Hollywood Triples Down on Recycling

There’s a huge red flag waving in front of these news nuggets.

Audiences sent Hollywood a stern message in 2023. We won’t always show up for any ol’ franchise. The diminished returns for “The Marvels,” “Haunted Mansion,” “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” “Fast X” and “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” should have given industry bean counters pause.

Even a quasi-original like “The Flash” flopped with fans. More recently, the new “Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire” will struggle to break the $100 million mark stateside.

Did Hollywood learn any lessons from that grab bag of failures and disappointments?

Hardly.