Days after Super Bowl Sunday, Universal has released the second full trailer for the next "Fast and Furious" installment — "Furious 7."

In addition to cars parachuting from planes and a car flying across skyscrapers, we get a better look at the sequel's new villain Deckard Shaw, a special forces assassin, who will be played by Jason Statham.

There are also women fighting in cocktail dresses in heels.

Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson, Ludacris, Tyrese, and Michelle Rodriguez all return along with the addition of Kurt Russell to the cast.

"Furious 7" is in theaters April 3 and is expected to be one of the year's biggest movies.

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Warning: There are spoilers ahead. 

Last summer, Warner Bros. abruptly pushed "Jupiter Ascending" back 10 months only weeks before it was due in theaters. 

The latest sci-fi movie from the Wachowski siblings ("The Matrix" trilogy) supposedly needed to complete visual effects. It was expected to be the studio's big summer movie after Johnny Depp's $100 million budget "Transcendence" flopped.  

I think we know the real reason the reported $175 million Channing Tatum and Mila Kunis movie was moved.

"Jupiter Ascending" is terrible.

Don't take my word for it.  

In addition to press, there was a number of general audience members in attendance who received free advance tickets to the media screening. (This is normal. You can usually get these through websites like GoFobo.) 

Here are some of the things viewers were saying as they headed out of the screening:

"It wasn't bad ... it was horrible."

"It was embarrassing."

"That's what they spent $150 million to $200 million on?"

"I can't even explain the plot. You kill humans … so you can use their genes?" (more on this in a bit)

The movie follows Kunis as Jupiter Jones, your not-so-average looking maid who cleans houses for a living with her obnoxious Russian family. One day, she finds out there's a bunch of other species living outside of Earth and that she's actually the ruler of our planet. Two groups of different people, one led by Titus (Douglas Booth) and another by Balem (Eddie Redmayne), are out to capture and murder her so they can have control of the planet. 

Why do they want control of the planet? To harvest humans. The aliens have apparently been using human cells to create a regeneration serum for some time. 

Yep. That's it. The whole movie is about aliens wanting to preserve their youth by killing humans. 

In a point that's sort of glossed over quickly, but better explained in the film's production notes, Jupiter is what is known as a "recurrence." She's born with the exact genetic DNA as a royal that just passed away and for some reason this now makes her the reincarnation of that person.

But, unless I missed something, it's not clear how anyone knows Jupiter even exists. It's not like her father or mother were royalty. Jupiter has no clue she's royalty, and once she learns she is, she doesn't find out that she has any secret, magical powers. So the basic premise of the film, where aliens are worried about Jupiter, a lowly, humble, toilet scrubber overthrowing all of them, is pretty thin.  

I don't remember the last time I've said "What is going on right now?" (not in those actual words) so many times during a film screening to myself. This isn't because I couldn't follow the movie's plot, it was just because what was occurring on screen: the dialogue, the acting, the strange-looking characters were all so bizarre at points that there was no other way to react. 

Here are a few of the things I'm talking about: 

1. There's a ridiculous bee scene

Early on, when Jupiter is learning she's royal, there's a scene where a group of bees start to follow her. (Why are there bees hanging around? Why not?) The group slowly builds until there's a giant swarm surrounding her, but not stinging. When she moves her arms, they move with her. When she asks why they do that, you're sitting there waiting for a good response. Instead, the answer we receive is that the bees sense royalty. The audience cracked up at this in disbelief. To add insult to injury, this was followed up with the line, "Bees don't lie." 

I've never wanted to relive the Nicolas Cage bee scene from the 2006 "Wicker Man" remake, but this was all I could think of: 

 2. Random egg selling

There's a crazy subplot early in the film where Jupiter considers selling her own eggs at the behest of her sleazy cousin (you can't make this stuff up) to make some easy cash. He wants to buy a big flat screen TV and Jupiter has her sights on a $4,000 telescope on eBay. What? 

3. Mila Kunis slaps a sanitary pad onto Channing Tatum to patch up a wound.

I guess this was supposed to be humorous. It's not. It's kind of just gross, especially when Sean Bean, who plays a secondary character, later tears it off on screen, waving it at Kunis.  

4. Channing Tatum is a half-human, half-wolf

You read that right. He doesn't have a tail, but he does have a keen sense of smell, some pointed ears, and, yes, he does growl a few times in film. Honestly, he looks ridiculous, and because of that, and some added eyeliner, it's difficult to take Tatum, seriously. Even his name is Caine, an obvious reference to canine. 

5. Kunis' character continually hits on half-wolf Tatum, and it makes for the most awkward screen time and dialogue ever

The two actors have chemistry; however, the romance between the two feels so overtly forced, even the audience could tell. There's a scene in the movie where Jupiter says she's into Caine. Here's how that conversation goes down.

Caine: "I have more in common with dogs than I do with you."

Jupiter: "I love dogs."

The audience burst out laughing at this. Later in the film, there's even an overt reference to "Beauty and the Beast," to describe their relationship.

6. The creatures are terrifying.

An early scene in the film shows a group of short aliens trying to abduct a woman. These are some of the creepiest things I've ever seen on screen, and it's probably why you haven't seen a trace of them in marketing. The film's production notes say they're supposed to "resemble classic grey ETs."  

The same goes for a bizarre lizard/dragon mashup with wings.  

Some of the characters just look like knockoffs of other sci-fi animals. There's an elephant-looking creature that pops up a few times that looks like a mix between Ten Numb and Max Webo from "Star Wars."

You can sort of see him here in the background.

7. And then there's Eddie Redmayne's character, Balem Abrasax, who is on a completely different level of crazy in this film.

After a masterful Oscar-nominated performance in 2014's "The Theory of Everything," Redmayne gives a pitifully poor performance as a spoiled brat. He comes across as a fragile, strange creature, who speaks in eerily calm, creepy whispers. Then there would be these disjointed moments when he would scream out loud at people. Audiences laughed every time this occurred.  

It was as if Redmayne was actually channelling the awkwardness of Michael Sheen's vampire character Aro in the "Twilight" movies. It was essentially the same role. 

The Wachowski siblings said they wanted to put together a bunch of genres — a sci-fi film mixed with a thriller, an "action epic," and a "love story" — but in doing so, it's hard to figure out what this film wants to be.

There's no question that it's a sci-fi flick, but other than the ridiculous premise, the entire film doesn't feel original. It has the feel of "The Fifth Element," for its elaborate and outlandish space creatures and ship designs, and "Ender's Game" (for same space visuals). However, unlike "The Fifth Element," I doubt we'll be seeing re-runs of this on cable television anytime soon.

