Infographic spells out Hollywood’s shocking lack of imagination

With a new reboot of an 80s TV show, film, computer game or action figure emerging every single week, most of us have the sneaking suspicion that maybe all is not right in Hollywood.

Studios too terrified of making a loss now ply the cinema-going audience with the visual equivalent of comfort food — brands we already know over far riskier propositions that we don't.

The mere inclusion of big name stars is not enough to draw us towards a film in the multiplex foyer, it seems, and we have the studio marketeers to thanks for this new, risk-averse approach to movie making based on franchises and 'narratives' that are already established and we are already comfortable with.

So it's with a baleful nod of agreement that this infographic from Short of the Week spells out just what a state the movie business is in, using stats from Boxofficemojo.com.

Under the name 'Hollywood's Waning Creativity', it looks nostalgically back to the days when cinema was original and vibrant, to today when... well, you see what we mean...