Heroes, villains, epic battles and time travel — That's what fans can expect from The CW's "Arrow"-"Flash" spinoff "DC's Legends of Tomorrow."

The network released the first trailer from the spinoff on Thursday and it does a pretty thorough job of explaining the show's premise — even if you're not caught up on the happenings of "Arrow" and "Flash."

A motley crew of super heroes are brought together by Arrow (Stephen Amell) and Flash (Grant Gustin) to face the greatest threat the world has ever experienced. They'll be led by a man from the future, Rip Hunter ("Doctor Who's" Arthur Darvill). Although it doesn't look like it at first, the crew will actually become a team and as the show's title suggests "legends."

It also stars Victor Garber (“Alias”); Brandon Routh (“Superman Returns”); Caity Lotz (“Arrow”); Ciarra Renee (“Pippin”); Franz Drameh (“Edge of Tomorrow”), and "Prison Break" alums Dominic Purcell and Wentworth Miller.

"DC's Legends of Tomorrow" will premiere in the midseason on The CW.

Watch the first trailer below:

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Warning: Spoilers ahead (if you’re not caught up on season 7)

After seven seasons on the air, this Sunday marks the final episode of AMC's hit show "Mad Men."

If you haven't been keeping up with the current season, here's the key points you need to know before watching the finale.

1. Sterling Cooper & Partners is no more.

The advertising agency that housed the talented and very sought-after creative director Don Draper was finally absorbed by its parent company, McCann Erickson, a few episodes ago. When the partners revealed the news to the SC&P staff, Draper announced “this is just the beginning.”

But everyone could see that things would never be the same, and soon Don would too. 

2. Joan has left McCann Erickson after being sexually harassed. 

Out of all the SC&P partners, Joan Holloway had the hardest transition moving to McCann Erickson. In fact, she quickly learned that her status at SC&P didn’t mean squat. First, she was talked down to by a male junior member on her team. Then she was hit on by one of the executives at the company.

But Joan finally realized where she stood in the company when her chat with McCann Erickson’s head honcho, Jim Hobart, ended with her threatening to get the ACLU involved for sexism in the work place. When it was all said and done, she never reported the company and agreed to leave with only half the money it owed her.  

3. Peggy has turned over a new leaf.

As Joan was fighting the boys club at McCann Erickson, Peggy Olson was just trying to get in the door. At first the company thought she was a secretary. But Peggy stood her ground and stayed in the SC&P offices until she finally was told that McCann Erickson had an office for her. But in those final hours at SC&P she had a heart-to-heart with Roger Sterling. And through that she realized that going to McCann Erickson can be a new chapter in her career. A place where no one knows her past and she can create an edgy, no-nonsense persona. 

4. Peter and Trudy are staring over.

On last week’s episode, Pete Campbell stumbles into a job opportunity at Learjet. This makes him think about the future, which would mean leaving New York. When he gets a serious offer, he decides to profess to his ex-wife Trudy that he still has feelings for her and wants her and their daughter to come with him to Wichita if he accepts the job. Following an emotional pre-dawn heart-to-heart, the two decide to give it another shot. 

5. Betty has cancer.

One of the most shocking developments from these final episodes is the reveal that Betty has lung cancer. She learned about it after injuring herself falling on stairs at the school where she’s taking psychology classes. The diagnosis is not good. The cancer is terminal and the doctor believes she has a year left to live, at the most. But Betty is staying strong about the news. She refuses to undergo treatment, and plans to continue taking classes and living her final months to the fullest. 

6. Don is on the road.

What will more than likely be the main focus of the final episode is the journey Don is currently on. He quickly realized McCann Erickson wasn’t for him after sitting in on a pitch meeting for Miller Beer with a table full of the McCann Erickson creative team. Seeing he was just a fish in a large pond, he walked out of the meeting and has been driving across the country ever since. He first tried to track down the waitress he’d been sleeping with for the last half of the season. When he couldn’t track her down, he began driving west. He’s even told people that he “used to be in advertising.” Last we saw him, he gave up his car to a kid he recently met and sat alone at the side of the road.

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HBO just dropped another minute-long trailer for "True Detective" season 2, and for anyone who was skeptical about Vince Vaughn in a serious role, that's about to change.

The dialogue heavy trailer gives us a good look at our four leads — Vaughn, Colin Farrell, Rachel McAdams, and Taylor Kitsch — and the first look at Vaughn looks pretty menacing.

The new season will follow three cops (McAdams, Farrell, and Kitsch) along with Vaughn as a career criminal who "navigate a web of conspiracy" after a murder.

"True Detective" season 2 premieres on HBO June 21.

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Video games are more than just a past time — they can mean serious business.

