CMV: The film industry requires a systemic collapse to fix the terrible cycle of remakes and franchises

Money from a movie comes most from the opening end. Therefore, every movie needs to be optmized to be a massive hit on its opening and beyond. Everyone wants the next blockbuster franchise (not knowing it will fail). TV is not as much of a problem because it doesn't have the high stakes opening a movie does. <br><br>The best way to do this is to make the next Marvel movie. Not in the sense that everyone wants a Marval beat-for-beat rip-off, but in creating an idea that has a massive universe of characters to create a film from. Disney acquired star wars and marvel, both of which are going to continue to have movies and shows for the forseeable future. These universes are stories that have a massive character pool, world, and a plot to pull from. They can make film after film without coming up with new ideas. <br><br>This is the problem. Disney only needs to make one hit superhero movie and it will create a franchise that will make movies for decades. If a movie requires 500 million budgeted, if Disney can produce 5 movies with this budget and one hits, the other four are irrelevant. The other four were a risk, but the money is made up for by the singular hit. <br><br>It appears that the new strategy is to instead of buying old universes to create movies from, create new ones. Barbie and Oppenheimer will seemingly have spin-offs of some sort, if they do well. It makes too much sense. <br><br>These aren't movies made to be good, they are movies made to make money. If we allow these companies to continue to produce content at this rate, there will be no such thing as original movies. The only movies made will be universe movies that have already proven a profit motive. <br><br>The way around this is for these studios to fail, so that new people can create movies and original content. Disney's biggest mistake this year was Barbie, which is their highest grossing loss this year. The loss of Disney and other studios is our gain.