There were three good things about this film:

1. There's a point near the end where Kunis (sort of) beats the crap out of Redmayne's character. 

I was waiting for Kunis to be this break-out strong female character, and other than a few small parts in the film, she's not. She's whiny (she complains about how she hates her life in the beginning of the film), she's insanely gullible (she's convinced to marry a guy she just met in practically seconds even though he plans to kill her), and, except for a brief part in one of the film's climactic moments, she plays the D.I.D. (damsel in distress) to Tatum's character for most of the film. Sigh.

2. Channing Tatum's gravity boots

Caine soars through the streets and skies of Chicago and other worlds with these special anti-gravity shoes. Imagine using a hoverboard turns your shoes into flat roller skates and you have the idea. It was probably the most entertaining part of the film. 

3. The visuals.

There's no question that there was an incredible amount of time devoted to making sure the film was visually beautiful. The film's production notes mention that to get the right shades of purple, indigo, and gold into the film's background at one point, they shot the film at a specific point of the year in Chicago between 5:15 and 5:45 a.m. That's dedication, but it's something viewers won't appreciate because most moviegoers aren't going to know that going in to the film.

18 months were spent visualizing costumes and hundreds of alien looks and hybrid human/animals for the movie before filming began. However, this is the downfall of "Jupiter Ascending." There's too much attention to detail and too little focus on the big picture. If the Wachowski siblings spent as much time on the story as they obviously did on the film's aesthetics, the movie may have had some potential. However, the visuals alone are not going to sell me on a movie. There needs to be some meat and potatoes with my gravy. 

Right now, BoxOffice.com is tracking the film to make $19 million opening weekend. The duo's last film, 2012's "Cloud Atlas," starring Tom Hanks and Halle Berry, debuted to $9.6 million. Instead, Paramount's "Spongebob Squarepants" sequel, which has been over a decade in the making, is expected to dominate the weekend making $35 million.

One thing's clear. 

There's one must-see Channing Tatum movie this year from Warner Bros., and it's not going to be "Jupiter Ascending."

"Jupiter Ascending" is in theaters Fri. Feb. 6.

Watch a trailer below.

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Super Bowl XLIX was the year of serious ads. None more serious than Nationwide’s commercial— featuring a boy checking off all the things he could never do in his life because he died in an accident — which was widely derided as “depressing" and earned the brand the dubious title of this year's most talked-about Super Bowl advertiser.

And the creative was also perfect fodder for a good parody video, as comedians, broadcasters and the general public have demonstrated this week.

Here's our pick of some of the best Nationwide ad spoofs that have already hit the internet less than a week after it first aired.

An A+ for effort goes to online comedy troupe Funny or Die. Keep watching to the end. The glum protagonist dies, goes to heaven, and even manages to harsh God’s vibe.

Conan decided to take Nationwide on at its own game, with a parody featuring scenes of destruction, body bags and a plane engulfed in flames.

The number one cause of Minecraft deaths? Preventable accidents.

YouTube user “Country Cruiser” has a macabre sense of humor.

MTV got in on the act with a 10-second blip.

And this user-generated effort from “Daniel Alexander” has a monster ending.

In its defense, Nationwide responded to the backlash earlier this week saying that the Super Bowl ad was never intended to be a sales pitch. In a statement, the company said: "The sole purpose of this message was to start a conversation, not sell insurance. We want to build awareness of an issue that is near and dear to all of us — the safety and well being of our children."

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Donald Trump says his hair is real — and it's spectacular.

The real estate mogul and reality television personality answered a series of fan questions in a Facebook video published Wednesday. Among the inquiries: Will he ever change his famous hairstyle?

"The ratings are so good on 'The Apprentice' and everything else, I'm afraid to do it. I don't think NBC would like it. A lot of people would be unhappy. But it is my hair as you can see," Trump said.

Trump, who said in the video that he's "very, very strongly" looking at running for president in 2016, proceeded to list interviews he's done where he's proven his hair is real. 

"Barbara Walters interviewed me two years ago and she said, 'Is that really your hair?' And I said, 'Go ahead, check it out.' She did. Joan Rivers checked it out. They all checked it out," he continued. "It's my hair, believe me! I don't know, it just seems to work."

Here is a Trump previously proving to a Global News interviewer that his famous hairdo is real:

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Amid the fallout of the Sony hacking crisis, Amy Pascal will step down from her post as cochairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment, it was announced Thursday.

Pascal elaborated in a statement:

I have spent almost my entire professional life at Sony Pictures and I am energized to be starting this new chapter based at the company I call home. I have always wanted to be a producer. (Sony Entertainment CEO) Michael (Lynton) and I have been talking about this transition for quite some time and I am grateful to him for giving me the opportunity to pursue my long-held dream and for providing unparalleled support. As the slate for the next 2 years has come together, it felt like the right time to transition into this new role. I am so grateful to my team, some of whom I have worked with for the last 20 years and others who have joined more recently. I am leaving the studio in great hands. I am so proud of what we have all done together and I look forward to a whole lot more.

As The Hollywood Reporter notes: "The move has been widely expected ever since the studio became engulfed in one of the worst cyberattacks in corporate history and certainly the most embarrassing hit ever taken by a major Hollywood institution in the digital age."

But Pascal isn't going far; she will remain on the Sony lot as a producer.

Pascal's new company will focus on movies, TV, and theater. "As part of a four-year agreement, SPE will finance the new company and retain all distribution rights worldwide to films financed. The venture will be located at the Sony Pictures lot in Culver City," according to The Wrap.

Sony Entertainment CEO Michael Lynton sent an email Thursday morning to staffers announcing Pascal's exit, via The Hollywood Reporter:

I am happy to say that Amy's decision is not the end of her relationship with the studio but the start of a new and exciting chapter in her extraordinary career that promises to be mutually beneficial. She can refocus her career on her first great love — filmmaking — and SPE can continue its association with an extremely talented and valued associate. Her decision has the full support of (Sony Corp. president and CEO) Kazuo Hirai.

The Hollywood Reporter adds of Pascal's legacy at the studio:

As one of Hollywood's longest-serving studio heads and the industry's most prominent female executive, Pascal reigned during a time of box-office success and relative calm for the studio, which only began to endure upheavals in its upper ranks in the past year. Perhaps her biggest coup was spearheading the nearly $4 billion Spider-Man franchise, which remains the highest-grossing superhero franchise in Hollywood.

In December, all hell broke loose after Pascal's entire email inbox was leaked online as part of the massive Sony hack ahead of the release of the Seth Rogen and James Franco comedy "The Interview."

Pascal's private emails about President Barack Obama and Angelina Jolie and a brutal exchange with producer Scott Rudin were all made public, among many other not-so-flattering items.