People are willing to pay a hefty price for nostalgia and one-of-a-kind releases, and thanks to retro gaming website RacketBoy, you can now see just how much.

From golden Nintendo cartridges to games that let you play as an 8-bit Moses crossing the Red Sea, we've tabulated the rarest and most expensive games of all time.

Spoiler alert: People love rare Atari games.

15. "Elemental Gearbolt" Assassin’s Case (PS1): $1,400-$1,750

"Elemental Gearbolt" is a Japanese sci-fi shooter released for the original Playstation in 1997.

The Assassin's Case was awarded during a 1998 E3 tournament, and only 40 of these limited-edition bundles were produced. The case includes the "Elemental Gearbolt" game and a golden "GunCon" and memory card.

14. "Eli’s Ladder" (Atari 2600): $1,500-$1,700

"Eli's Ladder" is the rarest educational video game in existence.

Players answer simple math questions to move Eli up the ladder and into his spaceship, all so he can fly to the moon. The game even includes a wall chart and motivational stickers, according to RacketBoy.

13. "Karate" (Atari 2600, Ultravision release): $2,500-$4,000

"Karate" for the Atari 2600 was designed by black belt Joseph Amelio. The game was actually released by two publishers, Ultravision and Froggo.

The Ultravision version, released first in 1982, is far more valuable than the Froggo release, though the games are exactly the same.

On Thursday, the Frieze Art Fair opens in New York on Randall's Island Park.

From May 14–17, fairgoers can check out a giant tent full of contemporary art. But that's not all you can do while there.

Below are eight reasons why it's the perfect weekend activity.

1. Richard Prince's Instagrams:

In September, artist Richard Prince debuted his new show at the Gagosian Gallery — 38 real-life Instagrams inkjet-printed on 48-inch by 56-inch" canvas. You can check out the much buzzed-about works below, which are reportedly going for up to $100,000.

2. Interactive Art:

At gallerist Gavin Brown's stall, willing fairgoers are given a small square canvas, brushes, and black paint to create an eight-inch circle as part of American artist Jonathan Horowitz's work.

"The results are being sold in groups of 100, each priced at $100,000," reports Art News, which also noted that Leonardo DiCaprio was interested in the piece during a VIP preview.

Artist Korakrit Arunanondchai has installed denim massage chairs speckled with paint. Fairgoers are invited to sit in the chairs, as long as they take their shoes off.

Artist Martha Araújo invites festivalgoers to put on a velcro suit and jump around on a quarter-pipe, trying to stick in various positions.

A woman lays beneath a bedazzled Kris Lemsalu turtle shell for hours on end.

3. People Watching:

4. Celebrity Sightings:

You're never sure who you will run into. Last year, Eva Longoria and Nicky Hilton were both in attendance.

5. The Food:

Some of New York's most beloved restaurants have pop-ups at Frieze: Court Street Grocers, Dimes, Frankies Spuntino, Marlow & Sons, Milk Bar, Morgenstern’s Finest Ice Cream, Parlor Coffee, Prime Meats, and Roberta’s Pizza will all be participating this year.

Just be prepared to pay more than usual.

6. The Gift Shop:

There are tons of great art books waiting to be displayed on your coffee table.
 

7. The Great Outdoors:

The best way to get to the fair is by ferry, especially on a nice day.

The fair is located on beautiful grounds, and there is plenty of space to lay out on the lawn. 

8. And of course, the selfies:

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"Mad Max: Fury Road" is in theaters Friday, May 15.

Starring Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron, the film is the fourth addition to the "Mad Max" franchise from director George Miller. The movie is phenomenal, the best of the year so far.

If you're not familiar with the movies — the first came out in 1979 — then the cult hype around the return of the series may be lost on you.

Before the film's release, here's a quick primer to catch you up to speed on Max.

Who exactly is this Max and why is he "Mad"?

In a dystopian crime-ridden world, Max Rockatansky was part of a police force holding criminals at bay.

All of that changed at the end of the first film.

*Warning* Some spoilers ahead *Warning*

He resigned from his job after his partner Goose was left for dead by a mad motorcycle gang. After his wife and infant child were killed in the movie's climax, Rockatansky essentially went mad.

There's no other word for it.

He hunted down the rest of the gang, plucking them off one by one until they were all dead. He even handcuffed the final guy to a wrecked car that was about to blow. Instead of killing him outright, he left him with a hacksaw to attempt to cut through either the cuffs or his ankle before leaving him for dead.

Max is a man living on the edge. He has nothing to live for, yet he somehow always ends up getting mixed up in an adventure where he's called upon to save a group of defenseless people. Don't mistake him for a hero — he's no Superman, but he's not a villain either. You could probably categorize Max under a group of antiheroes or reluctant savior. 

