So shutting down and throwing folks out of work is the only option left, all while the cost of doing business keeps rising, they say.

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But as I repeatedly, clearly, in great detail explain with breakdowns of finances involved, the slopping of one or two of the three solo films combined with the third film doing only modest business would STILL not sink a JL film at all, unless Batman and Superman ALSO flopped.

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It is bolstered by the view that we are a country comfortable with the rule of law (with a few war on terror exceptions), an absence of rigid class distinctions and discriminations (at least lately), and an underlying tendency to do the right thing when the right thing needs doing (although, as Churchill remarked, often only after exhausting all other alternatives).

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