All it’s essential to learn about Hollywood in 2025 will be summed up on this headline:
‘The Vacation’ Restricted Collection Based mostly on Nancy Meyers Movie in Improvement at Apple TV+
The perfect half? The movie’s unique author/director, Nancy Meyers, had no clue this challenge was occurring. That sums up the trade to a “T.”
Sequels. Prequels. Remakes. Reboots. Re-imaginings. (shudder)
That’s Hollywood in a nutshell, a fear-averse trade clinging to nostalgia and model consciousness.
Adam Sandler simply made a complete film primarily based on it – “Blissful 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 in opposition to stiff competitors. That determine, assuming the comedy has legs, might result in different spoof movies. Or, as is extra probably, extra rebooted/re-imagined titles.
The “why” is clear. The field workplace outcomes converse for themselves. Final 12 months, just one movie within the field workplace prime 10 was an unique movie. And “Depraved” is predicated on a gob-smackingly widespread Broadway present.
Right here’s another reason why this model of storytelling isn’t going away. Contemplate 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 “Blissful Gilmore.” It out of the blue acquired a brand new lease on life, and it delivered extra revenue for the studios that retain its licensing charges.
Even “The Dangerous Guys,” a modest hit again in 2022, acquired 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. Individuals 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 approach, it’s one other approach shoppers incentivize film studios to create extra of the identical.