How many films are there?

"Fury Road" will be the fourth film in the franchise. 

The other three are the original "Mad Max" (1979), "Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior" (1982), and "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome" (1985).

Do I need to see them before checking out "Fury Road"?

Not necessarily. 

Though Miller told The Hollywood Reporter that all of the films are "connected in spirit," "Fury Road" stands on its own. Since the film's pretty light on plot (and dialogue), focusing more heavily on the visuals and action, you'll be just fine. 

The introduction of Tom Hardy taking over as Max is sort of a passing of the torch. 

Think of "Fury Road" as a completely new James Bond installment with a new actor stepping in to play the role. He has a new agenda and different missions to carry out. Likewise, this is an entirely new adventure in the world of "Max."

So, why's the newest one coming out now — years later? Seems like an awful long time to wait for another sequel.

Miller has been trying to bring "Fury Road" to screen for 15 years, but it has been delayed several times and has even swapped studios. 

"When 9/11 happened, the American dollar collapsed against the Australian dollar, the budget ballooned, and it fell apart," Miller explained to THR. "So we had to move on to Happy Feet because the digital unit doing that was ready, and Warners said, 'Let’s go.'"

When the film was at Warner Bros., it was originally set to film in Australia, like the previous installments, however, an unusually heavy rain storm set the film back 18 months. Finally, production moved to Africa.

And why isn't Mel Gibson reprising his role as the lead?

Miller originally wanted him to return, and he was just about onboard when there were original talks for the film in 2000 and 2001; however, as delays for the film went on, two concerns came up.

"By the time we were ready for Fury Road again, Mel had all those troubles," Miller told the Huffington Post. "It also definitely got to the stage where it wasn't like Unforgiven, where it plays with an older guy. It was definitely the younger guy, the same guy."

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If you've ever watched one of your favorite animated Disney classics like "Robin Hood" and have felt like you've seen it before, you may be right.

A lot of the scenes in the film are from older Disney movies including 1967's "The Jungle Book" and 1937's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves."

Here's Maid Marian ("Robin Hood") and Snow White both clapping in tune to a group of critters and dwarves, respectively, singing and dancing.

Little John from "Robin Hood" and Baloo ("The Jungle Book") not only shared a voice actor, Phil Harris, but also looked similar, with the same crazed eyes in the scenes below.

While that may seem alarming, it's not. The Mouse House often recycled its old animated footage to save costs on film. 

Called rotoscoping, the process involves animators drawing and tracing over old footage to create anew.

Earlier this week, an HD video we first spotted on /film broke down a lot of similarities between a number of classic Disney films.

While the HD video is new, if you're a Disney fan, this isn't anything new.

A search for "Disney reused animation" on YouTube brings up over 10,000 results. The Daily Mail first wrote about it in 2009.

Regardless, it's still stunning to see the side-by-sides if you're just hearing this for the first time.

Dancing was repeated a lot in films. Here you can see a similar sequence in both the endings to 1959's "Sleeping Beauty," where fairies are shifting the color of her dress between blue and pink, and 1991's "Beauty and the Beast."

A scene of Maid Marian dancing in "Robin Hood" was previously seen in 1970's "Aristocats."

That famous drum-banging scene in marketing for "The Aristocats" was also used in "Robin Hood."

Another video, entitled "The Disney Deja Vu" shows a lot of other animation that was reused across films.

Among them is a scene from 1961's "101 Dalmatians" that can also be seen in 1963's "The Sword in the Stone."

Those are just a few examples from tens of Disney films that borrow and reuse animation.

To be clear, it's not just Disney who has done this. Plenty of other films have recycled content over the years.

You can watch the video below:

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Film star Johnny Depp is flying his dogs home from Australia on Friday, a day after the minister of agriculture warned him to send the pair back to the US to be quarantined or face having them put down.

Depp, who is in Australia to film the fifth of his blockbuster pirate movies, "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales," also faces a formal interview with government officers into how the Yorkshire terriers were allegedly smuggled in, a spokesman for Minister of Agriculture Barnaby Joyce told Reuters.

The dogs would be flying out "sometime this evening," he said. The incident highlights tough animal security laws in Australia, which has had no reported cases of rabies among dogs.

Last month, Depp flew in the dogs on his private jet without declaring them to customs, but government officials followed a tip after the dogs were seen on the way to a grooming salon.

"If we start letting movie stars, even if they've been 'Sexiest Man Alive' twice, to come into our nation, then why don't we just break the laws for everybody?" Joyce said in a televised statement. "It's time that Pistol and Boo buggered off back to the United States. After that I don't expect to be invited to the opening of 'Pirates of the Caribbean.'"

