Once they sell the movie rights, they lose the tax write-off and owe taxes on it once again (but on the $50 million sale price, not the $30 million write-off amount).

$50 + $10 million is what Ketchup put in (they spent the marketing, not WB). They are getting roughly half of ticket proceeds (WB gets nothing). So to make back $60 million, they need $120 million in total sales.

They were still mostly airing the shorts from the 40s-60s even then. So I would say they were original. New audiences, but original. While this new movie relied a lot on referencing old material, it wasn't nearly as bad as other recent nostalgia fueled movies.

Anarchists want you to ignore their opinion. Because valuing their opinion gives them charge over something, which they are fully against.

The NPUs are probably used to help with audio language processing and that's about it. The rest is marketing.

Seriously. Apple can just about take back the classroom if they made an effort at these prices. They just need to push decent companion software for teachers.

It didn't take much. All I needed to know was that it exists and that WB shelved it. That told me it didn't fit the standard movie success formula so it was probably good.

And I still haven't watched the 2021 Space Jam movie that WB actually released.

Pretty sure WB gets nothing. Except for the fact that they can create new merchandise for their characters. They sold worldwide distribution rights in total with no revenue sharing as far as I can tell.

So no matter what they don't like, you still come up? Doesn't sound fun to me

Everyone thinks of the three laws but nobody stopped to think that they would effectively be trained lawyers too. Any loophole or excuse can be taken without explicitly breaking the rules through selective interpretation.

I don't think that's what this means, though I'm not creating an account to read the full article. It identifies marks like bumper stickers in *addition* to the license plate. So even if you miss the plates (or the suspect changes plates), you can identify it by other means. This would be like identifying a person by tattoos when you can't get a good photo of their face.

Still worth calling out. Things are needlessly strained enough.

It's not ours.

There would have to be FCC filings. It wouldn't be an actual secret. Usually journalists pick up on these sorts of things because FCC filings are a way to get a scoop on upcoming products before they are announced.

They can justify it by saying that's how they show the discovered sources/sinks in the companion app on your phone. Whether that's even a reason or not, I have no idea.

An en dash is closer to 1.5 hyphens.