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Rule 1: Fund Joss

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Avengers broke all the 3 day openning financial records this weekend, and they don’t yet have my money to push them forward (I’ll fix that this week). I’ve been reasonably annoyed that most of the talking heads about this have been talking about Disney and can they repeat with Spider Man.

No.

The Avengers, and the build up to it, was about a different way that Marvel made movies. Just go look at the directors from Iron Man, Thor, and Avengers. These are independent film directors (really high class ones), that focus on story first. Guess what, if you make a compelling story, people like it. I know, amazing principle.

So rule #1 of production houses, fund Joss Whedon. The rest is pretty negligible after that.

Is Instant Reboot the new big thing in Hollywood?

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Hollywood did a few years of double takes, where they did 2 movies with the same story in the same year: 2 comet movies, 2 bugs movies, 2 mars movies.

Then we got instant remakes.  Open Your Eyes / Vanilla Sky being the most egregious, as the same actress was in both.  The Hulk (2003 / 2008) was a more recent instance.

Now, apparently, we get instant reboot.  Spider Man 4 is going to be a reboot of the series, with all the old cast crew gone.

I wonder what’s next.  Maybe we could get concurrent instant reboots, sort of a combo of instant reboot and double takes, so we get 2 versions of the same movies in a trilogy out each year.