Hey, everyone, Sebastian here. Just wanted to let you know that I will once again be participating in this year's Intelligent Speech Conference.

Deception, lies, fakery, fraudulence, and forgery is what they have on the docket for Intelligent Speech 2025.

So, obviously, I've got to be there. For those that don't know,

intelligent speech is an online conference that highlights the best in history podcasting.

Intelligence Speech 2025 deception will be taking place on the 8th of February 2025.

So if you want tickets, go to intelligent speechonline.com right now when it comes to the year of our lord 2020 i think we can at least

all agree that it was a bad year for the movies.

The COVID-19 pandemic shuttered cinemas around the globe.

The films that had been scheduled for release in the final three quarters of the year

were either delayed, shifted to a streaming platform,

or were cautiously released into a modified

theater-going environment, characterized by social distancing, masks, and reduced capacity

theaters. It's been estimated that the global movie industry lost around $32 billion in 2020.

It was a situation so demoralizing that some film companies even stopped reporting the dismal box office numbers altogether.

Film critics and industry watchers around the world started speculating openly about the potential death of cinema.

Things were bleak.

The global calamity we were all navigating meant that it was harder than ever for a film to make money that year.

As such, listing the box office bombs of 2020 almost doesn't seem fair.

For instance, Christopher Nolan's mind-bending science fiction film Tenet was one of the few films

that dared a global theatrical release in the summer of that year.

When the marketing costs of the film were factored in, Tenet lost something like $50 million.

But when you consider that it still managed to gross around $360 million worldwide, that could arguably be considered a pandemic success.

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