"30 Rock" fans rejoiced when it was announced Tina Fey and Robert Carlock would reunite on new comedy, "The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt." 

Since "Kimmy Schmidt" just hit Netflix on March 6, it's too early to tell whether the show can live up to the success of "30 Rock," which ran for seven seasons and won the Emmy for best comedy series three years in a row. But after just one season, "Kimmy Schmidt" already stands on its own, thanks to its A-list cameos, quirky humor, and a catchy theme song.

But hardcore "30 Rock" fans may have spotted a joke or two that echoed moments from Fey's other great sitcom.  

Here are six of the most obvious "30 Rock" references in season one of "The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt."

1. The Jokes

Even if the dialogue sometimes comes off like improv, "Kimmy Schmidt" is very tightly scripted. Like "30 Rock" before it, there's plenty of quirky one-liners.

From "30 Rock":

2. The Music

Mixed with the New York scenery, the show's jazzy score might give you some serious "30 Rock" flashbacks. It was also composed by Fey's husband Jeff Richmond, who also directed several episodes of "Kimmy Schmidt."

3. Language Misinterpretation

The comedically correct term for this would be "double-talk," something Fey seems to relish in. There are a lot of characters here who get Spanish wrong the same way Jack Donaghy's French sounded more like gibberish and Liz Lemon didn't remember as much German as she thought she did. 

"Kimmy Schmidt" had a lot of fun with a cast of characters who could not understand a word of Spanish:

4. "Can I Watch You Eat That?"

In one "Kimmy" episode, the stress of Jacqueline Voorhees' (Jane Krakowski) divorce makes her want to eat her feelings but without the calories, so she asks Kimmy to eat a burger in front of her.

She must have picked up that behavior from Jack Donaghy, who liked to watch people eat red meat in front of him while he was recovering from a heart attack early in season two of "30 Rock."

5. Bad Doctors

One of the funniest recurring characters in "30 Rock" history is Dr. Spaceman (Chris Parnell), who is the go-to physician at "The Girlie Show," despite his blatant incompetence. He once claimed that "medicine is not a science."

Meanwhile, "Kimmy Schmidt" introduces us to Dr. Franff, an unattractive plastic surgeon, played perfectly by Martin Short.

6. Werewolves

One of the best cutaway jokes in "30 Rock" involved a song performed by Tracy Jordan (Tracy Morgan) called "Werewolf Bar Mitzvah" (fun fact: Donald Glover wrote the song): 

Jenna Maroney also played a werewolf during her days on "Night Court":

In "Kimmy Schmidt," lead character Titus finally gets his big acting break playing what else but a singing werewolf waiter.

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In most games, dying is a minor annoyance that forces you to go back to your last save, but for the upcoming game "Upsilon Circuit," dying in-game means you can never, ever play the game again.

You can't create a new character, you can't create a new account, you're done. No more game for you.

While you might be wondering why anyone would ever want to play a game like this, there's actually a quiet genius behind the concept, and it all revolves around audience participation.

Here's how it works.

Only eight players are ever playing "Upsilon Circuit" at any given time, and those eight players share a single server. They're divided up into two teams of four players each, and they'll compete against each other and other enemies within the fantastical dungeon-crawler world as they ward off monsters, collect treasure, and fight to survive for as long as they can before being killed.

Meanwhile, everyone else who wants to play the game is watching those eight players try to survive through a live stream, and they're actively aiding them in their journey. As those eight players slay monsters and find treasure, experience points are distributed to the spectators, who help decide how to level up the skills of the eight players.

When one of the eight players bites the dust, a new "contestant" is selected from the audience of spectators to replace them. Those on the sidelines will also be able to customize their own avatar as they await their chance to play.

The active role of the audience in the game is reminiscent of Twitch Plays Pokemon, as Kotaku points out, the viral social experiment where thousands of Twitch watchers helped control a single play through of Pokemon.

"We're making this because we want to watch it," Upsilon Circuit co-creator Calvin Goble told PC Gamer in an interview. "We're excited because, oh my gosh, what could happen when someone really cares about their one life in the game...but I would be totally lying if I didn't think it's a really neat social experiment."

There's no release date or pricing details on Upsilon Circuit quiet yet, but you can sign up to stay updated over at the official website or watch some gameplay and hear more from Goble in PC Gamer's interview below.

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Jeremy Clarkson, host of the monumentally popular British car show "Top Gear," is once again in trouble.

This time around, the story is that he got into a dustup with a producer, allegedly over what the caterers were serving for dinner.

All England is in an uproar. The Friends of Jeremy have lined up to support their lanky, outspoken champion.

The Enemies of Jeremy have seized the opportunity to take down a very rich and often outspoken media celebrity who stands atop both a pile of money and a broadcasting empire.

As an auto journalist, I'm used to Clarkson's antics. He's a classic buffoon, and the genius of "Top Gear" is that Clarkson and his co-hosts, James May and Richard Hammond, realized long ago that transforming themselves into cartoon characters would be both incredibly lucrative and lavishly entertaining. The show has been on forever, and while it's always presenting new cars and ever-more-outlandish spectacles to its legions of avid viewers, the basic shtick has become reliably changeless: three weird looking English dudes doing goofy things with rides both exotic and mundane.

It's said that "Top Gear" is the only show that men watch, but that's not quite right. It's actually the only show that mean watch that can make them feel like little boys again. 

Not surprisingly, kids love the show. 

