By Walt Hickey Liking Numlock? Forward today’s email to a friend you think may enjoy it and might subscribe. Studio Film studio Paramount is in a fairly dire position, having accumulated $900 million in losses from 2016 to 2018. It’s left out of effectively all major cinema trends that aren’t “pay Tom Cruise to do stuff near a camera.” It spun off a successful television business, it canned a horror producer who gets returns on investment that rival counterfeiting schemes, it’s the only major studio without a super hero franchise, and one time bosses said accurate if impolitic things about late-career Spielberg movies in print. A $700 million upgrade to its 29-soundstage lot has not materialized, and it’s releasing 13 movies next year which, compared to the 90 Netflix is cranking out, isn’t particularly impressive. This has prompted some talk of a Fox-style acquisition.
Anything that gets us off that petrol crack pipe (for our cars) is a good thing all around. It's good for the environment, it's good for our foreign relations (in that it will make us less beholden to countries that despise us), etc., etc. So, come on hydrogen fuel cells!
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Anything that gets us off that petrol crack pipe (for our cars) is a good thing all around. It's good for the environment, it's good for our foreign relations (in that it will make us less beholden to countries that despise us), etc., etc. So, come on hydrogen fuel cells!