Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. The movie The Blair Witch Project demonstrated that any movie, no matter how bad, could become a success if you spent millions of dollars promoting it.
2. In 2007, for the first time, movie fans could see the Oscar-nominated short films as digital downloads from Apple’s iTunes store.
3. Long-tail movie sources such as Netflix and iTunes allow people in rural areas to see obscure movies that would never play their local theaters.
4. According to movie scholar Todd Boyd, the solution for promoting diversity in movies is to get more diversity in movie studio management.
5. Roger Ebert’s movie review website gets most of its traffic from a small number of reviews of major blockbuster films.


1. True
2. True
3. False
4. False
5. False

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