An online petition calling on Joyce to spare the dogs now has 17,500 signatures and has sparked a debate on Twitter.

(Reporting by Swati Pandey; Editing by Nick Macfie)

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Though this summer's big "Jurassic World" film is all about Chris Pratt and his dinosaur motorcycle gang, "Lego Jurassic World" is a Lego-filled romp through the entire franchise's history.

Anxious to see Dr. Ian Malcolm excitedly talk his head off? "Lego Jurassic World" is right up your alley. The game launches this June alongside the new film, and it's headed to a wide variety of platforms: Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Vita, PlayStation 4, Nintendo 3DS and Wii .

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The sound that you're listenin' to
Is from my guitar that's named Lucille
I'm very crazy about Lucille
Lucille took me from the plantation
Or you might say brought me fame
                                                - "Lucille"

B.B. King was married twice and had many romances but the real love of his life was Lucille. 

The blues legend, who died on Thursday night in Las Vegas, where he had been in hospice care, was forever linked to his beloved guitars. On those black Gibson ES-355 guitars, both acoustic and electric, King amazed audiences with his signature style - “single-string runs punctuated by loud chords, subtle vibratos, and bent notes, building on the standard 12-bar blues and improvising like a jazz master,” as the AP describes it.

The story of how King named his guitars Lucille was born in tragedy. 

On a cold night in the winter of 1949, King was performing at a nightclub in Twist, Arkansas when a fight broke out between two men over a woman. One of the men fell against a burning barrel of kerosene in the middle of the room that was used to heat up the club. It tipped over,  spilling the burning kerosene on the floor.

“It looked like a river of fire,” King later recalled. 

In a panic, everyone ran for the front door, including King. Standing outside, he realized that he had left behind his trusty $30 guitar. 

“I went back for it,” remembered King in an interview with NPR. “[It] was a wooden building, and it was burning so fast that when I got my guitar, it started to collapse around me. So I almost my life getting my guitar.” 

The next day, he learned that the woman the men were fighting over was named Lucille. 

“I never did meet the lady but I learned that her name was Lucille so I named my guitar Lucille to remind me not to do a thing like that again,” recalled King.

In 1980, Gibson introduced a special B.B. King Lucille model, featuring “Lucille” script, a maple neck and without the F-holes at the top of the guitar, as per King’s preference so as to reduce feedback.

On his 80th birthday in 2005, Gibson launched a limited-edition Lucille and gave the prototype to King as a gift. He fell in love with it and it became his main gigging guitar. Four years later, it was stolen from him. 

That Lucille ended up in a Las Vegas pawn shop, by now covered in dirt and full of scratches and dents. One day, guitar collector Eric Dahl bought it, took it home and cleaned it up.

He was curious about its provenance and spent weeks making phone calls and writing to guitar companies about this unusual instrument. In November of that year, he got a call from Gibson, telling him how it had been stolen from King.  

A few weeks later, Dahl met King and returned the guitar to him.

“He kept thanking me and shaking my hand and was so happy,” remembers Dahl.

In gratitude, King gave Dahl another Lucille that he signed, some guitar picks and he took a picture with Dahl that King kept in his office until the end of his life.

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This week at the Cannes Film Festival, Woody Allen gave an interesting interview to Deadline. He talked about his yet-to-be-completed Amazon series and streaming services.

Allen doesn't "even know what a streaming service is," per his Q&A.

"When you said streaming service, it was the first time I’ve heard that term connected with the Amazon thing," he said. "I never knew what Amazon was. I’ve never seen any of those series, even on cable."

Back in January, Amazon signed Allen to write and direct a full TV season with half-hour episodes.

Amazon has had lots of luck with its other original series: It was the first streaming service to win for an award for best series at the Golden Globes with "Transparent," a dark comedy about a father who comes out as transgender.

At the time, Allen seemed less than enthused. “I don’t know how I got into this. I have no ideas, and I’m not sure where to begin," he said in a statement.

In his interview this week with Deadline, he said that Amazon kept coming to him to ask him to agree to do a series, although he didn't have any ideas for it:

"I never watch television. I don’t know the first thing about it. Well, this went on for a year and a half, and they kept making a better deal and a better deal. Finally they said look, we’ll do anything that you want, just give us six half hours. They can be black and white, they can take place in Paris, in New York and California, they can be about a family, they can be comedy, you can be in them, they can be tragic. We don’t have to know anything, just come in with six half hours. And they offered a lot of money and everybody around me was pressuring me, go ahead and do it, what do you have to lose?"

