Now, to be fair, this has always existed in some form or other in Hollywood, but the whole reboot craze is, to my way of thinking, considerably worse than the "That studio is making a [setting/subject matter] movie, so we should make one, too" trend that existed previously. The reason I see it as bad is because it basically consigns Hollywood and filmmaking to an endless retelling of the same stories over and over with only the slightest variations, rather than taking stories and expanding upon them.
Most likely due to some kind of tax breaks or other financial incentives to encourage the studio to make a movie there. This happens all the time now. It's good for the city or location in question. It acts as free advertising, it generates a ton of ancillary revenue and business for the area, and even if the city is disguised as somewhere else, it can still help boost tourism by creating locations that fans will visit in the future.
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that's why i'm tired on the turtles franchise today. nick Turtles throwbacks, we've seen it all before. it's hard to get excited for the same thing a fourth time in a row, especially when 4kids did the ultimate version of it, being fans of everything and not just mirage turtles like the new nick guys are. whenyou are forced to put something into your project that you're not a fan of, the end result isn't good. Look at how peter laird treated the 80s turtles in Turtles forever. He created the damn franchise, yet isn't a fan of the 80s turtles...but loves things like the Technodrome.. that's why the 80s turtles where turned into cry babies and pranksters and yet they got the 80s bad guys personalities down perfectly. go figure.
with the new bay turtles movies, bebop, rocksteady, and baxter never left my consciousness, because I never stopped watching the old stuff. therefore, I can't get excited about seeing a in name only version of them on the big screen. it's not the characters I grew up with, so I can't get into it.
that's why I like the IDW version of turtles best out of the other two. They keep things the same. only changing where it SHOULD be changed (making angel an adult rather than an annoying trying to be adult kid). they also give you enough new to make it worthwhile. The Turtles being re incarnated humans. hun being Casey's FATHER instead of killing his father is especially twisted. Apolex is a cool new character. as are the new mutants on Shredders side. the only one kind of wasted is Karai.
That, too me at least, is how you reboot something. keep enough of the old to give it a 'wow, new stuff with old stuff' factor...but go 180% on the new. I can't tell you how big a smile I got seeing Agent Bishop interact with two one shot 80s series characters reinvented.
With Ghostbusters, they did it all wrong at the start, by having people in control of it, who don't care about it. amy pascal and paul feig destroyed dan's idea forever. and as has been brought up with the EXCELLENT syndicated version of the animated series...it has SOOO much potential to be a fun series. all ruined thanks to bill murray being an ass..
As for Boston...I noticed that even people online can tell it's boston. one city can't look like New York no matter how you try ;o)...