And that's how "Top Gear" ultimately wound up breaking my heart. 

Father-son bonding over "Top Gear"

The show popped onto my radar about a decade ago. It had an enthusiastic following in the car-blogging realms, and I was a car blogger. Once online video became more prevalent, I was able to watch episodes on YouTube. I did this for a while until my now 9-year-old son, James, was around 3. When his mom was reading a bedtime story to our daughter, now 12 but then 5, James would sit on my lap and we would watch "Top Gear."

James loves cars and was thrilled by every Porsche, powerslide, bright-red Ferrari and madcap stunt Clarkson, May, and Hammond dreamed up.

And of course it was the 6'-5" Clarkson who captured his imagination.

The host, with his boundless desire to allow himself to look stupid, with his rubbery jowls and fluffy nimbus of hair, was like a galumphing clown to James. 

"Let's watch that funny guy!" he would say, when it was "Top Gear" time. "That funny guy" became our shorthand for Jeremy, the cheery jokester.

Gradually, I began to discover how much people in the UK detest Clarkson, due largely to his glibly retrograde political views and tendency to offend the offendable for personal PR reasons. But I also discovered that he was a pretty snappy writer; concluded that as a TV person, he was exceptionally accomplished; and besides, everything about the show was arch and exaggerated — Clarkson wasn't a head of state (although he hangs out with them!), so his offensiveness was generally benign.

But "Top Gear" is still a colossus for the BBC. It brings in hundreds of millions every year, has been called the most successful program of its type in human history, and is viewed around the world. It's much, much more than a show about cars.

And ironically, given the recent bother that's attached to Clarkson, it wasn't the big guy who broke my heart.

Rather, it was what happened with Richard Hammond, in 2006.

The crash

Hammond was nearly killed during season 9 when a jet-powered dragster he was driving blew a tire and flipped over (I'm not linking to the video, for reasons that will become clear in a sec — search for it if you want). He was in an induced coma for two-weeks, missed the rest of the season, but returned in 2007. "Top Gear" welcomed him back in style, with a circus-like extravaganza, but everyone agreed to avoid mentioning the crash thereafter.

For obvious reasons, because as Hammond later revealed, the experience was horrifying and traumatic, leaving him with lasting psychological and emotional scars.

I caught up with all of this after the fact, in 2008, right before the financial crisis and the meltdown of General Motors and Chrysler, when car blogging became more about business than fast, shiny metal. But the Hammond incident meant that James and I stuck to the episodes and segments where the cars were the stars. Any of the edgier stuff involving the hosts, we passed on. 

Ultimately, I decided that Hammond's accident was the result of some exceptionally irresponsible decision-making by "Top Gear" and its producers. His return, I thought, was ghastly spectacle, a grotesque attempt to make a man who had nearly been decapitated seem as right as rain when he clearly wasn't. Even if his co-hosts were very happy that he was back.

And so James and I stopped watching "Top Gear." I'm not sure it was an active parenting choice. It was more like my own discomfort with the show sucking the joy out of what had been a father-son bonding experience that I had formerly looked forward to.

For me, the live-action cartoon show, with three jovial rubes piloting over-the-top machines around a track, complete with their anonymous mascot, the pro driver known only as "The Stig," became for me a moneymaking juggernaut that jumped the shark by nearly doing in the valuable and talented Hammond. The show wasn't serious. But the accident was, and so was its aftermath.

Hard to say goodbye

It was hard to say goodbye. And of course I still watch an episode every now and then, given that "Top Gear" is the Biggest Show in my journalistic world. And I get pretty regular downloads on all things TG, from friends and colleagues. James rediscovered the show on his own about a year and a half ago, and I figured he was qualified to make his own decisions. I didn't ban the program or anything like that. He also keeps me in the loop.

Still, I have a difficult time watching Hammond, knowing what he went through.

The focus of the latest Clarkson controversy has shifted to the ongoing battle between the aging, renegade broadcaster, with his vast power over "Top Gear's" future, and his ostensible employer, the BBC, with its more restrictive notions of what constitutes the proper behavior of rich celebrities who have a history of sketchy conduct.

It doesn't much matter who comes out on top. Minus Clarkson, the BBC will figure out how to keep "Top Gear" going, or wind it down. And with a contrite Clarkson back on the air, "Top Gear" will play out its final years, generating new entertainments and cementing its reputation as the Greatest Car Show Ever — and maybe even the Greatest Show, period.

James might still be watching. But I won't. 

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Rudy Giuliani thinks President Obama should take a cue from Bill Cosby.

In a radio on Thursday, the Republican former New York City mayor said the president should follow the example set by the disgraced comedian and take a tough line with the African American community on crime.

"I hate to mention it because of what happened afterwards, but (he should be saying) the kinds of stuff Bill Cosby used to say," Giuliani told radio host John Gambling on aM 970 THE ANSWER, according to the Daily News.

Cosby has repeatedly spoken out publicly to criticize the African American community for perpetuating a culture of violence. However, Cosby's reputation has been tainted in recent years as he now faces a series of claims he sexually assaulted women throughout his career. 

Despite Cosby's fall from grace, Giuliani opted to reference the comedian as he expressed his disgust with Obama. He also said the president is unfairly targeting the law enforcement community in the wake of police violence against African Americans that fueled racially charged protests in Ferguson, Missouri and New York.

The Republican said Obama is ignoring the "enormous amount of crime" in the African American community due to "historical" reasons, according to the News.

