If you look at the top 10 highest-grossing movies of all time worldwide, you'll notice a trend: All but two have recycled source material. Rebooting and remaking movies can be very lucrative, but, more importantly, doing that has had a significant impact on contemporary filmmaking.Newsy’s Devan Kaney takes us through the highs and lows of reboot culture and how it has affected Hollywood.
How Reboot Culture Has Influenced Hollywood
Movie reboots have recently become a pretty common way to recycle source material. We explore the effect reboot culture has had on Hollywood.
Universal Pictures / Chuck Zlotnick / "Jurassic World"
Posted: 2:14 p.m. EDT Apr 27, 2018
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