New version, restart, recycling: Why will Hollywood never stop giving you the same stories

Bare gun. After 28 days. I know what I did last summer. Jurassic Park. It is believed that these are all titles since 2025, which could forgive that it came from MovieFone.

The Summer Summer Summbuster season is dominated this year nostalgia: re -boot, relay. Although the story of Reborold was an element in cinema that dates back to its early days, the studios seem to benefit more than ever – and buy the masses.

from Lilo and GMT To become the first box office reformer to billions of dollars, to Saeed Gilmour Smart the records of the Netflix audience (47 million, which they saw on the broadcast service in the first three days were available), to King of the hill In the role of the biggest animation of adults in Disney within five years, the desire for old stories that have become new has not been higher than ever.

“We all look back, as you know, pink glasses at times when we grew up,” Terrible Director Nisha Janata explained to CBC News in a recent interview with him.

“At the present time in particular, the world is a slightly not sure place. I think comfort in these films and the collective feeling of combining us when we watch these films … and for this reason people return to theaters.”

Return to the well

The Hollywood affection has begun to recycle stories and re -drafted them alongside Hollywood itself: a large return with George Milis Spray From 1896, a new edition of the previous year Spray. And 1903 The steal of the great train It was badly re -created in a new edition of the lead crew the following year, then several times after that.

And the trend of journalists who refer to its reshaping operations is approximately old, such as reshaping themselves.

“Revolving old movies is a truly old hat for cinema people,” read a 1937 Article from the New York Times. “Although the screen has recently emerged from her outstanding clothes and managed to crawl almost in the middle of the road to metaphorical knee, it is already on her years, and she even remembers looks back.”

“Often, there were financial motives instead of financial motives instead of aesthetic motives. Depending on the per capita view, studios can either take critical shares for themselves or in their disbursement on the old.

Unlike the flowering language, the complaint that indicates that a certain year was loaded with the sounds of recycling operations as if it had come from today.

“Often they miss the soul.”

“I am not a fan. I am still not a fan How to train your drag Earlier this year.

“Often they feel lower versions of the animated movie for me.”

Why did the reinstitation and re -boots dominant fare in the 2025 film list? According to the great media analyst at Comscore, it is about dollars and cent.

The summer Blockbuster was a jump on a return to Hollywood. Dergarabedian notes that it generates nearly forty percent of the total box office in North America. Therefore, success often depends on the launch of the crowds during this period “Play It Safe” as they have the best opportunity to meet the widest possible audience.

This, according to Dergarabedian, is not a recipe for originality.

“As much as many people are separated from the lack of originality in the films, when you look at the 10 best films of the year, in general, there may be one or two out of ten real original films,” he said.

“This is true that tells you why studios, marketers, public relations and advertisers – they love well -known brands.”

Instead, it was the recipe that led to the films based on the scene and excitement, as studios depend on the huge privileges and the superfluen intolerance to extract the box office receipts.

But recently like 2023, a series of popular bombs proposed the masses He is no longer interested in this fare. Dergaradedian says that chasing these fans means that studios have begun to make films that may attract the broader population composition. Over the past two and a half years, he says that this has led to the superiority of PG-13 films for the first time.

He said that this motivated the return to the films and shows that people remember their childhood. Film addresses that were already believed to be useful and accessible, or were a miracle that they are not related to pressure as much as possible, as is the case with Lilo and GMTA new edition of work with A complex end attracted widespread criticism.

It was a step that co -chair of Disney entertainment Alan Bergman, who told Los Angeles Times before the premiere of the film that the changes had been made on the original story because “making a kind of box office that I think we will do, you need to get everyone.”

Nostalgia

Robert Thompson, a professor of television and popular culture at the University of Sirkios, says the desire to return to familiar stories precedes the films; As it becomes clear Odyssey It is seen as a complement IliadBoth are the popularity of the ancient Greek legend.

Even the same type is a larger extension of the new version, according to Thomson. Like the car industry, he says stories – like cars – cannot historically for the tastes of each audience. Make the novels similar enough to fit this type was the solution.

“You will not make every driver individual. You have to mix these things from the assembly line,” he said. “This is what the type is going on … Get something that works and continues to do so. Over and repeatedly.”

The problem is what Thompson believes that it is likely to lead this current cycle of reinstalization and restarting operations: a reactionary transformation to breaking the digital age in pop culture. Since the Internet and entertainment that has been broadcast democratic, we have moved from the consumption of the media from some dominant views to a scene full of competing productions that give voices to the populations that have not taken place before.

Thompson says this complexity is what are the types of stories and attitudes that were seen as correct or acceptable. Fear and discomfort that followed the desire to return to a simpler time; To re -create the scene of the media, which they considered to maintain traditional social standards, “because we celebrate this ideal traditional past.”

It suggests that our current abundance of pink -colored stories that celebrate the past have been frequent through the media. “In a sense,” let’s go back when things were simple. Let’s go back when things were good. Let’s make the art great again. “” “