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Who says an original idea won’t go far in Hollywood?

Although it’s often said that the studios are too dependent on remakes and sequels, it turns out the big moneymakers are fresh concepts and comicbooks.

Variety conducted a study of the top 20 films at the domestic box office for each year over the past decade. Each film was classified by its source — and of the 200 films, just over half were from original scripts.

While the survey shows original material can reap big payoffs, some of the biggest hits did not go through the studios’ lengthy development process. And few of these originals came from the expensive first-look deals that studios are trying to pare.

In short, the new uppgifter sends a mixed message to studios as they continue to question how cost-effective their development is.

“As the studios continue to cut back on their development budgets and overall deals with producers, it’s as if they̵

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Reboots Have Come To Television: Welcome To Nostalgic Revivalist TV

In case you haven’t noticed, what we watch and how we watch it is changing. Filmmakers are headed toward TV en masse; movie franchises like Marvel, “Transformers,” and “Star Wars” are adopting long-form serial formats and even television-style writers’ rooms; and as storytellers, directors, producers, writers and innovators begin to work in both mediums, taking the best ideas of both worlds with them, their defining boundaries are starting to blur.

In recent years, many have claimed that TV is where the best creative work is happening. Shows like “Breaking Bad,” “Game Of Thrones,” “The Walking Dead” and “Empire” have captured the public imagination in ways that few movies can rival, and we’ve all found that, with more and more outlets producing scripted shows, there’s more and more great television being m

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Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels Talk DUMB AND DUMBER TO, How Carrey Made the Sequel Happen, the Fan Appeal, Returning to the Characters, and More

In Dumb and Dumber To, Lloyd Christmas (Jim Carrey) and Harry Dunne (Jeff Daniels) are back and as dumb as ever.  It’s been exactly 20 years and Lloyd has to get snapped out of the comatose state that he’s been in, so that the two best friends can go on a road trip to find a child Harry never knew he had, in order to help him with the kidney transplant that he desperately needs.  The zany sequel also stars Kathleen Turner, Laurie Holden, Rob Riggle, Rachel Melvin and Steve Tom.

During a conference at the film’s press day, co-stars Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels talked about catching up with Lloyd and Harry, 20 years later, that this sequel was really fan-driven, getting back into the mind-set of these characters, why these characters are special, working with Kathleen Turner, and where these characters might be in another 20 y