 Allen also says he's "regretted every second" since agreeing to the deal because it's been difficult for him to produce a TV series:

"It’s been so hard for me. I had the cocky confidence, well, I’ll do it like I do a movie … it’ll be a movie in six parts. Turns out, it’s not. For me, it has been very, very difficult. I’ve been struggling and struggling and struggling. I only hope that when I finally do it — I have until the end of 2016 — they’re not crushed with disappointment because they’re nice people and I don’t want to disappoint them. I am doing my best. I fit it in between films, so it’s not like, no film this year, I’m doing Amazon. It’s a job within my usual schedule."

We've reached out to Amazon for comment on this story and will update accordingly.

Read the full Deadline interview with Woody Allen here.

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Today is the day that "Mad Max: Fury Road," hits theaters and it's well worth seeing.

The sequel continues the story from the 1979 film, and stars Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy. Original director George Miller returns to deliver the latest in the series.

Here's the synopsis via Warner Bros.:

Haunted by his turbulent past, Mad Max believes the best way to survive is to wander alone. Nevertheless, he becomes swept up with a group fleeing across the Wasteland in a War Rig driven by an elite Imperator, Furiosa. They are escaping a Citadel tyrannized by the Immortan Joe, from whom something irreplaceable has been taken. Enraged, the Warlord marshals all his gangs and pursues the rebels ruthlessly in the high-octane Road War that follows. 

This may be the best movie of the year so far.

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Kris Jenner is a total boss.

The 59-year-old runs the Kardashian-Jenner empire and manages the careers of all six of her successful children.

In a recent New York Times magazine profile on Jenner, Taffy Brodesser-Akner writes: 

Without Kris, Kim might not have pulled in a reported $28 million in 2014. Kendall wouldn’t necessarily be an in-demand model ... Kourtney and Khloé and Kim might not have three retail stores, a hair-and-makeup line, bronzer line, and a children’s clothing line ... Kendall and Kylie might not have licensing deals with PacSun, Steve Madden, Topshop and Sugar Factory. Rob, the lone brother, would probably not have a sock company that features socks that say things like “LOVE HURTS” and “YOLO” or sell adult onesies at places like Macy’s ... There would be no endorsement deals, either ... 

The thing is, no one in her family knew what they were doing until Kris took charge.

In February, Jenner — an executive producer of "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" and its spin-off shows — reportedly signed a $100 million deal to continue showcasing her famous family's antics on the E! network for yet another four years.

Thanks to the spin-off shows, product endorsement deals, lucrative video games, books, and millions of followers on social media tracking their every move, the family is now worth millions — much of which is due to Jenner's business savvy and guidance.

But Jenner didn't enter the business world until later in life. It is her second chapter.

Kristen Mary Jenner was born in San Diego in 1955, with the maiden name Houghton.

"She was 17 when she met Robert Kardashian, a lawyer 11 years her senior, at the Del Mar racetrack," the NYT magazine profile states. "He pursued her, but she wanted to discover the world. She became a flight attendant for American Airlines. She accepted his second proposal, and they married when she was 22." 

By the time she was 30, Kris had four children — Kourtney, Kimberly, Khloe, and Robert Jr.

The family lived a lavish lifestyle in Beverly Hills, where they hobnobbed with celebrity friends like Sugar Ray Leonard, the Hilton family, and O.J. Simpson (whom Robert would later defend during Simpson's 1995 murder trial).

For her 30th birthday, Kris put together a must-see video titled "I Love My Friends."

But Jenner was restless.

"She loved Robert and the life he gave her, but she still felt young and vital," writes NYT magazine. Kris had a short-lived affair with a 23-year-old soccer player, and Robert found out. He retaliated by canceling her credit cards and she was shunned by friends.

The marriage was destroyed, and Kris was devastated. 

In 1990, while the couple was separated but not yet divorced, Kris was set up on a blind date with Bruce Jenner and it was essentially love at first sight.

Jenner, a former Olympic athlete, had four kids from two previous marriages.

Kris, too, had four children. (Son Rob not pictured below.)

Both wanted to start another family and have more children together.

"Bruce went to Robert and asked him to finalize the divorce so that he could marry Kris, telling Robert that they didn’t want any of his money," explains the NYT. "Robert agreed, and Kris and Bruce were married a month after the divorce papers were signed. (She and Robert were on good terms when he died in 2003.)"

The only downside of the new union? The couple didn't have the money to lead the lifestyle to which each had become accustomed.

But Kris saw an opportunity for her new husband, who at the time was making a small amount doing motivational speeches.

She became his manager and publicist, sending out press kits and contacting speakers' bureaus. Soon, she lined up high-paying clients like Coca-Cola and Visa.

Kris helped Bruce market his motivational speeches to a broader audience. The two also created a workout video series, called "Super Fit With Bruce and Kris Jenner," which they sold on infomercials. 

Slowly, Kris helped the family's financial situation and began to realize their earning potential.

