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Cinema doesn’t have to be stuck in a loop

25 February 2025

11:52 PM

25 February 2025

11:52 PM

If you’ve recently been to the cinema or turned on your streaming platform of choice, no doubt you’ll have been offered ‘new’ stories that are fundamentally familiar. From Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, to Dune: Part Two, and now Bridget Jones 4 – the film industry is being driven by franchises and sequels.

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