Obama addressed the Sony hack during a December news conference, saying he thought the studio made a mistake by canceling the theatrical release of "The Interview."

"I'm sympathetic to the concerns they faced; having said all that, I think they made a mistake," Obama said. "I wish [Sony] had spoken to me first. I would have told them do not get into a pattern where you're intimidated by these kinds of criminal attacks."

Obama said to avoid setting a precedent, other companies should not cave to pressure from hackers as Sony did.

The FBI has said it has enough evidence to link the Sony hacks to North Korea. In short, the FBI said the methods and tools used to hack Sony were similar to those used previously by North Korea. However, the FBI's statement wasn't too detailed in an effort to protect its "sensitive sources."

"They caused a lot of damage, and we will respond," Obama told reporters at the news conference.

The hacking group Guardians of Peace sent a final email to Sony executives after Obama's remarks saying no more attacks would happen as long as Sony never released "The Interview" in any form. 

When "The Interview" was released via various streaming services, it raked in more than $31 million worldwide.

"The Interview" is now available for rental and purchase through YouTube, Google Play, Xbox Live, PlayStation Network, Amazon Instant Video, and more. The film has also been pirated several million times.

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I can finally sleep soundly with the knowledge that "I Adore Mi Amor," a silky smooth '90s track by R&B boy band Color Me Badd, was the No. 1 song on the day I was born.

You, too, can find out what the top song was on your birthday thanks to a new tool over at Billboard.

To find your birthday song, just type in your birthday, and the site will reveal what song was at the top of the charts the day you entered the world.

We also recommend you checking YouTube for your track so you can watch the (likely) cringeworthy music video as well.

You can find your own birthday song by clicking here (you might need to scroll down to find the birthday song tool, it's located on the right of the main Billboard ranking).

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International superstar Rihanna has released the music video for her new song, "FourFiveSeconds," featuring former Beatle Paul McCartney and rapper Kanye West. It's the first single from Rihanna's highly-anticipated eighth studio album.

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Time for some nostalgia! Jimmy Fallon staged a mini-reunion of the cast of "Saved By The Bell."

Fallon was filming his show in Los Angeles and "reminisced" about when he was in high school in California at the fictional Bayside High.

What followed was cavalcade of nostalgia and in-jokes that fans of the show will appreciate. Mark-Paul Gosselaar (Zack Morris), Mario Lopez (A.C. Slater), Elizabeth Berkley (Jessie Spano), Tiffani Thiessen (Kelly Kapowski), and Dennis Haskins (Principal Belding) all reunited, wearing costumes similar to the ones they wore in the 1990s. 

In the sketch, Fallon tells the gang that he was leaving Bayside to move to New York City to be a comedian — and maybe even "one day ... date Nicole Kidman," which is an homage to a recent viral video. The Bayside crew tell him that's ridiculous, and Zack jokes that Jimmy going on a date with Nicole Kidman is "like Jessie becoming a stripper," a reference to Berkley's notorious flop, "Showgirls."

Kelly also tells Zack she's pregnant, and she mentions that she and Zack might move to a new zip code in Beverly Hills, which is a reference to Thiessen's time on "Beverly Hills 90210."

Lark Voorhies (Lisa Turtle) and Dustin Diamond (Screech) were noticably missing. Diamond was recently accused of stabbing a man in a barroom, which may account for his absence.

Take a trip down memory lane and watch the video below. 

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Actor Toby Maguire has listed his Los Angeles home for $10.25 million — almost $2 million more than what he paid for it just one year ago.

Built in 1949, the 6,320-square-foot "plantation home" was designed by architect John Byers. 

The mansion has belonged to celebrities for years — Maguire and his wife Jennifer Meyer Maguire purchased the home last January from television host Ricki Lake for $8.45 million, who bought it in 2006 for $5.6 million from Courtney Cox, according to Variety. 

Alec Traub of Redfin real estate has the listing. 

Welcome to Toby Maguire's beautiful house.

The home is in the wealthy Los Angeles neighborhood of Brentwood.

The layout of the house is very open — and all of the rooms lead into each other.

On Wednesday, it was revealed on "The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon" that Derek Jeter's 24-year-old model girlfriend, Hannah Davis, was crowned the cover girl of the annual Sport's Illustrated swimsuit issue.

While we've taken issue with past cover girls, Hannah Davis seems like a solid choice.

Born and raised in Saint Thomas, in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Davis says the best part of growing up there was "the friendly people, great weather and waking up to the sound of the waves on the beach."

At age 14, Davis stated in her modeling bio that in ten years she saw herself "Working with mentally handicapped people and hopefully playing on the professional tennis circuit." Davis was a champion on the Caribbean National tennis team.

Fast forward exactly ten years and Davis is at the top her modeling game.

She has appeared in campaigns for Ralph Lauren and was the face of the Ralph Lauren fragrance, Ralph Rocks. Additionally, she has modeled for Victoria's Secret, American Eagle Outfitters, Tommy Hilfiger, and Levi's, among other top brands.

Previously most well known as baseball star Derek Jeter's on-again-off-again girlfriend, Davis' new cover is sure to win her some spotlight of her own.

And it's about time, here's why:

1. Davis appeared in last year's Sport's Illustrated swimsuit edition, but really didn't think she would get the cover this year. "I told my mom there was no way I'd get the cover," a surprised Davis told Sports Illustrated after Wednesday's big reveal. "I told her, 'They do beaches for covers and I'm on a farm. There's no way. It's not possible.'"

2. She's athletic:

3. And isn't afraid to get aggressive:

4. Or try new adventures, like ziplining:

5. She can channel the girl-next-door:

6. But also has a sultry side:

7. She can put on her serious face to walk the runway:

8. Or get silly to take a selfie:

9. She's already comfortable in swimwear:

10. And has had practice gracing the covers of other magazines:

11. She has supermodel-worthy hair:

12. And a flawless face:

13. She always makes time for her fans:

14. She's good buds with her fellow models, especially Chrissy Teigen:

Teigen, last year's Sport's Illustrated swimsuit issue cover model, gives Davis her stamp of approval:   

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There are currently five “Game of Thrones” books with a few more in the works. However, author George R.R. Martin’s original plan was for the series to be a trilogy. 

Redditor TheNextRobin noticed a tweet from UK bookseller Waterstones which contained three photos of a 1993 letter Martin wrote outlining the entire series. The tweet has since been deleted, but not before the images made it to the Internet. 

Variety first picked up on the Reddit post. 

While the letters detail many differences that never ended up occurring in the books and show. The biggest real is the five characters who survive at the end of the entire book series.  

