They still have tiny audiences, but short digital movies are hot right now. “Not just showing them, but clamoring for them; building businesses around them; showcasing them in film festivals; nominating them for Academy Awards, and, perhaps most significantly, paying for them.” – Chicago Sun-Times 07/30/00
- ON THE OTHER HAND: An internet movie “George Lucas in Love” that cost $25,000 “premiered last October on MediaTrip.com, one of several new Web sites that offer short films to Internet users. An instant hit, it was streamed to 150,000 homes in its first three weeks, and more than 1 million to date.” Now for sale on Amazon, it consistently outsells Lucas’s latest “Star Wars” installment. – San Francisco Chronicle 07/30/00