Why the Layover?

It has been 5 years since Mission Impossible II was released to theatres, but Tom Cruise is at it again this summer. It has also been almost 10 years since Mortal Kombat: Annihilation was released to the public but this summer they are beginning to film Mortal Kombat: Devastation and it got me thinking, why such a long layover between films?

I think the answer is that Hollywood has run out of things to make a movie about. They used up all of the stories and they have to make more and more sequels to movies. Just look at this summer as an example - Mission Impossible III, X-Men 3, Scary Movie 4 (and Date Movie, a carbon copy of Scary Movie parodying romantic comedies instead of horror movies), Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Ice Age: The Meltdown, and Miami Vice (Movie version of a television show).

Hollywood needs to find some new stories because after a while, people will stop going to the theatres and movie stars will need to find a new job...