"It is the obligation of the President to explain ... that our police are the best in the world," Giuliani said, adding, "It all starts at the top. It's the tone that's set by the President."

Giuliani said Obama has a unique opportunity to improve the discourse due to the fact he's the first African American president.

"I have told people in his administration, who I am close to and there aren’t many of them, and I said to them … 'This President has a chance to leave a legacy that no other president will have a chance to leave until we get another African American president and who knows when that’s going to be, right?'" Giuliani said. "He could explain that yes, there are bad police and yes, there are police that act improperly and yes there are more contacts between the police and blacks and we’re doing everything we can."

Last month, Giuliani made headlines for comments about Obama he made at an event in New York City where he claimed the president "doesn’t love America."

"He doesn't love you. He doesn't love me. He wasn't brought up the way you were brought up and I was brought up. To love this country. And with all our faults, we're the most exceptional country in the world," Giuliani said.

This post was updated at 5:26 p.m. with further quotes from Giuliani's interview. 

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Disney announced Thursday the title of the first “Star Wars” spinoff movie, “Rogue One.”

“Rogue One” will take place outside the events of the core “Star Wars” movie franchise, Episodes I through IX. It’ll be the first of three spinoffs Disney has planned over the next six years.

Disney didn’t give any details about the movie other than its release date (December 16, 2016) and one cast member (Felicity Jones). But based on the title, I have some theories on what the movie will be about.

In the various “Star Wars” books, comics, cartoons, and video games, Rogue Squadron is a group of X-Wing pilots led by Luke Skywalker. The squadron formed shortly after the events of “A New Hope” (the first “Star Wars” movie from 1977 where Luke blows up the Death Star). Rogue Squadron was made up of the best pilots, and they go on a lot of adventures. The Rogue Squadron video games for Nintendo 64 and Gamecube were especially good.

But Rogue Squadron’s story mostly ended before "Return of the Jedi" and we only got to see them once on the big screen when they destroyed the second Death Star.

Just to be clear, this is pure speculation on my part, but I think there are two possible scenarios for “Rogue One.”

The first will tell the story of how the original Rogue Squadron formed under Luke Skywalker and Wedge Antilles. The problem with that is the actors who played those characters are way too old to look the part. Denis Lawson (the actor who played Wedge) is 77. Mark Hamill is 63.

On the other hand, that story could be told through the perspective of another pilot, perhaps the one played by Felicity Jones.

I think it’s more likely “Rogue One” will take place in the same timeframe as the upcoming trilogy, which begins on December 18, 2015 with the release of “The Force Awakens.” That movie takes place about 30 years after “Return of the Jedi.”

If the galaxy faces some sort of new threat, maybe “Rogue One” will be about the formation of a new Rogue Squadron led by Felicity Jones’ character. “Rogue One” sounds like a fighter pilot call sign to me, so maybe Jones will be the leader of this new fighter squadron.

Again, I’m just spitballing here. There are also a lot of other theories about the spinoff movies and what they’ll be about:

• Some think one movie will be about a young Han Solo.
• Some think one movie will be about the bounty hunter Boba Fett.
• Some think one movie will be about the heist the Rebels pulled off to steal the plans for the second Death Star.
• And probably a lot more.

Maybe “Rogue One” will be about some of those things. Maybe it’ll be totally different. But it’ll be fun to speculate over the next year.

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Disney's 2017 lineup just became even bigger. 

Thursday, at the company's annual shareholder meeting, CEO Bob Iger announced "Star Wars: Episode VIII" will be released May 26, 2017.

The addition of "Star Wars" to the summer schedule is huge. It gives the Mouse House two big releases for the month of May. A followup to "Guardians of the Galaxy" is set to debut at the top of the month.

May will be the start of a huge summer 2017 for Disney, one which should definitely be envied by other studios.

In February, Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures announced a huge partnership that will allow Spider-Man to appear in future Marvel movies. The deal included a new Spider-Man movie that will hit theaters July 28, 2017.

With Spidey and "Star Wars" in the summer lineup, Disney's 2017 has the possibility of becoming one the studio's biggest years — if not the best — at the box office.

That's saying something because 2015 is expected to be a huge one for Disney, which owns Marvel.

The studio will release two of this year's most anticipated films: "The Avengers" sequel "The Avengers: Age of Ultron," and "Star Wars: Episode VII."

The first "Avengers" film grossed over $1.5 billion worldwide. "Star Wars" on its own has the potential of becoming the highest-grossing movie of all time. Analysts have predicted the sequel could hit $2 billion at theaters worldwide. The Guardian made a case that "Episode VII" could be the first $3 billion film. (For reference, 2009's "Avatar" made $2.7 billion worldwide.)

So how is 2017 shaping up?

The addition of Spider-Man gives Walt Disney Studios three Marvel movies in theaters that year. In general, the Mouse House puts out two per year.

Disney, which owns Lucasfilm, Pixar, and Marvel Studios under its umbrella of movie-making vehicles, will also put out a long-awaited "Toy Story" sequel. A fifth "Pirates of the Caribbean" film with Johnny Depp is also expected. 

Here's a look at Disney's big movies for 2017 so far:

Another Pixar movie, currently untitled, may be released in November.

The Street's Chris Katje predicts three of those, "Toy Story 4," "Spider-Man," and "Star Wars," will be at least $1 billion movies.

