All it’s essential find out about Hollywood in 2025 may be summed up on this headline:
‘The Vacation’ Restricted Sequence Primarily based on Nancy Meyers Movie in Growth at Apple TV+
The most effective half? The movie’s unique author/director, Nancy Meyers, had no clue this mission was taking place. That sums up the business to a “T.”
Sequels. Prequels. Remakes. Reboots. Re-imaginings. (shudder)
That’s Hollywood in a nutshell, a fear-averse business clinging to nostalgia and model consciousness.
Adam Sandler simply made a whole film primarily based on it – “Pleased Gilmore 2.”
It’s extra of a nostalgia cruise than an precise film.
Over the weekend, Paramount delivered a reboot of its “Bare Gun” comedy franchise – with out the artistic enter of the genius who made all of it attainable, David Zucker.
The movie made $17 million towards stiff competitors. That determine, assuming the comedy has legs, may result in different spoof movies. Or, as is extra doubtless, extra rebooted/re-imagined titles.
The “why” is apparent. The field workplace outcomes converse for themselves. Final yr, just one movie within the field workplace high 10 was an unique movie. And “Depraved” is predicated on a gob-smackingly fashionable Broadway present.
Right here’s another reason why this model of storytelling isn’t going away. Think about the fallout from a brand new “Bare Gun” cop parody movie, courtesy of JustWatch.com.
The primary spot could also be totally different subsequent week, however the very existence of a “Bare Gun” reboot gave a lift to the unique movie. That very same holds for 1996’s “Pleased Gilmore.” It out of the blue bought a brand new lease on life, and it delivered extra revenue for the studios that retain its licensing charges.
Even “The Unhealthy Guys,” a modest hit again in 2022, bought a bump from the brand new sequel.
This isn’t an aberration.
Reboots/remakes/sequels routinely push the unique movies up the streaming and/or VOD charts. Folks wish to atone for the primary movies and/or put together for the newer chapters.
Audiences have a starvation for continuity and completion. Even patrons who didn’t love the supply materials may be coaxed into watching the newer tales.
It’s basic FOMO – Worry of Lacking Out.
Both method, it’s one other method customers incentivize film studios to create extra of the identical.