"It was a mix of blood, sweat and tears, enthusiasm, determination and just never sleeping and getting the word out there," she told NYT magazine.

In 1995, the couple welcomed daughter Kendall. Then in 1997, another daughter, Kylie, was born.

Now a blended family with 10 kids in total, Jenner realized she might even have had some earning potential under her own roof.

In 2007, Kim rose to fame thanks to a sex tape with singer Ray-J and BFFs like the Hilton sisters.

Kris capitalized on the opportunity.

In 2007, Kris scheduled a meeting with Ryan Seacrest to talk about her idea of doing a reality show about her family. Jenner believed that her six children, who ranged in age from 7 to 26 at the time, could be reality TV gold.

Seacrest liked the idea but decided to shoot a short reel at a family barbecue to help him decide if it could be turned into a series.

"On the way home, the producer called and said: 'We have a show. This is going to be amazing.' Watch the tape, and you know, you see the craziness that is their family," Seacrest recalled to NYT magazine.

In 2007, "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" premiered on E! to about 898,000 viewers. By the season's final episode, the show attracted 1.9 million viewers.

Today, "Keeping up with the Kardashians" is in its 10th season.

With Kris as "Momager" — a term she trademarked in 2012 — she used the show's success to forge new deals for each of her children.

In 2009, the sisters hawked QuickTrim diet pills, only to have the deal result in a lawsuit over allegedly misleading claims about the diet pills’ effectiveness. 

In 2010, there was a partnership with Skechers.

And The Sugar Factory’s $25 Kardashian-endorsed lollipops.

In 2011, there were Silly Bandz bracelets.

That same year, the family launched the Kardashian Kollection for Sears.

There have been hosting gigs.

Commercials.

Countless magazine covers.

And a deal with Midori liqueur, despite the fact that Kim doesn't drink.

There have been books.

Beauty lines.

And now, lucrative video game deals, which could rake in as much as $200 million annually according to one analyst.

Along with many, many other endorsement deals. 

Today, each of Kris' children are millionaires: Kim Kardashian raked in $28 million in 2014 alone and is estimated to be worth north of $85 million; Khloé is worth $25 million. Kourtney is worth a reported $20 million, Kendall $6 million, Kylie $5 million, and Rob $2.75 million. 

One of the only things that haven't worked is Kris Jenner's 2013 talk show, which took place on a set that replicated the Kardashian home's grand entrance. It ultimately wasn't picked up beyond its six-week order.

But it hasn't slowed down Jenner, who now also runs her own production company, Jenner Communications.

She can still be found promoting her new cookbook, "In The Kitchen With Kris."

Sitting front row at fashion shows all over the world alongside Kim and Kanye West.

Attending this month's Met Ball.

Standing by her former husband of 24 years, Bruce Jenner, as he transitions into a woman. On Sunday, E! will air "Keeping Up with the Kardashians: About Bruce," featuring his ex-wife and children.

And doing what she does best — promoting and supporting her children.

To read the NYT magazine's full profile on Kris Jenner, click here.

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Bill Cosby is finally speaking out about allegations that he sexually assaulted dozens of women.

In a taped interview with ABC's "Good Morning America," the embattled comedian was asked how he would respond if a youngster pressed him on accusations that he drugged and sexually assaulted a number of women over a period of decades.

"I think many of them say, 'Well, you're a hypocrite. You say one thing, you say the other,'" he replied. "My point is, 'OK, listen to me carefully. I'm telling you where the road is out. You want to go here or you want to be concerned about who is giving you the message?'"

Cosby, 77, has never been criminally charged and has largely maintained his silence since the allegations resurfaced starting last year. He faces two pending lawsuits.

"I have been in this business 52 years. ... I've never seen anything like this. And reality is the situation," he said, adding, "and I can't speak."

Cosby was asked if he was concerned about his legacy and what he'd like it to be.

"I really know about what I'm going to do tomorrow. I have a ton of ideas to put on television about people and their love for each other," he said.

The actor and comedian was in Alabama to speak with high school students as part of a nonprofit foundation's campaign to improve education in the south-central part of the state.

He volunteered his time to bring exposure to area schools, Black Belt Community Foundation President Felecia Lucky has said. He was to meet students at Selma High School on Friday before marching with them across the historic Edmund Pettus Bridge.

Sitting with Cosby during the ABC interview, Lucky defended the decision to trade on his fame despite the allegations.

"At the end of the day, what is most important is ... how do we make sure that the world knows that the Black Belt children matter," Lucky said. The region is named for its fertile black soil but is stifled by low income and high unemployment.

Shortly after the scandal broke last year, NBC decided not to move forward with a planned Cosby sitcom.