"Toy Story 3" grossed over $1 billion at theaters in 2010. Another "Pirates" film has a good chance of cracking $1 billion also. The fourth film made $963.4 million.

The "Spider-Man" estimate may be a bit high considering the two most recent films featuring the hero each failed to crack $800 million at the box office. (The highest-grossing "Spider-Man" movie is 2007's critically panned "Spider-Man 3," with $890 million.)

With five Spider-Man movies between 2002 and 2014, it is unclear how receptive people will be to a third Spider-Man reboot in such a small time period.

However, fans are pretty excited for Spidey's triumphant return to Marvel. After the announcement was made, Marvel became a trending topic on Twitter, with the hashtag #WelcomeHomeSpiderman becoming a favorite on the social media site. 

If anyone is able to bring the webslinger back to the big screen, it's Disney's well-oiled Marvel Cinematic Universe.

One thing’s for sure, Disney's lineup is going to be incredibly tough for other studios to compete with. If it all pans out, the company could have four billion-dollar movies come 2017.

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A BBC investigation is underway into the actions of Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson. He's been suspended amid reports he was involved in a scuffle with a producer.

Video courtesy of Devan Joseph & Associated Press.

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Disney will ban smoking in all its future movies aimed towards kids.

Bob Iger said the company will "absolutely prohibit" the use of smoking in Disney films rated PG-13 and under at Thursday's annual shareholder meeting during a Q&A session.

“We are extending our policy to prohibit smoking in movies across the board: Marvel, Lucas, Pixar, and Disney films,” said Iger, according to The Wrap. 

Iger said the only exception will be in films which involve historical figures known for smoking.

“For instance, we’ve been doing a movie on Abraham Lincoln, he was a smoker, and we would consider that acceptable," said Iger. “But in terms of any new characters that are created for any of those films, under any of those labels, we will absolutely prohibit smoking in any of those films."

Disney previously put a smoking ban in place to movies produced by the company after 2007. 

The company details its no-smoking policy in films on its website.

Here's the outline, which was last updated March 20, 2012:

• Disney policy prohibits product placement or promotion deals with respect to tobacco products for any movie it produces and Disney includes a statement to this effect on any movie in which tobacco products are depicted for which Disney is the sole or lead producer.
• Disney has determined not to depict cigarette smoking in movies produced by it after 2007 and distributed under the Disney label.
• Disney discourages depictions of cigarette smoking in movies produced in the United States for which a Disney entity is the sole or lead producer and which are released either as a Touchstone movie or Marvel movie, and seeks to limit cigarette smoking in those movies that are not rated “R” to:
•   scenes in which smoking is part of the historical, biographical or cultural context of the scene oris important to the character or scene from a factual or creative standpoint, or
•   scenes in which cigarette smoking is portrayed in an unfavorable light or the negative consequences of smoking are emphasized;
• Disney will place anti-smoking public service announcements on DVD’s of new and newly re-mastered titles, not rated “R,” that depict cigarette smoking and will work with theater owners to encourage the exhibition of an anti-smoking public service announcement before the theatrical exhibition of any such movie.
• Disney will include provisions in third-party distribution agreements for movies it distributes that are produced by others in the United States and for which principal photography has not begun at the time the third-party distribution agreement is signed advising filmmakers that it discourages depictions of cigarette smoking in movies that are not rated “R.”
• For movies produced outside the United States or where Disney’s influence over the content of films is limited (such as movies co-produced by Disney), Disney seeks to discourage depiction of smoking in movies that are not rated “R” where we believe it is appropriate and practical to do so.
• Disney regularly reviews the incidence of depictions of smoking in movies distributed by Disney entities. Compiled results of such reviews will be made public.

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The loneliest whale has plenty of friends it's never met.

It took a last-minute donation of $50,000 from the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, but Adrian Grenier and Josh Zeman's Kickstarter project to find "the Lonely Whale" reached its funding goal today.

The large donation, reports The Hollywood Reporter, was the final push for the project to reach its goal of $300,000.

The so-called "lonely" whale is also known by the nickname "52" for the frequency of its call: 52 Hertz.

That's also what makes this whale the loneliest whale on Earth – her call is outside the normal communication range for other whales, so they can't hear her. This is devastating, because whales are social animals that hang out in groups and call to each other to find mates and communicate with other members of their pod.

William Watkins of The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution was the first to listen to and record 52's anomalous calls in 1989.

In 2004 Watkins and colleagues from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution published a report on 12 years of tracking the 52 Hz call, which they only heard from one whale per season.

The 52 Hz whale call shared a repetitive, low-frequency tonal character with baleen whale calls like those of blue and fin whales, but didn't match any of the whale species in the large swath of the Northeast Pacific the researchers monitored.

The scientists didn't think the call was quite different enough to represent a new species, but think that 52 may be either a unique whale, or a hybrid of two whale species.

Here's her unique (and very sad) call:

Based on listening to the whale's calls for years, researchers think it might be a hybrid. Her migration patterns most closely resemble those of the blue whale and the fin whale. But sadly for 52, its call frequency is way outside the range of 10-39 Hz for the blue whale and 20 Hz for the fin — she probably couldn't even talk to her own parents.

Grenier and Zeman's Kickstarter project will fund a scientific expedition to tag and acoustically monitor hybrid whales, as well as a documentary film about the expedition. The 20-day expedition will venture 400 miles off the coast of California, and also aims to collect data about noise pollution in the oceans.

