene was shot the night before the election,” Baranski said. "I imagine it’s going to have a very different resonance now."

"The Good Fight" premieres Sunday, February 19 at 8 p.m. ET on CBS All Access.

Watch the new trailer for "The Good Fight" below:

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