The star of the influential and popular 1980s family comedy "The Cosby Show," he has long weighed in on the issues of education and personal responsibility in the African-American community. He and his wife, Camille, have donated millions of dollars in gifts to colleges and hundreds of thousands more for scholarship grants through the couple's foundation.

ABC said more of the interview was to air Friday on "Nightline."

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"The Mindy Project" has officially been saved from cancelation.

Hulu announced on Friday that it has picked up a fourth season of the romantic comedy from Mindy Kaling. The streaming company didn't specify a premiere date for what will amount to a 26-episode season.

It has also said that it has the option for more seasons beyond that as part of its agreement with "Mindy Project" producers Universal Television.

“I am thrilled 'The Mindy Project' has found a new home on Hulu, where so many of our fans are already watching the show. It's such an exciting place to be,” said star and executive producer, Mindy Kaling, in a statement.

Hulu already streams episodes of the comedy from previous seasons, which gives the streaming company additional knowledge going into the deal of how future seasons of "The Mindy Project" will perform for them.

“Mindy has been a beloved member of the Hulu family, so this deal is a natural extension of our relationship,” said Hulu's senior vice president and head of content, Craig Erwich.

He continued, "With so many of her fans already catching up and tuning in to the series on Hulu, we know her millions of fans will be eager to find out what Mindy has in store for the next chapter.” 

Fox canceled "The Mindy Project" last week after its recently wrapped third season averaged a low 1.05 in the advertiser-coveted demographic of Adults aged 18-49 and only 2.31 million viewers. 

It's no secret that "The Mindy Project" has never been a ratings barn-burner, but it has done pretty well in DVR viewing and online viewing — which again makes sense for the Hulu pickup.

Business Insider confirmed at the time that talks between Universal TV and Hulu were underway. 

One individual with knowledge of the situation told BI, "The show is creatively vibrant and has a passionate, upscale, loyal audience, and it is a top performer on Hulu. So, this makes a lot of sense."

Hulu has been beefing up its original series slate since 2011. Those offerings include supernatural comedy "Deadbeat," teen drama "East Los High" and the upcoming James Franco-Stephen King JFK assassination drama "11/22/63."

“The Mindy Project” joins a growing group of shows that found second lives on subscription TV services, including NBC’s “Community” on Yahoo, AMC’s “The Killing” on Netflix, and FX's “Damages” and NBC's “Friday Night Lights” on DirecTV.

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The Oculus Rift virtual reality headset will require a powerful computer to run the VR experiences consumers will have in 2016 – and no, your MacBook Pro won't do.

Facebook-owned Oculus VR released a list of technical requirements for the Oculus Rift on Friday, as follows:

• NVIDIA GTX 970 / AMD 290 equivalent or greater
• Intel i5-4590 equivalent or greater
• 8GB+ RAM
• Compatible HDMI 1.3 video output
• 2x USB 3.0 ports
• Windows 7 SP1 or newer

If that all looks like Latin to you, we're here to break it down: you need a relatively expensive computer with a beefy graphics card. Currently, the graphics card alone is around $300.

The long and short is this: If you were to build this computer right now, it'd cost around $1,000. 

More simply put for you Apple fans out there: No, Oculus Rift isn't going to work with your MacBook Air (and probably not your Macbook Pro).

But there's some good news! Given the ongoing march of progress, the cost of the technology required to run the first consumer version of the Oculus Rift will assuredly drop before the first quarter of 2016. But if you're running on an older computer, especially a laptop, you'll probably be out of luck for the first-generation Rift.

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It was inevitable, but it finally happened!

"Avengers: Age of Ultron" has crossed $1 billion at the worldwide box office in 24 days.

It wasn't fast enough; however, to beat "Furious 7" to the milestone.

The Universal Studios' film crossed $1 billion in a record 17 days to become the fastest movie to hit the landmark ever.

"Age of Ultron" owes much of its success to its international rollout, which is responsible for over $600 million of its gross.

Earlier this week, the sequel debuted to a record $34 million opening in China.

The film is performing weaker than its predecessor domestically.

In 13 days, "Age of Ultron" has made more than $329 million state side. At the same point in 2012, "Avengers" had already made over $395 million.

Overall, 2012's "Avengers" made $623.4 million domestically.

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On Friday, Netflix premiered“Granite Flats,” a TV series set in 1960s Colorado during the Cold War where not everyone in town is who they seem. The news here isn’t that the streaming service acquired an existing show to make available for its subscribers, it’s where it came from.

“Granite Flats” is the first scripted drama series from the thriving cable network BYUtv, operated and funded by Brigham Young University. The channel has been in existence since 2000 and is available on Dish Network, DirecTV, and 900 cable providers. But now being tapped by the most prominent streaming service, the network suddenly has many more eyes looking at it.