In an interview with Deadline Hollywood, Grenier speculated about what finding 52 might reveal.

"It would also be the first time anyone has seen 52, so we would observe him to see if he was, in fact, swimming with a pod or on the periphery, which we hope will help us answer the question of whether he's really 'lonely' or not," Grenier said.

Whether the "loneliest" whale swims in a pod or solo, it does have friends in high places.

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Hackers have hauled in millions over the years, mostly in bitcoins, with a blackmail scheme called ransomware, experts say.

You visit a hacked website or download an evil file, and it encrypts files on your computer and won't give them back until you pay money to designated account.

Those who visit porn sites have been victims of this type of thing for years. Even police stations have been forced to pay up.

Now two security researchers have found a new type of ransomware that slips in through Flash files or through an old hole in Internet Explorer and specifically targets video games, writes security researcher Vadim Kotov from Bromium Labs.

Want your game back? Want all your high scores and other game-related data back? Pay up.

"We haven’t seen gamers being targeted by ransomware until now," writes  in a blog post about the ransomware.

And if you're not a gamer? It can lock down other files on the computer as well, including your iTunes, your Office documents, and your finance software.

The new form of malware, called TeslaCrypt, was discovered by Fabian Wosar of Emsisoft in late February, according to a post on Bleeping Computer.

It holds for ransom about 40 video games including popular single-player games like these:

• Call of Duty
• Star Craft 2
• Diablo
• Fallout 3
• Minecraft
• Half-Life 2
• Dragon Age: Origins
• The Elder Scrolls and specifically Skyrim related files
• Star Wars: The Knights Of The Old Republic
• WarCraft 3
• F.E.A.R
• Saint Rows 2
• Assassin’s Creed
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
• Resident Evil 4

It also targets a bunch of popular online games, like World of Warcraft, League of Legends, and some games from Valve, which folks commenting on the Bleeping Computer say is odd, since not much gamer data from streaming games is actually stored on your PC.

Unfortunately, since it can nab other files, once you're attacked your hosed. "At this time there is no known method of decrypting your files for free," warns Bleeping Computer.

The best way to avoid this is prevention.

1. Make sure your web browser and related plug-ins like Flash are the latest, most updated ones your computer can use.
2. Back up your files.
3. Beware of auto-backups to Dropbox or other cloud services, Kotov warns. "If you have folders synchronized with an online storage – malware will get to them too," he says.

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Disney CEO Bob Iger unveiled the name and release date of the first "Star Wars" spinoff Thursday at the company's annual shareholder meeting.

"Rogue One" will be released December 16, 2016 and star Felicity Jones ("The Theory of Everything").

It wasn't the only treat attendees received. 

According to fan site Stitch Kingdom, which was on hand at the event, Disney also showed off the first concept art for the spinoff.

Here's how Stitch Kingdom described what they saw:

My personal take on it was it evoked concept art of a video game. It personally screamed Halo to me. It was very dark and done in greens, so it evoked the idea that it was being done under the cloak of night. Dozens of figures in fatigues appeared to be storming something with a strange helicopterish vehicle (open on the sides) in the background, releasing more troops.

/Film has a bit more info from others describing what they saw at the event. The image reportedly showed “4-5 armored, soldier-like persons on the ground.” A few ships were seen in the background.

Disney has yet to reveal any concept art for the film. 

We may not have to wait too long, though.

Next month, the annual "Star Wars" celebration will take place in Anaheim, California. 

Production on "Rogue One" is set to begin in London this summer.

SEE ALSO: Two theories on what the "Star Wars" spinoff could be about

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There's a lot of fun to be had with Kevin Bacon in ads.

In the UK, he's been starring in commercials for wireless carrier EE since 2012, which all riff on the popular parlor game "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" — which works on the assumption that anyone in the world is just six degrees of separation away from the Hollywood star.

Now Bacon is starring in a campaign for eggs. Of course he is.

"Because nobody knows eggs better than Bacon," he says as he creeps up on an unsuspecting woman cooking breakfast in her kitchen.

The eggs expert then gets flirtatious as he lays suggestively on the kitchen counter, even as the lady's partner walks in to check what all the commotion is about.

The online and print campaign was created by Grey New York and aims to boost Americans' consumption of eggs.

Here's the video ad:

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President Barack Obama went on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" on Thursday night and did a segment on the mean tweets that have been posted about him.

This is a recurring segment on the show, but it usually features celebrities in the entertainment world.

"From time to time, we give celebrities a chance to read some of the mean things people tweet about them, and tonight, we extended that same courtesy to our commander in chief," Kimmel said to laughs from the audience.

Obama, in his typical deadpan style, read the tweets aloud as they flashed on the screen beneath him.

Here are some samples:

Obama's hair is looking grayer these days. Can't imagine why since he doesn't seem to be one bit worried about all that's going on.

Is there any way we could fly Obama to some golf course halfway around the world and just leave him there? (To which Obama replied: "I think that's a great idea.")

A 30 rack of coors light is $23 now at Sun Stop. Thanks, Obama.

Obama also did an interview with Kimmel in which he discussed Hillary Clinton's email scandal, the revived protests in Ferguson, Missouri, and his life in the White House.

You can watch the full tweet segment here:

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In November, it was announced that the new Tina Fey-produced comedy "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" would move to Netflix from NBC before it even aired.

After the surprising move to a streaming site from a network, Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos is explaining why Netflix picked up the show.

