Another year has come and gone… and oh what a year it has been. A new president has made remarkable progress in less than a year… even if self-hating liberals and conservatives alike are as ridiculously demanding as a wide-eyed hyperactive 5-year-old on Christmas morning. Regardless, the world is a significantly safer and saner place this year than at this time last year. But not so much in the film business, where we now get hourly “keynote” speeches, one more desperate, anxious, and misguidedly hopeful than the next about the future of the film business.