Shhhh…this is a huge secret, okay?  I only found this out through my incredibly mad journalistic skills, and thus, I’m bringing it all to you.

I managed to find Hollywood’s plan to overcome the huge crippling economic downturn that’s even managing to affect stuff like Netflix.  Ready?  Here it comes–

MORE OF THE SAME AND PLENTY OF IT!!

That’s right, Hollywood’s big plan to defeat the huge crippling economic downturn is to take absolutely zero chances and keep force-feeding you the same cinematic mush that they’ve been feeding you for years.  Forget about any strange and nifty new breakouts like Juno and such; Hollywood’s not going to gamble on ANYTHING, and they’re hoping you don’t get wise.

Well, you just did, folks–because I clued you in.  Check out the diabolical quotes:

If credit remains tight, that could force some retrenchment in the future, but Fitch Ratings analyst Jamie Rizzo said it would generally affect lower-budget projects. Niche movies like breakout hit “Juno” — the type more typically co-financed — may be dropped for more likely hits such as sequels to blockbusters, he said.

You’re looking at the plan in all its glory, everybody.  Instead of taking a whole lot of little shots, Hollywood’s planning to put all its eggs in one particularly high-dollar bucket of sequel and hope that we don’t get sick of it and stop watching.  This is a little bit pie-in-the-sky, of course, because the credit markets are already showing a bit of loosening due to the godawful and monstrous seven hundred billion dollars of taxpayer money what got pumped into them, but it’s a dark sign to see that even outside analysts are clued into the “let’s-not-do-anything-new-or-interesting” Hollywood plan.

It’ll be an even darker sign, of course, if it turns out to work.

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