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Originally Posted by wave46
The film industry has always been the balance between business and creativity. Nobody's going to give me $200m for an art project film - there has to be some reasonable expectation of return. That lends itself to corporate-think - keep churning out the stuff that makes money. That leads itself to a conservative thinking that quickly can grow stale. Then again, sometimes that allows new creativity to flourish (see: Logan, the first Deadpool) within a genre.
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That has always been the case. What is fairly new is nearly every major release is a reboot or sequel. Studios used to green light original scripts and make huge amounts of money off them (Star Wars, Ghostbusters, ET, Sixth Sense).