Baylor University is hosting its annual Beall Poetry Festival over the course of three days from March 30 to April 1. The Beall Poetry Festival is an event that brings in poets to read their work to a live audience and critics to talk about poetry. This year is the festival’s 28th consecutive year of hosting.

As streaming services offer more options to watch new and exciting releases or nostalgic reminiscences of childhood, they draw audiences away from theaters, leaving them crawling to a slow death.

The last top-grossing movie in the U.S. that was not a sequel or based on something that already existed was 2009’s “Avatar.” The last original top-grossing movie that was not a part of a franchise was 1998’s “Saving Private Ryan.” Forty years ago, original films made up most of the box office hits, but now the script has flipped. So what happened?

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