Of course, this could have changed by now, but back in ’93 here’s who Martin listed as surviving “Game of Thrones”: *spoilers* Daenerys Targaryen, Arya Stark, Jon Snow, Bran Stark, and Tyrion Lannister. *spoilers* 

Here are the letters below. 

So you don’t need to squint, I’ve included a typed out transcript of the three letters. There are some omissions because of giant glare marks on the letters. One of the last paragraphs is also blacked out. There are big spoilers below for those who haven't read the books or watched the shows.

First, the images:

Dear Ralph,

Here are the first thirteen chapters (170 pages) of the high fantasy novel I promised you, which I'm calling A Game of Thrones. When completed, this will be the first volume in what I see as an epic trilogy with the overall title, A Song of Ice and Fire. 

As you know, I don't outline my novels. I find that if I know exactly where a book is going, I lose all interest in writing it. I do, however, have some strong notions as to the overall structure of the story I'm telling, and the eventual fate of many of the principle characters in the drama. Roughly speaking, there are three major conflicts set in motion in the chapters enclosed. These will form the major plot threads of the trilogy, [unclear] each other in what should be a complex but exciting (I hope [unclear] tapestry. Each of the [unclear] presents a major threat [unclear] of my imaginary realm, the Seven Kingdoms, and to the live [unclear] principal characters.

The first threat grows from the emnity between the great houses of Lannister and Stark as it plays out in a cycle of plot, counterplot, ambition, murder, and revenge, with the iron throne of the Seven Kingdoms as the ultimate prize. This will form the backbone of the first volume of the trilogy, A Game of Thrones.

While the lion of Lannister and the direwolf of Stark snarl and scrap, however, a second and greater threat takes shape across the narrow sea, where the Dothraki horselords mass their barbarian hordes for a great invasion of the Seven Kingdoms, led by the fierce and beautiful Daenerys Stormborn, the last of the Targaryen dragonlords. The Dothraki invasion will be the central story of my second volume, A Dance with Dragons.

The greatest danger of all, however, comes from the north, from the icy wastes beyond the Wall, where half-forgotten demons out of legend, the inhuman others, raise cold legions of the undead and the neverborn and prepare to ride down on the winds of winter to extinguish everything that we would call "life." The only thing that stands between the Seven Kingdoms and an endless night is the Wall, and a handful of men in black called the Night's Watch. Their story will be [sic] heart of my third volume, The Winds of Winter. The final battle will also draw together characters and plot threads left from the first two books and resolve all in one huge climax.

The thirteen chapters on hand should give you a notion as to my narrative strategy. All three books will feature a complex mosaic of intercutting points-of-view among various of my large and diverse cast of players. The cast will not always remain the same. Old characters will die, and new ones will be introduced. Some of the fatalities will include sympathetic viewpoint characters. I want the reader to feel that no one is ever completely safe, not even the characters who seem to be the heroes. The suspense always ratchets up a notch when you know that any character can die at any time.

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Five central characters will make it through all three volumes, however, growing from children to adults and changing the world and themselves in the process. In a sense, my trilogy is almost a generational saga, telling the life stories of these five characters, three men and two women. The five key players are Tyrion Lannister, Daenerys Targaryen, and three of the children of Winterfell, Arya, Bran, and the bastard Jon Snow. All of them are introduced at some length in the chapters you have to hand.

This is going to be (I hope) quite an epic. Epic in its scale, epic in its action, and epic in its length. I see all three volumes as big books, running about 700 to 800 manuscript pages, so things are just barely getting underway in the thirteen chapters I've sent you.

I have quite a clear notion of how the story is going to unfold in the first volume, A Game of Thrones. Things will get a lot worse for the poor Starks before they get better, I'm afraid. Lord Eddard Stark and his wife Catelyn Tully are both doomed, and will perish at the hands of their enemies. Ned will discover what happened to his friend Jon Arryn, [unclear] can act on his knowledge [unclear] will have an unfortunate accident, and the throne will [unclear] to [unclear] and brutal [unclear] Joffrey [unclear] still a minor. Joffrey will not be sympathetic and Ned [what appears to say] will be accused of treason, but before he is taken he will help his wife and his daughter Arya escape back to Winterfell.

Each of the contending families will learn it has a member of dubious loyalty in its midst. Sansa Stark, wed to Joffrey Baratheon, will bear him a son, the heir to the throne, and when the crunch comes she will choose her husband and child over her parents and siblings, a choice she will later bitterly rue. Tyrion Lannister, meanwhile, will befriend both Sansa and her sister Arya, while growing more and more disenchanted with his own family.

Young Bran will come out of his coma, after a strange prophetic dream, only to discover that he will never walk again. He will turn to magic, at first in the hope of restoring his legs, but later for its own sake. When his father Eddard Stark is executed, Bran will see the shape of doom descending on all of them, but nothing he can say will stop his brother Robb from calling the banners in rebellion. All the north will be inflamed by war. Robb will win several splendid victories, and maim Joffrey Baratheon on the battlefield, but in the end he will not be able to stand against Jaime and Tyrion Lannister and their allies. Robb Stark will die in battle, and Tyrion Lannister will besiege and burn Winterfell.

Jon Snow, the bastard, will remain in the far north. He will mature into a ranger of great daring, and ultimately will succeed his uncle as the commander of the Night's Watch. When Winterfell burns, Catelyn Stark will be forced to flee north with her son Bran and her daughter Arya. Wounded by Lannister riders, they will seek refuge at the Wall, but the men of the Night's Watch give up their families when they take the black, and Jon and Ben jen will not be able to help, to Jon's anguish. It will lead to a bitter estrangement between Jon and Bran. Arya will be more forgiving ... until she realizes, with terror, that she has fallen in love with Jon, who is not only her half-brother but a man of the Night's Watch, sworn to celibacy. Their passion will continue to torment Jon and Arya throughout the trilogy, until the secret of Jon's true parentage is finally revealed in the last book.

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Abandoned by the Night's Watch, Catelyn and her children will find their only hope of safety lies even further north, beyond the Wall, where they fall into the hands of Mance Rayder, the King-beyond-the-Wall, and get a dreadful glimpse of the inhuman others as they attack the wilding encampment. Bran's magic, Arya's sword Needle, and the savagery of their direwolves will help them survive, but their mother Catelyn will die at the hands of the others.

