{"id":716,"date":"2022-04-16T22:35:35","date_gmt":"2022-04-16T22:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aperture.byu.edu\/?p=716"},"modified":"2024-02-05T20:07:40","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T20:07:40","slug":"ill-be-back-the-return-of-movie-icons-and-the-disappearance-of-original-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aperture.byu.edu\/?p=716","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ll Be Back: The Return of Movie Icons and the Disappearance of Original Films"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Bridger Nebeker<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>When you think of new movie releases, you likely think of the latest additions to large movie franchises. It seems that the only pictures getting attention are sequels, adaptations, or remakes\u2014and to the average moviegoer, it may appear that original films not based on preexisting content have disappeared from the box office. While some suggest that Hollywood\u2019s well of creativity has dried up, it is more likely that this phenomenon is economically motivated.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Editor-in-Chief<\/strong><br>Jenna Woolley<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Project Manager<\/strong><br>Sophie Graham<\/p>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/aperture.byu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Ill-Be-Back_-The-Return-of-Movie-Icons-and-the-Disappearance-of-Original-Films.docx.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">Ill-Be-Back_-The-Return-of-Movie-Icons-and-the-Disappearance-of-Original-Films.docx<\/a>\n<p class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Leading Editor <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Emily Colton<br><strong><br>Supporting Editors<br><\/strong>AJ Migorance<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Morgan Beus<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marissa Lundeen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Copyeditor<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fleur Van Woerkom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Bridger Nebeker When you think of new movie releases, you likely think of the latest additions to large movie franchises. It seems that the only pictures getting attention are sequels, adaptations, or remakes\u2014and to the average moviegoer, it may appear that original films not based on preexisting content have disappeared from the box office. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":759,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[138,140],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aperture.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aperture.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aperture.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aperture.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aperture.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/aperture.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":780,"href":"https:\/\/aperture.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions\/780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aperture.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aperture.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aperture.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aperture.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}