ShoWest attendees thinking positively

March 08, 2008 After years of turmoil, distributors and exhibitors alike approach this year's ShoWest (which begins today and runs through Thursday at Bally's and Paris hotels, Las Vegas) with a widespread sense of optimism. "The industry is healthy today, and it wasn't long ago that exhibition rose from the depths of bankruptcy," says Dan Fellman, president of Warner Bros. A number of companies have gone public, and of those that haven't, many have received financial backing from institutional investors.

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