Over across the narrow sea, Daenerys Targaryen will discover that her new husband, the Dothraki Khal Drogo, has little interest in invading the Seven Kingdoms, much to her brother's frustration. When Viserys presses his claims past the point of tact or wisdom, Khal Drogo will finally grow annoyed and kill him out of hand, eliminating the Targaryen pretender and leaving Daenerys as the last of her line. Danerys [sic] will bide her time, but she will not forget. When the moment is right, she will kill her husband to avenger her brother, and then flee with a trusted friend into the wilderness beyond Vaes Dothrak. There, hunted by [unclear] of her life, she stumbles on a [something about dragon eggs] a young dragon will give Daenerys [unclear] bend [unclear[ to her will. Then she begins to plan for her invasion of the Seven Kingdoms.

Tyrion Lannister will continue to travel, to plot, and to play the game of thrones, finally removing his nephew Joffrey in disgust at the boy king's brutality. Jaime Lannister will follow Joffrey on the throne of the Seven Kingdoms, by the simple expedient of killing everyone ahead of him in the line of succession and blaming his brother Tyrion for the murders. Exiled, Tyrion will change sides, making common cause with the surviving Starks to bring his brother down, and falling helplessly in love with Arya Stark while he's at it. His passion is, alas, unreciprocated, but no less intense for that, and it will lead to a deadly rivalry between Tyrion and Jon Snow.

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But that's the second book ... 

I hope you will find some editors who are as excited about all of this as I am. Feel free to share this letter with anyone who wants to know how the story will go. 

All best,

George R.R. Martin

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Madonna is premiering her new music video for "Living for Love" on Snapchat, the first music video from her upcoming album "Rebel Heart."

The video is available to watch now on Snapchat's Discover platform, a new section of the app where users can watch news clips and read articles from CNN, Vice, Yahoo News, Comedy Central, National Geographic, Daily Mail, ESPN, Food Network, and Cosmopolitan.

To access it, you'll need to swipe to the right while you're within Snapchat until you reach the Snapchat Discover page.

From there, tap on the black Snapchat ghost icon in the center and you'll see the video. Just swipe down and you'll be bring up the video player.

Madonna's music video is the second high profile launch on Snapchat in the last week, following the debut of "Literally Can't Even," Snapchat's first original series on Jan. 31.

 You can watch an 18-second teaser of the music video below.

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Kevin O'Leary, known by "Shark Tank" fans as "Mr. Wonderful," is a no-nonsense investor who isn't afraid of calling an entrepreneur a "cockroach" or saying that their company sucks.

He got his nickname in the first season of the reality pitch show from fellow Shark Barbara Corcoran, but it's a title he's embraced and made his own.

O'Leary grew up in Montreal and received his MBA in 1980. His second business, the software company Softkey, became successful enough to acquire The Learning Company in 1995 and subsequently adopted its name. Four years later, O'Leary and his business partner Michael Perik sold the company to Mattel for $4.2 billion.

Newly rich O'Leary became a venture capitalist, mutual fund manager, and television personality, serving as one of the original investors on "Dragon's Den," the Canadian series that inspired "Shark Tank."

Last year, he announced that he would appear exclusively on "Shark Tank," and that the companies he's invested in would be collected under the O'Leary Financial Group.

We spoke to Mr. Wonderful about his business philosophy, what he looks for in an entrepreneur, and why he can be so nasty in the Tank.

The following interview has been edited for brevity and clarity.

BUSINESS INSIDER: At what point in your life did you realize you wanted to be an entrepreneur?

KEVIN O'LEARY: When I was in high school, I got a job as an ice cream scooper at Magoo's Ice Cream Parlour. It was the end of the day of my second day of work, and the woman who owned the ice cream parlor said to me, "Listen, before you go, scrape all the gum up between the tiles." It was a terracotta tile floor.

I said, "No, I'm not going to do that. You hired me to be an ice cream scooper." She said, "I hired you for whatever I want. You work for me. Scrape the gum or you're fired." And I said, "I'm not doing it," and so she fired me.

I didn't know what "fired" was, to be honest with you.

It really shocked me, and of course it was really embarrassing.

I realized then that when you work for somebody else, you're basically their slave. From that day on I swore I'd never work for anyone else. That was the beginning of my journey.

BI: Have you spoken to her since?

I went back decades later to find the owner because I owe her such a debt of gratitude. I never did find her — and when I visited the mall I realized I could buy it today if I wanted and bulldoze it — but she was a very important part of my decision-making for the rest of life.

That's how it started. I'll never forget it.

BI: Who were some mentors who inspired you?

KO: My biological father died when he was 36 years old, and my stepfather became a big mentor for me in my early years. I suffered from dyslexia and had a really hard time with reading and math early on and he helped me through that.

And then when I graduated from undergrad with a bachelor's in psychology and environmental studies he looked at me and said, "You know you don't have the skillset to get a job. You're going to have a tough time." At that time, I was trying to be a filmmaker and photographer with marginal success. He said, "You should go back to business school and get some skills. Who knows what will happen."

I got an MBA and started a business when I got out, ironically in television production. I sold the company and then started a software firm — a classic out-of-the-basement situation — which turned into The Learning Company. We sold it for $4.2 billion. I've never been able to recreate a deal of that size again, but I've had many other various successes since in different sectors.

I've never worked for anybody in my life, and I'm pretty happy with that.

BI: Who taught you about money?

KO: My mother. Even at a very young age she worked at a company called Kiddies Togs that made winter clothing for kids. She would get paid on Thursdays, and every Thursday she would take a third of her paycheck and go buy bonds with it. She would tell my brother and me, "Never spend principal, only the interest." I didn't know what she was talking about at the time, but she was very concerned about preservation of capital — that was her whole thing.

After she died I became the executive of her estate, and I saw her portfolio for the first time. For 50 years all she had invested in was corporate bonds and given it to large cap stocks, and she beat every index in the world and every portfolio manager.

I don't know how she knew that, or why she felt that way, but her strategy of investing has built a billion dollar mutual fund company — that's O'Leary Funds— because basically what I did is I created a bunch of funds around that philosophy. I don't allow my portfolio managers to buy any stocks that don't pay dividends and we have done very, very well.

BI: What did you learn from managing businesses?

KO: There's a guy named Gerry Patterson. He was a sports agent and he was a partner of mine in a company called Special Event Television. He's dead now, but he once told me when we had some huge problem with our business, "Listen, Kevin. Every day, poo poo's gonna hit the fan. Stuff is gonna happen, and it's gonna be bad. You just don't know when or how bad it's gonna be. But you have to put shutters on, set a goal, don't listen to the noise, and just go forward. All of that noise is a distraction, and if you let it distract you, you'll fail."

