Hollywood is running out

of hit ’80s movies to reboot
maybe...just maybe...they'll be forced to do something NEW?.
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Hollywood is running out of blockbuster films from the 1980s to remake or reboot, after a string of movies celebrating the era of big hair, shoulder pads and Ronald Reagan.

Of the top 15 highest-grossing films of that decade, just three to date have not been given a sequel or prequel or turned into a franchise: “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial,” “Tootsie” and “Rain Man.”

“It’s funny, because for a long time the ’80s was such a maligned era, but now it’s cool,” said ComScore media analyst Paul Dergarabedian. “ It’s almost like — for Hollywood — the ’80s are the new ’50s or ’60s.”

In the summer of 1986, the Hollywood box office belonged to Tom Cruise and “Top Gun.”

The film, cementing the stardom of then-24-year-old Cruise, soared to $176.8 million domestically for the Viacom Inc. VIAB, +0.60% unit Paramount Pictures, outpacing “The Karate Kid Part II,” “Aliens,” “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” and “Stand by Me.”

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