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Saturday, July 23, 2005

Up Against Amanda

For most of the last century, motion pictures have dominated the entertainment landscape as the most popular and powerful form of escapism for millions of ticket buyers. Only recently, specifically with the breakthrough digital production of Star Wars: The Clone Wars by superstar filmmaker George Lucas, has the technology of movie-making changed significantly. With Lucas's seismic shift of preference in acquisition mediums from film to digital, the status quo in Hollywood has changed.

Nowadays, the means of production is growing increasingly affordable at a level unheard of even a decade ago. In other words, getting a movie made no longer depends strictly on getting the green light from a major studio, but more so on the commercial viability of the proposed project.

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