Years later we were doing a hostile acquisition of Broderbund for $500 million, and they were taking it out on us in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, digging all the dirt they could about me. In the darkest hours, even though Gerry was gone, it was like he was saying to me, "Listen. Don't crack. It's all noise. "

And we won that deal in a vicious takeover battle. I remember flying out west to the board and going in there after all those guys had been so difficult to work with and firing all of them. Not that revenge is sweet — it's just if you stay focused, you're a very powerful force.

Since then, I tell all the entrepreneurs I mentor that story and explain to them, "I swear to you it's going to be very hard. Business is hell on earth. But if you can stay focused and remember Gerry's words, you'll win. You'll beat those battles." And I think if you're an entrepreneur, you want to fight those fights. That's the whole reason you do it. You want to win.

BI: Is that your business approach in a nutshell?

KO: Yeah. My attitude is business is war. You send out your soldiers every day in the form of your capital, and you want them to come home with prisoners. You want to salt the earth that your competitor is lurking on. You want to steal their market share. You want to destroy them and get their customers.

I'm not into this Kumbaya thing about business. There are winners and losers, and I want my entrepreneurs and me to fall into the winning camp.

Not everybody agrees on my philosophy, but in the end, the only things that matter are your shareholders and your customers. To try and say that businesses are going to solve all social problems means you don't understand the idea of business. Business is about return of capital, return of your shareholders' capital, and winning. It's that simple.

BI: When you're on "Shark Tank," what are you looking for in entrepreneurs that indicates they could align with your interest and approach?

KO: When I value a business, I ask myself, "How good is this entrepreneurial team, and how broad is the product in terms of its desire from the consumer?"

I invested in Wicked Good Cupcakes because pretty much everybody eats cupcakes. The fastest-growing cupcake brand in America today is Wicked Good Cupcakes. Why? Because it was on "Shark Tank." It used to have maybe $7,000 a month in sales, and now it's now nearly $400,000 a month.

I look at companies and say to myself, "OK, how much value can I add by being an investor? What do I know, and what does my team know about what their business does?"

I've got 21 different investments now that are private in O'Leary Ventures. Some are mediocre, and some are wildly successful. I just sold GrooveBook last month to Shutterfly for $14.5 million dollars. That's the biggest exit ever on "Shark Tank." And that company is only 11 months old, so that's the power of "Shark Tank," and that's why I think it's the most fascinating venture capital experiment ever created.

BI: Many times on "Shark Tank" it seems as if you're holding court. You'll narrate what has unfolded and move deals along even if they're not yours. How did that dynamic develop?

KO: It's the natural ebb and flow of what occurs with our different personalities.

My personal opinion of "Shark Tank" is that the entrepreneur is standing in a very valuable spot when they're presenting. I get frustrated when I see people wasting my time. So I determine if a deal has merit or not. If it does, then I want one of the Sharks to invest in it, but let's move it along because I want to see the next deal.

BI: You often make aggressive or demeaning comments in the Tank. Is that a tactic?

KO: I'm trying to test the mettle of those entrepreneurs, because if they think it's tough in the "Shark Tank," wait until they get out in the real world. If they can't take a guy like me, then they're not ready.

Maybe people think I'm bullying them. That's not true. I'm the only guy there who tells the truth all the time. I don't care about your feelings; I care about your money.

I look at business as binary: either you make money or you lose money.

I say to Barbara all the time, "Why are you so worried about their feelings? Who cares? If the business has no merit and it's a bankrupt idea, they're going to fail anyways. You're doing them a huge favor if you're telling them the truth."

And if it's not the truth, then debate it with me. Tell me why I'm wrong.

I'm not trying to make friends. I'm trying to make money. It's that simple.

BI: You're unique among the Sharks for your affinity for deals that aren't straightforward equity deals.

KO: We've all been getting more complicated in terms of how we structure deals because they're much larger now. I do equity deals, venture debt, royalty deals, convertible ventures, preference shares.

The point is, there are many ways to skin the cat. I think by doing more creative structures, you're aligning yourself with the entrepreneur based on the business risk you're taking.

I do structures to protect my capital and then I participate in the upside. Generally my entrepreneurs are pretty happy with my deals.

BI: You made the the biggest deal yet on "Shark Tank" with Zipz Wine. How has your relationship developed with them?

KO: Zipz is an industry-changing deal. Of all the beverages in America, the only one that is not available in single serve in any notable market share is wine. Many have tried before to do it, and no one has been successful. I'm looking at Zipz as a multi-year investment. I have to now go winery to winery, brand to brand — including my own [O'Leary Fine Wines] — to arrange deals and go to retailers to convince them that they want to stock single-serve wine.

I think we'll be looking at Zipz three years from now, and hopefully it will have gained some market share. Right now we're just at the beginning stages, and we're doing a lot of work to finalize the design so that it's cost effective for wine makers and retailers, and also able to store wine for at least a year. I think we've licked both those problems.

We're launching our next platform at the end of March, and so I'm very excited about it, while recognizing it's not an overnight success by any means.

BI: What makes a "Shark Tank" pitch successful?

KO: I've seen thousands of presentations. If you look at the common thread in all of the companies that got financed, regardless of the outcome, you find three common attributes:

1. They're able to articulate the opportunity in 90 seconds or less.

2. They're able to explain why they are the right people to execute the business plan.

3. They know their numbers.

I've seen so many deals fall apart after the first two have been achieved, and then you ask questions about anything to do with the numbers side and if they don't know the answer, they just evaporate. You lose confidence immediately when someone doesn't understand the numbers.

BI: What are some of the worst pitches you've seen?

KO: The worst are ones where they either don't have confidence or they don't know enough about the business and it's painfully obvious. It's a horrible thing to see happen.

It frustrates me miserably because they've just wasted my time and they wasted the opportunity in the "Shark Tank" that somebody else would've begged to have had. I'm extremely harsh on people like that. And for good reason in my view.

But there's nothing worse than arrogance with ignorance — it's horrific. I actually don't care if you're arrogant, as long as you know what you're doing and you know what you're talking about.

BI: What was a particularly dramatic or emotional moment on the show, and how did it play out on set?

KO: I think the most emotional moment on "Shark Tank" ever was a deal for a company called Tree T-PEE. It actually is the reason the show won an Emmy.

It was a farmer who invented a device that reduced the amount of water wasted irrigating orange groves. Very interesting patent and technology — reduced water usage by about 20%, so it paid for itself very quickly. And he didn't want to profit from it. He basically wanted to sell it at cost to help other farmers. Now, it's a powerful thing to want to do that, but it's not a business.

There we were in the Tank drawn to the story of this man whose father had died inventing this and who then went on to commercialize it. Yet he just wouldn't raise the price even though it was obvious you could triple the price. He could've created so much value.

