So Hollywood has evolved from making one shot maximum stories into a multi-film franchise making machine. These days, you can't even pitch a film deal that isn't capable of being turned into a multi-film sequel producing machine. It's gotten to a point where a film that fails to produce two or more sequels is considered to be a failure. And when you do see a film that actually sticks to the one film maximum plan, it's more of a novelty than anything else. Ok, romantic comedies usually are one film maximum type of stories. However, action films that doesn't turn into a multi-film sequel making machine has been considered to be a failure by modern standards. It's a sharp difference between modern Hollywood and the Golden Age of Hollywood where the only multi-film sequel making machine were
Charlie Chan, Tarzan, the Thin Man, Blondie and Dagwood, Andy Hardy, Sherlock Holmes, Dracula and
Frankenstein. I'm not saying that turning films into sequel making machines is a bad thing. Heck, my unpublished
the Metalshop Girls literary novel series is already fourteen volumes long with two more volumes currently under production.
While I'm studying Hollywood films, here are some photos of film and television actress Lacey Chabert. Among the films and television shows she's done is
Party of Five (All six seasons),
Lost in Space (The reboot) and
Black Christmas (The remake sequel).
