LOS ANGELES — Legendary metal musician, and noted septuagenarian, Ozzy Osbourne broke new ground when he became the first old white man to complain about a rap song and actually be on the right side of history....
If you have a passing interest in film and animation, you’ve likely heard of Coyote Vs. Acme, a feature film in the Roger Rabbit tradition of blending 2D animation with live action focusing on characters from Warner Brothers’ Roadrunner cartoons. The film would have focused on Wile E. Coyote suing the ubiquitous Acme...
I’ll admit I’m not an expert in the specific tax laws related to this industry, but as an accountant I’ve always suspected these narratives were a myth. The only way it makes sense to me is if the highest marginal tax rate these studios have exceeds 100%, or if they are somehow able to write off more costs than they actually spent somehow. If anyone knows of a specific tax law that makes this work I’d love to hear about it.
There are two other reasons I think are more likely, and the reality could be both.
First, there could be some timing difference where they had amortized some costs over a longer period initially, but are now moving them all to the present. So those expenses would reduce their tax burden this year, but no longer have any effect on future years. Sacrificing long-term benefits for short-term benefits, a common strategy today when corporations seem to be hyper fixated on the next quarter’s reports. The confusing part to me is that, as far as I know, this decision is independent of whether they release the movie or not. But I could be wrong there.
Second, this could save additional costs. I’m not an expert in this industry, but I imagine that even after the video itself is finalized and ready to go there are still more costs to be incurred in marketing and distributing it. The money they’ve spent to make the movie is already gone, so the question becomes do they think that they can earn more money in revenue than what it costs to do all that? Especially factoring in scaling costs. For example, some actors or other credited workers might get royalties in the form of a percentage of gross or net revenue (there are famous examples of accounting tricks being used by studios to screw actors out of royalties by showing negative net revenue for profitable films). It could be that something impacted another adjacent revenue stream like merchandising or a videogame tie-in, that further changes their original profitability calculation.
My friend, it seems like your anxiety is nicotine withdrawal. That explains why smoking makes your anxiety go away; you’re getting another hit of nicotine to ease off the withdrawal.
Vaping isn’t harmless. Especially since you’re 18, it will inhibit your brain development and the chemicals in the vape are chronically toxic. Nicotine is extremely addictive. Many people get addicted after just a few goes.
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Gen Z is recording themselves getting fired in growing TikTok trend (www.cbsnews.com)
‘You’re gonna eat bugs’: Climate fears and conspiracies at Canberra renewables protest (www.theage.com.au)
Minneapolis mayor calls remote workers ‘losers’ who sit at home with a ‘nasty cat blanket, diddling on their laptop’ (fortune.com)
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey is trying a unique strategy to get remote workers to return downtown: insulting them....
The HU - Wolf Totem (Official Music Video) (youtu.be)
Old Man Who Doesn’t Like Rap Song Somehow on Right Side of History (thehardtimes.net)
LOS ANGELES — Legendary metal musician, and noted septuagenarian, Ozzy Osbourne broke new ground when he became the first old white man to complain about a rap song and actually be on the right side of history....
How time flies (lemmy.world)
Coyote Vs. Acme: Warner Brothers just killed a full-length animated film to avoid paying taxes (boingboing.net)
If you have a passing interest in film and animation, you’ve likely heard of Coyote Vs. Acme, a feature film in the Roger Rabbit tradition of blending 2D animation with live action focusing on characters from Warner Brothers’ Roadrunner cartoons. The film would have focused on Wile E. Coyote suing the ubiquitous Acme...
Good job me boy! (lemmy.world)
Chilling with the gang (lemmy.world)
Two have a point. One does not.
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Beer and Wine are vegan drinks.
Rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Car Talk with Martok: Spirited Away (lemmy.world)
Car Talk with Martok. All new episodes, every thursday!...
In this house, we believe (slrpnk.net)
Ghostbusters Ecto 1 (10274) Finished! (lemmy.world)
Finally got round to completing this build👍 I love this car
Remembering trailblazing LGBTQ+ civil rights activist James Baldwin this Black History Month (www.thepinknews.com)
O'Brien dies yet again (lemmy.world)
Reddit exodus - Using Lemmy from my existing Mastodon (vijayprema.com)
Which option lads? (lemmy.world)
Discworld reading order guide (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
The golden age of streaming is over (lemmy.zip)
"Now, if you are holding on to some temporal equivalent of that directive, then isn't it possible that you have an occasion here to make an exception" (lemmy.ml)
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APOLLO 15 Landing stabilized (1971/07/30) (www.youtube.com)
This channel actually has a ton of cool upscaled retro space content
My favorite anime