The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment.
Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter the market to make astronomical profits and addicts rob and steal to get money to pay the inflated prices for their drugs.
But if you look at WorldCom which is the biggest failure to date they grew dramatically they were buying companies that were bigger than they were and they were doing it off inflated stock.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.