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Why take a risk on a new idea when you can resurrect a beloved franchise from twenty years ago? This "nostalgia cycle" provides comfort in uncertain times. Millennials and Gen X—now the primary spenders with disposable income—are eager to pay for the sanitized, familiar warmth of their childhoods. However, this has created a "frozen present" in popular media, where original, mid-budget adult dramas have all but vanished from theaters, bulldozed by comic book movies and franchise installments.
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