And the response is both understandable and predictable: has Hollywood run out of ideas?

And yet Id argue its not that simple.

Lets deal with the bit thats our fault first.

If we didnt go and see all these remakes, they wouldnt make them.

It really is that brutally simple.

Remakes walk hand in hand with sequels, franchises and cinematic universes.

They lessen the risk for a movie studio.

Thats pretty much the core reason for their existence.

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Every now and then, theres a filmmaker-driven reason.

After all, just look at the take for acclaimed, standalone nine figure blockbusters.

But why do studios choose to make so many blockbusters anyway?

Is there not room in the marketplace for a range of films at various budgets?

Probably, but the riches now are at the top end of the market.

Every movie studio, over the past decade, has reduced its motion picture output.

For 2016, Disney currently has 12 films in total planned for release.

So: from around 50 films to 12.

But this isnt picking on Disney.

The studios, as they have been for years, are making fewer films.

With fewer slots on the schedule, every film is having to be marketed as some kind of event.

As a consequence, the mid-budget level of filmmaking has been eroded heavily.

Its only really smaller major studios like Lionsgate that continue to invest at this level.

Thats why EuropaCorp will sell theTakenfilms to Fox, andLucyto Universal.

The studio gets to pick and choose projects, limiting its own exposure in the process.

Lots of the films that we rightly laud from the 80s and 90s sat in the mid-level budget bracket.

With little in between.

Comedy too gets a pass.

Its big or small, with little in-between.

These are the films that are getting squeezed out by the current Hollywood system.

Hence, we arrive at remakes.

I cant sit here and say that every remake I watch is bad.

Far from it, oddly enough.

But I am increasingly of the view that a remake on the schedule tends to be a missed opportunity.

And they always feel like a missed opportunity.

For thats the great loss here.

Where is the next, interesting $50 million movie coming from?

ThatBack To The Futureremake edges ever closer…