No one was blown up on this past New Years Day, considering all the fear that was generated by the media around the world. A number of large-budget films were made, that really should have been blown up. And we don't mean to higher resolution. Approximately seventeen million film festivals were born this year. Some were amazing.
Distributors stay home.
Dot Com mania strikes the film festivals, geeks think they own Hollywood. Today, they are pretty much all gone or on their way out, being chewed up and spit out by an industry they didn't understand. Ultimately, it's still about creating good entertainment. Digital technologies made real progress in production. Their enormous costs were not welcomed as most of the major theater chains in the States filed for bankruptcy protection.