Ulster Unionist MLA Michael Copeland said he understood that there was a bang and people close by found a fire which they put out with a bucket of water.
In its 2012 study "State Film Studies: Not Much Bang For Too Many Bucks, " the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities found that film-related jobs tend to go to out-of-staters who jet in, then leave.
Big Bang helped facilitate privatisation, demystifying the share-buying process that many ordinary people had found a stumbling block, thus allowing people to simply walk into their banks and order a parcel of shares.