Sarandos told Vulture that after NBC worried "about the time of the year" the show would be released (March) and the lack of "a complementary program to launch it with" he got a phone call:

We got a call from Tina Fey and from Dave Miner to come to New York. We came up literally on the last day of production, watched some of the shooting. Met with Tina and the team, heard what they were planning, and said, 'Look, if you can work it out with NBC, we'd love to do it.' And within 12 hours, we'd seen nine of the 13 episodes. And within four days, the deal was done.

The show, starring "The Office" actress Ellie Kemper as a woman who escapes from a doomsday cult and starts life over again in New York City, is produced by "30 Rock" duo Fey and Robert Carlock. The two have a longstanding relationship with NBC.

"This was a strange opportunity where, usually when shows don't make it, sometimes it has very little to do with the quality and it has everything to do with the time slot, the lead-in show, the time of year it came out," Sarandos told Vulture at the Gotham Independent Film Awards in December. "It was probably one of the most remarkable developments of the last couple of years in television."

NBC boss Robert Greenblatt was also on board with the swap from network TV to the streaming site, saying in a statement: "While it was originally developed for NBC, we have a very drama-heavy mid-season schedule so we're thrilled about this Netflix opportunity; it's an instant win-win for everyone, including Tina, Robert, and Universal Television. We're already talking to these extraordinary creators about new development for NBC, but meanwhile, everyone here from Universal Television will do everything possible to see that 'Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt' becomes a long-running hit on Netflix."

"The very construct of 'Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt' — its offbeat premise, hilarious and rich characters, and serialized storytelling — make it a perfect Netflix comedy series," adds Cindy Holland, VP of original content at Netflix.

While most of the "Kimmy Schmidt" episodes now streaming on Netflix had already been shot for network TV, a few extra raunchier jokes were able to weave their way back into the show after the move.

Netflix chief communications officer Jonathan Friedland says that now the show "is a little saucier."

Specifically, star Jane Krakowski tells Business Insider, "I think they did go back and try to breathe some of the jokes that we either cut for time, is what we've heard from Tina and Carlock. Jokes that didn't make it past some of the censors made it back in. Now that we have that freedom."

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President Barack Obama and rapper Kanye West apparently don't see their relationship in the same terms.

West gave a guest lecture at Oxford University earlier this month and reportedly claimed he and the president were in regular communication with another. 

According to New York magazine, West said he has the ability to "call Obama out of the blue," and Obama "calls the home phone, by the way." 

But in an appearance on "Jimmy Kimmel Live," Obama disputed West's claim.

"Look, I love his music. He's incredibly creative," Obama said, adding, "I don't think I've got his home number."

Obama, who once called West a "jackass" after the rapper infamously upstaged Taylor Swift, said he and West had only met two times. 

"The first time when I was a senator, and he was with his mom, and he had just gotten big. He is from Chicago and so they wanted to meet. And he was very soft-spoken, very gracious," Obama said, implicitly offering a contrast with West's current persona. "About six months ago, he came to an event."

Obama said he also met West at an unspecified "event" that was "about six months ago," but he didn't elaborate. 

Watch Obama comment on West below:

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One of the most talented young actresses in Hollywood is officially a part of the "Star Wars" franchise.

Thursday, it was announced Felicity Jones would be joining the cast of the first "Star Wars" spinoff, "Rogue One."

You may recognize the 31-year-old actress. 

Jones received an Oscar nomination for her performance playing Stephen Hawking’s wife, Jane, in "The Theory of Everything."

Though Jones has been working professionally since age 12 and previously found recognition for her work on indie films, "Star Wars" will help give the actress global recognition.

Even though "Rogue One" won't be in theaters until December 16, 2016, it's worth getting to know Jones before then.

Jones grew up in Birmingham, England, where she was encouraged to get into acting by her uncle, actor Michael Hadley (“Pirate Radio”). Her first role was at age 12 in the 1996 UK TV movie “The Treasure Seekers,” co-starring Keira Knightley.

From 1998 to 2001 she starred in the popular U.K. shows "The Worst Witch" and its follow-up, "Weirdsister College."

She then pulled back on her workload to focus on school until she graduated from Wadham College in 2006.

Jones soon went back to work on TV. She made an appearance on an episode of "Doctor Who" in 2008, and popped up in movies like 2009’s "Cheri" with Michelle Pfeiffer, as well as 2010’s "The Tempest," alongside Helen Mirren.

Her career took off in the beginning of 2011 when she starred in that year’s Sundance Film Festival Grand Prize winner "Like Crazy."

In the relationship drama, she stars opposite Anton Yelchin. The two improvised almost all of their dialogue playing a couple in and out of love.

While adding to her indie film roster, Jones showed up in a season 3 episode of HBO’s "Girls" in 2014, having a shouting match with character "Jessa."

That same year she also starred in "The Amazing Spider-Man 2," playing Harry Osborn’s (aka Green Goblin) assistant.

Later that year, she played Stephen Hawking’s wife, Jane, in the critically acclaimed bio pic, "The Theory of Everything."

The film garnered her Oscar, Golden Globe, and BAFTA nominations for Best Actress.

She didn't take home the Oscar, but she did get a great consolation prize — a LEGO statuette.

Jones was one of a few actresses rumored to star in the first "Star Wars" spinoff.

Nothing is known about who Jones will play in next year's "Star Wars"; however, from the film's title, "Rogue One," she could likely be a Rogue Squadron pilot.

