Up in the sky! Look! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s... another summer of rehashes.

The peak period for the box office is rarely full of the most original ideas. But even so, this year leaps over the offenses of the past with a single bound. The three biggest movies Hollywood studios have pinned their hopes on in 2025 are the third new take on “Superman” in the last 20 years, the fourth iteration of the “Fantastic Four,” and the sixth attempt to recapture the magic of 1993’s “Jurassic Park.” The only U.S. film to top $1 billion this year is “Lilo & Stitch,” another live-action remake tapping into Gen Z and millennial nostalgia. In 2024, there wasn’t a single original film that broke the U.S. box office top 15.

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