It's the difference between a charity and a business. But it was a particularly powerful moment in "Shark Tank," and no one's going to forget it. Every Shark had a tear in their eye, including me. He is a great soul, that man. I'm not sure he is a great businessman.

BI: What is your best negotiation advice to entrepreneurs who have the chance to come onto the show?

KO: Don't be greedy. The biggest mistake that people make in "Shark Tank" is trying to overvalue their business.

I'm tremendously valuable to an entrepreneur, not just for the experience or advice I can give them, but it's infinitely valuable to get a deal on "Shark Tank" and get covered on primetime television year after year.

It gives you a competitive edge that others don't have, and the only way you're going to get that is to get me as an investor. If you want me, you're going to have to make it really interesting because I've got lots of opportunities to invest in and lots of deals, and people now have figured that out. I've got lots of successes under my belt, and you're going to pay for that if you want to use me as an investor. I'm going to cost you more than the typical venture capital firm, and I'm well worth it.

BI: Do you have a favorite among the companies that you're working with now?

KO: You know, it's like choosing a favorite child — really hard to do. I think now about a company like Bottle Breacher, which is so successful they can't even fulfill their orders. They're 20,000 orders behind right now and trying to solve that problem. That company has limitless opportunity.

I'm now into multiple years of Wicked Good Cupcakes. It's been a phenomenal success and everything is growing into retail and been amazing.

Honeyfund is a remarkable online business that is growing.

I could just go down the list. Everything is different; everything is unique. Every day something happens to one of these companies and we're dealing with it. I sit down with the [O'Leary Financial Group] team every Friday, and we go, "OK, what happened this week?" And we go through the good, the bad, and the ugly, and they're all in different sectors.

I have a very diverse portfolio now. It's really interesting.

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The trailer for the remake of the classic 80s horror movie "Poltergeist" just dropped, and it actually looks pretty scary.

Steven Spielberg, who produced the 1982 original, is absent from the production. Giving it some extra credibility is the involvement of producer Sam Raimi, who directed the horror classic "Evil Dead" and its sequels.

The remake is helmed by Gil Kenan, whose previous credits include the animated, Spielberg-produced horror- comedy "Monster House" and the little-seen sci-fi adaptation "City of Ember, " which co-starred Bill Murray.

The remake of "Poltergeist" is scheduled for release on July 24.

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People have been begging Nintendo to release its older games on smartphones for years now. But it looks like that's just not going to happen, at least under current Nintendo president Satoru Iwata.

In a recent interview with Nikkei (via Kotaku), Iwata said Nintendo plans to actually remake smartphone games for its portable hardware, the Nintendo 3DS, instead of putting its games on other smartphones.

The obvious question is, "Why would I pay Nintendo for a game I already own and play on my smartphone?" Nintendo doesn't have a great answer to that question, but earlier this year it did say it would introduce Mario to the smartphone game "Puzzle & Dragons," so it's possible Nintendo will do more to inject its classic characters into newer smartphone games.

Nintendo's stance is somewhat understandable: It only wants to put its games on its own hardware, in the same way Apple makes most of its software exclusive to Mac computers, iPhones and iPads.

But even Apple knows when to branch out: It made iTunes available for Windows over a decade ago, and it's currently working on its first Android app.

Nintendo's philosophy, according to president of the Americas division Reggie Fils-Aime (via Re/code), is that its games are best "with our unique and differentiated hardware." That may be true, but Nintendo has had thousands of games over the years, and most of them are collecting dust at the moment.

If you only looked at the oldest classics from the NES and SNES, Nintendo's first two living room consoles that had extremely simple controls and graphics, that's 129 first-party titles right there. If ported to mobile, many of these would probably top Apple's and Google's app stores.

This isn't to suggest Nintendo needs to invest heavily in mobile, but right now, it's completely ignoring the potential of the smartphone marketplace. The company's profits have been improving lately, but it's not out of the woods yet, as its console sales are taking a hit from all sides — Microsoft and Sony on the gaming side, and Apple, Google, and others on the mobile side. (Nintendo 3DS sales fell short of expectations during the holiday season.)

Unfortunately, it seems unlikely Nintendo will shift its mobile strategy so long as Iwata remains president of Nintendo. The Motley Fool reports the controversy over mobile has led to something of an "internal revolt" between high-level executives and Iwata, while investors and analysts have repeatedly pressured Iwata to port its older games to other machines, to no avail.

Porting Mario to other platforms "is absolutely not under consideration,” Iwata told the Nikkei in 2011. “If we did this, Nintendo would cease to be Nintendo. [Making mobile games is] probably the correct decision in the sense that the moment we started to release games on smartphones we'd make profits. However, I believe my responsibility is not to short-term profits, but to Nintendo's mid- and long-term competitive strength.”

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Arnold Schwarzenegger's calculated use of psychological warfare is perhaps best displayed in the bodybuilding documentary "Pumping Iron," which shows him having breakfast with competitor Lou Ferrigno and Ferrigno's parents.

It was the day before the 1975 Mr. Olympia tournament. Schwarzenegger had won five consecutive Mr. Olympia titles, and Ferrigno had come in second in the previous contest. With a wide smile and laid-back attitude, Schwarzenegger tells Ferrigno and his family that just one more month of training would have put Ferrigno in perfect shape. It's a shame, but oh well, Ferrigno got two Mr. Universe titles, and they can just get tomorrow over with soon enough.

"You know, it's amazing," Schwarzenegger says over eggs with his competitor. "Can you imagine the feeling I have? Six-time Mr. Olympia. Six f---ing times. It's incredible."

Schwarzenegger is so convincing that Ferrigno and his parents seem to have also accepted that Schwarzenegger already won, which he would indeed go on to do.

Forty years later, Schwarzenegger tells author Tim Ferriss in an episode of Ferriss' podcast that he wasn't (just) being a cocky jerk. He was deliberately messing with Ferrigno's composure to help Ferrigno defeat himself. It's a tactic he used throughout his bodybuilding career.

"It was natural that with all the experience I had gotten with being a trainer and working with people and all this, that I learned about people's psychology and about their weaknesses and their strengths," he says. He realized that if he had the power as a trainer to isolate his bodybuilder's weakness and have him compensate for it to feel great, then he had the power as a competitor to turn his target into an anxious wreck.

He explains:

It was very clear when I said to someone, "Let me ask you something, do you have any knee injuries or something like that?" Then they would look at me and say, "No, why? No, I have no knee injury at all. No, my knees feel great." And they say, "Why are you asking?" I said, "Well because your thighs look a little slimmer to me. I thought maybe you can't squat or maybe there's some problem with leg extension." He says, "Really?" And then I saw them all for two hours in the gym always going in front of the mirror and checking out their thighs ... People are vulnerable about those things.