"Rogue One" will open in theaters December 16, 2016.

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The mayor of Springfield, Illinois recently handed a "key to the city" over to G.I. Joe's nemesis, Cobra Commander.

Cobra Commander is the leader of a terrorist organization bent on ruling the world.

The terrorist group has overtaken several southern Illinois town in the G.I. Joe cartoons and comic books, according to the A.V. Club. The mayor of Springfield handing a key to the city to G.I. Joe's arch nemesis is a slap in the face to the hero.

The publicity stunt precedes a G.I. Joe collector's convention next month.

Springfield Mayor Mike Houston released this statement about the controversy:

G.I. Joe wouldn’t be the superhero he is to millions of boys and girls if he didn’t have Cobra Commander to knock down every time he did something bad, and that’s why I gave him the key to the city.  

We’re not celebrating Cobra Commander's evil deeds as a villain.  We are recognizing the role he has played in the fantasy world of  boys and girls enjoying villains and heroes. I’m not concerned about giving the key to the city to Cobra Commander because we all know if he gets in trouble in our city,  G.I. Joe will come here and save the day! As Americans, we know that G I. Joe never gives up.  He’s always there. He fights for freedom over land and air.  We can count on him!

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HBO’s documentary on the Church of Scientology, “Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief,” addresses rumors that have been swirling for years about the church. But the film's director, Alex Gibney, didn't tackle one of the biggest Scientology mysteries — the current location of the wife of Scientology leader, David Miscavige.

“At the end of the day, rather than doing stone skipping and covering as much as possible in a superficial way we chose to dig in on certain things,” Gibney told Business Insider on why he left the story out of the documentary.

Gibney also told BI that though there was a longer version of the film that included more details about Scientology, the story of Miscavige’s allegedly missing wife, Shelley, was never investigated and they never filmed anything about it.

Shelley has been missing since 2006, allegedly following an incident where she filled several job vacancies without her husband’s permission, as initially reported by The New Yorker’s Lawrence Wright (who would go on to write “Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood & The Prison of Belief,” the book that inspired Gibney’s film). 

Church spokespeople have denied that Shelley is missing, Vanity Fair reported last year, but the rumors of her absence persist.

In 2012, Steve Hall, a former Scientologist, told BI that he believes she’s staying at the little-known “Church of Spiritual Technology,” a remote forest compound in Twin Peaks, California, near San Bernadino.

After actress Leah Remini, a 30-year vet of the church, left Scientology in 2013, she reportedly filed a missing persons report for Shelly with the Los Angeles Police Department. Her suspicion reportedly began years ago after noticing Shelly wasn’t with her husband at the 2006 wedding of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, in which David was Cruise’s best man. 

Around the time of Remini notifying the police, the journalist Tony Ortega, a longtime critic of the church with his blog "The Underground Bunker" (who is also featured in "Going Clear"), reported that Shelly is at the church’s secret compound in the mountains of Los Angeles.

Here's why Shelly is allegedly banished, according to Ortega:

“Early in 2004, at Scientology’s International Base — a secretive, 500-acre compound about 90 miles east of Los Angeles, near the town of Hemet — Miscavige took his ideas about discipline to strange new lengths. A few dozen executives he wanted to punish were locked into a set of rooms that had been an office, and “The Hole” was born. Over the next several years, even more executives who had fallen from his favor were added to the bizarre and harsh office-prison, reaching about 100 total prisoners.

Around that time, Miscavige also became obsessed with the base’s “Org Board.” It was a roster of jobs that Miscavige wanted filled, but for some reason his underlings could never fill out the empty slots in the roster to his satisfaction. People who worked there at the time tell us that Miscavige’s tirades about the org board were maddening and relentless.

Then in 2005, Miscavige did something surprising — he traveled to nearby Los Angeles to work on a publishing project, and Shelly stayed behind at the base. People who worked at the base tell us it was the first time they remembered seeing the couple apart.

Shelly took advantage of her husband’s absence to fill in the org board that had proved such a headache. She also made progress on another project Miscavige had been promising to start by moving his belongings out of a set of buildings called the ‘Villas.’ She moved his things into another set of rooms called ‘the G’s,’ so the Villas could be renovated…

When Miscavige returned from Los Angeles and found the org board filled and his belongings moved, he erupted. A week later — which was sometime late in 2005 or early in 2006, our sources tell us, Shelly vanished.” 

Business Insider reached out to Scientology to comment on Shelly's alleged disappearance:

"The false allegation about Mrs. Miscavige was debunked by the Los Angeles Police Department in a statement two years ago," a spokesperson for the church told BI in a written statement. "The police declared the rumor 'unfounded' and she continues in the Church as she always has. The notion that Mrs. Miscavige is missing is a conspiracy theory among Alex Gibney and Lawrence Wright's unsavory sources. The rumor has resulted in the disgraceful harassment of Mr. and Mrs. Miscavige. It is disgusting. The Church has made information available about Mr. Gibney’s film at www.fredommag.org/hbo."

The Church of Scientology also disputed the existence of a place called "The Hole" to BI:

This is another tired, false and offensive allegation. The only “hole” at the Church property being referred to is on the golf course.  This again sources to the same small group of liars. This false propaganda was exposed as a lie in our video at freedommag.org/hbo/videos/exterminating-gibneys-propaganda.html.

But the so-called "hole" is featured in one of the most chilling scenes in “Going Clear.”

