Software and movie making turns out to share many similarities. Actor, author, philanthropist and pop culture hero William Shatner who delivered a keynote address at the IBM Rational Software Development Conference 2008 noted the following:

• 75% of all software projects at Fortune 500 companies fail, 33% are cancelled, and 66% go over budget by more than 200%.
• 90% of all movies fail, 72% of all movies that are started are cancelled, and every movie except the oddball one goes over budget.
• Software development and movie making are "inextricable bound by failure."

[via Grady Booch's Software and Movie Making]