The transition will be seamless.

And it likely wont forParamount2024.

Kinney Corp., which devoured Warners, owned parking lots and funeral homes.

Paramount Pictures lot

The iconic gates of Paramount PicturesMark Davis/Getty Images

He promptly admitted that he was broke.

All discovered that studios are not normal corporate animals with predictable profit-and-loss equations.

They are more akin to heavy-breathing carnivores with their own distinct twitches, lurches and instincts for self-preservation.

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So will the next transition be seamless?

A three-executive team now runs Paramount, expressing optimism about their fate.

A Paramount board committee is weighing a $26 billion cash bid from Sony and the Apollo equity fund.

Hopefully, all have studied their studio histories.