I think a big part of it is that the people who are making the most important decisions are the most out of tune with understanding why these franchises can work.

Deadpool as being an R-rated, 4th-wall breaking action-comedy where the biggest draw is that the main character is an unappolegtic asshole to literally everybody (including the audience) except his girlfriend and sometimes his best friend was denied by that one moron at Fox for years. I honestly don't remember his name but he's largely the reason why Fox's initial efforts at any superhero films aside from Xmen proper were such garbage. But the exact second he left Fox, the studio immediately greenlighted the new Deadpool and all of a sudden the thing that guy had been hell bent on preventing from ever happening suddenly is setting records thought unheard of for R-rated films. X-men First Class was a success because it cut all the needless fat as well as revisited the original X-men at the start of that franchise and then Fox made an entire sequel where the entire plot is essentially STOP X-MEN 3 THE LAST STAND FROM EVER HAPPENING. And of course now Disney has all of Fox's Marvel rights so they'll eventually just roll those back under Marvel proper.

Paramount's problem is, in a way, very similar to what led to the downfall of Dreamwave Comics back in the mid-2000s (ignoring how Pat Lee is a scum sucking piece of shit who still owes people money and is hiding in China). Dreamwave's twilight years were spent desperately trying to push its licensed franchise comics like Megaman and Transformers, instead of trying to push its own original stuff which from what I recall hearing could have had potential. Sure, Paramount has had the smaller films be minor successes, but where they're coming up short is management trying to get big budget movies to be profitable on name brand alone and they just don't seem to comprehend that isn't working. Ironically, Bumblebee was nearly canceled and the aparent lack of belief on Paramount's part that the film is going to do well (not entirely unfounded given how much of a bad taste TLK left in even the most diehard fan's mouth) has left Knight with a considerable amount of control, and as a result what little we know so far is that he's repeatedly declared himself a lifelong fan of the franchise and the feedback on the preview clips having gems like "what little was shown of Bumblebee was a better film than all of the previous Transformers films combined". Personally, I think it's too little, too late to save the movieverse even if Bumblebee does well, but a positive reception all the same might actually improve whatever the successor movie franchise will entail. And hopefully they fire that fucker Lorenzo DiBonaventura because he sounds like he's been a right asshole about the franchise since day 1.

 

I don't know why but you seem to forget their Mission Impossible franchise as if they don't matter. It's running longer than the Transformers franchise.

 

Sadly, that will come to end sooner or later and it will be ''Mission: Impossible'' to find someone with as much star power as Tom Cruise if they go down a spin-off/reboot route.

 

You & Sevenlima should be buddies.

 

I think I keep forgetting about them because they fall somewhere in the middle for me. I certainly can't call them bad but at the same time I can't call it a series I love. It's like I remember the crazy new stunt they pull off each film but the story details often escape my memory. (Not sure how much I'd bank on my memory these days)

 

I'm still fairly certain that they did have a fanbase they had to please.

I mean look at how some people reacted when Jon Voight turned out to be a bad guy in the first film.

 

G.I. Joe has tapped a writer for the movie.

Evan Spiliotopoulos Tapped to Write 'GI Joe' for Paramount