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MOAR Dinosaurs, GM Auto Strike, MoviePass Shuts Down and QB Injuries
Jurassic World released Battle of Big Rock Short Film- https://twitter.com/jurassicworld/status/1173461348069650432?s=21
- Shows humans and dinosaurs living amongst one another.
- Family of four encounter dinosaurs in the woods that turns into fight of their lives
- I've always loved Jurassic Park movies. Dinosaurs fascinate me.
- Could this ever be a reality?
- Let’s talk dinosaurs for a minute.
- First time in the 20 year history Ash has won
- He has traveled across the land, searching far and wide, in an attempt to catch 'em all
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- Well damn, the kid finally did it…
- "Which was bigger? LeBron coming back 3-1 against the Warriors or Ash Ketchum winning his first Pokemon league after a 22 year drought?"
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-15/union-set-to-let-gm-contract-expire-raising-odds-of-a-strike
- GM faces losses of $50M/day
- GM's first major work stoppage in 12 years.
- A reminder of the UAW’s firepower: The 84-year-old union represents almost 150,000 workers at GM, Ford, and Fiat Chrysler factories in the U.S. It’s got a $750 million war chest to keep paying members while they’re on strike.
- After tenuous recent discussions, GM made the unusual move of publicizing what it had offered the UAW in negotiations: $7 billion in new U.S. factory investments, 5,400 jobs, higher pay, and a proposal for idled plants.
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- The union wasn’t impressed. It wants GM to a) accelerate entry-level workers’ paths to peak wage b) invest more in U.S. factories and c) potentially add models to four plants without future products to produce.
- The UAW’s dealing with internal chaos, too. A federal corruption investigation has targeted sitting officials, including president Gary Jones.
- Founded in 2011, MoviePass offered a $40/month subscription that let you into any theater to watch any movie. Worth it only for the very lonely and movie-crazy.
- Mitch Lowe was hired as CEO. There were only 20K customers, so he cut the price by 75%.
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- At $10/month, the breakeven price for MoviePass was 1 movie per month, so people signed up. 3M people binged 5% of all movies watched in late 2018.
- Theaters still charged full price for each ticket, forcing MoviePass to pay the difference — and lose $21M/month ("Amazon lost money for 20 years" — the CEO). So it had to raise prices/add a bunch of restrictions.
- This Saturday: It's over. The parent company doesn't know when or if it will come back.
- Globo-theater-chain AMC now offers something like MoviePass. MoviePass "pulled a Napster": it changed the industry even though it didn't survive.
- We got absolutely slaughtered on the books this weekend.
- No need to go pick by pick, we pretty much got beat on all of em this weekend.
- Only Winners:
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- Kansas City -7 // 28-10 over Oakland
- Buffalo -2 // 28-14 over NYG
- Dallas -5.5 // 31-21 over Washington
- Pitt +17 // 10-17 loss to Penn State
- OSU -17.5 // 51-10 over Indiana
- Spurs spanked Crystal Palace 4-0
- Roma took care of Sassuolo 4-2
- Norwich beating Man City 3-2
- Chelsea over Wolves 5-2
- Milan beat Verona 1-0 in a game where each team had a man sent off
- Juventus stymied by Fiorentina 0-0