He said he was getting pitched stories even while the cranberry sauce was being passed to him. But he had to listen, because he never knows when the next great story is going to come his way. Like bad sex partner, the problem most scripts have is that they don't bring you to a decent climax. The screenwriter is the plumber, laying down pipe in the story so that by the time we get to the end, we care about what happens to the characters. Most producers usually read the first 30 pages of a script, more or less.
Talent attracts money and money makes movies.
It has to be something really special. An exec at Disney said that any movie that's hot right now has just become an ice cube concept. Yes Hollywood wants duplicate former successes. They want something really special. And so it goes.