4) Cut Down On The Remakes And Reboots
The idea in Hollywood currently is that if you take an existing property – Ghostbusters, Spider-Man – and remake or reboot said property, then audience numbers will be higher as viewers immediately recognize the brand. That’s the idea, anyway; that’s why Hollywood seems to be churning out virtually nothing else right now. Only, it’s not true: the numbers actually show that these remakes and reboots are generally under-performing commercially.
This might not be so bad if the films were actually highly-regarded by critics and audiences. But the numbers again show that they aren’t (if we’re to believe review aggregators like Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes, anyway). Cinema is really feeling the hit right now, as the amount of great original content increases on TV and decreases on the big screen. The studios should take note of hard numbers, and maybe think about cutting down on all the relentless rebooting.