Where Have All the Good Original Movie Ideas Gone?

Take a look at the box office figures and what do you see? There are comic book adaptations – the Avengers and the Amazing Spider-Man. You have sequels – Men In Black 3, Madagascar 3, Ice Age: Continental Drift and Journey 2. Then you have adaptations – Hunger Games and the Lorax.
The only film in the current top 10 that isn’t one of these is Snow White and the Huntsman but it is sure to be bumped out by more of the same. There is another Batman that is about to be released as well as another Jason Bourne film.