I don’t know if it’s a new trailer or not but they’ve played it at least once during each game

Yes, but now you've committed another crime, and tax fraud often can have significant criminal charges attached to it. So you're digging a deeper hole. Although if you will be prosecuted for it would depend on the govt's decision on what to charge you with. Its just adding up potential charges against you. However, there's an easy solution around this: Don't do illegal things.

You must report ALL income. Nothing else is relevant. Did you make income? The law states it must be reported.

If you're going to the fifth amendment route, you aint even the 100 millionth person to think of it, and the courts have already decided it, and it is as I said, you must report ALL income. In theory you can not report the "source" of some income, but it still must be reported... I know you're looking for some out or way around it, its not happening unless you break the law.

The law is you must report ALL income regardless of source, otherwise you're breaking the law.

Yes, the govt wants their cut. You make money, they get their piece of it and you have to follow the law like everyone else

The bots auto-post most news here from variety/deadline/hollywood reporter/etc.'s twitter feeds, the posts just doesn't always stay at the top.

Missing is more interesting. Plane is very generic dumbed down action movie, kinda a worse version of Olympus has Fallen... it feels like it could have been a direct to video type movie, its just nothing special.

Missing is engaging and creative, its not a must-see in the theater movie, but its entertaining for 2 hours. Anyone interested in true-crime would be into it as well.

It's on Fox Nation... the Fox streaming service for Fox News ultrafans who are also technically proficient enough to figure out how to do streaming... yup.

The book seems really unadaptable into anything that isn’t boring and to make it more presentable to western audiences is gonna be hard as hell. It’s set in China and very culturally Chinese

Plus like 90% of the story is a group of people in a room talking about technical stuff. Then they move to a different room and do the same, then a third room, then back to the first room. Like literally, that’s the story.

Or to put it in comparison. It’s like if Fellowship of the Ring was 90% set in Rivendell just like talking about what they might do.

Didn’t even know there was this. I know there’s a nextflix one coming out.

Anyways. The book is really really slow. It’s also very Chinese, and China of like the 60s-80s so it’s pretty awkward.

Contracts are usually 5 seasons, not 6, but you renegotiate generally each season or so anyways. If the show is a success in s1, you renegotiate for your s2+, if season 2 is a success... and so on. Which means when you start getting to seasons 5+ things can get really expensive as you stated. Thats a big reason why shows often fizzle out in S4-6, ratings will be down and its just not worth it to up the expense side when the revenue side is declining

AMC doesn't really have anything else. They have been the Walking Dead Channel for years

No. Its just a bad comparison that should not be used.

I don't think this is at all a good comparison. Politics and especially highly unusual people such as the ones you mentioned don't necessarily follow the same rules as generic branding and advertising concepts

No legal issues in just making a comparison or mentioning another brand, as long as you don't say intentionally damaging and false claims, like saying Michelob makes you a cannibal. Sometimes they simply don't want to advertise their competition.

A side note though, if you are the category leader, like say Coke over Pepsi -- you NEVER, ever mention your competitor. You are the champ, they are nothing to you, you don't mention them,

If you're not the cateogry leader, you can and often do call out others in the industry to say why your product is better than them. That is, Pepsi will say its better than coke, but Coke will never mention pepsi

Wednesday...

Lots of info from back in the day. There used to be some copies of older scripts on movie newsgroups and discussions of them. Yeah that old and obscure. Not sure what is around today.

It’s a bit odd in that long ago there was often tons of legit internal movie info available, alternate bootleg cuts, and such that today would seem insane to ever hit the internet or street.

No. The original script for the matrix was pretty different. A lot of elements of it that were cut ended up in the actual sequels. It was never really gonna be a trilogy but they had outlines for everything which is normal in production.

The original matrix ending was a lot less heroic, Neo doesn’t kill the agents, he just wins and flips them off and leave. Then the final part ended with it being highly hinted at the real world being another matrix level

There was almost an entire movie made that got thrown out and completely rewritten

The studio changed a massive amount on the script and it went through a Lot of revisions. The movie we got is pretty different than earlier iterations. It was way more religious and sci fi script with some more complicated characters and Morpheus was a bit of a villain

Although more to note, the matrix was being sold almost entirely based on the new effects and action not the script, which was way secondary.

Companies usually buy bigger spaces than they need. They anticipate growth, so you buy bigger. It would be common to rent the extra space out, as this is only going to be temporary-- you're not in the business of being a landlord, so temporary before you move yourself in there.

But what if you end up not needing the space? Well, again you're not in the business of being a landlord, you're better off just selling the building and renting only exactly what you need. This allows you more flexibility.

Lastly, in the US there are some often significant tax benefits of leasing vs. owning (less than ELI5: It actually common for some business to have someone, like a owner buy the building and rent it back to the company, or have a shell company buy the building and lease it back)

Agreed here, wrong direction is a good call, it just didnt work this time

So this is like the 8th time this has got posted...

Agreed on the Daniel Craig movies... they long story arc was totally unnecessary and really made at least half of his movies not feel like Bond movies, they are action rom/coms. No Time to Die wasn't even feel like a bond movie, it just happened to have a character named James Bond starring in some mission Impossible knockoff with a love story wedged in there

More or less, Jack Ryan / Tom Clancy movies did this and there wasn't anything wrong with that.

The problem is that anyone taking the role of Bond and people working on it would probably be interested in a longer term relationship. If the movie is a success, all that means is that everyone involved, literally everyone, is primed for an even bigger payday in the sequel.

I've always suspected the financiers and EPs were making boatloads of money selling this show since it was a independently produced / syndicated show and they could and did sell to anyone who was paying. This wasn't super common at the time for a scripted show to not have a dedicated distributor, so since they didn't have a distributor covering 80% of production costs, the production company simply wasnt willing to front that much money

Short story, I was in a professional lecture with some people who's job it was to sell these kinds of TV shows to international outlets, and he talked how the shows were always cheap as hell to make because they could just make ridiculous money selling them in Europe if it lasted a long time.. but they could also get absolutely screwed if they had to put up production costs and then weren't able to sell it at a good rate because there were so many other shows out there for the international market.

I believe Baywatch was really big in Germany, and that was their go to for non-English markets (but might be wrong here)