It could well be argued, however, that motion-picture companies’ corporate links with the wider media world and emergent communications forms such as the Internet fostered receptivity to new technologies that rapidly transformed film production in the 1990s and into the 21st century.
In the last years of the 20th century and the early years of the 21st, the idea of "synergy" dominated the motion-picture industry in the United States, and an unprecedented wave of mergers and acquisitions pursued this ultimately elusive concept.
Another overview of the history of film, I was particularly interested in the affects WW1 and WW2 had on the film industries of american and european cinema