Former Scientology executives who claim to have been in the hole said Miscavige gathered the group in a room, put empty chairs in the middle of it, and told them to play musical chairs. He allegedly told them when one chair remained that person was allowed to stay in their position, and everyone else would be sent off to remote locations.

According to the film, Miscavige started playing the music, Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody,” and the staff began circling the chairs. When the music stopped the staff battled for seats. The fewer chairs that remained throughout the game, the more aggressive people were to get a chair, allegedly leading to punching and shoving. After one person finally remained, Miscavige told everyone in the room that he changed his mind and everyone was allowed to stay.

The group stayed in the hole and continued work on the org board, according to the film.

“This just is David Miscavige,” Mike Rinder, a former executive of Scientology who is featured in “Going Clear” and was involved in the alleged musical chairs incident, told reporters at HBO’s offices last week. “His personality type is sociopath. He takes a lot of things that in the hands of someone else would be innocuous and uses those as tools of weapons to abuse people.”

Scientology also disputed Rinder's comments:

"The source for these allegations, and Gibney’s primary subject, Mike Rinder, is talking about himself. Mr. Gibney and now yourself, due to prejudice and bias, have obliged in revising history for self-admitted suborners of perjury, perjurers and obstructers of justice.

Mike Rinder admitted in a January deposition to the exact opposite of what he says to Mr. Gibney in the film and now to you. He’s also a tainted source because he’s admitted to being paid by law firms seeking to score a payday suing the Church.  You should know that just today the Church won a decisive victory in the case Rinder and his attorney clients had been hoping to hit the jackpot on.

Rinder’s domestic abuse is documented by his ex-wife, brother, daughter and his ex-wife’s surgeon, and all of this would have been relevant to the film since Gibney shamelessly has Rinder lie about his ex-wife yet he didn’t ask her for comment or to sit for an interview, even when she was in New York to see him.

Alex Gibney and HBO cynically repackaged Mike Rinder into the poster boy for their new propaganda film. They flew Rinder around the country in five-star luxury to shill for their religious hatred, never mentioning that Rinder was expelled from his former religion for gross malfeasance. They hid that Mike Rinder can’t hold a job and his only source of income is payment for attacking Scientology. Gibney knew all this but relevant facts would have popped the phony bubble of legitimacy Gibney created around his 'star.'

And, at a time when religious hatred is spreading through the world and inciting violence, it is also irresponsible to release any film about religion with someone so obsessed with inciting hatred as Mike Rinder, an admitted liar and suborner of perjury, a paid anti-religionist and a domestic abuser.  http://www.freedommag.org/hbo/videos/mike-rinder.html

Mr. Miscavige has been successfully leading the Scientology religion for more than a quarter of a century during which the Scientology religion has expanded faster in the last 10 years than in its previous 50 years combined. Scientology parishioners worldwide hold him in the highest esteem for what he is doing for the religion."

This is not Gibney’s first time examining the alleged abuse of power. He was nominated for an Oscar exposing the corrupt acts by the heads of Enron (“Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room”), won one looking at US torture tactics ("Taxi to the Dark Side"), and has done films on the illegal methods done by “Casino Jack” Abramoff (“Casino Jack and the United States of Money”), the untruthful statements made by Lance Armstrong (“The Armstrong Lie”) and the questionable motives of Julian Assange (“We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks”), not to mention the illegal sexual conduct by the Catholic Church (“Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God”).

With his history of examining infamous characters, how does Gibney see Miscavige?

“He’s a true believer who is doing everything he can to protect his religion,” Gibney told BI. “And in that way it may be even more terrifying because at some point you can sit someone down who is not a true believer and say ‘let’s do a risk/reward analysis.’ That’s not something he’d be willing to engage in.”

"Going Clear" opens theatrically in limited release today and airs on HBO March 29.

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Disney announced the title of the first "Star Wars" spinoff will be called "Rogue One" Thursday during its annual shareholder meetings.

The name evokes images of the Rogues, a rebel alliance squad founded in part by Luke Skywalker.

However, what's most interesting is the origin of the spinoff's name. 

Screenwriter Gary Whitta ("The Book of Eli") took to Twitter to reveal he came up with the name "Rogue One."

Whitta was originally hired to write a screenplay for the film along with director Gareth Edwards ("Godzilla"). The announcement was made on the official Star Wars site May 2014. He left the project in January after completing a first draft of the film, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

In Thursday's "Rogue One" announcement, Whitta's name was nowhere to be seen, prompting some fans to take notice. 

Chris Weitz ("Cinderella," "About a Boy") has taken over script duties while chief creative officer of Industrial Light & Magic, John Knoll, is credited for the "Rogue One" story idea.

On his website, Whitta lists serving as co-writer of "Star Wars Rogue One" under his body of work. According to Whitta, he helped come up with the story and an early version of the film's screenplay.

Business Insider has reached out to Whitta for comment.

We'll update this post if we hear back from him.

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The White House posted a clip on Vine on Friday that shows what's really going on behind the scenes when Vice President Joe Biden is on the phone with world leaders. 

In the brief video, Biden uses a weight to do bicep curls while making a phone call.

"I do a million of these a day," Biden declares.

The clip is part of an effort to promote First Lady Michelle Obama's "#GimmeFive" campaign, which encourages people to share five things they do to stay healthy.

In the clip, Biden urges viewers to "just give me five" after boasting about his arm curling prowess.

Watch the video below.

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