I'm honestly not sure what anyone means by Hollywood running out of ideas. I mean, yeah, most movies are sequels, reboots, remakes etc. but when you think about it, most movies haven't been very original for decades! A lot of action movies, romances, horror, etc, have been rehashing the same plots over and over with little variation for years even when most of them weren't sequels and remakes. TV was never any better, in fact it's probably much worse in that regard. When one thing gets popular than it just keeps getttting made dozens of times. Just look at all those cookie cutter cop shows and westerns that were around in the 60s and 70s. Or remember how Hanna- Barbera kept ripping off themselves with copies of Scooby Doo and The Flinstones, and even Yogi Bear (remember Hokey Wolf? Me neither).