Warum Hollywood niemals aufhören wird, die alten Geschichten neu zu starten und zu recyceln
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/hollywood-remakes-1.7610674
Warum Hollywood niemals aufhören wird, die alten Geschichten neu zu starten und zu recyceln
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/hollywood-remakes-1.7610674
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Cause they still make money. Saved you a click
Its a Problem with our current society IMO. We have the most uncreative decade at the moment. In movies, music, art, fashion etc. Everything is either recycled from the past or dull af.
I know that you cant reinvent the wheel every year but nothing is about inventing anymore, its only there to make money with the least amount of budget.
Collectively stopping giving them money for shit is the only way they will change
Moviegoers would rather go see a live action remake than an original film like Sketch for instsnce.
One of the main reasons – and this article seems to have skipped over this – is that the rights to certain films and TV shows can revert from the studio back to the producer(s) if a certain number of years pass. Then the producer(s) can take that IP to a different studio… and there’s nothing worse for a studio executive to lose an IP to another studio and see it be successful elsewhere.
Call it the “use it or lose it” rule.
This is why Sony/Columbia has to make a Spider-Man-related movie every 4 years. If they don’t, the rights revert to Marvel.
It honestly seems like the intended audience for these movies are children, which seem to actually enjoy most of them. The adults are the ones writing the reviews for movies intended for children.
If they make money then yes, they will do a lot.
If they don’t it’ll be only a few a decade
They know they make money. They sold a generation of people the movie, experience of enjoying it, and the follow up merch sales. They want to sell the same thing to the next generation.
The collective IQ that most shows, movies and ads are meant for seems close to room temperature. Things have become really surface level and lack any kind of subtlety or nuance. Everything is spoon fed and the cultural imagination seems to have stagnated. Unless it’s explained outright people miss the point or message of things. We have like 10 Fast & Furious movies, and it’s been over 15 years now and we seem eternally stuck in a cultural adolescence obsessed with spandex and caped heroes. I don’t know if it’s social media destroying our attention spans or the general drop in quality of public education but things feel much dumber, with an over-reliance on nostalgia and resurrected IP’s that remind people of better times, but offer diminishing returns and tainting legacies.
No different than car manufacturers making the same models for decades. Just change it a bit every 3-4 years and consumers will keep buying.
The reality is kids don’t want to see the movies from our childhood. It may be garbage but you show them Aladdin from our childhood and you show them the new one, the new one wins. Our movie is old, dated, and isn’t pumped so full of effects and seratonin-inducing colours. That’s why the priority should be remake it if you have to because kids deserve these stories, but keep it in tact. Lilo & Stitch did a great job of this imo. Lion King, Jungle Book. Do I prefer the originals? Absolutely. Will my daughter choose them over the remakes? Not likely and that’s why these updates are important.
It makes money. BUT why?
The same reason we rewatch the same thing over and over again instead of getting into something new. There is some mental complacency in something you are familiar with. Less stress
I never know how to feel about all this. I get so annoyed with lazy IP recycling and all the reboots and remakes, but at the same time, most people, including myself, rarely willingly go out to expose themselves to new IP when it is created.
“The same old stories” folks, be real, the ancient greeks were telling these stories and most other stuff is just rehashed shakespeare, this is not new.
They will if originals make more money. Yet, despite the massive success of movies like Sinners and Weapons, their combined gross will be easily beat by one Stitch.
I mean, we still remake Shakespeare…
Hollywood has been recycling stories ever since the movie industry moved there back in the 1920’s.
Because you keep fucking buying it.
My aunt knew a Native woman who, as a child, escaped from a residential school with her brother and traveled up the Sierra mountains — just two children — to get back home to their tribe.
The world is full of stories that aren’t reboots.
I’ll be the contrarian and say that I don’t think people inherently hate reboots and sequels. What we hate is lazy uninspired reboots and sequels that are clearly just trying to capitalize on nostalgia.
Everybody in here not realizing that we rebooted the Hebrew Bible and the Bagavad Gita and the Quran and Greek Epics and the Asiatic Mysteries and Norse Edda thousands of times over thousands of years
“Reboots” literally keep society together
When they have an enterprise that they know always makes money, of course they’re going to exploit it.
If we stop going and watching they will stop making them.
Because lilo and stitch made a billion dollars.
Consumers dictate the market.
Answer – People still giving them money for it and it works. That’s it. Don’t like remakes? Stop buying tickets. Why would they stop something that works?
Hence the attraction to more foreign film/media. Stories we haven’t heard before.
Because it works?
If people are so annoyed/upset with the same shit over and over, they should stop spending money on it.
When will authors of books stop recycling the same old stories? There are entire sections of romance, westerns, sci-fi, fantasy, sports… All of them are re-boots, re-imagined, re-interpretations of the various genres of stories.
These authors just keep coming out with new versions of all of these stories in each genre, each with a new “twist” on them to make them new and innovative.
Why won’t these authors come up with something original!
Nope. Because, by and large, they are lazy and greedy. Art and originality are not even in the top 10 of most execs ideas of what makes a “good movie”.
It’s really no different from automakers styling on Mustangs, Camaros, Challengers, etc.
Nostalgia sells
People need to stop going to see these movies if they want them to stop. The reality is the vast majority of remakes, reboots and sequels are the movies that are making money at the theatre
One word answer: capitalism
I’d have to imagine the reason is, „Because we own the IP! Write me something with these characters or I’ll find someone who will!“
Don’t ask questions. Just consume product.
Money. You don’t have to read any article.
Stories? They’ve been recycling stories for decades. Remaking movies? Yeah…that’s the part I’m sick of…
At the end of the day, “show business” is A BUSINESS.
There’s less financial risk in remaking/continuing a previously successful storyline, rather than filming an all new original movie.
Hmm, if only we could think of how Hollywood keeps obtaining this so called “money”
Because Hollywood is run by Businesspeople and accountants now. It’s not about art it’s about money. A film can cost $20 mill to make and they will tack on another $60 mill in cost from other productions and marketing (when do marketing budgets equal filming budgets) so this little $20 mill film is weighted down with $80 debt before its release. Then the studio says if it does double its cost ($80 mill) it’s a failure. Art means nothing to this industry who will farm every last bit of your nostalgia berries and mine every last bit of duplicated sucked to make money by saying it lost money.