Demand dips for online films
According to The Financial Times: “Hollywood’s hopes for a future built on digital film downloads have been severely undermined by research showing cooling consumer demand for movies online… . US revenues for 2009 were substantially lower than forecast at $291m. ‘The market just cooled off,’ said Arash Amel, a research director with Screen Digest. ‘This wasn’t caused by economic factors . . . the level of interest in digital downloads just isn’t there.’”