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The post Disney Pockets $2.2 Billion For Filming Outside America appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Disney has made $2.2 billion from filming productions like ‘Avengers: Endgame’ in the U.K. ©Marvel Studios 2018 Disney has been handed $2.2 billion by the government of the United Kingdom over the past 15 years in return for filming movies and streaming shows in the country according to analysis of more than 400 company filings Disney is believed to be the biggest single beneficiary of the Audio-Visual Expenditure Credit (AVEC) in the U.K. which gives studios a cash reimbursement of up to 25.5% of the money they spend there. The generous fiscal incentives have attracted all of the major Hollywood studios to the U.K. and the country has reeled in the returns from it. Data from the British Film Institute (BFI) shows that foreign studios contributed around 87% of the $2.2 billion (£1.6 billion) spent on making films in the U.K. last year. It is a 7.6% increase on the sum spent in 2019 and is in stark contrast to the picture in the United States. According to permit issuing office FilmLA, the number of on-location shooting days in Los Angeles fell 35.7% from 2019 to 2024 making it the second-least productive year since 1995 aside from 2020 when it was the height of the pandemic. The outlook hasn’t improved since then with FilmLA’s latest data showing that between April and June this year there was a 6.2% drop in shooting days on the same period a year ago. It followed a 22.4% decline in the first quarter with FilmLA noting that “each drop reflected the impact of global production cutbacks and California’s ongoing loss of work to rival territories.” The one-two punch of the pandemic followed by the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strikes put Hollywood on the ropes just as the U.K. began drafting a plan to improve its fiscal incentives…

TLDR: Hypervault allegedly stole $6.3M in crypto, leaving users with empty smart contracts. Nick Olsen, founder, reportedly deleted all social media channels after the incident. Affected users are advised to revoke wallet permissions immediately to protect funds. Blockchain transactions are irreversible, making recovery of lost funds impossible. The crypto community is sounding the alarm after [...] The post Hypervault Rug Pulls $6.3M From Investors, Founder Allegedly Disappears appeared first on Blockonomi.

The post South Park Mocks Crypto Hype With New Token Joke appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. “It’s going to be fantastic” Other crypto mentions Crypto has secured yet another mention on South Park, the iconic animated sitcom that originally premiered back in 1997. “The Woman in the Hat,” South Park’s Season 28 premiere episode, recently poked fun at the meme coin culture. “It’s going to be fantastic” The episode, which recently aired on Comedy Central, features Stan Marsh and Kyle Broflovski launching a whimsical meme coin named “South Park Sucks Now.” “What’s wrong with trying to make a little money while also pointing out the things that are wrong with our town,” Kyle said. Kyle also boasted about a really strong crypto advisor, referring to Stan’s cousin from the East Coast. “We need to come up with things to get people FOMO and make them ape ever harder,” the advisor with curly black hair and impossibly large glasses said. The two came up with an idea to pitch a movement to promote a coin. You Might Also Like The advisor then explained that a classic rug pull would take just a few days to pull off. “We are going to screw a lot of people out of their money, boys. It’s going to be fantastic,” he added. Other crypto mentions Crypto has been ridiculed on South Park before. In 2021, Bitcoin was used as a means of payment at a futuristic motel in one of its episodes from Season 24, but the cryptocurrency was referred to as a “fly-by-night Ponzi scheme.” In 2022, South Park also ridiculed celebrity endorsements of various cryptocurrencies by showing hilarious parodies of their ads. Recently, blockchain-based betting platform Polymarket was also featured in a South Park episode. Source: https://u.today/south-park-mocks-crypto-hype-with-new-token-joke