Bitcoin Enthusiast Al Gore to Star in ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ Follow-Up

Bitcoin Enthusiast Al Gore to Star in ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ Follow-Up

This coming January the Sundance movie festival will commence with a new film about climate change by former Vice President of the United States under Bill Clinton, Al Gore. “The timing, unfortunately, could not be better,” The Washington Post writes. The film, announced Friday, will be produced by Paramount Pictures and Participant Media on Friday. It represents the follow-up to Mr. Gore’s 2006 film, “An Inconvenient Truth”, which won an Oscar. In the first documentary, documentarian Davis Guggenheim chronicled Gore’s talks on global warming. “Now more than ever we must rededicate....


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