The transition will be seamless.
And it likely wont forParamount2024.
Kinney Corp., which devoured Warners, owned parking lots and funeral homes.

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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.

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.