.there are
>audiences out there ready to spend, but they are shut out
>because hollywood gets fixated on formula.

This is the history of the studio system-- formula. Sometimes exceptions peek through the cracks, but it's always been this way.

>agreed, and it's a cool time for movies in a sense because the
>fad can die out as quickly as it came IMO.

Yeah, this ain't a fad. Now that technology supports making big comic book movies, they aren't going anywhere.