After Schwarzenegger had weaseled his way into his opponents' heads, they would fret before and during the competition. Meanwhile, he would pose with a supreme self-assurance that convinced everyone in the room that he was the winner.

Schwarzenegger tells Ferriss that even when he watches a Mr. Universe or Mr. Olympia tournament now, he notices that the top five guys pretty much have the same build, but the winner is determined by their psyches. The judges pick the bodybuilder who looks relaxed and like he's having fun.

It's apparent in Schwarzenegger's conversation with Ferriss that he applied this mindset to every aspect of his life.

For example, he was told by film agents in the '70s that bulky wasn't hip and that he shouldn't bother with the movies. He was convinced that he would be a star, however, and of course he went on to become a Hollywood icon.

You can listen to the full podcast episode, in which Schwarzenegger discusses his multifaceted career and life philosophy, at Ferriss' blog.

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"Breaking Bad" spinoff "Better Call Saul" premieres Sunday. and it's probably one of the most-anticipated new series of the year. 

We've already seen it, and "Breaking Bad" fans should really enjoy it.

So it shouldn't be a big surprise the series has already been renewed for a second season.

If you can't wait for "Better Call Saul," but need to know a bit more before the show's premiere, here's everything you need to know about the spinoff.

Is this a prequel or a sequel?

The majority of the series is set in 2002, six years before Saul ever met Walter White. However, the show definitely has some elements of a sequel, too, as viewers will see in the premiere's first frew minutes. 

So, yes, you'll get to see what became of Saul Goodman after he left Walt and Jesse Pinkman.

When we spoke with Odenkirk a while back while he was doing press for his Oscar-nominated film "Nebraska," the star told us he wanted the show to be both a prequel and sequel. It looks like he got his wish.

Who will star in the spinoff?

Here's who's joining Odenkirk on the series:

Jonathan Banks will reprise his role as Mike Ehrmantraut.

Michael McKean will play Saul's older brother Chuck who is a partner at a law firm in Albuquerque.

Patrick Fabian plays Howard Hamlin while Rhea Seehorn ("Whitney") stars as Kim, two lawyers at Hamlin, Hamlin & McGill.

Michael Mando ("Orphan Black") plays a criminal named Nacho Varga. 

So, what will this be about?

The show will follow Saul Goodman before he's the cocky, confident lawyer, when he's just known as Jimmy McGill. 

McGill's strapped for cash and drives a rundown car. He's trying to make a living as an honest attorney. What should follow in the series is how McGill goes from a scrappy, hungry young lawyer to a well-known name in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Why did Saul get his own spinoff?

The show has been in the works for a while in the "Breaking Bad" writers room. Creator Vince Gilligan told Hitfix it kind of started off as a joke.

It started as a lark, which is another word for joke, in the writer's room. It started and it really came from the fact that I love working with Bob, just as we love working with really every actor on “Breaking Bad.” But we also loved the character. We love writing for the character. We love putting words in his mouth. And we had so much fun indeed doing that that it started as a lark; we'd come up with some great term or phrase and we'd laugh about it in the writer's room. And then we'd say, 'You know, when we're doing the Saul Goodman show we'll be able to blah, blah, blah, blah.' And we made that comment so many times that it started to dawn on us that it wasn't a lark; there was truth to it. It was not just a joke, but a potentially good idea.

If I like "Breaking Bad," will I enjoy it?

I think you will. From what I've seen in the first two episodes (I'm waiting out to watch the third at the moment), there are plenty of nods to the original series while not feeling forced. 

You'll see a few familiar faces including Jonathan Banks, and the visuals and montages will feel straight out of "Breaking Bad."

However, don't go into this show wanting another "Breaking Bad." You'll be disappointed. This will be its own show, focused on Goodman, er Jimmy McGill's, growth into a sleazy criminal lawyer. At this year's Television Critics Association press tour, co-creator Peter Gould has said they're not going do nods to the previous show and bring back former characters just because they can do it.

"We're trying to make something that stands on its own, that has an entertainment value that's not just seeing a series of old favorites, or 'Remember when?' It's not the series equivalent of a clip show," said Gould. "We try to balance these things out."

When will it air on AMC?

"Better Call Saul" will premiere Sun. Feb. 8 at 10 p.m. after the mid-season return of "The Walking Dead." 

After that, it will head to Monday nights at 10 p.m. starting Feb. 9.

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Earlier this week, a swimwear line called Swimsuits for All announced they would feature plus-size model Ashley Graham in their ad in the Sport's Illustrated swimsuit edition.

The ad got a lot of attention, because it marks the first time a curvy girl will appear in the annual issue in which girls usually look like this:

But it turns out Graham isn't the only plus-size model to appear in SI's pages this year. 

Robyn Lawley, a 25-year-old Australian native, will appear in the magazine's "Rookies" section, sporting a bikini of her own design.

While the average American woman is a size 14, Lawley is a very fit, healthy size 12.

Lawley's inclusion in the magazine as "plus-size" has left many confused, and even angry:

I'm non-plussed by use of "plus-size" here. MT @eonline: SI's first official plus-size model http://t.co/ZQYpMWdJtDpic.twitter.com/HwXvY144WE

— Jon Weisman (@jonweisman) February 5, 2015

Rough living in a world where the perfection that is Robyn Lawley is considered plus size pic.twitter.com/2OTjMr1W8R

— Christy Fox (@christyecf) February 5, 2015

Can I be stoked that Robyn Lawley is appearing in SI while being furious that this is what we consider "plus size" pic.twitter.com/Tsap9lQGH7

— Molly Mulshine (@mollymulshine) February 5, 2015

If Robyn Lawley is a plus size model, then I'm a baby rhinoceros

— Deja Knight (@deja_knight) January 20, 2015

For her part, Lawley tells Time: "I don’t know if I consider myself as a plus-size model or not. I just consider myself a model because I’m trying to help women in general accept their bodies."

"I can see the ramifications on young women if their body is similar or larger than mine and they see a 'plus size' label,' Lawley elaborated to Daily Mail Australia. "I just see no reason in any labels really, I just want women [to be] happy with their bodies."

Regardless, Lawley, who is represented by Wilhelmina Models, is happy to be included in this year's Sport's Illustrated  swimsuit edition.

She tells Time: "I never thought that this would happen to me, so this is a milestone. When I started my career 10 years ago, I had to painfully go to castings and people would look at you and say, 'What the hell are you doing here?'… I want to be there for the regular girls who are my size."

The Sport's Illustrated swimsuit edition, featuring model Hannah Davis on the cover, hits newsstands Feb.9.

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