The first being Werewolves, though to be honest with the usually amazing Teen Wolf ending on such a terribly confusing season finale I wouldn't be surprised if it only lasts one more season.
The second is classic modernisation with Once Upon A Time which has been a huge success for Abc since it premiered last year and some new additions such as Elementary (based off Sherlock Holmes) and Beauty and the Beast on CW. On film we have the newest reimagining of The Wizard of Oz series with Disney's Oz: The Great and Powerful starring a blockbuster cast headed by James Franco as Oz himself and Mila Kunis as the wicked witch. I'm hesitant to add this but Disney's retake on Snow White titled 'The Order of the Seven' starring Saoirse Ronan in the titular role as Ms. White herself was to be set in Asia as a kung-fu movie with Jet Li also in the main cast. Before we groan, this project has been put on hold indefinitely, no doubt because of the critical flops, 'Mirror Mirror' and 'Snow White and the Huntsman' earlier this year. It seems Snow White should be put back to sleep in the reel room for another several years until we exhaust all other fairytales. I would very much like to see a modern adult take on the Pied Piper. Imagine how much press a movie about an online peadophile would be if it was entitled the Pied Piper.
The third fad that is really starting to take traction now is the zombie movie. We've had plently of movies with zombies in them before such as the classic 'I Am Legend', 'Zombieland' and 'Resident Evil' but these films mainly focused on survivors slaughtering soulless zombies. With the new zombie movie we focus on other elements that have not previously been explored in film such as the political and social implications of a zombie apocalypse as World War Z sets out to do and the scenario in which a zombie falls in love with you as we see in the trailer for Warm Bodies.
I'll let the trailers do the talking:
Warm Bodies
World War Z
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