Learning from Hollywood's remakes

Milla Ling-Davies  |  Features  |  culture watch
Date posted:  7 Nov 2024
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Learning from Hollywood's remakes

Various Tom Cruise stunts in the Mission Impossible films (photo: screenrant.com)

Have you noticed that cinema and TV today is dominated by remakes, sequels and spin-offs?

In the months before Christmas, we’ll see Moana 2, Sonic the Hedgehog 3, Gladiator 2 and Mufasa: the Lion King. Then 2025 will bring us the eighth Mission Impossible movie, another Avatar film, a new version of the Fantastic Four – I could go on. In 2026, a remake of The Goonies is even set to be created, 40 years on from its release!

This has been increasingly the case for years, but we’ve now reached a point where, according to news website cnbc.com, ‘between 50%–70%’ of the top studios’ 2025 movies will come from existing intellectual property.

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