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It began around the time Transformers releasedin 2007 in my opinion and then it really ramped up once Marvel got going.

How does content's popularity increase its cost? And I thought reboots and side stories were symptoms of our entertainment glut - now that there's a long-tail model of choices, it's easier to reach for a familiar brand/IP than suffer the disappointment of digging through options that don't satisfy.