esteban was eaten! — This is why all you get from studios like Fox is sequels, remakes, and reboots: "Red Tails [and its $18.8 million opening weekend] marks distributor 20th Century Fox's best opening for a non-franchise title since last April's Rio".

This is why all you get from studios like Fox is sequels, remakes, and reboots: “Red Tails [and its $18.8 million opening weekend] marks distributor 20th Century Fox’s best opening for a non-franchise title since last April’s Rio”.

People can complain about lack of originality in movies but if nobody is paying to see the rare original release when it does occur… really, isn’t that all the explanation you need? It took 9 months for a non-franchise Fox film to gross over $18M in its opening weekend. So, contrary to Internet comment threads, “originality” really doesn’t seem to be that important to audiences.