“I would love to say this was in our master plan, but we just got lucky,” Derek Marquis, BYUtv’s managing director told Business Insider.

The first season of “Granite Flats” aired on BYUtv in 2013 and quickly found an audience with its family-friendly values mixed with edgy subjects like the town’s chief of police on the trail of a KGB spy and the local VA hospital experimenting with mind control as a way to defeat the Soviets. They then upped the ante by bringing on veteran characters actors like Christopher Lloyd (“Back to the Future” films) and Parker Posey (“You’ve Got Mail”) the following seasons.

“We found ‘Granite Flats’ spreads across demographics,” said Marquis. “We don’t refer to it as family-friendly television because for some reason people think that’s sappy. It’s really co-viewing.”

Showrunner Scott Swofford, who is also BYUtv’s director of content, described the show’s draw as: “We wanted to create something where parents and children could share an experience. They are going to watch and then sit down and talk about it.”

When BYUtv was putting the final touches on the third season, talks with Netflix began to pick up.

In April, the deal was announced that Netflix would not just exclusively premiere season three of "Granite Flats" but also carry the first two seasons — making "Granite Flats" the first show that’s currently on the air on another network to debut a new season on Netflix.

Season three of “Granite Flats” will air on BYUtv in October.

Marquis wouldn’t go into specifics on who courted who, but he will say the deal was a no brainer for BYUtv. Reports out of Salt Lake City suggest Netflix were the ones who came calling.

“People want to watch shows when they want to watch it, where they want to watch it,” said Marquis. “And if you make them wait you’ll lose some percentage of them. This seemed like the natural next step for us.”

Brigham Young University — a private university based out of Provo, Utah, owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — has been in the media business since the 1940s when it started its own radio station (which is still on the air). To date, it operates six television stations, a station on Sirius radio, as well as TV stations in Latin America.

But in 2000, BYUtv was created with the mission of exporting the BYU experience to their alumni. Soon, according to Marquis, the network started to gain attention from people who didn’t have BYU ties.

“We were not out their knocking on cable system doors,” he said. “Dish Network launched us first and literally within weeks we were getting calls from cable operators outside of Utah [wanting to carry us].”

The network has their own “Saturday Night Live”-like sketch comedy show, “Studio C,” and reality TV shows like “American Ride,” which follows the travels of a motorcycle-riding history teacher around the US. It also airs BYU Division I sporting events, which includes a deal to air exclusively with ESPN.

BYUtv is currently manned by 120 full-time staff, and many contract workers from Hollywood who come on as crew on the shows. It also works with the university to help students gain real-world experience.

And in doing so, led to the network’s most successful show to date.

In 2010, senior James Shores was accepted to the university’s class “Writer’s Block,” in which students write and produce a 30-minute short film that then airs on BYU’s public access channel. Shores came up with “Heaven Under A Table,” which follows a young boy who paints art under his school desk.

“LDS (Latter-day Saints) people, like any religious group, can be a tad easy to get offended sometimes, but there are fringes everywhere,” said Shores. “So I pictured the story in the '60s. You have cool costumes, we’re trying to get to the moon, and the way people talked was a little more conservative back then.”

After Shores graduated, Swofford came across “Heaven Under A Table.” Along with some other ideas Shores had pitched BYUtv, the networked asked him to create a pitch for a show that combined them all.

And “Granite Flats” was born.

Shores has creator credit on the show and wrote episodes for the first season. He’s no longer actively on the show and is currently working on getting another project off the ground.

“Granite Flats” is made for about a quarter of what Hollywood does per episode, according to Marquis, because it’s done entirely out of Utah — including an abandoned 1960s-preserved town just outside of Salt Lake City that’s used for many exteriors. They also have a 100,000 square-foot production studio and distribution facility on campus.

The number of subscribers BYUtv has and how large the “Granite Flats” viewership is are kept under wraps. And though Marquis said a fourth season of the show hasn’t been confirmed yet, he feels if there is one it would likely also premiere on Netflix.

"We are not driven by advertisers or ratings,” said Marquis, “so we have flexibility to experiment and be pretty aggressive with the stuff we do.”

Watch all episodes of "Granite Flats" now on Netflix.

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Before you head out to theaters this weekend to see the highly anticipated "Mad Max: Fury Road," check out the trailer for the 1979 cult classic that started the franchise.

The original "Mad Max" starred a young Mel Gibson in a role he would revisit on two separate occasions. "Fury Road" director George Miller also directed the original, as well as its two subsequent sequels. It's obvious that Miller was working with a much smaller budget back then, but without this cult classic we wouldn't be able to enjoy what some are calling the best movie of the year so far.

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